Special Board of Aldermen 11-22-2021 Page 7
Lisa Fauteux, Public Works Director
Yes, we did do a comprehensive traffic study and it is posted on our website under the Division of Public Works
website.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you. Also | think the heavy trucks we're talking about are already there. There's none that are going to be
stored in this building. There are no additional trucks going to be there because all the offices are going out there.
The trucks are all stored there now. You want to address that Director Fauteux.
Lisa Fauteux, Public Works Director
Certainly. So that's correct. The Street Department trucks will remain at the Street Department. The addition will be
the parking. There will be some vehicles from Park and Rec that will be moved over but the Solid Waste vehicles
already exist in that location.
Chairman Dowd
Thank you. Anyone else want to speak in opposition? Seeing none, I'll now close the public hearing on R-21-190 at
7:29 p.m.
The next Resolution is R-21-191 Changing the Purpose of $2 Million of Unexpended Bond Proceeds from the Broad
Street Parkway Project to the Division of Public Works Office Facility Project. Any additional information that wants to
be presented? No. All right.
R-21-191
CHANGING THE PURPOSE OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS ($2,000,000) OF UNEXPENDED BOND PROCEEDS
FROM THE BROAD STREET PARKWAY PROJECT TO THE DIVISION OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE
FACILITY PROJECT
TESTIMONY IN FAVOR - None
TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION
Laurie Ortolano
Laurie Ortolano, 41 Berkeley Street. | could use some assistance. | have been looking at the boilerplate contract that
was given to the board members and was on the finance page. It's the AIA Contract regarding this project. Section
5.2 guarantee maximum price states that price set forth in the guaranteed maximum price amendment, as it is
amended from time to time. So it calls upon an amendment that's attached to the boilerplate and | haven't been able
to find the amendment. | wrote today to CFO Griffin and asked him if he could help me with that. But that
amendment is where there might be a force majeure clause called out and | want to understand a little more about
what guaranteed maximum price really means in these contracts. Because ordinarily there would be a force majeure
clause in there to allow that ceiling to go up in the event of unforeseen circumstances such as COVID and the
situation that's occurred.
I'm concerned that we put all our eggs in one basket. Harvey is a great company but they're doing the school.
They're doing this office facility and they're doing the art center. Leadership here will tell you they're incurring all the
risk. It's a maximum guaranteed price. So you know what if something goes wrong, they're gonna eat it. If there's a
cost overrun, that's 15% deleted. Well when you look at roughly projects that are $150 million, are they going to eat
$20 - 25 million? | tend to doubt that but | want to understand where this amendment is and it's nowhere to be found.
| think it's something we have to look at. Yeah I'm really concerned by that. Did board members receive the
amendment to the document the boilerplate document so that you could see what the specific contract is regarding
GMP?
Chairman Dowd
| believe the committee's involved receive it. | know Infrastructure and then the construction committee received. I'm
not sure about anyone else.
