A resolution levying taxes for the year 2015 upon all taxable property within special districts within the City and County of Denver for purposes authorized by law for special districts (FINANCE & SERVICES) Approves the 2016 Special Districts mill levy levying taxes for the year 2015 upon all taxable property within Special Districts within the City for purposes authorized by law for Special Districts. The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 12-3-15.
Thank you. This is the. Thank you, Mr. President. This is the the resolution that sets the DPS meal levy for this year, for taxes for next year. And I didn't want the occasion to go by without letting people know that when they get their tax bill next year, that they should be prepared for these new mill levies and the new reassessments. It will be more than it was last year. You will be paying more in most cases because of the reassessment citywide. And I ran the numbers just on my own property. And and between the the the mill levy that we set for the city and for DPS and the special districts. My property tax bill will be going up about 27%. It's going to vary, of course, across the city. I do want to make note, though, that the mill levy is decreasing from last from the current as well as the city's mill levy that we adopted last year. We were we did mitigate for some of the increase in the assessed value, and you will see those results next year. I just wanted to make note of that. So it didn't go by on a block vote. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. All right. Now I'm secretary. Next one. Now we're at 948. Great. Councilwoman Gilmore. Would you like for us to do with this? Thank you, Mr. President. I'm calling out this resolution for a separate vote. I used to work for this organization, and I will be abstaining. Thank you for that. Well, Councilwoman Gelman, will you please put Resolution 948 on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council resolution 948 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Any additional comments? Incomes will get more. Where you good? Just want to make sure. Yes, Mr. President. Thank you. See no other comments. Madam Secretary, welcome. Gillmor. Epstein Cashman. I. Lopez All right. New. Ortega All right. Black Brooks. Clarke. Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary, please. Those are very nice results. Tonight's one abstention denies one abstention, 948 has been adopted. Next one, Madam Secretary, I believe 942 councilman was 40 and I'm out of the tonight. 940 Councilwoman Ortega okay, come one Ortega 940. What would you like for us to do with this question? Go right ahead. Is there anybody here from our H.R. department? Can you come forward, please? So this is our second year utilizing this new company, correct? Correct. Can you tell me if we have done any surveys or assessments of employees who have utilized these services? And do we have that data that you can share with me? All I'm aware of is that we have reporting data based on the utilization of the plan. So we haven't asked the employees how it's working for them. I can find out if coms, like, has done that. Okay. I'm just curious because I know when this came forward, I had a lot of questions and concerns because one of the programs that we used to have was our cancer buddy program. And I know this, you know, covers a lot of different elements. It replaced our Office of Employee Assistance, which covered, you know, a lot of confidential issues that employees might have. But I just and they're not physically here. So I just want to know how it's working. So if we have not done a survey of the employees who have utilized it, I think it would be invaluable to us to know how is this working to be, you know, dealing with somebody confidentially that is remote and they don't get to really sit face to face and talk to somebody as they're trying to deal with any of these multitude of issues that people may be calling in about. So can you follow up on that and get back to me, please? Absolutely. And could you introduce yourself for the record, please? Yes. I'm Jennifer Cahoon with the Office of Human Resources. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Captain Ortega. Next on Madam Secretary. 942. Councilman Espinosa, what would you like for us to do with this? I just had a comment. Go right ahead. I just wanted to I had a hard time when I was reading this, putting it all together. So I just wanted to clarify that this bill request not only dedicates land as public alley, but it also rededicate a portion of Main Street, which was vacated in 1989.