A resolution approving a proposed Eighth Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Busco, Inc. to provide homeless persons with transportation to and from overflow shelters. Amends a contract with Busco, Inc. to add $1 million for a new contract total of $4,050,000 and to add one year for a new end date of 9-30-18 to provide transportation for people experiencing homelessness from the Denver Rescue Mission to various approved recreation centers and shelters located throughout the City (SOCSV-2013-13589-08). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 3-5-18. The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 1-17-18.
Okay. No motion is required. Do any other members of council have any other comments on that? All right. 77 is postponed for a week. All right. Let's see, Councilman New. You called out resolution 29. Yes. Yes. Was proposed. I did. Go ahead. There's a question. I don't know if everybody's here from Road Home or. Anybody here from Denver's road home. Ah, okay. Come on up here. You're hiding in the corner and see you got that. Vince Rivera. Denver Human Services. Now, try to answer your question the best I can. Okay. Thanks for coming up. You know, it looks like, you know, the adding $1,000,000 for up to two for me million our contract. Just want to go over just like this confusing is a multiyear contract and put in what do we spend last year for the emergency transport service for the homeless. You know. Last year. So we're splitting the allocation for this particular amendment. 20,000 will go to last year's services and I think it ended up being one. $1,460,000 total. Okay. So and that kind of fluctuates when the weather gets frigid like it is right now. And they need to run an extra extra service. We might need to allocate more funds towards. The current. Run. It runs about nine months of the year. Or I'm sorry. How often does it run? How many months of the year does it run? So I spoke with the program manager and it's four busses dedicated to service, to making three trips a day and to making four trips a day. And it averages about 700 people. In the evening and 700 coming back in the morning time. Okay. And it looks like that's maybe a cost of per passenger about, you know, 6 to $8 a trip, which, you know. Right. And I think they were looking to look at the expense of this race for this this appropriation of all dollars gives you to September, where you're going to be reevaluating the cost of the transport service. Yes, absolutely. So the solicitation that we ran is valid until September. But what well, before that date, I'm actually suggesting in the summertime they need to prepare a solicitation to continue services in this manner and at the same time looking at. How the city could personally invest to also reduce costs for these services, so that that would kind of be two separate projects happening at the same time with the goal of not breaking service. All right. Well, I encourage you also, we've got homeless all over the city. You know, and I know that you're transporting work from the rescue mission with three areas you're coming from. Yes. Let's see. 48 thing. Colorado Catholic Charities, Smith Road, Denver and Rescue Mission. Harley Street. And. Clients arrive back at the rescue mission and Samaritan House in the morning. Time for breakfast. It's important to get the homeless off the street. There's no question about that. So I just encourage you to look at that transportation system, that address the homeless or in other areas of the city, as well as those main areas. So I know it's a difficult job and we've ridden with the homeless out there. And so it's a it's a it's a very needed service. But I think we can probably do a more cost effective if look at it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very. Much. Yes, sir. Thanks, Vince. Thank you, Councilman. You. All right? Yeah, you can do it. We now have a council bill. One of five. Councilman Espinosa, will you put us on the floor for publication?