A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Health and Hospital Authority d/b/a Denver Health Medical Center to provide for the availability of reimbursement of agency funds in accordance with the FEMA COVID-19 Grant. Approves an intergovernmental agreement with Denver Health and Hospital Authority to provide for reimbursement of funds in accordance with the FEMA COVID-19 Grant. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-29-20. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-2-20.
All right, Madam Secretary, please close voting. Announce the results. 3999993 is council bill. A resolution for Haiti has been adopted. Council Member Can you please put Council Bill 495 on the floor for introduction? Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 495. Be. Introduced. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Questions or comments by members of Council. Council members member are welcome. Thank you. Mr. President. Called this one out because of the recent ordeal in the media with Denver Health. We know that they gave incredible bonuses to their upper level management while cutting, furloughing their employees and not treating them well throughout COVID. We know that they are attempting to unionize and from their leadership there has been union busting efforts misinformation, harassment and intimidation. And since we are the entity right now that will allow them to collect their dollars from federal money, I think we should put out some kind of requirement that they stop the harassment and intimidation before we allow them to take taxpayer money, federal dollars, to reward their bad behavior. So this is first introduction. This is first reading. And what that means with us is we get to read these twice. This is on introduction tonight. I always give a heads up on introduction of the thing that I'm going to vote no on or yes on later on down the road on the second reading. And so this is a heads up that this is coming to us next time for final consideration. And we need people to put pressure on the individuals up here to vote a particular way or get the behavior that we're asking for from Denver Health. So heads up and no today and and no next time as well. Thank you, Councilmember Customer. Thank you very much. I share Councilwoman CdeBaca. Concerns with the free speech, freedom of association and right to organize of the workers of Denver Health. And I think it is critical that Denver health support those workers and give them their right to organize, create a framework, labor, harmony as a way to create a framework for those workers to be able to organize without intimidation. And that is the type of agreement that the management can and should enter into. They are also our safety net health provider. This particular grant is to reimburse them for PPE. Both those health providers. As well as their patients, need that PPE. So for me, this is not the vote to to do, you know, a bigger conversation. I absolutely respect and honor my colleagues decision, but I stand in perfect solidarity with those workers. And I believe that if they need our support, we will continue to be there for them. And I do want to deliver the PPE that they and their patients need while those workers exercise their right to organize. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember Sayed, if I can you back up. And just a challenge to my colleagues who have not spoken to the workers on the front line PPE. They were not getting it and they have not all gotten it. Some of them have been wearing the same mask for weeks. They had a gallon pitcher to wash their hands at their stations with. And so talk to the workers before you make your decision on this, because the workers are telling us what is really going on and not what we want to hear. Thank you, Councilmember. All right, Madam Secretary, roll call on 495. See tobacco? No. Flynn All right. Gilmore I. Herndon I. Know. Cashman I. Can. Sandoval, I. Sawyer. No. Torres, I. Black Council President. All right, Madam Secretary, please close voting up the results. Three days. Nine eyes. Nine eyes, three nays. Accountable for 95 has been introduced. Ladies and gentlemen, if you could, please, so that we can get through the rest of these. Thank you. Councilmember Canete, will you please vote count about 504 on the floor.