Speaker 0: 12 eyes Resolution 1 to 4 or five has passed. Council is now convening as the board of directors of Denver's 14th Street General Improvement District. Councilman Cashman, will you please put a resolution one, two, four, six on the floor?
Speaker 5: Yes, Mr. President. I move the resolution 18 dash 1246.
Speaker 7: Be.
Speaker 5: Adopted.
Speaker 0: It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Resolution 1246 is open. May we have the staff report?
Speaker 8: Meeting Board Members Michael Carrigan again from the Department of Finance, Capital Planning and Programing Division. I'm here to provide the staff report for the 14th and request approval for the 14th Street General Improvement District for the for the 14th Street General Approving District's 2019 budget and work plan. The district is 22.66 acres located along 14th Street from market to Colfax, and generally includes all parcels along both sides of 14th Street. It was created by council and approved by electors in response to the 14th Street initiative to create Denver's downtown ambassadors. The initiative began in 2005 and visualize 14th Street as a promenade and a major gateway to the downtown area. The plan contemplated streetscape improvements, streetscape enhancements and related public infrastructure improvements. Stakeholders, including private property owners, public officials and business organizations, participated to establish the conceptual design for the 14th Street. In 2009, City Council approved the formation of the 14th Street Guide and the creation of the District Advisory Board. The district was established to acquire finance, operate and maintain street improvements. The district's creation ordinance calls for the ADA to at least annually pass a work plan and budget. The District Advisory Board, after a notice and hearing, recommends to the Board of directors the proposed work plan and budget, including maintenance charges and capital charges. Before you tonight in 2019, the district plans to continue maintaining district amenities, including, but not limited to tree planter and flower beds, pots to flower pots, landscape maintenance, signage, repairs, trash removal and sidewalk lighting maintenance. The work plan, budget and charges include total revenues of $575,953, which is comprised of $264,145 in maintenance charges and banner rental revenue, plus $311,808 in capital charges for the repayment of debt used to fund the capital enhancements along 14th Street. Beth Moisi is here representing the district this evening and can answer questions you may have regarding the budget and work plan. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. We have three individuals signed up to speak this evening. If you could make your way to the front, your time will start when I call your name. First up, Beth Whiskey.
Speaker 2: Good evening. Council president and members of the city council. I'm Beth Gorski and I'm the executive director for the 14th Street General Permit District, and I'm here to answer any questions.
Speaker 0: Thank you very much. Next up, Jesse Pierce.
Speaker 9: Good evening. Members of Council Council President Clark. My name is Jesse Paris. Represented for Black Star Action Movies for Self-defense. Denver Homicide, Loud and Community Action Commitment for Change. And I am also an at large candidate for 2019 Denver County. Once again, this is business as usual. You want to improve the streets all while sweeping people off of these streets that are undesirable and do not fit into your plan. Picture for the city to beautify the city and think out of sight, out of mind when it comes to those that are suffering the most in the city . Again, I am against this, but already know you're going to approve it. There's a lot of big money involved with this. These improvement districts have historically destroyed communities, lower neighborhoods, allowing for people to be policed that do not fit the desire to make or view of patients, patrons that need to reside in a space, a public space . But you need to have big money to reside in this space. 14th Street, this is where the Four Seasons Hotel is, where the Landmark Cafe is right next to the very a campus. This is just a whole another tourist ploy to beautify the city and make it seem like there is no crisis. This homeless people that will not be able to sit or lie on any of the streets without being ticketed, harassed or arrested. So I hope you take all that in consideration. Already know you're going to approve this. But once again, like I said, I'm against it. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Next up, Chairman Sekou.
Speaker 10: Okay. I'm so cool, I'm sure, but nobody knows me. So we won't postpone or delay the same president. I was sitting here thinking, you know what? When I was growing up, there was a show on TV. I've used this analogy before. Down here years ago. Well, there was a television show series called The Little Rascals. And what it was about was kids emulating and acting like they were adults. So you had a judge, you had.
Speaker 0: Chairman say, I just want to make sure that you're you're getting to a point on this particular action item and you're not questioning the motives of some of the council members for our decorum rules.
Speaker 10: That you don't endorse because it's almost over. Cause I'm working on my senator here because I think I'm taking this a little bit too serious, which. And serious business. But it. It's not worth me dying over, I'm told. For real. So I'm preserving my health here and say. Thank you very much for everything that you guys do down here. And it gives me an opportunity right now to remind myself of why I've come here. And that is to. Eliminate suffering of the mass of the people by giving voice to that which is not given. So tonight I'm winning. I got to. Twelves votes for y'all. Vote it. And I want to be I think I'm Jimmy the Greek. And then I also go to Vegas on this. But once you understand the process. And you understand how they do what they do. This is real simple to solve this. You just stop doing what you're doing now and it'll be different. And that's all we really need. We just need a different way of doing things that will work for the masses of the people, not just for the rich, not just for the middle class, not just for the poor. Because it takes teamwork to make the city work. If we always just focus in on those that it works for and push on the bridge, those that are don't sweep the dirt under the rug. Like The Little Rascals. More shall be revealed. See you next week. Thank you very much.
Speaker 0: Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of council on this item? Councilman Espinosa.
Speaker 3: Michael, just one quick clarification. Can guide dollars be used for security?
Speaker 8: But it can be used for security. So Jdw can be used for items that are that are called out for in in their work plan and budget as approved by council.
Speaker 3: Does this guide include any dollars in any $2 in their workplan for security?
Speaker 8: Was the last part of the question.
Speaker 3: Does this budget include any dollars that are in their workplan for security?
Speaker 8: This one does not. No.
Speaker 3: Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 0: Councilman Espinosa seeing no other questions. The public hearing for Council Bill 1246 is closed. Are there any comments by members of council? Jasmine Espinosa.
Speaker 3: Yes. I'm hoping this will help you relax. Chairman. I think it's because I feel like if anybody was watching it, I sort of want to address gids, you know, because there is this idea. I mean, so one of the functions we do as a government is we take in revenue from the masses and we apply them to our public safety, public infrastructure, a whole host of things. Mental health services, you know, wraparound services for homeless, a whole plethora of things that you see us conduct business on a daily basis. I mean, on a weekly basis here. General whom districts do that. Do you know? They're very limited. Geo guides are allowed to construct, install and inquire any public improvement except solid waste disposal improvements and services. So they do essentially the same thing we do as a government, but in a sort of hyper local setting. And in, in like in the case of the previous one, in the gateway one, that's a, you know, a brownfield, I mean, a greenfield development. They didn't have any of those facilities. And if we wanted to put them in the city, we would be taxing everybody, the masses, to then put infrastructure in in a very local situation . And so we we've created these you know, we have this mechanism whereby people can assess themselves additional dollars to bring that infrastructure in. And yes, it has ramifications, but city building has ramifications and this has gone on. Since we've been assembling cities. I mean, is Googling the Trevi Fountain going, who built that? You know, and it's a series of popes, right? People with the means build these things that have a public function. And I don't think anyone wants to tear out the Trevi Fountain. In fact, maybe we should build one because it brings in $1,000,000 in coins every year, and maybe we should have one of those instead. So I just want the general public to understand that this is not this is not this. This these tools do serve a particular area, but it is by burdening that particular area with an additional assessment and relieving the rest of us from having to pay for that infrastructure, thereby extending the dollars that we do put into the general revenue fund, I mean, general fund for the whole host of other things. And so I just wanted to sort of get that base understanding out there because it's a good thing, despite what you may think, the motives are behind these things. It's the same function that the government has in providing all infrastructure and providing all, you know, all of the sort of public realm investments, except for it's now being concentrated and paid for by the people that are directly accessing those facilities. And maybe I'm wrong and I'm happy to entertain questions and comments afterwards, you know, because maybe you have a different understanding. But that is mine. And that's why you continually see me supporting these things, because it is the appropriate tool in appropriate circumstances time and time again. Thanks.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call.
Speaker 2: Black eye.
Speaker 4: Brooks Espinosa.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 4: Flynn.
Speaker 5: I.
Speaker 2: Gillmor, i.
Speaker 5: Herndon, i.
Speaker 4: Cashman. I can each i. Lopez. Ortega.
Speaker 2: I.
Speaker 4: Sussman. All right, Mr. President.
Speaker 0: Hi, Madam Secretary. Please. Because the voting announced the results 12 hours, 12 hours. Resolution one, two, four, six has passed. Council is now reconvene. Council will resume its regular session. Councilman Cashman, will you please put Council Bill 1006 on the floor?
A resolution by the Council of the City and County of Denver, sitting ex officio as the Board of Directors of the Denver 14th Street General Improvement District, approving a Work Plan, adopting a Budget, imposing Capital Charges and Maintenance Charges, and making appropriations for the 2019 Fiscal Year.
Approves the 2019 Operating Plan and Budget for the 14th Street General Improvement District (GID) in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-31-18.