3/3/1987 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

contract documents state that the architect is the county representative. Administrator Balczun addressed the definition of "owner's representative," and agreed that the architect does represent the owner to some extent, but he emphasized that this Board has never divested itself of the authority to make decisions binding the county to financial obligations and certainly never devolved that authority to an architect. Commissioner Bird felt it appears that this contractor is due to be reimbursed, but possibly the question is who reimburses him - do we or the architect? He noted that he gets the feeling there is something more underlying all this. Administrator Balczun assured him that staff simply doesn't feel it is a legitimate claim against the county. Commissioner Wheeler stated it was his understanding that nobody told them to put the trailer there; they simply put it there and no one objected. Chairman Scurlock wished to refresh the Board's memory re the history of this situation. He noted that back when we began the first phase of the Jail, because of the pressure from the Department of Correction, we were looking to have this facility built as quickly as possible. The other job this company had in North Florida was way behind schedule, and we became concerned as to why we weren't seeing construction started and our project moved along. There is some suggestion in the correspondence from Mr. Shimp that we hurried them and said put your construction trailer here just so we so we could take some pictures to show the community we were moving ahead, but the fact is that we had to hurry them to get them started so the facility could be completed on time. The Chairman also stressed that while the drawings Mr. Shimp has of the site may not be exactly to'scale, the dotted lines did show the future site of Phase II and that is where they chose to locate. 59 � BOOK 67 Ega 514