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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
City Council Regular Meeting December 7, 2021
AGENDA ITEM: Authorize Hiring of Construction
Manager for Public Works & Police
Campus
AGENDA SECTION:
New Business
PREPARED BY: Logan Martin, City Administrator
Mikael Dahlstrom, Chief of Police
Nick Egger, P.E., Public Works Director
AGENDA NO. 9.a
ATTACHMENTS: None APPROVED BY: LJM
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Motion to authorize staff to enter into contract with Kraus
Anderson Construction Company to serve as the City’s Construction Manager for the
Public Works & Police Campus project
BACKGROUND
A significant amount of work has been completed over the past many years to investigate and confirm
municipal space needs within the City. In 2016-2017, a Facilities Task Force was established to perform
a thorough review of the City’s current spaces, catalogue and estimate future space needs, tour nearby
agencies to see facilities, and provide a recommendation to the City Council. In summary, their
recommendation was that both the Police Department and the Public Works Department had overgrown
their facilities and a new facility was required.
In 2018, the City engaged Wold Architects to respond to the Facility Task Force recommendation and
take it to the next level. That work included a detailed analysis of current facilities for PD / PW,
interviews with staff to gauge future needs, metric driven analysis to plan for the impact the community’s
future growth will have on the City’s facilities, and more. Ultimately, that report detailed an
approximately 48,000 S.F. Police building and a 70,000 S.F. Public Works building was needed to meet
the current and future needs of our growing City operation.
The City Council has been clear that this is an important and necessary project that needs attention. To
keep the project moving forward, the City released a Request for Proposals for Construction
Management firms this fall. We received 9 qualified proposals and the subcommittee of Chief
Dahlstrom, PW Director Egger, and City Administrator Martin narrowed the group down to four firms
for interview. Interviews were completed last week and the Committee was thoroughly impressed with
the skillset and capacity shown by all firms.
In short, the Construction Manager will serve as the City’s agent in managing the bidding process (for
architects and all subcontractors), they will manage the construction of the facility (i.e. staff the on-site
construction trailer full-time for the course of the build), and they will be at the table for all design
meetings with architects to ensure that the project is being designed with budget, constructability,
function, and efficiency in mind. This is a crucial member of the team and will make the project
manageable for City staff as we ensure the other daily duties of our job still receive the attention they
require.
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Below is a financial comparison of the four finalists. Each firm proposed a percentage fee based on an
anticipated construction price of $30 million (the “construction management fee”), and also fee-based
figures based on labor hours of a project managers, superintendent(s), equipment, site trailers and safety,
12 months of design meetings, etc.
Pre-Design / Design / Staff Construction Mgmt. Fee Total
Market & Johnson $1,152,220 $480,000 $1,632,220
H & U $1,283,077 $150,000 $1,433,077
RJM $984,478 $450,000 $1,434,478
Kraus Anderson $811,196 $450,000 $1,261,196
Beyond the interviews, staff also completed thorough reference checks for finalists. Based on the
interviews, references, past working experience with the firms, and the fee proposal, staff is
recommending that the City engage Kraus Anderson Construction Company as the City’s Construction
Manager for this project.
The team that KA has assembled for this project is highly skilled and has done numerous similar facilities.
We also received very positive feedback from our colleagues who have done this type of work with KA,
and their reputation is very strong. Detailed proposals for all four firms are available upon request.
Staff will utilize the typical American Institute of Architects (AIA) contract for Construction Managers
for this agreement, and it will be reviewed before authorization by the City Attorney.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends the City Council authorize staff and the Mayor to enter into a Construction Manager
contract with Kraus Anderson Construction Company to serve as the City’s Construction Manager for
the Public Works and Police campus project.