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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 24, 1998 Page 9 1 City of St. Anthony and if the Town/Country building does not work, Staff would want to 2 relocate the business to another area in St. Anthony. 3 Cavanaugh stated the reason for his suggestion of a moratorium was that the City not get into this 4 type of discussion without a plan in place. 5 Mornson reported he is in the process of finalizing an RFP for a computer consultant and will 6 provide this at the April 7 work session. 7 Mornson"reported that a sub-committee of the Parks Task Force is-meeting with Public Works 8 Director. They are discussing five bids received for play equipment for Community Services. It 9 is believed that the bids will come in between $20,000425,000 and$20,000 has been budgeted 10 for this item. The agreement made by the City was to replace the equipment like-for-like. 11 Mornson stated the Chair of the sub-committee requested that he could be authorized to chose 12 the vendor so that work could be started as soon as possible. The next Council meeting is not 13 scheduled until April 14 and installation is eight weeks off. 14 Thuesen stated that at the last Parks Task Force meeting there had been discussion that the �15 equipment would cost $18,000-$20,000 and that there may be additional cost for site preparation. T6 Marks stated he did not have a clear sense of how much more the site preparation would cost. 17 He noted volunteers and the Public Works Department will be assisting with installation of the 18 equipment to reduce the cost and that the Task Force would like to move as quickly as possible 19 or installation will occur well into the season. 20 Thuesen asked if site preparation was included in the original $20,000 estimate. 21 Mayor Ranallo stated it was but that at that time it was anticipated that some of the old 22 equipment would be utilized. 23 Morrison noted the $20,000 was meant to be seed money to mix the old equipment with the new. 24 This however, will not work because the old equipment is not up to ADA standards. 25 Mayor Ranallo suggested that the Task Force determine a cost.figure for Council consideration. 26 Mornson stated the Task Force is anticipating a cost of$25,000. He noted there is $40;000 27 available in the Contingency Fund for the new building. This does not include the $50,000 for 28 the tennis courts. 29 Motion by Marks, second by Thuesen to approve the replacement of playground equipment for Community Services in an amount not to exceed $25,000. 31 Motion carried unanimously.