Centennial council advances draft 15½-year Jacobs agreement; staff to place resolution on next agenda

The Centennial City Council on Monday reviewed a proposed master services agreement with Jacobs that would begin Jan. 1, 2026, and run for 15½ years, expanding the contractor’s scope to include additional public works, facilities, parks and code-compliance services and adding more detailed performance metrics.

City staff said the contract draft grew out of a yearlong evaluation and negotiations intended to preserve service quality while increasing operational flexibility and leveraging Jacobs’ technology and capital investments. "We really stressed our desire to perform and act as a typical municipal government would in delivering public works and, facility, landscaping, maintenance services, as well as code compliance," said Miss Moss, a staff presenter during the meeting.

The draft revises the delivery approach so Centennial can act with more "Jacobs delivery" in selected areas, staff said. That change would move some work now handled by subcontractors — including certain mowing, sidewalk snow removal and open-space irrigation repairs — to Jacobs’ direct management or its subcontractors under Jacobs’ oversight. Jeff Dankenbray, identified in the meeting as the city’s public works director, said the shift is intended to reduce recurring task orders and increase day-to-day flexibility: "If somebody goes and hits one of our block walls ... we'd rather have the efficiency and the cost savings of being more traditional in that aspect." Dankenbray also listed functions Jacobs…