Finance Committee - 7/19/2017 Page 10
Alderman Cookson
They did part of it for a very long time already, correct?
Ms. Osborne
Since the beginning of 2015, | believe.
Alderman Cookson
My last question was obviously we’re going to be paying them a healthy sum of money to primarily project
manage. The two errors that are within this contract don’t lend a lot of faith in my mind to their ability to find the
minute details. Huge project. | don’t know who was responsible for the contract. I’m not sure how this got
before a finance committee without anybody seeing it prior to the finance committee.
Mr. Kooken
| was sent a document on the 5", the date of our last meeting, that actually had the corrections on them. |
didn’t put two and two together that this is different from what | have. When | looked at the contract, | looked it
over. | didn’t read every page. | said, | already have this document. At the time of the last meeting, we
actually did have the corrected numbers. They were aware and they had been corrected.
Alderman Cookson
These two pages you presented to us this evening were from the document that you received on the 5"" of this
month?
Mr. Kooken
Correct.
Alderman Cookson
The highlighting you provided, is that correct, Mr. Kooken?
Mr. Kooken
Yes.
Alderman Cookson
May | ask a question with regard to the estimated project schedule, the final figure on the last page? Final
design, they have between July, 2017 to November, 2017, but they don’t necessarily specify the 60 percent,
the 90 percent review meetings, the NH DES permit applications, and the 100 percent bid documents
complete. Will we know in more detail when those activities are going to take place within these five months?
Ms. Osborne
When we have the final contract to go, we will sit down. We will have a project meeting and we usually set the
deadlines at that point. We will have a better idea when we have the final approvals for this.
Alderman Cookson
The same thing for bidding. Is that correct, or is bidding a reaction to the previous final design work and the
regulatory review?
