Travis County Commissioners Court
December 7, 2004
Item 3
3. Consider and take appropriate action on amendment no. 1 to the interlocal
agreement with the city of Austin for the construction of cameron road.
>> judge, I -- I didn't want this to basically go on consent
because I think it need to be laid out a little bit by the staff to let us
know really what's involved. It's been a really trying process, but it's been
moving pretty steadily since we really entered into the interlocal with the
city I guess back in 2000, July of 2000. And -- 2003. So, joe, if you will
kind of lay it out, because there's a bridge involved, even if they are looking
at the thousand foot approach. Two of the -- to the bridge from greg lane,
but also on the other side of the new bridge, which the state has a lot of
involvement over [indiscernible] creek tributary. Could you basically lay
this out for us and let us know exactly what impact it will have, timing,
as far as target completion date, stuff like that. I would appreciate it,
thank you.
>> all right. It's really a -- almost a three in one project.
It started -- we had a substandard bridge on cameron road that became eligible
for the federal offices to bridge program. Texdot invited us to participate
in that program. Typically there's a 20% local match for that. But because
we had already done a like amount of work on other bridges, they waived that
and let that local participation. So they were going to go in and replace
this bridge 100 percent with federal and state money. Because cameron road
is in the campo plan as an arterial, we asked them to build a new bridge to
arterial roadway standards. Which they agreed to do. And so instead of just
replacing this low water crossing, they are now going to build a half of a
six-lane arterial bridge, parallel to the lower water crossing, it will be
out of the 100 year floodplain. So we went from about a $250,000 structure
to well over a million structure. At the state's cost. In order to get that
to happen, though, all members had to agree to build the approach roads to
that new bridge, so we hired carter and burgess to basically design the footprint
of the arterial. So as to locate, properly locate the bridge and then the
county is going to build the two lane approach to the bridge for about a thousand
feet on either side of the bridge in such a way that those two lanes will
be the first phase of the ultimate arterial. So that the idea was that there
is not going to be any throw away here. Any dollar that we spend is going
to the development of the long-range arterial. Finally the city of -- of Austin
and manville, we are proposing to build a 24-inch water -- water transmission
line. They were originally going to put it right next to the existing right-of-way.
There was a time out. We are building a wider road here. If you put in this
water line, we are just going to have to dig it up and relocate it when we
to go build the arterial. So basically, we developed the entire project with
the eye to the future. So now the water line is going to go in at the edge
of the new right-of-way. The texdot is going to build a new bridge according
to the arterial roadway standard and the county is going to build the approach
roads as the first phase of the ultimate arterial. Arterial. How did we get
to today's agenda item.
>> about .7 of that is in the city of Austin. The city agreed
to participate financially in the engineering cost and construction cost.
And so what this amendment does is basically get their agreement to pay for
the additional cost of the engineering design, which is about $25,000 total.
And 50% of the cost of the road construction, all of the utility adjustments,
and so with that, then their utilities are out of the way for this transition
and it goes into the city of Austin. So I think overall, in the state, we
bid the project on behalf of all parties, bridge, road, utilities all wrapped
into one contracts and the state will manage the contract. We think by the
end of this everyone will get where they need to be. We now have the right
of entry to the right-of-way, we still have one condemnation case that needs
to be finally cleared out, but the state is good to go on the bidding of the
project which will be in January of this year. They expect to be finished
with the project by December of '05.
>> goodman: very significant in this particular because actually
cameron road is going to tie into s.h. 130, of course as you know s.h. 130
there will be an interchange there at that cameron road intersection. Of course
preparing for the future to take care of the transportation needs and transportation
growth in this growth corridor I think is very significant. I think that we
need to move forward and move approval on this particular item, item 3. Thank
you.
>> thank you.
>> any more discussion? All the -- all of the parties are
on board?
>> yes.
>> the city of Austin is meeting again in January and they
will adopt this interlocal agreement. They don't meet very often in December.
>> all in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
>> thank you, joe, for your overview.
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