A proclamation recognizing the Annual Brothers Redevelopment and Denver Employee Volunteer Opportunities Paint-A-Thon Day in the City and County of Denver on Saturday, August 14, 2021.
Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. All right. Seen no other speakers this evening. Four announcements will go ahead and move on. There are no presentations. There are no communications. And there is one proclamation being read this evening. Councilmember Ortega, will you please read Proclamation 21, dash 909. Thank you, Madam President. Happy to do so. Proclamation number 21, Dash 909. Recognizing the annual brother's redevelopment and Denver employee volunteer opportunities into fun day in the city and county of Denver on Saturday, August 14, 2021. Whereas, through a partnership with Denver employees Volunteer Opportunity, otherwise known as Depot and Brothers redevelopment in 85 plus Denver employees will volunteer their time to paint homes of deserving senior homeowners. Four Brothers Redevelopment of 43rd painted sign and. Whereas, all painting will be completed free of charge for homeowners saving the city's fixed income seniors thousands of dollars in home maintenance costs. 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 a Fun is a great way to show city employees take pride in the community and care about its residents. And. Whereas, the paint often truly makes a difference in the line of in the lives of many Denver residents. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City County of Denver that the Denver City Council recognizes the date August 14, 2021 as brothers redevelopment in paint upon date in the city and county of Denver, and that the work of the city and county of Denver shall a test and affix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to the depot board. Thank you. Councilmember Ortega. Your motion to adopt. I move for the adoption of Proclamation 20 10909. All right. We've got the proclamation to be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by members of council. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I was honored to be asked to bring this forward. I knew the former president, Joe Heatherton, and his co director. I guess I'm not sure that's the right title, but him and many martinis are the two that started Brothers redevelopment, which has been around for many, many years. And the Pentagon is one of many programs that they have done that serve the Denver community. And we as a community are are truly blessed to have them as an organization to do this work and to do it in conjunction with our city employees who volunteer their time to go out and help do some of these improvements on people's homes that had an opportunity to be at numerous properties and assist with some of this work that takes place. And there's a lot of camaraderie that happens as people are out there working hard. And I know our elderly folks in our community who have benefitted from this are truly grateful because they otherwise would not be able to afford to have these improvements done because of the fixed incomes that so many of them are on. So I just want to extend my appreciation to Brothers redevelopment, congratulate them for doing this for 44 years, and to our city employees who continue to do this important work in our community as well. I want to say a big thank you to them as well. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega, and happy to support this this evening, especially where we have Denver employees volunteering and supporting the great work that Brothers redevelopment does in the community as well. And so happy to support that. Madam Secretary, Roll Call Ortega. I. Did you get my vote? I said I. All right. Thank you. Council member. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. Torres. I am black. I see. Tobacco. I. Clark, I. Flynn. I can't. I. Cashman. I can. Each i. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce results. 12 Eyes. 12 eyes. Proclamation 20 1-909 has been adopted. We have 5 minutes for the proclamation acceptance. Councilmember Ortega, we'll go ahead and start that timer. And I believe we have Chad LeBlanc, who's going to be joining us for the the acceptance. Correct. Chad, I just want to thank you for your 14 years as the volunteer manager that has been working with this program and all the volunteers that come in assist Brothers redevelopment with this great program. So the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you, City Council for this proclamation and for your support of Denver employee volunteer opportunities and housing organizations like ours at Brothers Redevelopment. Since 2005, Depot and Brothers Redevelopment have partnered to serve our elderly and disabled neighbors by painting their home exteriors, cleaning up yards, performing light repairs, and by strengthening our strengthening our community bonds through service. Denver employees are indeed from the community and for the community. In the life of the devil painter THORNE 1700 diva volunteers have donated 13000 hours of time to paint 116 homes for deserving Denver residents. The value of this volunteer time is nearly $300,000. This Saturday, 100 volunteers from a wide variety of city and county departments will add to this legacy and lend a hand to six aging homeowners who would otherwise not be able to have this work done. It would cost our average plaintiff, an applicant, 25% of their yearly income to have their home paid by a contractor. So volunteers are not only providing a practical service, but they're also saving our vulnerable neighbors money for things like food, utilities and health care. Thank you. Denver City and county employees for being leaders in our community. Additionally, in 2021, brother's redevelopment is actually celebrating our 50th anniversary as a Denver based nonprofit housing organization. Brothers Borden Staff is a hardworking, creative team with a passion for providing safe, affordable, attainable housing and housing solutions with our community. Thank you for working with us to serve our cities housing vulnerable for 50 years. Thanks for your time. Thank you and thank you for all the work that you're doing on behalf of our residents as well in Denver. All right. We're going to go ahead and move along. Madam Secretary, please read the bills for introduction.