A resolution approving a proposed Contract between the City and County of Denver and Delsco Northwest Corp., concerning providing on-call oil and gas field closure services at Denver International Airport. Approves a contract with Delsco Northwest, Corp. for $9,200,000 through 06-30-2023, with one optional one-year renewal, to provide on-call oil and gas field closure services at Denver International Airport in Council District 11 (202161284). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-27-22. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-25-22.
Thank you, Councilmember Hines. And for the viewing public. When the council member invokes our council rule. 3.7, no motion is required. And so Council Resolutions five, five, seven and five, five, eight have been postponed for one week. Madam Secretary, would you please put the next item on our screens? Council members say to Barca, Will you please put resolutions 603 and 604 on the floor for adoption? Yes, I move that. Resolutions 22, dash 603 and 604 be adopted in a bloc. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by members of Council Council Sawyer. Thanks, Madam President. There are actually four on call contracts that are on our agenda for this evening. Two of them say that they're general services contracts, that they are dodgy contracts that will be reported on via the dodgy reporting service. So really appreciate that. Had a conversation with Audi and General Services earlier today about that. So I removed those two from this block vote. The remaining two are airport contracts on call as well. For those of you in the audience who don't listen to me every week. There are on call contracts that come through from the city agencies with no reporting or no clear reporting on how much of those contracts are used, how much of that money is used, who the subcontractors might be on those jobs. And so I regularly vote no on them. Interestingly, this time around, one of the contracts is the contract on call contract to close the oil wells at an airport, which is something that is very important to me and something that I have been talking about since before I was even elected into office. At committee, I asked why this was written as an on call contract when what was presented to us was essentially a contract to close, to plug and abandon all of the wells remaining at an airport by June of 2023. And the answer was that it just is the way they're going to do things. That's pretty concerning, not only because, again, we have this issue with follow up reporting. And I believe that the charter of City and County of Denver gives city council budget oversight power, and that doesn't just mean creation of the budget. That also means following the money and seeing how it is spent, seeing how contracts are used. I think on call contracts are very, very important and very useful in our city, but there has to be better reporting on the back end. I've got to say, this one feels a little personal and that's not okay either. So I will be a note tonight. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer. Councilmember Hines. Thank you, Madam President. I are sorry. Council President and I wasn't going to call out 603 but since it is called out, I do want to I do want to mention a couple of things. First of all, I want to thank Dan for the permanent closing of all Denver international airports, oil and gas wells. When I first took office, this was a priority for me. It was different than leadership in at the time. And that leadership said that they wanted to keep these 60 something wells in play because it could potentially be used to offset ticketing fees. While I hope that that we can keep our fees low for the airport, I don't think that we should destroy our human or our habitability on this planet to do so. I also I want to thank Director Washington. I mentioned this in committee, but I want to thank him because when I interviewed him, you know, we had the council had it now has the oversight authority over certain mayoral appointees. And when I talked to Director Washington, I said this is this is important to me. And I strongly encouraged him to close these wells. After he took office, he committed to making our airport the most environmentally friendly airport in the nation. He also committed to permanently closing dense oil and gas wells. And now, as of this contract, we get that closure. So to to use my colleague's comment, this is personal. And I want to personally thank you, Director Washington. Thank you, Madam President. Council President. Thank you, Councilmember Hines. And seen no other folks in the queue. I go ahead, Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to mention that. So if you remember, we had some applications that went before the Colorado Land Board that were proposed in your district. I think this was in your first term. Early days of your first term. And the notice. For those applications for proposed oil and gas drilling went through the airport and people in the neighborhoods had not known about that. One of the things that we got very involved in that from my office as well, that one of the items that we talked about with the mayor's office was making sure that neighborhoods are notified. So if the airport is no longer going to be doing any oil and gas business on airport land, it begs the question about whether there should be a different point of contact from the state land board if there are other applications that come forward to ensure that that practice of notifying neighborhoods still continues. So I just want to highlight that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. And I think we need to dig into it a little bit more. But I know that we had someone designated, I believe, at the airport and then one person within the administration as well. And I see Sky Stewart nodding her head. And so I think we had that overlap to make sure that we didn't miss any notifications. So thank you for bringing that up, Councilwoman Ortega. All right. Madam Secretary, roll call on resolutions 22, Dash 603 and 22, dash 604 and a block. Sawyer. No. Torres. I am black. I see tobacco. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I paint. I can teach. Ortega, I. Sandoval, i. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary closed the voting and announced results one night. An ICE and ICE resolution's 20 2-603 and 22 604 have passed. Madam Secretary, would you please put the next item on our screens? Council members say to Barca, Would you please put bills 589 and 590 on the floor for publication?