At the Forest Lake City Council’s Aug. 21 work session, City Administrator Aaron Parrish reported that Minnesota Department of Transportation Aeronautics would not be financing all of the remaining cost of a construction overrun on last year’s Daniel DePonti Airport paving project. The project went several hundred thousand dollars over budget while it was being completed, and the project’s engineering firm SEH did not tell the city about the cost overrun until work had been completed.
This spring, SEH, the city, and construction contractor Dresel Engineering struck a deal in which the SEH and the city would pay Dresel $843,000 for its extra work – $74,000 from SEH (10 percent of the cost beyond the project contingency) and the remainder from the city, which would then ask for a reimbursement for its share from MnDOT. MnDOT has financed 90 percent of the project costs up to this point.broadstreet.zone(48036);
However, Parrish told the
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