The City has worked for a number of years on creating a plan for Downtown improvements and WSB has completed 50% plans.  City staff would like to have the City's Construction Manager as Agent work with WSB to ensure that the project is brought in on budget and can be completed before the end of this year. This is a complicated project since it includes work in a highway, paving, landscaping, specialty paving and coordination with property owners and businesses.  It will also include working on construction of the concrete alley that will be part of a Special Assessment.

Four firms submitted qualifications and fee outlines.  They were:

Loeffler Construction

CPMI

RJM Construction

Terranova

RJM is currently working on completing construction work on the Community Center.  They are also the Construction Manager on call for a number of cities in the region and have substantial experience successfully managing public improvement projects.

RJM proposed a fee not to exceed $98,000 that includes preconstruction services, value engineering, bidding, construction and project management. They proposed to include within their fee a performance payment of $10,000 should the project be built on time and budget to the City's satisfaction. Payment of said performance payment would be at the discretion of the City.