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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes March 10, 2009 Page 2 V. GENERAL ERAL BUSINESS OF COUNCIL. A. Resolution 09-030; Awarding the Sid for Emerald Park. Jean Garbarini,. Close Landscape presentin . 7 Ms. Jean Garbarini, Close Landscape Architecture, provided a brief history of the Emerald Park 8 Project and a review of the final plan included in the bid request on the project. The project was 9 bid with the splash deck as an alternate to be included in the project. Ms. Garbarini provided an 10 overview of the bid opening held on March 4, 2009. Low bidder on the project was Ebert 1 I Construction in the amount of $828,000.00 without the splash deck and $1,024,600.00 with the 12 splash deck. 13 14 Councilmember Roth inquired about the life expectancy of the splash deck. Ms. Garbarini 15 replied that splash decks are fairly new site amenities that have not been around for longer than 16 10 to 12 years. It would be expected that the components above grade would have a 25 year life 17 cycle; the mechanical system with the building and components that are below grade would last 18 longer. 19 20 Mayor Pro Tem Stille requested information regarding the contingency line item. Ms. Garbarini 21 explained that one thing the contingency could potentially be used for is earth work due to soil 22 conditions. The contingency is not part of the general contractor's lump sum contract; it is held 23 out in case there is something unexpected. The contingency would come out of a change order to 24 the general contractor's contract. 25 26 Councilmember Roth inquired about warranties that would be included in the construction of the 27 splash deck. Ms. Garbarini provided information regarding the types of warranties that would 28 generally be included with splash decks. She indicated specific information on the warranties can 29 be provided to Council. 30 31 Councilmember Roth questioned what would be involved with a failure of the splash deck. Ms. 32 Garbarini replied typically failure is seen in the above ground features of a splash deck, which 33 could involve vandalism or cracking. These pieces can easily be replaced. If the splash deck 3d receives poor maintenance there could be failure associated with frost in the winter, which would 35 involve replacing the piping underground. She indicated she has not seen a pump fail yet, but 36 splash decks have not been around for very long. The things exposed to the elements would 37 likely be the first to fail. There are only three above grade features in this project and several 38 surface mounted nozzles, so there are not many things that could fail due to climate issues. She 39 indicated that both stainless steel and fiber reinforced plastic piping were approved in the specs. do Further discussion would be needed with the contractor about the piping that was specified in the 41 contract. 42 43 Councilmember Roth stated at the open house in December there was quite a bit of discussion 44 around the materials that would be used on the building. I Ic inquired what the final 45 determination was regarding building materials on the roo'f', flooring and outer exterior. Ms. d6 Garbarini provided an overview of the materials included in the project.