12 - Agreement with MTG Engineers - 1st St SE Revitalization Project

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Item No. 12 TO: Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem & City Council Grayson Path, City Manager Robert Vine, Deputy City Manager Doug Harris, Assistant City Manager FROM: Todd Mittge, City Engineer SUBJECT: Design Engineering Professional Services Contract - 1st Street SE Revitalization Project Texas Community Development Block Grant 2024 Downtown Revitalization / Main Street Program project. DATE: May 13, 2024 BACKGROUND: The City of Paris was awarded a Texas Community Development Block Grant in the 2024 Downtown Revitalization/Main Street Program in January of 2024. This $500,000 grant will be used for the reconstruction of 1St Street SE from Lamar Avenue to Clarksville Street. As part of our ongoing efforts to make the downtown a destination location for tourism and activities, the City, along with downtown residents and business owners, have made it a priority to pursue grant funding to convert this stretch of road from a standard street to a walkable site, allowing it to be closed to traffic when appropriate to hold community events. In order to design this specialty brick paver roadway, we will be hiring a consultant engineer who specializes in this type of community - oriented design. The City Engineer advertised for Request for Qualifications from engineering firms all over Texas in the Paris News on February 6, 2024, for Engineering Firms to send Qualifications by February 19, 2024. The City received responses from five qualified firms by the deadline. On April 22, 2024, the City Council approved MTG Engineers of Greenville, Tx. to carry out design for this project.