Panel recommends $5.3 million package to address competency placement gaps; members require lease protections

The Capital Development Committee voted unanimously to recommend a Department of Human Services supplemental package meant to close gaps in competency restoration and placements for people found permanently incompetent to proceed. The CDC recorded two advisory recommendations: $3,577,898 of cash funds for a home‑like residential (Pueblo campus cottages) renovation and $1,722,906 in capital construction funds for an outpatient clinic fit‑out; the committee stipulated that lease terms be structured to last at least as long as the useful life of tenant improvements.