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7. NEW BUSINESS (Cont'd involved a budget in excess of $400,000.00, and that they had t immed this down at the time the HUD grant actually came t rough- -the Amendatory Grant. Mr. Lawson said they decided tc organize the contract to make a basic contract, or a base bid that would be within the budget, and then put a number of alternates in - -in addition to the base - -and then depending u on what the final bid was, they tried to carry out our in- t nt - -the intent of the original planning on this park, by putting back the best combination of all the items - -of all the alternates with the best bid - -so they found several logi c 1 alternates to pull out, and these are primarily surge or i terest areas within the park. It is an axial park that runs for over three blocks along the river. Along the main path, t ere are various interest areas that have been designed into the park. They include benches, overlooks simply textured a eas with exposed aggregate or brick -- things to just add i terest along the main path. Alternates "A" through "M" are primarily these interest modules, or these special featured areas. The Module 'AAA' is an area that has eight (8) low benches, a considerable amount of brick paving and concrete brick border area adja- cent to the main path. It is an interesting item - -it's about h if way down between the Pedestrian Bridge, which is the old' r ilroad bridge and the total lot, which is clear down toward the e d of the Park - -at the South end - -the Jefferson Plaza. There's ar exposed aggregate alternate up by the Jefferson Bridge. We dc have quite a Plaza area with tables, chairs and retaining w lls, planted areas - -they are featured with brick and timber j st above a series of floating docks that are right down on t e River. T is Alternate "J" is simply substituting the softer, exposed a gregate, textured, poured asphalt, which was in the base bid, s we are going from brick asphalt to an exposed aggregate. T e map of the River Corridor and Master Plan was brought into t e meeting which showed the features of the Park and accessi- bility to the Riverscape. mmissioner Wade brought up his concern about the lights. The . 1 potential problem is vandalism and lighting is very impor- nt for security. Lighting is very important and he suggested mething else be found to delete other than the lights. Mr. Lawson advised they did quite a bit of research on the lights a d had actually brought the fixtures in and did quite an exten- sive background research on security, light levels, etc. They tried to put together a park that had as many of the original features as possible. The electrical is one item -- fortunately o unfortunately- -that is every easily pulled out as opposed t tampering with excavation or change or:interrupt a path, or n t make a path continuous for the full length. Their thought