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March 6, 20<strong>24</strong><br />
WEST NEWSMAGAZINE<br />
Millennium Park improvements continue amid change orders<br />
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By JEFFRY GREENBERG<br />
Creve Coeur has approved its fifth<br />
change order for more incidental improvements<br />
to the Millennium Park project. The<br />
council unanimously passed a resolution<br />
authorizing Ideal Landscape Construction,<br />
Inc. for this work phase.<br />
The contract is for the sum of<br />
$70,072.60. It also includes authorization<br />
for City Administrator Mark Perkins to<br />
approve up to an additional $20,000 for<br />
future change orders for the Millennium<br />
Park project.<br />
“For a quick update, the project is going<br />
very well,” City Engineer Steven Berecz<br />
said. “We’ve been fortunate with some<br />
pretty good weather and the contractor is<br />
working really well. In the next months,<br />
the city will see the benefits, and we’ll all<br />
be out there enjoying a great new park.”<br />
The previous four change orders,<br />
approved by Perkins, totaled around<br />
$41,000. That number is roughly 1.7% of<br />
the total project, is was $2.5 million.<br />
Berecz noted that almost all the change<br />
orders have been for complex projects<br />
with lots of moving pieces. He said city<br />
staff has been out there the whole time,<br />
making sure everything is being done<br />
according to plan.<br />
The main emphasis of the newest change<br />
order is removing the 11 bollard lighting<br />
pieces along the walking path leading to<br />
the Tappmeyer House and replacing them<br />
with lighting all the way to the parking<br />
lot. Four of the existing lights have burnt<br />
out, and Berecz said it makes more sense<br />
to replace all 11, rather than try to retrofit<br />
the four non-working lights in a way that<br />
ALASKA, from previous<br />
Kevin Howard, Spectrum’s chief<br />
accounting officer also serves as a board<br />
member for the foundation.<br />
“This is a great cause and (the foundation)<br />
does a great job with their resources,”<br />
Howard said. “We get to help people who<br />
are going through things we can’t imagine,<br />
and the money we raise stays local. I know<br />
people who I work with who have had wishes<br />
granted. The power of a wish being granted<br />
for these kids and their families is priceless.”<br />
Spectrum is also the main sponsor for this<br />
year’s Walk for Wishes, making it the biggest<br />
in the country. The walk is being held<br />
on April 13 in Forest Park. Funds raised at<br />
the walk stay in St. Louis to grant wishes<br />
for local children. Interested participants<br />
or volunteers can find more information at<br />
walkforwishesstl.com.<br />
matches the other fixtures.<br />
Citizen Donna Spence had concerns<br />
that the lighting could be too strong and<br />
could attract certain bugs too easily. The<br />
response was that these would not offer<br />
additional issues.<br />
Council member Joe Martinich (Ward<br />
2) inquired as to whether the new lighting<br />
would have better illumination than<br />
the existing ones. The consensus was<br />
that they would be slightly better because<br />
they’re newer, but there wouldn’t be an<br />
appreciable difference.<br />
“The bollard lighting is a lot of money<br />
to spend, but at the end of the day, to go<br />
out and try to recondition 10-year-old<br />
bollard lights, and the four weren’t going<br />
to match,” Perkins said. “It just seemed<br />
time to replace all of them, and they’re<br />
all LED now. Also, we needed to add<br />
other ones because it really didn’t seem<br />
to make sense to just have lighting around<br />
the Tappmeyer House with such a gap to<br />
the parking lot at dusk. Plus, we already<br />
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had money budgeted for picnic tables. So,<br />
it made sense to just get that done, too. I<br />
think all these are really good changes.”<br />
Another part of the fifth change order<br />
is adding 12 eight-foot-long picnic tables.<br />
This wasn’t originally budgeted, but it’s<br />
now considered a cost-effective addition<br />
by the city. The change order will also<br />
seek the best way to handle shade structures<br />
near the playground. Finally, there<br />
will be caulking of the surfaces around the<br />
restroom and pavilion.<br />
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