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Resolution amending the existing professional services contract with raSmith to provide traffic engineering services for the City of West Allis for an amount not to exceed $35,000.
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WHEREAS, the City has an existing Professional Services Contract with raSmith for Engineering Consulting Services; and,
WHEREAS, the City will need further assistance from raSmith to perform a downtown parking study associated with the WisDOT Highway 59 Connecting Highway design project in downtown West Allis along W. Greenfield Ave.; and,
WHEREAS, WisDOT is in the early stages of the design process looking at various alternatives including but not limited to adding left turn only lanes, adding traffic calming bump outs, analyzing traffic signal operation through the corridor, striping a 5-foot-wide bike lane, reducing on-street parking in some areas, activating parking in the lots behind the downtown businesses, and various other design considerations.
WHEREAS, the City needs to study the downtown parking to ensure roadway design alternatives preserve parking for the downtown businesses.
WHEREAS, the 2024 CIP budget has experienced some cost savings on various street projects; and,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED By the Mayor and Common Council of the City of West Allis that the proposal dated August 20, 2024 for consulting services is hereby amended to provide the continuation of services as well as the additional services described in the scope, for a sum not to exceed $35,000, the funding of such services is to be paid with the savings from street project in the 2024 CIP.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Engineer be and is hereby authorized to amend the Professional Services Contract with raSmith.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Engineer be and is hereby authorized to make such substantive changes, modifications, additions and deletions to and from the various provisions of the proposal from raSmith as may be necessary and proper to correct inconsistencies, eli...
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