Re: John Amerling — Unsealed Email

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To

I did not receive an e-mail last week

----- Original Message ----
From: Cecilia Steen <cecilia.steen@gmail.com>
To: JE <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:53:55 PM
Subject: John Amerling

Just got a chance to open e mails. The response is Yes subject to the following:

I had a physical problem which cost me some time at work and affected my mobility over the past week so I could not personally meet with DPNR to get a clear picture of permit status and I lost a couple of days on this project; I hope to go to DPNR tomorrow if I can convince my wife to let me drive a car.
The agency has been under a microscope from the staff review teams assigned to evaluate agencies by the incoming Governor; I hope that this distraction does not disturb the pace of the agency reviews.
The design reviews of the indoor pool expansion produced comments and changes which have to be incorporated into the final drawings to be used for building permit purposes.
This process apparently awaits some further approvals of the pool which Mr. Molyneux is discussing with Mr. Epstein.
I personally visited Aercon on another project two weeks ago to investigate the possible use of air entrained concrete panels which would reduce the amount of concrete used in the project; that review was very positive; the Aercon engineers are now in direct communication with Maguire to see of the panels can be used in the indoor pool expansion.
The schedule which I sent Mr. Epstein last week records all of these events.
Some engineering bills are becoming due; I thought it timely for us to prepare a master budget of all activities which I intend to review internally tomorrow for distribution so that Mr. Epstein or his staff can track actual and projected project expenses.
We are assembling construction personnel and starting buy out for the office construction and are very much in need of an overall contract; I will send Darren a fresh draft tomorrow which may help clarify the relationships.

From: Cecilia Steen [mailto: cecilia.steen@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:03 AM
To: John Amerling
Subject: From Jeffrey Epstein

Hi John,

Jeffrey's wondering if we are on track?

Cecilia

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To

Jack Parker

We have been pleading for the structural people to be engaged asap.. mr molynewux is appoplectic, that after producing drawings on rand r's schedule, he has no idea where we are.

----- Original Message ----
From: Jack Parker <jparker@reed-reed.com>
To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Cc: Art Cavanagh <acavanagh@reed-reed.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:05:39 PM
Subject: RE: John Amerling

you win on the 'buyout' stuff.

i take the liberty to summarize the high points of our conversation.

we have offered to discount our october ($26,340) and november ($17,031) bills by 50%. you accepted and offered to have them paid right away.
contract: we need one asap in order to proceed with managing the work. (we agree on this)
contract issues;
a) i proposed to reduce our fixed profit on the cm contract from $3.0m to $2.8 m. it would be billed in equal monthly installments over the 36 month term of the project. at the end of the project, if you are happy, you pay us the additional 200k. i said i would channel this to our people to provide personal incentives for performance. if you are not happy, you don't pay the 200k. b) for portions of the work that one of our affiliate companies might bid for, those bids will be lump sum, not subject to any limitation on mark-up. as construction managers, we would seek competing bids from other qualified subcontractors. we would analyze the bids and scopes of work and present them to you (or your designee) along with our recommendation for award. you would decide to whom the work should be awarded.
we will prepare for your review an up-to-date budget of the office building. it will include the various subcontractors and vendors selected and engaged by the architect that we have been given. tuesday art is traveling to stt and i am returning from florida to maine. we propose to deliver the estimate to you wednesday. art would sit with you in your office and i would be on the phone. we would review the estimate to your satisfaction. at the end of that review, we will finalize and execute a contract for construction management. if you remain unhappy with our work after that review, we will bow out of the project.
we will try to find out what the coconut wall is.

in additon there are 2 things i want to advise you of: 1) it is absoultely critical that you engage on a contract basis the services of the maguire group to complete necessary engineering work. failure to do so will delay the work. 2) art has set up a conference call tomorrow morning to kick start things. see below

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-----Original Message-----

From: Jeff McCormick [mailto:JMcCormick@MaguireGroup.com]

Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:50 PM

To: Darren Indyke; Douglas Stine; Barry Kimball; Art Cavanagh; John Cooney; John Amerling; Doug Schoettle

Subject: Little St. James teleconference

Gentlemen, RRCI's Art Cavanagh has planned a teleconference call for Friday, December 29, 2006 at 10:30 EST to discuss Little St James construction planning, project design status, permitting status, schedules and responsibilities. An agenda will be forwarded next week. The latest version of construction phasing/masterplan buildout will also be forwarded in pdf format for discussion.

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thank you for your time today.

jack

From: J. Epstein [mailto:jeeproject@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:21 PM
To: Jack Parker
Subject: Fw: John Amerling

please see last paragraph

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
To: Cecilia Steen <cecilia.steen@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:02:07 PM
Subject: Re: John Amerling

I did not receive an e-mail last week

----- Original Message ----
From: Cecilia Steen <cecilia.steen@gmail.com>
To: JE <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:53:55 PM
Subject: John Amerling

Just got a chance to open e mails. The response is Yes subject to the following:

I had a physical problem which cost me some time at work and affected my mobility over the past week so I could not personally meet with DPNR to get a clear picture of permit status and I lost a couple of days on this project; I hope to go to DPNR tomorrow if I can convince my wife to let me drive a car.
The agency has been under a microscope from the staff review teams assigned to evaluate agencies by the incoming Governor; I hope that this distraction does not disturb the pace of the agency reviews.
The design reviews of the indoor pool expansion produced comments and changes which have to be incorporated into the final drawings to be used for building permit purposes.
This process apparently awaits some further approvals of the pool which Mr. Molyneux is discussing with Mr. Epstein.
I personally visited Aercon on another project two weeks ago to investigate the possible use of air entrained concrete panels which would reduce the amount of concrete used in the project; that review was very positive; the Aercon engineers are now in direct communication with Maguire to see of the panels can be used in the indoor pool expansion.
The schedule which I sent Mr. Epstein last week records all of these events.
Some engineering bills are becoming due; I thought it timely for us to prepare a master budget of all activities which I intend to review internally tomorrow for distribution so that Mr. Epstein or his staff can track actual and projected project expenses.
We are assembling construction personnel and starting buy out for the office construction and are very much in need of an overall contract; I will send Darren a fresh draft tomorrow which may help clarify the relationships.

From: Cecilia Steen [mailto: cecilia.steen@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:03 AM
To: John Amerling
Subject: From Jeffrey Epstein

Hi John,

Jeffrey's wondering if we are on track?

Cecilia

212 750 9895

Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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To

J. Epstein

please provide rough cash flow requirements monthly as well as a construction schedule that ties into the permit document faxed yesterday.. Also please have art prepared to clarify cost estimates,,i.e.316000 stone facade, 200 cy concrete, and 250k excavation. I hope we can work this out wed

----- Original Message ----
From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
To: Jack Parker <jparker@reed-reed.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:34:21 PM
Subject: Re: John Amerling

We have been pleading for the structural people to be engaged asap.. mr molynewux is appoplectic, that after producing drawings on rand r's schedule, he has no idea where we are.

----- Original Message ----
From: Jack Parker <jparker@reed-reed.com>
To: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Cc: Art Cavanagh <acavanagh@reed-reed.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:05:39 PM
Subject: RE: John Amerling

you win on the 'buyout' stuff.

i take the liberty to summarize the high points of our conversation.

we have offered to discount our october ($26,340) and november ($17,031) bills by 50%. you accepted and offered to have them paid right away.
contract: we need one asap in order to proceed with managing the work. (we agree on this)
contract issues;
a) i proposed to reduce our fixed profit on the cm contract from $3.0m to $2.8 m. it would be billed in equal monthly installments over the 36 month term of the project. at the end of the project, if you are happy, you pay us the additional 200k. i said i would channel this to our people to provide personal incentives for performance. if you are not happy, you don't pay the 200k. b) for portions of the work that one of our affiliate companies might bid for, those bids will be lump sum, not subject to any limitation on mark-up. as construction managers, we would seek competing bids from other qualified subcontractors. we would analyze the bids and scopes of work and present them to you (or your designee) along with our recommendation for award. you would decide to whom the work should be awarded.
we will prepare for your review an up-to-date budget of the office building. it will include the various subcontractors and vendors selected and engaged by the architect that we have been given. tuesday art is traveling to stt and i am returning from florida to maine. we propose to deliver the estimate to you wednesday. art would sit with you in your office and i would be on the phone. we would review the estimate to your satisfaction. at the end of that review, we will finalize and execute a contract for construction management. if you remain unhappy with our work after that review, we will bow out of the project.
we will try to find out what the coconut wall is.

in additon there are 2 things i want to advise you of: 1) it is absoultely critical that you engage on a contract basis the services of the maguire group to complete necessary engineering work. failure to do so will delay the work. 2) art has set up a conference call tomorrow morning to kick start things. see below

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-----Original Message-----

From: Jeff McCormick [mailto:JMcCormick@MaguireGroup.com]

Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:50 PM

To: Darren Indyke; Douglas Stine; Barry Kimball; Art Cavanagh; John Cooney; John Amerling; Doug Schoettle

Subject: Little St. James teleconference

Gentlemen, RRCI's Art Cavanagh has planned a teleconference call for Friday, December 29, 2006 at 10:30 EST to discuss Little St James construction planning, project design status, permitting status, schedules and responsibilities. An agenda will be forwarded next week. The latest version of construction phasing/masterplan buildout will also be forwarded in pdf format for discussion.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

thank you for your time today.

jack

From: J. Epstein [mailto:jeeproject@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 3:21 PM
To: Jack Parker
Subject: Fw: John Amerling

please see last paragraph

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
To: Cecilia Steen <cecilia.steen@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:02:07 PM
Subject: Re: John Amerling

I did not receive an e-mail last week

----- Original Message ----
From: Cecilia Steen <cecilia.steen@gmail.com>
To: JE <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:53:55 PM
Subject: John Amerling

Just got a chance to open e mails. The response is Yes subject to the following:

I had a physical problem which cost me some time at work and affected my mobility over the past week so I could not personally meet with DPNR to get a clear picture of permit status and I lost a couple of days on this project; I hope to go to DPNR tomorrow if I can convince my wife to let me drive a car.
The agency has been under a microscope from the staff review teams assigned to evaluate agencies by the incoming Governor; I hope that this distraction does not disturb the pace of the agency reviews.
The design reviews of the indoor pool expansion produced comments and changes which have to be incorporated into the final drawings to be used for building permit purposes.
This process apparently awaits some further approvals of the pool which Mr. Molyneux is discussing with Mr. Epstein.
I personally visited Aercon on another project two weeks ago to investigate the possible use of air entrained concrete panels which would reduce the amount of concrete used in the project; that review was very positive; the Aercon engineers are now in direct communication with Maguire to see of the panels can be used in the indoor pool expansion.
The schedule which I sent Mr. Epstein last week records all of these events.
Some engineering bills are becoming due; I thought it timely for us to prepare a master budget of all activities which I intend to review internally tomorrow for distribution so that Mr. Epstein or his staff can track actual and projected project expenses.
We are assembling construction personnel and starting buy out for the office construction and are very much in need of an overall contract; I will send Darren a fresh draft tomorrow which may help clarify the relationships.

From: Cecilia Steen [mailto: cecilia.steen@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:03 AM
To: John Amerling
Subject: From Jeffrey Epstein

Hi John,

Jeffrey's wondering if we are on track?

Cecilia

212 750 9895

Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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