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Committee approves $87,659 amendment to Touch Outreach contract to cover downtown emergency services
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The committee approved a contract amendment to pay Touch Outreach $87,658.69 for services provided during a downtown emergency response after a juvenile was killed at Fifth and Hennepin last summer; Neighborhood Safety Department staff said the amendment retroactively covers work beyond the original contract amounts.
The Administration and Enterprise Oversight Committee approved a contract amendment on June 23 to pay Touch Outreach $87,658.69 for downtown emergency response services provided during a winter period of heightened need, Neighborhood Safety Director Amanda Harrington told the committee.
Harrington said the increase is to pay Touch Outreach for work performed during a downtown emergency response tied to a community request for additional on-the-ground support following a juvenile homicide at Fifth and Hennepin last summer. She said staff had hoped the original contract would cover the work, but a remaining balance required a contract amendment.
Council Member Cashman said the amendment answered her question about whether the payment was retroactive to that event; she also said she looked forward to continuing conversations about deploying violence-interruption and street-outreach services through a new service-provider pool being brought forward by the city.
The committee voted to approve the amendment on the consent agenda.
