The request of staff for City Council is to review and consider for approval the attached proposal in the not to exceed amount of $328,565 from Southern Road and Bridge, Inc. for the 2020 Grand Blvd. Drainage Improvements Project.  Included in the proposal is an owner’s contingency in the amount of $10,000.  The pricing and contract documents are in accordance with the current Pasco County IFB-JV-18-058 and IFB-ML-19001 that City Council approved staffs request to piggyback at a regularly scheduled meeting held on October 15, 2019.

This project is included in the 2013 Stormwater Master Drainage Plan 10 year update. The project area is located on Grand Blvd. south of Homecrest Rd. and north of Garden Grove Ln.  The existing outfall facility to the drainage system accommodates the drainage area located in the City Limits west of Grand Blvd., Pasco County east of Washington St., and the City of Port Richey northeast of Washington St.  The scope of work for this proposed project includes:

1. The upsizing of the existing 18” X 36” elliptical reinforced concrete pipe (ERCP), drainage culvert under Grand Blvd. to a 38” X 60” ERCP.

2. The upsizing of the existing 18” X 36” ERCP drainage pipe and outfall to a 38” X 60” ERCP.

3. The removal of the existing 18” reinforced concrete pipe (RCP), and replacing it with 38” X 60” ERCP.

4. The upsizing of the existing inlet structure.

5. The removal and replacement of two (2) existing headwalls and the installation of rip rap around the structures.