The City-BIF Contract: How Could a Contract That Was Not in Final Form and Was "Revised" by the City Attorney on August 9, 2010, Be Signed and Dated July 20, 2010?

Re-cap:

(1) BIF was selected as project architect on July 20, 2010, by a committee.
(2) At the time of selection, Todd Morgan told BIF that its selection was not a contract--that would be handled in a separate review.
(3) City Attorney Dick Jessee appears to have begun reviewing and revising the proposed BIF-City contract on or about August 3, 2010, and was still making revisions to the AIA contract as late as August 9, 2010.
(4) The City Council approved the contract on August 10, 2010.

How could a contract--that was not even in final form on August 9, 2010 and that was not approved by city council until August 10, 2010--be signed and dated on July 20, 2010?

Here are Jessee's bills showing that he first began a review of the Millennium (AIA) Architectural contract on or about August 3, 2010, and was still reviewing and making revisions to the proposed
contract on August 9, 2010.


 

 

There are several reasons someone may have wanted to back date the contract. The next post with BIF's first billing to the City poses one possible reason...

Here are the minutes of the special called meeting on August 10, 2010, when the City approved the City-BIF contract, a guaranty that Millennium Partners would pay all non-grant funded costs, and a lease agreement where two of the 22 parking spaces on the parking deck would be labeled for City greenway trailhead use and the remaining parking spaces would be general public parking, including two handicapped spaces, near the Millennium Square Office Building.