05/26/92 Board of Public Works Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING MAY 26, 1992 APPROVE RELEASE OF EASEMENT - RIVER CROSSING I PROJECT Mr. Leszczynski advised that a Release of Easement has been submitted to the Board. Board Attorney and Member Mary H. Mueller informed members of the Board that this document releases an Easement which was previously granted to the City by Playland Park, Inc. for the River Crossing I Project. She noted that after construction began on this project it was determined that because of a collapse of a sewer pipe that the City had to relocate the placement of the new sewer to the other side. Therefore, the City does not need an Easement over this particular strip of land but will require an Easement over a fourteen foot (141) strip to the west of this Easement which it has already received from Mr. Earl J. Redden and John J. Redden, tenants in common. As it is appropriate at this time to release the above described Easement, Mrs. Mueller made a motion that the document submitted today be approved. Mr. Caldwell seconded the motion which carried. APPROVE CONSENT TO ANNEXATION AND WAIVER OF RIGHT TO REMONSTRATE Mr. Leszczynski stated that the Board is in receipt of a Consent to Annexation and Waiver of Right to Remonstrate in regards to Copperfield Estates, located off of Miami and Jackson Road. It is noted that in consideration for permission to tap into the public sanitary sewer system of the City to provide sanitary sewer service to a parcel of land consisting of 5.21 acres, The Barrett Corporation, owner of said parcel of property, waives and releases any and all rights to remonstrate against or object to, interfere with or oppose any pending or future annexation of the real estate to the City. Mr. Caldwell made a motion that the Consent to Annexation be approved. Mrs. Mueller seconded the motion which carried. APPROVE AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - DESIGN OF EDISON ROAD WIDENING AND RECONSTRUCTION Mr. Leszczynski advised that Mr. Carl P. Littrell, Director, Division of Engineering, has submitted to the Board a Memorandum indicating that due to unforeseen requirements of the Indiana Department of Transportation's soils group, the cost of the geotechnical survey for the above referred to project overran the City's consultant's budgeted cost by $3,136.80. Therefore, Mr. Littrell recommended that the Agreement with Ken Herceg & Associates, Inc., 224 West Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend, Indiana, be increased in the amount of $3,136.80 for a new contract amount of $148,986.80. It is noted that on December 18, 1989, the Board of Public Works approved a Contract with Ken Herceg & Associates for this project and an Amendment to the Contract was approved by the Board on April 8, 1991. Mr. Leszczynski noted that this project is scheduled for construction this Fall. Mr. Leszczynski therefore made a motion that the Amendment be approved. Mrs. Mueller seconded the motion which carried. APPROVE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES - LINCOLNWAY/ARDMORE/GOODLAND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS Mr. Carl P. Littrell, Director, Division of Engineering, informed the Board that the Indiana Department of Transportation has asked the City to participate in the planning and improvements to the above referred to intersection by providing a topographic survey. INDOT made this request because of the time delay they