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i\RDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL -1\PRIL 30, 2007 4 B. Motion to approye the Contract dated April 23. 2007 with SRF Consultin!! Group. Inc.. for the Completion of the Alternatiye Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) Relatln!! 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 cenduct the Alternative Urban Areawide Review relating to the proposed TCAAP redevelepment 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. Hewever, she called the Council's attention te the attachments, particularly the schedule. She noted this appeared to be a nine menth contract, but looking at the timing of their estimated hours, she was concerned about number 1.0. She neted there were 776 hours devoted to meetings while item number 2.4 pertaining te the contaminated property 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 neted traffic was given 124 heurs, which was important, but given the amount of C0ntaminatien 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 te reC0nsider their time allocation. She stated this was problematic from her perspective. Mayor Harpstead asked if the deliverable was the C0mpleted document. Ms. Barton responded that was cerrect. Mayor Harpstead neted the hours were estimated and the goal was the completed document. Councilmember Grant agreed the deliverable had to be met, which was the crux efthe AUAR. Councilmember Holmes agreed this was an estimate, but she was cencerned the ameunt estimated for meetings was so much greater than the amount devoted to enviroumental. Councilmember Grant stated that concerned him also and perhaps SEH had not been brought up to date as to the level of contaminatien. 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 medeling. Ms. Barton responded that was cerrect. Mayor Harpstead stated staff was concerned that they were not moving ahead on the 1\UAR and this needed to be dene 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 aleng. She stated they could ask them to prepare some sort of a written summary, which would explain this in further detail.