Speaker 0: 12 eyes one day. Council Resolution 825 has been adopted. Madam Secretary, please, for the next item on our screens. 836. And Councilman CdeBaca, you have this one called for a comment. You want to go ahead with your comment?
Speaker 4: Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. This one is a quick one. No questions, mostly an opportunity to thank the parties involved in acquiring this this property. We've gotten a lot of questions from the public about what this purchase was really intended to do and what was going to happen with this Salvation Army shelter that the city is now purchasing. And so I wanted to let the public know that this is a step in the right direction for our city. We heard many times throughout the last year that the city needed to step up and take a heavier responsibility over our housing crisis and specifically the homeless part of the spectrum. And so this purchase of this property is to protect the use of this space as a shelter. And I look forward to seeing it become a 24 hour shelter, the first and only one that we would have here that is owned by the city. And so thank you for everybody who made this happen. And I can't wait to be involved in making sure we get the right operator in this space in the future.
A resolution approving a proposed Purchase and Sale Agreement between the City and County of Denver and The Salvation Army for the purchase of real property located at 1901 29th Street.
Approves a purchase and sale agreement with The Salvation Army, for $10,500,000 to acquire property located at 1901 29th Street, known as the Crossroads shelter, to preserve the City’s current shelter needs, in Council District 9 (FINAN-201951595). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 9-30-19. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 8-27-19.