City and County of Denver - File #: 17-1385

• File #: 17-1385
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/27/2017
• In control: Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
• On agenda: 12/18/2017
• Final action: 12/18/2017
• Title: A resolution approving a proposed Second Amendment to Cooperative Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Zoological Foundation, Inc. for the reorganization, restructuring and mayoral appointments concerning the Denver Zoo. Amends an agreement with the Denver Zoological Foundation, Inc. (DZF) to restructure the DZF Board into a Board of Governors and a Leadership Council. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-8-18. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 12-5-17.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/19/2017	1	Council President	signed
12/18/2017	1	City Council	adopted	Pass
12/5/2017	1	Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee	approved for filing	Pass

Contract Request Template (Contracts; IGAs; Leases)

Date Submitted: 11-28-17

Requesting Agency: Parks and Recreation
Division:

* Name: Happy Haynes / Laura Morales
* Phone: 720.913.0633
* Email: Happy.Haynes@denvergov.org / laura.morales@denvergov.org

Item Title & Description:
(Do not delete the following instructions)
These appear on the Council meeting agenda. Initially, the requesting agency will enter a 2-3 sentence description. Upon bill filling, the City Attorney's Office should enter the title above the description (the title should be in bold font).

Both the title and description must be entered between the red "title" and "body" below. Do not at any time delete the red "title" or "body" markers from this template.
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A resolution approving a proposed Second Amendment to Cooperative Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Zoological Foundation, Inc. for the reorganization, restructuring and mayoral appointments concerning the Denver Zoo.
Amends an agreement with the Denver Zoological Foundation, Inc. (DZF) to restructure the DZF Board into a Board of Governors and a Leadership Council. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-8-18. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 12-5-17.
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Affected Council District(s) or citywide? Council District 10

Contract Control Number: XC40345-02

Vendor/Contractor Name (including any "DBA"): Denver Zoological Foundation, Inc.

Type and Scope of services to be performed: The Board of Trustees of the Denver Zoological Foundation, in following the recommendations contained in the report of the Denver City Auditor dated January 19, 2017, retained a non-profit board governance consultant to analyze the DZF's governance approach. This resulted in the decision to restructure the DZF Board into two entities-a Board of Governors (which will become the fiduciary board and oversee Zoo operations) and a Leadership Counc...