A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and County of Denver and the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District for relocation of the Delgany Interceptor Facilities. Approves an intergovernmental agreement with Metro Wastewater Reclamation District (District) for $8,689,506 in District funds and $1,735,762 in city funds for a total agreement amount of $10,425,268 to replace the existing Delgany Interceptor sanitary sewer system from the right of way for Interstate 70 on the south end of the National Western Center (NWC) to the existing siphon inlet structure on the north end of the NWC, in Council District 9 (20184618). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-22-18. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 12-11-18.
12 nis one abstention. Councilor Bill 1530 has been defeated. Madam Secretary, if you please put the next item on our screens. And Councilman Brooks, if you want to go ahead with your comment on 1463. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. This contract is A and a, B, C, National Western Center, IGA. And many folks have heard me talk about the the Doug Gagne interceptor and this. Doug, any interceptor is a drainage project except the drainage pipe is out on land and this pipe is just going right right next to the river. And so part of what we talked about into C in the National Western Center is river revitalization. And this has been something that the community has wanted for a long time. This has been something that we've been asking for for a long time. And I just wanted to highlight it and actually bring up Gretchen Holloway and also whoever wants to come up from NWC. But Brad Dotson, I know we've talked about it as well to come up and just share a little about what we're doing here. And I think we have some of our partners here to to talk as well. So. Good evening. Members of city council. I'm Gretchen Haller. I'm the executive director of the mayor's office of the National Western Center. I will speak for just a moment mostly to introduce Micky Conway, who is here with me. Also Jim McQueary, who's in the audience both from Metro Wastewater. Mickey is the district manager and a huge partner in this, as is Jim as the chief innovation officer. And what this bill in front of you tonight allows is really the opening of the river at the national western campus for use. So there is a dual wastewater pipe structure there. This agreement is one of the most significant partnerships that we have made on this campus, and it would not be possible without the creativity and innovation from the Metro Wastewater folks to provide the funding, the resources, the heat from those pipes. It both moves the pipes off the river, provides heat to allow us to bring forward energy to our campus. It also provides a bio filter that the community has been asking for to help reduce some of the odor from the pipe. So it is a win win win on this bill. And I cannot thank our partners at Metro Wastewater enough. And Mickey Conway. Thank you, gretchen. Mr. president, members of the council, i appreciate. You having us here. For those who don't know who Metro Wastewater is, we are your wastewater treatment provider here in the metro area. We have 22 member municipalities who make comprise the district and we're a regional entity. Denver is our largest member. Ten of our board members are from Denver and our newest board member, Councilwoman Sussman, will be joining us at our next board meetings. We're really excited about that. This has been a really innovative opportunity. Rich process. We found a win win for for the NWC, for Denver and for for the district. And so we're able to move this infrastructure, improve it, work on odor and as Gretchen talked about, allow for access to heat to take heat out of the sewers, which can can heat large areas of the natural western center and also lowers the temperature of the effluent that we put back into the Platte River, which is good for river ecology. So I really appreciate Denver and National Western's. Willingness to work with us on this, and I appreciate our time with the council tonight. Thank you very much. Councilman Brooks, anything else or you. Know, I just think this is another great example of a great partnership and how it works for the people and of the people for the city and county of Denver. So thank you so much for your partnership. This is a $10 million project getting done in our neighborhoods to reactivate an incredible river. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Brooks. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Is there somebody from Public Works that can answer a question on this? Oh, sorry. I can try. So there's this. It just so happens that this comes up relative to a conversation I was just having about certain facets of the IGA and the timeline of delivery. Is this on time? Was there a anticipated date when this would be, I guess, acted on in a how are we relative to that date in the IGA, if there was one. Sorry. We this is one of the infrastructure components that we had hoped to deliver. We have sequenced it within our horizontal construction program so that it aligns with the construction of the rest of the statewide infrastructure. And we are also looking to it as a potential feasible component for future phases of development. So within all of the anticipated construction, it does fit within our timeline. So it within the NWC timeline or within Seed's timeline or within the IGA timeline. So the IGA timeline corresponds to the construction schedule that we have for the campus. This really does not have an interface with Seedat at all. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa and Councilman Brooks, thanks for calling this out. There are a few things I'm really excited about tonight, and this is one of them. When I remember when I was at Greenway Foundation and the first rendering came out of this area and what was possible because this seemed like an impossible task to get this buried, it presented a six foot tall sewage pipe that would have prevented people from accessing the river as an opportunity for art and a mural. And I remember I was I was almost passed out from that one. So it's exciting to see. I really appreciate Brad, Gretchen and everybody, all the hard work that went into this because this is this is absolutely the right thing to do. And I know it wasn't easy. And so to get here is very exciting. So thank you for calling it out. Councilman Brooks, you. Thank you. All right. Madam Secretary, will you please put the next item on our screens? Councilman Espinosa, will you go ahead with your comment?