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, everyone.

Welcome to the uh June 3rd, 2026.

Well, the green light just came on again.

Welcome everyone to the June 3rd, 2026 meeting of Denver City Council's Health and Safety Committee.

My name is Kevin Flynn, and I am the vice chair of the committee filling in for the chair who is absent today.

And uh we have only one item, and it's a briefing from our uh Denver fire department uh on the response to the audit findings.

And so before we start uh introduce Chief Fulton, I'd like to ask uh vamping for other members.

Sorry.

Members get here.

Let's have introductions uh by members of council.

Let me start to the uh to my left.

Uh good morning, everyone.

Serena Gonzalez Cochez and one of the council members at large.

Good morning, Amanda Sawyer, district five.

Hi, and we have one member online.

Uh, Council Pro Tem.

Go ahead.

Uh good morning.

Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver District 4.

Thank you very much.

Uh Chief Desmond Fulton, the Denver Fire Department.

The floor is yours.

Thank you, sir.

Uh I we the Denver Fire Department uh went through an audit uh related to our IGAs.

So Denver Fire provides fire and emergency response to four different areas.

We've we provide this for a skyline.

Uh we provide this this service for Sheridan, the city of Sheridan.

We provide the service for the city of Englewood and the City of Glendale.

Uh we met with the auditor for a final presentation roughly a month ago, and uh I wanted to go over the findings.

Um, I'm sure you're all well aware you guys had an audit somewhat similar last year, and it's not as easy to express the totality of things when you're limited uh to 140 characters.

So I wanted to take the time to ensure that you had a chance to ask any questions and ensure that there's clarity um when it comes to our ability to respond not only to these IGAs but into the city county of Denver.

So with that, use yes, sir.

Uh introduction and background.

Um Denver Fire has had IGAs in place uh for 20 plus years.

Uh again, as I stated Inglewood, Glendale, Sheridan, and Skyland Protection Fire District.

These are all different links.

Um most of these were in place prior to my tenure.

Um but um that said we have had a renegotiation with the city of Sheridan and with Skyline uh very recently.

Um that as I proceed forward, um, I will go into the specifics of the lengths of these terms, the monetary uh components related to these terms, and then what the recommendations were from the auditor's office and how we plan to comply with the recommendations.

Uh Denver Fire Department IGAs, uh Inglewood.

Uh, just to give you some perspective, the revenue that we generate from Englewood providing services is 7.3 million dollars a year.

Uh we have a three percent escalator on that, and that term goes through December 31st of 2035.

Glendale uh the revenue is three million dollars again with a three percent escalator on that.

Uh fire protection services go through the term of 1231 of 38.

Sheridan, uh the revenues two point six million dollars.

A little bit different on this one.

There are some different escalators built in.

It's a 3% and 26, a 4% and 27 and a 5% in 2028.

And that'll be up for renewal again in uh December 31 of 2028.

And finally, Skyline, which is very different, it's Mills based.

Skyline is not a city, it's really a neighborhood that we protect.

Um, and it's 445,000 dollars was the revenue generated, and that is reviewed every three years.

So we meet with their fire marshal with their board, and we'll review that.

There's no questions there.

I'm going to move forward.

Okay.

Um, so these are some maps to kind of put in perspective of where these firehouses are located, uh, with these IGAs.

So station five is located in the heart of Glendale, and as you can see, it's completely surrounded by the city and county of Denver.