Skip to main content
Dakota County Logo
File #: DC-4081    Version:
Type: Consent Action Status: Passed
File created: 12/12/2024 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 1/21/2025 Final action: 1/21/2025
Enactment date: 1/21/2025 Resolution #: 25-041
Title: Authorization To Execute First Amendment With Max Steininger, Inc. For Veterans Memorial Greenway Construction In Inver Grove Heights, County Project P00147
Sponsors: Parks
Attachments: 1. Project Location Map, 2. Construction Cost Changes Summary

DEPARTMENT: Parks

FILE TYPE: Consent Action

 

TITLE

title

Authorization To Execute First Amendment With Max Steininger, Inc. For Veterans Memorial Greenway Construction In Inver Grove Heights, County Project P00147

end

 

RESOLUTION

body

WHEREAS, to provide high-quality recreational and educational opportunities in harmony with natural resource preservation and to honor Dakota County’s more than 25,000 veterans, Dakota County is proceeding with the Veterans Memorial Greenway County Project (CP) P00147; and

 

WHEREAS, the Veterans Memorial Greenway Phase I is the first segment of regional trail to be secured, designed, and constructed in order to connect the Mendota to Lebanon Greenway in Eagan to the Mississippi River Greenway in Inver Grove Heights; and

 

WHEREAS, the Veterans Memorial Greenway Phase I includes construction of two miles of trail starting 500’ west of the intersection of Alameda Path and Cliff Road in Inver Grove Heights and extending east along Cliff Road through Flint Hills property and then ending at Rich Valley Park; and

 

WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 24-188 (April 9, 2024), the County Board authorized the execution of a contract with Max Steininger Inc., for the construction of Phase I of the Veterans Memorial Greenway, CP P00147; and

 

WHEREAS, the project is now substantially complete with only minor items of work and turf establishment remaining; and

 

WHEREAS, the construction contract has increases of $598,476.58 or 22 percent over the original contract amount; and

 

WHEREAS, the construction cost increases include additional costs for excavation, grading, hauling, and quantity overruns for the trail base; and

 

WHEREAS, staff recommends authorizing a contract amendment with Max Steininger Inc. in the amount of $598,476.58 for construction cost increases; and

 

WHEREAS, the 2025 Park’s Capital Improvement Program Budget has sufficient funds to accommodate the construction contract.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Dakota County Board of Commissioners hereby authorizes the Physical Development Director to execute a first amendment to the contract with Max Steininger Inc., in the amount of $598,476.58 for increased costs, resulting in a total amount of $3,345,698.88 for the construction work (County Project P00147) associated with the Veterans Memorial Greenway Phase I Segment, subject to approval by the County Attorney’s Office as to form.

end