Agenda Item Wording:
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Award Sole Source Design Contract: Authorize the City Manager to award a sole source professional design services contract to 4Creeks, Inc., for the 30% engineering design of the Shirk Street Widening Project from Walnut Avenue to Noble Avenue for an amount not to exceed $289,048.
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Deadline for Action: 2/18/2025
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Estrella Velasquez, Associate Engineer, Estrella.Velasquez@visalia.city, 713-4164
Diego Corvera, Senior Civil Engineer, Diego.Corvera@visalia.city, 713-4209
Chris Crawford, City Engineer, Chris.Crawford@visalia.city, 713-4331
Jason Huckleberry, Engineering and Building Department Director, Jason.Huckleberry@visalia.city, (559) 713-4495
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to award a sole-source professional design services contract to 4Creeks, Inc., for design of the Shirk Street Widening Project from Walnut Avenue to Noble Avenue for an amount not to exceed $289,048.
Background Discussion:
Roadway Widening:
The purpose of the "Shirk Street Widening Project" is to increase vehicle capacity on Shirk Street from Walnut Avenue to Noble Avenue by adding additional north/south lanes and to provide for an efficient flow of traffic in support of the increase in development within the surrounding area. In addition, the Circulation Element of the 2030 City of Visalia General Plan, adopted October 14, 2014, identifies Shirk Street as a widening project from Caldwell Avenue to State Route 198. Shirk Street is to be widened from 2 to 4 lanes with center medians to become an arterial status roadway.
Sole Source Justification:
Staff recommends that the design contract for Shirk Street be sole sourced to 4Creeks Inc. because they have been retained by the adjacent developers to provide off-site engineering design through a segment of the proposed improvements that are located in the City's capital...
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