Welcome back to this monthly meeting of the parks, Arts and Culture Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us in the Parks Arts and Culture Committee starting now.

Hi, good morning.

Thank you for joining us this morning at Parks Art and Culture Committee, the best committee on this beautiful morning.

And I will my name is Flora Alvidres.

I'm the chair of Parks Arts and Culture Committee, and we can start today by introducing the council members.

I'll start with my co-chair to my right.

Vice Chair.

Vice Chair.

Hey Denver.

Chris Hines, Denver's Perfect Dead.

Chantel Lewis, District 8.

Darren Watson, Flying District 9.

Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver, District 4.

Really excited to hear from Parks today.

So Jesus, you want to take it away and introduce your team.

For sure.

Good morning, Council members.

Jesus Arranti Community Engagement Specialists with Parks and Recreation.

We have several items that we will bring presenting to you today.

I'll have them introduce themselves and then we will get right into the presentation.

Thank you.

I'm Jessica Anderson, the Urban Ecology Supervisor with Denver Parks and Recreation.

Good morning, everyone.

I am Kristen Beer, Design Construction Supervisor with Denver Parks and Recreation.

So as I mentioned, we are we have 19 on call contracts that will be presented as an action item.

In addition, we will be presenting 10 ecology contracts to you all.

Those are running about a week behind, and so we want to make sure to be able to present them.

Those are not on action.

So those we will not be voting on today.

Today for the agenda, we will be talking about on calls, what uh how we use them, the reason that that they're a good thing, and we will provide some background on these contracts and how they will work.

Uh I will be kicking off uh the purpose and the use of our on-call contracts in relate in relation to uh the design and construction or the landscape architecture and related design services.

Um, some of the benefits on our on-call contracts, um, it provides a list of consultants that are pre-approved with experience and knowledge of the DPR standards and park focused design teams.

Um it condenses timelines and provides more efficient process project starts.

Uh it produces procurement or reduces procurement timelines and supportive of all small business and reduces proposal generation.

Um we also encumber funds on an ongoing and as needed basis.

Um, our selection process is very competitive.

It uh follows the formal RFP process and it's public publicly publicly um issued through BidNet.

Um we also have selection committees consisting of at least five internal subject matter experts.

Um it does follow the selection rating criteria and evaluations.

Um I think that is it.

Umil calls through mini-bid processes.

We have a procurement committee um set up within the um planning design and construction um teams.

It's a group of internal management level subject matter experts that review scope, details, and scale of the project to ensure that we provide equitable opportunities for all firms to propose on projects.

So the committee um actively monitors workloads across um all firms, provides oversight without slowing delivery processes, and prevents disproportionate allocation to one consultant.

Um so we want to just make sure that we're being very equitable as we're distributing all the work among all of the on-call consultants.

Um as funding is available, projects are approved and they're presented to a select group of consultant firms.

Um we we do have a formal bid process for three or more firms if the anticipated budget is 150,000 or more.

Um the on-call contracts are that are being presented today.

Um we have 19 total contracts for the on-call landscape architecture, planning, design and related services contract.

They'll be utilized for citywide and specific um site-specific vision planning, community engagement, and parks and trails design.

Um then also uh Jessica will be providing more information on the future um council consideration.

Yes, thank you.

So as Jesus mentioned, our ecological contracts are about a week or so behind, so they are not an action item today, but we wanted to present to give you the full picture of these services.

The RFPs went out at about the same time.

So this is for our restoration ecological and technical services contract, which will utilize we will utilize citywide and for site-specific ecological restoration, our landscape transformation program.

So we're moving bluegrass and replacing with native landscapes, our natural resource inventory and analysis projects, monitoring, natural resource planning and design, aquatic resource management, wildlife management, and some environmental site assessment and remediation projects.

So I'll continue to present those first and then I'll hand it back to Kristen with the action item today.

So our restoration contracts, we received 19 proposals when we put this out to RFP through BitNet, and we've selected 10 firms.

Five of those firms are new to this on call contract list with the city.