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After Monday: the Nov. 17 Mayor-Council list lines up the contingency bill, $10.8 million in homelessness contracts and 11 streetscape budgets

Mayor-Council is the last stop before the full Council. Tuesday's list has 38 items, all of them already through committee, for a Council that also takes its final Long Bill vote Nov. 23.

By Denver Politics staffUpdated

Tuesday's Mayor-Council meeting, the weekly session where the mayor's office and Council members review what's headed to the full Council, has 38 items (meeting). Items on it usually appear on the next Council agenda, Nov. 23, as resolutions or bills for introduction. Mayor-Council doesn't vote.

Why it matters: Nov. 23 is already a big night, with the final vote on the 2027 Long Bill (our story). Here's what this list adds, grouped by the committee that sent it.

Finance and Business

  • Year-end contingency bill (26-1710): spends the last $11.7 million of this year's reserve (our story).
  • Business construction aid (26-1712, 26-1719): the ordinance creating the Business Impact Opportunity program and its fund (our story).
  • Debt advisers (26-1707, 26-1708, 26-1709): Stifel, Summit Street Group and Frasca, $3.2 million together (our story).
  • Short-term rental monitoring (26-1711): a backdated three-year extension with no rebid (our story).

Community Planning and Housing

Five homelessness and housing contracts (our story):

  • Urban Peak, $988,580 more for youth rapid rehousing, through 2028 (26-1685).
  • Jewish Family Service, $2,728,668 more for family rapid rehousing, through 2028 (26-1686).
  • US Motels North, $2,750,000 more for severe-weather and emergency motel rooms, for a total of $9,627,900 through 2027 (26-1687).
  • Colorado Village Collaborative, $1,652,805 more for the Steele Village micro-community (26-1688).
  • Colorado Health Network, $2,636,064 for housing for people with HIV through June 2027 (26-1689).

Health and Safety

  • Head Start: Clayton Early Learning, Family Star and Mile High Early Learning amendments (26-1672, 26-1675, 26-1684) and the state's $27.5 million TANF allocation (26-1695, our story).
  • Healthy food: $730,203.28 for GES Coalition through July 2029, in District 9 (26-1677).
  • Hazardous materials: two-year extensions, with no added money, for ET Technologies and Environmental Hazmat Services (26-1681, 26-1682).

Parks, Art and Culture

  • Outdoor programs: $1,172,023.31 through 2030 for Metro Denver Partners to pass through Great Outdoors Colorado grant money (26-1694).
  • Mountain Parks caretakers: extensions of caretaker agreements at Echo Lake Lodge, one year, and Patrick House in Genesee Park, five years, with no change in contract amounts (26-1692, 26-1693).

Transportation and Infrastructure

  • Streetscape districts: 11 bills setting 2027 maintenance costs, including St. Luke's, whose owners have filed two protests (our story).
  • Federal and Amherst: a $576,380 contract with Morton Electric for a HAWK pedestrian signal (26-1683), plus the $1 million airport noise contract and the Maria Empanada concession (our story).
  • Right-of-way: an alley between California and Welton streets at 29th and 30th in District 9, and East Smith Road at North Ulster Street in District 8 (26-1676, 26-1680).

Also on Tuesday

The agenda also lists an executive session, citing Section 2-34(a) of the city code. Executive sessions are closed to the public.

Nov. 23 and after

The Long Bill's final vote is set for Nov. 23. The Council's Nov. 16 agenda says certification of the Nov. 3 at-large special election is scheduled for Nov. 24.