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Resolution approving a Sole Source professional services contract with Montgomery Associates: Resources Solutions, LLC for the design of a parking lot development within the former Allis-Chalmers Utility Corridor Storm Water Project in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
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WHEREAS, the Common Council has approved an application to participate in the Wisconsin Department of Commerce Brownfield Grant Program for the purpose of redeveloping property within the 6700 block of W. Washington Street, West Allis; and the Wisconsin Department of Commerce approved that grant in the amount of Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000); and
WHEREAS, the Common Council has approved a loan to Whitnall Summit Company funded from this program in the amount of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000), under the Wisconsin Department of Commerce Brownfield Grant Program, for the purpose of redeveloping the property at 6737 W. Washington Street, West Allis, thereby leaving an available balance of $50,000; and,
WHEREAS, the Common Council has also approved Resolution No. 27093 which provides for participation in the Wisconsin Non-point Source Water Pollution Abatement Program Grant Award for Municipalities for the Menomonee River Priority Watershed Project for a storm water quality improvement project as defined in that certain agreement entitled, Purchase and Development Agreement for the Utility Corridor Storm Water Project, by and between the City of West Allis and the A-C Reorganization Trust; and,
WHEREAS, the Storm Water Project will be completed by the City, in cooperation with the A-C Reorganization Trust (the “ACRT”), on property currently owned by the ACRT, said property to be transferred to the City when the Storm Water Project is completed; and,
WHEREAS, the balance of the property not utilized for a Storm Water Project is available for reuse and the anticipated reuse is currently planned for a parking lot which must be designed to establish the estimated cost and potential configuration of this planned parking lot; and
WHEREAS, the ACRT has retained Montgomery Associates: Resources Solutions, LLC for the design of the Utility Corridor Storm Water Project and, therefore, this firm currently has unique and extensive knowledge of the project and potentially available land and can, therefore, provide the most expeditious and cost-effective professional engineering services for the design of the parking lot; and,.
WHEREAS, it is necessary to continue to pursue the redevelopment of the balance of the property in cooperation with the ACRT, on property currently owned by the ACRT; and
WHEREAS, it is, therefore, necessary to enter into a sole source professional services contract with Montgomery Associates: Resources Solutions, LLC for the design of a parking lot development within the former Allis-Chalmers Utility Corridor Storm Water Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of West Allis as follows:
1. That the proposal, hereby attached and made a part hereof, is hereby approved.
2. That the City Attorney be and is hereby authorized to make such non-substantive changes, modifications, additions and deletions to and from the various provisions of the contract, including any and all attachments, exhibits, addendums and amendments, as may be necessary and proper to correct inconsistencies, eliminate ambiguity and otherwise clarify and supplement said provisions to preserve and maintain the general intent thereof, and to prepare and deliver such other and further documents as may be reasonably necessary to complete the transactions contemplated therein.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Director of Development is authorized, on behalf of the City, to execute the aforesaid contract documents.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the sum of Twenty-Five Thousand Five Hundred and no/100 Dollars ($25,000) be and is hereby appropriated from the Wisconsin Department of Commerce Brownfield Grant Program to pay the liability that will accrue to the City under the contract.
cc: Department of Development
Chris Phinney, Grant Accounts Specialist
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