R2000-91 ACCEPTING AND AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT

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• � � � ' �E•DEc �= 9C v �o r�-- '/[LINO�S June 14, 2000 PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM NO. 2000-42 MEMORANDUM TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: Steve Garman, City Manager � � Bruce McNabb P.E. Director of Public Works � Matthew Newell, P.E.,Traffic Engineer g�Z'GJ�� SUBJECT: Engineering Services for the Hubbard Avenue/Rea's Bridge Road Connector, City Project 9227 An item on the agenda for the June 19, 2000, City Council meeting is the authorization of an agreement for engineering services with Blank, Wesselink, Cook & Associates, Inc. (BWC) for a fee not to exceed $110,600 to provide preliminary design services for the Hubbard Avenue / Rea's Bridge Road Connector. The preliminary design is the initial phase of the design process that will consist of preliminary and final design phases. The preliminary design phase will last approximately 4'/2 months and will provide the City with the necessary information to determine the future course of the design effort. The preliminary design also enables the City's selected design firm to make a more precise engineering services proposal for the final design work. An engineering services agreement for the final design phase will be presented to Council following the conclusion of the preliminary design phase. The Hubbard Avenue/Rea's Bridge Road Connector is proposed as a three lane road that connects with Hubbard Avenue on the west end and Rea's Bridge Road on the east end (see attached drawing). In 1993, BWC completed a corridor study to recommend possible corridors for a roadway linking 22nd / 27th Streets with Brush College Road. The study pointed to a connector linking Hubbard Avenue with Rea's Bridge Road, extending through the Caterpillar I complex, as the best location for the proposed roadway. In 1995, City staff, with input from I Caterpillar, prepared an alignment for the proposed roadway and BWC completed a property ' survey of the alignment.