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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 2, 2019 Page 19 Councilmember Willmus thanked Mr. Culver for the presentation. He explained Mr. Culver has spoken to one of the criteria, specifically the narrative that Mr. Culver stated LHB did a better job on than the other proposers. He asked Mr. Culver to speak to the experience of the project managers, for example, that might be as part of the BKB Group versus LHB. Mr. Culver explained staff felt that Mike Lamb, overall, was probably a better project lead for this effort as Mr. Lamb specifically has experience with particu- larly college campuses but some larger campus planning efforts. It is not to say that BKV does not have the necessary experience but staff felt both with Mike's experience outside, as well as the experience with the City of Roseville and staffs expectations for engagement, and his work within the Twin Lakes area as well as the Arona-Hamline area, which was a value to staff. Councilmember Willmus noted the city is quite familiar with LHB and one of the items that gives him pause is with the LHB proposal, their engagement piece is WSB and going through the city's Comprehensive Plan and looking at some of the struggles the city had with that particularly engagement, where Council would provide direction and then a few weeks later, Council had to restate some of those very same concerns, which is a concern to him. He asked what assurances are there that those sorts of things are not going to happen with this process. Mr. Culver thought the major difference between what the city experienced dur- ing the Comprehensive Plan process versus this, is that LHB will actually be the project lead whereas WSB was the project lead in the Comprehensive Plan effort. Also, Lydia Major, who everyone has had very good experience with particularly with the Park Master Plan process and some other elements, will essentially be in charge of the engagement piece and using WSB for some of menial engagement work as far as staff can see it from the proposal. He stated staff has a level of comfort with Ms. Major managing that process. The process and number of meetings, spacing of meetings, is also laid out in the workplan. Staff will also be meeting with LHB early on in the process to tweak that and finetune the particu- lars. There are two major elements for the engagement piece and that is internal engagement, making sure that all of the departments have the opportunity to make sure that their current and future needs are documented, and LHB has a very good interview process laid out as far as interviewing staff and doing web interviews prior to those interviews and also collecting that data. But, the other group staff is interested in engaging is the stakeholders, both the tenants at the current retail center as well as the VFW. LHB will work directly with those stakeholders as well. Councilmember Willmus noted LHB has certainly highlighted their engagement piece and BKV was looking at that as an add-on. He wondered how much that add-on was.