LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lakeport city staff will take an update on the second phase of the Downtown Improvement Project to the Lakeport City Council at its first meeting of the new year.
The council will meet beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, in the council chambers at Lakeport City Hall, 225 Park St.
Community Development Director Kevin Ingram notified business owners and community members of the meeting this week and invited them to come and give input.
“The primary purpose of this update is to request the City Council review the proposed addition of supplemental design services for greater compliance with State and Federal standards regarding accessibility and lighting,” Ingram said.
The report said the total project budget – including design, contingencies and construction management – is $2,592,299 and is composed of three funding elements: redevelopment funds, $1,967,128; the city's water enterprise fund, $254,946; and sewer enterprise fund, $370,225, according to a report that Ingram and interim City Engineer Paul Curren have prepared for the Jan. 5 meeting.
The cost for the project's construction alone is $2,044,931, according to the report.
The report explains that the council is being asked to review the proposed addition of supplemental design services to the contract with Crawford and Associates Inc., which staff is recommending.
“The Downtown Lakeport Improvement Project has gone through several iterations and Phase II of that project is currently under design by Crawford and Associates, Inc. It is anticipated that City staff will act as the construction manager and provide inspection services in house with some outside testing expertise required,” the report explains, adding that Curren will be the project manager for the city for both the project's design and construction.
The report from Curren and Ingram explains that the project's original design “was based on a much longer design period which would begin early in the spring of 2015 to achieve spring 2016 construction and also anticipated an over summer delay for the completion of work.”
They said the project's start also was delayed due to no fault of the design team. “When design was initiated this summer, much of the anticipated design time was already past. However, initiation of the spring 2016 construction was still perceived as a desirable goal.”
The goal is to have construction start in the spring rather than the fall of 2016, the report explained. The design team and city staff have been meeting at least weekly, if not more, to get the project off the ground in that new time frame.
Ingram and Curren reported that the project design was at about the 65-percent point as of the first week in December “and progressing rapidly.”
Ingram and Curren reported that several items were not previously sufficiently addressed in the contract's anticipated scope of design under the contract, including conformance with American with Disability Act requirements, the scope of utility work, lighting analysis at intersections, irrigation considerations and coordination, and design services during construction.
The original agreement fee was $164,835. In order to amend the contract to cover the additional items, the report estimates updated costs of $67,899, for a total revised agreement amount of $232,734.
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010516 Lakeport City Council agenda - Downtown Improvement Plan update
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