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Council asks staff to investigate $68,000 increase on Hacienda Road signal project; potential design-engineer error flagged
Summary
Council discussed a disputed roughly $68,000 increase tied to construction-management/inspection work on the Hacienda Road traffic-signal project; staff said the variance stems from additional working days and a pole-height/utility clearance issue that may trace to a design-engineer interpretation; council asked staff to investigate and report back.
The council discussed lingering issues on the Hacienda Road traffic-signal and guardrail project, including disagreements about construction-management billing and a field conflict over signal-pole clearance near overhead utility lines.
Staff told the council that the core dispute arose when the design engineer appears to have treated a utility line as low-voltage (under 7,000 volts) and specified a 4-foot…
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