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Prescott City Council Page 6 Regular Voting Meeting April 22, 2014 preservation. The project consists of placing 150,000 square yards of micro-surfacing of the City maintained portions of various roads and Highway 89. He noted that restoration of traffic stripping and pavement preservation work at the administration parking lot at the Prescott Municipal airport. Councilwoman Wilcox said her opinion was to wait before spending large sums of money from the Streets and Open Space Fund until Council gets the Open Space Acquisition Plan figured out. She said the Council has spent far more of the Open Space and Streets Fund on the streets in the past five to six years. She would like to see the Council restore the confidence of the voters in the promise of the Council to have an Open Space plan for the benefit of the entire City. She said it is time for Council to show some good faith that the money that was collected for open space should go to open space. Councilman Kuknyo said that he respectfully disagreed with Councilwoman Wilcox. He said the City would be preserving asphalt, to keep the costs down. He said that he thought the project had been put on a schedule and the City got the most out of the pavement that was already laid down. Craig McConnell, City Manager, said that the list of projects funded by the One Cent Sales Tax for Streets and Open Space, fall into several different categories. He said it is the time to apply the treatments to the streets, to prolong their service life. Another category would be reconstruction, which can be deferred, on occasion. He said if Council was trying to find money for open space, they should look at reconstruction projects, rather than maintenance. If the City is able to keep the maintenance up, they will save a lot of money in reconstruction that may not be available in the future. Councilman Lazzell said he has many more discussions with taxpayers about the streets than about open space. Councilman Arnold said if Council wants to discuss delaying projects, they should do that during the budget cycle. COUNCILMAN BLAIR MOVED TO AWARD THE BID AND CONTRACT FOR THE FY 2014 PAVEMENT PRESERVATION PROJECT TO SOUTHWEST SLURRY SEAL, INC., IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,044,104.70 (CITY CONTRACT NO. 2014-170); SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN KUKNYO; PASSED 6-1, COUNCILWOMAN WILCOX DISSENTING. H. Approval of a professional services agreement with Plateau Engineering, Inc., to provide engineering services for the Rosser Street Reconstruction Phase IV Project in an amount not to exceed $188,472.05 (City Contract No. 2014-168; 1% Streets and Open Space Fund) Scott Tkach, Acting Public Works Director, presented. He said the work would include geotechnical investigations, subsurface utility investigations, survey, concrete flat work,