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Mounds View City Council June 28, 2004 Regular Meeting Page 5 Ayes-5 Nays-0 Motion carried. 1 2 J. Resolution 6292 Approving and Authorizing the Execution of a Letter 3 Agreement with TKDA for the Groveland Park Building Replacement 4 Project. 5 6 Council Member Marty stated he had received calls regarding the high cost for simply a cinder 7 block building. 8 9 Council Member Stigney stated the staff report had said it was assumed the building would use 10 the same general plans as the Hillview building with some minor modification. He asked why 11 they were asking for $19,600. 12 13 Public Works Director Lee stated he had made the assumption they could use the same plans 14 over again, which was true to some degree. He stated there is going to be a lot of expense in 15 ter ms of coming up with a site plan for the building and also doing the topographic layout for the 16 building. He stated they would also be doing some minor modifications to the building, so they 17 are looking at a lot of drafting time to redo the plans. He stated t he City would not be realizing 18 the cost savings that he had thought would be the case. He pointed out that they had budgeted 19 $20,000 for this work. 20 21 Council Member Stigney asked whether they had gotten estimates from anyone else. 22 23 Public Works Director Lee stated they had not. 24 25 Council Member Stigney stated he had a problem with the cost of the project since the building 26 was almost the same as the other one. 27 28 Public Works Director Lee stated that if you took into account the inflation factor in the last 29 four years, the cost of the project could have been $23,000 - $24,000. 30 31 Mayor Linke pointed out some provisions in the contract that he found unsatisfactory, including 32 TKDA stating they were only going to provide three hard copy sets of the contract document s. 33 He stated he would like to see a list of what their principals and techs make. He stated the 34 contract states the City would be charged for reimbursables, but it doesn’t specify what the 35 reimbursables are and what those costs will be. He stated in th e general provisions for 36 architectural, where it says, ‘‘outstanding professional technical services with a cost defined as 37 amounts billed for extras, plus 10 percent,’’ he would like to see that number at 5 percent. He 38 also stated that the floppy disk they receive should be reusable for longer than 30 days. He 39 stated he would like to get estimates from others. 40 41 MOTION/SECOND. Marty/Gunn. To disapprove Resolution No. 6292. 42 43 Mayor Linke stated he would rather see a postponement of this item rather than rej ection at this 44 time to let staff go back and discuss it. 45 46