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CITY COMMISSION AGENDA ITEM |
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Department: |
Public Works |
Commission Meeting Date: Dec. 5 2017 |
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Staff Contact: |
Jason Stowe |
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Recommendations/Options/Action Requested: |
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Adopt on first reading, Ordinance No. 9428, declaring the City’s intent to issue general obligation bonds in the amount $350,000 for improvements to the Storm Sewer System. |
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Executive Summary: |
The storm sewer beneath the canopy and sidewalk in the alley of the 800 block, between Vermont & Massachusetts Street, is in need of repair. This section of alley is used by patrons frequenting businesses and others traversing the downtown area and using the parking lot adjacent to this location. In order to repair the storm sewer, the canopy will need to be removed. The canopy itself is a metal structure with a bitumen style roof that has been leaking through the decking and overflowing toward the properties that adjoin the canopy, causing it to leak into these spaces in some instances. The sidewalk also has numerous tripping hazards as well as ADA related compliance issues. The cost to rehabilitate and continue to maintain the canopy is no longer feasible. City staff has been in contact with the property owners to notify them of the intent to remove the canopy, repair the sidewalk and underground storm water piping.
City staff reached out to property owners via certified mail to obtain permission to access their property due to the existing connections between the canopy and those structures. The project will include a onetime repair of the structures adjoining the canopy so long as the property owner signed and returned the access waiver form that was sent via certified mail to them. If no waiver was returned then the City will remove the canopy to the nearest safest point in relation to the property boundary. Twelve out of twenty three of these waivers have been returned to date.
This project was not able to be completed in 2017 due to making sure that the City was making a good effort to contact and work with property owners. It was approved in the 2017 CIP and in order to secure financing for the project, an Ordinance of intent to issue general obligation bonds is necessary in 2017.
The project engineering will begin in early 2018 and expected to begin construction progress in the early Spring of 2018. |
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Strategic Plan Critical Success Factor |
Safe, Healthy, and Welcoming Neighborhoods Innovative Infrastructure and Asset Management |
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Fiscal Impact (Amount/Source): |
The fiscal impact to the City is $ $350,000. This item is included in the 2017 Public Works CIP program, project number PW17B4CIP. |
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Reviewed By: (for CMO use only) |
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