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Ordinance of the City of Grand Prairie, Texas, amending Ordinance 7951 relating to to fund geotechnical and material testing for private developments with the City of Grand Prairie beginning July 1, 2019 and revised pricing for City capital improvement projects (CIP)
Presenter
Steve Norwood, Director of Planning and Development
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
On May 19, 2009, the City of Grand Prairie approved the Geotechnical and Material Testing Services Fee Ordinance and Service Contracts. Private Developers in Grand Prairie are required to deposit the Geotechnical and Material Testing Fees up front to have a third party engineering consultant working for the City to perform this work. On City Capital Improvement Projects, the City would continue to incur the cost to have this work performed as part of the CIP project budget.
At the current time, the administrative work required for the private development projects has become a burden on both City field and office staff. Private development is slow to fund both initially and when additional testing is required beyond the original scope
The Developers were to pay the City of Grand Prairie based on the established Geotechnical and Material Testing fee to include a 5% contingency as escrow funding deposited directly to the Street Projects Fund (0701) to perform this work. The City then paid the City contracted consultants directly from the developer’s escrow funds for the work performed. Since this was a pass through cost, funds not used are reimbursed to the Developer; however, the developer was to compensate the City for any additional costs incurred.
With execution of this ordinance, Private Developers would be responsible for coordinating this work with a geotehcnical and material testing firm registered with the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and under the direction of a Professional Engineer Licensed in the State of Texas providing this service and paying their o...
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