A resolution approving a proposed Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless to provide emergency shelter activities and integrated health services for people experiencing homelessness and housing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amends a contract with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless by adding seven months for a new end date of 8-31-22 to provide emergency shelter activities and integrated health services for people experiencing homelessness who are experiencing housing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No change to contract amount (HOST-202157443-01). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 11-1-21. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-29-21.
Ten eyes. Council Resolution 1084 has passed. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screen. Councilmember Steuer. Go ahead with your questions on resolution one 1 to 7, please. Thinks that a president I believe host is here. Thanks for being here, you guys. Just a couple of questions about this. So it's a it's an amendment to a contract that already exists, this contract. What is the original? How much is the original contract for? So the original contract and the amendment are the same amount. So this amendment is a no cost amendment just to extend the term. And the total cost is $932,358. Okay, great. And so it's a it's just a term extension. How long is it being extended until? Seven months total. So going from a previous end date of January 31st of 20 to out until August 31st of 22. Okay. And does is maintenance of properties included in this contract? No, this is just a contract for the provision of integrated health supports as part of our COVID response under the Emergency Solutions Grant Coronavirus Relief Fund. So this is particular to the Coalition for the Homeless Provision of Integrated Health Services at one particular shelter location. Okay, great. So do you know how much we have contracted with CCH over the course of just this year? I don't have that number. But through many contracts throughout the Department of Housing Stability. Okay. Do you know how many partnerships, separate partnerships we have with CCH in the city? Contracted partnerships. I don't have that number either, but could work to get that to you. Okay. Appreciate it. Just so we have several properties in District five that and CCH has failed to maintain them, has struggled to be responsive or accountable to the residents, to residents of the buildings themselves, residents of the neighborhood that the buildings are located in. Resident failed to be responsive to the council office. It's it's a little bit concerning. We have to have six month check in meetings with the residents of the buildings, the two neighborhood organizations, the council office, the police, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure host as an invited the city attorney's office has been invited. And so I'm just a little bit concerned about the number of contracts that we have and with CCH and how many, you know, that we are giving them extended responsibility when they are not maintaining the current agreements that they have with our community. Thank you for sharing that feedback. I think that's something I definitely want to talk with the Coalition about. I know in our space of homelessness resolution they are really vital partner, particularly around the the efforts we have around street outreach, the efforts we have around supportive housing and the efforts that we have around integration of health care . And so the I, I just want to say, you know, they're a really crucial partner to the city of Denver. And so it sounds like we have some work to do to work on that partnership, particularly around your concerns of property management. And so I will absolutely bridge a connection back there and see how we can work to to improve communication and feedback about the efforts that they're doing. I really appreciate that. Thank you. And I recognize that they are, you know, really important partner to our city. But I do think it is concerning that they are not held accountable for their existing contracts, that we continue to extend contracts and create new contracts with them. Does this contract cover the Coliseum? No. This is particular to the shelter at 4600 East 48th Avenue. Okay. So who then is in charge? Which of our partners is in charge of management of the Coliseum? So our contract for operations at the Coliseum is between the Salvation Army and the Department of Housing Stability. Okay. There's also additional staffing provided through Bayard Enterprises. And then overall, many of the overall maintenance issues related to the Coliseum are actually handled directly by the city through arts and venues and our city facilities teams. Okay, that's good to know. Our office received some really concerning emails regarding an. Elderly gentleman who is currently residing in the Coliseum, who is wheelchair bound and who has purchased his own shop vac to to clean up the sewage that is backing up underneath his bed. Can you explain why that is happening and what steps have been taken to ensure that that is no longer going to continue to occur? Yes. So we'll work to provide some more formal feedback as we get all of the resolution worked out. But I also received that email on Friday afternoon and we sprung into action with our partners at arts and venues getting plumbing on site immediately. They have since dealt with the backflow issue and I understand as of today's report that everything is back to functioning normally. Ultimately, this emergency COVID shelter that was set up at the Coliseum is providing residential spaces in a building that was never designed for that, with infrastructure lacking to handle the amount of human waste that that it's seeing every day. And so we're working with our partners at arts and venues and city facilities to work on some regular clean out of that. But definitely. Appreciate that that issue is flagged to us and we're working to resolve it, as well as working to address where folks are situated, if there are ongoing concerns around this particular backflow. Okay. I appreciate that and would really appreciate an update because how many seats does the Coliseum have? Seats? Yeah. Do you know? No, I don't know. I think it's somewhere around 10,000. So that's a. That should have capacity. How many people are staying at the Coliseum right now? So we have a capacity of 425. It's a mixture of the you know, during an event, you might have up to 10,000 people at once. But it's the all day, every day where and here's how it's explained to me as well as I sometimes folks flushing things that don't belong in toilets. So there's there's often some infrastructure. Part of what we put forward in our ARPA requests around helping to support for infrastructure improvements are things like waste grinders in the in our plumbing at big buildings like this to help handle in the future if we have to repurpose buildings for residential shelter that can help handle that load. Okay. I really appreciate that. Thanks for bringing into action and sorting that out. It's an incredibly concerning report and I hope we don't ever hear anything like that again, but thank you for being responsive to it and thanks for your partnership and all of your hard work and everything you're doing to oversee all of our shelters right now. Thanks, Madam President. Thank you. Thank you, council members, for your for the record, do you want to go ahead and introduce yourself and share what agency you're with? Yes. I'm Angie Nelson, deputy director of the Department of Housing Stability, overseeing homelessness resolution and Housing Stability Division. Very good. Thank you, Angie, for being here. All right. That concludes the items to be called out this evening. All bills for introduction are ordered published. Council members remember, this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote I.