ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Public Works Director with a Request to APPROVE a STATE MOTOR FUEL TAX RESOLUTION, in the Amount of $96,200.00, for Supplement No. 1 to a Preliminary Engineering Services Agreement with CRAWFORD MURPHY AND TILLY, Under Master Services Agreement #18-369-D, for the WEST GLEN AVENUE PROJECT (NORTH SHERIDAN ROAD to NORTH KNOXVILLE AVENUE). (Council District 3)
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BACKGROUND: On September 10, 2019, City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement for the reconstruction and jurisdictional transfer of Glen Avenue #19-289. Peoria County received $1.274M in Surface Transportation Urban (STU) federal funding from PPUATS. The City and County will fund 50% of the final project cost beyond the grant funding.
West Glen Avenue, from North Sheridan Road to North Knoxville Road is in need of improvement. The existing road is a two-lane rural section, which will be replaced with a three-lane urban section. This project will be designed according to "Complete Streets" guidelines, accommodating all users of the right-of-way, and will improve the existing roadway by providing multi-modal transportation alternatives and applicable green infrastructure on this section between two high-density commercial zones. Approximately 2,500 linear feet of roadway will be removed and reconstructed during this project. Additional engineering involves land acquisition about the estimated in the original scope, data collection and preparation of a TMP for analysis of impacts for the proposed detour route and Preliminary Site Investigations.
The attached Supplemental Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) Resolution will fund the additional preliminary design engineering services, which will be provided by Crawford, Murphy & Tilly (CMT) under Master Service Agreement #18-369-D, approved by Council on December 11, 2018.
Attachments include the Supplemental MFT Resolution covering a portion of the additional engineering services and a projec...
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