Subject: 19287/Solof Constr./Amend 18928
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 09:10:00 -0500


                               RESOLUTION NO. 19287
                  
                   A RESOLUTION TO AMEND RESOLUTION NOS. 18928
                   AND 19004 ENCAPTIONED AS SET FORTH HEREIN,
                   SO AS TO AMEND THE AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT
                   AWARDED TO SOLOFF CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND
                   SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT OF FUNDS FOR
                   ANY INCREASE IN THE TOTAL CONTRACT AMOUNT
                   RESULTING FROM ANY INCREASE IN THE BUILDING
                   PREVAILING WAGE RATES ADOPTED BY THE STATE
                   OF TENNESSEE.
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
                  
       	    	 WHEREAS, Resolution No. 18928, encaptioned:
            A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE AWARD OF THE ROSS'S LANDING
            PLAZA CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT TO SOLOFF CONSTRUCTION
            COMPANY FOR ITS LOW BID IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED SIX
            MILLION TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE AND
            NO/100 ($6,026,463.00) DOLLARS WHICH AMOUNT INCLUDES A
            CONTINGENCY OF $386,000.00 AND AN INCENTIVE BONUS OF
            $90,000.00 TO BE PAID IF EARNED, AUTHORIZING THE AWARD
            OF THE ROSS'S LANDING PLAZA TESTING SERVICES CONTRACT TO
            TRI-STATE TESTING AND DRILLING CO. FOR ITS LOW BID IN AN
            AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND AND NO/100
            ($35,000.00) DOLLARS, AND AUTHORIZING THE AWARD OF THE
            ROSS'S LANDING PLAZA CONTINUED DESIGN SERVICES CONTRACT
            TO EDAW, INC. FOR ITS PROPOSAL IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO
            EXCEED ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND AND NO/100
            ($138,000.00) DOLLARS, ALL OF WHICH IS TO BE PAID FROM
            GRANT FUNDS HERETOFORE RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF
            TENNESSEE AND FROM PROCEEDS OF THE HOTEL-MOTEL TAX
            COLLECTED WITHIN THE COUNTY OF HAMILTON.
      
       was adopted on February 26, 1991, but contained an inadvertent
       error in the total amount of the contract to be awarded the 
Soloff
       Construction Company and, consequently, was amended by Resolution 

       No. 19004, encaptioned:
      
           
            A RESOLUTION TO AMEND RESOLUTION NO. 18928, ENCAPTIONED
            AS SET FORTH HEREIN, SO AS TO AMEND THE AMOUNT OF THE
            CONTRACT AWARDED TO SOLOFF CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND THE
            AMOUNT OF THE CONTINGENCY FUNDS AND SO AS TO AUTHORIZE
            THE PAYMENT OF FUNDS FROM CONTINGENCY FOR ANY
            AUTHORIZED CHANGE ORDERS AND ANY INCREASE IN THE TOTAL
            CONTRACT AMOUNT RESULTING FROM ANY INCREASE IN THE
            BUILDING PREVAILING WAGE RATES ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF
            TENNESSEE AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE AWARD OF A
            CONTRACT TO ROBINSON ASSOCIATES CONSULTING ENGINEERS IN
            AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $19,000.00 FOR STRUCTURAL
            INSPECTION AND CERTIFICATION OF THE ENTRANCE ARCHES,
            PERFORMANCE ARCHES, SECURITY BUILDING, RESTROOM
            FACILITIES AND WATER WALL DISPLAY.
      
       which was adopted April 23, 1991.  Resolution No. 19004 amended
       Resolution No. 18928 by deleting the words and numbers "SIX
       MILLION TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE AND NO/100
       ($6,026,463.00) DOLLARS WHICH AMOUNT INCLUDES A CONTINGENCY OF
       $386,000.00" in the caption and body thereof and inserting in 
lieu
       thereof the words and numbers, "FIVE MILLION SIX HUNDRED ELEVEN
       THOUSAND FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS, WHICH AMOUNT INCLUDES A NEGOTIATED
       CHANGE ORDER FOR ADDITIONAL WORK IN THE AMOUNT OF $269,955.00." 
       Resolution No. 19004 also provided that any increase in the total 

       amount of the contract awarded to Soloff Construction Company
       resulting from the increase in the Building Prevailing Wage Rates 

       adopted by the State of Tennessee be paid out of the contingency
       funds; and
      
       	    	 WHEREAS, the City Council has been advised that the
       Building Prevailing Wage Rates adopted by the State of Tennessee
       have been increased, and that said increase will raise the total
       contract price in an amount not to exceed $141,000.00 and that it 

       is advisable to pay said increase in the Building Prevailing Wage 

       Rates from the general contract funds, not the contingency funds;
      
                                NOW, THEREFORE,
       	    	
       	    	 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Resolution No. 18928, and Resolution 

       No. 19004, encaptioned as set forth above, be and the same hereby 

       are amended by deleting the words and numbers "Five Million Six
       Hundred Eleven Thousand Fifty-Five and NO/100 Dollars"
       ($5,611,055.00) in the caption and body thereof and inserting in
       lieu thereof the words and numbers "Five Million Seven Hundred
       Fifty-Two Thousand Fifty-Five and NO/100 Dollars 
($5,752,055.00)."
      
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That Resolution No. 19004 be and
       is hereby amended by deleting "and for any increase in the total
       amount of the contract awarded to Soloff Construction Company
       resulting from any increase in the Building Prevailing Wage Rates 

       adopted by the State of Tennessee" from the last sentence at the
       end of the first paragraph of said Resolution.
      
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That any increase in the total
       amount of the contract awarded to Soloff Construction Company
       resulting from the increase in the Building Prevailing Wage Rates 

       adopted by the State of Tennessee be paid from the general
       contract funds and not the contract contingency funds.
      
       ADOPTED:  January 14, 1992
      
       DMC/meb