City Council Meeting Date: February 4, 2020
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Sean Simonson, Engineering Manager
Dave Bennett, Public Works Director/City Engineer
Title
Consider Approval of Change Order No. 15 for the Division and Seventh Street Reconstruction Project, Washington Street Mill and Overlay and Various Parking Lot Rehabilitations Project.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council approves a Motion authorizing Change Order No. 15 (Attachment 1) for the Division and Seventh Street Reconstruction Project, Washington Street Mill and Overlay and Various Parking Lot Rehabilitations Project, City Project No. 2018 STRT A37 with Swenke Ims Contracting, LLC, for $29,323.89.
Summary Report:
On April 17, 2018, City Council accepted bids and awarded the Division and Seventh Street Reconstruction Project, Washington Street Mill and Overlay and Various Parking Lot Rehabilitations Project to Swenke Ims Contracting, LLC. Construction on the project commenced in May 2018. As construction has progressed, some unforeseen additions had been encountered, which is not uncommon for a reconstruction project of this magnitude.
After initial construction, it was noted by field observed traffic patterns that commercial driveways along Division Street were insufficient in turning radius due to observed vehicles off-tracking the concrete driveway aprons and into landscape areas. These driveway radius's were widened to help alleviate the off-tracking.
As the project wraps up, there were issues with some of the concrete work that was completed in 2018. This mainly affects portions of the parking bay on Seventh Street. The Contractor is replacing the defective concrete at their expense. This work is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2020 and then the project will be closed out.
Alternative Options:
Due to the compressed schedule to complete the Division Street portion of the project, Staff felt that approving the work w...
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