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Fayetteville council previews $1.65 million in design contracts under federal Safe Streets grant
Summary
City staff briefed council on three related design agreements funded by the $25 million Safe Streets for All grant: full design for College Avenue ($787,660), preliminary design for South School Avenue ($287,000), and design services for East Joyce ($574,000). Staff said College Avenue design will take about a year.
City staff on Tuesday outlined three design agreements planned under the Safe Streets for All grant and asked the council to include the contracts on next week's consent agenda. The contracts would advance pedestrian, bicycle and safety elements on College Avenue, School Avenue and Joyce Boulevard.
Chris, who spoke for the city's transportation team, said the federal Safe Streets for All award totals $25,000,000 and covers multiple projects across the city. The largest contract read for council consideration is a Garver agreement for the full design of the College Avenue corridor between Sycamore and Township for $787,660; staff said the work will include sidewalk improvements, a waterline replacement mirroring work done in an earlier phase, and a proposed signal at Poplar Avenue. "We have a signal at Poplar Avenue proposed, and we'll be looking at medians and strategic locations as well," Chris said.
The council packet also lists a $287,000 contract with I & S Group for preliminary design and traffic study work on the South School Avenue segment. Chris described that work as conceptual: "This is not the full design, but they will go through a process to look at the traffic, look at some of the solutions that have been proposed and then we'll have public meetings and be ready to move forward with detailed design."
A third design contract for $574,000 with Kimberly Lauren & Associates would fund conceptual and traffic-safety studies along East Joyce Boulevard; Chris said the consultant will catalog existing crash patterns, evaluate intersections and propose conceptual solutions for public review. Questions from councilmembers focused on the proposed signal and costs: staff estimated a signal at one intersection could cost in the "$400,000 to $500,000 range." Councilmembers also asked how separate projects would maintain design consistency; staff said College Avenue shares a designer with a current phase under construction, and materials and streetscape decisions will aim for corridor coherence.
If the council votes to approve the contracts, staff said the College Avenue design work will likely take about a year to complete. The contracts are funded through the larger federal grant; no additional city-wide appropriation was proposed at the agenda session.
