During an April 28 press conference, Mayor Michael Hancock and other Denver officials announced a series of proposals to help boost an economy negatively impacted by COVID-19. The centerpiece of the plan is a $400 million bond measure that is expected to be placed on the November 2021 ballot, with the funds earmarked for thus-far-unspecified projects intended to create jobs and improve infrastructure.
Hancock began the virtual press conference with some stage-setting. "In the year since the onset of this pandemic, COVID-19 has robbed thousands of lives and thousands more of their livelihoods," he pointed out. Now, however, he said that the rescue phase of the city's response to the novel coronavirus is "coming to a close" and "the recovery phase is starting."