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Council authorizes city engineer to add curb-and-gutter; staff to pursue 104th Street sidewalk phase 2 with partial reimbursement
Summary
Council authorized the city engineer to add layback curb-and-gutter to a Richland/104th project (approx. 5,400 linear feet; staff estimated an incremental cost in the low hundreds of thousands) and directed staff to pursue a phase 2 sidewalk project with a possible $125,000 reimbursement from a cost-share program.
City manager described a proposed curb-and-gutter add-on for the Richland/104th Street project and said the city has roughly $2.9 million in the related account. Staff estimated about 5,400 linear feet of urban gutter at roughly $25 per linear foot and suggested adding roughly $135,000 (staff also referenced a figure of about $200,000 for the addition) to provide layback curb construction that would carry water away without installing pipe. The manager said this approach would help avoid encroaching on front yards and would extend the useful life of the roadway.
"So we recommend, that linear feet is at about a 135,000, in the remainder...we have that has a balance of, that account has $2,900,000 in it," the City manager said, noting $66,000 has already been invested in the project and that funds could be substituted from other maintenance projects once these are complete.
Separately, staff reviewed the 104th Street sidewalk phase 2 proposal (Metropolitan to Edge Hill Road on the cemetery side), with an engineer's high-level construction estimate of roughly $370,000 and a possible $125,000 reimbursement under a cost-share program. Staff noted preconstruction engineering costs are not reimbursable and recommended pursuing the phase while recognizing federal/state layered regulations could increase costs; staff asked council if it wanted to proceed with applying for the cost-share and to move forward with preconstruction work.
The council moved to authorize the city engineer to proceed with the curb-and-gutter addition; roll-call votes recorded affirmative responses from council members. Staff will bring a detailed engineering proposal and final cost estimates for council review before committing to full construction.
