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Sarasota News Leader March 15, 2013 Page 86 Siesta Seen Procurement Department was recommending Staff from several different county groups — the bid go to Forsberg Construction Inc. of including Operations and Maintenance, Parks and Recreation and the Sarasota County SherPunta Gorda. iff's Office — along with the design team and The Forsberg bid for the project, plus al- representatives of the county's Environmental ternate work recommended by staff, was Permitting and Zoning Office, had met to talk $4,550,683.28. Gibbs & Register's base bid plus about the plans for trees in the new parking the alternate was $4,467,933.30. areas, he pointed out in his March 4 update to The County Commission also is scheduled the commission. to hear a staff update on March 19 regarding spoil materials resulting from the stormwater project. Last summer, Program Manager Carolyn Eastwood reported to the board that the county could save about $250,000 if it could save material excavated at the beach park for the stormwater project and use it when the park improvements begin. "The project team is seeking the active input of these groups to ensure a balanced and approvable plan," he wrote. Additionally, Harriott reported, oral presentations by the firms bidding for the construction manager at risk role in the beach improvements project had been postponed. That action had been prompted by a complaint from Digging out the new 1-acre stormwater re- one of the respondents after the bids were tention pond would yield about 26,000 cubic winnowed to a short list. yards of fill material, she pointed out. "We However, Assistant County Administrator need about 10,000 cubic yards for the park Tom Harmer added a note to the report indiproject," she added. cating that staff subsequently had met with Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. representatives — the county's consultants on the project — to clarify the scope of the work related to the use of a construction manager at risk. Therefore, the number of oral presentations had been increased from three to five and reHowever, commissioners expressed reser- scheduled, Harmer noted. vations about the aesthetic disruption to the In December, the County Commission appark from having that much dirt piled up. proved the use of a construction manager at Harriott's report also touched on the park im- risk for the beach project. That is a firm reprovements themselves. sponsible for hiring the subcontractors and Without use of any of that fill, Eastwood noted, the county would have to plan on about 1,500 dump-truck loads coming onto the island once the park improvements were under way.