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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 5, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Contract with Corley Redfoot Zack for Engineering and Design Services for <br />Fairview Community Park <br />(DEPARTMENT: Purchasing, ERCD, PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Recreation & Parks <br />ATTACHMENT (S): <br />1) Cost Proposal <br />2) Fairview Park Master Plan <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Pam Jones, 245 -2652 <br />Lori Taft, 245 -2660 <br />David Stancil, 245 -2590 <br />Marabeth Carr, 960 -3880 <br />PURPOSE: To consider authorizing the Chair to execute a contract with Corley Redfoot Zack <br />(CRZ) for park pre- construction design and engineering services to secure permits, conduct <br />engineering work, and create construction drawings and specifications for bid documents for <br />Fairview Community Park. <br />BACKGROUND: In 2004, the County and Town agreed to work together to create a master <br />plan for the entire 92 -acre site by adopting a Memorandum of Agreement, reflecting both the <br />existing and planned uses on the Public Works site and potential future uses for a park. In <br />October 2005, an appointed Fairview Public Campus Master Plan Committee began work to <br />develop a proposed Master Plan. Over the next four months, the Committee met on four <br />occasions to create this report and plan. (See attached Master Plan). <br />In 2001, Orange County voters approved a Parks and Open Space bond that earmarked <br />$850,000 for this park. The Board will remember that at the January 23, 2007 BOCC meeting <br />an expenditure of up to $40,000 was approved for the purchase of playground equipment. That <br />purchase of the playground equipment along with site surveys and a survey of cultural and <br />archeological surveys of the site have left a balance of $803,103.90 available for the design and <br />construction of the park. <br />In April 2007, a Request for Proposal was conveyed to professional engineering and design <br />firms to solicit interest. Eight firms responded with proposals, and a Project Design Team was <br />convened to interview three firms. The Project Design Team included staff members David <br />Cannell, Lori Taft and Marabeth Carr as well as Stephanie Trueblood from the Town of <br />Hillsborough. <br />