Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract and All Necessary Supplemental Agreements with HDR Engineering, Inc., to Design Improvements Needed to Address Erosion in an Unnamed Tributary of Jean's Creek Through the Westwood Park Addition
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in McKinney and
Operational Excellence
MEETING DATE: December 6, 2016
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
CONTACT: Mark Hines, PE, Director of Engineering
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of the Resolution.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* This Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute a contract in the amount of $93,964, and all necessary supplemental agreements thereto, with HDR Engineering, Inc., to design improvements needed to address erosion in an unnamed tributary of Jean's Creek through the Westwood Park Addition for an amount not to exceed $105,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* Residents of the Westwood Park Addition contacted the City about various erosion issues in this creek in June of this year.
* After various site visits, conversations, and meetings with residents, it was decided at a City Council Work Session on 9/19/16 to do the following:
o Make improvements to address scour that is threatening the existing stepped concrete retaining wall structure located behind 114 Poppy Lane and 112 Poppy Lane.
o Install energy dissipators and riprap to the existing 60" storm sewer outfall behind 219 Westpark Drive South and 115 Poppy Lane.
o Install additional grade control structure(s) as necessary to protect the creek bottom from additional erosion.
* It became apparent after the 9/19/16 City Council Work Session that City staff does not have the capacity to do the design work and plan preparation in-house.
* At a City Council meeting on March 3, 2014, HDR Engineering, Inc., was one of six firms deemed qualified for this type of work based on their response to 15-03RFQ for Miscellaneous Drainage and Flo...
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