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Department of Parks and Recreation
Reference: A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, Authorizing a Grant Agreement with Adams County for the Amount not to Exceed Eight Hundred Eighteen Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($818,400.00) for the Aichelman Property - Phase 1 Project; Authorizing the City's Matching Obligation of Five Hundred Forty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Dollars ($545,600.00); and Authorizing The Acting City Manager to Sign and Execute the Agreement.
To: Mayor Gregory Mills and Members of City Council
Through: Marv Falconburg, Acting City Manager
Prepared By: Travis Haines, Director of Parks and Recreation
Mark Heidt, Assistant Director of Parks and Recreation Development & City's Bicycle Coordinator
Date Prepared: August 20, 2020
PURPOSE
A Resolution authorizing the City of Brighton to enter into a Grant Agreement with Adams County for grant funding in the amount not to exceed $818,400.00 for the "Aichelman Property - Phase 1 Project"; authorizing the City's Matching Obligation of $545,600.00; and authorizing the Acting City Manager to sign the grant agreement.
STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA
Facilities, Amenities, and Open Space
Supportive, Sustainable Infrastructure
BACKGROUND
In 2019 the Parks and Recreation Department hired Confluent Design to develop a Master Plan with conceptual drawings of the Aichelman Property.
The project will include grant funding from the Adams County Open Space Active Grant, in-kind labor and material from the City of Brighton, and a cash match from the City. The grant funding and Brighton's cash match will be for:
* construction documents,
* construction of entrance road and parking lot using recycled asphalt with hot mix asphalt overlay,
* undergrounding electrical and lighting,
* section of concrete trail,
* landscape plantings and site amenities.
The in-kind donation from the City will include:
* 3,838 tons of recycled asphalt pavement, and
* labor for landscape plantings.
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