Exceptions to Section 14. 1. Notwithstanding the waiver and approval contained in Section 14.1, to the extent any federal and/or state law requirements are applicable to the use of the Additional Public Funds, the Redeveloper shall require its Construction Manager to comply with such requirements. The City and the Agency acknowledge the importance to the success of the Project of the Redeveloper’s desire to maintain a limited number of construction managers and/or general contractors to work on critical path construction schedule items, including, without limitation, demolition, grading, finish site work, concrete, and certain other infrastructure improvements, as well as the necessity of the Redeveloper to retain Redeveloper’s Construction Managers and of any such Redeveloper’s Construction Manager to retain such subcontractors as may be required to have the financial wherewithal to provide payment and performance bonds or subguard insurance for portions of the Proposed Project to the extent required by any Construction Lender or other private sources of funds obtained by the Redeveloper; the City and the Agency agree to cooperate in good faith with the Redeveloper in such regard.
