Denver City Council is considering more than $33 million in contracts with homelessness services provider Urban Alchemy, a San Francisco-based nonprofit whose founding CEO Lena Miller has flown first class and made $369,923, plus $5,446 in other earnings, according to its most recent tax filings.

Miller makes $10,000 more than the leader of the much larger Colorado Coalition for the Homeless — making her among the very highest-paid CEOs for Denver’s homelessness providers.

One of the contracts Urban Alchemy may take over is from The Salvation Army, which pays its regional leader only about $30,000, though other staffers at the charity make more.

“It’s akin to taking a poverty vow,” said Salvation Army spokesperson Jennifer Forker.

Nine executives at Urban Alchemy were making more than

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