Council Meeting - April 14, 2015

Council Meeting

**I had a scheduling conflict this evening and not able to get to Council meeting until 6:50pm. CM Zappala is a great resource for anyone interested in the RFQ’s for auditing and building inspections.

Engineering Services

Bowen, Collins & Associates

·         Small local firm with large firm experience

·         Dedicated client managers

·         Deep pool of experts

·         Several in-house services

·         Familiar with Cedar Hills as they have done our Capital Facilities Plan, Utility Rate Study, Impact Fee Analysis, and worked on projects related to the Cottonwood and Harvey wells

·         Has multiple municipal clients and intentionally does not have any developer clients in order to insure no conflicts of interest

·         Project data is owned by the client and can be provided at any time after project completion

Horrocks Engineering

·         Large team with extensive expertise

·         Serve as city engineers for other cities and work as extension to staff

·         Has worked with many municipalities

·         Full service firm with work done in-house

·         Project data is provided to city in whatever format desired and is owned by the city

·         Would agree in the contract to not work with developers that build in the city so no conflict of interest occurs

JUB Engineering

·         Employee-owned and been around over 60 years

·         Serve as city engineers for other cities

·         Focus on client relationships

·         Full service firm

·         Project data can be provided to the client in any format

·         In Utah Valley they have no developer clients and will agree to not work for any developers building in Cedar Hills

Mustang Engineering

·         Small company that teams up with consultants to perform work

·         Experience with municipal engineering

·         Rate schedule has been agreed upon by their consultants

·         Would agree to not do work for developers building in Cedar Hills

·         Work closely with staff and Council to meet the needs of the city

·         Project data is owned by the client and will be provided in any format requested

Review/Action Items on Contracts

·         Professional services contract for Building Inspection and Plan Review awarded to Sunrise Engineering

·         Professional services contract for Financial Auditing Services awarded to Keddington and Christensen.

·         Professional services contract for General Engineering Services awarded to Bowen, Collins, & Associates

Review/Action on Agreement with Vivint

Vivint Wireless Inc. has proposed a structure lease agreement with the city which would allow Vivint to install wireless Internet facilities at the recreation center. The components of the Vivint structures would be installed on the south west roof area, and include eight 1’ dishes and two 2’ dishes, mounted on poles. Recreation staff is concerned with the placement of any roof top hardware as it may affect the aesthetics of the roofline. Staff has worked with Vivint on this issue so that equipment is moved to the back of the building and not visible from the parking lot. Working to make sure equipment is also not visible from the gazebo.

Vivint has proposed to offer the City internet access at the city offices and recreation as part of compensation, as well as cover the cost of providing power to their location. The projected internet speeds are proposed to be significantly higher than our typical speeds from our current service provider.  The city has charged $250 per site to other internet service providers in addition to the no-cost wireless. The proposed agreement with Vivint has no rent assessed.

CM Zappala asked for more specifics in the contract regarding the expectation for internet speed connections. Would also like the contract to give the city the option to terminate the contract at the end of the contract period. He gave several other suggestions for contract changes, as did CM Augustus.

This item has been tabled for additional staff research and contract changes requested.