Morristown Uses $41,274.47 of BIF Architectural Fees as "Soft Match" Funds. The Local Hard Match (Cash) Is Reduced to 7% for Actual Construction

In this email exchange between TDOT's Hansen and the City's Todd Morgan, it appears that  $41,274.47 of the first architectural fees paid to BIF on the Millennium project were applied to the City/MSP soft match when funds were obligated for the project.

Using these architectural fees as part of the City/MSP required local match apparently resulted in the City/MSP match for actual Millennium construction costs going from 10% down to 7%.

I am going largely by the email here because soft match-hard match can be confusing and the option for using engineering fees as matching funds changed during the course of the Millennium project. It appears that Todd Morgan was asking for clarification in this email to make sure that changes in soft match-hard match did not affect the City's prior use of architectural fees as part of the City/MSP match:

                                                                                                                                                              

But it also appears that all or part of the $41,274.47 in architectural fees that the City/MSP applied toward the local match was for payments to the Architect before the City even approved a contract with the Architect. See this prior post.