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Dept/ Agency: Engineering
Action: (X) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Accepting Funds
Purpose: CR 508 Central Avenue Bridge Over City Subway Replacement Structure
Entity Name: New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJTPA)
Entity Address: P.O. Box 600, Trenton, New Jersey 08625
Amount: $1,422,445.34
City Contribution: $0.00
Other Funding Source/Amount: $0.00
Contract Period: Not Applicable
Additional Information:
Original Resolution 7R4-d adopted on September 17, 2014, authorized the City to apply for and accept grant funds from the NJTPA for the CR 508 Central Avenue Bridge Over City Subway Replacement Project.
The project has entered Phase II, which now requires additional funds.
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark, Department of Engineering (the "City"), determined that the Central Avenue Bridge (Structure #0700-N06) over the NJ Transit City Subway, between Jay and Duryea Streets, was in need of major rehabilitation and/or replacement due to its degraded and obsolete infrastructure. The City determined that this project would be broken down into four (4) phases: Phase I, Concept Development; Phase II, Preliminary Engineering; Phase III, Final Design, and Phase IV, Construction; and
WHEREAS, on September 17, 2014, the Municipal Council adopted Resolution 7R4-d ratifying and authorizing the Mayor of the City of Newark and/or his designee, the Director of the Department of Engineering, to apply for and accept grant funding from North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), in the amount of Three Hundred Two Thousand, Four Hundred Dollars and Zero Cents ($302,400.00), for the CR 508 Central Avenue Bridge Over City Subway Replacement Structure project (hereinafter "Central Ave. Bridge Project"), for the City to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of the Central Avenue Bridge; and
WHEREAS, the Central Ave Bridge Project recently entered Phase II, Prelim...
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