Tumwater’s Public Works Committee recommended to the city council to extend the contracts for three public works service providers at a commission meeting on Thursday, December 7.
The first contractor is Kenyon Disend, PLLC, which provides legal services for the acquisition of rights-of-way required for the reconfiguration of I-5, Trosper Road, and Capitol Boulevard.
The amendment extends the company’s contract until the end of 2024 and increases the hourly compensation rate of the attorney working for Kenyon Disend beginning January 1 next year. The contract has a not-to-exceed amount of $150,000.
City staff does not anticipate further need for legal services for the I-5 reconfiguration project but the extension allows for additional work if the need arises, according to documents prepared for the committee meeting.
The remaining contracts are with two other companies, Materials Testing & Consulting, Inc. (MTC) and Pacific Testing & Inspection, Inc. (PTI), which provide on-call materials testing for ongoing construction projects throughout Tumwater.
The committee recommended extending MTC’s contract until the end of 2024 and increasing its not-to-exceed amount from $95,000 to $195,000. The company primarily assists with the reconfiguration project, according to Engineering Services Manager Bill Lindauer.
PTI’s contract would also be modified to raise its not-to-exceed amount from $95,000 to $195,000. Its current contract already extends until the end of 2024.
Engineering Director Brandon Hicks explained to the council that the city has contracts with two different firms for the same services to better distribute the work.
The committee also recommended reimbursing the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) $91,152 for the repair and rerouting of fiber optic cables near I-5 and Trosper Road.
The reimbursement would be implemented as an amendment to a 2005 interlocal agreement between Tumwater and the state agency, which helps the city maintain and operate fiber optic cables.
WSDOT conducted an emergency repair of a 144-strand fiber optic cable which was accidentally cut during the construction of a roundabout as part of the reconfiguration project.
Lindauer explained that the conduit was just below the sidewalk, which the city’s contractors did not anticipate. He added that the city is paying $27,679 for the repairs, saying the conduit should not have been under the sidewalk in the first place.
The city went on to investigate how the cabling was routed and found that it was not in the proper location throughout the project site. With the help of WSDOT, cabling along Capitol Boulevard and Lee Street was rerouted to Trosper Road and 6th Avenue.
The cost of relocating the cables was $123,473 in total, with the city spending $63,473 while WSDOT contributed $60,000.
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