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6. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd shoul be paid for their work. President Helmen said the initi 1 Mall design was done and we have it; however, this porti n of the design was omitted. In this amendment, Article VI -F shall be revised to read that the total compensation paid the consultant for Phase II in their contract shall not exceed the following maximum sums based upon projected cost of $4,900,000 using data from current Contract No. 2 and No. 5 for completing the entire project. Sery es included in Phase 11: $382,200. On mo ion by Rev. Williams, seconded by Mr. Chenney and unani- mouslY carried, the amendment to contract for professional services was authorized, as noted above, and the President and Secretary authorized to execute. e Change Order No. 8 to Contract No. 5, Phase III: CHANGE ORDER NO. 8 This dontract is with The Hickey Company, Inc., and the TO CONTRACT NO. 5, Chang Order is for an increase in contract amount of PHASE III, R -66 $16,579.00, for permanent traffic signals at Western Avenu and the new Pedestrian Way intersection, R -66. In thE interest of keeping costs to a minimum, the original conce t was to provide a pedestrian crossing at the inter secti n of new St. Joseph Street and Western Avenue. In re- viewi g the original concept existing (now corrected with tempo ary signals) in the construction stage, it was deter- mined not to be the best practical solution for the follow- ing reasons: 1) Pedestrian inconvenience. 2) Inconvenient access to present and future retail business from north side of Western Avenue to the south side. 3) Inherently pedestrian safety will be improved with the revised signalization plan. In st dying the situation and reviewing with Mr. Clem Hazinski, City lraffic Engineer, an agreement has been reached that the intersection warrants an expenditure of $16,579.00 to improve pedestrian traffic flow across the intersection, north and south, through the west side of the pedestrian way area. Mr. Slabaugh said the concern with the original signalization plan was with cars coming through which created an optical illu- sion ind the pedestrians were walking in- between. Originally it wa planned to take all pedestrian traffic off the sidewalk and tie pedestrians were to walk around St. Joseph Street to get acros Western Avenue. Retailers and the workmen called this to our a tention concerning the pedestrians and traffic. This was origi ally planned this way by our consultants for the Mall to cut c sts. They had recommended, and are recommending, two sets