TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Missie Barletto, Director Public Works
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: January 16, 2024
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APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NO. 30-24 TO AWARD AN AGREEMENT WITH ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION, LLC. FOR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES FOR THE LINDELL BOULEVARD BICYCLE & PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, PURSUANT TO INVITATION TO BID CONSTRUCTION (ITBC) 2023-068 (CITY PROJECT NO. 17-074), IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $9,957,833.00.
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to Approve Resolution No. 30-24 to award an Agreement with Roadway Construction, LLC. for Construction Services for the Lindell Boulevard Bicycle & Pedestrian Improvements Project, pursuant to ITBC 2023-068 (City Project No. 17-074) in an amount not to exceed $9,957,833.00.
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Background:
Following a 2017 application, the City of Delray Beach (City) was awarded a federally funded grant by the Transportation Planning Agency of Palm Beach (TPA) under its Local Initiatives Program for “widening and/or restriping roadways to provide designated bike lanes, construction of pedestrian facilities, shared use paths, greenway/trail corridors, bike and pedestrian lighting and supporting facilities". The program funds on and off-road pedestrian and bicycle facilities; infrastructure for improving non-driver access to public transportation for enhanced mobility; community improvement activities; environmental mitigation; recreational trail projects; safe routes to school projects; and projects for planning, designing, or constructing boulevards and other roadways largely in the right-of-way of former divided highways.
The Lindell Boulevard Improvements Project (City Project No. 17-074) plans to construct sidewalks on both sides of the existing roadway. Currently, there are intermittent sidewalks and no bicycle facilities throughout the corridor. This project will fill in the gaps, as well as add safe, protected bicycle facilities. These improvements will provide an alternativ...
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