Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Contract with Kleinfelder, Inc. for Professional Engineering Design Services for the Wattley Park Project (DR2118) and Authorizing Any Necessary Supplemental Agreements
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in McKinney
(5D: Develop sustainable quality of life improvements within the City of McKinney)
MEETING DATE: August 06, 2024
DEPARTMENT: Development Services/Engineering
CONTACT: Kyle Odom, CFM, R.S.
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of Resolution
ITEM SUMMARY:
* This Resolution authorizes the City Manager to execute a contract in the amount of $137,125, as well as all required supplemental agreements thereto, with Kleinfelder, Inc. for professional engineering services for the Wattley Park Creek Bank Stabilization Measures Project (DR2118), for a total aggregate contract amount, inclusive of any supplemental agreements, not to exceed $165,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* In the 1950's-60's and prior to ownership by the city, Wattley Park was used as an undocumented landfill.
* In 2000, McKinney entered the property into the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (now Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or TCEQ) Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP).
* McKinney now seeks to gain "closure" of this VCP by meeting specific conditions as set forth by TCEQ.
* The bank slope of Wattley Park adjacent to tributary 8 of the East Fork Trinity River has experienced erosion, exposing landfill debris.
* One of the closure conditions required by TCEQ is stabilization of the bank slope experiencing erosion, such that the landfill material remains covered and protected from exposure.
* This design will consider sloping the bank back by removing some fill material, and then construction of a gabion wall down to the creek bottom. Any disturbed area at the top of wall will be covered by on-site fill dirt and then vegetated for further stabilization.
* Kle...
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