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City updates: EPA grant testing, 90-tree plantings, RFPs for EOC and GIS
Summary
Staff reported progress on EPA hazardous-material testing at city properties, upcoming plantings under a forest grant, and several RFPs including an emergency operations center portion for Sky High; test results are expected mid-November.
City staff gave a series of updates Sept. 4 on grant-funded testing, tree plantings and planned requests for proposals.
Ed (city staff) said Terracon, the city's consultant for an EPA grant, completed hazardous-material testing at three city properties (117 Adams, 137 Adams and City Hall) and at one private property that was included in the grant scope. "We expect to get all of the results back about mid November," Ed said. He noted a significant finding at 117 Adams that required the city to report a spill to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and to post notices restricting entry pending mitigation; staff said mitigation work for that location is covered by the grant scope.
Ed also reported the RFP for the Sky High Emergency Operations Center (EOC) portion of a project was issued this week and that two more RFPs will go out the following week — one to update the city's GIS system and another for a safety action plan funded by a Safe Streets for All grant. Davis Engineering provided consultant assistance to prepare the EOC materials, he said.
Under a separate forestry grant, staff said contractor Supertrees would plant 90 of a planned 500 trees across the city the coming week, with spring and fall planting cycles planned next year and a private-property component (about 30 trees per year) to start via an application process in February. Ed described criteria that will be used to prioritize private-property plantings (for example, residents in low-canopy areas may score higher).
Staff requested a future work session for the nuisance-code rewrite in early October and said other grant tasks, lease adjustments and code placement work continue to advance. No dates for required mitigation work were published beyond the general mid-November timeline for testing results.
