TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Kristoff Bauer, Deputy City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, PE, Director of Public Services
Lee Jernigan, PE, City Traffic Engineer
Tracey Broyles, Budget and Evaluation Director
DATE: May 28, 2019
RE:
Title
Adoption of Capital Project Ordinance Amendments 2019-36 and 2019-37 to Provide $160,000 of Additional Funding for the Owen Drive Sidewalk Project and Award of the Project Construction Contract
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
2, 5
b
Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal IV: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
Objective C: To improve mobility and connectivity by investing in traffic flow strategies, sidewalks, trails and bike lanes
Executive Summary:
Council is asked to adopt Capital Project Ordinance Amendment (CPOA) 2019-36 to reduce a prior appropriation of $30,159 to the FY 2019 sidewalk project funded by payments-in-lieu-of sidewalks, and to adopt CPOA 2019-37 to appropriate the $30,159 of payments-in-lieu of sidewalk plus a transfer of $129,841 from the General Fund to provide a total of $160,000 additional funding for the Owen Drive sidewalk project. The additional funds are needed to proceed with a construction bid award and to provide funding for construction inspection and unforeseen contingencies.
Council is also asked to award the construction contract for the Owen Drive sidewalk project to Sal Construction, of Cary, NC as the lowest responsive, responsible bidder with a total bid of $581,895.
Background:
The Owen Drive sidewalk and bus pad project was requested to complement a recently completed NCDOT project to install medians, landscaping and pedestrian traffic signals along the section of Owen Drive from Eastern Boulevard to Walter Reed Road/Old Owen Drive. The City was previously awarded Federal Highway Administration Surface Transportation funding through NCDOT for this project.
A municipal agreement with the North Carolina Department of Tr...
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