HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/14/94COUNCIL WORK SESSION
April 14, 1994
4:00 p.m.
First Floor Conference Room
Members present: Mayor Rooff, Anders, Getty, Krizek, Jordan,
Mollenhoff.
Members absent: Murphy, Collier.
Moved by Mollenhoff, seconded by Jordan that the Agenda, as
proposed, be approved. Ayes: Five. Absent: Murphy, Collier.
Motion carried.
Agenda items for the council meeting to be held on Monday, April
18, 1994 were reviewed and discussed with representatives from
departments who placed items on the agenda.
Item No. 8 under "Documents" regarding Shaulis Road Reconstruction
and Change Order No. 12 that the federal government has built on,
that this be placed on the agenda as a federal incentive mandated
increase for work performed.
Collier now present at 4:31 p.m.
Item No. 10 - Resolution to authorize staff to proceed with
additional consultant agreement regarding Water Pollution Control
improvements.
Mayor Rooff reported RUST representatives had met with him today
and recommended that a list of three value engineering firms be
presented to the council to review the work they have already done
on the sewer design instead of hiring a second competing firm as
they feel they have done nothing wrong.
City Attorney Jim Walsh stated that these firms are nationally
respected firms. He feels if we get a value engineering firm,
nationally recognized and not a competitor with RUST, to come in
and review this project, say it needs tweaked or not tweaked,
everybody is going to be more comfortable. He stated a value
engineering company would make recommendations to improve the RUST
concept and would avoid a bidding war between RUST and RCM
Engineering
Councilperson Anders said he wants to see what RCM Engineering
could come up with in 30 days. At the end of that time, the city
would decide which firm would get the design contract. He stated
RUST has diagnosed the plant and recognized the problems and now we
are just asking for a second opinion. It gives us more information
to make a business decision that we can feel confident with.
Mayor Rooff stated a bid by RCM to get the design contract by
undercutting RUST's cost estimate could be bad for the City, and he
could not live with that. The Mayor felt we have a concept that
none of us are 100 percent convinced is the concept. This decision
is the single most important issue that this council will address
in the next two years and everybody has to be brought up to the
same speed.
Moved by Krizek, seconded by Getty that the meeting be adjourned at
5:27 p.m. Ayes: Six. Absent: Murphy. Motion carried.
Tom Campbell
Acting Clerk/Auditor