Finance Committee - 02/17/2021 Page 13
Director Cummings
Yes, Alderman O’Brien. We are seeing some wear and tear particularly around the joints which is what we
want to make sure we have a good understanding of because the water damage gets through and starts at the
top and goes all the way through the structure.
Alderwoman Lu
Thank you Mayor Donchess. | have a couple of questions about how we will pay for it. But | wondered through
you to Director Cummins, would the people who are doing our parking study have been able to do this type of
thing or is this more of an engineering contract?
Director Cummings
Yes so the group that we hired, it would be a separate business unit within the company does offer this type of
service. So we could have pursued it and they were one of the respondents that actually put in a bid for the
proposal of this project.
Alderwoman Lu
OK and their price didn’t come out right?
Director Cummings
Well their price was cheaper than this contract but it wasn’t an apples to apples comparison because they
didn’t include everything that we were asking for in the proposal. They were going to not do “some new
testing”. They were going to use some old data that they had on file to make an assessment. So taking that
into consideration we felt it wasn’t the best way to move forward. That coupled with the interviews, there were
two interviews by various stakeholders within City Hall; Building Safety, Risk, Parking obviously, they felt that it
would be good to get a fresh set of eyes on this.
Alderwoman Lu
OK. The other question | have may be for Ms. Parkinson. What dollar amount is going to other contracted
services versus consulting. Do we have that breakdown? | know sometimes we are provided that. | just don’t
see $40,845.00 in other contracted services?
Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Other contracted services is $31,100.00. And consulting services is $9,745.00.
Alderwoman Lu
OK so the budget...
Director Cummings
Can we clarify that this prior escrows money. So we escrowed money for this initiative. So this is not in our
Operating Budget, to be clear.
Alderwoman Lu
Oh well, OK. Is it in a fund, a different fund that it is coming from?
