A bill for an ordinance approving a proposed Contract between the City and County of Denver and the Colorado Department of Transportation for ongoing maintenance of State Highways. Approves an intergovernmental agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) for $750,000 and for one year to reimburse the City for costs associated with the ongoing maintenance, snow removal, pothole patching, crack seal, and minor subgrade repair of state highways within the City including sections of Colorado Boulevard, Alameda Avenue, Colfax Avenue, and Federal Boulevard (201839397). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 3-5-18. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 1-30-18.
Just when it smells. I'm sorry I didn't see you. Well, I wanted to. Ask Mr. Kennedy. Yeah, but I do want to second counsel news comments. Just, you know, I thought about this the other day when, you know, we always sort of have that day where we honor public works and they just sort of wanted to randomly thank them. So you're going to get that praise. They have been doing a stellar job in District one, really bringing some some novel solutions. And and but in and the roads are have never been better than at this point in my term. Hey, I appreciate that. We still have a lot of work to do. And yes. Well, what. Were you doing with that? Bond will help a lot. So, yeah. The the question I had, though, is this 750. So I'm comfortable that we're getting reimbursed for work that we're doing. But does this come at the expense of I mean, do we have essentially man hours and vehicles that are sort of sitting there idle or are we not doing other things to sort of take on this work for, you. Know, this is we're doing the same level of service that we provided in the past. The previous DGA, which was a five year figure, had a fixed dollar amount. It was X number of dollars per mile of road that the city was received from the state. No matter how much work we did the last year of that contract, the previous fiscal year was about $291,000 is what we received from the state. And so when we did that math, that math I just went through, well, we're paying 500 to $600000 out of the city's pockets to do that work on the state highways. When that contract came due, we sat down to renegotiate so we could get the funds that we were expending for that work on their highways. Okay, great. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilman McKinney, we have more kudos. Go trying to sneak out of here, Councilman Flynn. Oh, thanks, Rose. I actually clicked to to remove my name, but I. Steve Oh, okay. I just wanted to thank them very much also so I can get some streets because. Our program will be published here pretty soon. All right. Seeing no other comment, I just want to say, you look really good today. I mean, this was just about something about you, Pat Kennedy. Okay. Thank you. We're done. All right, Madam Secretary, please, for the next item on our screen.