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Assembly balks at reimbursing Providence for redesigns after staff review of facility-cost spreadsheet
Summary
Assembly members expressed concern after staff found a 2020 cost appendix for Providence projects; project manager Cody Allen said several requested upgrades exceed like-for-like replacements and the assembly agreed not to reimburse redesigns beyond approved phase gates while seeking follow-up negotiation with Providence.
Kodiak Island Borough staff presented the assembly on March 26 with an archived 2020 engineering appendix and an associated spreadsheet that lists opinions of probable cost for a set of Providence hospital projects. Project manager Cody Allen told the assembly the document generally reflects plausible costs but that some Providence requests appear to expand scope beyond the lease’s ‘‘like-for-like’’ replacement language.
Allen urged caution: some requested items looked more like capacity upgrades than routine renewal, and the borough’s review found instances where Providence had…
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