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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 18,2012 Page 12 sky Management LLC regarding the purchase of land for roads and utilities in the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area; and authorizing execution of the Agree- ment by the Mayor and City Manager. Roll Call Ayes: Willmus; Johnson; Roe; Pust; and McGehee. Nays: None. c. Request Rejection and Seek Rebid Approval for Four Contracts within Package#2 Fire Chief Tim O'Neill, with some members of the Fire Station Design Team, provided information on the impacts of the delay in resolution of the pending litigation. Chief O'Neill advised that they were not recommending award of any contracts associated with Bid Package#2 at this time. Chief O'Neill further advised that they were requesting that the City formally reject four of the con- tracts and authorization to rebid four of the contracts since engineering and ma- terial changes had been made to reduce the overall estimated amount of the con- tracts. Discussion among Councilmembers and the Construction/Design Team includ- ed potential return on investment for mechanical systems; projected annual en- ergy costs and/or savings and conservation efforts; the geothermal system and contract in relationship to the plumbing/heating piping and whether considera- tion should be given to allocation of the costs more specifically between the fire station and other portions of the campus; efficiencies or inefficiencies in the current geothermal system; challenges and more expenses for a stand-alone geo- thermal system for the fire station, due to the lack of space on that site for addi- tional wells; and options based on attempting to achieve the LEED silver stand- ard through immediate or future connections. Further discussion included impacts to contractual obligations in following rec- ommendations in the staff report to accept and/or rebid portions of the Bid Package; a review of Alternative Ten (10) detailed options; and direction to staff to pursue an alternate action on the geothermal portion of the project at this time through this requested action. Fire Chief O'Neill advised that the team would attempt to break out the bids more and review those challenges in doing so, providing further detail to the City Council at a future date. Councilmember Pust opined that, if the City couldn't afford to connect the en- tire campus with a geothermal system at this time, it was realistic to consider that it wouldn't be feasible in the future either.