A resolution approving a proposed Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Bayaud Enterprises, Inc. to fund the staffing of emergency stand-up shelters as needed. Amends a contract with Bayaud Enterprises, Inc. by adding $590,000 for a new contract total of $990,000 to fund the staffing of emergency stand-up shelters as needed citywide. No change to contract duration (HOST-202261989-01). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 4-4-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-2-22.
Thank you, Brita. And thank you, Councilmember Flynn. See no other questions. We'll go ahead and move on tonight. Madam Secretary, would you please put the next item up on our screens? Thank you, counsel. Pro Tem Torres, please go ahead with your questions on resolution 252, please. Thank you, Madam President. Brenda, this might be for you as well. So this is the board pop up emergency shelter contract. So we had some recent email traffic that that seemed contradicting some saying we didn't have enough shelter beds available one evening host countering saying we did not to get into I think that back and forth but I want to understand what's the trigger for exercising this contract for Bayard to stand up emergency shelters and what would that look like on the community side? Council member Torres and British Fisher for a Department of Housing Stability. Your question, as I understand it, is what is it that triggers this particular contract? And it's basically it's basically a communication from our staff to the bad staff. So they have been recently activated a couple of times, but not to a rec center. They've been activated to help at a shelter that had overflow space so that we could have staff on hand should we need to use that capacity. And so they have been activated a couple of times. What activates that is our read of many different factors where we are at with capacity and also what we project for any weather event or any kind of severe weather as well. Anything that you would add? Okay. Do you determine the location of of the pop up location or it is bad we the city do. You do? Okay. Okay. I don't have any other questions. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Counsel Pro-Tem Torres. And we have Councilmember CdeBaca. You had called this out as well. Do you have additional questions? And then we'll go to Councilmembers Flynn and Quinn each. Go ahead, Councilwoman. Yes, similar questions building on us, determining where those go. Is it possible for us to activate these this contract or these contractors in rec centers? And in what cases would we do that? And also, how many people do we activate? Is it do we decide per activation how many folks and what does it entail? Is it 24 hours? There's several questions there, so I'll do my best to answer those and also give you a little bit of an it depends answer. So as far as could it be possible to activate in a rec center? Yes. And specifically called out as one of the possibilities as far as when that happens. Right now, what we prioritize is how can we keep people as supported as possible. And right now, most of our food and other services staffing is located within shelter locations. So if we are able to utilize adjacent overflow capacity space, that is one of our first steps because that is part it's close to food, transportation and that staffing and can be very helpful as far as I think. One of your other questions was about how many people are activated. That's really determined between the contractor and the city to look at what are our needs and what is their availability as well. And the length of time is at 24 hours or just based on per activation, depends on the specific factors of that activation. Got it. Well, I just wanted to highlight, we had run into some folks at Kala Madison the other day on one of our really cold nights. And one of the challenges that was highlighted by individuals who could not get into a shelter was that they had no transportation to get to the shelters that we have. And so I understand why we would do adjacent activations to, you know, save ourselves some of the trouble of moving elsewhere. But I would also love us to take into consideration those who cannot get to the shelters. We had to figure out how to transport a wheelchair. And that is a common occurrence. And so maybe if we are trying to identify locations, we should maybe look at like where people are are naturally hanging out or where we have some high camp, where we have high usage of transit lines and maybe figure out some kind of partnership with RTD to let these people be able to get on and get to shelter, because those are the reasons that people are telling us they need warming centers instead of shelters, especially after 8 p.m.. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember CdeBaca, Councilmember Kinney, we had you up. Are you good? Okay. All right. Thank you, Britta, for answering those questions and Angie Nelson for being here as well. We're going to go ahead and move on, Madam Secretary.