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515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, MN 55117 -1600 (612) 484 -2177 / FAX: (612) 484 -4538 MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor Fahey & Members of the City Council FROM: Joel Hanson, City Administrator DATE: April 5, 1996 RE: Spooner Park Shelter Design Expense Update MAYOR Michael 1. Fahey COUNCIL Beverly Scalze Jim LaValle Steve Morelan Bob Pedersen ADMINISTRATOR Joel R. Hanson Per the direction of the City Council, I have been evaluating possible methods to save costs associated with the design of the new shelter for Spooner Park. The results of this evaluation are as follows: * With the project expected to exceed $25,000 ($120,000 budgeted), it will need to be competitively bid which requires the preparation of detailed plans and specifications. * As a public project, plans and specifications must be signed by a registered engineer /architect pursuant to building code requirements. Ken Wehrle, of the St. Paul Parks Department, informed us that the initial prices we had obtained were representative of the amount they would pay for a similar project. * Plans and specifications for this type of project are copyrighted. Therefore, we would need to find a shelter which very closely matches our proposed layout in order that we could approach that architect about design of a facility for Little Canada. In that way, we may be able to reduce design fees if they are working from existing prints. Obviously, I am not in a position to do that without input from the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Canadian Days Committee. * It is my understanding that we will have some special design features for this shelter. We will likely want to incorporate some of the characteristics from existing park buildings (i.e., roof materials and color schemes). This will increase the cost associated with Page 32