Title
Approval of a Resolution Authorizing a Professional Services Agreement for the Waste ReSources Carpenter Road Facility
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve the resolution approving the Professional Services Agreement and authorizing the City Manager to sign the Professional Services Agreement with KPFF Consulting Engineers, in the amount of $569,000, for preliminary design of the Waste ReSources Carpenter Road Facility.
Report
Issue:
Whether to approve a Professional Services Agreement with KPFF Consulting Engineers for preliminary design of the Waste ReSources Carpenter Road Facility.
Staff Contact:
Jeff Johnstone, P.E., Senior Engineer, Public Works Engineering, 360.753.8290
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item.
Background and Analysis:
In July 2015, the City Council received a briefing on the function and status of the City's Public Works Maintenance Center at 1401 Eastside Street. The Maintenance Center was originally built in 1976 as a Public Works/Intercity Transit facility. Since that time, Public Works operations and maintenance programs have continued to occupy the facility. It is accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week; serves as a critical facility during small and large-scale emergencies; and houses 107 full-time employees. Currently the building and major systems are near the end of their useful lives. More than $10 million of projects have been identified to repair the building and major systems. These repairs do not address capacity, functionality, or seismic upgrades.
The Parks maintenance headquarters at Priest Point Park is similarly inadequate to meet the department's needs. It is comprised of wooden structures built in the 1940's and 1950's that never originally was intended to be a maintenance facility. The facility is significantly undersized, well beyond its useful life, and does not meet the operational needs of the Parks mai...
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