A resolution approving a Second Amendment between the City and County of Denver and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. concerning the extension of construction management and general contracting services for the Great Hall Project at Denver International Airport. Amends a contract with Hensel Phelps Construction Co. by adding $900 million for a new total of $1.265 billion and 1721 calendar days for a new end date of 12-31-28 to continue to provide Construction Management and General Contracting (CM/GC) services for the Great Hall Project completion at Denver International Airport (202161481; 202053359-02). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-18-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 12-15-21. Pursuant to Council Rule 3.7, Councilmember Ortega called this item out at the meeting on 1-3-22 for a one-week postponement to 1-10-22.
No items have been called out under bills for final consideration. Councilmember Flynn has called out Bill 21, Dash 1493 for a vote under pending. No items have been called out. Madam Secretary, please put the first item on our screen. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. Go ahead with your comments on resolutions 21, Dash 15, 16, 15, 17, 15, 18 and 15, 19, please. Thank you. Madam President, pursuant to Council Rule 3.7, I'm calling these resolutions out to postpone consideration until Monday, January ten. Over the last couple of weeks, I've had the opportunity to speak with our Bonn Council for the airport, as well as our legal advisor. And I want to thank Phil Washington, Crystal de Herrera and Mike Shanahan for their help and assistance in getting these meetings set up. You all received a copy of the questions that I asked in the answers that they provided in writing. I know some of you still had additional questions, and rather than debating all of that on the floor tonight, I thought it made sense for you all to have the opportunity to get your questions answered between now and next Monday so that when we bring it back, hopefully we have the votes to move it forward. I am very comfortable with the financial status of where we are. If you take into account the fact that we made it through a pandemic and never had to dip into our 500 plus days of cash that are on hand, and I kept looking for that unanticipated situation that might occur in the future and really feel comfortable that our team has done an amazing job in looking out for the fiscal health of our airport and making sure that we can not only do this, but still have those reserves that are needed to be able to move us forward to allow any of the future capital projects to be done, as well as the financing that is going to come forward this year. If you recall, in 2021, we did some interim restructuring of some of our financing and that will come back as permanent financing in 2022. So with all of that, we're still able to keep our cost per employment in in the middle of the range compared to all of the other airports and really believe that that's in large part to our consultants and our amazing staff that we have at the airport who constantly are looking out for the financial well-being of our airport. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. And as a quick reminder to folks in chambers and the public listening, our Rule 3.7 doesn't require a motion. Any councilmember can make that request of a resolution and pull it off the agenda for one week. We're going to go ahead and move on to Councilmember Flynn for comments. Thank you, Madam President. I join Councilwoman Ortega in. Making that request as well. So thank you, Councilwoman. I have had the benefit of a lot of briefings and information and data. And discussion. With the DIA team, and I really appreciate it. As I've said before. This is a this. Has been a difficult and troubled. Project. I compared it. At committee to we've gone in. And we've decided to remodel our kitchen and we find out halfway through, we're making mistakes. We need plumbing moved, we need whatever. We can't just stop in the middle. This is a project that needs to be finished and it needs to be finished the right way. It looks like the scope of this project is the right way. I want to remind folks who might be watching and folks here in the chambers that this is no longer the great mall project. That it was under the P3. We're not turning the gypsum terminal into a shopping center, but this is making the airport. The kind of airport we would have designed in the eighties and nineties when we conceived it. If we had known that 19 guys with box cutters were going to change the aviation industry. So this rearrangement and relocation of security is something I think this body has spoken pretty clearly needs to be done completely. This phase three would do that. The heartburn that a lot of us are having is simply with the price tag. And I just have a few more things that I. Need to. Understand. A little better. I see Mike back there and Crystal, thank you. You'll be hearing from. From us during the. Week. And so. Thank you, Madam President. I look forward to a final vote on this next week. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. And as a reminder, Council Resolutions 21, 15, 16, 15, 17, 15, 18 and 15, 19 will be back before Council for consideration on Monday, January ten. Madam Secretary, would you please put the next item on our screen? Councilmember Ortega You can go ahead with your questions on item 21, Dash 1523. Thanks, Madam President. This is a contract for our I.T. department. It's basically for our I.T. leadership team providing some technical and professional. It says programs.