Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, is engaged in the Hard Road Phase B Improvement project. This project consists of constructing a new railroad bridge, street lighting, traffic signals, storm sewers, water lines, pavement and curbs and sidewalks and will eliminate safety hazards and congestion in the vicinity of three schools. The project limits are Smokey Row Road to the west and Linworth Road on the east. The original $10,698,604.79 construction contract with Trucco Construction Company was authorized by Ordinance 0784-2003 passed by City Council on May 19, 2003. This contract was modified and increased by $200,000.00 to cover the cost of construction delays caused by untimely utility relocations as authorized by Ordinance 1373-2004 passed by Council on July 19, 2004.
The need now exists to further modify and increase this contract by $711,112.12 to provide for changes in construction necessitated by actual field conditions where contracted pay items did not exist and/or for quantity overruns. Variations between the design-assumed quantities and those found with actual field conditions are not unusual, especially on a project of this size and scope.
FISCAL IMPACT: $588,890.15 of this modification is eligible for eighty percent (80%) reimbursement by the Ohio Public Works Commission; the state's share is $471,112.12. The City is responsible for twenty percent (20%) of this amount or $117,778.03. The City is also responsible for one hundred percent (100%) of $122,221.97 that is not subject to reimbursement. The total City liability at this time is $240,000.00; this amount is available within the Federal State Highway Engineering Fund in the Central Ohio Management Based Applied Technology and North Outerbelt Widening grants that have been completed. This ordinance transfers this money to the Hard Road grant within this Fund. It also appropriates the state's share within the State Issue Two Projects Fund and trans...
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