West Newsmagazine 11-7-18
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Town & Country resolves Town<br />
Square change order No. <strong>11</strong><br />
By BONNIE KRUEGER<br />
Change order No. <strong>11</strong> for revised landscaping<br />
for Town & Country’s developing Town<br />
Square found resolution in an amended form<br />
on Oct. 22 after being on the aldermanic<br />
agenda for three consecutive meetings.<br />
As originally proposed, change order No.<br />
<strong>11</strong> would have increased, by $92,439, the<br />
previously approved landscaping budget<br />
of $287,229.75. Included in the original<br />
change order were unforeseen costs not<br />
budgeted for the removal of 15 dead trees<br />
[approximately $30,000], revised drainage<br />
grading [approximately $23,000], and<br />
abandoned rubble and debris removal<br />
[approximately $<strong>18</strong>,000] as well as a threeyear<br />
honeysuckle stewardship program<br />
that would remove invasive honeysuckle<br />
on <strong>11</strong> residential and commercial properties<br />
adjacent to Town Square.<br />
On Oct. 8, after the change order’s second<br />
reading, the Board of Aldermen passed a<br />
motion to continue the change order vote<br />
until its Oct. 22 meeting and asked city<br />
staff to provide a revised landscape site<br />
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budget.<br />
Prior to the board’s Oct. 22 meeting,<br />
Craig Wilde, director of planning and public<br />
works, emailed the aldermen a revised<br />
landscaping plan that used $85,029 of the<br />
original budget to cover the cost of the items<br />
included in change order No. <strong>11</strong>. The majority<br />
of the cost savings was accomplished by<br />
removing 65 canopy trees, 33 ornamental<br />
trees, 23 Norway spruces and 19 pines from<br />
the original plan and eliminating the threeyear<br />
honeysuckle stewardship program proposed<br />
in change order No. <strong>11</strong>.<br />
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However, on Oct. 22, several aldermen<br />
objected to the loss of the trees in the retail<br />
and plaza areas of Town Center and as a<br />
buffer for neighboring residential properties.<br />
Alderman Lindsey Butler [Ward 2]<br />
said that action was in direct conflict with<br />
what neighboring residences were promised<br />
and that it did not line up with Metropolitan<br />
Sewer District’s recommendation<br />
and guidelines.<br />
Alderman Fred Meyland-Smith [Ward 3]<br />
said, “There is a strong consensus among<br />
the board that the plan represented by the<br />
email is unacceptable because it violates a<br />
number of principles we have established<br />
for ourselves not the least of which is<br />
making promises to the residents which is<br />
consistent with the way the city has managed<br />
itself in a number of other projects<br />
and I think it detracts from the overall quality<br />
of the project.”<br />
Alderman Tiffany Frautschi [Ward 2], in<br />
making a motion to amend and approve<br />
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change order No. <strong>11</strong> in the amount of $71,000,<br />
said, “It makes sense to amend the ordinance<br />
we have before us to reflect the actual work<br />
that needs to be done [the dead tree removal,<br />
drainage grading and tree removal].” Alderman<br />
Skip Mange [Ward 1] seconded the<br />
motion and the board approved the amended<br />
ordinance by a vote of 6 to 1.<br />
Alderman Jon Benigas [Ward 4] was<br />
absent and Alderman Matt Reuter [Ward 3]<br />
voted “no” on the measure.<br />
Meanwhile, Wilde assured the board that<br />
the provisions for tree plantings and landscape<br />
buffers, included in the original landscape<br />
plan that was approved on April 25,<br />
would remain intact in the landscape plan<br />
as amended on Oct. 22.<br />
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