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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: October 5, 2004 Action AgenSa Item No. ~_ SUBJECT: Contract Approval: Lighting Consultant for Playing Fields at Smith Middle School and Efland Cheeks Park DEPARTMENT: Purchasing and Central PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Services, Environment and Resource Conservation ATTACHMENT(S): Cost Proposal from Reece Noland McElrath INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam .)ones, (919) 245-2652 Dave Stancil, (919) 245-2598 Mara Beth Carr, (919) 960-3880 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider awarding a contract to Reece Noland McElrath for engineering services associated with the design of field lighting at Smith Middle School and Efland Cheeks Park. BACKGROUND: The Board has previously authorized staff to develop lighting plans for Efland Cheeks Park Phase II and the playing fields at Smith Middle School. A cost proposal was solicited from Reece Noland McElrath (RNM) to design the electrical system to carry out this work. As the Board may recall, Reece Noland McElrath was the electrical engineering firm that was asub-consultant for Corley Redfoot Zack in the design of the Smith Middle School, thereby giving them an existent working knowledge of the site and issues that surround the field lighting. More recently, RNM provided the design services for the HVAC replacement at the Whitted Building. The cost proposal provides a design fee of $18,550 far the Smith Middle School Project and $19,550 for Efland Cheeks Park -Phase II, RNM estimates that construction documents will be completed within six to eight weeks after contract approvah FINANCIAL IMPACT: Bath projects are funded through the 2001 Parks and Open Space Bond, with $250,000 currently allocated to each project.