Broken Arrow City Council
Meeting of: 11-07-17
To: Mayor and City Council
From: Assistant City Manager of Operations
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Consideration, discussion, and possible approval of and authorization to execute Resolution No. 1062, a Resolution requesting assistance from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in regard to constructing an industrial road to serve the Alfa Laval facility
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Background:
Alfa Laval is an international company that manufacturers and provides quality heat and air exchange units as well as other products to clients world-wide. Alfa Laval desires to consolidate certain manufacturing operations and expand a specific product line produced at its Broken Arrow facility. In order to help facilitate this consolidation and expansion effort, which will bring substantial economic benefits to our community and our economy, the City entered into an economic development agreement with Alfa Laval dated August 1, 2017.
As a part of this agreement, the City is obligated to provide an industrial access road and a 12-inch diameter water main running parallel to the road to serve the proposed expansion of the Alfa Laval facility, as well as other possible industrial developments in the general vicinity. The industrial access road will be located within the Nashville Street right-of-way extending eastward from 9th Street for a distance of approximately one-half mile to the end of the property. The right-of-way will be dedicated to the public a through a separate instrument in order to construct the industrial road. It will be constructed with public funds.
The City has contracted with Olsson Associates, a professional engineering consulting firm, to engineer and design the public industrial access road and water main. The preliminary design is complete and final design is in progress. The Preliminary Opinion of Probable Costs provided by the engineer is a total of $2,032,000...
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