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Council declines to authorize contract development for current City Hall design proposal
Summary
After debate over prior vetting and public concern about competitive bidding, the City Council voted against moving forward with ISG design work toward a contract, leaving the project on hold.
The City Council voted not to move forward with the current City Hall design proposal, after members raised concerns about not soliciting new bids for the work and about the size of the design contract.
Councilors and staff reviewed the proposal from ISG, an engineering and architectural firm that previously worked on the city's space-needs and preliminary design efforts. ISG representatives described earlier work dating to a 2019 space-needs study and follow-up structural analyses and construction-manager support. Staff said the current step would be to accept ISG's proposal and then develop a contract for the council to consider.
Why it mattered: several council members said residents and local firms had questioned…
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