…e to pay of the Aquatic Center and so it is impossible to make a responsible decision about the new debt for the Music Center.
Specific concerns from the Music Center validation center include an expectation that the city will be able to hold 6 music festivals a year where we sell 30,000, $15,00 tickets. In the Validation Report it tells us planning for e…
I realized the other day that there have been no committee discussions about possibly raising the income tax. The DDN tells us council was thinking about it. Council would have to vote at a council meeting to do this and it would have to be done prior to Feb 6th if they wanted it to appear on the May ballot. The only regularly scheduled council meeting before Feb 6th is on Jan 28th.
Administration…
NOTICE:
$18 MIL AMPHITHEATER
Committee Meeting
Tues. Feb. 12, 2013
7:00pm City Hall Taylorsville Rd
Please Attend and Educate Yourself!
Below is the info I have gathered.
Tonight City Council will approve two contracts during the Council Meeting.
The no bid / no solicitation contract between the city and Ken Conaway LLC is available as a read ahead. The fees involve include a .95% Project Management Fee (expected to total .0095 * $16,500,000 = $156,750) plus a Project Service Fee of $16,466.67 a month in order to gain rights to Mr. Conaway's time for at least…
The first analysis of the costs associated with the Music Center Management Agreement can be found in the issues section "The Heights and the Music Center". My initial calculations using the least costly way to manage the project would have saved the city more than $120,000 per year of the projected $315,000 per year management cost.
When council announced…
There will be an Administration Committee Tues, May 7, at 6:00 pm. On the agenda will be the upcoming Music Center. There is a concern that the process to find a contractor to build the music center may follow the same pattern of the Aquatic Center: Project Manager Tim Conaway would talk to two or so companies he thinks may do a good job and have them submit packages to him. He then evaluates them and recommends his pick to the council. Conaway's company apparently would get a percentage of the settled-on price…
Sorry, I'm late posting about tonight's City Council Meeting. This will be a quick note as well.
The agenda and read aheads include the city incentives to Good Sports.
The full downloadable .pdf packet is also available.
Here are a couple of the interesting things I see:
Citizen Comments - I wonder how many people will come and speak about the Heat Nightclub.
Item 11B is a Public…