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<br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br /> Date: 8/26/13 <br /> Item No.: 7.c <br />Department Approval City Manager Approval <br />Item Description: Adopt a Resolution to Accept the Work Completed, Authorize Final <br />Payment and Commence the One-Year Warranty Period on the Twin <br />Lakes Infrastructure Improvements- Phase 2 <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />B ACKGROUND 1 <br />On June 14, 2010, the City Council awarded the Twin Lakes Infrastructure Improvements- Phase 2 <br />2 to Veit & Company, Inc of Rogers, Minnesota. Work completed under the contract totaled 3 <br />$1,793,803.49. Veit & Company, Inc. successfully completed the majority of the work on the 4 <br />project in October 2010 with landscaping. There was a two year maintenance plan for the 5 <br />streetscape planting. The contractor completed their landscape maintenance obligations on June 6 <br />1, 2013. 7 <br />The Twin Lakes Infrastructure Improvements Project- Phase 2 consisted of the construction of 8 <br />Twin Lakes Parkway, between Mount Ridge Road and Prior Avenue, the construction of Prior 9 <br />Avenue, between Twin Lakes Parkway and County Road C, and a signal at County Road C and 10 <br />Prior Avenue. The project also includes installation of LED streetlights, watermain, sanitary 11 <br />sewer, storm sewer, streetlights, fiber conduit, and landscape installation. 12 <br />P OLICY O BJECTIVE 13 <br />City policy requires that the following items be completed to finalize a construction contract: 14 <br /> Certification from the City Engineer verifying that all of the work has been completed in 15 <br />accordance with plans and specifications. 16 <br /> A resolution by the City Council accepting the contract and beginning the one-year warranty. 17 <br />F INANCIAL I MPACTS 18 <br />The final contract amount, $1,793,803.49, is $220,466.24 more than the awarded amount of 19 <br />$1,573,337.25. This represents an increase in the contract of 14%. The cost increase is the 20 <br />result of unforeseen circumstances encountered during construction and actual contract 21 <br />quantities being more than estimated. Decisions regarding this additional work needed to be 22 <br />made while the work was being completed, so that the project completion would not be delayed. 23 <br /> A brief description of some of these additional work items: 24 <br /> Environmental clean up- The additional cost was for the removal of a soil stockpile. 25 <br />This soil was determined to be contaminated and needed to be hauled to a landfill. 26 <br />This project was financed using TIF balances. 27