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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, February 18, 2020 Page 14 There was none. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None Resolution Adopted • Resolution No. 2020-16, entitled, "An emergency resolution authorizing Mayfield Village to accept the bid of Licursi Company in the amount of $868,236.75 for the Parkview Playground Improvement Project." Introduced by Mayor Bodnar. (Parks and Recreation). Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mrs. Jurcisek, made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 2020-16. Council President Schutt asked, discussion? Mr. McAvinew stated, I was kind of jotting down some things here, my thoughts and stuff. I wanted to talk a little bit about the project and how we got to where we are at right now. Two years ago, I looked at our budget and we talked about building a new playground and what we would do to do that and what this playground meant and what we needed it to be. We talked about it being inclusive, a playground for everybody to come. We initially sat down with Danielle and said think big and she thought real big which is great. Then we sat down and thought how can we get here? Let's looked for grant funding. Once again, Danielle did a wonderful job and she got grant funding for the project. Two years later, when it originally was on the map for a 5 -year project, we got the funding secured to move forward. Six different designs that we looked at, maybe seven. Multiple pieces of equipment, multiple meetings over and over again all to get in the hopes to build not the best playground in Cuyahoga County, just the best playground. The best playground that we could afford to build. I would like to take a minute to thank the Mayor from day one. She was supportive. I remember Danielle coming to the meeting showing the big picture of what she wanted and I said, well, let's go see the boss. We talked it through and she was supportive from the first design to the last design. I would like to thank Ron. I knew when I was going upstairs, I was scratching my head and waiting for Ron to call me what this number was on this sheet from the original couple hundred thousand dollars. Danielle, for having a vision to what she wanted, what was best for Mayfield Village, what was best for the adaptive population and Mr. McKnight for putting that into reality and allowing us to come up with what we feel is the best playground. Once again, not Cuyahoga County, the best playground. It then came to the bidding process. It's always easiest to look at the sheet and select the lowest. But the reality of this is it is lowest and best and I really truly believe that I looked at all of the proposals set forth and the lowest and best is Licursi. It is. I want you guys to know I am not from this part of the State so very few companies I even know on that sheet. Just from what was presented by the information presented to me and the projects presented, our discussion with Mr.