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HomeMy WebLinkAbout155511 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 9M 404 ORDINANCE NO. 15,551 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO ANY NECESSARY CONTRACTS WITH TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION AND TEXAS EASTERN PIPELINE CORPORATION FOR THE RELOCATION OF A 20 INCH PRODUCTS LINE AND A 24 INCH GAS PIPE LINE FOR THE FOURCHE CREEK PROJECT, PHASE II; WAIVING COMPETITIVE BIDDING AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS: SECTION 1. The City Manager is authorized to enter any necessary contracts with Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation ( "Texas Eastern ") to relocate a 20 inch and a 24 inch pipeline crossing Fourche Creek as required by the Fourche Creek Drainage Project. The total expenditure under this contract will not exceed the sum of two million and one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000.00). However, the sum paid shall not exceed the amount of the lowest responsible bid for the project received by Texas Eastern, and in no event shall be more than an amount determined to be just compensation for the City's taking an interest in the easement presently owned by Texas Eastern and the associated costs of interfering with this easement. SECTION 2. Because Texas Eastern has unique experience in the relocation of gas product and natural gas pipelines, and easement that are being disturbed by the Fourche Creek Drainage Project, and because this type of movement requires special licenses and permits from the federal government, and since Texas Eastern has agreed to include two Arkansas contractors in the list of qualified bidders, and since time is of the essence in the completion of this project due to the necessity to use these pipeline during the approaching autumn and winter seasons for the delivery of related gas products to the North and Northeast portions of the United States, it is impractical and 0'32 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 unfeasible for the City to develop the criteria and to submit to competitive bidding the costs of relocating the pipelines covered under this Agreement. Therefore, an emergency is declared to exist and the contract can be awarded to Texas Eastern on a timely basis. SECTION 3. Because time is of the essence on the completion of this work, and this work must be done to protect the health, safety and welfare with the citizens by assuring completion of a flood control project, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from the date of its passage. PASSED: September 6, 1988 ATTEST: C3WY CLERK J E CZECH MARK STODOLAt CITY ATTORNEY �� • 405