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Bryan authorizes bids and grant applications for multiple water, sewer and street projects
Summary
Council approved advertising for bids on the East Mulberry waterline replacement and authorized staff to apply for community project funding for water and sewer work on South Portland and other streets, with award timing tied to grant agreements.
Bryan City Council on Feb. 17 authorized staff to advertise bids for a waterline replacement on East Mulberry Street and approved city applications for community project grant funding to support additional water, sewer and street work.
The city passed Resolution No. 142025 authorizing the Clerk-Treasurer to advertise for bids on the East Mulberry Street waterline replacement project, a roughly $600,000 job for which the city has secured $275,000 in grant funding. The council also approved Resolution No. 152025 giving the city engineer permission to apply for community project funds for a South Portland Street waterline replacement (Center to South) and a separate sanitary sewer project, each described by staff as roughly $1 million projects that may require 10%–20% local matching funds.
City staff said the East Mulberry project will be advertised now but will not be awarded until the grant agreement is executed; staff expect the agreement around July and plan to award after that. “ORC says we need to award the project within 30 days. We’re putting a specification in there that says we are not going to award it in 30 days. We’re going to award it after July,” the project manager said. He said construction inspection will be handled by Bryan Municipal Utilities and that the utilities office will take the lead on prevailing-wage compliance because BMU is funding the work.
Council members pressed for schedule and material-availability details. Staff said some waterline fittings can take six to nine months to obtain and that completion of the East Mulberry project is expected this calendar year, with a tentative completion date around Nov. 1 depending on material availability.
On the community project applications, staff described the South Portland scope as a 2,600-foot waterline replacement from Center to South Street. Because the street is not in a low-to-moderate-income (LMI) area, staff said the community project funding is a better match than critical-infrastructure grants that target LMI neighborhoods. The city will seek to pair water and pavement work where possible to strengthen grant applications; Bryan Municipal Utilities will handle the water portion and the city will handle street work if the grant is awarded.
Both resolutions were approved following motions to suspend the rules where required. Council members voted unanimously on the items at the meeting.
The approvals allow staff to proceed with procurement and grant applications but leave award and final funding commitments contingent on executed grant agreements and further administrative steps.
