Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. Seeing no other comments. We will check on presentations. Madam Secretary, do you have any presentations then?
Speaker 3: Mr. President, how about communications?
Speaker 1: Do we have any communications?
Speaker 3: None, Mr. President.
Speaker 1: We do have one proclamation this evening. Councilman, do you please read Proclamation 71?
Speaker 5: Yes, Mr. President, even though this is all about the Rose ad on the Senate tonight, and it's wonderful to read this proclamation to really honor one of the major contributors to the Rose and Center. So like to read this proclamation favorite, Melinda White tonight honoring Melinda, huge contributions to the Rose Angel Center and the community and the city and county of Denver. Whereas Melinda White is an innovator in construction, delivering outstanding projects based on proven systems and advanced technology. And. Whereas, Melinda White is the fastest growing company established in Colorado in 19 1997 and employs over 120 individuals. And. Whereas, 2017 marks Melinda White's 20th anniversary managing construction projects in 31 states. And. Whereas, Melinda White demonstrates an outstanding commitment to community service through volunteer projects, fundraising efforts and donation of services and materials. And. Whereas, Melinda White supports over 50 children's charitable organizations through the cause and Denver Day Iraq. And. WHEREAS, The Rose Annually Center strives to improve the lives of domestic violence victims by facilitating better access to services and staff of community organizations and government agencies in a single, safe location. And. Whereas, Melinda White managed the construction of the Rose and Loan Center at cost. And. Whereas, the following completion of the Rose Angel Center, Melinda White made a substantial cash donations directly to the Rose Angels Center. Now their be therefore be it proclaimed by the County Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that the Council of the City Kennedy honors Melinda White for their commitment to the Rose Anthony Center and Community Service in Denver. Section two that the Clerk of the City and County Denver Show attest and affixed the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Byron Hoy, presidency of Melinda White.
Speaker 1: Thank you, councilman. Knew your motion to adopt.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. President. Move that proclamation. 71 be adopted.
Speaker 1: It has been moved in. Second comments by members of Council. Council in New.
Speaker 5: It was just wonderful. Today, as a group of us took a tour of the Rosie on the Ellen Center. And what a beautiful facility it is. It's just gorgeous. Yeah, I just couldn't describe how pleased we are as we toured and and not only see all the coordination of all the services that are providing care for victims of domestic violence, but just seeing how beautiful the construction was and the design of that building and is a wonderful job. We're so proud of that center and its location and its history and Denver and I couldn't be more proud to be a sponsor for this proclamation tonight.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman now, Councilman Flynn.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to thank Councilman Nu and the staff of the center and the folks associated with it for that tour this afternoon. It was my first opportunity to go into that building that having worked in this neighborhood for 35 years, I've seen that building go through a lot of different uses and permutations. But I have to say this is one use that I think is the most valuable to the community of anything that's occurred in that building. It looks much bigger inside than it does from the outside. I was amazed at how much service they're going to be able to provide in there, and I really welcome that as a new approach to to dealing with domestic violence cases. And I just wanted to thank Councilman New again and the staff, the Center for arranging the tour this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 0: Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to add my $0.02 as well and express my appreciation to Melinda Wright for the additional contributions that you all made to ensuring that this project was done. I know it was something that was talked about for a very long time under Mitch Morrisey, and he helped kind of bring it to fruition. And I was part of the tour and just being able to go through and see how functionally efficient the building is going to operate is is pretty exciting to see that you've got all the different components in one place so that when a victim is is being tended to, I guess is the right word as opposed to treated. They get everything in one location as opposed to in the past, they'd have to go to multiple places. And if you're somebody that had just left your home, you didn't have transportation. You had to schlep your kids around trying to do all of that and get the services and resources you need. It was very, very challenging. And in some cases, women weren't getting what they needed. And so being able to have all of that in one place is pretty exciting. And I look forward to just seeing the kind of impact that hopefully it will have where we begin to see some of our domestic violence stats go down as a result of the great work that will be happening out of this location. So thank you all for the tour and for the great work that you're doing along with all of our other community collaborators that provide domestic violence services. And I know the. DA's office and the police department utilize their resources from that they get from court fees that help provide some of the cost to many of our organizations to provide these services to the people in need in our community. And so I want to say thank you to them as well. Thank you, Mr. President.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. And I'll try my $0.02. You know, this this proclamation is about the Rosanne Center and the company that helped build it. And there's an incredible that we're doing this for the Rosanne Center. But I happen to know a couple of things about the construction company Melinda White and what they've done in the city of Denver from work at Union Station to affordable housing products, also at the airport as well. And so they have been an incredible organization. But, you know, I know Brian and Jeanie. And so it's it's one thing about the work that you do. It's another thing to be just good people and they're just great people. And so we just want to thank you for just how you care about Denver. And it's more than just business. It's about relationships as well, and it's about seeing Denver succeed. So thank you with that, Madam Secretary, roll call.
Speaker 3: New Ortega I. Sussman. Black Eye. Espinosa. Flynn I. Gillmor, i. Herndon. Can each. Mr. President.
Speaker 1: I please close voting or announce the results?
Speaker 3: Ten Eyes.
Speaker 1: Ten Eyes proclamation 71 has been adopted. Councilman knew. Is there anyone that you'd like to bring up to speak tonight?
Speaker 5: First of all, I like Margaret Abrams to come up and executive director of the Rosen Center, just to say a few words about the center.
Speaker 3: Good evening. Thank you so much. For those of you that took time out of your busy schedule to come on the tour today. We were delighted to host you. And if any of the rest of you want to come at any point in time, we'd be happy to have you come visit as well. I think the Rosie and Jim Center is has been such an amazing example of a public private partnership that the city can be very proud of with the city partnering, community agencies partnering. And certainly Millender White was an incredible partner in the success of this project as well. Just to say a few words about what we're doing, the you've already heard that it really is about bringing all of the resources together under one roof. We know domestic violence is is an issue with a lot of complexity that no single resource or agency really can address. In there, in there, a single entity. So it really has been an amazing process to bring together of a wide variety of resources and groups to better serve domestic violence victims and their kids, including the police department, the DA's office, the city attorney's office, some of the community partners involved or Safe House. Denver Project Safeguard. Colorado Legal Services Coalition for the Homeless Servicios de la Raza Mental Health Center of Denver has their children's program involved there as well as, like I said, the police department. So we're very pleased at the Rosie and Him Center to be able to bring together community organizations and government agencies working together to provide for the needs of individuals and families and by co-locating the staff and crucial services in one place. Not only do these organizations provide more and better coordinated services, but victims and their families can access a full range of resources and hopefully be able to access services proactively because they are there. We are already seeing those positive results from the families that have accessed services at the Rosie and of Center. We opened for business June 29th. We've served about 750 victims that have come through the door, bringing 250 children with them. And we've only just begun to get the word out that we are there. So we're very pleased to continue to get the word out and see what a great impact this is going to have on the Denver community. Developed as a family justice center model. This is the first one in the Rocky Mountain region, and our goal was there's about 90 family justice centers open across the country. And we certainly want Denver to be one of the best in the country. And that's our that's our goal. And certainly we were incredibly pleased to partner with Millender White because it was more than business for them. And that became very apparent as we worked with them on this project that they really embraced the goal of what we were trying to do and to help create the vision of what we wanted the Rosie Center to be in in being a warm, welcoming, safe place for victims and their kids, to be able to come and receive services in a way that victims can feel dignified and respected and how they do that. So we could not be more proud to be partnering with the Millender white services and what the what the outcome has been.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I also like to recognize Maggie Morrissey, who's sitting here as the wife of our former D.A., Mitch Morrissey, who is one of the leaders in helping organize and fundraise for this whole center. So we couldn't be done without Maggie and and also Josh Handling, who's everybody knows around everywhere. And it's amazing he's not here. But I want to mention him and recognize his contribution and his. It was wonderful to hear him on the tour today talk about the history. He and Maggie talking about the history of the center and and what they did personally to help bring success to the center. But today's all about Melinda White and what your contribution to the center and loved Byron White to come up and and say a few words.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Well, I would be very remiss to not first of all, thank Maggie and Margaret, because without your leadership, we wouldn't be here. So thank you very much. Mr. President, Council like to thank you very much for this distinguished honor. Specifically want to also thank Councilman New. Melinda White is a home grown company. We started in Arvada 20 years ago. We started as a small business, two guys in a basement. We've now grown to an organization that's about 120 employees, something that we're very proud of from the Denver Union Station to the expansion of Concourse C at DIA for Southwest Airlines to this beautiful building in 2012 when we renovated it. We've built many projects that are part of the fabric of this community. We're very proud of our culture of giving back. We started this company when we were pretty young, and we knew that giving back with our successes was very important to us. And so over the years, we would have donated in excess of $1,000,000. And I don't say that name or that number to brag, but to point out that giving back is a company that has success is important and important to, I think, all of the businesses that are able to have success. But how? Our most recent success at the Rosatom Center, though, is probably our most proud achievement. So all these generous people standing next to me. Are very part of continuing the culture of our organization of giving back. Again, thank you for this wonderful honor. It's something we'll always remember and cherish. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, Milliner White are they're big buff fans, too. So I think that's important to point out as well. Maggie, thank you for your hard work and I'm excited to get ahead. I didn't get it. Get over there and see it today. I'm excited to get over and see it. We've been hearing incredible things. So thank you so much. All right. Now we are moving on. Madam Secretary, resolutions. Will you read the resolutions.
A proclamation honoring Milender White’s contributions to the Rose Andom Center and the community in the City and County of Denver.