2025-0200
INTRODUCED BY: MATTHEW JEWELL, PARISH PRESIDENT
(DEPARTMENT OF Public Works)
ORDINANCE NO. ___________
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An ordinance approving and authorizing the execution of Amendment No. 1 to Ordinance No. 21-8-14, which approved the Professional Services Agreement with Volkert, Inc. for the Evangeline Road & CN Railroad Box Culvert (Project No. P210701), in the not to exceed amount of $202,712.50, increasing the overall contract value to $389,718.34.
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WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 21-8-14 adopted on August 23, 2021, by the St. Charles Parish Council. approved and authorized the execution of a Professional Services Agreement with Volkert, Inc., to perform engineering services for Evangeline Road & CN Railroad Box Culvert (Project No. P210701), in the not to exceed amount of $187,005.84; and,
WHEREAS, the utility conflicts both parallel and perpendicular to the railroad required much more in-depth coordination and design work to incorporate protection and/or avoidance of said conflicts to ensure railroad permitting was completed successfully, therefore justifying more funds be provided to Volkert, Inc. for the work; and,
WHEREAS, St. Charles Parish met with Volkert, Inc. and requested the scope be changed slightly to include leaving the sheet piles required for shoring in place permanently, requiring more design; and,
WHEREAS, with this Amendment St. Charles Parish and Volkert, Inc. have mutually agreed to reallocate the existing funds of $187,005.84 from the original agreement to appropriately match where the funds were spent; and,
WHEREAS, upon receipt of the Canadian National Railroad (CNRR) Permit, St. Charles Parish will bid this project, therefore requiring Resident Project Representative (RPR) services be added to the contract; and,
WHEREAS, St. Charles Parish and Volkert, Inc. have mutually agreed on a not to exceed price of $202,712.50 to complete the work, increasing the overall contract value to $389,718.34.
THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That Amendment No. 1 to the Professional Services Agreement with Volkert, Inc. for the Evangeline Road & CN Box Culvert (Project No. P210701), to provide additional funds for utility coordination and resident inspection, in the not to exceed amount of $202,712.50, increasing the overall contract value to $389,718.34, is hereby approved and accepted.
SECTION II. That the Parish President is hereby authorized to execute said Amendment on behalf of St. Charles Parish.
The foregoing ordinance having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows:
And the ordinance was declared adopted this _______ day of ___________, 2025, to become effective five (5) days after publication in the Official Journal.
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