Englewood City staff plan two RTD grant applications, Jacobs Engineering agreement and several consent items

At the April 15 mayor-manager meeting, staff said they would place multiple procurement and grant-application items on the consent agenda and asked the mayor to confirm placement.

Deputy City Manager Tim Dodd reported a motion to apply for an RTD partnership grant for $300,000 that would require a 20% local match and recommended it be handled on consent because the action is an application. Staff also identified a second RTD partnership grant application for $150,000 to support continued operations of the BERT fixed-route Phase 2 implementation and recommended placing that application on consent as well.

Staff listed a proposed professional services agreement with Jacobs Engineering Group; the item’s final placement on consent had not been decided at the meeting and staff indicated it had recently been reviewed by the water and sewer committee. Other consent items called out included an IGA with Adams County and Englewood to operate two air monitors under a clean-air program and a $5,000 donation to the center trust fund from the estate of Ellen Martin.

Several capital and service items were also flagged for future discussion, including a change order with Eidos Architecture PC for the Space Improvement Project Phase Two and questions about the city’s CIP intermediary items in connection with parking garage repairs. Staff committed to checking whether the two RTD entries represented distinct applications and to return with clarifying information.