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REGULAR MEETING OCTOBER 8, 2024 213 resources for the department heads to really try to find an agreement that was in line with what our Teamsters were looking for to get our get our agreements in line with where pay is strong. Many thanks to the leadership of the department heads and to Attorney Throw for bringing this together, but also to the mayor's team and the controller's office for finding a way to get this done. AGREEMENT/CONTRACTS/PROPOSALS/ADDENDA Mr. Gilot asked for details on item 9. B.: Ratify Emergency Contract for the Demolition of the Former YMCA Building to get it on the record since it is over a million dollars. Attorney Schmidt advised that we don't take lightly asking the Board to do an emergency project that is not in our right-of-way. This is one of the things that continuously stood out that I weighed in on how this settled under the law and when doing my analysis, we made repeated efforts to Board up this building to secure it. It was continuously broken into and we continuously found people inside. The condition of this facility is not only in bad shape, but there is also a pool with water. There is lots of debris, and there is no electricity. We were locking doors and we were nervous that we were potentially locking in people. It was a situation where we are spending time, money, and effort to secure and there were still repeated breaches of security and we just needed to address it or it would be acting negligent if we did not. What really stood out about this one is that we went above and beyond to try to secure and it didn't just fail once, it immediately failed every trip over there. We have noticed evidence of squatters or just curious onlookers and we just can not take that type of risk. It would create a whole host of other problems for the legal department for the city. CHANGE ORDERS Mr. Miller asked about the delay for item 6. C.: Raclin Murphy Encore Center with Larson Danielson Construction Company. Director Horvath explained that once we got to an agreement with LaSalle and Hoffman on the parking in order to access that site we had a certain amount of time, and we had to wait for them to actually relocate their parkers to our parking facility, so that was why we couldn't get them started until we had those parkers moved. In addition, there were times we had a blackout time where we were trying to do the switch over and we wanted to make sure we did not affect the theater itself because they are still running shows the whole time as things were being built. Then once it gets mostly built, we had to punch through and completely shut down operations, so those are the two (2) reasons that we had at the time. Attorney Schmidt advised that there were contractual agreements on that parking that we had to negotiate through. VP Molnar added that we're thankful that to Director Horvath's team, because the delay could have been longer. Director Horvath thanked VP Molnar, the people at Hoffman and LaSalle, and the Community Investment team who actually negotiated the agreement. AGREEMENT/CONTRACTS/PROPOSALS/ADDENDA Attorney Schmidt noted that for item 9. A.: Contract with Premier Magnesia for Odor Control Pilot Study Test to Provide Equipment and Magnesium Hydroxide for an Alternative Chemical Analysis for Hydrogen Sulfide Reduction in the IN Tek Sanitary Trunk Sewer, that he hadn't had a chance to investigate it fully, so he may have some comments at Tuesday's meeting. PROJECT COMPLETION AFFIDAVITS Attorney Schmidt advised that all the minority sub -contractors exceeded the MWBE goals on item 7. A.: LaSalle Park Improvements. Mr. Gilot asked if the equity office could send a letter thanking them for exceeding the goals so they might repeat that behavior. LICENSES AND PERMITS President Maradik noted that the date had passed for item 10. 6.: Street Closure for Stand by Me Walk on June 14, 2024, 6:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Howard Park to Main St. to Michigan St. to Jefferson Blvd., back to Howard Park.