A bill for an ordinance adding a new Division 3.75 of Article IV, Minimum Wage Protections for Workers Associated with City Contracts. Amends the Denver Revised Municipal Code to add a new Division 3.75 of Article IV requiring minimum wage protections for workers associated with city contracts. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-26-19.
President. Thank you very much. I'm going to do a quick recap on the resolutions and items being called out under bills for introduction. No items have been called out, but under bills for final consideration. Councilman Cashman, you'd like to call 163. Under pending, no items have been called out. And so that is our only item. Madam Secretary, if you could put 160 up on the screen and Councilwoman Gilmore, if you could put 163 on the floor for a final passage. Happy to. Mr. President, I would like to place Council Bill 0163 on the floor for final passage. Thank you, Councilwoman Gilmore. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of Council Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. I very much appreciate your letting me shift gears and get this on the agenda. As I mentioned in my announcement and my reading the statement from Councilwoman Kennedy, this bill had had not been scheduled to be called out. But I'm sitting here on this dais looking out at a room filled with working men and women of Denver. I see the familiar T-shirts of Unite Here, the purple sweatshirts of SEIU 105 and who have made the fight for $15 an hour minimum wage, a rallying cry and a mission for a good number of years. And while my colleagues made wonderful comments last week that I don't need to repeat along with a councilman, can each his remarks in view of the hard work that these folks have put forth over the years and in light of the importance of this bill, which will change lives of Denver families, I thought they deserved to hear us place our vote and give them the opportunity to express whatever satisfaction they may have. So with that, that's my comment. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. So last week we sent this through on concert to send a statement. And today, though, we're going to give you an actual vote that's not in the Bloc so that there can be some celebrating, I think. Councilman Espinosa. I'm actually just chimed in so I could filibuster for a little bit, because if we're going to take a vote, this is one that Paul Lopez definitely needs to be on the dais for. Anthony, could you grab Paul and let him know that we're going to take a vote on the minimum wage? So I apologize to both my colleagues and everyone in the pews here, but I thank you all. If you've been paying attention, at least on my time on council, you know how important this issue is to Councilman Lopez. So thank you all for your deference in this matter. Anybody else want to chime in? I will admit, Councilman Espinosa, I expected you to be better at filibuster than that. But, yeah. I'll left back in the chamber as the councilman breaks. Anything you say before we vote. You know, all I have to say, if if that's filibustering from Espinosa, he can filibuster all day long on this dais. But I just I'll seriousness aside, I just want to say to those folks who who work so hard and bring this forward, there's a lot of things on the on the executive side and those of us who are on the legislative side. But but those of you in the pews got this done. And so I want to thank you for all your hard work. And if you're watching this today, this is a proud moment because it's government working for those folks who are pushing hard and calling us out. So I appreciate you guys work. Thank you, Councilman Brooks, Councilwoman Gilmore. Thank you, President Clark. I just want to say a huge thank you again. This is all of your work. It's your community organizing. It's you continuing to push this forward. And just had the opportunity to meet this morning with another group of SEIU folks to share concerns. And I know there's much more that we need to work on together, but tonight is a night for celebration. Congratulations again and looking forward to our work ahead. Thank you, President Clark. Thank you, Councilwoman Gilmore. Councilman Lopez. Yes. I'm so sorry. Oh, thank you for making sure I was a part. You missed one heck of a filibuster. Heck of a filibuster. I wanted to congratulate all of you who worked so hard organizing. Organizing each other, taking risks. I know what it's like. I know how organizing goes. I know how it works. And I know how hard it is to get something. Like, I mean, just to get a union contract as is is hard in and of itself, but to fight and for your workplace and for your colleagues. Right. But to fight for everybody is something that is next level. And you all have achieved next level. And you all have not just proved that the labor movement and that you and workers organize together. They don't just organize to support each other, but you organize and you change an entire city. And I think this is this is something that attest to this. So I just wanted to thank you for your work. I I'm absolutely ecstatically supportive of this as it moves forward. So. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. We have everybody in the room. We've got this called out. Let's vote. Madam Secretary, roll call. Freshman High. Black Eye Brooks. Imam. Espinosa Flynn, i Gilmore I Herndon I Lopez t. Whether I. Knew. The. Assessment. I Mr. President. I Madam Secretary, please call the voting announced results. 1111. I is 163. Hey. All right. Thank you all for being here. And thank you, Councilman Cashman, for calling that out. That does conclude the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published and we are now ready for the black vote on resolutions, proclamations and bills on final consideration.