Finance Committee — 08/04/2021 Page 15
Kim Kleiner, Director of Administrative Services
We did.
Alderwoman Lu
Changes there too. Okay.
Kim Kleiner, Director of Administrative Services
So Mayor Donchess. There were some additional fire suppression and some fire alarm apparatus that were
added to the plan after working with the Fire Marshal. We had to add those to the City Clerk's area. There
were some also added to Motor Vehicles. The City Clerk area additions require that electrical panel to have a
booster in order to fit the supply.
Alderwoman Lu
| just, you know, | have to ask how we didn't we couldn't predict that but | don't know how that's done. So may
| follow up?
Mayor Donchess
Yes.
Alderwoman Lu
I'm just wondering. | know we're not voting on this because it's under $25,000, | assume.
Mayor Donchess
Yes.
Alderwoman Lu
But is it - it doesn't seem — okay - granted there is a reduction because did somebody not get plexiglass
barriers on their desks or did...?
Kim Kleiner, Director of Administrative Services
That is correct. So the changes that were made to the specifications for the City Clerk's area required less
plexiglass needed. There was also less plexiglass needed in Assessing earlier on. | do, | do Alderwoman Lu
understand | think where you're coming from. Unfortunately | have to kind of caution when you open up a
building of this age, there are things that you are going to find that no architect or no engineer could have
predicted. We found those when we did this Chamber and we found those throughout this project. I'll give you
a for instance. It's one of the earlier change orders. When we opened the wall in Assessing between the
Assessing Office and the main hallway, we realized that's a fire rated wall. We realized those pipes and up
above in the ceiling had not been protected and had to now look to - Alderman O’Brien who knows more about
this than | do - they had not been insulated properly with fire rated protection. We can't move forward at that
point. We have to complete that even though that may not have been done originally correctly. So with a
building of this age you're going to find those things and we had an excellent architect that sat with us through
every meeting of this project and he and his mechanical staff looked at every change that DL King brought to
us and we relied heavily on their expertise.
