Welcome back to this weekly meeting of the Health and Safety Committee with Denver City Council.

Coverage of the Health and Safety Committee starts now.

Good morning.

This is the uh 11-5 health and safety committee meeting.

My name is Daryl Watson.

I'm honored to serve all of the residents of the fine district nine, and I'm also honored to be the committee chair for this health and safety committee.

We have one action item uh this morning.

It's the Denver Health Operating Agreement with the City and County of Denver.

And before we roll into the presentation, uh why don't we do introductions around the table?

First, let's let me check to see if anyone's online.

No virtual participation.

So we'll start on all right.

Thank you.

Kevin Flame, Southwest Denver's district two.

Amanda Sawyer, District 5.

Good morning, Sadana Gonzalez, one of your council members at large.

Uh good morning, Paul Cashman.

Denver District 6.

Jamie Torres, West Denver District 3.

We look forward every year for Megan's and Donna's uh presentation on the operating agreement.

So we'll turn it over to Megan Parrizzo and Donna Lynn, CEO of Denver Health, for your introductions and to take charge of the presentation.

Great.

Thank you all.

Uh my name is Megan Prezzo.

I'm with the Department of Public Health and Environment.

We are the holder of the operating agreement contract with Denver Health, and very happy to be here.

Thank you all for having us back every year.

And I'm Donna Lynn, the CEO of Denver Health.

Happy to be working jointly with DDPHE and many of the other city agencies that provide services to Denver Health and back.

And I think we're also going to be talking a little bit about 2Q at your request to get into more specificity around how Denver Health is spending that money in calendar 2025.

And a little bit of a preview of next year.

All right.

Thank you so much.

I would be remiss if I didn't thank all the folks in this room, and beyond our partners at Denver Health, Donna and team, lots of uh hard work goes into this every year, and our other uh departments across the city and within DDPHE that work so hard to get this agreement in place.

It's a heavy lift every year, and so very much appreciate all the work that goes into it, including our partners in City Attorney's Office and Finance and otherwise.

So thank you all for having us.

This will look relatively familiar as similar years.

Um we've added a few details but generally the same presentation as you all are familiar with.

Uh we've already handled introductions, obviously.

Uh, we will do an overview of the operating agreement, uh, talk about a few high high-level kind of understanding of the structure of it, talk about the changes.

There are very few, but kind of the nuanced uh changes of the uh language this year, uh, talk about the budget for 2026, um, and answer any questions you all have.

So uh I believe you all received a copy of the agreement ahead of time this year.

We worked hard to make sure that happened.

I know that hasn't always happened in previous years, so I want to make sure, and I see some head nods, so that's great.

Okay, jumping in.

Um, this is a new slide this year because with the addition of 2Q and sort of the complexity of the Denver Health landscape across the city, we thought it would be helpful to sort of give a little bit of lay of the land about Denver Health Funds within DDPHE.

This isn't the entirety of the operating agreement or across the whole city, but for the 2025 uh DDPG budget, we thought it would just be helpful to let you all know the green slivers here are what DDPHE has in place with Denver Health.

The sort of light green towards the top up here is the operating agreement portion that is DDPHE specific.

So that's $38 million out of the entirety of the operating agreement.

This larger dark green sliver is the 2Q sales tax, which was originally estimated.

Well, not originally, it's been estimated at various numbers, but 64 is generally 64 million is generally where we're estimating today.

And then this thinner light green sliver, um, we have several other sometimes dozens, depending on the day, week, month, or year of contracts with Denver Health for various services, as you might imagine.

And uh there's a list of folks of uh other services here, and so that totals roughly five million on any given day that goes up or down depending on kind of the services, depending on our grant funding and and the work we're doing with Denver Health.

But just wanted to give a lay of the land because I think it's getting more complex over time, and wanted everyone to see that.

Uh, this is also in relation to DDPHE's operating agreement or operating funds.

So, this blue slice here is everything that DDPHE uses to operate our work.

Um, and then these peach color other kind of pass-through sales tax revenue caring for Denver and Healthy Foods.

So, thought that was uh helpful mostly in relation to 2Q and how that fits into DDPHE's budget.

Okay.

Specific to the operating agreement, you all have seen and heard this uh multiple times, but um way back in 1997, um the under uh state statute uh the hospital separated from the city and county of Denver, which was the original kind of intention uh behind developing an operating agreement with Denver Health and an agreement to talk about the services that the hospital provided to residents of the city and county of Denver.