REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
December 1, 2016
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
BY: ANDREW J. BENELLI, PE, City Engineer/Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Traffic and Engineering Services Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Central Valley Trailer Repair to provide $189,970.66 in reimbursements for street improvements on East Avenue near the intersection of North Avenue. (District 3)
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council approve a Memorandum of Understanding with Central Valley Trailer Repair to provide $189,970.66 in reimbursements for street improvements on East Avenue near the intersection of North Avenue.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The owners of Central Valley Trailer Repair are constructing a new building on the northwest corner of North Avenue and East Avenue. As developers of the site, they are responsible for widening East Avenue and installing curb, gutter, and sidewalk. In the course of designing and building the street widening, it was determined that the existing pavement on East Avenue was badly deteriorated and not at the correct grade. Central Valley Trailer Repair agreed to repave the entire street. The attached MOU will approve reimbursing Central Valley for the work on the existing travel lanes beyond their standard frontage improvement requirements.
BACKGROUND
The owners of Central Valley Trailer Repair are constructing a new building on the northwest corner of North Avenue and East Avenue. Their current location on Railroad Avenue is in the path of the new High Speed Rail tracks and will be demolished when the new building is finished. As a standard condition of development, the owners were required to widen East Avenue and install curb, gutter and sidewalk. The existing street pavement was in very poor condition and was not at the master-planned grade established by the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District (FMFCD). Although t...
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