City of San Antonio - File #: 18-3661

• File #: 18-3661
• Type: Capital Improvements
• In control: City Council A Session
• On agenda: 6/21/2018
• Posting Language: Ordinance approving a construction contract to Crownhill Builders, Inc., in the amount of $459,461.00 from Sales Tax Venue Funds and the Tree Canopy Preservation and Mitigation Fund to construct the Dafoste Park to Salado Creek Greenway Trail Connection project. [María D. Villagómez, Assistant City Manager; Xavier D. Urrutia, Director, Parks & Recreation]

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/21/2018	1	City Council A Session	adopted	Pass

DEPARTMENT: Parks and Recreation


DEPARTMENT HEAD: Xavier D. Urrutia


COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 2


SUBJECT:

Construction Contract for the Dafoste Park to Salado Creek Greenway Trail Connection


SUMMARY:

This ordinance accepts the lowest qualified bid and awards a construction contract to Crownhill Builders, Inc., authorizes payment in the amount of $459,461.00 from 2015 Sales Tax Venue Funds and the Tree Canopy Preservation and Mitigation Fund to construct the Dafoste Park to Salado Creek Greenway Trail Connection project located in Council District 2.


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

This ordinance authorizes a construction contract with Crownhill Builders, Inc. to construct the Dafoste Park to Salado Creek Greenway Trail Connection project. Design work was performed by Terra Design Group. The trail connection will be 10 feet wide, 490-foot long, and built with concrete. The project also includes a retaining wall, a drainage culvert, tree plantings, and trailhead amenities such as benches, fitness stations, landscaping, a butterfly garden, and associated signage. These improvements will become unique additions to the municipal park system's creekways program for hiking, biking, and other recreational uses.

The proposed project is 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. Four (4) b...