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Approval of Amendment No. 1 to Service Agreement No. AGR 21-45 with Mullen Heller Architecture, PC for Additional Design Services and a Revised Amount of $400,000 plus applicable Gross Receipts Tax for WAC Design and Historic Registration Services; and Related Budget Revision 2023-34 in the amount of $50,000
Recommended Action
I move that Council approve Amendment No. 1 to Services Agreement No. AGR 21-45 with Mullen Heller Architecture, PC for Additional Design Services and a Revised Amount of $400,000 plus applicable Gross Receipts Tax for WAC Design and Historic Registration Services.
I further move that Council approve related Budget Revision 2023-34 in the amount of $50,000 and that it be included in the minutes as an attachment.
County Manager’s Recommendation
The County Manager recommends that Council approve the motion as presented.
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On July 1, 2021, the County executed agreement AGR 21-45 (Attachment A) with Mullen Heller Architecture, PC for WAC Design and Historic Registration Services in the amount of $350,000.
Since that time, the design team obtained public input through a series of public meetings and developed four concepts with estimated costs. On July 12, 2022, these four concepts and associated costs were presented to Council. At this meeting Council selected Conceptual Design Option 1A to proceed to final design. The projected cost of this option totaled $3.1M which exceeded the original target budget of $2.5M, due to a separate exterior restroom facility proposed that allowed for more programming space within the existing floorplan and better maintained the interior fabric of the building.
As the original contract did not contemplate the design effort of a separate restroom facility, additional services are required to complete final design associated with the Council selected option as detailed in Amendment No. 1 (Attachment B).
Funding for design of the project is comprised of $350,000 in FY 2021 CIP funds. The ori...
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