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MEMO DATE: February 22,2001 TO : Honorable Mayor and Council FROM: Jim March RE : Design Proposals ............................................................................ Included in your packet is a copy of proposals that have been received from Hokanson/Lunning/Wende Associates, Inc. and Sanders Wacker Bergly, Inc. I have also requested a proposal from Shea Architects, but I have not received anything from them at this point. Shea Architects is the firm that designed the County Bank. They did seem to be quite interested in submitting a proposal. If we determine that we are not interested in any actual building design components and we are just interested in pure streetscape enhancements our engineering firm of Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik and Associates has already provided some options. I have been told that Bonestroo also has an architectural division with landscape engineers on staff. I have asked Tom Peterson to have one oftheir landscape engineers contact me about providing a proposal. I did not want to have to pay for a proposal from Bonestroo when the other firms are providing proposals at no cost. We are to the point of calling for a public hearing for the downtown improvement project. I would recommend that the Council make the decision on selecting a firm within the next thirty days to coincide with the pace of potential development. I would recommend that we invite all interested committee members and the downtown revitalization sub-committee to the first Council meeting in March to listen to the firms presentations. I would anticipate that we would want to give approximately 10 minutes for possibly 2-3 firms to make a presentation to Council. If I receive any additional information prior to the Council meeting, I will have the information available for distribution as an FYI. At the next meeting, I think that we should just focus on the process that you may want to use to select a firm.