A proclamation recognizing the annual Brother's Redevelopment and Denver Employee Volunteer Opportunities Paint-A-Thon Day in the City and County of Denver on Saturday, August 19, 2017.
All right. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. Okay, we are on to communications. Madam Secretary, do we have any communications? None. Mr. President. All right. We have two proclamations that I'll be reading tonight. And the first one is Proclamation 17 092 to recognize in the annual Brothers Redevelopment and Denver employee volunteer opportunities. Paine Nathan Day in the city in county of Denver on Saturday, August 19th. Whereas, through the Partnership of Denver Employees Volunteer Opportunities Deveaux and Denver Redevelopment 100 plus Denver City employees will volunteer their time to paint homes of deserving senior homeowners in the agency's 39th annual paint a thon, whereas all painting will be completed free of charge for homeowners saving the city's fixed income seniors thousands of dollars in home maintenance repairs. And. Whereas, volunteers will be beautifying homes and preserving home values in Denver area neighborhoods as a result of their participation. And. Whereas, the paint often is a great way to show the city employees take pride in the community and take care of their residents that they care so much about. Whereas a paint a thon truly makes a difference in the lives of many, many Denver residents, now therefore be of a claim for the city and county of Denver, Section one that the Denver City Council recognizes the day August 19, 2017 as brothers redevelopment paint a fun day in the city and county of Denver, and that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest and affix the seal the city, county, Denver to the this proclamation and a copy be transmitted to the to the devil board. And I move that proclamation 920 to be adopted. It has been moved by me. And second it I'll make a couple of comments here. I first of all, you know, I want to give a lot of credit to brothers redevelopment and all of these city employees that are so involved in their community. But I got to tell you, you don't realize how many elderly people who are not connected with folks are shut in their homes until you start going door to door. And this summer, I spent a lot of time going door to door. And just this last weekend I was in North City Park in the Skyland neighborhood, and I could not believe the number of elderly individuals who lived in the neighborhood 40, 50, 60 years, but just alone and no one spending time with them. And so I know there's several folks on this council. I know we do this with the Hiawatha Davis senior luncheon and things like that, where we try and honor our elders in our community. But something like this where you fix up an elders home in their community, can transform your life, can be so incredible because they just cannot get out and improve their home like they used to. And so I want to thank Brothers redevelopment. I want to thank the 100 plus city employees who will get out of their cubicles, get out of the building and hang out with some constituents and really give back. So with that, Madam Secretary, it's been moved. The second row, Cardinal Clark. Espinosa, Flynn, AI Gilmore, Herndon, Cashman, Kenny Lopez all knew. Ortega i susman i black eye. Mr. President. I please close voting as results 3913 as proclamation 922 has been adopted. I would like to call out Jeff Martinez, the president, and tell them to come to the front here. Jeff Martinez, president of Brothers Redevelopment and derrick hoyt of the denver county court. To receive this proclamation. There he is. How you doing, Miss Martinez? Very good. This is a DVD. So. First and foremost, good evening and thank you. For the seven sponsors for this proclamation. Also, this. Vote is now a big thing that we do as Denver employee. Volunteer opportunities is exactly that. We try. To find volunteer opportunities. For the city and county of Denver. And with that, we're able to partner with area nonprofits. So if you ever know of a nonprofit that needs assistance or needs volunteers. Please contact Deveaux. Deveaux Denver Gov dawg. And then moving on to the program or. To the proclamation itself in Pennington, I want to make sure I say thank you to Brothers redevelopment for the work that they put into this event. We went from painting three houses last year to now eight houses. This year, and we couldn't have. Done that without them. Additionally, with our DEVEAUX board, it's the same thing. We have unpaid board members that are out there putting in their time and effort extra curricular work to make sure that we can do events like this. And we've had about 140 volunteers sign up for this event. So it's a big thing for us. And it's also our 100th home with brothers paint a thon. So we've now. Done 100 homes. For 12. Years. So. Right. Good evening. Thanks for having me. Council President Brooks in Denver, City Council, we appreciate the opportunity. This is a big weekend for the paint athon and the historic milestone that we're gonna surpass in our partnership with the city employees and city of Denver. And so we're really excited and we're just so grateful to be in this spot to provide a place for employees to serve. And they've certainly taken us up on that for more than I think this is our 12th year, 12th straight year that we've worked on this. And yeah, we're going to surpass this huge milestone this Saturday, the 100th home. I think it's going to be next door to Councilmember Brooks. Right? I think it's next door to you. It is. We're coming to you. So to see you on a. Ladder with a brush, some gear, getting, you know, full of paint on Saturday. And we're looking forward to it. And we're going to be painting. There's eight sites, I think I counted in several districts and several neighborhoods over the past 12 years that we've worked together with city employees. We've painted 99 homes and we're going to make that milestone on Saturday. But that's total savings, collective savings for those homeowners of $225,000. And for fixed income, low income senior. Struggling to make ends meet, living month to month. That gives them the ability to use those resources toward grocery bills, utilities, going to the doctor, paying for prescriptions, whatever. And so we're just so grateful. And this really underscores and demonstrates the spirit of service that exists among our hardworking city employees, but also that exists here in the Mile High City. So, again, we're just so appreciative and looking forward to seeing you on Saturday at a house near you and see on those ladders. Hey, thank you so much. And, you know, I just want to say, there are a lot of reporters in here and they're probably thinking about cover India and some other things. Cover this. This is kind of cool. This is incredible. And it's some it's some cool stuff that we're doing in the city that doesn't get a lot of coverage. I mean, $225,000, we're saving elderly individuals. So thank you, guys for what you do. Thank you.