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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council Tuesday, September 8, 2015 Page 3 lighting package. It's the same design but we just explored how we can achieve the same design, like quality and aesthetics, but for less money. The interior lighting package was one that changed. The exterior doors were originally an aluminum storefront type door which is really a custom door and it's a snore commercial type of door but when I say commercial type of door I mean like CVS, the high abuse type door. We looked at the use of the building and stepped back from the custom aluminum doors to a fiberglass door which is still a commercial product, it's just not the high abuse. The idea there is that it's like the community's house. The intent of it is to be rented. You are not going to have traffic coining in and out regularly to go shopping or something that a regular commercial business would do. We cut the door package back which saved a significant amount of money. It also changed the hardware package which added to that. We took a look at doing alternates. One of theirs was a deduct alternate to try to combine everything the Village wanted with the site but cutting back some of the suggestions with the idea they can be provided in the future. We put that one as a deduct alternate knowing that ultimately the committee wanted the site plan as it was designed. The other one I mentioned was the lighting package, the site lighting. When I say site lighting, I am talking about all of the lighting that is not connected to the building. The building does have a significant amount of light attached to it which will obviously splash out from it but this is for the overall safety of the parking and really bringing the site up to the 21St Century as far as accessibility and safety. We went back out to bid and the bids came in extremely tight other than Seitz who was actually the third most bidder in the first round. We got 7 bids. Six of the bids were within $20,000 of each other. It shows you that we actually did save just in the sense of making people more competitive. It did save some money to go right back out to bid. Last week we presented to the committee the bids we collected and selected the alternates to come up with the total number. In the $2,024,000, $93,000 is contingencies. $13,000 of them are already allocated. They were allowances. One was a projector. One was a projector screen. The other was CEI services. Knowing we were going to have to pay for the electrical connection but not knowing how much it was, we had $10,000 in there. Since we went out to bid, we know that that as an example is going to be $6,000. As an allowance, the $4,000 left over from that will come back to the Village. Then there's an $80,000 construction contingency. This is for unforeseen conditions. As an example, if we start digging foundations and run into a gas storage tank; I hope that's not the case, but we can't see under the ground. We did do soil borings to investigate as much as possible but we can't hit every inch of the site. Ultimately, if things go well, I would say $50,000 of the $80,000 is very likely to come back to the Village. Mr. Jerome asked, you mentioned about Alternate 1? Mr. Parker replied, in the process of being good neighbors with Center School, Alternate 1 was to include the improvements of their site. If you look at the building right now, the building actually butts up right to the asphalt. You can actually see right where salt is already starting to attack Center School. Being good neighbors, we had a conversation