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Jun 24, 2026

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Jun 24, 2026

Health and Safety meeting summary

Committee heard annual updates from the Office of the Independent Monitor and the Citizen Oversight Board, and approved a $14,554,975 grant from the US Department of Health & Human Services to fund the Denver Great Kids Head Start Program through June 30, 2027.

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Briefing
Jun 17, 2026

Health and Safety meeting summary

The committee approved filing an update to local child care rules to align with State law and approved multiple consent items adding funding and time to behavioral health, syringe access, and mental health care contracts, and a $4,940,660 intergovernmental agreement with Denver Health for HIV/AIDS services.

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Briefing
Jun 10, 2026

Committee approves community corrections contract amendment

The Health and Safety Committee heard a Denver Police Department briefing on education-based development and approved adding $1,620,000 and eight months to an RRK Enterprises contract for citywide residential and non-residential community correction services (Resolution 26-0774).

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Briefing
Jun 3, 2026

Denver Fire Department audit briefing

Health and Safety Committee met June 3, 2026, at 10:30 AM in Room 391. Attendance: Present — Flynn, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Sandoval, Sawyer, Kashmann, Romero Campbell; Absent — Parady, Torres, Watson. The committee heard the Denver Fire Department briefing on audit findings (Council Presentation 26-0765).

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Briefing
May 27, 2026

Approvals for tobacco and harm-reduction funding

The Health and Safety committee meeting was canceled and the consent agenda was approved. Items approved include a $910,238 grant for tobacco education and rollovers totaling $465,667.59 to expand opioid recovery and harm-reduction services citywide.

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Briefing
May 20, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — May 20, 2026: Briefings heard; three HIV/AIDS service contracts approved by consent

Committee heard briefings on the Denver Human Services 2026 Workplan and OSEI/OCA collaboration. Three contracts to provide care, treatment, and supportive services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the Denver Transitional Grant Area were approved by consent. Attendance: 8 present, 1 absent (Torres).

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Briefing
May 13, 2026

Denver Health and Safety Committee (May 13, 2026): Council Bill 26-0328 filed; consent approvals for HIV/AIDS services agreement and donation of mounted patrol horse

Meeting held May 13, 2026, at 10:30 AM in City & County Building, Room 391. Attendance recorded as 9 present. Action: Council Bill 26-0328 (amending DRMC chapters to revise municipal criminal penalties) approved for filing by a 5-2 vote (Aye: Gonzales-Gutierrez, Parady, Sandoval, Sawyer, Torres; Nay: Flynn, Watson). Consent: Council Bill 26-0614 (intergovernmental agreement with Denver Health and Hospital Authority for $4,940,660 to provide HIV/AIDS services through 2/28/2031) approved by consent; Council Bill 26-0615 (donation of retired DPD Mounted Patrol horse “Maverick” to Ride and Shine Equine Assisted Therapy) approved by consent.

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Briefing
May 6, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — May 6, 2026 (committee canceled; consent agenda approved)

The Health and Safety Committee meeting scheduled for May 6, 2026 was canceled and a consent agenda was approved. Four consent items were approved: (1) amendment to Second Chance Center contract adding $895,416 and extending term to 12-31-2026 for reentry programming; (2) amendment to a revenue agreement with the Colorado Department of Human Services, Behavioral Health Administration adding $382,000 and extending term to 9-30-2027 to fund substance use disorder, mental health, jail MAT and pre-sentence re-entry services; (3) a contract with Colorado Health Network, Inc. for $12,657,215 through 2-28-2031 to provide HIV/AIDS care in the Denver Transitional Grant Area; and (4) an amendment to Jewish Family Service of Colorado’s contract to permit reimbursement of staff retention bonuses for case management/TANF services (no change to capacity or term).

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Briefing
Apr 29, 2026

Health and Safety committee hears HIV program briefing; approves $715,000 rollover for Harm Reduction Action Center facility

Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee met April 29, 2026 (Room 391). Attendance: 7 present, 1 absent. The committee heard Council Presentation 26-0570: HIV Program Overview. By consent the committee approved Council Resolution 26-0552 to amend a contract with Colorado Nonprofit Development Center dba Harm Reduction Action Center to roll over $715,000 in unspent Year 2 funds into the Year 3 budget to purchase a permanent facility; no change to contract capacity or term.

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Briefing
Apr 22, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — April 22, 2026: briefings heard; contract amendment approved

The committee heard briefings on the Caring for Denver Annual Report (26-0545) and Denver's Clinical Response System Updates (26-0546), and approved by consent Resolution 26-0541 to amend a Clayton Early Learning contract adding $18,000 (new total $1,988,083) to provide behavioral support services in Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms.

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Briefing
Apr 15, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — April 15, 2026: municipal penalties postponed; multiple public-health contracts approved by consent

The Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee met April 15, 2026 at City & County Building, Room 391. Attendance: 12 present. Action item Council Bill 26-0328 (amending Chapters 1, 34, and 38 of the DRMC to revise criminal penalties for municipal crimes) was postponed to a date certain. By consent the committee approved amendments and contracts to fund behavioral health, syringe access, nutrition enrollment, and HIV/AIDS care: 26-0488 (Harm Reduction Action Center grant amendment, +$239,375; new total $968,127; end date extended to 12-31-2026), 26-0489 (La Clinica Tepeyac contract $918,771; end date 2-28-2031), 26-0490 (Hunger Free Colorado contract amendment for federal nutrition assistance enrollment under the Healthy Food for Denver’s Kids Initiative), 26-0491 (La Raza Services contract $1,083,647; end date 2-28-2031), and 26-0492 (intergovernmental agreement with University of Colorado Hospital Authority $4,619,050; end date 2-28-2031).

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Briefing
Apr 1, 2026

Committee receives Denver Health tax spending update; approves health and fire service contract amendments

The Health and Safety Committee met April 1, 2026. Members heard a Denver Health sales tax spending update and approved two consent items: an amended Vivent Health grant to expand behavioral health and syringe-access services, and an extension of a contract for on-call firetruck repairs.

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Briefing
Mar 25, 2026

Committee canceled; three consent resolutions approved (forensic services contract increase, WeeCycle grant reallocation, sheriff union agreement)

The Health and Safety committee meeting was canceled and a consent agenda was included. Council approved by consent: (1) a $1,000,000 increase to a Neon Forensics contract for emergent forensic pathology services; (2) a $30,500 reallocation in a WeeCycle grant to provide infant formula and nutrition education under the Healthy Food for Denver’s Kids Initiative; and (3) the 2026 collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police, Denver Sheriff Lodge 27.

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Briefing
Mar 11, 2026

ALPR contract postponed; Tasty Food meal contract approved — Health and Safety, March 11, 2026

The Denver City Council Health and Safety committee met March 11, 2026 at City & County Building Room 391. Chair Darrell Watson and Vice Chair Kevin Flynn presided. Attendance: present 8 (Flynn, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Parady, Sawyer, Torres, Watson, Alvidrez, Kashmann); absent 1 (Sandoval). Action item 26-0246 (Axon Enterprise ALPR contract, $150,000, through 3/31/2027) was postponed to March 18, 2026 (vote 6–0; 1 absent). Consent item 26-0231 (Michael’s of Denver Catering contract, $3,500,000, through 12/31/2031 to provide meals/snacks to children 18 and under at Tasty Food Program sites citywide) was approved by consent.

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Briefing
Feb 25, 2026

Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee — Minutes (February 25, 2026)

Committee met with nine present; two council presentations were heard and two consent grants were approved to fund HIV/AIDS services and a peer support hub/apprenticeship program.

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Briefing
Feb 18, 2026

Health and Safety Committee Minutes — February 18, 2026

The Health and Safety Committee met February 18, 2026 at City & County Building, Room 391. Ten attendees were present. The committee heard briefings on the Denver homicide rate decline (26-0163) and DSD recruitment and retention (26-0164). Council Resolution 26-0134 was approved by consent to extend a contract with Integral Consulting Inc. through 5-15-2027 to assist with a State of Colorado voluntary cleanup of soil and groundwater at the Denver Fire Training Center (5445 Roslyn St., Council District 8); no change to contract capacity.

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Briefing
Feb 11, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — Feb 11, 2026: law enforcement ID ordinance approved for filing; consent contract approved

The Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee met Feb 11, 2026. Council Bill 26-0125, an ordinance amending Chapter 28 concerning law enforcement officer identification, was approved for filing by a 7–0 vote. Consent Resolution 26-0109, approving a $593,109.72 contract with Insight Public Sector, Inc. (end date 2-28-2029) for Microsoft software licensing for Denver County Court, was approved by consent. A Department of Human Services Medicaid Eligibility briefing (26-0126) appeared on the agenda; the minutes do not include briefing details or outcomes.

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Briefing
Feb 4, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — February 4, 2026

Committee met on February 4, 2026 (City & County Building, Room 391). Attendance: six present, two absent. The committee approved two action resolutions in block (26-0023 and 26-0024) related to citywide Computer-Aided Dispatch/mobile data and associated project management, and approved four consent contract amendments (26-0084 through 26-0087) for violence prevention evaluation, behavioral health services, and STAR program staffing and vehicles.

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Briefing
Jan 28, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — January 28, 2026

The Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee met on January 28, 2026. A Surveillance Task Force Update was presented, and two consent resolutions were approved to amend existing agreements: additional funding and a one-year extension for the Denver Children's Advocacy Center, and additional funding and a 12-month extension for The Reciprocity Collective's Roads to Recovery contract.

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Briefing
Jan 21, 2026

Health and Safety Committee minutes — January 21, 2026

Committee met January 21, 2026 (8 present, 2 absent). Briefings on Department of Safety training (26-0049) and CAO prosecution & code enforcement (26-0050) were heard. Consent Item 26-0041, amending an Intergovernmental Agreement with the Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel to add $697,000 (new total $2,392,000) and extend the contract to 12-31-2026 to provide counsel for indigent criminal defendants when a conflict exists for the Office of the Municipal Public Defender, was approved by consent.

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Briefing
Jan 14, 2026

Denver City Council Health and Safety Committee Minutes — January 14, 2026

Committee met January 14, 2026; attendance recorded (7 present, 2 absent). Two briefings were heard: an update from the Prosperity Denver Fund and an update on the flavored tobacco ban; presenters are listed on the agenda.

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Briefing
Jan 7, 2026

Health and Safety Committee Minutes — January 7, 2026

Committee met January 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM in City & County Building, Room 391. Chair Darrell Watson and Vice Chair Kevin Flynn presided; eight members/staff were present. The committee heard two briefings (DDPHE dog bite enforcement; Denver Table Fresh Food Market Consortium) and approved two consent items by consent: Resolution 25-2129 (ViVe contract amendment adding $146,000, new total $575,000 for out-of-school programming at Whittier ECE-8) and Council Bill 25-2146 (amendment to intergovernmental agreement with the City of Sheridan adding $8,211,552, new total $35,942,846.10, and extending end date to 12-31-2028 for fire protection services).

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Briefing
Dec 24, 2025

Committee canceled; consent agenda approved contract amendments for overdose prevention, shelter health services, STAR program, and HIV/AIDS support

The Denver City Council Health and Safety committee (Chair: Darrell Watson; Vice Chair: Kevin Flynn) scheduled for December 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM in City & County Building, Room 391 was canceled; the consent agenda was included and approved. By consent the committee approved amendments to four contracts: Colorado Health Network (overdose education and naloxone/drug testing distribution), Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (shelter health services), La Raza Services/Servicios de La Raza (STAR program case management), and It Takes A Village, Inc. (HIV/AIDS care and supportive services).

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Briefing
Dec 17, 2025

Health and Safety Committee minutes — Denver City Council, December 17, 2025

Committee met December 17, 2025 (10:30 AM) in City & County Building, Room 391; six members present and two absent. Briefing 25-2073, Denver Fire Department Wellness & Resilience Program (presented by Kathleen Vredenburgh), was heard in committee. No motions, votes, or further actions are recorded in the minutes.

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