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Contract and Compliance Board: executive director details safety incidents, contract reviews and public complaint portal
Summary
At a Contract and Compliance Board meeting, Executive Director Trey reported two recent safety incidents at the Juvenile Justice Center, said staff are reviewing ~77 contracts (nine flagged for compliance, totaling about $300 million), proposed an ADA checklist for inspectors and previewed a HUB Nashville complaint intake button to capture public contract and safety concerns.
Executive Director Trey reported several operational updates at the Contract and Compliance Board meeting, including two recent incidents at the Juvenile Justice Center, a broad contract review and a new public complaint intake planned for HUB Nashville.
Trey said staff are developing “an ADA checklist, for those code inspectors to utilize” and integrating it into the new safety reports platform. He described two incidents at the Juvenile Justice Center in the past 30 days: a worker struck his shin with a hammer that required a doctor visit for antibiotics, and a minor, quickly extinguished fire caused by drilling into material on an upper floor. Trey said both events were documented and that corrective actions and additional training — including use of spotters during certain tasks — have been implemented.
On contracts, Trey told the board the Business Assistance Office is reviewing approximately 77 Metro contracts; nine of those have been flagged for compliance review. He characterized the flagged work as concentrated in four Department of General Services projects and said the contracts represent “just under $300,000,000” in value.
Trey outlined a public-facing complaints pathway being developed with HUB Nashville and Metro’s 311 team: a button on the HUB Nashville site and the board’s web page that will guide users to provide location, contact information and details of contract or safety concerns. He said a test environment from 311 is expected after Thanksgiving and that staff aim to demo screenshots at the board’s December meeting.
Trey also said staff are researching safety professional certifications through the American Society of Safety Professionals and that Department of General Services safety coordinator Paul Hensley recently completed OSHA-30 certification. He reported that Dan Barnett volunteered for and was approved as complaints subcommittee chair and urged the board to finalize bylaws for signatures so the rules can be uploaded and transmitted to the Council.
The board did not take a formal vote on the ADA checklist or the HUB process during this meeting; Trey said staff will return with demos and proposed contract-language exhibits for safety requirements to be discussed with legal, procurement and finance ahead of the January Metro Council deadline.
