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Resolution to Approve the October 2008 Professional Services Agreement between the City and URS Corporation Great Lakes for Work Related to the Environmental Assessment and Preliminary Engineering for the Safety Extension of Runway 6/24 at the Ann Arbor Municipal Airport ($186,000.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and approval is a resolution to approve the October 2008 Professional Services Agreement between the City and URS Corporation Great Lakes (URS), in the amount of $186,000.00, for work related to the environmental assessment (EA) and preliminary engineering for the safety extension of runway 6/24. URS Corporation is uniquely qualified for this effort due to their familiarity with the aeronautical operations of the airport and their work on the airport layout plan which provides the conceptual basis for the pre-design effort.
This overall project consists of completing an EA of the potential impacts related to an 800’ runway safety extension and a shift of the runway 150’ to the southwest. These modifications were depicted on the Airport Layout Plan approved by Council in September 2008. The full scope of the EA will be completed by two consulting firms, Smith Group JJR, LLC and URS Corporation. While URS is capable of completing the entire EA, state and federal regulations prohibit them from completing certain EA tasks when they are doing preliminary engineering on the runway safety extension. Smith Group JJR, through their Ann Arbor office, will be the lead consulting firm on the EA tasks including the public involvement and coordination. URS Corporation, the Airport’s design engineer, will be preparing preliminary engineering on the runway safety extension and completing other technical tasks in support of the EA and Smith Group JJR. Preliminary engineering of the runway safety extension is undertaken as part of the EA to determine the full scope and potential impact of the improvement.
The EA will take approximately 12 months...
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