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PROPOSAL SUMMARY Rieke Carroll Muller Associates, Inc. is an architectural -engineering firm with extensive experience and capabilities in providing clients with total in-house engineering, planning and design services. Engineering disciplines represented by the firm include civil, environmental and soils testing engineering; land surveying and construction management services. Design services include architecture and landscape architecture including parks and recreation resource/facility planning and design. The firm and it's staff have been involved in the planning, design, and development of several community parks projects both in Iowa and Minnesota. These projects have required a high degree of public visibility/citizen participation and a consultant who possesses an expertise in working with citizen groups, park and recreation commissions, city staffs and city councils. RCM has provided a Scope of Services which is responsive to the project needs stated in the Request for Proposal. The Approach selected by RCM has utilized a team of diversified professionals coordinated under the direction of a Project Manager to achieve work program goals. The Work Program has been designed to take existing information into account to the maximum possible extent and to maximize input and review by the City staff, the Parks and Recreation Commission, City Council and citizen participation. It is our understanding that following award of the contract, the firm selected shall be required to have the Master Plan completed by Mid - March, 1981 with bids recieved by early June, 1981, and with construction commencing in the summer of 1981. Rieke Carroll Muller Associates, Inc. can work within this time frame. Staff members who would be assigned to this project include, among others, Jack Leaman whose masters thesis relates to his 25 years of experience in the public participation process for the planning and development of public 1