SUBJECT: Advanced Funding Agreement between the City of Houston (City) and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for Roundabout Construction at the Intersection of Navigation Boulevard at Jensen Drive and Runnels Street.
RECOMMENDATION: Adopt an ordinance approving and authorizing an Advanced Funding Agreement between the City of Houston (City) and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for Roundabout Construction at the Intersection of Navigation Boulevard at Jensen Drive-Runnels Street and appropriate funds.
PROJECT NOTICE/JUSTIFICATION: This project is part of the voluntary utility relocation contributions on federally funded off-system surface transportation block grant program.
DESCRIPTION: This project consists of TxDOT undertaking and completing a highway improvement described as reconstruction of the intersection of Navigation Boulevard at Jensen Drive and Runnels Street. The City has an existing water line that will be affected by this highway improvement and the City has agreed that it is more economical and efficient for such relocation to be included in TxDOT’s highway construction contract.
LOCATION: The project area is generally bound by IH 10 East on the north, Commerce Street on the south, Chartres Street on the west and Waco Street on the east.
SCOPE OF THE AGREEMENT AND FEE: The agreement between the City and TxDOT entails an existing water line being relocated and adjustments being made along Navigation Boulevard at Jensen Drive and Runnels Street. The water line will be owned, operated, and maintained by the City.
The total requested amount of $117,002.15 is to be appropriated as follows: $101,741.00 for cost of the project, $10,174.10 for contingencies, and $5,087.05 for CIP Cost Recovery.
FISCAL NOTE: No significant Fiscal Operating Impact is anticipated as a result of this project.
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Carol Ellinger Haddock, P.E., Director
Houston Public Works
WBS No(s). S-000500-0304-7; N-MD0110-0002-7