Officials starting now.

Northfield soccer update you might have caught at the beginning of our mayor council.

If not, Councilman Gonzalez chairs, I will update you later.

Um great to see you all.

Welcome to Mayor Council.

Thank you for joining us on this lovely Tuesday morning.

Um we'll start with introductions, and we have a general session update this morning on our goals for quarter one.

They will walk you through.

Um, and we'll send you off to your wonderful post nuggets victory Tuesday morning.

Um Councilman Gonzalez, Terrace, you want to start with introductions.

Yep.

Uh good morning everyone, Sadana Gonzalez Coutianas, one of the council members at large.

Great.

Uh welcome.

Let's start with announcements and any announcements folks would like to make for the listeners at home or for any of your fellow council members to update us on.

Yes.

Yes, Madam President, I think I know what your update's gonna be.

Join us Friday at four thirty for the ribbon cutting for La Rasa Park.

Um two million dollars worth of improvements.

And then the next morning, I was just informing the mayor.

I about ten thousand bikers will descend at La Rasa Park.

They'll be coming down Federal down thirty-eighth and then to another stop within Denver.

So if you see tons of um Chicano Brikers, it's called the Chicano Pride Ride, and they give all of their um money that they raise for the Chicano Pride Ride to Inspire, which gives um scholarships to Latino um kids in the community, so they give directly back.

So hope to see everyone at the festiv festivities this weekend.

You don't even know me on the back.

Any other announcements this morning.

Fantastic.

All right.

We will head into an update that we have on our uh quarterly goals.

Um, as you all may remember, we launched at the beginning of the year each year a set of big citywide goals that we're focused on across all 15,000 employees and 27 agencies.

Um, and so we'd like to give quarterly updates to the public about what's happening on each of these.

We want you to be able to track them at home, know how we're doing, what's going well, what's not.

Uh we've also launched now a public dashboard.

So if you want to keep track of the progress, you can any day, just like checking on your favorite sports scores in Denver, you can also check on your city's goals.

And so uh that's also public if you want to track it.

But let me walk you through where we are on each of these, and happy to take questions if council members have them and we will jump in.

So, first, um, starting with our overall set of goals for the year.

Council Torres, I'm reminded of um the work you keep reminding us on around the community health assessment and how we believe that those priorities should be aligned to what the city is working on each and every day.

And so I think you'll see a number of those here.

Obviously, called out in the health assessment this year.

We're of course improving access to affordable high-quality child care.

You'll see that here is one of our goals.

Um, increasing the quantity uh and safety of affordable housing.

Um, that you'll see here.

Uh focusing on firearm-related homicides has been a continued focus of the health assessment.

You'll see that as one of our goals.

Of course, the continued focus on reducing overdoses, particularly among folks who are potentially unhoused or living outdoors.

That you'll see that as part of our focus, and then um focused on dropout rates among our vulnerable youth populations, where you'll see a number of our focus on both after school programming and youth works are directly linked to that.

So just wanted to name uh council tourists as helpful reminder that these are linked to the broad feedback we've gotten from people all around the city, and that we hope will drive change in an ongoing way.

Um let me walk you through where we are.

Uh, first one.

Um, this is the the two components of our vibrant goal.

One was about uh filling the three million square feet of office and retail space, as you may remember, about 25% of our tax base comes from downtown, and like many downtowns, we have more and more empty commercial office space.

So we're looking to fill that office space by converting it into housing, by uh attracting new businesses, by keeping existing businesses, by helping create more uh public spaces like child care facilities or space for artists.

So we want to really activate that space for the city as well as for the tax base.

Uh our goal was to build three million square feet this year.

The great news is we've done half of that already in just the first quarter.

So about 1.5 million of square feet has already been committed in the first quarter.

Um, big part of that is the 1.1 million square feet uh of the high fidelity project.

That's 700 units of new housing, and that will also include on-site child care at that site.