Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to modify the contract with Stantec Consulting Service, Inc. for the Olentangy Trail - Worthington Hills Extension Design. This will be a contract modification to perform detailed design plans for extending the Olentangy Trail from Worthington Hills Park to Clubview Avenue.
Background: The first phase of the contract was to complete the Feasibility Study, which has been submitted. The Feasibility Study developed the preferred alignment for the trail among several alternatives, public involvement and response, cost estimating, environmental conditions, and key stakeholder meetings. The original contract was legislated by Ordinance #2204-2015.
The Olentangy Trail is the busiest trail in Ohio. Recent trail counts show that the trail had over 1,000,000 uses in 2014. Several segments of the trail receive over 1,000 users per day. The trail currently ends at Worthington Hills Park, along the Olentangy River, 1 mile north of I-270. This northern end of the trail is a major access point, and is one of the heaviest destination points on the 14 mile trail.
ODOT will be providing $250,000 towards construction of this extension. Construction is scheduled for 2017.
The costs for this project modification will be $208,538.13; $3,534.00 of which will come from the existing Auditor’s Certificate from the original Ordinance 2204-2015, with a contingency of $9,995.87, for a total of $215,000.00 being authorized by this ordinance.
Principal Parties:
Stantec Consulting Service, Inc.
1500 Lake Shore Drive, Suite 100
Columbus, OH 43204
Brian Hagerty 614-486-4383
Contract Compliance #11-2167170
Exp: 9/10/17
Emergency Justification: An emergency exists in the usual daily operations of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contract so that deadlines of project funding and plan development process of the engineering ph...
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