DATE: March 30, 2017
TO: Board of Mayor and Aldermen
FROM: Eric Stuckey, City Administrator
Paul Holzen, City Engineer/Director of Engineering
Jonathan Marston, Assistant Director of Engineering
SUBJECT:
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Consideration of Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement (COF Contract No. 2015-0052) with Sullivan Engineering, Inc. for the Final Design of the East McEwen Drive Phase 4 Improvements Project for a Cost Increase Not-to-Exceed $121,998.66 (3/30/2017 CIC 4-0)
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Purpose
The purpose of this memo is to provide information to the Franklin Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BOMA) concerning Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement (PSA) (COF Contract No. 2015-0052) with Sullivan Engineering, Inc. (SEI) for the Final Design of the East McEwen Drive Phase 4 Improvements project.
Background
On March 24, 2015, the BOMA approved a PSA (COF Contract No. 2015-0052) with SEI for the final design of the East McEwen Drive Phase 4 Improvements with a not-to-exceed contract ceiling of $713,000.00. During the completion of the final design, two (2) significant changes, outside of the original contract scope, have occurred.
First, the original preliminary design and subsequent final designs showed a shared driveway for the properties located at 3631, 3651, 3709, 3713 and 3953 East McEwen Drive. This shared driveway was designed to have two (2) connections to East McEwen Drive. The property owners affected by this design were concerned about future traffic on this driveway, as it would appear to other drivers to be another street. After several meetings with the affected property owners, staff agreed to modify the design to include a cul-de-sac at the east end of the driveway. This change required both additional design work and geotechnical testing. Ultimately, this shared driveway will be located in public right-of-way and maintained by the City of Franklin.
The second change occurred at a set of private drives (e.g. 3594...
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