Finance Committee - 09/02/2020 Page 3
COMMUNICATIONS
From: Kelly Parkinson, Purchasing Manager
Re: Redesigning and Engineering of City Hall Parking Lots
MOTION BY ALDERMAN HARRIOTT-GATHRIGHT TO ACCEPT, PLACE ON FILE, AND APPROVE
ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT FOR SURVEY, DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OF THE CITY HALL
PARKING LOT RETROFIT IN THE AMOUNT OF $36,793.77 FROM GREENMAN-PEDERSEN, INC. (GP),
BY ROLL CALL.
ON THE QUESTION
Mayor Donchess
And | believe City Engineer Hudson is here to address this, or is it Ms. Marchant?
Sarah Marchant, Director of Community Development
Correct, thank you so much, Director of Community Development, Sarah Marchant. In working on the Transit
Center Rehabilitation Project, it has come to our attention with the team that includes Administration, Parking,
certainly all of the Transit Center Team and the City Hall Buildings, that the rear two parking lots of City Hall
are where the traffic flows have been affected and how they are accessed is very much intertwined with the
Transit Center. And as part of the Transit Center, we need to close that access. Separate from that, having
the dual parking lots with two access points right directly next to each other off of Elm Street and both of them
being kind of dead ends, has caused problems for year and is something we want to look at part and parcel
with this. We don’t have the funding in the grant from the Federal Transit Administration; this is a separate
project but GPI has already done more than half the survey work. They are looking at this area, it makes
sense to have a separate contract with them that is funded by these City dollars to be able to study the design
of these parking lots and see if we can fix it and make one access point and see if we can retain as much
parking as possible in that process. So that is what is before you tonight.
Mayor Donchess
Anyone have questions or comments? Could the Clerk please call the roll?
A viva voce roll call was taken which resulted as follows:
Yea: Alderman Klee, Alderwoman Lu, Alderman Harriott-Gathright,
Alderman Laws, Alderman O’Brien, Mayor Donchess 6
Nay: 0
MOTION CARRIED
Mayor Donchess
The Motion passed; but before we go any further, | should have recognized that Alderman Skip Cleaver is with
us; | didn’t realize we had other Aldermen present beyond the Committee members.
Alderman Harriott-Gathright
And Alderman Dowd is with us as well.
