REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: GREGORY A. BARFIELD, Director
Department of Transportation
BY: SANDY CETTI, Project Manager
Department of Transportation
SUBJECT
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Award an Architect and Engineering Contract to Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc. to be in effect upon approval through December 31, 2030, in an amount not to exceed $219,623.21, for full design services for eighty (80) Fresno Area Express (FAX) Standard Bus Stops Phases E-H for construction to remediate Americans with Disability Act (ADA) deficiencies (Bid File #12600127)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends Council award an architect and engineering contract to Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group to be in effect upon approval through December 31, 2030, in an amount not to exceed $219,623.21 for full design services for eighty (80) Fresno Area Express Standard Bus Stops Phases E-H for construction to remediate Americans with Disability Act (ADA) deficiencies.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Transportation, FAX Division, seeks to award a contract to deliver full design services for eighty (80) FAX standard bus stops located throughout the City of Fresno, per City of Fresno standard drawings. These design drawings will lead to construction to remediate Americans with Disability Act (ADA) deficiencies found at the stops per the FAX ADA Transition Plan approved by Council on September 2, 2021. The remediation work will also serve to provide safer bus stops and an improved customer experience at each of the project stops.
BACKGROUND
In December 2015, Council approved a consultant to survey Fresno's bus stops systemwide, identify barriers for access, and develop a transition plan per Title II of the ADA to guide FAX in the correction of ADA-related deficiencies. The resulting plan's adoption on September 2, 2021, provided FAX with a 30-year remediation schedule for ADA deficiencies at bus stops systemwide.
A key component of the FAX ADA Transition Plan is FAX'...
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