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Regular Council Meeting 6-19-00 Page 11 Council President Marquardt opened this up for discussion. Mr. Ilacqua advised that they discussed this in length at the Finance Committee. Mrs. Cinco, seconded by Mr. Ilacqua, made a motion to authorize an expenditure for the change order of a net $ 2,6300.00 to Landscape by Design. Council President Marquardt opened this up for further discussion; he asked if we were going to be satisfied with what is going on. Mr. Buckholtz felt more discussion tonight was needed. Mr. Thomas said the Recreation Board planned Parkview Playground in mind with all safety standards and that is what we have done. The contractor, in his haste to move the project along, put down cement curbing to keep the poured-in-place to form it. Mr. Thomas felt he should have put the playground equipment in first before pouring any type of cement structure in. The Recreation Board saw the curbing that was too close to the playground equipment. Mr. Thomas advised that Mr. Ilacqua has pictures of this. The curbing was too close to slide structures. Mr. Thomas also noticed a six foot fall zone was not in the playground as far as safety, which is an actual code which must be followed when building playgrounds. At that point, we stopped all construction on this project. We wanted to make sure we had a safe playground to be used by all the children. Again, the recommendation from the Recreation Board is that we do not want to have any exposed cement on the playground and it is their recommendation to cover up the top part. The plans were to take the poured-in-place to the top on each side of the curbing but leave the top curbing flush with the rest of the playground. Mr. Thomas said we can use our $ 8,000.00 contingency to pay for this $ 2,630.00 expense. Mr. Thomas advised that the other $ 14,000.00 or so that is part of a fall zone problem is a contractor's problem and not the Village's problem. Mr. Metzung asked if these figures have been discussed with the contractor and Mr. Thomas advised no, it is with the legal department right now. Council President Marquardt then said that this may not be the last expenditure. Mayor Rinker said it was his understanding that the contractor has acknowledged he took things out of sequence. Based upon that, we referred it to our legal counsel. Mayor Rinker further advised that when the equipment was installed, the error became evident and construction was stopped. Council President Marquardt asked who defined the layout for the curbing layout. Mr. Thomas said it was either with the manufacture that deals with the poured-in-place because you need to have curbing in order to give it a form. Council President Marquardt asked who defined the area around the equipment. Mr. Thomas said it was the architect that designed the playground.