A bill for an ordinance creating the office of climate action, sustainability, and resiliency. Amends Chapter 2 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to create a new Office of Climate Action, Sustainability, and Resiliency and makes conforming code changes to transfer responsibilities for related programs to the new office. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 12-2-19. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-6-19.
11 days. Uh, final consideration of Council 913, and its public hearing has been postponed to Tuesday, January 21st, 2020. Councilwoman Ortega, will you please wait? Council 1177 on the floor. Mr. President, I move that council bill 19 1177 be placed on final consideration and do pass. I think were on first reading so ordered published. Be that it be ordered published. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The courtesy public hearing for council 1177 is open and we do have. Looks like four individuals signed up to speak this evening. So first up, we have Jeff Newman Lee. Good evening. I'm Jeff Newman. Leigh. I live in Denver in the Whittier neighborhood. I'm. In favor of having a. An Office of Resiliency. Why? Why why would the city of Denver need to do this? Why can't we just all use the market and work on our own to make the changes that we need to make? You know, one of the greatest proponents of of individualism in America are corporations. And that is, of course, very ironic because corporations are creatures of the state and they are a collectivization. So they use their collective power. We have a collective power that we need to use to deal with climate change because climate change is a common collective problem that each one of us has to deal with. We need to protect people. We need to protect our people. We all know the weather's been changing. We all know the different, the difficulties. And we're in a fairly safe spot. We can look at other places and be very upset. We need to protect our people. There's also advantages in the new energy economy and electricity. The physics of electricity is that in time it's just cheaper. It's cheaper, and it will empower people in many ways to dove into that kind of an economy. I was talking with a state representative today and I asked him, what do you think the city should do? I mean, do we need the city to participate in this or is the state just going to take care? But, you know, this this problem is so deep. It touches so many people right at at their own home level. Everything we do, oil and gas. Oil and gas. It takes people to change. And we need to change at every level. So we need the city of Denver to make changes that other people can see. It's leadership. And finally taking this office and endowing it and getting it going is world leadership. So much of the world is suffering. People are dying because of climate change. And we here are participating in it. When we do what's right, other people see and other people will follow. We're powerful. People were the city of Denver. We have no business not being leaders. Thank you. Next up, Chairman Sekou. Wow. Yes. My name is. Chermside Coop bound organizer for the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. And also a candidate for United States Senate 2020. You know, I was sitting here. Doing research. Recess. And I was listening to Marvin Gaye story about Mercy, Mercy Me, the ecology. And that was 75 years ago. And you all know the song. Yeah. And then here we go. Now we're at a critical stage where the Earth is getting ready to take care of all of this. All of this you're talking about. Climate action. When black people ever get climate action on this planet. Because Lester. And then you're talking about sustainability. For the last 500 years in this country, you have suppressed black people every day, 24 hours, seven. And we are on a bottom in every category. There's political, economic and social development. And you sit. Here and have the audacity to. Bring something up like this. If you can't do this, how are you going to do the plan? Talk to me. And then, last but not least. I came here. There was a woman. And I was walking down the 16th Street Mall. I didn't know. Nobody sees a place they call as when one ask one question about is global warming. They. I said glasses. So she said, well, maybe you can ask them this question. So she said, What do black people have to lose if the planet gives buried in water? What would be free from all this? And then everybody can start all over with a level playing field. She said, I'm betting on the planet. And I'm with the planet. I hope it all goes under water. I've been praying for. For 75 years. So you tell me. Answer that question. What does black people have to lose if all of this goes underwater and if you change it and save it? Is that going to help us at all as you continue to do the same old, same old? You got to do something different. Answer that question. I dare you. Thank you. Next up, Sebastian Andrews. Right. Next up, Perry BURNETT. Good evening. My name is Perry Barnett. I live up the street from Councilman Clark at 1378, South Pennsylvania. I've lived in the same 1885 home for 29 years and another little old house before. Then I first encountered climate change in 87, working on a project called Greenhouse Glasnost before the world came down when email was new 1987 . It was a collaboration between the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. We knew then what was happening. We knew that most of the actions in themselves had a lot of benefits society, weather, public health, clean air economics, international geopolitical instability. And we still failed. Since then, I've spent most of my career working in bureaucracies trying to shift the paradigm for CDP and pollution prevention. Work on the bike issue here for the city, worked inside green print for a few years. I worked in programs that were given a lot of verbal support and very scarce resources, certainly not much leadership. I used to say at best what we could expect from leadership was permission to try something new. I want to thank you, city council members for finally realizing it's now or never to take actual leadership to provide a vision for this city to move forward. More than permission, this issue will evolve. Our actions will not be perfect. But to start now and to move with great haste and with substantial resources. I am eternally grateful. And I'm also grateful to the city staff who have brought us this far with virtually no resources scattered and embedded in the bureaucracy and with great faith. 60 hour weeks not paying attention, not, you. Know, neglecting their families at home. So they just deserve our gratitude. In addition to the present city council members. Thank you so much. Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening. Are there any questions on this item from members of council tonight? All right. Seeing none of the public hearing for council, 1177 is closed. As a reminder, this is just first reading. This will be back up for final reading next week. Are there any comments before we vote on publication? All right. Sing. No comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. I see tobacco, I flinch. I go more. I heard it like. Hi. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Kenny Ortega. Hi. Sandoval. Sawyer Torres. Hi. Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary, please close the voting, announce the results. 13. 13. His counterpart, 1177, has been ordered published. City Council sitting ex-officio as the board of directors for the Denver 14 Street General Improvement District, Reno, Denver General Improvement District and Gateway Village General Improvement District will hold public hearings on Monday, November 18th, 2019, related to the 2020 work plans and budgets for each district.