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Council approves $93,458 contract modification for downtown transportation design
Summary
Sylvania City Council approved a $93,458 modification to DGL Consulting Engineers’ contract to split the downtown transportation improvements into two phases, refine plans and add ADA and park improvements; the project remains roughly $6 million excluding utility burial.
Sylvania City Council on May 19 approved a $93,458 contract modification with DGL Consulting Engineers for the downtown transportation improvement project to reflect additional work required after the city split the project into two phases.
City staff said the original full‑project plans were about 30% complete when the council decided to divide the work into Phase 1 and Phase 2 in order to allow time to bury overhead utilities in the second phase and to pursue OPWC funding for that later phase. Splitting the contract required design revisions, removal of a roundabout from the first phase, additional curb and grade details to meet ADA requirements, rework of plan sheets, and added landscape and mini‑park design around the Reed Funeral Home site.
“We came up with $93,458 that we agreed on for a contract modification,” a staff presenter told council and said the total project is sitting around $6,000,000; that figure does not include utility burial, which will be a separate contract.
Council discussed which portions of the modification represented overruns versus newly added scope; staff estimated roughly $25,000 of the modification reflected overages and about $27,000 addressed extensive ADA curb and grade work. Councilman McCann introduced ordinance 60‑2025 accepting the proposal and appropriating up to $93,458; the measure passed as an emergency.
Council members were told the modification brought estimated engineering costs closer to a 12% design cost threshold for the project, up from a previously leaner estimate. Staff said phase separation should also improve the project’s competitiveness for OPWC funding when the city reapplies.
