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City council awards $2.1 million contract to realign Redstone and Brookmeade intersection
Summary
The Crestview City Council unanimously awarded a $2.1 million contract to Bullard Excavating Inc. to realign the Redstone and Brookmeade intersection and install a four-way signal; the city will use traffic impact fees to cover a roughly $527,000 budget gap.
Crestview — The Crestview City Council voted unanimously to award a construction contract for intersection improvements at Redstone and Brookmeade.
Jace Vanderford, project manager, told the council the project will realign the roadway and install a four-way signal. “We went out to design this project back in 2022. Design was completed and we advertised it December fourth of '24. We opened the bids on 01/14/2025 and we received three bids,” Vanderford said. He said Panhandle Engineering performed the bid review and recommended Bullard Excavating, Inc. as the lowest responsive and responsible bidder.
The bid came in at about $2,100,000, Vanderford said. The city had budgeted roughly $1,650,000 in the 2024–25 capital improvement budgets, leaving a remaining difference of about $527,000. City staff told the council that the shortfall can be covered from traffic mitigation (impact) fees that the city has set aside for such projects.
Council members asked how tapping those impact fees would affect the overall fund balance. The city manager said the account holds “close to a million” dollars and that the money earmarked for the intersection was not dedicated to another project. He said the city has also applied for state funding that, if awarded, would reduce the amount the city must draw from its impact-fee fund.
Councilwoman Allison moved to award the bid to Bullard Excavating Inc.; Councilman Hayes seconded. The motion carried 5–0.
The council noted that Bullard Excavating is not related to Councilman Bullard and pointed to the contractor's previous work on Main Street, where the company completed work ahead of schedule. City staff said the project will include additional sidewalk connections not in the original design to improve pedestrian access between local destinations including the school, skate park and hospital.
Construction contracting and scheduling will proceed now that the council approved the award; staff said they will begin the contracting process and coordinate construction to limit traffic disruption.
