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�A" I 'V 89 MOX 77 r,sIA 504 Mr. Bibo stated that they normally would sit down again with the Commission and committee and determine what items would be considered to be left off of the building or redeveloped, in.one way or another. It usually is very difficult to get the line item costs from the contractors, but whatever they can get would be of help. They do have an estimator on their staff and they take off the building according to the materials, labor, etc. Commissioner Bird did not see where sitting down with lay people on the Commission and the Library Committee would be the answer. He believed he would want to talk to the estimators of each of these other construction companies and see just what it is in the building that is driving up the costs. Mr. Bibo agreed but noted that it may turn out that none of this is out of reason and it may be there are some areas that would have to be cut. Administrator Chandler agreed that we could contact the other bidders and see if they would voluntarily supply us with, some of this information. Legally they do not have to do this. Attorney Collins stressed that the contract does say that if the fixed limit of construction cost is exceeded by the lowest bona fide bid, the architect may cooperate in revising the project's scope and quality as required to reduce the construction cost, and if the owner chooses to proceed in this manner, the architect without additional charge shall modify the drawings, documents, etc., as necessary to comply with the fixed limit. Discussion continued regarding our options regarding accepting Ivey's bid as valid or rejecting it as not being valid, etc., and Administrator Chandler believed it would have to be a rejection on the basis that an error was made in the transmittal of that bid. Commissioner Scurlock believed that once that bid is declared invalid, we then would have to go to the next low bid and reject all bids. 62