FINANCIAL BUSINESS REQUEST (FBR)
Motion/Request:
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MOTION to approve a bid waiver to CLA Engineers in the amount of $25,100 for technical services related to streamlining and consolidation of ordinances and creation of technical standards for roads, drainage, and other work in the Town rights-of way.
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Background:
The Town's road and drainage ordinances are dated, and additional road right-of-way and stormwater management ordinances have been created to deal with specific issues beyond technical standards associated with these areas. This has been needed for some time, and serious efforts have been undertaken to update the road ordinance, but these have fallen short of ultimate action.
A central part of the initiative would be to separate technical standards into a single reference that would been independently, and more readily maintained/updated. Another important facet of this initiative would be streamlining the ordinance side by consolidating and updating the administrative requirements in managing and enforcing standards as applied to infrastructure in Town rights-of-way. Additionally, specific recommendations would be generated to synchronize Land Use regulations with the new standards and revised ordinance(s).
CLA Engineers is presently the Town's technical agent in providing substantial assistance in the management of administrative efforts toward compliance with the Municipal Separate Storm System (MS4) program. CLA Engineers operates under a standing bid waiver in this capacity. A significant portion of this effort overlaps with the MS4 area, but a number of elements are outside of this. Therefore, a bid waiver would be needed to engage them directly for this work.
I will be working closely with CLA to incorporate any other ordinance elements necessary to bring our guidelines up to date (e.g., road cut permitting and restoration).
CLA's proposal is attached for further review and consideration.
Department Comment/Recommendation:
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