Speaker 0: Under bills for introductions, we have Council Bill 1087 called out for a vote by Councilman Ortega and council bill 1143 called out for a question and a vote postponed by Councilman Espinosa. Under bills for final consideration, we have Council Bill 1078 called out for a question and a vote to postpone by Councilman Espinosa. Underpinning we have nothing. Madam Secretary, will you please put the first item on our screen? Councilman Flynn, what's your question? On 1044.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Mr. President. I did review the committee materials on this and saw the presentation from DIA, but I still had some things I need to clarify. Maybe Stew Williams could come up very quickly. You don't have to come up very quickly, but answer very quickly. Number one, Hensel Phelps. They had a key role in in the original opening of the airport. I think they were. Were they our the city's consultant on the interim bag system?
Speaker 4: Good evening, Mr. Williams, senior vice president of special programs at Denver International Airport. So until Phelps had a number of contracts originally during the original construction of the airport and.
Speaker 2: Councilman put on the baggage system and specifically.
Speaker 4: The work, they didn't do work on the original United System, but they did some interim work post the United States.
Speaker 2: Okay. I think they're highly qualified that I know a lot of the work that they did that they've done out there. So I understand why they were selected, but I'm wondering if this is an $80 million on call contract. I'm wondering how the airport arrived at that level. I understand that it's a work order, so it's a maximum of it doesn't mean we're going to spend 80 million, but how did you arrive at a cap of 80 million?
Speaker 4: And it is correct that it is a non call contract and we we decided to go for a cap of 80 million. We believe that the main task of this program or main task of this program would be to construct a level of what we call a level 5.5, which is above the level five ceiling and below the level six for for conveying baggage both north and south on the east and west sides. To give us greater flexibility will need that flexibility in order to move all the airlines from Mode one to MUDs two and three so that we can put TSA in MOD one. To answer your question, we estimated the project actual the level five task level 5.5 has to be somewhere between 65 and 75 million at the time that the contract was said, we wanted that flexibility for other baggage connections that may be needed. So we chose the $80 million.
Speaker 2: Thank you and thank you for explained to me to help me visualize the physical space there. I couldn't imagine where we could put a 5.5 level in there. And you clarify that for it's not it's not for habitable space or occupied space by people just for equipment.
Speaker 4: That's correct. There's a approximately ten foot interstitial space between the ceiling of five and four six.
Speaker 2: Now, the crucial question is, does any of this work commit us prematurely to any of the great hall reconfiguration, the scope of which and the configuration of which we do not yet? No.
Speaker 4: No, it doesn't. What this project does is it does enable because our stated goal for anything in the Great Hall, whether it's been done under the public private partnership or not, is to be able to move TSA in order to move TSA and use that space. We need level 5.5. A particular configuration is it's somewhat irrelevant to this project. The tie in will still occur regardless of the configuration. Okay.
Speaker 2: Very good. Thank you, Mr. President. I just don't want to vote during a block vote on $80 million without the public understanding what we're doing.
A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Hensel Phelps Construction Co. concerning baggage handling system enabling projects for TSA relocation at Denver International Airport.
Approves an on-call contract with Hensel Phelps Construction Co. for up to $80 million for two and a half years for baggage-related enabling projects to be done prior to the relocation of the TSA passenger screening activities from Level 5 to Level 6 at Denver International Airport (201628516).  The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 12-19-16.  The Committee approved filing this resolution by consent on 11-16-16.