Transportation Committee Approves $403,245 Washington Boulevard Design Contract on July 20, 2026
July 20, 2026 Transportation Committee Meeting: Approval of $403,245 Design Contract for Washington Boulevard Safety Improvements
The Transportation Committee met at 6:33 PM on July 20, 2026, with Chair presiding. Members present: Stephen Shore, Dan Sanford, Scott Stone, John Polliccia, Kara Gilbride, Ryan Hughes, and Terry Adams. Candace Weathers was absent. Staff Luke and Chris Delasov attended. The sole agenda item was T32, an RFP (2025.0147) for design services on Washington Boulevard safety improvements, submitted by the mayor on June 8, approved by the Board of Finance on July 9.
Discussion Items
- Project Overview: Luke explained that Washington Boulevard is a state-owned, high-crash corridor with recent pedestrian fatalities. A road safety audit was conducted in 2023 with the state, producing a detailed report with community input. The city allocated $450,000 in the prior capital budget for design. The RFP received two bids; Stantec was selected for $403,245. The contract covers creation of construction documents for safety improvements such as raised crosswalks, speed humps, protected bicycle lanes, and intersection modifications. The design process would take about 2–2.5 years, with public meetings at each stage. Construction funding is not yet secured but could begin in 2027 (for separate projects) or 2029 for this corridor-wide design.
- Document Access Concerns: The Board of Reps website had been down for several days. Chair apologized, noting the agenda and documents were emailed to the full board that morning. Representative Stephen Shore stated he had not reviewed the RFP proposal or vendor documents and moved to postpone the item until the next regular meeting. Other members (Dan Sanford, Kara Gilbride, Ryan Hughes) noted the documents were attached to the morning email and expressed support for immediate approval, citing urgent safety needs and community demand.
Key Outcomes
- Motion to Postpone: Representative Shore moved to postpone to the next meeting. The motion lacked a second and failed.
- Motion to Approve: Representative Terry Adams moved to approve the contract with Stantec for $403,245. The motion was seconded. The vote was 7-1-0, with Representative Shore voting nay and no abstentions. Candace Weathers was absent.
- Next Steps: The contract proceeds to the full Board of Representatives for final approval. Following that, design work will begin with survey and public engagement.
Meeting Transcript
Okay, let's go ahead and uh get the get the meeting started. I want to bring up. I'll bring up the agenda. Um you don't all need to see the agenda. I'm just gonna read it to you. I want to call the meeting to order. I have um this is the uh July Transportation Committee meeting. I have 6 33 uh p.m. Um let's start with. I'm just gonna call out who's in attendance. Um Christina, you're um yeah, Christina's on here from the board office. So we have um Stephen Shore, Dan Sanford, Scott's uh Vice Chair Scott Stone, John Polliccia, uh Kara Gilbride and Ryan Hughes. Uh missing as of right now is Terry Adams. Terry just joined. What was that? Gary just joined, he's on. Uh Kara's on here, yes. I think I'm Terry joined. He's on. Oh, Terry, okay. I see Terry now. Thank you. And can't Candace Weathers is the only one that is not on here. Um, and uh of course we have uh Luke is with us and uh Chris Delasov. I don't see any non-committee members on here as of uh this time. So we'll call a meeting order. Um we have one item on the agenda. It's item T32. Design um it was RFP 2025.0147. It was submitted by the mayor on June 8th, approved by the Board of Finance on July 9th. Um and here we are to talk about this. I'm gonna hand it over to Luke in just a moment. Um I just want to apologize to the committee and everyone and just sort of explain so everyone understands. Um the uh the Board of Reps website has been down for several days, and we have no access to anything, uh basically. Uh we have access to email, but um we have not had um a notice was uh sent out announcing this meet this um meeting to the committee last week, but uh for whatever reason it did not go or was not received. That included the agenda with the link to all of the documents. Um there the last that I saw the document documents was on Tuesday, the day after the steering committee. Um I had actually reviewed all the documents that have been on um that were on the website when we had access to it. At that time there were four documents as I recall. There was the original submission email, um, and then there was the contract itself, and then there was the bid um presentation, and I believe there was also an insurance certificate. Um I don't know if the details of all of those really matter at this point. We will have access to them. Um, but I want to apologize to everyone for whatever the issue was in getting those out. I my my preference was for the committee to have full access to all the documents prior to the meeting. Um I think a particular um interest and importance would have been the actual the the vendor's actual RFP presentation. Um it included quite a bit of detail. I think Luke is probably gonna give us um a very uh good thorough um presentation of exactly what this contract is for. Luke, if you could also if you're if you're not already planning on this, give a little bit of the timeline. Um go over the the the funding that um has been made available for this project um when the RFP went out, uh maybe at a high level, just um cover the bids that we have. This is the one that was obviously selected.
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