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Resolution to Authorize Professional Services Agreements with ROWE Professional Services Company for the Morehead - Delaware Pedestrian Bridge Project (RFP-961) ($37,549.00)
Memorandum
Attached for your review and consideration for approval is a resolution authorizing Professional Services Agreements with ROWE Professional Services Co. for $37,549.00 for engineering design work for the Morehead - Delaware Pedestrian Bridge Project.
When the Lansdowne No. 3 subdivision was built in the 1960s and 70s, the developer installed three weirs across the drain and retention basins that lie between the properties on Morehead Court and Delaware Drive east of South Seventh Street and are part of the Northwest Branch of Malletts Creek. The developer created Lans Basin, Inc., whose members are the owners of those properties. Lans Basin, Inc., is responsible for the maintenance of the drain and retention basins, including the weirs. A simple wooden bridge was built on one of the weirs over the Malletts Creek. The plat for Lansdowne No. 3 established pedestrian pathways between homes on both Morehead Court and Delaware Drive and providing pedestrian access to the bridge from the sidewalks along those streets. The pedestrian bridge was removed in 2010 due to safety concerns associated with the weir upon which it sat.
Replacement of the bridge could not be considered until Lans Basin, Inc. addressed repair and replacement of the weir. The City also indicated that, to avoid a similar situation in the future, the weir would need to be relocated away from its original position so that the new bridge could rest on it is own superstructure. Lans Basin, Inc. reported that weir replacement was completed in 2015.
On May 18, 2015 City Council approved an amendment to the FY 16 budget allocating $450,000.00 from the General Fund for the Morehead - Delaware Pedestrian Bridge Design Project.
On January 8, 2016, a request for proposals for the Morehead - Delaware Pedest...
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