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Approve Amendment No. 1 to Professional Service Agreement 2023-056 with AECOM Technical Services, Inc., (Consultant) for the Northeast Polk County Minor Road Projects. ($263,804 one-time expense)
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The Board approved Professional Service Agreement No. 2023-056 with the Consultant on October 17, 2023, in the amount of $2,647,882. This agreement covers design services for two separate projects: (1) Holly Hill Road extension north to Florida Development Road, and improvements to Florida Development Road; and (2) improvements to Deen Still Road and Waverly Barn Road, and a new section of the North Ridge Trail to connect Deen Still Road to Waverly Barn Road. Design of these two projects is currently underway.
On July 1, 2025, the Board approved an Infrastructure Agreement with Eastgroup Properties, Inc. (Developer) to construct a section of North Ridge Trail. The Developer intends to use this section of North Ridge Trail to access their warehouse project. This section of North Ridge Trail is being redesigned by the County's Consultant to accommodate the truck traffic that will need to access the warehouse site. Section 5.3 of the Agreement requires that the Developer reimburse the County in the amount of $263,804 for the cost of the re-design of North Ridge Trail.
Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement is needed to reimburse the Consultant for additional design services associated with the re-design of North Ridge Trail to accommodate the new warehouse project. The details of the additional design services are described in Attachment A and include preparing a separate set of plans for the section of roadway that serves the warehouse project, increasing the turning radii to allow for truck movements, revising the access to the warehouse site to be directional only, and revising the proposed right-of-way to accommodate the new design. The Developer of the warehouse project will then be reimbursing the County for this expenditure.
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