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October 27, 1999 File: 805720J -0060 Mr. Joel Hanson City Administrator City of Little Canada 515 Little Canada Road Little Canada, MN 55117 RE: LITTLE CANADA ROAD FEASIBILITY STUDY Dear Mr. Hanson: This correspondence is intended to provide additional information into some of the items listed in your October 21, 1999 memo to the City Council regarding the Little Canada Feasibility Study. The issues that you asked for clarification or further input are as follows: 1. Engineering Costs It is my understanding that the agreement for Ramsey County will require them to pay 10% of their eligible construction cost as a design fee and for construction services, 12% of the eligible construction costs for a total of 22 %. This should provide sufficient engineering fees for the design and construction of the project with a couple of exceptions. Those exceptions would be if there is substantial involvement in the right -of -way acquisition and /or substantial public involvement during the design phase. These costs may exceed the 22% funded by Ramsey County. 2. Construction Schedule Your memo indicates that you hope construction could be completed within 120 days if not sooner. I also understand from our discussion that Ramsey County indicated construction could likely be done within 60 days. I would be concerned about limited construction to a period as short as 60 days for fear that it may drive up construction costs. However, I due believe that 120 days may be longer than a contractor really needs. 90 days seems to be a reasonable time line for substantial completion with potentially another 30 days added on for the contractor to finish up miscellaneous issues such as sodding and driveway restoration. It will be much easier to zero in on the number of days to allow the contractor for substantial completion as the project design is completed. C: \WINDOWS \TEMP \teas study Itr- 2702.oct99.doc PAGE 3