In a contingency move for the Downtown Streetscape Project, the Salina City Commission voted 4-1 on Monday to approve a change order that will save $122,464 in crosswalk overhead structure costs.
Mike Schrage, interim city manager, said a portion of the change order, which allows the city to make changes to the base contract, changes the supporting columns for the overhead structures, which were suppose to be steel poles with architectural pre-cast colored panels to solid concrete columns.
The change from a solid concrete column from a steel column will resemble the original design.
The second part of the change order will remove the most intricate and expensive panel of the structure.
The original design showed four panels of similar pattern but with larger or smaller openings. The panel that was removed required the most cutting.
This change saved approximately $62,464.
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