A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver, on behalf of itself and the Denver Workforce Development Board and Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc. to provide one-stop operator and comprehensive services specific to employment and training as required under Denver’s Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding. Approves a contract with Eckerd Connects for $2,500,000 and through 6-30-21 to provide one-stop operator and comprehensive services specific to employment and training as required under Denver’s Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding and other special state revenue or grant-funded workforce initiatives, citywide (OEDEV-202054623-00). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-29-20. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-3-20. Pursuant to Council Rule 3.7, Councilmember Herndon called out this item at the 6-15-20 meeting for a one-week postponement to 6-22-20.
Councilmember CdeBaca has called out Bill 508 for questions under Bill's for final consideration. No items have been called out and under pending. No items have been called out. Did I miss anything? Okay. Looks like we got them all. So, Madam Secretary, will you please put the first item on our screens? And, Councilmember Ortega, will you please put resolution 488 on the floor? Mr. President, I moved the council resolution 488 be adopted. Thank you. Council member has been moved. Can I get a second? It has been moved and seconded. Thank you. Questions or comments by members of Council Council Member CdeBaca. Thank you, Mr. President. I called this one out for a vote, as it was mentioned in public comment. We're looking to an agency in Clearwater, Florida, to do what many of our nonprofits here in Denver could be doing, should be doing. And I speak from experience when I say this because I ran a youth development program that utilized we have funds every single summer to pay our students to serve our students. And it's interesting to me that we would contract with an agency that in 2018, in in in Florida was basically threatened. They have a $77 million contract with the state of Florida. And there were issues with one of the components of their work related to foster youth. And the state of Florida actually threatened to pull their contract because of their lack of performance in Florida. And so I'm wondering why we don't investigate these things and why we even allow this to be considered and come this far, this late in the game for summer when there are known issues in the place of origin. So I would like to encourage my colleagues to vote no on this, especially because right now we have so many youth programs that are struggling to stay alive in the city of Denver. They need our support. And $2.5 million is definitely some support that could be reallocated in different ways. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember each. Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate my colleague raising an important question. Is there someone here who can speak to this contract tonight? Councilwoman. I'm going to sound like a broken record every week. But we get these call outs about half an hour or 45 minutes for the meeting. So I don't have anyone here. I'm happy to try and answer what I can. Okay. I first want to ask, I understand the word youth is in the title of the entity that this contact is related to. But is this particular contract for youth employment services? Can you just clarify because I see another one on the agenda for 89 that says that it is for services to out-of-school youth. This one I read, it says one stop operator, which appears to me to be the adult service provider. So I just want to make sure we're all on the same page about which contract is which. Can you clarify? Yeah, that's correct, Councilwoman. This one is the contract for services to adults and dislocated workers. Okay. And so there is a separate contract for youth. Correct. Do you know if either of the contracts and if the president may allow me if I can just ask a question about the other one. So that is that for efficiency? Is that okay, Mr. President? Yup. Go ahead. Do either of these contracts, the adult contract or the separate youth, one which is not on the floor right now, do either of those contracts have subcontracts to local providers within them? Do we know? You know, I don't know the answer to that. We can certainly follow up and get you that information. Okay. Thank you. There are, if I might, there are a couple of other contracts that are lower dollar value not coming through the council process. There's a $100,000 contract for a center for employment opportunities to serve out-of-school youth and $115,000 contract with Urban Peak to provide services to out-of-school youth for youth experiencing homelessness. Those who just are not coming through the council process. Thank you. So if I may follow up, Mr. President. So it's in the past, sometimes we have the prime subcontract. In this case, the community is being directly contracted by the city in separate contracts. I believe that is correct if I am reading this correctly. Okay. Thank you very much. Can I add to that real quick. To that to that point? Now, just to clarify for Robin, go ahead. And each councilman can each based on the committee explanation of this there and when you do summer programing, the city of Denver used to do the the training part prior to placing students into nonprofit agencies. And so there was a required core curriculum. And from the safety committee, this is the provider of the online core curriculum. And the other one was for youth with disabilities. Okay. Thank you. And I will apologize because this one was called out by our deadline. And so I will look into why that didn't get communicated over in time. And also look at it. Or maybe we can have a brief discussion about our deadline. I know in COVID times trying to avoid having as many people over, and I appreciate that to keep everybody as safe as possible. But and so I apologize. Something on this one was called out by our deadline. And I don't know how we missed getting everything over to you. And we should discuss some efficiencies on that. So you don't have to keep any up being up at the microphone answering when we could have somebody else. So. Sounds great. Thanks. And the reason I really bring it up is I don't want anyone to think the agencies don't care enough to have somebody down here. It really is about managing the number of bodies in the room and the quick turnaround time to get people who are working from home here. So that's why I keep raising it. I just don't want anybody. I appreciate that and I think doesn't want to be here. Well, let's work on on both ends on how we make that work better. And I apologize for that. Councilmember Torres. Thank you, Mr. President. I have a few numbers that I got. I think it's a valid question. And I, I would have like to hear from Dito about the questions that Councilwoman CdeBaca brought up. But I do want to make sure that folks understand what the 2.5 million is going forward. And for adults in 2019. They had 23,000 unique contacts in the workforce centers so far. In 2020, they've had 35,000 contacts in workforce centers. So it's to. Manage all of those through the. Folks looking for work. So it's the youth component. There are two segments, one for out-of-school youth, one for in-school youth, out-of-school youth. We will see the $550,000 contract to ability connection Colorado. They are also contracting, though we will not see 100,000 for Center for Youth Employment I'm sorry, Center for Employment Opportunity Opportunities and 115,000 for Urban. Peak for. In-School youth, a collection of $945,000 in contracts for DPS. So it's it's more multifaceted than the 2.5 million for adults seeking work. But I think that would have been a helpful thing to demonstrate even in chambers so that we have a good understanding of what's happening with the money and where is it going to. I will be voting in favor of this. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember heard it. Mr. President. I want to as I was looking at this, this contract is through June 30th of 2021. So I'm. Assuming that the contract. Ends June 30th of this year. It is going for one year. So I was going to suggest since Dito. Was did. Not have the opportunity and this is a. One reading resolution, a utilize my ability as a council member to. Request a delay for one week so we can have consideration so Dito can come speak to any question council members have will have the ability to vote and still should be able to meet the timing. Deadline, if that's actually true, that the contract ends at. The end of this month. Sorry. I apologize. I was double checking the order here. So you were proposing that we hold this? Yes. Okay. Amenable. Councilmember, you said if I could call it out for a vote tonight, are you amenable to that as an alternative? That would be helpful, Mr. President. And I think that the specific question about contracting with agencies that are being threatened to have their contracts pulled in their state of origin, I think that is a question that must be answered as we get more information about this particular contract. Okay. So before I ask our Secretary procedurally how we might do that, since you're amenable. Councilmember Hines, you had buzzed in also on this item. Are you amenable to the new plan? Can we go to that or did you want to jump in at this point? I wanted is the only thing I wanted to say is that I have in the past made one controversial decision that delayed a consideration for a week. So I wanted to be on the record as supporting Councilmember Herndon's delay for a week. Thank you. Okay, Madam Secretary, how would you like us to unwind having something on the floor to vote on so that we do this right for the delay instead? If we can just please have Councilmember Ortega withdraw the motion and council member can each second that withdraw term. It's very official. Thank you. Excellent. All right, Madam Secretary. Now, what. What do we need for the postponement? Just for the record, we will be postponing Counsel Council Resolution 2488 for one week to June 22nd pursuant to Rule 3.7. Okay. Thank you very much. So now we can move on to our next item. If you put the next item up on our screens and I believe we're on which one? 6505. Okay. 505. So, Councilmember Ortega, will you please put Council Resolution 505 on the floor?