Adopt Resolution #21-190 Authorizing Partial Payment No. 2 to Kuechle Underground, Inc. for Improvement Project #21-00, Riverdale Drive Reconstruction, Feldspar Street to Sunfish Lake Boulevard

Resolution and pay estimate No. 2 attached. 

As would normally be the case, this item was intended to be presented on this evening’s consent agenda. However, this did not occur due to a procedural issue on the City’s end. The contractor, Kuechle Underground, Inc., submitted their partial payment request on time and according to the Contract the City must make progress payments on or about the 25th day of each month during performance of the Work if the contractor submits their payment request in a timely manner. Payment must therefore be processed this evening, and since this error was not discovered until late Monday afternoon a case needed to be added to the regular agenda Tuesday morning to process payment.
 
As always, when issues such as this occur, Staff reviews all pertinent processes and procedures and implements improvements to prevent such oversights from occurring in the future. In this instance, procedural revisions have been implemented to introduce additional checks and balances and to delegate payment processing responsibilities on projects where consultants are being utilized for design and construction services, which should prevent such an oversight from occurring again.      

The Engineer Technician IV has inspected the completed work and recommends partial payment No. 2 to Kuechle Underground, Inc. of Kimball, Minnesota for Improvement Project #21-00 Riverdale Drive Reconstruction, from Feldspar Street to Sunfish Lake Boulevard, in the amount of $223,035.91
 

Motion to Adopt Resolution #21-190 Authorizing Partial Payment No. 2 to Kuechle Underground, Inc. for Improvement Project #21-00, Riverdale Drive Reconstruction, Feldspar Street to Sunfish Lake Boulevard