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Airport director presents scaled-down fence contract and multiple FDOT grant amendments for airfield projects
Summary
Airport Director Amanda Robb reported a fence contract scaled down to $61,000 after bids exceeded limits, and outlined FDOT grant amendments that add funds to apron, taxi-lane and runway marking work.
Amanda Robb, Airport Director for the City of Lake Wales, told the commission that the airport received three bids for an airfield security fencing and access contract and that the lowest responsive bidder, Lake Wells Way, agreed to a scaled-down scope priced at $61,000.
Robb said the contract originally went to bid months earlier with JCR Construction withdrawing on the day of a prior meeting; the three bids submitted this round were Lake Wells Way at $106,000, JCR Construction at $128,000 and SIM code at $138,000. To fit the city's budget Robb said the winning bidder agreed to value-engineer certain fencing elements so the project would include the security gate and access components but not all previously planned fencing. "They scaled it down to dollars 61,000," Robb said.
Robb also presented several grant amendments with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funding splits for related airport work. She said FDOT agreed to add $49,665 to cover an apron reconstruction portion the FAA did not fund, and separately added $12,224 for the taxi-lane portion of the apron/taxi-lane project. Robb said the FAA will fund approximately 90% of the taxi-lane construction, with FDOT covering roughly 10% of that portion, but that FDOT's additional contributions for design work on runway markings amounted to $162,000 and will raise FDOT's share of design funding on that element.
Robb said the runway-marking work (listed in the transcript as Runway 624) is currently in design; the FAA declined to pay for the marking portion of design because officials told staff the markings had not been in place long enough since the last remarking. As a result, FDOT agreed to fund the marking portion now and will contribute a larger share during the design phase; Robb said construction-phase funding allocations will be addressed later. The transcript does not show a recorded motion or vote on the contracts or grant amendments in the excerpt provided.
