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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/12/2003 @llW ~~ ~B~@~@ FOR EMERGENCY SPECIAL MEETING CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO August12,2003 Mayor Cerveny explained that she had called this Emergency Special Meeting because at the City Council Meeting of August 11 2003, City Council denied Item 5 , Award RFB-03-032, Street Improvements, Kipling, 1-70 to 50th Avenue This gives CDOT the message that we do not need their money for traffic improvement. If CDOT has even 1 day of opportunity they will give this project money to another City, because they are all clamoring for money Wheat Ridge will never get any money for this traffic improvement project or any money She considers this an emergency of such gravity that irreparable harm would come to the City if this project is delayed Mayor Cerveny asked the City Clerk to poll each Councilmember to see if they agreed with that. City Clerk, Wanda Sang, asked if Council member if they agreed that this is an emergency Mr Hanley' "Yes, I agree" Mr Edwards "I concur with the Mayor's assessment" Mr Schneider" "Yes, I concur with the Mayor's assessment" Mr Mancinelli "Yes" Mrs. Rotola. "Yes" Mr Gokey' "Yes" Wanda Sang announced that Mr DiTullio and Ms Figlus were not present at this meeting Mr Edwards explained that Mr DiTullio contacted him and stated that he was scheduled to work until 6 00 P m and could not attend this meeting Motion by Mr Gokey to reconsider RFB-03-032, Street Improvements, Kipling 1-70 to 50th Avenue, seconded by Mr Edwards Mr Gokey asked that the additional information from the Public Works Director be entered into the record at this time CITY COUNCIL EMERGENCY SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES -August 12, 2003 2 Mr Paranto, Public Works Director, stated that the project being discussed at this time, is a safety project on Kipling, just immediately north of 1-70 It is a project that has been programmed for the last 2 years and is a part of our Public Works CIP Project Program It consists of the elimination of 2 traffic islands at 49th & Kipling and the reconfiguration of the center traffic island immediately north of 49th The purpose of these improvements is to in essence add 1 additional usable lane in each direction on Kipling, easing the traffic congestion for the traffic coming onto and leaving Kipling and 1-70 It's to accommodate traffic at that intersection and ease congestion on the traffic that is entering and leaving 49th & Kipling Mr Gokey stated that based on that information, it was the basis for him reconsidering his vote in this matter Since this configuration change does not affect the retailers along this corridor and as a matter of fact does improve the access ability to any business located west of Kipling along this corridor There is still a plan in the works, which is the plan he had seen 5 years ago brought forth to the Planning Commission, when he was there He thought that was the specific plan, that was going to be implemented at this time, there was a refunding, more allocation of funds to do this project, so they scaled the project back to what Mr Paranto has just conveyed to this Council Mr Schneider wants it reflected in the record that he has driven this corridor for at least 28 years, that he has lived here, which is at 1-70 and Kipling Street, and he is very aware of what the problems are there and what this project does, is there are two islands, when you immediately get off Kipling Street north and all this does, it removes the 2 islands that are on the east side of the street and the west side of the street at the first interchange that is north of 1-70 and Kipling so what that allows the cars to do, is, when they get off the highway, they don't run directly into an island, they are able to just continue traveling northward Other than that, the only other thing it does, is there is a storage area in the middle of Kipling Street, when you are coming southbound and are taking a left hand turn, where it stores 2 or 3 cars approximately right now and what it's gonna do is it's going to increase the storage there by probably 3 cars So what the bottom line is when you are coming to Kipling Street, coming westbound, and you take a right-hand turn, the cars are going to be able to flow instead of being stopped He would like to add if the entire Council would make a concerted effort to either talk to the City Manager, Public Works Director, or whatever Agenda Item we have, and do their homework ahead of time, so that we don't have to call Emergency Meetings This was very straight forward CITY COUNCIL EMERGEJ;[CY SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES -August 12, 2003 3 Mr Schneider' "These plans have probably been in your office, Mr Paranto, for how long?" Mr Paranto "Nearly a year" Mr Schneider' "So anybody, at any time, whether it's a Councilmember or whether it's a citizen, could have come to your office and they could have got these plans Is that not correct?" Mr Paranto "Yes, that's correct." Mr Schneider' "And they could have looked at them? They weren't sealed up anywhere, they weren't hidden anywhere, everybody had access to them?" Mr Paranto "Yes, that's correct." Mr Schneider' "Thank you" Mr Edwards thanked Mr Gokey for the reconsideration on this matter Mrs Rotola also thanked Mr Gokey Motion to reconsider carried 6-0 Mayor Cerveny read the Motion that was made by Mrs Rotola at the August 11, 2003 City Council Meeting, to award RFB-03-032 Kipling Street Improvement, to Keene Concrete, Inc., Keensburg, Colorado, in the amount of $14845710 I further move that a force account and contingency of $14,84571 be established I further move that the Director of Public Works be authorized to issue change orders up to a total contract and contingency amount of $163,30281 I further move that all costs associated with this contract be paid from Acct. No 30-304-800-845, and that these funds be encumbered for the length of the project in accordance with Ordinance 787, 1989 Series I further move that $160,000 be transferred from the Capital Projects Balance to Acct. No 30- 304-800-845, seconded by Mr Schneider Mayor Cerveny stated that this project has been in the works for a long, long time, as she mentioned with many of them, Arvada has a lot of development going on down there and she thinks it's very important that we work with Arvada The reason she is so upset, was, as she stated, everyone is screaming at CDOT CDOT just took our 1-70, Highway 58 Project off the TIP and in addition took our Wadsworth Project off the TIP That's our Transportation Improvement Program, that's done in 3 years She was terribly upset about the fact that 1-70 and Highway 58 was taken off, because they have already done the environmental study The environmental study only stays alive for 3 years If we don't continue this project, we have to do another environmental study and we never have it, that project is in a black hole She has been working, since she got this TIP, the end of May, talking with various people, she has done everything she can to keep this project alive She got a phone message a week ago from Congressman Beauprez, calling her from Alaska, saying that he had gotten 16 Million through the House Appropriations Committee If that goes through the Senate Appropriations CITY COUNCIL EMERGENCY SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES August 12,2003 4 Committee, CDOT has to spend that money on that project. If this can all go through and Congressman Beauprez is in a unique position to help us with this, he has stepped forward and helped us with this, if they do this, CDOT has to do this project. I'm sure that if this all happens, Congressman Beauprez and the Mayor will incur the wrath of Tom Norton and possibly the Governor, and she doesn't know who else But she feels it is very important for Wheat Ridge to get this project going She has argued that this project is also important for Golden, who don't want all this traffic going through Golden, this people will come down 93, go 58th and go out 1-70 if it's too big a hassle to go through Golden So it would help Golden and it would help the County in addition Her biggest concern if we turn this down, is you are sending the message that you don't care If this comes up, then Tom Norton can tell Congressman Beauprez, forget it, they don't need this and she just didn't want this to happen and she feels as she stated, that even 1 day, this would get out and in 2 weeks they would say, tough you don't get the money She will continue to work with Congressman Beauprez and has testified at DRCOG and talked with a Councilmember of Lakewood and their Traffic Engineer have been very helpful and Vance and her are meeting with Dick Sheehan tonight and talk to him, he offered to help We need them to list this project as No 1 from Jefferson County She thanked everybody for coming and is sorry that she totally lost it last night. Motion carried 6-0 Meeting adjourned at 1 50 P m ; l '- )111 /lM~h/Y\/ .~ \l'l.tanda Sang, City CI APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 28 2003 BY A VOTE OF 6 TO 0 - , , ( / I" ~ \, i"" I, '(\,.-{/~1.AAA/ DaVid Schneider: Council President I Due to the fact that this was an emergency special meeting, these Minutes were not prepared according to Roberts Rules, but are almost verbatim