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Request to Authorize Manager to Extend Contract with Wetherill Engineering for Preliminary Engineering Services for the Jones Creek Greenway
PURPOSE: The contract for Wetherill Engineering, the design firm preparing the bid documents for the Jones Creek Greenway, is scheduled to expire at the end of December. The purpose of this agenda item is to authorize the Town Manager to execute a contract extension with Wetherill in order to complete the preliminary design and associated bid documents.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning and Finance departments
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon, Planning Administrator, 919-918-7325, cmoon@townofcarrboro.org <mailto:cmoon@townofcarrboro.org>; Patricia McGuire, Planning Director, 919-918-7327, pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org <mailto:pmcguire@townofcarrboro.org>; Arche McAdoo, Finance Director, 919-918-7300, amcadoo@townofcarrboro.org <mailto:amcadoo@townofcarrboro.org>
INFORMATION: On June 27, 2017, the Board of Aldermen awarded a contract to Wetherill Engineering for preliminary design services for the Jones Creek Greenway, a one-hundred-foot bridge and paved greenway trail between Lake Hogan Farm Road and the Twin Creeks Greenway. Design is underway and approaching 90-percent completion. Longer review times for certain aspects of the project have delayed the project milestones and a contract amendment is needed for Wetherill to complete the bid documents (construction plans, specification manual and associated permits), in anticipation of a possible advertisement date in late spring 2022.
FISCAL & STAFF IMPACT: The amendment is necessary to extend the contract period to align with the current project timeline; no additional costs are anticipated at this time.
RECOMMENDATION:r Staff recommends that the Town Council consider the resolution (Attachment A) authorizing the Town Manager to execute a contract extension for Wetherill Engineering.