A bill for an ordinance amending Division 11, Article VIII of Chapter 2 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver to update procedures and transfer governance of the Crime Prevention and Control Commission from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Public Health and Environment. Amends Article VIII, Chapter 2 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code (DRMC) to update procedures and transfer governance of the Crime Prevention and Control Commission from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Public Health and Environment. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-28-18.
Thank you, Mr. President. Bill 1267 is a moving of the Crime Prevention and Control Commission from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Public Health and Environment. And it also makes a few other changes. And I just felt it was important to call this bill out for a comment because there is some risk involved in the changes we're making. It's it's maybe worth doing, but I think it's important for us to all hold ourselves accountable. So the bill was, you know, the Crime Prevention and Control Commission was started when the jail was being proposed. And some of the council members in community that were concerned that if you just built a bigger jail, we'd just fill it with more people and really wanted to keep the pressure on the city to do diversion and to keep people out of jail and have alternatives. And so the the commission in this ordinance had somewhat of an autopilot of funding, which was up to three and a half million dollars to be able to fund programs like mental health court, to keep people out of jail or to fund other types of diversion programs. And a lot of the programs that the commission had had started have been very successful. They help keep people who don't need to be in jail in their communities, maybe with their families and their kids, maybe at their jobs, and helping to prevent people from, you know, reoccurring by maybe helping them get the substance abuse treatment or other treatment that might be connected to their criminal activity. And so it's been effective. I understand and I agree that there's a point at which when you put something on autopilot, you might not be as thoughtful as you could be about what funding is needed and how to do diversion. So this bill is is going to take away the automatic funding and create a more traditional budget process where you talk about what you need and you debate it and you propose it to the mayor and it goes through the budget process. And and I think that that, you know, hopefully will create a similar amount of funding for, you know, equally effective programs in the future. But I do think that a committee I think on Wednesday, we're going to have the jail present about what our population looks like. And we still have, I think, a very high jail population. It's it's leveled at times, but it's generally, over the past few years, exceeded the expectations of where the jail capacity would be. And so I do just want to say that, you know, I appreciate the department worked really hard to make some adjustments to the language to make sure that the commission still has a role in making recommendations, even where they're perhaps not going to fund a diversion program or a program that keeps people out of jail, that they're making recommendations to the Department of Safety or to the sheriff's department. But I want to just it for our community, because I think that it is really critical that we continue to try to keep incarceration down in our community. Families, you know, are torn apart. And and you have a situation where people can't work and you end up with cycles that are difficult to break. So we have to keep a focus on this commission. Several of our colleagues serve on it. I want to thank those of you that do serve on it, but I just ask us collectively, I guess, to watch this closely over the next few budget cycles and make sure that this commission is still moving the ball forward even with these changes. So I'm supporting it tonight, but I'm asking us all to just be vigilant. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman Kennedy. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. And I just want to say I don't disagree with most of the comments made by Councilwoman Kimmich. And as you indicated, there are three of us that serve on this body. We will be having a retreat right after the first of the year to really kind of hone in on the work plan moving forward and to look at how successful we have been with the programs that have been funded and to evaluate whether, you know, those are all the right things that we should be spending all of that money on. So I think the the commission is going to play a very big and important role. And the fact that the Office of Behavioral Health, the Crime Prevention and Control Commission are all together at Environmental Health that looks at things from a health disparity. Health equity lens is also equally important because we have many of our neighborhoods. If you look at the maps that we've looked at around marijuana, around the. Data that we did on the the jobs priorities. They're all the same neighborhoods. And so just knowing all of that as we move into this process, I think is going to be very important. And I will be voting for this tonight, too. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. All right. That concludes the items to be called out. All of the bills for introduction are ordered published, and we're now ready for the block vote on proclamations, resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote I. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call an item for a separate vote. Councilman Ortega, will you please put resolutions for adoption and bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? Happy to do so. I move that the following bills following resolutions and bills on final be moved forward in a block for adoption. Resolution number 1354 1384. Make sure I'm not calling out the ones we've already done. Could you also add in proclamations and catch 14? So. Yes, I'm sorry. Thank you. Okay. So Proclamation 1475, Resolutions 1354, 1384, 1392, 13, 93, 13, 94, 13, 95, 13, 96, 13, 97, 1398. 1399 1402. 1411 1415 1359 1371, 1372, 1375, 1379, 1382, 1385, 1386, 1388, 1389 1403 1414 1287 1404. For a witness. I don't see 1287 on here, but. It's at the bottom of page ten. Sunderland use. I'm going off the one that our secretary has on the computer. So why don't you continue on? We'll just check on. That's what we mailed out to the public and it's what was given to us. So. 1287 is the river mild? That was the reason. If you look on the screen, that wasn't was the one that council Sussman postponed. So that one is not in our block vote. Okay. So not too. Visible that removed. 1287 So go on to 1404 1226 1340. 1351 1357 1377 and 1378 now. And those are all for adoption. So we're now going to bills for final 1360 214, 2013, oh eight, 1324 and I believe it is all of them. All right. Thank you very much. It has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. All right, Brooks. Hi. Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. Hi. Gilmore. Hi, Herndon. I Cashman can reach Lopez. All right. New Ortega, I Sussman. Hi, Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close voting and notes. Results 13 nice 13 Eyes. The proclamations and resolutions have been adopted. The bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight, council was scheduled to hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 1013, changing the zoning classification of 2929 West 10th Avenue in Sun Valley. However, there is a proposal to postpone final consideration of comes Bill 1013 with its public hearing to Monday, January 14th, 2009. So since we may be postponing tonight's only public hearing and if there are no objections from Council, we will not take a recess. Councilwoman Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 1013 on the floor? Yes, I move that council bill 1013 be placed on final consideration. Do pass. It has been moved and seconded. Councilman Lopez, your motion to postpone. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that council bill 18 dash 1013 be placed upon final consideration in past. Years is the motion to postpone. It's on the floor. Oh rats. I just thought I get for a reading off of the script on your script. Sorry to postpone. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that final consideration of Council Bill 1013 series of 2018 with its public hearing be postponed to Monday, January 14th, 2019. Thank you very much. It has been moved and seconded comments from members of Council Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. This postponement is at the request of the mediator and parties of interest to the rezoning. Requesting of the postponement does not indicate any decision on the rezoning. And that was 1934, correct? 2019? Yeah. January 14th. 2019. 2019. Did I say 2018? All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez and I should have clarified between comments or questions. Councilman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. I just have a question. I guess, from someone in the administration about this. This is the. Second time we're. Postponing this. And I'm just wondering if it's impacting the contract we have with the mental health center of Denver. In any way these delays, are they jeopardized. Jeopardizing that? Sure. Sky Stewart mayor's office. Thanks for the question. While I think it would have been our preference to move forward tonight, we are okay with the second postponement, but we are anxious to move forward. The rezoning would facilitate the solution center, which we've been talking about for a number of years as a crisis stabilization center for people experiencing homelessness or in danger of homelessness. And it's a it's a missing gap that we need to fill and we are anxious to move forward. Council will consider a contract with MH KD as the provider, so there are additional actions coming the council. We've made tremendous progress with the neighborhood. I think we're very close and I'm fine with the postponement tonight, but anxious to move forward in January. We really are looking forward to getting this facility up and running since it is a gap we've been missing. Thank you. And I think we're all happy that. You're all. Working with the neighbors. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Councilman Espinosa. As want to thank the administration for being okay with the postponement, because I believe that we're waiting as if as I was briefed by the applicant the that we are waiting because for community comment final community comment. And I think it's absolutely crucial that we actually do get these good neighbor agreements executed before we have, you know , before we consider these things. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Lopez, you back up. Um. Shouldn't be. Okay. All right. Madam Secretary, roll call on the postponement. Oh, wait. Councilman Brooks, you got in there? Yeah. Councilman Lopez, quick question. Is there a dispute between the neighbors and the actual applicant? Thank you, Councilman. No, it's just a matter of due process and making sure that we ensure the due process and of the rezoning, the rezoning requirements. So there's no dust. There's no issues. Well, there's issues, but I'm not I mean, as a as a person who's going to be as a councilor, who's going to be quasi judicial on the rezoning, you can. Still talk about if there's issues and you want. I'm just I just want to be clear. I mean. Let me finish why we're postponing. Let me finish. I think it's important that we capture that due process and folks who are at the table just at the request of the mediator and some of the interested parties, or Steve Charbonneau, who's doing the mediation and has been doing this for quite a while for the city council and for the city. And, you know, I think it's important that we give folks that time. There has been a lot of time since this has been proposed from day one. There has been plenty of time to work out and iron out a lot of issues. And so I think it's important that we ensure due process for all the parties who are in affected or a party to the rezoning that includes community. Any other questions, Councilman Brooks? No questions. Thank you. All right. See no other questions or comments. Madam Secretary, roll call on the postponement. Black Eye. Brooks Espinosa. I. Flynn. I. Gillmor, I. Herndon, Art. Cashman. All right. Kenny Lopez. I knew. Ortega. I. Susman. I. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 1313 ies Final Consideration of Council Bill 1013 with its public hearing has been postponed to Monday, January 14th. On Monday, January 7th, 2019, Council will hold a required public hearing on Constable 1346, changing the zoning classification for 219 to 20 1 to 20 3 to 20 5 to 20 7 to 30 5 to 45. South Holly Street and Hilltop and a required public hearing on Council Bill 1387. Changing the Zoning Classification for 4675, 4685 North Fillmore Street 4401 North Milwaukee Street in Elyria. Swansea. Any protest against Council Bill 1346 or 1387 must be filed with Council officers no later than noon on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019. Seeing no other business before this body, this meeting is adjourned.