Council approves change order adding third elevator; sprinkler retrofit prompts transparency requests
Council approved a $2.16 million increase (covering the third elevator payment) and a change order related to the downtown parking garage project; council members asked staff to benchmark and return with comparison bids after an automatic sprinkler design raised an estimated $700,000 contingency expenditure.
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The council on Oct. 21 approved a change order and additional expenditure to cover the construction cost of a third elevator in the downtown parking garage and voted to increase the contract amount accordingly. Separately, staff told council an automatic fire-suppression (sprinkler) system had been added to the garage design after code changes and recent parking-garage fires elsewhere; staff said the sprinkler retrofit will cost roughly $700,000 and would be taken from contingency funds.
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