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Council approves owner‑contractor agreement for Brushy Creek Phase 4 after schedule and liquidated‑damages questions
Summary
After staff told council Phase 4 must start immediately to meet a developer-linked October timeline, the City Council approved an owner‑contractor agreement for the Brushy Creek Wastewater Interceptor Phase 4 project and asked staff about schedule and liquidated damages.
The Hutto City Council approved an owner‑contractor agreement for the Brushy Creek Wastewater Interceptor Phase 4 project following questions about schedule and contract penalties. Councilmembers emphasized the project is a critical trunk line and asked whether the advertised schedule — an eight‑month completion target — was feasible; the council recorded a 5-0 vote to approve the agreement.
Council members asked staff to confirm timing and risk. The staff member said engineers had run numbers and that the bidding package includes steep liquidated damages: "The contract that you have has liquidated damages included in it, and they are the steepest liquidated damages that I've ever seen in a contract," the staff member said, and added that the engineering team justified the figures. Staff also noted Phase 2 is already in the ground, Phase 3 is under construction, and Phase 4 is out for bid and must start immediately to meet the October timetable the city had committed to with a developer.
