SUBJECT: CONSENT AGENDA
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Consideration of A Resolution Authorizing Award of a Consultant Agreement To Felsburg Holt & Ullevig, Inc., For the Transportation Master Plan Update, In The Amount of $94,780; And Setting Forth Details In Relation Thereto.
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PRESENTER/PREPARER: Russell Pennington, Deputy Public Works Director
Gary Behlen, Public Works Director
Wendi Palmer, Civil Engineer
FISCAL INFORMATION:
Cost as Recommended: $104,300.00
Balance Available: $125,000.00 (with rollover from 2015)
Fund: Transportation Impact Fund
Budget Line Item Number: 300-70-110-605000-100092
New Appropriation Required: No
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve Resolution authorizing execution of said contract, and authorizing Staff to expend funds.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
The Town's current Transportation Master Plan, dated January 2008, was prepared in conjunction with the 2005 Comprehensive Plan Update, and was finalized January, 2008. Traffic projections were based on the 2007 Development Plan. Since this time there have been several updates to the development plan, and the Comprehensive Plan was updated in December, 2015. The 2015 Comprehensive Plan update did not include a Transportation Master Plan update.
The Transportation Impact Fund budget has had funding for a Transportation Master Plan Update for the last two years, with the start of the project beginning once the Comprehensive Plan update is complete. Now that the Comprehensive Plan Update is complete, Staff would like to begin the Transportation Master Plan Update.
Staff recommends awarding the Consultant Agreement to Felsburg Holt & Ullevig (FHU), Inc., for the Transportation Master Plan Update as a preferred vendor instead of requesting qualifications and proposals from multiple consultants. The following are reasons taken into consideration by Staff in making the decision to recommend FHU.
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