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TO: Mayor Richard C. Irvin
FROM: Steve Andras, P.E., Airport Manager
DATE: 7-31-23
SUBJECT:
A resolution authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute a not-to-exceed agreement in the amount of $55,500 between Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. and the City of Aurora for professional design services for the Airport Snow Removal Equipment Acquisition Project.
PURPOSE:
To obtain approval to enter into a consultant agreement with Crawford, Murphy and Tilly, Inc. to provide engineering services associated with the acquisition of Snow Removal Equipment (SRE) for the Aurora Municipal Airport.
BACKGROUND:
In November of 2021 the president signed H.R.3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act commonly known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). In anticipation of these funds, the Aurora Municipal Airport modified its Capital Improvement Plan on file with the Illinois Division of Aeronautics (IDA) to incorporate projects that wouldn't ordinarily be eligible under the usual Airport Improvement Program. Snow removal equipment and snow removal equipment storage building rehabilitation were added to take advantage of the BIL funding opportunity.
In May of this year, we received notification from the IDA that the funding request for snow removal equipment had been approved and programmed. See attached Program Letter.
The equipment desired is:
1. Front end loader and loader-mounted wing blade attachment.
2. Tandem Plow Truck with high wing blade and dump body with spreader attachment.
3. Tractor with High speed spreader blade.
In order to qualify for funding, we are required to use our aviation consultant which has gone through the IDOT Division of Aeronautics' selection process. IDA is the agency administering these federal funds.
DISCUSSION:
The estimated cost for this equipment is $1,730,000 with our local share being $86,500 or 5% of the total project cost.
We have budgeted funds for this project under CIP D-056 in account number 504-4454-4...
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