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Amending the financing and spending plans in the Department of Public Works by transferring $600,000 of MSA cost savings from the recently completed Hamline Bridge Project into the proposed reconstruction of the Kellogg Boulevard Bridges at Market Street and St. Peter Street.
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WHEREAS, the Department of Public Works recently completed the reconstruction of the Hamline Avenue Bridge over Ayd Mill Road, and
WHEREAS, the Department was able to save in excess of $600,000 of MSA funds on the project by rehabilitating the existing concrete approach roadway retaining walls rather than replacing them with new concrete retaining walls as originally planned, and
WHEREAS, the Department has secured Federal funds and has tentatively approved local funding in 2015 capital budget for the reconstruction of the Kellogg Bridges at Market Street and St. Peter Street, and
WHEREAS, the Kellogg Bridge at Market Street has been recently redesign and widened by 16 feet in order to accommodate wider sidewalks and bicycle facilities that are being recommended in the Draft Citywide Comprehensive Bikeways Plan, and
WHEREAS, the reconstruction cost estimate of the Kellogg Bridge at St. Peter Street has also increased due to the complexities being discovered with reconstructing a bridge structure adjacent to the Ramsey County Adult Detention Center and within a sandstone river bluff environment with extensive pre-existing tunnels and utilities, and
WHEREAS, the additional 16 foot widening and related construction complexities have caused a significant cost estimate increase to the Kellogg Bridges at Market Street and St. Peter Street Projects, and
WHEREAS, in order to cover the increased costs of the Kellogg Bridge Reconstruction Projects the Department proposes to transfer available MSA funding in the amount of $600,000 from the cost savings recognized by the Hamline Avenue Bridge Project, and
WHEREAS, the Mayor, pursuant to Section 10.07.4 of the Charter of the City of Saint Paul, does certify that there are available for transfer, funds of $600,000; so
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Council of the City of Saint Paul, upon recommendation of the Mayor and advice of the Long Range Capital Improvement Budget Committee, that the Capital Improvement Budgets as heretofore adopted and amended by this Council; be hereby further amended in the Improvement Budgets as detailed and shown on the attached Financial Analysis.
Financial Analysis
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CIB Recommendation
The Saint Paul Long-Range Capital Improvement Budget Committee received this request on April 14, 2014 and recommended approval.