DEPARTMENT: Parks
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Execute Amendment Three With Max Steininger, Inc., For Veterans Memorial Greenway Construction In Inver Grove Heights, County Project P00147
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize the execution of construction contract amendment three with Max Steininger, Inc., to complete the greenway trail construction work for County Project (CP) P00147, Veterans Memorial Greenway (VMG) Phase I in Inver Grove Heights (Attachment: Project Location).
SUMMARY
To provide a safe and efficient greenway system, Dakota County is proceeding with the VMG Phase I segment, which is the construction of about two miles of shared-use trail. The construction included a 10-foot shared-use trail, tunnel under County Highway 71, earthwork, and elements of the basic and enhanced memorial nodes, Greenway Wayfinding, and a mid-block crossing of County Highway 73 into Rich Valley Park. The VMG Phase I project started in the spring of 2024, was substantially complete in November 2024, and scheduled to be fully complete by the end of the fall of 2025.
Additional landscaping and memorial node construction will be completed by separate construction contracts, which have started this fall of 2025 for Phase I.
By Resolution No. 24-188 (April 9, 2024), the County Board authorized execution of a contract with Max Steininger, Inc., for construction of VMG Phase I, CP P00147.
By Resolution No. 25-041 (January 21, 2025), the County Board authorized contract amendment one with Max Steininger, Inc., for additional costs for excavating, grading, hauling, and quantity overruns for the trail base for the construction of VMG Phase I, CP P00147.
Parties entered in a written contract amendment effective February 18, 2025, the first amendment, which contained an accounting error and incorrectly identified the total contract maximum as $3,345,698.88 and the parties agreed that the total contract maximum for the work and services performed ...
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