HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2025-050 Extend Design Contract Timeframe - Babcock Ridge TrailMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
May 12, 2025
TB Resolution 2025 – 050: Authorization to Extend Contract Time with Environmental Design & Research, Landscape Architecture, Engineering & Environmental Services, D.P.C. for the Babcock
Ridge Trail at Culver Road Preserve Project
Whereas, the Town of Ithaca has received financial assistance from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) under the environmental Protection
Fund Grant Program for Parks, Preservation and Heritage for the purpose of funding the design and development of the Babcock Ridge Trail at Culver Road Preserve project, and
Whereas, the Town Board authorized the contract for design services with Environmental Design & Research, Landscape Architecture, Engineering & Environmental Services, D.P.C. (EDR) on
May 13, 2024, and
Whereas, the contract with EDR was signed on May 15, 2024, with an original end date of December 31, 2024, and
Whereas, on January 13, 2025 the Town Board authorized extending the contract through March 30, 2025, and
Whereas, the design portion of the trail project has not been completed and EDR has provided an “Amendment to Agreement Between Client and Consultant for Professional Services” to extend
the contract timeframe through July 31, 2025 (no changes to the cost), and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board authorizes the execution by the Town Supervisor of the contract amendment with Environmental Design & Research, Landscape Architecture, Engineering & Environmental
Services, D.P.C. to extend the contract through July 31, 2025.
Moved: Margaret Johnson Seconded: Susie Gutenberger
Vote: ayes- Howe, Levine, Johnson, Gutenberger and Rosen