Title
Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to execute an Interlocal Agreement with Williamson County regarding engineering and surveying services for the Oak Bluff Drainage Project.
Body
Williamson County and the City have experienced right-of-way and private property flooding in the Greenfield and Oak Bluff Estates neighborhoods. These neighborhoods abut one another and are served by a common drainage conveyance system. Because of this commonality, City and County staffs believe it to be prudent for the City and the County to partner together to determine potential improvement alternatives that would benefit both neighborhoods; and then to obtain design documents for a selected alternative.
This Interlocal Agreement (ILA) establishes cost sharing between the City and County for engineering and surveying services necessary to analyze the conveyance system, to develop and estimate costs of potential system improvements solutions, and to prepare construction drawings for a solution alternative. According to the ILA, the engineering and surveying services will be obtained through a contract between the City and a private engineering firm; the cost of which, up to $80,000, will be equally shared by the City and the County. The County’s contribution has been limited to $40,000 in the ILA.
It is worthy of note that the aforementioned contract between the City and a private engineering firm (specifically, Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, Inc.) which provides the engineering and surveying services contemplated by the ILA will be presented to the City Council for consideration on the April 28, 2016 Council Meeting. City staff recommends approval of the ILA.
Recommended Action
Staff recommends approval.