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Mr. Lieuallen felt the question depended upon how City Council decided to act, whether or not the architect would be local. Dean Baumgartner, -- Civic Center Project Director, said of the 27 proposals, ten were local and 17 outside the metro area. Mr. Lieuallen then said as Council decided to look only at local firms, it should explore the possibility of whether or not there may be other firms in the Eugene area who would be acceptable and who would want to submit a proposal. Mr. Hamel did not believe Council should restrict itself to just the metro area, noting State boundary lines are just as local. Mayor Keller reminded Council the criteria to be accepted would have to be approved whether or not the firm were national or local. In response to a question from Mr. Obie, Assistant Manager said the past relationships of any firm under consideration, and its past experience, would be checked very carefully. Mr. Haws moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel, to accept the criteria submitted for selection of the architects as designated in Attachment No.2 of staff's memo dated 7/14/78. Motion carried unanimously. Mr. Haws moved, seconded by Mr. Hamel, at the request of the screening committee to authorize the City Manager to sign an agreement to hire an architect selection consultant. Assistant Manager noted that the cost could be as high as $500/day. He would be an advisor to the Council and staff would be the agent to find such an advisor the screening committee would feel comfortable working e with. Mr. Delay felt it would be very helpful to the screening committee to have such an expert to assess various pitfalls, coordination needed, and problems that would occur in this kind of project management. Mr. Lieuallen said he would feel comfortable with selecting someone from Portland or Seattle for such a position. Mr. Baumgartner said he had already talked with the National AlA and had names of six or seven poten- tial consultants. He had made contacts in Seattle and Portland. Howeve r , he needed more direction from Council as to the specific assignment. Vote was taken on the motion, which carried unanimously. Regarding the location of the prime architectural firm, Assistant Manager said staff felt this was secondary to the competence of the project team. Mr. Williams said he felt an overriding consideration is hiring competent, capable people. If those people are Eugene residents, it would be fine. However, he did not feel a criterion for selection should be where that firm resides. Mr. Delay said he would prefer a local firm to the extent that that is possible. He felt the key element to be the working relationship between the firm and the technical consultan~s. Local involvement is one part of the whole picture. He felt it very important to have local participa- tion and direction wherever it could be included. He wondered if it might be necessary to seek new proposals. He suspected the year-old appl ications may not be the best way for the screening committee to make its deci s i on. -- 7/19/78--10 .511 I