Broken Arrow Municipal Authority
Meeting of: 09-17-2024
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Approval of and authorization to execute a Professional Consultant Agreement with Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., to provide a Transfer Station Feasibility Study
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Background:
As the fourth largest municipality in the state of Oklahoma, the City provides numerous solid waste and recycling services to approximately 112,000 residents over 55 square miles. The City desires to identify the potential benefits and optimizations for current operations a transfer station would provide for the customers and region. Key benefits of a transfer station would be to reduce fuel consumption/emissions, create convenience for customers, and to enhance the viability of diverting more waste material from disposal. This Study is the first step in the City’s overall solid waste management planning initiative.
Burns & McDonnell ranks in the upper 5 percent of Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms being among the leaders in many service categories. Since 1970, the Burns & McDonnell Solid Waste and Resource Recovery Practice has successfully completed hundreds of diversion and solid waste projects for state, regional, and local governments. Solid waste management and resource recovery requires innovative approaches in the context of sustainable development. Burns & McDonnell, has a full spectrum of services, combining solid waste and recycling planning experience with direct experience advising local governments. Burns 7 McDonnell is known for a history of assisting state, regional, and local governmental entities with solid waste planning and strategy development.
A Professional Consultant Agreement has been negotiated with Burns McDonnell to review the Solid Waste and Recycling operation data and present their findings to BAMA. The negotiated amount is $49,600.00.
Cost: $49,600.00
Funding Source: Solid Waste & Recycling Operational Funds
Requested By: Jerry Schuber Sr., Director of Solid Waste & Recycling
Approved By: City Manager’s Office
Attachments: Professional Consultant Proposal
Recommendation:
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Approve and authorization to execute a Professional Consultant Agreement with Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc., to provide a Transfer Station Feasibility Study
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