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TO: Mayor and City Council ork ONO <br />\� <br />FROM: Mark Bernhardson, City Administrato <br />DATE: July 5, 1985 <br />SUBJECT: Highway 12 Corridor Study <br />Attached please find the revised plan layout submitted by John <br />Shardlow for consideration of the Highway 12 corridor study. <br />This plan is a result of discussions that Jeanne Mabusth, John <br />Shardlow and myself had based on his initial submission. As you <br />may recall the initial plan had an estimated bill based on time <br />and materials of between $18,000 and $26,000. As you wi 11 note <br />cost range when all phases are added together for the study is <br />between $12,100 and $15,300. The discussions resulted in two <br />major changes to arrive at this figure. The first change was <br />discussion of the process and assignment of responsibilities <br />within the various phases to staff that previously were to be <br />done by the consultant. The other major change in the original <br />proposal based on this realignment of responsibilities and a <br />phased pricing structure being established with insertion of Bo- <br />no go decisions at the end of each phase. <br />The utilization of the consultant in this, as in any study, is to <br />assist the staff either when they do not have the time to <br />undertake such a study or do not possess the expertise to go <br />through such a process. At present the staff does not feel that <br />it possesses all the expertise needed, however we feel very <br />confident that we were able to carry forward portions of the <br />study. It is intented that one of the results of the study will <br />be to upgrade staff's expertise having gone through this process <br />with the consultant. The other significant issue is the time <br />frame in which the Council wants this accomplished. The proposed <br />split between staff and consultant and the price the consultant <br />has quoted is predicated from staff's standpoint on completion of <br />the first four phases by early next year. <br />It is staff's feeling that the process laid out by Mr. Shardlow <br />is an excellent one and provides for the appropriate public input <br />should the direction of the Council ultimately wants to go with <br />Highway 12 area require changes in our Comprehensive Plan. The <br />phased approach allows Orono the option of deciding at the end of <br />each phase whether it is appropriate to explore it further and <br />also the dependent on time and expertise that a different split <br />for the next phase between staff and consultant will be allowed <br />to happen. <br />