The Denver City Council will consider about $42 million in budget cuts as a means to fund Mayor Mike Johnston's immigrant sheltering program.
Additionally, the council will consider $10 million worth of spending related to supportive care for residents of Denver, citywide. Roughly 70% of that, $7.1 million will come from a state grant agreement with the Department of Local Affairs.
Since December of 2022, the city says it has assisted more than 40,000 immigrants, many of whom crossed into the United States illegally, at a cost of $68 million. Johnston's plan, which caused huge scramble at the Department of Finance, is budgeted at $90 million. The city says most of this money came from a hiring freeze and some reallocations, but cuts to some budgets were still required and need to obtain city council approval.
Of the money requested by Johnston, the city estimates it has already spent $25 million.
Here's a list of major bills and resolutions appearing before the council on Monday:
Resolutions:
- 24-0451: A resolution approving a proposed $7.1 million Grant Agreement between Denver and the Colorado Department of Local Affairs concerning the “transformational homelessness response grant” program.
24-0468: A resolution approving a proposed $5 million agreement between Denver and EnviroServe, Inc. for services managing hazardous materials and regulated wastes.
24-0469: A resolution approving a proposed agreement, worth $700,000, between Denver and La Clinica Tepaeyac, Inc. to provide linguistically and culturally responsive behavioral health services to low-income city residents.
24-0470: A resolution approving a proposed $1 million agreement between Denver and Second Chance Center Inc. to provide a high intensity team of care management specialists to serve people with various mental illnesses.
Bills:
24-0454: A bill being introduced approving the purchase of ten mobile detection units from the “securing the cities grant” program award to support the Office of Emergency Management with radiological and nuclear screening.
24-0499: A bill being introduced rescinding and appropriating $5.8 million from capital improvement and capital maintenance funds to support expenditures related to the border crisis response.
24-0501: A bill being introduced rescinding, appropriating, and transferring $36.4 from agency general fund appropriations, technology services capital improvement fund, general government special revenue fund, and the economic opportunity special fund to support expenditures in the border crisis response special revenue fund.
Public Hearings:
- 24-0262: A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning for 4100 East Arkansas Avenue and 1451 South Ash Street in Virginia Village from S-MX-3 to S-MX-5A, allowing construction of buildings with a maximum of five levels.
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