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Consideration of the January 6, 2026 Work Session minutes
1:49:51Brooke Hardinstaffand the Christman Company, the project's construction manager at risk, as well as I will note representatives from the programs that would operate in the facility, not only Ms. Summerfield, but also Dr. Gloria, Director of Health for Fairfax County, and Dr. Jabari are here as well. Any and all are available for questions should anything arise that needs their attention. I also want to mention on the city side as well, representatives from public works and and human services as well so big
so what we plan to step through in the presentation is a quick overview of the project and the programming associated with the facility we will go through the development timeline where we've been where we are now what's upcoming review stakeholder and community engagement that occurred through the project as well as the agreements that have guided the work on the project throughout and and lead us into the future we will we will go through the budget operating costs and the financing also associated what you've seen up up to this point has been now received a guaranteed maximum price from the construction manager at risk and we'll step through that and then we'll also touch on next steps there are
authorized back in the fall for the special use permits and special exceptions as I mentioned before the agreement specifies at each stage of jurisdictions will evaluate proceeding or terminating you know and this is what has occurred to this point to advance us to the stage where we are the agreement also can covers the construction manager at risk form of procurement and the guaranteed maximum price that has now been provided by the contractor similar to the design approvals the city and county can determine whether each wants when that guaranteed maximum price has been finalized. Terms of ownership and use the agreement specifies that the county will continue to own the property. Um, but the city will have a 99 year lease with automatic renewals at a rate of $1 a
As I mentioned at the outset, there aren't items where we're requesting action by the council this evening. There's still some work yet to be done before we request action, but here are the next steps and the anticipated timeline associated with them. We will begin the process to negotiate that guaranteed maximum price with the construction manager at risk these would be contract details terms exclusions those sorts of things we don't anticipate a lot of movement in terms of pricing we anticipate that that would be completed by April at that point in time after the guarantee maximum price has been negotiated the the county would issue a city and and this is in accordance with the agreement that phase two agreement
that we've mentioned tonight with a 10-day notice for the city to respond the county would either notify its intent to war the construction contract to the construction manager at risk with that negotiated guaranteed maximum price or its intent to release a new request for proposal for bid-build contractor That would not be to revisit design, but that would be to pursue a different method of construction procurement or election to terminate the agreement. The city has that 10-day period to respond. We would anticipate coming forward to the council on April 28th, which is a regular meeting date, requesting action on on one proceeding with the project or terminating the agreement two on on bond authorization allowing the city to move forward with the issuance of debt
Speaker 11We've hired the Christmas company as our CMAR, construction manager at risk. So they carry the project all the way through. The procurement method is actually you bring your construction manager, which acts like a GC. You bring them in during schematic with the idea you kind of work hand in glove with the architect and the owner to get what you want out of it. They've now, they bid it to give us a guaranteed maximum price before we award. We're negotiating that now. We'll come back on April 28th with a final number, but that's their number to build it.