A bill for an ordinance naming the park at 3200 East 52nd Avenue as “Lorraine Granado Community Park”. Approves the naming of the park at 52nd Avenue and Steele Street in the Swansea neighborhood as Lorraine Granado Community Park in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-4-20.
Yes, thank you. Just a request for our team. I don't think that the letter has been uploaded into the public facing system. And so if we could get that in there, I think it is very important to the public to have access to that. Okay. All right. I don't see anything else on this one. So, Madam Secretary, will you please put the next item on our screens? And that would be Bill 88, called out by two members. I'll go first to Councilmember Ortega. Thank you. This is something that I believe Councilwoman CdeBaca brought forward. Oh, sorry. Did you. Oh, do you want to go first, then? Okay. But I just wanted to say, Lauren Granado is somebody who really was a legend in our community that did amazing work in the Globeville, Swansea, Elyria community. And it was actually through her work with the community in securing some natural resource damage funds from, I believe it was an acid spill that took place on the rail lines that those resources were used to acquire this land for a park. This park is across the street from a trailer park that has a lot of small children. And to have this park named after her is. And let me just add that she just passed about a month and a half ago. And this is different than all of our other naming because of how this property was acquired. Even though it is one of our parks. So this does not have to meet that three year threshold. But I am just honored to be able to vote for this tonight and to allow her family to have the opportunity to have something that honors her, her legacy and her significant contributions to these communities. She was the catalyst who found the attorney that filed the Asarco lawsuit that resulted in one of the largest property damage settlements from Asarco. And the residents from the community were not only able to get some property damage resources, the soils in their homes were cleaned up to a larger degree than what had been worked out with the state process that had been going on. So I'm I'm honored to support this tonight. And I want to thank Councilwoman CdeBaca for her efforts in making this happen. Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you. The public hearing that I requested for this is not to bring anyone to the table who opposes this park naming, but to give the family an opportunity to share with this body more than you get in a typical proclamation. And and really help us understand what she's contributed to our climate change and environmental justice work citywide in Denver. And so if you know anyone who's been affected, touched by known Ms.. Granado, please invite them to testify. Her family will have a lovely presentation and testimony, and I will as well, because it is a full circle moment for me to be able to have this honor and participate in in a park renaming for Lorraine. So can wait until then and make sure you let people know about it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. I will say that some of my favorite, favorite things that I've been able to sit and experience on this bench has been park naming. And this one sounds like it is going to be fantastic. So mark your calendars.