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Council agenda includes $421,789.92 agreement to embed engineer with Thompson Engineering amid heavy project load
Summary
City staff presented an independent contractor agreement with Thompson Engineering to place an embedded engineer inside the city engineering department; council members described the department as understaffed and managing roughly $113 million in projects.
The Mobile City Council’s agenda included an independent contractor services agreement with Thompson Engineering for $421,789.92 to provide an embedded engineer to the city’s engineering department, city staff said. Council discussion focused on the department’s current workload and how an embedded consultant would increase internal capacity. City engineering staff said the department has two licensed engineers managing approximately $113,000,000 worth of work and that an embedded, experienced engineer would help manage design consultants and project delivery. “Right now, we in the…
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