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Council awards $4.5 million street and alley rehabilitation contract to Ratliff
Summary
The council awarded a $4,500,500 contract to Ratliff (listed in the agenda as Ratliff Hardscape LTD) for the 2025 citywide street and alley rehabilitation project, funded primarily with 2023 voter-approved general obligation bonds plus contributions from the general fund and solid waste enterprise fund. The contract term is 365 calendar days.
Chris Flanagan, director of engineering, presented the recommended award for the city’s 2025 Street and Alley Rehabilitation Project and said Ratliff (listed in the agenda as Ratliff Hardscape LTD and referred to in presentation as Ratliff Construction) submitted the lowest responsive bid and the best value based on prior performance.
Flanagan said the contract totals $4,500,500 and covers the locations identified in the city’s 2022 pavement study; many of the streets in the east side of the city are included because they are older. He said state law requirements were followed for advertisement and bidding and that the city received six responsive bids. The contract term presented was 365 calendar days, and Flanagan said he expects Ratliff to finish early based on its prior performance.
On funding, Flanagan said more than half of the project is funded with general obligation bonds approved by voters in 2023. He said the general-fund contribution to projects of this type has been clarified in the current fiscal year’s engineering budget for transparency, and that the solid-waste enterprise fund contributes approximately $300,000 annually for alley repairs because heavy waste vehicles accelerate alley wear. Flanagan said contingency savings from other projects were applied to reach the $4.5 million total.
Council moved and seconded to approve the contract award and then voted; the transcript records the motion, a second, and that the item “passes” (no roll-call tally was read into the public record).
Actions resulting from this item will be managed by the engineering department, with contractor oversight and standard construction inspection and materials testing.
