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Cross Plains authorizes up to $5,000 for engineering to re-scope Brewery Creek mitigation after cost increase
Summary
After updated design estimates nearly doubled the Brewery Creek project cost, the board authorized up to $5,000 for the engineer to produce a cost-benefit analysis and revised drawings needed to pursue additional emergency-management grant funding and a smaller, fundable scope.
Village staff told trustees that a Brewery Creek flood mitigation project originally estimated at about $300,000 has an updated construction estimate of roughly $540,000 after the engineer refined drawings and cost assumptions, largely because the available work area changed and soils must be hauled off site instead of being reused in place.
Wisconsin Emergency Management signaled it could increase the grant award by up to about $95,000 if the village agrees to shrink the project scope to a $400,000 package and if the applicants provide the required cost-benefit analysis and revised plan. Staff said the firm that prepared the original designs (EOR) is near the end of its contract and would need an hourly time-and-materials authorization to prepare the cost-benefit analysis and revised drawings; staff proposed a not-to-exceed amount for that work.
Trustees discussed whether a much smaller project would still produce meaningful flood mitigation benefits and noted the state’s cost-benefit methodologies used by FEMA and Wisconsin Emergency Management. After discussion the board approved a motion to allow EOR to continue work on a cost-benefit analysis and revised plans with a not-to-exceed authorization of $5,000, with staff to pursue the state grant amendment if the analysis supports the smaller scope.
Staff noted that the grant is a reimbursement program, so the village will need to pay costs up front and then request reimbursement if the state approves the revised award.
