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Sarasota News Leader December 14, 2012 Page 32 to 120 days for his office to take care of its uses CEIs, noting they are ���an impartial third part of hiring a construction manager. party��� ensuring adherence to the design as Sturm and Waddill agreed the county could well as quality control. end up paying much less by using a construction manager. Waddill explained how the firm utilized that process to build the new Riverwalk complex in Bradenton. A construction manager would hire the contractors to handle the work and keep the project on schedule, he said. ���[It] is perhaps a good way to go,��� he said. ���You���ve selected them as basically your construction partner.��� Barbetta said he expected the county could hire a construction manager for $250,000. Schneider noted county staff normally estimates 10 percent of a project for the cost of CEI; in this case, that would be $1.67 million. Hines concurred with Barbetta that the CEI cost was too high. ���We could have a couple of engineers for a ���We���re already on the team as the engineer of record and the architect of record,��� Sturm couple of hundred thousand dollars,��� Pattersaid. ���[You would be] paying [a CEI] to do son said, ���and we would come out way ahead.��� what we���ve already done.��� Schneider then said the cost probably would Schneider then took close to four minutes to be closer to $300,000 for a construction manread from material explaining how the county ager. Commissioners Charles Hines and Christine Robinson listen to remarks by staff and consultants during the Dec. 11 board meeting. Photo by Rachel Hackney