INC Delegate Meeting
Date: January 9th 2016 Location: Wings over the Rockies (Lowery United RNO)
Meeting called to order at 9:11am – Attendance 46 delegates
Intro by Sally Kurtzman & Chris O’Conner. (Lowery RNO) – presentation given*
Treasurer’s Report – See separate report

Discussion of the By-law Amendment
The current membership design is annual with a 3 month grace period (Jan – Mar) and pro-rated after that quarterly.
After much discussion about the possibility of increasing individual associate membership revenue vs the possible impacts to RNOs and complexity of keeping track of rotating monthly members Gil Gonzalez motioned to table this until March Delegate meeting. – 26 in favor – 12 against

Discussion of INC Investment of funds
John Riecke presented his Idea to invest in stock and bond markets instead of the current federally insured CDs
CDs that are about to come due.
CD 1 – $12k – 1 year – Due in Feb
CD 2 – $12k – 7 year – Dun in Nov
AI : Establish a Business Plan for spending the money and explore the possibility of an endowment fund. Concerns from the delegation were the amount of risk of non-insured investments. Recommendations from the delegation include; no foreign investment, No emerging markets; Identify the costs; Use Treasury Investment Protected Securities rather than CDs or the market; Look into what is in the fund; Set a goal for the funds;
Motion by Chris Chiari to establish a committee for to look into a policy for investments
4 Opposed; 3 abstain; 31 for
Motion passes

INC Position Statement on how to approach Homelessness (A presentation)
AI : Have representative RNOs go to their delegations and talk about homelessness.
Presentation given (See pictures of slides)
“Housing First” is the name of the national movement. Perceived as the most effective solution. Create a signal to the city that it’s ok to distribute the homeless into all neighborhoods rather than consolidated in a few neighborhoods. The Mayors office is seeking a 1 mil levy for homelessness (Nov 2016). Look toward new revenue rather than changing the current affordable housing funding structure. This is an action that gives the city lots of space to do their own funding and activities.
Request to vote on this position at our next meeting
AI : Set up a forum on our website for pro / con ideas

New Business
Denver Public Schools – Alexis Harrigan is the new Manager of City Affairs for DPS the new RNO DPS Contact
Her office can facilitate meetings for RNOs in schools and offers free space if she is contacted to book space.

Denver City Auditor – Tim O’Brien
Strongly supports Homelessness Reform
There are now 3 CPAs in the office and he Hopes to have 12 in his office by the end of year. Plans to perform financial and performance audits
Question: Describe different audits – Answer: Financial, Performance, Contract Compliance, Investigation
Concerned with cyber security, data clean up, and becoming more transparent
Will produce a monthly newsletter
Kathleen Mackenzie (former city council member) will be his communications lead
Questions:
Tax Increment Financing as public policy issue? – Not within the role of the auditor
Have a performance audit on the establishment of criteria?
Denver Water is audited by your office? Yes
Gratitude for the continuation of performance audits
Social Impact Bonds? – are good, but concern is that the payroll and workload reduction is going to have to have to be determined.
Stock Show improvements – How do you separate out the different money sources? You don’t. A pot of money is audited all at once.
Note: Citizen input is encouraged to identify audit candidates, but there is a system in place to decide how to allocate resources.

Sally Kurtzman and Christine O’Connor of Lowry United Neighborhoods welcomed INC delegates to the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, whose COO Mark Hyatt generously made the Museum available for our January 2016 meeting. [See pictures, courtesy of Ray Ehrenstein.]

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As pointed out in the welcome comments by Kurtzman & O’Connor, the Museum is located in the Lowry Technical Training Historic District, one of the two historic districts on Lowry. The entire Lowry neighborhood is built on 1800 acres of the former Lowry Air Force Base. The base operated from 1937-1994 when it was decommissioned and the Lowry Reuse Plan was created with widespread community involvement from 23 neighborhoods and provided the vision on which the two cities of Aurora and Denver would redevelop the base. This exciting community is now almost built out. Some residents have been here since 1998! Kurtzman and O’Connor pointed out the thriving Hangar 2 restaurant district located under the soaring Hangars, and encouraged people to visit this vibrant district.

Lowry was specifically developed as a mixed community, with the emphasis on education and homes. Currently there are 14 schools (from preschool to higher ed) on Lowry, and 100 businesses. Housing is available within a wide range of prices and styles. The federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act provides for the use of surplus federal property to benefit the homeless, and because Lowry was developed on surplus property, planning for affordable units was built in from the beginning. As a result, according to Monty Force, Executive Director of the Lowry Redevelopment Authority, today there are “over 1,000 affordable apartments and for-sale homes” on Lowry.