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meeting. The Consultant will distribute minutes to the interested parties within five calendar days of the conference. The City will arrange for the location of the meeting. (5) Make on -site inspections of the Project as often as required to ensure familiarity with the progress and quality of the work, to determine if the work is proceeding in acceptable conformance with the contract documents, and to review the work with the City's designated representatives. On the basis of these inspections, by the Consultant, the Consultant will keep the City informed of the progress and quality of the work through written status reports and through meetings with the City's representative. The Consultant will also be reasonably available to perform site visitations at the specific request of the City by the next business day after a request is made. (6) In performing all services, including inspections, not have control or charge of and will not be responsible for construction means, methods, techniques, sequences or procedures, or for safety precautions and programs in connection with the work, for the acts or omissions of the contractor, subcontractors or any other persons performing any of the work, or for the failure of any of them to carry out the work in accordance with the contract documents, unless such acts or omissions are due to the negligence of the Consultant or are acts or omissions under the Consultant's control. However, the Consultant will exercise its authority on behalf of the City in accordance herewith and particularly during the implementation phase so that all work performed by the contractor results in a Project completed in accordance with the contract documents and during any phase should the Consultant become aware of the Contractor's utilization of means, methods, techniques, sequences and /or procedures of construction which, in the Consultant's opinion, will not result in completion of the Project in accordance with the contract documents or which are unsafe, the Consultant will immediately inform the City and will take all necessary action which the Consultant is authorized to take under the contract documents to correct the matter. (7) At all times, have access to the work wherever it is in preparation or progress. (8) Determine the amounts owing to the contractor based on its on -site professional inspections and on evaluations of the Contractor's applications for payment, including comparisons of the contractor's monthly cost reports with its applications for payment, and make recommendations for payment in these amounts, as provided in the contract documents, or take such other appropriate action which the Consultant deems necessary. (9) Make recommendations for payment that constitute a representation by the Consultant to the City based on the Consultant's inspections and on the data comprising the Contractor's application for payment, that 1) the work has progressed to the point indicated, 2) the quality of the work is in acceptable B