Homewood officials review Central Avenue TAP project contracts and propose $350,000 budget transfer
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City staff recommended awarding the Central Avenue TAP multimodal construction contract to Avery Landscaping and authorizing a construction-inspection agreement with Sain (variant spellings in record) Associates; staff also proposed a $350,000 budget amendment to finish the work this fiscal year and noted ALDOT will reimburse 80% via a TAP grant.
City staff presented two resolutions to the Homewood City Council on Nov. 24 regarding the Central Avenue Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) multimodal facility: one to award the construction contract to Avery Landscaping and a second to authorize a contract with Sain (transcript variants: Saint/Sane/Sain) Associates for construction engineering and inspection.
A project representative told the council the work is ALDOT-funded and that ALDOT will cover 80% of eligible costs through a TAP grant. "This is an ALDOT funded project. They fund 80% of it. We were awarded this through a TAP grant, transportation alternative program grant with AlDot," the presenter said. The presenter also said Sain Associates designed the project and that ALDOT approved the bids and the proposed inspection consultant.
Staff said that the engineer's estimate was spoken as "8.22" in the meeting record and that Avery Landscaping submitted the low bid (spoken in the transcript as "8.14..."), and recommended awarding the construction contract to Avery Landscaping. The transcript's numeric figures are not recorded clearly enough to unambiguously report an exact dollar amount; the council record presented these figures in shorthand during the discussion.
In addition to the contracts, staff proposed a budget amendment of $350,000 to shift funds from a separate project so the Central Avenue work can be completed in the current fiscal year instead of spanning two years. Staff said they "imagine that we're gonna be able to do it all in this year" and asked the amendment be included in the resolution.
The presenter framed the timing and reimbursement process: the city initially pays project costs and ALDOT reimburses the city for the 80% eligible share. Questions from council members prompted staff to confirm the city budgets the full contract amount and records the 80% reimbursement in revenues.
The transcript shows these items were on the council agenda for consideration that night; the record does not include an explicit vote outcome in the provided transcript. The city clerk or staff should be consulted for the official vote tally and the final contract documents.
Next steps: Council consideration by formal motion and vote (not recorded in the provided transcript) and, if approved, contracting and execution consistent with ALDOT/TAP reimbursement rules.