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Engineering services contract with Halff Associates, Inc. for a maximum contract amount of $160,000 to provide engineering drainage plan review services, to ensure compliance with current city, state and federal drainage and water quality requirements
Presenter
Romin Khavari, City Engineer
Recommended Action
Approve
Analysis
On October 2, 2007 the City Council approved Ordinance No. 7677 which established an engineering drainage plan review fee. Developers are required to deposit the engineering drainage plan review fees prior to have a third party engineering consultant review their drainage plans for compliance.
The current procedure for the drainage review is to initiate the drainage plan review following the receipt and execution of an escrow agreement with the developer depositing with the City the engineering drainage plan review fees required by Ordinance No. 7677. The consultant then initiates the review process following the City letter to proceed, and upon the completion of the review process, a letter is issued by the consultant for the City to approve the drainage plans. Any remaining fee amount is returned back to the developer.
The firm of Halff Associates is recommended for providing these services. The have been performing this work for the city for the past five years, and has not requested a fee increase for this work.
The proposed contact is to expire by July 31, 2015.
Financial Consideration
Based on previous performance, staff is recommending that the City of Grand Prairie approve a contract with Halff Associates for the engineering drainage plan reviews. The maximum amount of the contract is $160,000.
Funding for this contract in the maximum amount of $160,000 is provided by the development community as a pass-through fee to develop in the City of Grand Prairie. These fees will be deposited in Account No. 403199-21690 and payments to the consulting firms will be paid directly from Account No. 40319...
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