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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 12, 2011 Page 25 bidders at a significant savings. While expressing her support of the building plan, Councilmember McGehee requested consideration of such action to seek further savings. Councilmember Pust questioned if the contracts would come back before the City Council for their review; with Chief O'Neill advising that based on timing con- cerns,that was not intended; but that they would be working directly with the City Attorney with a standard service contract. Councilmember Pust sought assurance that, if there was any future parting of the ways, the contract provided for conflict resolution, as well as provisions related to earlier bond issue actions. Councilmember Pust further questioned how cost over- runs and/or change orders would be addressed or whether they would have a max- imum cap on them. To that extent, Councilmember Pust questioned the level of detail negotiated into a standard construction contract. Chief O'Neill advised that, for Phase II, the contract had yet to be drafted and the City Attorney would be consulted to address those specific questions brought forward by Councilmember Pust, as well as any other considerations. Chief O'Neill advised that current cost projections don't anticipate any change orders, however, those contingencies were built into the budget; and advised that the pur- pose of having a professional Construction Manager on the team was to ensure the project remained at or under budget. Councilmember Pust questioned the rationale in not providing the City Council a look at the contracts prior to them being signed; noting that the City's legal posi- tion had gotten more complicated with the recent bond issue and related litigation. Chief O'Neill advised that the concern was in the scheduling for the next City Council meeting in early 2012, while attempting to meet design phase and future bidding timelines. City Manager Malinen noted that addendums would be added to the standard con- tract to address those areas brought forward by Councilmember Pust, in addition to the liability insurance variable; and would be include in the Scope of Services as an addendum to standard contract language. Councilmember Pust opined that she would be more comfortable with a motion authorizing negotiations, with final contract review and approval by the City Council. City Attorney Gaughan suggested the motion do that, authorizing staff to negoti- ate the contract and include formal City Council approval on the January 9, 2012 Consent Agenda. Chief O'Neill, after consultation with the design team on the bidding schedule, advised that without approval to proceed as recommended in the RCA tonight, the project process would lose four(4) weeks.