Approves a three-year $4 million on-call contract with Muller Engineering Company, Inc. for comprehensive engineering services to support various Wastewater capital program or infrastructure needs and general engineering services (201627885). (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Approves a three-year $4 million on-call contract with Muller Engineering Company, Inc. for comprehensive engineering services to support various Wastewater capital program or infrastructure needs and general engineering services (201627885). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 8-?-16.  The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 7-7-16.
So we have $32 million in eight bills that are for engineering contracts for wastewater and. What I'd like to do is get information that talks about how many of these have been utilized. Oftentimes we have these on call contracts that we do, and it costs money to go through this whole publication process to negotiate with the attorneys on both sides. And some of these go unused. And, you know, people think they got a contract with the city and then they're never utilized. So I'd like to know, you know, how many of them have we utilize? I and I haven't looked to see if they're all meeting the goals where we normally. So I'd like to get that information as well. I'm not going to hold these up, but I can't imagine that we have $32 million worth of work that we're going to be spending. So can you just speak to that a little bit? Absolutely. First, just good evening. Members of council, Mr. President, pro tem Jim Potter with Public Works. So, too. Good question. The overall kind of limits that we'll set when we do on call contracts. Like this and the professional engineering side, we try and be mindful. Of what the community has already with the city as well as the kind of needs. We may have upcoming. And we try and take a look at where we're going to be. Needing those specific pieces. So typically where we're doing about that 75% expenditure on most of our on calls, I can give you some specifics on some of the ones that are similar to this, if you'd like that. Following the meeting, we can look that up for you. That would be very helpful. I also want to know if any of this work can be done by our own wastewater staff. I know historically much of this work was done internally and it wasn't contracted out. So I'd like to know why we're not utilizing our wastewater staff to do some of this work and why it's all being contracted out. Okay. Well, the. Contracts that are before council tonight are there's eight total contracts. Those are only a maximum capacity contract. There is no promise to utilize. Those are internal forces within wastewater capital specifically do perform levels of all the design, the planning, the feasibility. We do the construction management services in-house as well. But with the recent rate increase passing for wastewater, there is an increase to the capital program, the $223 million wastewater capital program. We have come around and talked to most council members so far. We have a few left to do the private meetings where to discuss that program, but it will primarily support the needs that our internal staff cannot perform in-house, as well as getting a large jump on some of these bigger projects. Okay. The information that you've committed to provide, i would greatly appreciate that. I do know that on the large plat to Park Hill project, for example, a lot of that design was done not internally but by some of the contracts that we've had underway. And so, you know, understanding the distinction between which ones we are doing internally versus which ones we're contracting out is is really important for me to understand and to be able in the future to support additional. On call contracts to be, you know, adopted. So I appreciate the information you've offered to provide. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Espinosa. And so to clarify, are these contracts for the Hill? Is this contract related to the plant to Park Hill project? No, sir, not specifically. The these on calls can be used citywide. The primary intention was for our capital program, which is the $223. Million piece of the program for storm and sanitary sewer that is separate from plat to Park Hill. Okay. Thanks. Angela, did you want to say something, too? Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. I just wanted to add that we've gotten several questions from a few of you about on call contracts and how we report those. Now we are in the process of developing a more formal report to give a more thorough overview of what we're doing with our annual on call contracts. So you'll you'll see that coming probably this fall. It'll be a very comprehensive report for counsel. And we have a meeting set with Councilman New in August, I believe, to discuss the report and how we how we plan on presenting it, rolling out to council. That will be much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. I think that's it on that one. So moving on. We have for 45. Councilman Espinosa, what did you want us to do with that one? I just wanted to comment. All right. So in the explanation, it once again says District nine, Council District nine. And so I don't either. I'm going to be frustrated that we continue to put money in contracts for Council District nine. Well, the Council District one at Confluence Park wallows in a in a pit of unrealized construction. So is this are we doing that or are we going to actually acknowledge that this is both council district one and Council District nine so that we can actually address I mean, what's going on over there at Confluence Park? This is an administrative error. We I did ask that it be corrected for the record. And I mean, it just. His administrative. Thing. Okay. So it is money going towards trying to resolve what's going on in District one side of Confluence Park. I do not have that information. I can get it to you. All right. Great. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. All right. Moving on. All right now councilman suspend under bills for final. You've called out council bill 249. What would you like for us to do with this bill? Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to reopen the public hearing to allow for limited additional testimony on Council Bill 249, changing the zoning classification for 3250 South Colorado Boulevard. To update Council on the following, an update on public comment received since the May 23rd. Public hearing from Teresa Lucero of Community Planning. Second, an update from Doug macKinnon, an applicant representative and three and an update from Jay McCormick, a neighborhood representative.