City of San Antonio - File #: 14-898

• File #: 14-898
• Type: Capital Improvements
• In control: City Council A Session
• On agenda: 5/29/2014
• Posting Language: An Ordinance for the Kenwood Senior Center authorizing a task order to a Job-Order Contract for building repairs and site improvements in an amount up to $232,935.35 payable to the Sabinal Group; a project funded through the FY 2014 Deferred Maintenance Program, located in Council District 1. [Peter Zanoni, Deputy City Manager; Mike Frisbie, Director, Transportation and Capital Improvements]
• Indexes: CIMS - Contract

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/29/2014	1	City Council A Session	adopted	Pass

DEPARTMENT: Transportation and Capital Improvements


DEPARTMENT HEAD: Mike Frisbie


COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 1


SUBJECT:
Contract Award: (Job-Order Contract) Kenwood Senior Center Building Structural Repairs and Site Improvements


SUMMARY:
An ordinance authorizing a task order to a Job-Order Contract, for Kenwood Senior Center structural building repairs and site improvements, in an amount of $232,935.35, payable to the Sabinal Group; a project funded through the FY 2014 Deferred Maintenance Program, located in Council District 1.


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Project Background
The Kenwood Senior Center, located at 305 Dora Street in San Antonio, Texas, is part of the Kenwood Park, which includes an outdoor pool, two playgrounds and various athletic fields. The approximately 6,800 square-foot facility has a large dining hall, commercial kitchen, toilet rooms, fitness room and a computer lab, in addition to multiple office spaces.

The foundation is a structural slab on grade with perimeter and interior grade beams. The facility is comprised of load-bearing concrete masonry block walls with glue-laminated wood rafters, to support a pre-finished metal roof assembly. Exterior wall construction is brick and stone masonry supported by concrete masonry construction. The facility is currently experiencing structural movement of the slab and walls caused by the expansive clay soils situated underneath the structural slab. Due to varying changes in moisture content within the clay soil, the clay soil will expand and contract causing movement. While structurally safe, the interior and exterior masonry has developed cracks, and the exterior patio has been temporarily closed due to tripping hazards caused by these cracks.

While this work will not completely renovate the facility, it is engineered to stop further damage to the building through site re-grading, improved draining and exterior wall repairs, as well as prov...