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Brookfield panel backs review of White & Company contract for Creekide Park grant after trustees press for clearer construction management
Summary
At a July 28 Committee of the Whole meeting, Brookfield staff recommended awarding a design-and-construction-management contract to White & Company for the Creekide Park OLAD grant and asked to waive bidding; trustees asked staff to clarify construction-management duties and plant-maintenance plans before the board acts and the committee voted to enter executive session on real property.
Brookfield’s Committee of the Whole met on Monday evening to discuss staff’s recommendation to hire White & Company for the Creekide Park OLAD grant project and to waive the competitive-bidding process. Parks and Recreation Director Luke Gunderson told trustees the grant — awarded in 2024 — covers a Phase 1 package that includes “a playground designed for ages 2 to 12, a picnic shelter, a restroom building, game tables and baggo boards with native plants and removal of invasive species along the river's edge.”
Staff said White & Company helped prepare the successful grant application and that the firm’s proposed design fee (reported around 10 percent) is below the Department of Natural Resources’ maximum of 15.5 percent; familiarity with the project was cited as a reason to request a waiver of the normal bidding process. Luke Gunderson said the firm’s scope will be…
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