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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 04Item #4 L �� akeville ter► City of Lakeville Community & Economic Development Memorandum To: Mayor and City Council Members Steven Mielke, City Administrator From: David L. Olson, Community and Economic Development Director Chris Petree, Public Works Director q Copy: Adam Kienberger, Economic Development Specialist Date: January 24, 2014 Subject: Review of the ADA Accessibility Improvements and CDBG Allocation The City's pending 2014 application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds approved at the January 6th Council meeting outlined three activities to be funded with the estimated 2014 CDBG allocation from HUD via the Dakota County CDA. These activities are expected to be approved by the CDA in February with funds available in late summer. Previous allocations have been approved for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Study and ADA Compliance Improvements. The City entered into an agreement with Wold Architects and Engineers in 2013 to complete the ADA Compliance Study on five City Buildings including City Hall, Water Treatment Facility, Central Maintenance Facility, Fire Station 4 and the Arts Center. Wold visited each of these sites and reviewed existing interior and exterior conditions to determine points of non - compliance. Points of non - compliance were documented and prioritized as High, Medium, or Low along with an estimated cost for bringing these identified areas into compliance. The City Council reviewed this report at their May 24, 2013 Council Work Session. In addition, Wold prepared plans and specifications for the installation of power- assist doors with electronic entry access at the entrances to City Hall that has been identified as a high priority by the public, staff and City Council. During the initial bid period last summer, Wold received one qualified bid for the project in the amount of $52,293.79 from Pro -Tec Design. City Council directed staff to re- evaluate the project and re- solicit bids in the winter. As part of the re- evaluation, staff requested that Wold prepare plans to remodel the information desk area of City Hall that does not currently meet ADA requirements. These plans for the Information Desk Upgrades along with the previously designed ADA Door Upgrades (which include an electronic card access system) were recently advertised for public bids. The bid package was structured so that bidders could bid either the Door Upgrades (Base Bid A) or Information Desk Upgrades (Base Bid B) or both (Base Bid C) as separate base bids. It was hoped that bidding a larger project may improve the economy of scale for contractors possibly resulting in lower bids for the ADA Door Upgrades. The City received bids from eight (8) contractors all of which bid all three bid packages. The following were the low bids for the bid options: Base Bid A - ADA Door Upgrades $51,214 Base Bid B - Information Desk Upgrades $51,491 Base Bid C - ADA Door and Information Desk Upgrades - $105,500 The bids for ADA Door Upgrades came in approximately $1,000 less than the bid that was received last year. There is currently $55,000 of CDBG funds allocated to do ADA compliance Improvements to City buildings (See Attachment A). This is sufficient to complete either the ADA Door Improvements (Base Bid A) or the Information Desk Upgrade (Base Bid B) but not both (Base Bid C) without a reallocation of funds from another CDBG funded activity. It is the recommendation of City staff and Wold Architects that the City proceed with awarding a bid for the ADA Door Improvements and reject the bids for the Information Desk Upgrades (See Attachment B). City staff and Wold Architects will continue to research other options to make the Information Desk area ADA compliant. Joel Dunning of World Architects and Engineers will be present at the Work Session to present the results of the bids and answer any questions on the process. CDBG Reallocation Because the CDBG program is a federally funded HUD program, the City is under obligation to expend its allocations in a timely manner. The Dakota County CDA has recently expressed concerns about the lack of expenditures within the Downtown Code Improvement /Commercial Rehab program and indicated that these concerns come directly from HUD (these are the oldest funds still available in Lakeville's CDBG Fund Balances). Over the past several years staff has worked with several Downtown business property owners to explore utilizing this program. Each time it has been concluded that the prevailing wage bidding requirement of the program has made the project cost more than the rehab investments would be worth by the private property owner. CDBG funds within a given program year can be administratively reallocated to a different activity that was also approved within that program year (See Attachment A). Staff is recommending administratively reallocating funds from the Downtown Code Improvement Program as follows: 1. Reallocate $11,700 from the 2009 Program Year "Downtown Code Improvement /Commercial Rehab" activity to "Residential Rehab ". The Residential Rehab activity is a very active program that provides loans in amounts up to $25,000 to owners of single - family residential dwellings and up to $5,000 to owners of manufactured homes in Lakeville who meet the low /moderate income requirements. 2. Reallocate $33,400 from the 2010 Program Year "Downtown Code Improvement /Commercial Rehab" activity to "Residential Rehab" and the remaining $15,000 from "Downtown Code Improvement/ Commercial" to "ADA Compliance Improvements." This will also allow the City to pursue other less costly ADA improvements in other buildings that were identified in the 2013 Wold Report. This reallocation will allow the oldest CDBG allocations to be placed in a more active program to help Lakeville meet its timeliness ratio requirements and lessen the risk of HUD requiring the funds to be re- allocated back to Dakota County or another City due to lack of activity. Alternate Option: 3. Reallocate 2009 funds articulated in recommendation 1 above and reallocate the appropriate amount of funding from the 2010 Program Year "Downtown Code Improvement /Commercial Rehab" activity to "ADA Compliance Improvements" based on the bids received for updating the City Hall front desk ADA deficiencies. Action Requested: Staff is requesting comments and feedback from the Council on the bids received for power- assist doors with electronic entry access at the entrances to City Hall along with City Hall front desk improvements. Staff is also requesting feedback on the suggested administrative reallocations of CDBG funds to fund ADA improvements and comply with HUD timeliness ratio requirements. M O W >- U Z LL Q N a m m Q 7 z C'1 U. H 0 a w m Cl) � M r N 0 U' r m M V W J J_ w Y a J z w w U Q 000000° a C C e M T O� O T c0 0 O V N N T N T O d O CL a) L � C 7 _ O O U O N O M O a a U) m OP,: T � O r 0 0 0 00 O 00 O 00 0 0� O r C L C n m r - C1 O q1 — N O O O � � N (DD 1M Cl) NA V a) CD fi? tH 64 C EA t,R C14 (B 0 m C O in w C O C 7 — D m a) L m N O Q O O N O o 3 E '� N �- 0 0 LO C T 0 V M M N 00 co �t Wi t!) O r r u' O X cn ti O OM N C O 0 0 O N r O LO E9 0 0 O O co ffl Q Ln M 6 It LO r T r-4 a) fA 69 6R Ln E T U O M 60). 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CD m W aQ Q z w w U Q 1 20, architects engineers www.woldae.com 305 Saint Peter Street Saint Paul, MN 55102 tel 651 227 7773 fax 651 223 5646 mail@woldae.com Base Bid "A" ADA Door Upgrades Base Bid "B" Information Desk Upgrades Base Bid "C" ADA Door and Information Desk Upgrades January 22, 2014 Chris Petree Lakeville City Hall 20195 Holyoke Avenue Lakeville, MN 55044 Re: City of Lakeville City Hall ADA Door and Front Desk Upgrades Commission No. 132032/132179 Dear Chris: We recommend the following information be presented to the City Council. Wold Architects & Engineers solicited bids on behalf of the City of Lakeville for ADA Door and Front Desk Upgrades to the City Hall. Bid documents organized the scope of work into three separate base bids with one alternate price to upgrade front desk counter materials to a better solid surface. The three base bids separated contractor costs into: Organizing the scope of work in this manner gives the City of Lakeville the most flexibility to award to the low contractor of the "A" door project, the low contractor of the "B" desk project, both low contractors of the "A" and "B" projects, or the combined "C" project to minimize city administrative work by dealing with only one contractor. We received eight (8) bids from contractors, all including bids for all three scopes of work. Bids were within an acceptable range and the low bids were within a reasonable margin of the anticipated cost estimates. The low Base Bid "A" was from Schreiber Mullaney for $51,214.00. The low Base Bid "B" was from Mohs Contracting, Inc. for $51,491.00. The low Base Bid "C" was from Schreiber Mullaney for $105,500.00 Minnesota Illinois Michigan Colorado We understand that the City of Lakeville only has a certain amount of funding through the Community Development Block Grant for ADA improvements and that the costs of both the door and information desk upgrades exceeds the funding limit. We recommend you enter into a contract with Schreiber Mullaney for Base Bid "A" for a total contract of $51,214.00. Upon you approval, we will proceed with initiating the project by drafting a contract between the City and Schreiber Mullaney, requesting the required bonding and insurance information, and setting a pre- construction meeting to establish the project schedule to meet the City's timeline. Sincerely, WO ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS Joel L. 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