Finance Committee - 02/17/2021 Page 11
to be in Phase II, plus they are going to do some changes that we have requested before we put it out to bid.
So we are hoping to go out to bid April 19"". The reason we have to use Woodard & Curran is because it’s an
SRF qualified loan and the State requires that the plans be stamped by the original designers.
Mayor Donchess
Alright, discussion/questions on this item? Alright could you please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Parking Study for the Elm & High Street Garages in the amount not to exceed $40,845 funded from account
55699 Other Contracted Services and 53142 Consulting Services
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE THE
CONTRACT WITH THORNTON TOMASETTI, INC., OF PORTLAND, ME, FOR AN EXISTING CONDITIONS
STUDY OF THE ELM AND HIGH STREET PARKING GARAGAES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$40,845.00. FUNDING WILL BE THROUGH DEPARTMENT 166 PARKING, BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
Alright is Mr. Cummings here?
Tim Cummings, Director of Community Development
lam, yes Mayor.
Mayor Donchess
Could you please brief us on this one?
Director Cummings
Yes certainly. So for the record Tim Cummings, Director of Economic Development. What you have before
you tonight is a contract as outlined in existing conditions type study basically on the deferred capital
maintenance on our two parking structures in our downtown; the High Street and Elm Street parking garages.
This item has been hanging out there for quite a while. We put an RFP out before COVID-19. We received
something like 5 or 6 responses; we narrowed it down to 2. We did two interviews; COVID hit, we pressed
pause on everything. To be clear this is not the parking study relative to best practices and looking at the
marketplace supply and demand. That’s a separate contract that we have already awarded. This is a very
specific contract that we wanted to pursue relative to the maintaining our capital assets.
