Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
This legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to modify a design contract with Burgess and Niple, Inc. for the Roadway Improvements - Downtown Action Plan Project. This project is being designed to implement concepts from the 2010 Downtown Columbus Strategic Plan. The concepts include providing on-street parking on High Street, converting Front Street to two-way operation north of Broad Street, reducing the number of travel lanes on Broad Street and including complete streets concepts, evaluating the one-way pairs for complete streets concepts, and reviewing on-street parking throughout downtown.
To date, portions of tasks 1 through 3 of the Downtown Action Plan have been completed. The downtown traffic model is mostly completed and will be finalized as the project proceeds onto each task. Parking on High Street in the downtown has been modeled and analyzed. Adding meters to High Street is currently being designed. Traffic modeling, analysis, and preliminary design have been completed for the conversion of Front Street and Marconi Blvd from one-way to two-way between Broad Street and Hickory Street. It is ready to begin final design. Traffic modeling and analysis is currently being performed for a possible road diet on Broad Street between Civic Center Drive/Marconi Blvd and I-71.
Future tasks include reevaluating the current parking restrictions on many of the streets in the downtown and the modeling and analyses of the one-way pairs in the downtown, which involves complete streets strategies such as converting to two-way, improved crosswalks, installing bike facilities, and other treatments.
This modification allows for a continuation of previously approved work and adds additional work which may include, but is not limited to: starting to update the Bicentennial Bikeways Plan and will include opportunities for the City to apply the new NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guidelines and other innovative solutions for downtown Columbus; design of the work orders to install meters on High Street; hold additional stakeholder meetings; add Livingston Avenue as an additional street to be analyzed; and allows for the design of signal fiber on Front St.
Original amount of this contract $500,000.00 (Ord. 1398-2011, EL012184)
Modification number 1 $515,000.00 (Ord. 0720-2012, EL012736)
Modification number 2 $500,000.00
The Total amount of the contract, including this modification is $1,515,000.00
Searches in the Excluded Party List System (Federal) and the Findings for Recovery list (State) produced no findings against Burgess and Niple.
2. CONTRACT COMPLIANCE
The contract compliance number for Burgess and Niple, Inc. is 31-0885550 and expires 11/26/2012.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to allow the project schedule for this contract to proceed as planned.
4. FISCAL IMPACT
Funding for this expense is budgeted in the 2012 Capital Improvement Budget within the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Service to modify an existing contract with Burgess and Niple, Inc. for the Roadway Improvements - Downtown Action Plan contract; to authorize the expenditure of $500,000.00 from the Streets and Highways G.O. Bonds Fund for the Division of Mobility Options; and to declare an emergency. ($500,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, ordinance 1398-2011 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into contract with Burgess and Niple, Inc. for the Roadway Improvement - Downtown Action Plan project in the amount of $500,000.00; and
WHEREAS, ordinance 0720-2012 authorized the Director of Public Service to enter into a planned contract modification with Burgess and Niple, Inc. for the Roadway Improvement - Downtown Action Plan project in the amount of $515,000.00; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to execute an additional design modification to this contract to add Alta Planning + Design as a subconsultant in which Alta's input into the Downtown Action Plan will serve as the first steps towards the recommended 5 year update to the Bicentennial Bikeways Plan and will include opportunities for the City to apply the new NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guidelines and other innovative solutions for downtown Columbus; and
WHEREAS, a satisfactory proposal has been received by Burgess and Niple, Inc. for this modification; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service in that it is immediately necessary to pass this ordinance as an emergency measure because of the need to meet the project schedule for improvements to downtown roadways; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Service be and is hereby authorized to execute a contract modification with Burgess and Niple, Inc., 5085 Reed Road, Columbus, OH 43220, to increase the authorized expenditure amount for this project by up to $500,000.00 for continued design services required for this project.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of up to $500,000.00 is hereby authorized for the above described modification as follows:
Fund / Project / Project Name / O.L. 01-03 Codes / OCA / Amount
704 / 530161-100021 / Roadway Improvements - Downtown Action Plan / 06-6682 / 746121 / $500,000.00
SECTION 3. That the City Auditor is authorized to make any accounting changes to revise the funding source for all contracts or contract modifications associated with this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approvals by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.