And 20% of that was the proposed cost estimate.

So following our established purchasing process for RFPs for land use studies and for other things that we issue RFPs for, we had a team of people from various city departments and disciplines that all independently scored.

Our purchasing department gave us a metric of on a scale of one to ten.

What is uh what how we should rank something depending on whether they meet, exceed, or don't meet the criteria.

Um and then all of those were brought together in a spreadsheet that they um weighed in order for us to um to understand the final scoring.

Awesome, and just to follow up on that.

Uh for them to prove their competencies, was it a written, was it um uh references, was it um interviews with others they've worked with?

How did they prove their competencies just out of just so we kind of get educated on it?

Okay.

Um President Tomonic, Counselor Randorf, um it was written proposals.

Um we did ask um in the in the RFP for um them to share projects that they've worked on that can um illustrate their success in these areas.

And I'll ask a follow-up.

Can you tell us who the scoring personnel were?

All right.

Uh President Temonic and Counselors, um, we invited teams uh of people or staff from uh planning economic development, natural resources, parks, and engineering.

And how many people were on that scoring committee?

Uh President Tomonic, I don't have the exact number.

Um I think it was six or seven.

Um I know what that we um we're going to invite um a bigger group and we have um a cutoff with our purchasing um policies about how many people and so um I just don't remember what the final number was.

That's fine.

I I just wanted to know is it two or twenty.

Great.

Neither.

Yes, somewhere in between.

Right.

Counselors, any other questions on items two to three.

Seeing none, we'll move on to counselor Kennedy, committee of Councillor Kennedy, Committee of the Whole.

If I may follow up with Yes.

So counselors, I'm looking on the uh Bolton and Mink website, they actually have uh a website where they show you bid requests that they've done in the past.

So if you want to do a little bit of research on maybe some of the questions or some of the um some of some of what they'll bring um to this project, maybe you'll find something there.

Um and then let me get back to the agenda, please.

I'm on item number four.

Yeah, okay.

Counselor, there I'm sorry, there are the counselors in the queue now.

Thank you.

Uh Counselor Clano.

Thank you, President Temonic.

Uh actually I wanted to ask a question going back to the Bolton Mink proposal.

Um given the parcel, oops, the parcels location and um adjacency to various environmental, sensitive environmental areas.

I mean with an engineering firm, um is there sufficient environmental um review components in that proposal?

We'll have manager Moses answered that question.

Thank you.

President Demonic and Councillor Clana, um it is a um very large consulting firm.

Uh they have um a a broad depth of um specialties.

Um and so I know um Bolton and Mink is is includes engineering, but also um a wide array of specialties focusing on all kinds of um parks planning, landscape architects, et cetera.

Um I also will say based on the priorities that council laid forward for the land use plan.

We also feel like it's really important in our stakeholder involvement as well as the staff that's working on it to have that natural resources perspective.

Thank you for uh mentioning the word or term stakeholder involvement.

So what type of process for stakeholder involvement is there?

I mean, you know, typically like more detailed environmental studies have a high level of stakeholder involvement and want to know what that looks like in in this project.

Yeah, President Tamonic and Counselor Clana.

Um we as we kick off the the process, we will start to understand more of what that looks like.

Um we are very dedicated to having um a very robust um public involvement process um with stakeholders.

Um one thing we did put in the proposal just to make it clear for everybody that um that was putting in bids is that we will have um a steering committee just that will uh represent a broad array of diverse interests.

And that that is really a group of stakeholders that's not intended to make any final decisions, but to help guide the process of that public input to help us reach people and to help us really understand the site and the project in depth.

And then as I said, um as the contract as we get the contract executed and move forward into actual project planning, we will know more what that will look like after we start to work with Bolton and Mink.

Thank you, Councillor Clanau.

Can I have other counselors ask their first questions, then we'll go back to you.

Thank you.

Counselor Dustol.