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Department of Transportation recommending the Board approve and authorize the Chair to sign the First Amendment to competitively bid Agreement for Services 6996 with Nichols Consulting Engineers, Inc., increasing compensation by $54,695 for a new amount of $314,630 and no change to the term expiring April 4, 2026, to provide geotechnical and environmental review services for the South Tahoe Greenway - Upper Truckee River Bridge at Johnson Meadow Project, Capital Improvement Program project number 36107023.
(District 5)
FUNDING: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Air Quality Mitigation Funds (1%), Regional Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (7.5%), To Be Determined (91.5%), (Local and Federal Funds). Funding for the environmental and geotechnical phase of the project is fully funded with Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Air Quality Mitigation Funds (11.5%) and Regional Surface Transportation Block Grant Program funding (88.5%). Funding for the construction phase is to be determined and will be a combination of local and federal funds.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The South Tahoe Greenway - Upper Truckee River Bridge at Johnson Meadow Project (Project) will build upon the South Tahoe Greenway shared use path network through the south shore of Lake Tahoe. The Project aims to construct approximately 1.2 miles of a Class 1 shared-use path and replace a bridge over the Upper Truckee River that was heavily used before its destruction by the 2017 winter storms. The Project will provide active transportation users a critical link between the commercial area near Barton Hospital to the west and Lake Tahoe Community College and the Tahoe Sierra neighborhood to the east. The Project will also add another link in the South Tahoe Greenway that will eventually connect Meyers with Van Sickle Bi-State Park at Stateline, Nevada.
On April 4, 2023 (Legistar File 23-0339), the Board approved competitively bid Agreement for Services #6996 (Agreement) with Nichols Consul...
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