A resolution approving a proposed Contract between the City and County of Denver and Mead and Hunt, Inc. concerning environmental planning services at Denver International Airport. Approves a contract with Mead and Hunt, Inc. for $900,000 and for three years to provide on-call environmental planning services to Denver International Airport (201844905). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 10-21-19. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-18-19. Pursuant to Council Rule 3.7, Councilwoman Sawyer called out this resolution at the 9-30-19 Council meeting for a one-week postponement to 10-7-19.
All right, Councilman Flynn, consideration of resolutions 957 and 958 will be postponed for one week to Monday, October 14th. No formal motion or vote is required under that rule. Madam Secretary, please, for the next item on our screens. Councilman Sawyer, would you go ahead with your questions? Thank you, Mr. President. And is someone from the airport? Angela, can you come and just answer a couple of questions? I had called this out last week for some questions, and unfortunately, the airport wasn't able to make it because it was very last minute. My apologies on that. Thanks for being here today. Thank you. So I just had a couple of questions. This is an environmental services on call contract, and it just was worded kind of broadly. My questions were sort of in the examples of expected tasks under. To work consists of researching, preparing documentation for airport development projects and then g preparing affected environmental and environmental consequences. Analysis for 16 energy supply and Natural Resources. Can you just explain to me a little bit about exactly what that means or what that is? Yeah. Angelica CSM with Denver International Airport. And I'm here to answer these questions tonight. So basically, this contract is a. Consulting contract that sits with our sustainability division. And so these are contracts that when. You develop solar or different. Projects at the airport, these are the people who are going to analyze the environmental impacts of those of that development. So with solar, you're always required to do a NEPA process. And so basically this just keeps us in line with and in compliance with that, with that requirement. And so when you're considering natural resources use, when you're putting like a solar farm or something in on airport property, then basically what this does is it analyzes what the impacts to the environment would be like. If there's a wetland that's protected by, you know, federally protected, how would it impact that or those types of things? Okay, great. Thank you. And so we're in the contract. Does it say kind of the specific scope? Is that all under appendix A? I believe so, yes. And then is there a specific place where we would be able to see in these contracts what exactly where exactly we would know that it was specific to the sustainability project as opposed to some other kind of project? Well, there is there is a line and after we talked, I found it it's on the ordinance request that says where the funds are coming from. Okay. And so there is a line on page two of the ordinance request that gives that information. So this one specifically comes from CERP. Funding and operations and maintenance funding. So that's that is a line item in there. I don't know. How we would distinguish it. Necessarily, other than if I explicitly called it out in an in an ordinance request to kind of say this is for sustainability projects only or something like that. Okay. Is there have we ever gone outside of the scope of a contract previously or is there is has that ever happened previously? No. No. So, I mean, you know, every division has its own set of money and funding. And so we use we usually align that pretty closely with the funding that's available and the needs of the division. So we would rarely kind of. Move move money between divisions. And so if it is specific, the source of funds is specific to this contract, we can look to that source of funds and that's how we would know which division of the airport this was, this particular service. Yes, yes. Okay, great. And so these specific services in this on call contract are in no way related to oil and gas. No, no, they are not related to oil and gas. So this is actually the type of contractor who would actually expose the impacts of any sort of building or other other types of development at the airport. Okay, great. Thank you very much. No, no more questions. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Toia. All right. That concludes the items to be called out this evening. All bills for introduction are ordered published. We are now ready for the block vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members, please remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote.