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South Bend Commission Regular Mee �edevelopment ing - December 4, 1981 9. NEXT COOMISSION MEETING (continued) I Mr. Butler: Was to award the bid to... Ms. Der eck: And it will be awarded if the papers are in order. Mr. Nim z: It will be ratified and confirmed. Mr. Butler: Yes, it will be ratified. It has been awarded subject simply to the determination that the documents are fully ir order, the documents submitted, the bid documents. Ms. Der eck: That will be studied by you and by the staff? Mr. Butler: Yes. Mr. Nim z: David? Mr. And rson: My next question then would be, when would demolition begin. Mr. Nim z: Under the contract they have so many days with which t ... Mr. McMahon: They have a few days to mobilize. We would ask that they would begin because we again have a, we would ask that they go up immediately and remove some of the things that we feel are going to drop, such as the wrought iron work and a good deal of the terra cotta. They may wish to, it's not unusual for a demolition contractor to go in and get some salvage out of the building before he brings the wrecking ball to it. We'd asked them to ad- dress a number of the liability things that we are con- cerned a.bout immediately. Mr. And rson: We're looking at 27, 28, 26 days no matter how you want to count it before the beginning of a new year when the new law goes into effect regarding the Mayor and Council appointments of Redevelopment, which then ki d of bens the question that if demolition hasn't begun, nd if indeed there'd be a new commission, could we see reversal of this situation? Mr. McM hon: I think you can rest assured that the demo- lition vill have begun. Mr. Butler: David, unless, and my understanding is that the bidders were made fully aware that if the decision was made to demolish, the bid awarded, that they would have to proceed quickly. I don't know if you were here 36