DATE: November 16, 2016
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Vernon Gerth, Assistant City Administrator
SUBJECT:
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*Consideration of Resolution 2016-77, a Resolution authorizing the City of Franklin to contribute $400,000 to the Goose Creek Sanitary Sewer Extension Project as part of the Lampo Group Corporate Headquarters Project. (Deferred from 11/08/16 WS; 11/22/16 WS)
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Purpose
The purpose of this memorandum is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning site conditions of the future Lampo Group Corporate Headquarters located within the Reams-Fleming Tract of Berry Farms and the opportunity to contribute to the installation of an additional Goose Creek Sanitary Sewer main to serve the Lampo Group Corporate Headquarters property and, a broader area east and south of Reams-Fleming Tract. The Reams-Fleming Tract is the 200 acres located in the southeastern quadrant of Goose Creek/I-65 interchange.
Background
In 2005, the engineering firm of Smith Seckman Reid Inc. completed a sanitary sewer study for the Goose Creek Drainage Basin. Subsequently, in 2008 the City of Franklin entered into two separate Sanitary Sewer Off-Set Agreements with Boyle Investments and their respective Berry Farms partnerships to facilitate the design and installation of the Goose Creek Sanitary Sewer. The installation of this sewer is complete in accordance with the agreements. During the past several months, the Lampo Group announced that they would be relocating their corporate headquarters to the Reams-Fleming Tract in Berry Farms. The Lampo Group has purchased the southernmost approximately 50 acres of the Reams-Fleming Tract for their corporate headquarters.
The Lampo Group hired the engineering firm Gresham Smith to design their site and determined the existing topography of the property required either a pump station or, increasing the elevation of the site to allow for gravity ...
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