TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Missie Barletto, Public Works Director
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: August 12, 2025
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APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NO. 136-25 TO AWARD AN AGREEMENT WITH BAXTER & WOODMAN, INC. FOR OWNER’S REPRESENTATIVE SERVICES FOR THE HISTORIC MARINE WAY SEAWALL, ROADWAY, UTILITY, DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, PURSUANT TO RFQ NO. 2024-039 IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,256,673.60
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to Approve Resolution No. 136-25 to award an agreement with Baxter & Woodman, Inc. for Owner’s Representative services for the Historic Marine Way Seawall, Roadway, Utility, Drainage Improvements project, pursuant to RFQ No. 2024-039 (Public Works Project No. 17-047) in the amount of $2,256,673.60.
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Background:
The City initiated a conceptual design of Marine Way Seawall and Dock Improvements in Fiscal Year 2017-2018 to replace an existing seawall that has failed along Marine Way, between the Atlantic Avenue Bridge and SE 1st Street. The failure of this seawall allows water from the Intracoastal Waterway to spill onto the roadway, which has eroded the roadway base and caused serious deterioration creating a public health and safety concern for the residents of Marine Way.
Marine Way, between Atlantic Avenue and SE 1st Street, has been experiencing flooding for at least the past 15 years. The proposed construction project includes installing new seawall with a higher cap elevation, adding a new underground stormwater pump station, upsizing drainage pipes, replacing water and sewer infrastructure, beautifying the area with a new shared-use paver road, resident parking, decorative street lighting, and other amenities along the corridor of Marine Way from the City Marina’s dockmaster building (to the south) to Veterans Park (to the north).
The new 600 linear foot seawall along Marine Way will replace the existing rock revetment seawall, which is frequently overtopped by tidal events. Th...
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