A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed donation of surplus personal computers from the City and County of Denver to the nonprofit entity PCs for People. Approves the donation of surplus personal computers to PCs for People for low income families in need during the coronavirus emergency. Councilmember Kniech approved direct filing this item on 3-23-20.
Thank you, Madam Secretary and Council Member Gilmore. We need another motion to suspend the rules of Council to allow for the introduction of a second late filing. Thank you. Council President. I move that the rules of procedure be suspended to allow for the. Introduction of Council Bill 20 dash. 0311. Approving a proposed donation of surplus personal computers from the city and county of Denver to the nonprofit entity PCs for people. Thank you. Council member it has been moved and seconded comments and again this is just comments on the filing and then if you want to call this out, we can call it out and recap once it is through. Councilmember, did you want to add something about this at this point? It's up to you, Mr. President. I don't believe it made it on the call list. So would it be more convenient to give the background on this bill now. Seeing head nodding from our Madam Secretary, so go ahead. Yes. Thank you very much to my colleagues for your patience with this. Late filing. PCs for People is an organization that provides computers for those who are low income and with limited access. In our community, they've provided about 8000 families a year with computers in the Denver market. This includes receiving donations of devices in mobile Internet hotspots and then wiping them using nationally certified processes. So they work with hospital systems and others who have very secure information that needs to be wiped in a very secure facility. Then that technology is refurbished and given back to those who might not have computer access otherwise. They have worked with the city and county of Denver in the past, but we have a very strong provision in our charter that requires any donations of equipment to be done by ordinance of the Council. And so it is made donations a little more unwieldy. I am here today with this bill. It doesn't use the word COVID 19 in it, but make no mistake that this was expedited in order to get more computers into the hands of families with kids who are going to try to be schooled through remote schooling to seniors who might need to have medical consultations with doctors via video rather than going in person to reduce their risk. And I want to thank first and foremost technology services, who has identified 100 computers that we would have had to pay to recycle if we couldn't do this. Donations. We're actually saving the city money by not paying a recycler and instead getting them into the hands of folks we need. So technology services, general services who had to authorize this under the charter, the council secretary for her help the president legislative council John Griffin and the mayor's office. This ordinance was put together in about 6 hours today. So pieces for people will pick up equipment not just from the city of Denver, but from other private entities who may have access, computers that you don't think are very effective for your needs, but with the right software calibrated for the age of the computer, will be very effective for online schooling and things like that. Very basic access. So even if it doesn't do a lot for you, trust me that in the hands of the experts it could be life saving or education saving for someone in our computer or in our community. So with that, I would like to thank everyone for their help getting this ordinance together in such short order and ask my colleagues for their unanimous support. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember and Council members. Just a reminder that we will need a unanimous vote approval on this item to be introduced, and this is just the vote to introduce it. Madam Secretary, roll call on this late submission. Black Sea debacle. I. Flynn, i. Gilmore, i. Herndon, i. Cashman Canete i. Tories i. Council President. I. I'm Secretary. Because the voting in those results. Nine eyes. Nine eyes counts accountable 311 may be introduced. Madam Secretary, please read the resolution title. A city Council Direct File 2311 A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed donation of surplus personal computers from the city and county of Denver to the nonprofit entity PCs for people.