A resolution approving a proposed Professional Services Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Nelson-Nygaard Consulting Associates for professional transit and city planning services. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Approves a three-year $700,000 contract with Nelson Nygaard Consulting Associates for transit and city planning services to development a City transit master plan (Denver Moves: Transit) (201627471). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-20-16. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 4-20-16.
And. So this is one of a series that I think we're going to be seeing, and I think it will be helpful for council as a whole to see the total amount of spend and what those deliverables are going to be for the entire planning process that we're going to be undertaking. I know that we're going to have consultants for each of the four plans that will be brought forward. And this is the first, I think, of of the others to follow. But having that information available to us will be extremely helpful to know. And I know that staff is doing their rounds with all of council and trying to walk us through and help us understand the broad breadth of of what these plans will entail, but really understanding the total amount of spend. So my question for you is. The 2016 budget. Was this money factored into the 2016 budget, or will we at some point have to do a supplemental to cover the costs of these contracts that will be brought forward for these poor planning efforts? Good evening. Thank you for the question. My name is Christina. ARONOFF and I'm the project manager for the Denver Mass Transit. It's one of the four plans that's under this famous Denver, right, that you'll start hearing about more. In regards to the budget. This, if I recall, is a 2015 CIP ask. It was a combination. Of blueprint, Denver Transit and some other planning. Efforts that was asked back in. 2015. So that's the money that we're using now. We are having discussions about other budget needs. It depends where these plans go because of implementation going forward. So okay, so the request to have the comprehensive budget, the expectation of what the city will spend for consultants to do this. Can that be provided to all of council so that we have a clearer understanding of what the total amount is that's expected to be spent? Yes, that's correct. Blueprint Denver has already come through council. They were at 700,000, I believe. Denver Transit is coming through. Council right now is 700,000. The budgets I think are around 350. I'll let the other project managers speak to for those budgets for Denver, most pedestrian. Trails and. The game plan update those are a little smaller budget so those didn't come directly to. Council for approval. Okay, so those are under 500,000, but I'm happy to provide. The totals. For you after. And is that expected to be the total amount or do we anticipate having additional dollars put into those budgets? Those are the total amounts that will get us through. The end of the planning process as. Scoped additional amounts to be determined as we get through the process, especially with transit. This is our first transit plan will be interesting where the implementation. Strategies take us beyond. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Councilman Espinosa. Actually. Well, maybe this is a question for Gabby. I meant to ask this of the mayor, but I just haven't put myself in that position yet. So I've asked from the floor. It's not lost on me that I was at the Mayor's Housing Affordable Housing Summit with OED talking about Blueprint Denver at the exact time when there is a launch by CPD of Denver. Right. And Blueprint Denver. And to me that's a sort of coordination fiasco. Like we should not have two agencies competing and discussing the same thing at the exact same time. So who is responsible for all the coordination of all these plans simultaneously? Do we have some sort of czar or head that is bringing all this stuff together? I'll say, Kelly, lead it. And DCC. Is there somebody that's in charge of all these agencies that are sort of working on this sort of grand unified plan that is the person that is in charge of coordination, the Denver. Right. Specifically? Yeah. Yes. We have a combination that we have a big team. I think you heard about it a couple of times at committee presentations. We have a multi plan coordination team. We meet bi weekly and there are some directors from each of the departments to sit on that. We also have executive leadership team meetings such as Jose and Happy and others and Brad from CPD. That meet regularly to. Coordinate this effort. And because we're just now starting, we're now just starting to outline the other outreach activities of other major things such as DCC. So we make sure that we coordinate with their efforts because we see that there's a good chance of an overlap of duplication, of outreach that will be valuable. Actually, that may be Denver, right? Is that ED and DCC event or vice versa? So it's. Really important to coordinate not only with these four plans, but also with. The. So there's some pretty high dollar big cheese with lots of obligations. Is there somebody who's who basically. I know it's the mayor, but is there somebody with some real time that can focus on this that can actually make sure that all those guys are in in in congruent? We actually hired a consultant team of some budgets out of each of our planning budgets, some who's helped us brand the Denver right. And they are on task to help us coordinate some of these efforts of going out to the different areas and identifying and I know we're also talking about internal staff to help us organize and be dedicated to help us outline where we need to be, because this is a lot for the public to take in and to coordinate that. It's very. Important. Yeah, so it is it's already concerning to me that I don't know how I missed the fact that we were branding this Denver. Right. I do didn't know about the multi plan coordination and I mean attempt to coordinate all these in the 18 month effort. But I'm over at this other thing and all of a sudden Denver right. Gets launched and it seems like it's anything but Denver. Right. You know, when we're when we're already discombobulated on day one. So it's concerning to me how we're going to go do this forward. So I appreciate my colleague Debbie asking me Councilwoman Ortega, sorry, asking for that sort of full outline of all of the consulting fees, because we are paying a healthy amount for public outreach. And I don't want it to just be branding. I want engagement and I want it coordinated. So I think everybody else here expects that as well. And I'll gather up a summary and provide it for you on the budget and also the outreach going forward. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Councilman, the. Last question on this today, follow up on Councilman Ortega's and Rafael's comments about the budget, the sort of parks priorities for 2017, about $200,000 listed for outreach for the planning process, which they need. The outreach price for parks especially is so critical, and obviously I don't have any objection to that. But as you're accounting for the funds there, I'm sure there's going to be 2017 items in there related to the planning process, and I'm sure they'll be needed, but it would be nice to get a full accounting of that. So we are all excited about the planning processes that have begun and hope they'll get going very quickly and look forward to a final product on this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. You and the questions and comments to seven zero. All right scene none will thank you will go to the next one bills for introduction 375 I believe. Madam Secretary. Councilman Black, would you like for us to do with this? Just to comment, please. Go right ahead. Tonight, we are hopefully going to pass these six ordinances that are designating nearly six acres to our Denver parks. And I just wanted to thank Scott Gilmore and your staff for prioritizing this. Councilman Clark mentioned it in a committee meeting the other day.