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Approve Amendment No. 1 to Agreement 2025-008, with CPH Consulting, LLC, for Phase II architectural & engineering services for the NERUSA Operations Support Facility. ($705,648.50 one-time expense)
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As part of the Northeast Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion from 6.0 to 9.0 million gallons per day, the existing operations building will be relocated to a 5-acre parcel to make room for the expanded treatment processes. Also included on the 5-acre parcel is a utilities warehouse and a satellite Fleet Maintenance Facility. This project supports the regionalized approach to services for the largest of the Utilities Division's six service areas. Regional staff will be stationed in the new facility during extreme weather events to provide faster, more efficient emergency response. The project represents an expansion of the existing Utilities and Fleet Divisions and is intended to accommodate activities occurring in the northeast service area.
The original concept for the site envisioned one large building to house all three uses. However, once the architects from CPH Consulting, LLC completed the programming and preliminary design phase of the project, they strongly recommended separating the uses into their own structures, resulting in three stand-alone buildings: Utilities Administration, Utilities Warehouse, and Fleet Management. The factors that compelled this decision include the following:
? Varied site topography,
? Access to the site from the road,
? Competing vehicle flow for three distinct usage,
? Incompatible HVAC and rooflines require for each use,
? Construction timeline constraints of the plant expansion.
On February 4, 2025, the Board approved Agreement 2025-008 with CPH Consulting, LLC to provide conceptual design, a master plan, bidding documents, and construction administration for the new Polk County utilities northeast regional warehouse-operations building and fleet facility to be completed in three p...
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