Redevelopment Approves Change Order To Save $400K
August 4, 2020 at 4:10 a.m.
By David [email protected]
In presenting change order No. 2 for the project, City Planner Jeremy Skinner said, “Much like we talked about last year when we awarded this project, there were some changes we were going to make because the original contract amount was for $2,511,264.30.”
The first change order was a deduction in $14,428.50.
“This (second) change order encompasses the balk of the changes to the plans, the big one being we deleted the ... original pavilion that was designed, and we inserted another pavilion. It’s a little bit more cost-effective, but it still has the same look we were going for,” Skinner said.
The pavilion is not the Center Lake Pavilion.
He said they worked with the Parks Department and Superintendent Larry Plummer and they reviewed a lot of different options.
“We found a pavilion that we’re really happy with and still has the same character that we were wanting to go with, but a significant cost reduction,” Skinner said.
The original pavilion cost was around $414,000, but the new one is around $110,000 plus $14,000 in additional lighting and $13,000 in additional earth work. Skinner said the total cost will be around $135-$140,000 for the new pavilion.
“So when you subtract off the original pavilion at $414,000, and then the new pavilion, it’s a pretty significant cost reduction,” Skinner said.
He said there are some additional cost reductions in the second change order, like pavers for the bulk of the concrete walking path being switched to stamped concrete.
“We changed the handrails a little bit. We did go to a non-lit handrail in some of the sections. We still will have a luminated handrail on the boardwalk sections, but the non-boardwalk sections will not have luminated handrails,” Skinner said.
When all is said and done, he said the change order reduced the original contract from a little over $2.5 million to $2,196,480.80.
Commission member Mike Klondaris asked what the timeline for the project was. Skinner said it was supposed to be done by October, but that will probably be extended out a bit.
“Both the pavilion and the deck structure, because of COVID, their time frames are out. The leave on the deck structure is 15 weeks because the plant that makes the structure has been shut down. So they’re 15 weeks out on supply with the product. We’re running into similar issues with the pavilion. So right now, it’s hopeful that it will be done by the end of the year,” Skinner said.
After the Commission approved the change order, it then approved amendment 8 to the engineering agreement with American Structurepoint Inc. for the Buffalo Street reconstruction project.
Skinner said the amendment was for “what I would call construction engineering. Basically, this is for them to oversee any changes to the project, and there have been a few obviously.” He said they’re trying to use them as little as possible, with city engineer James Emans doing most of the work. The additional cost for the oversight is $36,600.
Then Skinner requested a transfer of $50,000 in the redevelopment general fund to professional services to cover the additional engineering professional services needed for the plaza. The commission approved the transfer, which also was scheduled to go before the Warsaw Common Council at its meeting Monday night.
The board also approved claims, including: $13,575.66 for A & Z Engineering for ongoing engineering for CRs 300N and 200N projects; $100,138.50 for Selge for the Buffalo Street Plaza, with money still coming from the Regional Cities grant; $67,000 for OrthoWorx for the Redevelopment Commission’s five-year agreement with it; $260 for Barnes & Thornburg for legal services for the Northern TIF District; $2,643.25 for Wessler Engineering for ongoing engineering at the Airport Industrial Park; and $4,548.60 for G & G Hauling & Excavating for work on a culver pipe at Rainbow Drive at the new Airport Industrial Park.
The remainder of the claims – $33.09 for Mid City Supply, $110.05 for Babsco, $48.99 for Builders Mart, $44.50 for Babsco, $95.12 for Kendall Electric and Babsco for $406.62 – Skinner stopped to explain how they were part of the plaza project.
“As part of the plaza project, the Parks Department has a sprinkler system that feeds the entire Central Park and waters all the grounds, that comes out of Center Lake,” Skinner said. “That pump sits on the edge of the plaza and was in the way of the wall structure for the boardwalk and needed to be relocated. In conversations with them, the relocation costs were going to be pretty significant, somewhere in the $30,000 mark. And just relocating the pipe and the electrical was going to be $15-$18,000 to do that.”
He said after conversations with Emans and Plummer, they decided to try to do that work in-house to save some costs.
“I agreed to pay for the materials to do that work. The Parks Department is doing the work itself, and we think it should cost us somewhere between $7-$10,000 rather than the $30,000 it was going to cost,” Skinner said.
In presenting change order No. 2 for the project, City Planner Jeremy Skinner said, “Much like we talked about last year when we awarded this project, there were some changes we were going to make because the original contract amount was for $2,511,264.30.”
The first change order was a deduction in $14,428.50.
“This (second) change order encompasses the balk of the changes to the plans, the big one being we deleted the ... original pavilion that was designed, and we inserted another pavilion. It’s a little bit more cost-effective, but it still has the same look we were going for,” Skinner said.
The pavilion is not the Center Lake Pavilion.
He said they worked with the Parks Department and Superintendent Larry Plummer and they reviewed a lot of different options.
“We found a pavilion that we’re really happy with and still has the same character that we were wanting to go with, but a significant cost reduction,” Skinner said.
The original pavilion cost was around $414,000, but the new one is around $110,000 plus $14,000 in additional lighting and $13,000 in additional earth work. Skinner said the total cost will be around $135-$140,000 for the new pavilion.
“So when you subtract off the original pavilion at $414,000, and then the new pavilion, it’s a pretty significant cost reduction,” Skinner said.
He said there are some additional cost reductions in the second change order, like pavers for the bulk of the concrete walking path being switched to stamped concrete.
“We changed the handrails a little bit. We did go to a non-lit handrail in some of the sections. We still will have a luminated handrail on the boardwalk sections, but the non-boardwalk sections will not have luminated handrails,” Skinner said.
When all is said and done, he said the change order reduced the original contract from a little over $2.5 million to $2,196,480.80.
Commission member Mike Klondaris asked what the timeline for the project was. Skinner said it was supposed to be done by October, but that will probably be extended out a bit.
“Both the pavilion and the deck structure, because of COVID, their time frames are out. The leave on the deck structure is 15 weeks because the plant that makes the structure has been shut down. So they’re 15 weeks out on supply with the product. We’re running into similar issues with the pavilion. So right now, it’s hopeful that it will be done by the end of the year,” Skinner said.
After the Commission approved the change order, it then approved amendment 8 to the engineering agreement with American Structurepoint Inc. for the Buffalo Street reconstruction project.
Skinner said the amendment was for “what I would call construction engineering. Basically, this is for them to oversee any changes to the project, and there have been a few obviously.” He said they’re trying to use them as little as possible, with city engineer James Emans doing most of the work. The additional cost for the oversight is $36,600.
Then Skinner requested a transfer of $50,000 in the redevelopment general fund to professional services to cover the additional engineering professional services needed for the plaza. The commission approved the transfer, which also was scheduled to go before the Warsaw Common Council at its meeting Monday night.
The board also approved claims, including: $13,575.66 for A & Z Engineering for ongoing engineering for CRs 300N and 200N projects; $100,138.50 for Selge for the Buffalo Street Plaza, with money still coming from the Regional Cities grant; $67,000 for OrthoWorx for the Redevelopment Commission’s five-year agreement with it; $260 for Barnes & Thornburg for legal services for the Northern TIF District; $2,643.25 for Wessler Engineering for ongoing engineering at the Airport Industrial Park; and $4,548.60 for G & G Hauling & Excavating for work on a culver pipe at Rainbow Drive at the new Airport Industrial Park.
The remainder of the claims – $33.09 for Mid City Supply, $110.05 for Babsco, $48.99 for Builders Mart, $44.50 for Babsco, $95.12 for Kendall Electric and Babsco for $406.62 – Skinner stopped to explain how they were part of the plaza project.
“As part of the plaza project, the Parks Department has a sprinkler system that feeds the entire Central Park and waters all the grounds, that comes out of Center Lake,” Skinner said. “That pump sits on the edge of the plaza and was in the way of the wall structure for the boardwalk and needed to be relocated. In conversations with them, the relocation costs were going to be pretty significant, somewhere in the $30,000 mark. And just relocating the pipe and the electrical was going to be $15-$18,000 to do that.”
He said after conversations with Emans and Plummer, they decided to try to do that work in-house to save some costs.
“I agreed to pay for the materials to do that work. The Parks Department is doing the work itself, and we think it should cost us somewhere between $7-$10,000 rather than the $30,000 it was going to cost,” Skinner said.
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