SUBJECT: CONSENT AGENDA
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Consideration of A Resolution Authorizing Award of a Construction Contract To De Falco Construction, For the Irrigation Pond Improvements In The Amount of $374,610.62 for construction and $9,518 for Maintenance; And Setting Forth Details In Relation Thereto.
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DEPARTMENT: Public Works
PRESENTER/PREPARER: Russell Pennington, Deputy Public Works Director
Wendi Palmer, Civil Engineer
FISCAL INFORMATION:
Cost as Recommended: $ 451,950.00
Balance Available: $ 980,650 (Pending 2016 funds to be rolled-over)
Fund: Storm Drainage Impact
Budget Line Item Number: 340-70-110-605000-100062
New Appropriation Required: No
STAFF RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approving the Resolution to award said contract, authorizing the appropriate Town officer to execute said contract, authorizing Staff to expend contracted funds and contingency funds.
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SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND OF SUBJECT MATTER:
Coal Creek is a major drainage way that enters Erie at the west side of Erie Airpark Subdivision and runs north through Erie and leaves Erie at Kenosha Road.
In 2012, the Town of Erie, along with Urban Drainage Flood Control District (UDFCD), and five other municipalities, sponsored a Coal Creek Rock Creek Major Drainage Way Plan. This provides Town Staff a Master Plan for Coal Creek Improvements within the Town of Erie.
The 2016 Capital Budget includes funds to design and construct improvements to two reaches of Coal Creek. The design contract for these two reaches was awarded to RESPEC at the December 9, 2014 Board meeting.
Design has been completed on one of these reaches and construction bids have been received. The proposed improvements are adjacent to an irrigation pond east of Erie Commons that was damaged during the September 2013 flood. The pond was repaired, but no improvements were made to the banks of Coal Creek. The creek banks are very steep and bank erosion is a problem that is being exasperated due to the increa...
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