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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 6, 2015 Page 4 Councilmember Laliberte questioned if the City should have such a policy in place based on a specific department and/or project. Mayor Roe suggested this was more of a question for the City Council than for City Manager Trudgeon. Specific to the Wagner Lift Station, Councilmember Laliberte questioned if the cost of developing plans and specifications had been budgeted for or if those costs were folded into the overall bid. City Manager Trudgeon responded it had not been part of the bid, but was an ad- ditional project cost; with the construction bid coming in higher than the actual engineer's estimate. Since it was a project already planned, Councilmember Laliberte asked if those costs were covered for that development work. City Manager Trudgeon responded generally, with every project, the design work was part of the overall cost and therefore factored into estimates. However, Mr. Trudgeon noted that the bid climate had recently gone up significantly. At the request of Mayor Roe, Public Works Director/Engineer Marc Culver apol- ogized for not breaking down those design costs in the Request for Council Ac- tion (RCA), as had been done in the upcoming I-35W Interchange project, show- ing the breakdown of consultant fees compared to overall project costs. Histori- cally as part of this Wagner Lift Station project, Mr. Culver advised that in March, the City Council approved the firm of Bolton & Menk, Inc. to develop plans and specifications to reconstruction the lift station, as well as their oversight of the work, with bids for the work itself subsequently received on June 17, 2015. On a related note, Mr. Culver advised that the firm of S.E.H. had been retained for the same consultant work and oversight for the St. Croix Stormwater Lift Station Project, coming before the City Council for bid award in the near future. Mr. Culver advised that he would make sure the budget breakdown was provided in that RCA. For both projects, Mr. Culver advised that funding would come from the respective enterprise funds as applicable; and as noted by City Manager Trudgeon, agreed with his comments about the current bidding climate. Howev- er, given the age of this lift station, even though the bids had come in higher than anticipated, Mr. Culver opined it was worth updating the facility. As indicated in the RCA, page 1, Mayor Roe noted the original estimated cost of $280,000 for the project, and actual construction and engineering proposals of over $294,702.61. Mayor Roe asked if the additional cost above the construction bid amount of$268,000 was representative of the engineering costs (approximate- ly$28,000). I