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Resolution authorizing the Director of Public Works/City Engineer to amend an existing Contract with Bloom Companies, LLC for Engineering Consulting Services related to the Crosstown Connector Bike and Pedestrian Trail for an amount not to exceed $20,015.73.
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WHEREAS, the City has an existing agreement with Bloom Companies, LLC to perform construction management services on the Crosstown Connector Bike and Pedestrian Trail; and,
WHEREAS, Bloom Companies, LLC has been working on this specific project under a 3-party contract with both the City and Wisconsin Department of Transportation for over 12 years and has already completed 70% of the work needed to deliver these plans and reports to WisDOT; and,
WHEREAS, On August 7, 2017 the City's Engineering Department inexplicably received notification that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation would not continue to participate in 80% of the cost for any new design services on the Crosstown Connector Bike and Pedestrian Trail; and,
WHEREAS, The Wisconsin Department of Transportation encouraged the City of West Allis to accomplish these additional design services under a 2-party contract between Bloom Companies, LLC and the City of West Allis; and,
WHEREAS, The City's Engineering Department immediately contacted Representative Joe Sanfelippo, who met with the Deputy Secretary of Transportation the very next day on August 8, 2017; but to this day he has still not received any explanation from WisDOT for their decision to back out of funding the additional design services for the bike trail; and,
WHEREAS, The City will now be required to pay 100% of the additional design costs on this project which are expected to total $20,015.73. But the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is still obligated by their previously executed State Municipal Agreement with the City to fund 80% of the construction costs for this project from the federal funding which remains unspent, up to a maximum of $589,700; a...
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