Yeah, we're ready.

Yes, good evening.

Welcome to the committee on finance ranking room meeting.

It is Tuesday, February 10th, 2026.

It is 532 p.m.

I am the province councilwoman Joanne Ryan.

Chairwoman Ryan.

Thanks, Chairman Taylor.

Counselor and Wall.

Present Councilwoman Gray is asking Councillor Sanchez.

We have four present and one absent, we have a clock.

Thank you very much.

Let the record reflect that we are joined by Council Woman.

Jill Davidson, who is our newest member.

Thank you for joining us.

And we also have uh Kenny Shavarini uh our solicitor.

So joining us.

I've been here since okay.

Um may I uh please have a motion to take matters uh one and three wave the reading and take them out of order.

One and three.

May I have that motion?

So vote moved by uh councilwoman and section by councilman tailor.

All in favor, aye, opposed, aye, second motion carries.

Item one and three on item one to continue that, and that leaves both matters on uh by request of of council uh folks on may I have that motion continue.

Motion motion made by councilwoman and wall seconded by councilwoman Sanchez, all in favor, aye, all opposed, I have it, motion parties item one and three are continued.

Okay, so that brings us to item two, madam sir.

Could you kindly read item two into the record?

Resolution authorizing approval of the following contract award by the Board of Contract and Supply in accordance with section 21 through 26b of the Code of Ordinances, Lapfield LLC, 2,894,400, Department of Public Property.

So most of you know, um we have been working with PPSD on multiple phases of school construction and um to date our OPM, owner's project manager for that has been down to construction.

So you're used to interacting with Downs on the projects.

Downs has been managing all of the projects through phase three.

And I think we've talked previously about how the city was gonna put out an RFP to bring in an OPM for phase four.

Right?

Phase four construction is another you know, hundreds of millions of dollars of construction for the last phase of projects that hopefully will get us to a place that all schools have newer likeness seats for all kids in PBSD.

So we put out an RFP, we received nine proposals.

We led an interdisciplinary team of folks to evaluate those proposals that included my team from public property representation from PBSD, um Kyle of Dalbada from the council staff participated.

We all evaluated the proposals, we brought four veters in for interviews, um, and then we selected three finalists that went to price competition.

Um and so uh left fields, the group that has been selected.

I will let Chris, who is our kind of executive sponsor for the company, um, talk about their experience, but we're really excited.

Downs is going to continue to manage the scope of work that they are managing, um, but this will give us another set of resources as we advance this next phase of project score.

Um can I just ask is there any uh integration?

Downs does their thing, and then these folks are doing their project management.

Um there will be integration in that we have to manage budgets very quickly, very closely because um you know overruns in the first three phases of construction could affect phase four, and so one thing we'll need to be working on is making sure that doesn't happen.

Um there's also um integration as it relates to swing space because this team will need downs to stay on track with the projects they're managing to make sure that we can have swing spaces available for the new schools.

Outside of that, um they will generally work separately.

Okay, thank you very much.

Kyle, anything you want to say about the process before we move it over to Crystal?

Yeah, please let's swear pilot thank you.

I do pay for that.

Uh Kyle Go, right?

For the province of the council.

Um obviously town.

No, no, no, that's that's our uh chairwater, counselors.

Um I want to one thank uh Chief Walkins for our agent in this process being a member of or a deputy representative of the council on the Board of Contract and Supply, and as well as a member of the school building committee.

Um I was uniquely positioned to be you know part of this process, and I think Courtney was very open from the beginning on a looking in.

Um, you know, as early as formal questions and making sure council priorities were asked, such as the carbon control commands and our climbing goals, uh part of the gradient selection process, debriefing.

I was included in from the beginning to the very end.

Um rationale on the selection.

Um I personally felt that we had a finalist group that was very technically sound.

And any one of them would have been a great selection, um, but when we moved on to the call's proposals and we got the financials, um, I think Leftfield was the approving financial decision for the city.