A bill for an ordinance amending section 8-67 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code requiring a provisional breed-restricted permit for owners of pit bulls, subject to the approval of the voters at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election on November 3, 2020. Amends section 8-67 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code requiring a provisional breed-restricted permit for owners of pit bulls, subject to the approval of the voters at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election on November 3, 2020. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-28-20.
Thank you, Councilwoman. All right. We're moving on to now. The next item is Council Bill 760. Council members say to Barker, will you please put Council Bill 760 on the floor for publishing? I move that council bill 760 be ordered published. Baguette Thank you. It's been moved and seconded questions or comments by members of Council Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm sorry, Madam President. This is a topic that has been around the city for a very, very long time. And as you know, we spent a lot of time last year having much discussion and we took a vote on this. And I just want to say that this is one I will not support moving forward to the voters. You know, with most of these, I think it's it makes sense for our electorate to decide. But this is one that's been through the courts and has been around for a long time. And I'm just not supportive. It's put on the ballot. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. We have Councilman Herndon up. Thank you, Madam President. I know, Councilman. We're taking it seem like it was last year. It was actually earlier this year, only a few months ago, where we had this conversation. And as I mentioned, I was disappointed that even though a majority of council members felt this was the right decision, my my next thing I would do is to send this to the voters, because I do believe the voters should side. And that's why we're here. It isn't publication. And so I would hope that we could, if there's any comments that we can save them for next week, since we do have a public hearing hearings. But I do believe we've exhausted this topic thoroughly. And let's send it to you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. So, you know there, Councilwoman CdeBaca. Thank you, Madam President. This questions for Councilman Herndon. In what cases do you think that we shouldn't send something to the voters? Well, I'd have to take each of those individually. But since this was an exhaustive topic, I think this is appropriate. Anything else? I have to wait to hear what the actual topic is and weigh in on those merits. And do you believe what do you believe about this media? Exhaustive. Well, since we had a one that came to committee, Tahari had exhausted topics about that, as well as going through the committee process, hearing multiple experts speak on the topic. But once again, if there's something separate that a council member wants to send to the ballot, I'll once again weigh that on the individual merits. But particularly on this case, I think it's time. Thank you for answering those questions. All right. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call. Ortega. No. Sandoval. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Black I. CdeBaca, I. Clark. I. When I. Herndon. I. Hines. I. Cashman. I h i. Sorry, Sandoval. I didn't get that vote. I think you and council president I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announced the results. One May 12 Eyes 12 Eyes Council Bill 760 has been ordered published. The next item up is Council Bill 670. Council members say to Barca, please go ahead with your comments. Thank you, Madam President. If anybody is here to speak to this one, it would be helpful to understand. Is the Family Crisis Center part of Denver health exclusively? Is it a partnership with Denver Human Services? Is it like our community clinics? Can you just talk a little bit about what this one is and how this came about? Good evening again. This is Lisa Plumlee with the Division of Real Estate. So the Family Crisis Center itself has been. Around for 20 years. It is a co-op group with Denver Health. With Denver Human Services, with Denver Police Department, with the district and city attorney's offices. It is there. To serve our young victims. And originally it was. In a. Building on the Castro. Campus. And a couple of. Years ago, we relocated the entire group to the building at 405 South Platte River Drive. So that they could be there. It functioned a little bit, gave them a little more space, but it also allowed us to repurpose the building on the Castro campus for the Solutions Center. So the Denver health lease that's coming through. Is really to. Align with the service agreement. That Human Service has with Denver Health that allows them to be in. This building. Working with all of these other. Agencies. The square footage within the building the Denver. Health itself occupies is only about 2900. Square feet. And because I've had multiple community organizations coming to us asking us how we pick and choose, what organizations get these discounted leases or get to office with City of Denver in our facilities, how does this work? How do community organizations go about getting access to the city of Denver properties and leases at this discounted rate? How would they even know about them? Well, first of all, I think this is this is not. Just an open lease for. A nonprofit. So I think we need to. You know. Take a step back and realize this is a programmatic. Thing that is for the they are used in the city and county of Denver that is a partnership with the. City. So it's it's an ongoing program. Like I said, it's. Been in existence and the. Partnership has been there. So I can't pick. And it's not real estate picking and choosing those partners. This is just to acknowledge that they've changed locations. As far as any other facility. Nonprofits reach out to us all the time. What we try to do. There were a number of years ago when we had a lot of vacant space. We tried to work with nonprofits through an RFP process. We would still do that if we have vacant space, but it's really limited right. Now given the occupancy rates we have that we exceed in all of our buildings. But if we do have something that is available, then we will post it on our website and make sure that there is an opportunity to respond to in an RFP process. Thank you. And how is the amount of that lease, the dollar amount, determined? Well, once again, in this particular instance, because there a partnership that we require to perform the service, that this is a nominal lease. And as I think I have shared. In a previous city council meeting going forward, what used. To be dollar leases are now the city attorney's office is determined that $10 is the legal nominal amount and so it is there to provide that the it has to be a group that is performing a service to the community.