6A • January 27, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com
Firm named to manage
campus construction
Board members
cite company’s
resources
By Katherine Lacaze
For Cannon Beach Gazette
“Glowing reports” and high
recommendations prompted
the Seaside School District to
select the firm of DAY CPM
to administer construction
management services during
its Jan. 17 meeting. Superin-
tendent Sheila Roley said the
company “definitely rose to the
top” in winning the selection.
“With the resources they can
provide for us, it was a pretty
unanimous decision,” Roley
said.
District voters approved
a $99.7 building bond to re-
locate three schools to a new
site south of Seaside Heights
Elementary School. The board
approved the district office’s
request to enter into contract
negotiations with DAY CPM, a
Beaverton-based owner’s rep-
resentative consulting firm, to
serve in that role for the school
district.
“We’re delighted to have
them be representing us as our
owner’s agent,” Superinten-
dent Sheila Roley said.
In December, the district
held a required meeting for any
firms interested in submitting
a request for proposal for the
project manager position. Four
firms attended the meeting, but
only three submitted proposals.
While all three were “strong
companies,” Roley said,
A development disclosed
by DAY CPM after the inter-
view process was the firm’s
recent merger with Otak Inc.,
a multidisciplinary interna-
tional firm of architects and
engineers based in Seaside.
The companies finalized the
SUBMITTED PHOTO
The Hillsboro School District is represented in DAY CPM’s
portfolio.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Mike Day of DAY CPM.
transaction Jan. 9, according to
Justine Hill, the district’s busi-
ness manager. DAY CPM is re-
taining its firm name and staff,
including its senior principals.
Board member Patrick No-
field said it is “not necessarily
a bad thing” that the firm has
partnered with Otak.
“It actually gives them
more resources probably,” he
said, a sentiment echoed by
Roley.
Nofield, along with fellow
board members Mark Truax
and Tom Maltman, served on
the selection committee that
interviewed the three candi-
dates in early January.
Truax said it was an
eye-opening and enjoyable ex-
perience, and an opportunity
to learn more about what this
project will entail. He encour-
aged the other board members
to seek out similar opportuni-
ties in the future.
“We all kind of need to sit
on one of those committees as
we go through with this pro-
cess,” he said.
Roley noted she would be
contacting the board members
in the future and requesting
them to serve on the design
committee, oversight commit-
tee or in other capacities.
With the board’s approval
at the meeting, district admin-
istration is now authorized to
enter into contract negotiations
with the firm. No definitive
cost for services was estab-
lished during the bid process,
although that is just one factor
considered by the selection
committee while scoring the
candidates.
However, DAY CPM did
provide the district with its
hourly rate schedule for vari-
ous personnel and information
about other projected costs and
reimbursements. The firm de-
rived an overall fee estimate of
about $1.57 million based on
an understanding of the budget,
scope and time components of
the project, Hill said. This es-
timate is defined as a not-to-
exceed fee, meaning the firm’s
final charge for services can be
under but not over that amount
without district approval. Last-
ly, the contract agreement shall
not exceed five years, Hill said.
District staff is making
progress in other areas relat-
ed to the new school project,
which is keeping them “busy
all the time,” Roley said.
Dull Olson Weekes-IBI
Group Architects of Portland,
providing design and architec-
ture services for the project,
planned to participate in three
different meetings Jan. 18.
The first meeting involved Ro-
ley, Hill, DOWA and the civil
engineer, and they evaluated
the project site. Following that,
the architect firm presented to
all the district’s staff during
their collective professional
development time, sharing de-
tails on what the process will
look like and asking for input.
During the final meeting
with the firm, the administra-
tive team helped put together
a program plan that outlined
different features desired for
the new school campus. Roley
said the architects have been
helpful in reminding the team
“that we have a budget, and
that we couldn’t add every-
thing we could think of.”
She assured the board
“there will opportunities for
staff, parents and communi-
ty members, at some point, to
participate in meetings to give
input on the new building.”
The bond steering commit-
tee also intended to hold its
first meeting during the final
week of January.
The following week, Hill
and Roley planned to work
with bond representatives and
participate in conference calls
to learn more about bond rat-
ings, the purchasing process
and other pertinent informa-
tion.
South Wind project would require
urban growth boundary amendment
South Wind from Page 1A
be extended beneath Highway
101 and the water tank could
be connected to the system in
the Haystack Heights neigh-
borhood.
South Wind was annexed
into city limits but is outside
the urban growth boundary.
Urban development cannot be
approved and urban services
cannot be extended to the site
unless the boundary is amend-
ed.
“The reasoning for not
jumping ahead with the UGB
is that we still don’t have a
really strong picture of what
we’re doing there,” said May-
or Sam Steidel, adding that
there were still questions about
funding.
City Planner Mark Barnes
recommended that the coun-
cil wait to amend the bound-
ary. Urban growth boundaries
are usually amended when
development is imminent, he
said.
“From our point of view,
there’s no urgency in getting it
done now rather than waiting
for you to take a closer look at
the master plan,” Barnes said.
Councilors agreed that an
engineering study would pro-
vide updated infrastructure
construction cost estimates
and a better idea of what
could be done on the site.
Steidel asked if the engi-
neering work could be broken
down into parts. Barnes said it
was possible to plan the trans-
portation part of the project
separate than water and sewer
services.
“If you’re in a hurry to have
this done sooner, putting this
in the next fiscal year budget
would get that started quicker,”
Barnes said.
The city has $500,000 in
the general reserve fund that
could be used for an engineer-
ing study, City Manager Brant
Kucera said. The funds would
be available in July.
“What concerns me is that
if this is to become a larger
mass care site in case of a di-
saster, there’s a point where we
keep kicking the can down the
road and never get around to
developing that infrastructure,”
Kucera said.
The council will hold a
work session to review the
South Wind master plan.
In February, while devel-
oping the proposed fiscal year
budget, the city plans to dedi-
cate $400,000 of general fund
resources to the general reserve
fund specifically for relocating
critical city functions.
The city will continue to
do this each February for four
more years, according to the
city’s strategic plan. Cannon
Beach plans to have $2 million
in reserve by 2021 for moving
critical city functions.
R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Members of the Design Review Board at a January meet-
ing. Chairman Mike Morgan is at left.
Project shelved, but
city will consider
options for future
Renovations from Page 1A
“Efficiency-wise it will
really help,” Grassick said
last week. “They’ll have
their own little section.”
Plans drawn by David
Vonada aim to fit in with the
architectural style of Can-
non Beach, Grassick said
last week, with wood shin-
gles and white trim. “Dave
designed the whole process
they spent a lot of time with
the department heads and
the employees to decide
how the work flow goes,
you’re got to move things
around,” he said.
The integrity of the
1940s building is fine, he
said, but City Hall would
likely not survive an earth-
quake under today’s stan-
dards.
“For us to build a whole
new building would be to
the magnitude of $3, $4
million,” Grassick said. “
Do you really want to move
now to a new building, or do
you want to remodel until
the tsunami happens?”
After an accepted bid,
R.J. MARX/CANNON BEACH GAZETTE
Public Works Director
Dan Grassick in a portion
of City Hall that had been
slated for remodel.
contractors would have
had 120 days to complete
the project, expected in the
middle of June.
Without a contending of-
fer, the city will be re-evalu-
ating next steps and will not
be awarding the project this
fiscal year.
“(We) will reconsider
what the options are after
discussing with the coun-
cil,” Grassick said.
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