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CC Regular Session Meeting Date: 04/27/2021 Submitted For: Bruce Westby, Engineering/Public Works By: Joe Feriancek, Engineering/Public Works Information 7.2. Title: Adopt Resolution #21-106 Accepting Bids and Awarding Contract for Business Park 95 Street Reconstructions, Improvement Project #21-03 Purpose/Background: Purpose: The purpose of this case is to adopt Resolution #21-106 Accepting Bids and Awarding Contract for Business Park 95 Street Reconstructions, Improvement Project #21-03. Background: City Improvement Project 21-03 proposes to reconstruct the streets within the Business Park 95 subdivision including; 140th Avenue, McKinley Street, Radium Street and Unity Street. The streets total approximately 6,314 lineal feet (1.20 miles) in length. Attached are the final plans for this project. The title sheet shows the project scope. On February 24, 2020, the Ramsey City Council indefinitely suspended the annual sealcoat program and reallocated $250,000 of the budgeted 2020 sealcoat funds for mill and overlay improvements in the Business Park 95 subdivision. Also in February of 2020, WSB performed a pavement forensics report of the amended 2020 mill and overlay project, including Business Park 95. This report was critical in Staff's recommendation not to mill and overlay the streets within Business Park 95 in 2020. On March 16, 2020, the Public Works Committee supported Staff's conclusions and recommendations that the proposed Amended 2020 Pavement Overlay Improvements, including Business Park 95, were not feasible or cost-effective from an engineering standpoint, and that the overlay improvements as proposed should not be completed in 2020. On November 10, 2020, the Ramsey City Council authorized Staff to execute proposals from Bolton & Menk for collecting the required topographic survey to preare plans and specifications, and from Chosen Valley Testing (CVT) for required geotechnical work. The CVT Geotechnical Report igenerally found clean sand below the existing bituminous and gravel pavement section. On December 8, 2020, the Ramsey City Council approved the 2021 — 2030 Capital Improvement Program, which identified Business Park 95 for reconstruction in 2021. That same evening, City Council authorized Staff to execute proposals from Nelson Sanitation & Rental, Inc. for televising services of the sanitary sewer and storm sewer within the project area, and from Water Conservation Services, Inc. for watermain leak testing services within the project area. The watermain leak test results indicated that all of the watermain is in good condition and does not need repairs. The sanitary sewer televising showed that the sanitary sewer system is generally in good condition and does not need any major repairs. However, one small crack was observed in the obvert (top) of a pipe segment near the intersection of Unity Street and 140th Avenue. Staff considered the options for repairing the crack and recommend lining the pipe in the future instead of replacing the pipe as part of this project, which would require closing the street for several days to dig the pipe up and replace it. It is also significantly cheaper to line a pipe than to excavate the street and replace the pipe and a portion of the street in the process. Lining a pipe can also be completed without closing the street to traffic.