The Denver City Council extended Mayor Mike Johnston’s homeless emergency declaration through Dec. 31 despite pushback from councilmembers Monday night.

“We anticipate this is our last request for an emergency declaration,” Cole Chandler, Johnston’s homeless czar, told councilmembers. “We are on a path to house 1,000 homeless people by the end of the year.”

The council voted 10 to 3 in favor of the extension.

The emergency order allows various city agencies to put more resources, dollars and time into dealing with Denver’s historic rise in homelessness.

The mayor is 775 homeless people away from reaching his goal of housing 1,000 by year’s end.

Johnston’s administration had housed 225 as of Monday, according to Denver’s homeless housing dashboard. The mayor would need to house over 16 a day to reach his ambitious goal.

Chandler said 800 housing units are in the pipeline, including hotels and micro-communities.

“We’ve been able to galvanize about $27 million in new resources” because of the emergency declaration, which the city was able “to deploy toward these efforts,” Chandler said.

The homeless advisor did not elaborate on spending when asked.

In past votes on homeless emergency declaration extensions, councilmembers said there is a need for a more detailed vision, and they expressed concerns about moving too fast with homeless solutions and the spending of money allocated to the issue.

District 11 Councilwoman Stacie Gilmore said Chandler could not provide what the council needed to hear in response to concerns raised in October.

“I stand for transparency and accountability and you have thrown that aside,” she told him before voting no.

“I feel completely played,” District 7 Councilwoman Flor Alvidrez said before also voting no, citing the need for transparency and “bad choices” made for housing sites and the spending behind it.

The council chambers erupted in protest during public comment when the declaration was last extended in October. The council, this time around, scheduled the vote to be its last of the night in order for people to speak during a separate public comment session.

“It takes a piece of my soul when these people are talking about rat-infested shelters,” District 8 Councilwoman Shontel Lewis said regarding those in her district, pleading for fellow councilmembers to attack the issue within their own districts.

Even councilmembers voting yes expressed concerns.

“I need a more clear message,” District 6 Councilman Paul Kashmann said before voting yes.

District 5 Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer is the only councilmember who has voted no on Johnston’s emergency declaration extensions every time and she did so again.

“The mayor’s office made a mistake in declaring the emergency order before there was the staff to fulfill the emergency order, before there was a clear understanding of the budget and what it looks like,” she previously said.

Sawyer said Monday she was thinking about voting yes, but people who spoke during public comment swayed her back to no.

“I vote for this because there are more people dying on the streets,” District 9 Councilman Darrell Watson said. “Cole and team, perfect, no. This crisis hasn’t been dealt with perfectly. But we don’t want people dying on our streets.”