Capital Development Committee

Capital Development Committee have come to order. Mr. Almazada, please call the roll committee members. Henriksen. Here. Lindsay Excused. Pelton B. Here. Winter morning story here. Mr. Chair. Here. Members, we have one item on the agenda today. It's a consideration of House Bill 1301, House bill funding. We have Representative Marshall here. You want to start us off, Representative Marshall? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So this was actually a last second poll where the Aurora mental health people found out that at a title fall through, just about a day before we had to pull titles, and they said, look, we have this parcel of land in Aurora already ready to go around the Anschutz campus area for long term civil commitment mental health issues. That is a dying sore need statewide. When I ran the first time, that was one of my top priorities was public safety. But under public safety, the big part about it is the complete collapse of our mental health systems in Colorado. In the 60s, we had about 2,000 mental health beds statewide. Now we have about 400. And we have like four times the population. And these people haven't disappeared. They're…