PRESENTER: Presenter
Scott McClelland, Assistant Transportation and Capital Improvements Director
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SUBJECT: Title
Public hearing, discussion, and possible action approving an expenditure of up to $2,000,000 to the City of New Braunfels for construction of Alligator Creek Trail West, a project authorized under 505.152 of the Texas Local Government Code.
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DEPARTMENT: Economic and Community Development
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
In September 2022, at a quarterly workshop meeting, staff presented the New Braunfels Economic Development Corporation (NBEDC) with results of a survey in which NBEDC Board members ranked eligible economic development projects. The West Alligator Creek Trail was ranked as the 9th highest priority. In December 2022, the NBEDC agreed to fund final design of nine eligible projects. Throughout 2023, the NBEDC has addressed projects from this ranking exercise at their regular and special-called meetings.
The West Alligator Creek Trail Project includes approximately 1.1 miles of ten-foot-wide hike and bike trails, with pedestrian low water crossings and associated amenities along Alligator Creek from Goodwin Lane to the Oak Creek Estates neighborhood on either side of the creek. Planned amenities will include neighborhood connections with trail signage, seating areas, trash receptacles, and mile markers.
The Transportation and Capital Improvements Department provided the NBEDC an informative update on this project at the December 14, 2023, special-called meeting and planned to bring the project for potential action at its next meeting in January 2024. Vickrey & Associates (Vickrey), the design engineer, has completed the design of the project and has prepared a final opinion of probable construction cost which is the basis for the funding request. Construction is expected to begin in early 2024.
ISSUE:
Continue an ongoing program of infrastructure construction and maintenance.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The final opinion of probable construction cost, assembled by Vickrey & Associates, estimates the construction cost to be $2,000,000 which includes a 20% contingency. Any allocated funding above the awarded contract amount will be returned to the NBEDC for future allocation.