It's time for this biweekly meeting of the Finance and Business Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us for the Finance and Business Committee starting now.

All right, good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Finance and Business Committee.

Today is Tuesday, April 28th.

My name is Serena Gonzalez Cutietes, and I'm one of your council members at large.

We will start with introductions from council members, and it looks like I don't have anybody participating virtually today.

So we'll go ahead and start with the council members that are here in the room.

And we will start to my right.

Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Good morning, Darren Watson, flying district nine.

Chantelist, District 8.

Great.

Well, we have a few items on our agenda today.

We'll be starting with some action items being presented by General Services, followed by a briefing from the Department of Finance.

It's our 2027 budget kickoff.

So to get us started, we'll go ahead and start with the action items that are before us from General Services.

They're presenting on three contracts for the janitorial services.

I will turn it over to the general services team.

If you could please introduce yourselves, proceed with your presentations.

So with that said, we will go ahead and kick it over to you all.

Thank you.

Good morning, Kmaj Oli, I'm the director of administration with General Services.

Good morning all.

Adrena Gibson, Executive Director of General Services.

Morning, Roberto Abila, General Services Contract Administrator.

And before we get started, I want to make sure we um welcome Councilwoman Gilmore.

Thank you for joining us.

We're just about to get started.

All right.

Thanks again and good morning.

So we're going to be presenting on the citywide janitorial agreements here.

There are three agreements that we'll be reviewing as you can see on your screen.

Normally, I would just uh mention that you would normally get this from Nicole Sudreth, our uh contracts manager.

She's not available.

Uh but thank you very much for taking briefings with her uh previously.

So there was a memo that was distributed uh to you all yesterday with some uh a QA on questions that we had received uh from you all during those briefings.

Uh so uh happy to take any of those uh questions uh whenever we get to the question portion today.

Uh so just a very quick overview of uh what is represented within these agreements.

Uh there are 88 different buildings uh and those are put into seven different portfolios, and the staff hours that you see here under the participating agencies represents uh what we are anticipating uh under these current agreements.

Uh those are estimated hours, though.

I will call your attention to the bottom of the screen where we do talk about uh adjustments based on resources, budget, uh uh operational needs, etc.

Uh but general services, there are 28 buildings, 45 for Denver Parson Breck, uh, human services, there are five buildings, three buildings with Department of Transportation Infrastructure, two with Department of Motor Vehicles, uh, four with a Department of Safety, and one new building with the uh public library that we did not previously have.

Uh so again, those are the uh the hours and uh call your attention to the appendix uh in the presentation uh that has the actual buildings uh listed there that you can you can take a look at.

Services covered by these contracts, these agreements are uh what we have seen previously.

Uh this did not really uh change from the the previous agreements to now.

Uh I won't uh read these through.

Uh I think the the one adjustment that we did make was instead of uh identifying uh specific COVID cleaning measures.

We talk about high touch areas uh that may require some additional um additional cleaning uh functions, but uh essentially this is the normal type of a cleaning that you would see in um custodial agreements.

I'm not sure why that's going backwards, but here we go, let's go forwards.

So requirements of during the RFP, prevailing wage and compliance with wage laws.

We definitely call that out specifically within the RFP process and the current agreements.

So new contractors, these agreements they'll comply with prevailing wage ordinance, listing the sections there as well as the minimum wage and wage theft ordinances.

And as well on the right hand side of the screen there, it does talk about fringe benefits covered by prevailing wage.

And then towards the bottom there, the prevailing wage division within the Denver Auditor's Office must approve those Fringe benefit packages listing those items there.

And so contractors will comply or shall comply with the city's worker retention ordinance.

There again are the sections for reference.

Essentially, that means that contractors are required to retain those qualified individuals, employees from the previous contractor, and there's a transition period of 90 days.

At the end of that 90 days, the contractor then must perform a written performance review or evaluation with each of those workers, and if they uh their performance is satisfactory, then the contractor must offer the employee continued employment under that agreement.

Procurement overview.