With a lengthy discussion, mostly about terms and the timeline and procurement and pre-construction items, the Chandler City Council took steps this week toward one of its larger municipal building projects it’s taken on since the COVID-19 pandemic ended.

Sept. 15, council heard presentations and asked questions of Chandler Police Department staff and a division manager about construction of what the city calls its new “Forensic Services Facility,” or crime lab.

Council is set to vote to approve a contract with Willmeng Construction on Sept. 18 for $431,000 as its “construction manager at risk” to build the lab.

Dan Haskins, the city’s capital projects division manager, explained that a construction manager at risk, or CMAR, contract is where the city has chosen the contractor for the j

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