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Authorization of a Task Assignment under a Professional Architectural and Engineering Consulting Services Continuing Services Agreement (B)
This item is a request for the City Commission to approve a Task Assignment in the amount of $116,738 for professional design services for the Wild Spaces & Public Places (WSPP) Multiuse Trail and the Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) Solids Handling Facility Access Roadway (SE Williston Road to Sweetwater Branch Creek) with Jones, Edmunds & Associates, Inc.
Explanation
In 2012, the City Commission approved the Parks, Recreational and Cultural Affairs Vision 2020 Master Plan. This plan brought to light the need for additional multiuse trails and better connectivity between parks. In April of 2017 the City entered into a $3,000,000 interlocal agreement with the County for projects of mutual interest to the County and the City. The Sweetwater Recreational Trail is the first priority project under this agreement. WSPP Staff worked with the DRMP, Inc. design team in 2019 to develop a schematic layout of the entire trail project to better identify the constraints, design challenges, and gather stakeholder input.
The schematic trail layout showed the multiuse trail running parallel to an existing GRU dirt access road. The GRU dirt access road is currently used by GRU to access their transmission lines and sanitary sewer infrastructure. It will be used in the future to access a GRU Water/Wastewater Solids Handling Facility, which will be constructed on the old Compost Plant property.
The grading, stormwater design, and permitting required for the GRU access road improvements and the construction of the multiuse trail are tightly intertwined; therefore GRU and WSPP agreed that it would be in the best interest of the City for Jones, Edmunds & Associates, Inc. to design the multiuse trail in conjunction with the GRU access road improvements from SE Williston Road to Sweetwater Branch Creek.
The GRU access ro...
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