2022 09 22 City Council

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PUBLIC WORKS 
 
TO:  C. Seth Sumner, City Manager 
FROM:  Ben Burchfield, Public Works Director 
Cc:  Kevin L. Helms, Project Manager 
 
DATE:  September 7, 2022 
SUBJECT: Approve Design and Authorize Notice to Proceed to Bid - CTI 
 
BACKGROUND 
After extensive coordination between City Staff and Stantec, the City’s consultant engineers, design of 
improvements for the Campus Transportation Improvements Project (CTI) have been completed.  
 
The project was split into two distinct areas – right-of-way improvements that are mobility oriented which 
include items such as new and renovated sidewalks, new pedestrian crossing infrastructure at sidewalks, 
street striping reconfigurations around the new consolidated school campus,  new intersection signage, 
and other various transportation engineering improvements specifically targeted at improving multi-
modal usability around the campus and adjacent streets. 
 
The second package deals exclusively with transportation improvements to signalized intersections in the 
vicinity of the new consolidated school  that will be impacted by traffic demands . Improvements include 
new vehicle detection hardware, upgraded signal cabinet hardware, redesigned signal intersection  
layouts to include new or reconfigured lanes and corresponding overhead signals, pedestrian crossing 
hardware, fiber optic infrastructure to allow coordination between impacted intersections, and new signal 
timing plans specifically designed to help manage the increase in traffic demand.  
 
The school is projected to fully open in F all 2023. The se improvements must be bid, awarded, and 
constructed in an expedient manner and  be fully operational ahead of the school opening. Council has 
dedicated $3,000,000 in funding for traffic improvements. The City and Stantec have worked diligently to 
ensure that all items in the scope of both bid packages is as comprehensive as necessary, while eliminating 
any unnecessary items in  an effort to ensure that all critical improvements can be accomplished with 
allocated funds. 
   
ACTION ITEM 
Approve the scope of construction identified in the sidewalk/mobility and  signalization improvement 
construction plans to form and appropriateness and  authorize staff to proceed to soliciting competitive 
bids for the constru ction of both items.  Upon receipt of bids, staff will return to Council with a 
recommendation to award and, if approved, proceed swiftly to construction. 
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