A bill for an ordinance amending Article 1 of Chapter 15 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver to update municipal petition procedures, including the creation of a fiscal impact estimate and ballot information booklet for municipal citizen initiated and referred measures, providing more specific deadlines, conforming circulator requirements to recent court decisions, and lowering the age for an individual to circulate a petition. Updates election procedures to include creating a fiscal impact estimate and pro and con information for citizens on municipal initiatives and referenda, modeled on the state “blue book”, to clarify deadlines, to make other changes in response to court decisions and to engage younger individuals in the petition process. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-12-18.
One way, one abstention, five, 95, 92 has been ordered published. Okay. We now have 66. So can you bring that up and have comments by members, by council? Councilman Flynn and Councilwoman Black. Is this for a vote? No, it's just comments. Councilman Flynn, go ahead. Thank you, Mr. President. I called this out just for a brief comment. I wanted to thank the Denver clerk and recorder for bringing this forward. This is long overdue, and I'm very happy that she has advanced this. What we will do is start producing a blue book. Folks are familiar with the blue book that comes from the state that informs voters on the pros and cons and the issues involved in all of the measures. Right now, under TABOR, we only issued we have only been issuing information on TABOR related questions on the ballot. And I remember folks looking through that publication and saying, well, where's the information on on the green roofs or on the social consumption? Where do I get the, you know, the the back and forth on that? And I wanted to thank clerk and recorder Deborah Johnson for this really simple and overdue idea, and I intend to fully support it. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Councilman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. On this election eve, this is a great time to have the vote on this. I would also like to thank our director of elections, Amber McReynolds, who worked with the clerk and recorder. And I have been talking to them about this for a very long time. So I'm really, really excited because an informed electorate is a very important electorate and we've had a lot of ballot measures both locally and statewide that have really had an impact, good and bad, in our city, in our state. And so information is powerful. So the fiscal impact of every ballot measure and as Councilman Flynn said, a blue book sort of showing the pros and cons of every issue. So thank you for working on that. The fiscal impact we talked about, committee talked about at committee. Councilwoman Kane each brought up the point that the fiscal impact will just be looking at the fiscal impact on the state, on the city and county of Denver, not on our overall economy. But today we had our green roof initiative and council meeting, and the city is going to have to hire seven full time people to manage the implementation of our Green Roof program. And so had we known that last year, that would have been the first part of the fiscal impact statement that would have been on the ballot, which would have provided more information to voters. So. Thank you very much, Amber McReynolds and Clerk Deborah Johnson. All right. And everybody, if you haven't, vote again, please vote tomorrow. It's lasting. Yes. Amen to that. Okay. Comes from Lopez. Thank you. Words were taken right out of my mouth on the congratulations. I wanted to make sure that our elections division and McDonald's have been recognized for their hard work. Yes. And informed the electorate is the an electorate that actually makes things happen in the city. Well, I just. Don't want to repeat anything else, but just great work. It's long overdue. Long overdue. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. All right. It looks like that is. We don't have any pending. Okay, great. Let's see all other bills for today. This concludes the items need to be called out. All of the bills for introductions are published. We're now ready for the block. Votes on resolutions and bills and final consideration, except for Council Bill 560 for the Cooperation Agreement, which is a companion bill along with Council Bill 563 approving one on one Broadway, the Urban Redevelopment Plan. After the public hearing this evening, Council Bill 563 will vote on this with the companion bill. All right, council members, remember, this is a consent or block vote. You will need to vote I. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call in and offer a separate vote. Councilman Flynn. Will you please put the resolutions for adoptions and the bills for final consideration of final passage on the floor? Me? Councilman Ortega, I'm sorry. Okay? We look so much alike. I would be happy to allow him. His head was a friend of yours, so I saw him. Sorry. Okay. Here we go. I talked to her about start singing Ebony as president. I move that the following resolutions and bills on final consideration be moved forward. Council Bill 1865 zero. 1865 618 five 4518 546. 18 5:47 a.m. I doing this right? These are all the resolutions. 18 548. 18, 549. 18. 558. Five 5118. Five 5218. 616. 18. 627. 18. 647. 18. 655. 18 six 4818 six 5318 six, 54 and 18 657. Those are on to be ordered published and the bills on final. We'll get to those. Are. You see? Do we have 654 five suits? 64? No, no, no. Okay. 18 564. No, that is the one we have the public hearing. Yeah, we got. Okay. So 18 five, 83, 18, 60, 60. 18 589. All to be placed on final consideration and do pass. All right. I mean, I'm secretary for the second work. All black. Clark Espinosa. Hi. Flynn. I. Gilmore. I. Herndon. I can eat. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Susman. Mr. President. I know this was a very intense results. 1212 hours resolution to have been adopted in the best place for finding consideration and do pass. Tonight there will be require a public hearing council of 63 approving one on one Broadway urban redevelopment plan.