The City Has No Architect Under Contract or Does It?

In the previous post, TDOT gave the City the go-ahead on May 21, 2010, to begin preliminary engineering and asked the City to provide the name of its consultant and a copy of the contract.

But the City doesn't have a consultant or a contract with a consultant.

Instead of soliciting architectural proposals, Morgan sends an email out on May 25, 2010, and informs the recipients that TDOT has given the go-ahead with the Design Phase on the Millennium project and that the City will be holding a planning meeting on June 2, 2010.

Only one architectural firm is invited to this Millennium planning meeting--Brewer, Ingram & Fuller represented by Dan Brewer and Lisa Hoskins. Others invited are the City attorney, then-Mayor Barile, Administrator Tony Cox, LAMPTO's Rich DesGrosseilliers, TimWild, and David Wild.

Brewer responds any time is fine for him and his associate Lisa Hoskins.

Morgan and other City officials and employees know that the City has not officially selected BIF as project architect and know that the City has no contract with BIF on the Millennium project.

But Morgan invites one and only one architectural firm to a June 2, 2010, Millennium planning meeting at which other city officials/employees and Tim and David Wild of Millennium Square Partners and Wild Building Contractors are in attendance.