The Brighton City Council met on July 23, 2024, starting at 6:00 PM, for a study session to discuss contract transparency, the future of the outdoor warning siren system, impact fee proposals, community recycling and composting options, and the Brighton High School parking permit program.
Um, Council member Pelovski to Lisa the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you for leading the pledge. Let's come back to the meeting, folks. First item on the agenda is contract leasing for 20 or June of 2024. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem. And Council. As requested by Council, we this is our first of many, where we are bringing back the contract listings to report back to you. So I'll turn it over to our finance director to explain more. Thank you, Michael. So, Council, you may recall in May of this year, you approved a code change that um increased the city manager's contract approval limit to 500,000. And at that time you asked for some periodic updates on the contracts that have been executed by the city. So this is the first of these uh listings, so definitely open to feedback if there's information you'd like to see um differently or um in more detail, less detail. But this um listing is for contracts executed during the month of June. Um just some context around what this includes and doesn't include. This is procured contracts, so contracts where we are doing some sort of solicitation uh process to buy something. Um it also includes amendments and change orders for those procured contracts. This listing does not include IGAs development agreements or other non-procured contracts. Um those would uh especially larger ones would typically come uh before you anyway. Um this also does not include um situations where the purchase order is a contract, that would typically be smaller dollar goods purchases, um, you know, under $15,000. So with that, um, this is the listing of what was um what was approved during the month of June. If it says MPA, that's a master price agreement, and the dollar amount is a not to exceed amount. So we use we we can use that amount throughout the year for um for services as needed. Um if it says you know, contract, new contract, that's that's a new agreement with um a dollar amount that uh has been authorized. So with that, I can um I'm happy to answer questions to the extent I'm able, um, depending on what the contracts are. I can tell you they were all procured through our procurement process appropriately. Anybody have any questions for our finance director? Councilmember Green. Uh just a comment, because uh if you do look over the list, you'll see that there's one that's 2.8 million dollars. So I think that really kind of skews what we're looking at there. So uh if you're trying to get an average, I know it's six million dollars seems like a lot, but three million of that just came from one single check. So uh I think that's important to point out. Uh because I was gonna ask you for an average of it, but I'm looking at it. I'm like, holy crap. Yeah, it's a bit all over the place with our contract amounts, right? Sometimes we have very, very large ones, and those ones come before council um for approval anyway. We include them here just for completeness. So since this is going um in the packet for the public as well, so they can see everything that's been signed. That would definitely be an outlier. It's good to see those. Yeah. Absolutely. Councilmember Pelowski. Thank you, Mayor. You know, my my concern with this is like, for instance, on that two million dollar one, it says a new contract. So that does that mean there was an old contract with the same company. No, a newly executed contract, newly approved. Okay. That's what I was curious about.