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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL—APRIL 30, 2007 4 B. Motion to approve the Contract dated April 23, 2007 with SRF Consulting Group, Inc., for the Completion of the Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) Relating to the TCAAP Redevelopment Project in an Amount Not to Exceed $250,000 Ms. Barton stated staff was recommending Council approve the contract with SRF Consulting Group, Inc. to conduct the Alternative Urban Areawide Review relating to the proposed TCAAP redevelopment in an amount not to exceed $250,000. Councilmember Holmes stated she had carefully reviewed the contract at the last meeting and the changes were adequate. However, she called the Council's attention to the attachments, particularly the schedule. She noted this appeared to be a nine month contract, but looking at the timing of their estimated hours, she was concerned about number 1.0. She noted there were 776 hours devoted to meetings while item number 2.4 was given 24 hours. She believed part of their study was to ensure the data accumulated was accurate and thorough and she did not believe 24 hours was sufficient to do this. She noted traffic was given 124 hours, which was important, but given the amount of contamination on the property there was a 100 hour difference. She asked if they want to send this back for more study or just suggest to the parties that they might need to reconsider their time allocation. She stated this was problematic from her perspective. Mayor Harpstead asked if the deliverable was the completed document. Ms. Barton responded that was correct. Mayor Harpstead noted the hours were estimated and the goal was the completed document. • Councilmember Grant agreed the deliverable had to be met, which was the crux of the AUAR. Councilmember Holmes agreed this was an estimate, but she was concerned the amount estimated for meetings was so much greater than the amount devoted to environmental. Councilmember Grant stated that concerned him also and perhaps SEH had not been brought up to date as to the level of contamination. Councilmember Holmes stated if they were not as up to date on this project as they should be, they might want to delay this and discuss it as a future worksession. Councilmember Holden asked if this was done based on modeling. Ms. Barton responded that was correct. Mayor Harpstead stated staff was concerned that they were not moving ahead on the AUAR and this needed to be done for the transfer of the land to the City. Ms. Wolfe stated they needed a development concept to work with and they would not have that until they moved forward with this. She believed this was the best estimate at this time and it would be adjusted as they proceeded along. She stated they could ask them to prepare some sort of a written summary, which would explain this in further detail. • Mayor Harpstead indicated that made sense.