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Mayor Mike Johnston will hold a news conference at 11:45 a.m. Monday.
DENVER — Mayor Mike Johnston will announce his 2024 goals for the City of Denver at a news conference Monday morning.
The mayor will hold the news conference at 11:45 a.m. at the City and County Building. 9NEWS will livestream the news conference in the video player above and on the free 9NEWS+ app on Roku and Fire TV.
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Johnston has said that Denver is short $180 million this year due to its efforts to pay for the migrant crisis. The city has already started implementing a series of budget cuts that could hit every single department in Denver.
Earlier this month, Johnston publicly announced $5 million in cuts from the Division of Motor Vehicles and Denver Parks and Recreation. Other departments said discussed cutting their 2024 budgets, including the Denver District Attorney’s Office, the Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services.
“Without any federal support, without any work authorization, without changes to policy, we are going to have to make changes in terms of what we can do with our city budget, and what we can do in terms of support for newcomers when they arrive,” Johnston said earlier this month.
Johnston has focused criticism on recent border legislation in Congress that Senate Republicans blocked despite bipartisan support when explaining why the cuts are being made. Denver has seen more than 40,000 migrants arrive in the city over the past year.
When he came into office, Johnston made it the city’s goal to house 1,000 people by the end of 2023, and the city’s House1000 Dashboard showed they surpassed that goal.
The city spent about $45 million last year on efforts to address homelessness, according to Johnston. In December, the mayor said they’d budget around $50 million for the next phase of the effort to bring more people in off the streets.
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