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Council tables expanded riverfront design work after members question added fees
Summary
Councilmembers asked for a clearer breakdown of engineering versus additional design and visualization fees before approving an amendment to the design-services contract for the city-owned hydroelectric building; they tabled the amendment to the May 5 meeting.
WAVERLY, Iowa — The Waverly City Council voted Monday to table a proposed amendment to its design-services contract for investigating riverfront amenities around the historic hydroelectric building, after several council members questioned the scope and additional fees proposed by Slingshot Architecture and Bolton & Menk.
The amendment would have added investigative work upstream and downstream of the hydroelectric portion of the building, including subsurface and topographic investigation, to determine which riverfront amenities might be feasible. Staff said the effort would involve riverbed and soil borings, survey and structural engineering to define options.
Councilmember Brett (last name not provided in the transcript) and others said they were uncomfortable approving extra site-design and visualization work before…
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