DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Xavier D. Urrutia
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 8
SUBJECT:
Construction Contract for the Leon Creek Trailhead Parking at Prue Road
SUMMARY:
This ordinance accepts the lowest qualified bid and awards a construction contract to Pronto Sandblasting & Coating & Oil Field Services Co. Inc., authorizes payment in the amount of $767,336.00 from 2015 Sales Tax Venue Funds and the Tree Canopy Preservation and Mitigation Funds to perform construction work in connection with the Leon Creek Trailhead Parking at Prue Road project located in Council District 8.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
This ordinance authorizes a construction contract with Pronto Sandblasting & Coating & Oil Field Services Co. Inc. for the Leon Creek Trailhead Parking at Prue Road project. Design work was performed by Terra Design Group. The Leon Creek Trailhead Parking at Prue Road project consists of a new trailhead parking area and trail connection to the Leon Creek Greenway trail. The trail connection will be 8 feet wide, 675-foot long, and built with concrete. The trailhead will include pervious parking for 29 vehicles, tree plantings, and trailhead amenities such as signage and minor landscaping.
The proposed projects are part of a growing network of interconnected hike and bike trails now known as the Howard W. Peak Greenway Trails system, which is funded through sales tax initiatives approved by voters in 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015. The objectives of the program are to acquire and preserve open space along San Antonio creekways and to develop multi-use hike and bike trails, trailheads, signage and associated amenities for use by San Antonio residents and visitors.
The Request for Low Qualified Bids was advertised the third and fourth weeks of April and the first week of May 2018 in the Hart Beat, the Texas Electronic State Business Daily, the City's website, and announced on the City's public access station TVSA. Six ...
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