A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and the Denver Urban Renewal Authority, by modifying the scope of work, to assist the Department of Public Health and Environment with administering the Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program. Amends an intergovernmental agreement with the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA) by modifying eligibility and financial requirements for the administration of the Lead Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program (LBPHC), to mitigate lead paint hazards in low income homes, citywide. No change to agreement amount or duration (201843088). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 8-26-19. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-31-19.
All right. So next up, we have 760, I believe. Madam Secretary, if you'd put that one up on our screens. And Councilman CdeBaca, this one's yours as well. Is there anybody who can answer questions? Can you introduce yourself? Good evening. My name is Brendan Doyle. I'm an analyst with the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment. I this, I think, deeply affects my district and I think it's important information. Can you explain the substantial changes here? Sure. So just a brief summary. We have a three year HUD led based paint hazard control grant. We're in year two of that grant. And our charge is to mitigate 130 low income homes to be safe from lead based paint hazards. We administer this grant with our partners at Denver Urban Renewal Authority. And basically the three minor changes that we're proposing for amendment is that we can increase up to 10% of homeowner occupied units may receive assistance without a child under the age of six living in the unit or spending significant time in the unit. The second piece is we can work on up to five vacant units. And then the third piece that increases the grant amount provided to landlords that enrolled in the program from up to $6,000 increase to $10,000. So they would be receiving a grant of 10,000 to replace the additional the previous grant of 6000. Awesome. And then on the vacant units, are there any charges to the owner if they were to sell within a certain amount of time? How do we recruit those dollars if it's improving for a sale? So there is a there's a three year affordability clause that goes into all all of the contracts with the landlords that they have to keep the unit affordable for families either that are in the unit currently or if they do have a vacant unit. So there are clauses in our contracts with all of the landlords to keep those units affordable, to avoid, you know, landlords just flipping the properties. And is there a place where we can track those properties that are being abated? Sure. Yeah. I mean, we have the records in our office and also Denver Renewal Authority attracts tracks those quarterly. And I'm happy to provide that information as you as we need it. Thank you so much. Thank you for the changes to. Thank you, Councilwoman CdeBaca. All right. That brings up 727. I'm sorry. Question on this same way. Councilman Ortega, go ahead. Can you just highlight why the changes? Because if it were the was the target primarily on properties that had children? Yes, that's a HUD regulation. So we typically have to work in homes that have children under the age of six or have children that spend significant time in the home under the age of six. So per HUD regulations where we're able to work on up to 10% of homeowner occupied units on the grant that don't require children under the age of six. So by this year we're opening up the eligibility a little bit. So was the issue that we couldn't find the homes with children under six? I don't think it was. It just HUD has allowed us to to open it up because we have had some we've had slower referrals than we thought. So part of their regulation is to to allow jurisdictions to work on homes that don't have children under the age of six. So it's just another tool in our bill to try to recruit families. So I know a lot of times it's just a matter of how we advertise and let families know about this. And I would hope that we continue to target households with children. Now, not that we you know, if we've exhausted that, that makes sense. But if we have not, I would like to help make sure that through my newsletter we're getting the word out so that the families with small children are the households that are benefiting from this program, as HUD has historically targeted. Yeah, that's absolutely that's absolutely the intention. This just allows us, you know, if we have a seven year old in the home, this allows us to work. And when we've had a couple of those that we've had to press pause on. So we just hope that this will open up the eligibility. And again, it's just 10% of homeowner occupied units. Yeah, that makes sense. But what didn't make sense to me is households that have no children, where we're we may not serve some households with children if we're going to serve homes that don't have children. Yeah, I don't think we're necessarily targeting those homes. It's just if they self-refer themselves into the program and they qualify otherwise that we we wouldn't necessarily turn them away as all. So how do we typically advertise this program? We have a contract with Korea results. Who does a lot of the door to door outreach campaigns for us? We've met with a number of council people. We do our counseling in the community meetings. We have yard signs, we do advertisements through our we do leaflet droplets at libraries and public schools and rec centers. So we're trying to get the word out is as best as we can. So we would solicit any help that your office. So last question when the work is done, are Leanne's put on the properties. Yes. For for landlords. They are. Yes. If it's a homeowner, homeowner, homeowner occupied units, it's a street grant. Okay. And if they sell within a certain period of time then they have to pay it back. Right. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I have no further questions.