SUBJECT/RECOMMENDATION:
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Award a contract (purchase order) to Smith Landscape Services, Inc. of Brooksville, Florida, to provide landscape improvements for Missouri Avenue medians, from Kingsley Street north to Court Street, for a cost of $177,309.00 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
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SUMMARY:
On April 7, 2016, the City Council approved a District Seven Florida Highway Beautification Council Grant Landscape, Construction and Maintenance Memorandum of Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for the installation and maintenance of landscaped medians within the Missouri Avenue corridor (northern section).
The City has partnered with FDOT on numerous landscape projects in the past to enhance the beauty of the transportation corridors in Clearwater, most notably the Courtney Campbell Causeway, Memorial Causeway, Gulf to Bay and Court Street.
Unlike other State Road medians in Clearwater, the Missouri Avenue Corridor has never been landscaped and therefore additional work to install water and power to each median will be required.
This contract is for the completion of seven medians, from Kingsley Street to Court Street. The contract will provide for the labor, equipment, materials and maintenance of transportation (MOT) for the demolition and re-landscaping and installation of irrigation system for these medians.
The remaining five medians, from Kingsley south to Bayview Drive, will be completed by Smith Landscape Services, Inc. under a separate contract.
Total cost to maintain the new medians (a total of 12 medians) when completed will be approximately $16,750 per year, which will be requested as an increase to the budget in Fiscal Year 2017/18.
APPROPRIATION CODE AND AMOUNT:
The City's match was provided by a FY14-15 third quarter budget amendment allocating General Fund reserves in the amount of $190,000 to Capital Improvement Project 315-93322, Missouri Avenue Median Beautification.
USE OF RESERVE FUNDS: N/A