DEPARTMENT: Parks, Facilities, and Fleet Management
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Award Bid And Execute Contract With Shaw-Lundquist Associates, Inc. To Provide General Contractor Services For Law Enforcement Center Interior Renovations And Authorization To Amend 2022 Buildings Capital Improvement Program
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize award of bid and execution of contract with Shaw-Lundquist Associates, Inc. to provide general contractor services for Law Enforcement Center interior renovations. Authorize a budget amendment to the 2022 Buildings Capital Improvement Program to support increased scope.
SUMMARY
After completing a Needs Assessment of the Law Enforcement Center in 2020, the Dakota County Sheriff's Office identified several needs and deficiencies with the current facility. Some of these can be met by reallocating space within the existing building's footprint, while other needs require adding to the main building. Those items within the existing footprint can be addressed with CIP funding approved prior to 2022. By Resolution No. 22-121 (March 15, 2022), the Dakota County Commissioners approved the schematic design of the Law Enforcement Center renovation.The interior work included in this project meets several needs that are more immediate than the larger Law Enforcement Center Addition project. This separate work now also allows the larger project to continue to focus on the addition work needed without additional budgetary questions related to the work included in this project.
This project focused on changes within the building footprint. These included renovation of the Law Enforcement Center lobby and developing staff office areas outside the secure perimeter, creating a new short-term holding unit, and converting the existing work release unit from dormitory-style housing to individual cells for women. The only change to the scope since the schematic design approval include additional security screening ...
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