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��� <br />J.- <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Department Approval <br />Date: November 16, 2015 <br />Item No.: 8.c <br />City Manager Approval <br />Item Description: Approve a Resolution to Accept the Work Completed, Authorize Final <br />Payment, and Commence the One-Year Warranty Period on the County <br />Road B-2 and Victoria Street Sidewalk Project <br />BACKGROUND <br />On March 14, 2014, the City Council awarded the County Road B-2 and Victoria Street Sidewallc <br />Project to T.A. Schifsky and Sons, Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota. The majority of the work for this <br />contract was completed in 2014. Some final landscaping work was completed this year and the <br />contractor is now requesting final payment. <br />This project consisted of constructing 1.3 miles of sidewalks and other necessary infrastructure <br />such as storm sewer modifications and retaining walls along the following areas; <br />• County Road B-2, Lexington Ave — Rice St <br />� • Victoria Street, County Road B-2 — Central Park <br />�9��� This project provided new safe pedestrian infrastructure connecting many high pedestrian <br />1 destinations such as Central Park, Concordia Park, Roseville Area High School, Concordia <br />�:� Academy, and Central Park Elementary. <br />�:� The original awarded contract price was $1,159,240.95. There were five supplemental agreements <br />�< that increase the contract price to $1,543,180.56. The supplemental agreements were needed to <br />�: address additional hydrant relocation work, additional sanitary sewer work, changing <br />r� specifications to a better concrete material, additional traffic control modifications, and additional <br />storm sewer work. <br />POLICY OBJECTIVE <br />�i�.� City policy requires that the following items be completed to finalize a construction contract: <br />2��� • Certification from the City Engineer verifying that all of the work has been completed in <br />� accordance with plans and specifications. <br />• A resolution by the City Council accepting the contract and beginning the one-year warranty. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACTS <br />z�,� The final contract amount, $1,423,051.52 was more than the original contract amount of <br />�:� $1,159,240.95. This represents a 22.7% increase in costs from the original contract. <br />2�� The project was originally bid as a local project only. After the project was awarded, the County <br />2� requested to use their State Aid funds. This resulted in some additional design changes to meet <br />z� state aid requirements. Most of these changes involved additional curb and gutter construction <br />� which resulted in overruns. The other increased costs were due to additional utility modifications <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />