07. Red River Regional Dispatch Center Joint Powers Agreement review

53 Version Oct 13, 2022 (i) All design professional fees, including architectural and engineering fees, including related costs. (ii) All publicly-bid components of construction, including the lowest apparent bid for the general contractor, the electrical contractor and the mechanical contractor or, in the alternative, the lowest apparent combined bid if applicable. (iii) All estimates or bids for FF & E as well as for digital hardware for dispatch consoles and supporting equipment but not including costs of operating software, such as the new world system software, which costs shall be part of the annual operating costs for the RRRDC. (iv) Where actual fees or bid prices or costs are not yet known, a reasonable estimate shall be used for purposes of this calculation. (v) Any other costs or categories of cost that are identified by the RRRDC Board of Authority. (b) To the extent that land for the new dispatch center contemplated by this Article is acquired by long-term lease, payments made to the landlord under such lease and payments to third parties under such lease, such as taxes, insurance premiums, utilities charges and the like, shall be treated as annual operations costs and, therefore, shall not be treated as a cost of construction and, therefore shall not be included in the “Total Cost of Construction” as defined above. (c) (d) Proceeds from the sale of the existing Dispatch Center, located at 300 NP Avenue,in Fargo, North Dakota, shall be deposited with the Dispatch Center with said proceeds to be applied toward the reduction of the cost of construction and shall not be included in the “Total Cost of Construction” as defined above. Section 24.05 DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. It is anticipated that Cass County will seek public bids in accordance with North Dakota statutory requirements such as N.D.C.C. Chapter 48- 01.2. At such time as publicly-solicited bids are opened, the apparent Total Cost of Construction, subject to the selection of bid alternates, approved change orders or other contract amendments, can be calculated for purposes of decision-making. Notwithstanding the terms of Section 5.09, which provides that certain decisions require at least one (1) affirmative vote must be cast by a Minnesota Board Member, at least one (1) affirmative vote must be cast by a North Dakota Board Member and, that, with respect to decisions described in Section 5.09, paragraphs (a), (b), (f) or (g), at least one (1) affirmative vote must be cast by a Cass County Member; with respect to any decision as to whether or not the actual construction of the new dispatch center is to be approved and authorized by the RRRDC Board of Authority, the Approval of construction bids and the award of construction contracts must be obtained by the RRRDC Board of Authority, subject to the following limitations: