A resolution approving a proposed Contract between the City and County of Denver and Kiewit Infrastructure Co. for an integrated construction program for Brighton Boulevard and Montclair Creek Area improvements located near I-70 East and National Western Center. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Approves a contract with Kiewit Infrastructure Co for $140,000,000 and through 12-31-2019 for construction management of projects located in the vicinity of I-70 East and National Western Center in Council Districts 8 & 9 (201524268). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 11-9-15. The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 10-7-15.
Uh, this this contract. One of the things that gives me pause, but it's not it's not really our purview at this point is that the team that's going to be managing this contract has not been sort of forwarded. I don't even know if it's been created yet. I've asked that specifically out in DCC. And so it's a legitimate concern. On May 25th of 2015, we passed the date that the VA was supposed to open, and as we all know, that's a joint venture by Cuit and Turner. And so this this leads directly to how well those contractors are led by our side. And so it's very concerning to me that we don't know who this contract from our side. And I would really like to have that information going forward and things. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. I have no major problem with this resolution in and of itself. I have a similar concern with Councilman Espinosa that the oversight team be well formed. I'd love to see a direct council involvement in that. My problem is that it's my understanding that this bill, in part, involves projects that facilitate the future reconstruction of I-70 East. And I'm at a position where I'm not comfortable that the current proposals that CDOT is making for environmental mitigation for homeowners in the near reaches to I-70. I'm concerned as to whether they're sufficient or not. And until I can get comfortable with that, I'm going to be unable to vote for anything that moves in any part. The I-70 project along. Now I am in conversation with see that and it may be an understanding on my part of their position or it may be in substance. And I expect to know that in short order. But for a night out for tonight, I'll be unable to vote for this resolution. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. Councilman Brooks? Yeah, thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to call someone from the administration. Kelly, would you be the appropriate person to answer questions? And I wanted to give you the opportunity to talk about the lead on this on this deal with. Q with the question that councilman that's been asked. Sure. Thank you. My name is Kelly LEED, and I'm the executive director of the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative, just as a base of context, you know. So we have six portfolios within the NDDC, one of which are Brighton Boulevard and a variety of projects in River North or better known as Rhino. And for each of those six portfolios, we we have a two overarching structure, one that we've worked on. So again, we've been at this since 2013. We have been what we call our steering committee, which is made up of all the key agencies that are working on these efforts. That group meets every three weeks, and that group deals with kind of strategic resource issues, policy issues, you know, the management of the six projects as a whole to make sure that those projects move forward and that we are coordinating across all the agencies and all the various interests, be them environmental, be them more construction related, be them financing related. So we've been at this now for a couple of years as we dial down to specific projects. So as an example, I'll use Brighton and that's a big enough project where we actually have a project lead out of public works. The contract specifically calls for a point of contact within public works to administer the contract, but we will continue to have a team that works again cross-functionally to make sure that the projects delivered on time and on budget and it's coordinated with all the other projects in the region. One of the benefits of this contract is that typically the city would issue multiple contracts to do work in this part of the city, and that in and of itself can be an administrative challenge. So in this case, we have one contractor that becomes our partner in a CMG, C, a construction management general contractor sort of relationship that works. And in collaboration with us, they act as an extension of the city to deliver what is a whole series of small projects in this area. So, you know, our intent and I'm happy to bring forward a specific org chart. You certainly started to see some of that during our budget hearing. Todd Winckowski, if you recall and I can resend this, started to walk through how this how the projects are organized and how we are coordinating those efforts. But I think on the point and this gets to Councilman Cashman's question is it's our full intent and we've been very transparent. I think another benefit of the way we're we're managing our budget as an example is normally agencies would make individual requests for all the different projects that they're responsible for within the DCC. In this case, the NBCC compiles all those schedule requests or our funding requests, and we make one request through the NBCC. Those dollars get pushed back out to the respective agencies to implement. But we, the NHBC, will do all the reporting so that you have one point of contact. The public has one point of contact. And we've been, again, really deliberative with both the agencies and in council. So it would be fully my intent as we actually get into implementing these projects, that we have an oversight structure that includes council and all the appropriate eyes, so that both the public and city council knows what we're doing, how we're doing it, and should an issue arise, how we're resolving it. Kelly, when when do we break ground on some of this kind of improvement for the Montclair Basin and Park Hill Basin, things like that. So the the the Early Action Drainage Project, which is the part that happens in the Coliseum parking lot that is tied back to our the idea was see that we have to have a functional system in place by December of 2017 or 20. So we have to break ground by 2017. So, you know, our intent is to break ground actually this next year in 16 after the stock show, because we have to have a functioning system in place by December 17. The other probably equally important is that we want to coordinate that work, that storm drainage work with what's going to happen in Brighton Boulevard itself. So, you know. Q It will help oversee as the CMG see that project and having the benefit of them both doing pre-construction services but also construction coordination will help make sure that all those different components get aligned as we start to get into Brighton. So our goal in Brighton as an example is that a design will be done before the end of this year and then there's an official handoff to curate to start the project of implementing that project. So our hope is that we're, you know, in the ground with, with Brighton early this next year and that's about an 18 month, 20 month project that will probably start with utility relocates first. So over the course of what would be 16 and 17 will be rebuilding Brighton and then coordinating the drainage with it. And we, we can expect that accountability, looking at change orders and things like that will be the oversight will be within DCC. Yeah. That is correct. I mean again, I think the beauty of having an entity like the NDC that is working with all the agencies, rolling up, reporting, rolling up how we manage schedule. And then when you have a really complicated project or a large project like I-70 or the National Western, you'll have an executive oversight committee or another structure in place that helps manage that project from the day it starts to the day it ends. Got it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Councilman New. Thank you, Mr. Kelly. I share some, I guess, gasoline, cash funds, concerns about I-70. And just can you tell me what the relationship is of this project? Is it you're referring to the drainage project? Yes. So, you know, for a long time, this part of the city and when I say this part of the city, we're talking specifically about Globeville. Areas once here and parts of Park Hill have been susceptible to flooding when we have any amount of significant rain. And, you know, the way the city typically solves those drainage solutions is incrementally we based on money we have through our capital fund, or if we're lucky enough every ten years or so to do a bond project, we might make some larger improvements. And what one of the things that happened out of you know, out of the whole effort of creating the NBCs was how do you strategically align the planning and the implementation of these six projects? How do you leverage the opportunity that will accrue as a result of these projects? So, you know, obviously I-70 has a planning effort and we're coordinating that with CEDA, the Department of Transportation, which is leading that effort. We, the city, had an interest in figuring out how to solve no longer solved incremental solutions around drainage. But how do you really leverage the fact that you've got five other big projects happening in this region, in the city, and what could we do around drainage to solve that? So one of the things that has come out of this collaboration is an idea with CDOT to have these complementary solutions, one of which protects more of our neighborhoods by pushing a drainage solution we're interested in farther south of the highway, but at the same time acts as a redundant system to protect the highway structure that see that also has to protect. So this is a project of of complementary features and one that provides us an opportunity to solve a significant drainage solution while we're doing all this other work in this part of the city. You. Thank you, Councilman. New. No. Councilman Espinosa Okay. If I go to Councilwoman Ortega, she they to chime in. Councilwoman Ortega Thank you, Mr. President. Kelly Would you let us know what the thinking and timing is for the governance structure for the National Western Center? I know we're waiting to get past the November election, but what is the thinking of where we're going with the governance structure for that? So, you know, we're actually in the process of trying to get briefings scheduled with council around governance. And again, you know, governance isn't just starting. We've actually been overseeing this project now since the decision was made for the stock show to stay in Denver. Right now, we have an interim governance solution in place called an executive oversight committee that's made up of nine members, five of which are from the city. One of those city representatives includes Councilman Brooks, along with representatives from the Colorado State University and the Western Stock Association. So that Executive Oversight Committee has been meeting for now a couple of months. I think we've had four meetings. We're on our fifth. And the idea there is that we're advancing the master plan in these early phases. And then the ultimate is intent is based on some due diligence, is to look at the creation of a public authority. And our intent is to go through a process, you know, from the administration perspective of we're actually working on bringing outside counsel on to help us think about the legal components of how you build that authority. Again, looking at all the different authorities from around the country that are applicable. The reality is there's no one entity that exists today that actually meets the exact interests of this very unique place we're going to create. So Council will help us come up with some suggestions because you'll have multiple revenue streams, you'll have multiple tenants on the campus, lots of kind of complicated things that we have to work through and we want to make sure we do it right legally. So this in the interim, we have an executive oversight committee again that's helping us work through some of this early work. And then we'll ultimately bring forward the idea of a public authority at some future date. So other than the approval of that in any land acquisition, what are some of the additional approvals that this legislative body would be asked to be dealing with? So the first will be land. I mean, you know, the intent is to bring forward a land acquisition ordinance to council for the campus within the campus boundaries. The other will be, obviously, as we bring those individual parcels forward virtually via purchase and sale agreements. We will also, as you'll recall, with the previous council, we stood up the initial new zoning for the campus, the National Western Center Center, campus zoning. So as we bundle and acquire parcels, we'll come forward again to council to roll those new parcels into the new zoning because we can't fulfill the vision of the campus without the new zoning in place. And then there will be a variety of probably other things. Will there be environmental remediation or things that require because we'll be using city contracts to do all that work. So the extent we hit thresholds under our procurement rules, we would be bringing things before Council for their approval as they're required. There's a lot of work to do. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Espinosa, you're. Not just because you brought up the specific project of, I mean, I-70 drainage down Brighton Boulevard. One of my questions that I had early on in our discussions was and it couldn't be answered clearly at the time, and hopefully it can be now is we're building we're underneath Brighton Boulevard. We're going to be putting in 100 year drainage for I-70 while we're putting new roadway. Our new storm inlets going to tap into that or they're going to be separate. You know, I'm probably not the right one to answer that. I can because I'm not a drainage engineer. But what I can tell you is we are coordinating both the needs for Bryant Boulevard itself, which will have a drainage system along with running sea. That's pipe in a portion of Bryant Boulevard. But we can certainly have one of our drainage engineers get back to you with that solution. I'm not the right one to answer that question. Because I really looking at those sort of things as sort of opportunities to to provide sort of savings to the you know, to sort of improve the efficiency of what we're putting in. In your. Question. Yeah. I can tell you that, again, one of the underlying objectives of the INDC and the four goals the mayor laid out is to strategically align the implementation and the planning of these projects, which includes how you leverage the investments that will accrue and how we leverage those investments to get things done and to the extent we can , through coordinated efforts, create savings and buy more program for the benefit of a part of the city that seen no infrastructure investment for 30 years. We're absolutely going to do that. And so that's my goal. And that's why I'm so concerned, is I want to, with this matter what these millions of dollars I really want to capture as much program as we possibly can. And if we already have numbers that have generated this $140 million, we already have an estimate on what this initial project is going to cost, but yet we don't actually know what the scope is. And so that's sort of that's where my concern. Right. So the project councilman lays out a process by which projects actually come forward. We still if you read the contract, it lays out a process. Right. Which Q it as the see them as an extension of the city brings forward those projects are we can bring forward those projects. So as an example it contemplates a 100% design, right? And then we would bring forward 100% design for the scheme to kick in and start to do the work pre-construction services and then ultimately lead an effort to procure the development of that project. So there are a variety of flexible opportunities within this agreement for the city to engage. Q8 As our partner in the delivery of these projects and certainly focusing on maximizing the opportunity, both in terms of schedule and savings, are a key part of everything we're doing in this part of the city and certainly a part of this contract. But I don't want 100% design to be one. That's not a good solution. And so how what is the process to actually that's, you know, who's. Doing it now? That's a different question. Again. That's why I'm confused if we don't know it. Actually, this is you couldn't ask for a more or a better best practice in terms of, I think, the flexibility we've created within this contract to recognize that the world of construction is not so prescriptive. I mean, that's part of the challenge sometimes of contracts as we make them so perspective, prescriptive, you don't get the benefit of of opportunities that. I'm not asking you to do a prescriptive contract. I'm asking you to tell me what the process is to sort of vetting the solution. So that's that's what I'm trying to get to. And I think I'm trying to describe to all of council and the public who's watching this is that we've laid out an agreement with it that allows a lot of flexibility for us to drive best practice solutions, be them drainage, be them delivery of a road or other infrastructure , and again, a region of the city that has a lot of challenges. So, you know, I've offered a variety of times to come visit with you, and I continue to make that offer to walk you through. I think the due diligence we've put in place to not just deal with this contract, but how we're managing the whole effort of these six portfolios for the benefit of the citizens in this part of the city. I think that we've kind of gone off the current resolution, but certainly good questions for a broader dialog. I know infrastructure and culture will be a great avenue to have that should Councilman Clark find time in the schedule and there's a council need for that, as well as just doing one on one on off lines as well . But I'd certainly wanted to make sure we kind of came back to Resolution 720, not to say the questions are unimportant. Let's just make sure they're asked and answered in the correct forum. So anything on on this particular resolution any more, Councilman Espinosa? No, thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Kelly, for that. Thank you. We've got one more, I believe 692. This one's a vote. Oh, I apologize. I was calling for a rewrite. Yet there are no other comments or questions. 720. Thank you, Madam Secretary, for that correction. See? Nine. Madam Secretary, roll call Cashman. No. Can each. Lopez New Ortega I Assessment by Black Brooks I Clark I Espinosa. Pass. Flynn I. Gilmore, I. Espinosa. Abstain. Mr. President. High. Madam Secretary, please. First of all, you announced the results. For Lebanese, one nay, one abstention.