City of Gainesville - File #: 100773.

• File #: 100773.
• Version: 1
• Name: Main Street Streetscape (B)
• Type: Discussion Item
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/21/2011
• In control: City Manager
• Final action: 4/21/2011
• Title: Main Street Streetscape (B) This item is to discuss options for advancing the Main Street Streetscape and Lighting project.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/21/2011	1	City Commission	Approved, as shown above	Pass
4/7/2011	0	City Commission	Withdrawn

Title

Main Street Streetscape (B)

This item is to discuss options for advancing the Main Street Streetscape and Lighting project.

Explanation

The City Commission requested that staff provide options to accelerate the funding of landscaping and street lighting for the section of North and South Main Street soon to be completed by the Florida Department of Transportation.  

The adopted FY 11 - 15 Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) identifies $1.1 million in FY 2015 for Main Street Streetscape.  The costs of the project were estimated at $1.65 million.

Staff has reviewed the accounts associated with several recently completed projects including the SW 6^th Street/2^nd Avenue Roundabout, SW 23^rd Terr/35^th Place Roundabout, and the traffic signal replacements and have found that due to savings between estimated costs and actual bided contract costs there is approximately $1,616,984.73 of gas tax funds available that could be directed to advance the Main Street Streetscape project.  This would allow the City Commission to reallocate the $1.1 million that is identified in FY 2015 to another project.

Alternatives for the expenditure of these funds is to put towards 1) any potential shortfall in funding on Depot Avenue associated with right of way acquisition; 2) advance reconstruction of SE 4 Street; or 3) bring in a currently unfunded project from the Prioritized List of Transportation Projects.

Fiscal Note

Allocate cost savings from completed projects to the Main Street Streetscape project in the amount of $1,616,984.73.

Recommendation

The City Commission: 1) approve the reallocation of $1,616,984.73 to the Main Street Streetscape project to allow work to begin in FY 11; and 2) direct the City Manager to come back at a future meeting with recommendations for the reallocation of the FY 15 $1.1 million.