A resolution approving a proposed Third Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Integral Recoveries, Inc. to amend provisions, extend the term, and to expand the scope of collections. Amends a contract with Integral Recoveries, Inc. to add two years for a new end date of 2-1-2024 and expands the scope of collections to include cases owing less than $300.00. No change to contract amount (COURT-202261912). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 4-18-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-15-22. Pursuant to Council Rule 3.7, Councilmember Torres called this item out at the 3-29-22 meeting for a one-week postponement to 4-4-22.
Thank you. Now I'll do a recap under resolutions. Councilmember Torres has called out Resolution 278 for a vote under bills for introduction. No items have been called out under bills for final consideration. No items have been called out under pending. No items have been called out. Madam Secretary, please put the first item up on our screens for us. Thank you. Council Member State Abarca, will you please put resolution 278 on the floor for adoption? Yes, I move that resolution 20 2-0278 be adopted. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded questions or comments by members of Council Councilmember Torres. Thank you, Madam President. I call this out with a bunch of questions. In reading the contract amendment language and I did, we have somebody from Denver County Court. Great. Couple of questions for you. And we'll ask you when you come up. Please make sure and speak into the mic and introduce yourself for the public record. Thank you. Kristin Wood, I'm the court administrator for Denver County Court. I thank you for being here. So I didn't get a chance to fight this when it was coming through finger. And if what I'm understanding is correct, correct me if I'm wrong. This is putting into place a collections system for fees or fines under $300 in Denver County Court. Correct. We've had a collection systems in place for several years since I believe 2011. During the budget cuts, the budget shortfalls, we re-engineered our collections process entirely. And we have been collecting on amounts that have been owed that are delinquent to the city and county of Denver. Over that $300, it was going to take extensive programing hours to program a collections capability where we interface with that provider for under $300. So this amendment is requesting that expansion to that amount that's under $300. And was the amount over 300. What was in the collection fee matrix, 30% of the referred amount. That's the the the fee for the service. For the under 300. Now over what we currently provide. Currently. Let me pull up the contract. It's a structured amount. It's a flat rate amount for those that are under that. That $100 amount for those that are over 25%, that goes to Integral, which is the company that provides the collections process. 5% is reverted back to the city and county of Denver. So it's a 30% total amount. Okay. So why was the decision made to start to capture this piece? With the $300 to under $300, the under $300 represents approximately 90% of the fees that are owed to the city and county of Denver by way of costs and finds that are assessed as a result of either a traffic infraction or a criminal or municipal sentence. And so, generally speaking, 90% of those of those costs, the balance remaining that are referred, are approximately 90%. And what happens now to those if they're not referred to a collection, we. Have collections investigators that work with individuals and they establish a payment plan, and that is an ongoing process. As long as those individuals remain in compliance, we continue to work with them in that payment plan when it's 90 days or more delinquent, and we cannot continue to work with that individual or their refusing to work with us , we will work for them. Out to collections. What percentage go beyond 90 days? I can get that information for you with respect to the amount that is over, that $300, the number I can give you the amount that has been referred for 20 for the entire year of 2021, that is over that 300 amount. We've referred $2.7 million to collections. The amount that this entity has collected for us is $2.3 million. And for for those who owe less than 300, is there an average of what is owed or is it is it run that spectrum? I think it runs the spectrum. I'm happy to provide that information. We would run a script to get you that information from our database. Okay. I have a lot of questions to give you an opportunity to respond to those rather than a vote tonight. I'd actually like to postpone this to next week, and I can send you the the questions that that I've got and then bring this back through next week for for discussion, if. That's not a problem. That's all right. Okay. The the the final question that I have is, was any equity study or assessment done to see if this would be a disproportionate impact to low income residents? No. There wasn't. We can certainly factor in some information with respect to the individuals that are owing that are referred to collections. And I can provide some demographic information for you if you'd like to send me those parameters on what you're looking for. We're happy to include that in the query. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Council President. I can't remember if there's something formal for me to do. Yeah. I'm going to thank you, Kristen, for being here. And thank you, counsel pro Tem Torres, for the questions. And. Madam Secretary, do you want us to do anything additional? I know since we invoke 3.7, it can just be held over. But we have a motion on the floor. Yes. If we can just have Councilmember CdeBaca withdraw the motion, we can go ahead and let Councilmember Torres invoke Council Roll 3.7 and postpone that for one week. Okay. I move to withdraw resolution 22, dash 0278. All right. Thank you, Councilmember CdeBaca. We're good, Madam Secretary. All right. Wonderful. We'll see you back here next week. After Council Pro-Tem Torres's questions are answered. Councilmember Hines, I've got you in the queue, and you might have additional questions for our representative, so go ahead, please. Thank you, council president. And thank you, Council Pro-Tem Torres for your calling this out. Would the court please in responding, will you respond to the full body? I'm I'm interested in the answers to the questions as well. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. All right. Thank you. Will that make sure and request the court send that information over to the entire council once they've gathered it? All right. We have no further action on to 78. It will be back on the agenda next week. That concludes the items to be called out this evening. All the calls for introduction are ordered published. Council members, please remember this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote I. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote.