REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: GREGORY A. BARFIELD, Assistant City Manager
Interim Director
Department of Transportation
BY: JOE VARGAS, Assistant Director
Department of Transportation
SANDY CETTI, Capital Development Specialist
Department of Transportation
SUBJECT
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Award an architect and engineering contract to Provost and Pritchard Consulting Group, of Fresno, California, in the amount of $225,554.72 for full design services for seventy-five (75) Fresno Area Express Standard Bus Stops (Bid File #10129)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends Council award an architect and engineering contract to Provost and Pritchard Consulting Group, of Fresno, California, in the amount of $225,554.72 for full design services for seventy-five (75) Fresno Area Express Standard Bus Stops.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Transportation, FAX Division seeks to award a contract to deliver full design services for seventy-five (75) Fresno Area Express 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's commitment to spend $500,000 annually on the remediation of ADA deficiencies. FAX has up to $250,000 for design services b...
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