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CONSENT AGENDA:
PREPARED BY:
SUBJECT:
4 (b)
BRUCE LONEY, ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER
CONSIDER AUTHORIZATION OF ENGINEERING REVIEW
FEES FOR THE WILD DEVELOPMENT
JULY 6, 1993
DATE:
INTRODUCTION:
The purpose of this Agenda item is to authorize payment of the
Engineering Review Fees for The Wilds Development out of the
City's Contingency Fund.
The Wilds Development is a 580 acre parcel and has been
proceeding first as a golf course development and secondly with
single family and multi-unit housing development. The
development in the last few months has concentrated in the
preparation of the plat, grading and drainage plans, and
preliminary infrastructure drawings for preliminary plat approval.
Due to the size of the development and the City's Engineering
Department's workload this year, Staff had requested a consultant,
Maier Stewart & Associates, Inc. to review the drawings on behalf
of the department. The cost estimate to review the preliminary
plat drawings by Maier Stewart is $13,000.00 and final plat
drawing review is estimated to be $4,000.00.
Staff had verbally authorized Maier Stewart to proceed to facilitate
the timing of the project. Staff, however, inadvertently did not
follow-up with Council authorization for the work. This Agenda
item is for authorization of the engineering review work to be paid
out of the City's Contingency Fund. Work has been done by Maier
Stewart and the invoice has been submitted for approval in the July
6, 1993 Council Agenda packet.
DISCUSSION:
The authorization of The Wilds review was necessary in order to
proceed with the project in a timely manner due to the size of the
project. The total cost of the review is estimated to be $17,000.00.
The City recoups review costs currently with the 6%
administration fee associated with the Developer's Agreement.
Staff is requesting that the Engineering Department review up to
$17,000.00 of The Wilds Development be funded out of the
Contingency Fund. The Contingency Fund balance is $88,066.11
as of June 29, 1993. The Engineering Department's professional
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service account had $11,000.00 with $10,179.28 remaining as of
June 29, 199J.
ALTERNATIVES:
The alternatives are as follows:
1. Approve the Authorization for Engineering Review costs
for The Wilds Development up to $17,000.00 to be paid out
of the City's Contingency Fund.
2. Table this item for further discussion.
3. Do not authorize the Engineering Review Costs out of the
City's Contingency Fund; however, allow the Engineering
Department's professional service account to exceed the
budgeted amount.
RECOMMENDATION: The recommendation is to approve authorization of the
Engineering Review Costs out of the Contingency Fund.
ACTION REQUIRED: The action required is for the City Council to approve a motion
authorizing the Engineering Review Costs for The Wilds
Development up to $17,000.00 out of the City's Contingency
Fund.