St. Louis City Ordinance 65099

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FLOOR SUBSTITUTE
BOARD BILL NO. 169 [00]

An ordinance authorizing and directing the Board of Public Service of the City of

St. Louis to let contracts and provide for design, construction, material, equipment, employ labor and consultants, pay salaries, fees, and wages, acquire real property interests, enter into supplemental agreements with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department, Federal Highway Administration, Railroads, Utilities, Bi-State Development Agency and other Governmental Agencies, and otherwise provide for the design, and construction for the following projects:

Reconstruction of the Forest Park Parkway – Kingshighway to DeBaliviere

Pedestrian Enhancement under I-70 – Biddle to Washington Ave.

River Des Peres Drive Bridge Reconstruction over McKenzie Creek

Riverview Blvd. and bridge Reconstruction at Maline Creek

South Grand Blvd. (Grand Visions) Pedestrian Enhancement and Median

Reconstruction – I-44 to Arsenal St.

Washington Ave. Pedestrian Linkage and Reconstruction, 3^rd St. to 18^th St.

Wellington Ave. Bridge Reconstruction over Rivers Des Peres

Bicycle /Pedestrian Coordinator

Delmar Community Pathway Construction – Delmar to Rosedale

Near Southside Street Reconstruction (Lafayette, 14^th St., Park Ave.)

Locust Business District Downtown Bikeway System

CMAQ Traffic Signal Improvements – Chippewa, Hampton, Forest Park Ave.,

Union and Jefferson

and appropriate the estimated cost of Thirty Six Million Seven Hundred Dollars ($36,700,000.00), of which the City’s share is Five Million Three Hundred Thousand ($5,300,000.00) from the funds in the Federal Aid to Urban Program Match Share Fund established by Ordinance 56931 and Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century (T-21) Surface Transportation, Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation, Enhancement, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Programs, containing sections for description of the work, material guarantees, estimated expenditure allocations, fund reversion authorization, applicable state and federal wage rate requirements, equal opportunity provisions, the Mayor’s Executive Orders, contract advertising statutes, and a public work emergency clause.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS AS FOLLOWS:

Section One. The Board of Public Service is hereby authorized and directed to let contracts, provide for the design, construction, material and equipment, employ labor and consultants, pay salaries, fees and wages, acquire real property interests, enter into supplemental agreements with Railroads and Utilities, St. Louis Development Cooperation and other public entities, and otherwise provide for the design and the construction of the projects listed as follows:

Reconstruction of the Forest Park Parkway – Kingshighway to DeBaliviere

Pedestrian Enhancement under I-70 – Biddle to Washington Ave.

River Des Peres Drive Bridge Replacement over McKenzie Creek

Riverview Blvd. and bridge Reconstruction at Maline Creek

South Grand Blvd. (Grand Visions) Pedestrian Enhancement and Median

Reconstruction – I-44 to Arsenal St.

Washington Ave. Pedestrian Linkage and Reconstruction, 3^rd St. to 18^th St.

Wellington Ave. Bridge Reconstruction over Rivers Des Peres

Bicycle /Pedestrian Coordinator

Delmar Community Pathway construction – Delmar to Rosedale

Near Southside Street Reconstruction (Lafayette, 14^th St., Park Ave.)

Locust Business District Downtown Bikeway System

CMAQ Traffic Signal Improvements – Chippewa, Hampton, Forest Park Ave.,

Union and Jefferson.

Section Two. The work provided for herein shall be carried out in accordance with detailed plans and specifications to be adopted and approved by the Board of Public Service before bids are advertised therefor.

Section Three. The cost of the work is estimated to be Thirty Six Million Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($36,700,000.00). Five Million Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($5,300,000.00) from the funds in the Federal Aid to Urban Program Match Share Fund established by Ordinance 56931 and Federal Highway Administration’s Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century (T-21) Surface Transportation, Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation, Enhancement, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Programs, is hereby appropriated to be used for this project. Said improvement shall be contracted and done in parts as funds are accrued in this Match Share Fund and are adequate to pay the City’s share of the cost, except for the match share for the Washington Ave. project and the Near Southside Street reconstruction project for which the match share is appropriated from LCRA funds.

Section Four. The Comptroller of the City of St. Louis hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants from time to time and disburse funds appropriated by this ordinance and is further authorized to receive and disburse grant funds in accordance with the Intermodal Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century, upon the signature and certification of vouchers, by the President of the Board of Public Service. Reimbursement funds received shall be deposited into the Federal Aid to Urban Program Match Share Fund Ordinance 56931.

Section Five. All construction contracts let under authority of this ordinance shall provide that no less than the prevailing hourly rate of wages in the City of St. Louis, as determined by the Federal Davis-Bacon Act and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations of the State of Missouri (Section 290.210 through 290.340 RSMo 1980) for each craft or type of work needed in the actual labor on the jobs herein authorized, as well as the general prevailing rate of pay for legal holidays and overtime work shall be paid to all workers. All contract let in connection with the construction provided for herein shall be subject to, and in conformance with all statutes of the State of Missouri and the Charter and code of the City of St. Louis.

Section Six. The Board of Public Service of the City of St. Louis is hereby authorized to enter into supplemental agreements with the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, Federal Highway Administration, Railroads, Bi-State Development Agency, Utilities and other governmental agencies for the projects hereinbefore mentioned.

Section Seven. The Board of Public Service is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the City monetary donations from other governmental agencies and others to assist in paying for the work authorized in this ordinance. Funds received shall be deposited into the Federal Aid to Urban Program Match Share Fund Ordinance 56931.

Section Eight. All specifications approved by the Board of Public Service and contracts let under authority of this ordinance shall provide for compliance with the Mayor’s Executive Orders on Equal Opportunity and maximum MBE/WBE utilization except when otherwise superseded or prohibited by federal or state regulations.

Section Nine. All advertisement for bids pursuant to this ordinance shall be subject to Section 8.250, RSMO, 1980.

Section Ten. This being an Ordinance providing for public work or improvements, an emergency is hereby declared to exist within the meaning of Section Twenty, Article Four of the Charter of the City of St. Louis, and this Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval by the Mayor.

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