The City Council approved $80,000.00 in funding for the Iowa Riverfront Trail Repair – Big Lake Park in the FY 24 CIP.  The project scope is to replace three culverts that are failing on the north side of the park levee.  These culverts serve a drainage channel within the park and are under the Iowa Riverfront Trail. The City received two bids, each exceeding the approved budget.

United Utilities & Excavating: $92,006.00

Judds Brothers Construction Co.: $197,206.00

The apparent low bid exceeds the budget by $12,006.  However, the bid for the City-wide upgrade, Iowa Riverfront Trail project was $236,993.65, which is $113,066.35 below the budget of $350,000.00.  The bonds for the City-wide Iowa Riverfront Trail Project and the Iowa Riverfront Trail Repair Project are both Essential Corporate Purpose bonds and can be co-mingled.

The reason these projects were not bid as one overall project was due to the special nature of the culvert repair work for the repair work as compared to the work required for asphalting the trail.   Therefore, staff would like to reallocate $12,006 from the City-wide Iowa Riverfront Upgrade project to the Iowa Riverfront Trail Repair project.