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Item No. 8C Meeting Date: October 23, 2006 Type of Business: CA WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City Administrator Review _______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Greg Lee, Director of Public Works Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6953 Awarding a Contract for the Installation of a Handicapped Door Opening System at City Hall Background: At the September 5, 2006 City Council Work Session, issues associated with the City Hall Rehabilitation Project were discussed. The following is a portion of that report: Handicapped Accessible Doors – How was the decision made to remove the pre-existing opening system. Why wasn’t it salvaged? Why couldn’t the old opening system be re-installed? The pre-existing door opening system was several years old and had several operational and service issues. The opening system would either fail to operate when activated, the doors would open without being activated, or they would fail to close after being activated. In August of 2004, before the City Hall Rehabilitation Project work was started, the door opening system was analyzed by a service technician from Rogers Automated Entrances Incorporated. At that time, the City was informed that this system had been experiencing moisture problems, creating rust, and that the system was “shot”. To remove the pre-existing door opening system, store it, and reinstall it in the new vestibule would have been extremely labor intensive and would have been cost prohibitive. Therefore, given the aforementioned circumstances, coupled with the knowledge that an opening system is not required by International Building Code or State Building Code and knowing that a system would require ongoing maintenance costing future expenditures and trying to minimize the cost of the City Hall Rehabilitation Project, staff gave authorization to demo the pre- existing door opening system along with the vestibule. The plans and specifications were then created reflecting this decision.