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Liberty Bell Trail Feasibility Study Lansdale Borough, Pennsylvania Upper Gwynedd Township 1 Parkside Place North Wales, PA 19454 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION ITEM REQUEST Date: February 4, 2021 To: Sandra Brookley Zadell, Township Manager From: Sarah A Prebis, Park and Recreation Director Re: Consultant for the Liberty Bell Trail Meeting Date: February 16, 2021 Background: The Liberty Bell Trail is a proposed trail that will continue for 25 miles, potentially connect Quakertown to East Norriton in Montgomery County. As passed in the 2020 budget on December 16, 2019, the board agreed to budget to partially fund a survey for the Liberty Bell Trail. We had 9 RFP’s submitted and the selection committee chose 3 to interview. After listening to all 3 consultants, we have chosen Michael Baker, Inc to complete our Liberty Bell Trail Study with a cost of $112,000. The municipalities included in this study are Franconia Township, Hatfield Borough, Hatfield Township, Lansdale Borough, Souderton Borough, Telford Borough, and Upper Gwynedd Township. Upper Gwynedd Township is the lead on this project. Budget Impact: The Liberty Bell Project will be receiving $113,000 from DVRPC. The match for this is $28,250. Since Upper Gwynedd Township has not completed any of this trail, our portion for the match is $12,000. The proposal indicates the cost will be $112,000 and we have budgeted $113,000. Interdepartmental Action: Upper Gwynedd will get a contract out to Michael Baker, Inc. PA Environmental Council and all 7 municipalities would proceed to work with Michael Baker, Inc on the project. Recommended Motion/Resolution/Ordinance: Motion to appoint Michael Baker, Inc, as our consultant for the Liberty Bell Trail. F:\Sarah\Meeting Documents\Memos for Board\liberty bell trail consultant - baker.docx January 12, 2021 Zhenya J. Nalywayko, Trails & Recreation Program Coordinator Pennsylvania Environmental Council 1315 Walnut Street, Suite 532 Philadelphia, PA 19107 RE: Proposal for Liberty Bell Trail Planning and Feasibility Study Dear Mr. Nalywayko, Michael Baker International, Inc. (Michael Baker), in association with Wikimapping Inc. (Wikimaps), is excited to submit this proposal for this update to the Liberty Bell Trail Planning and Feasibility Study. The Liberty Bell Trail (LBT) has been under planning and development in Montgomery County for over a decade in various municipalities with some sections already successfully completed. Michael Baker’s local office has been based in Fort Washington for almost 25 years, and we have several staff who live in the communities that will benefit from the LBT. Our Montgomery County based team has a personal as well as professional desire to see this trail vision become reality. We have been involved with various planning workshops and feasibility studies for portions of the LBT over the last decade and look forward to applying our trail planning skills and design experience to advance the completion of this important addition to the Circuit Trails network. Our team brings the following advantages to this trail plan update: • Prior experience with the LBT from a previous feasibility study for this trail in Lansdale Borough, grant writing assistance for the LBT as part of the Madison Lansdale Apartment project, and design and construction oversight for the LBT in Coopersburg Borough. • Experience with Upper Gwynedd Township from the ongoing Powerline Trail study, prior design of the 202 Parkway and trail, SR 202 Section 65N, and other local projects. Our knowledge of this area may lead to the co-location of the LBT with a portion of the Powerline Trail and a spur connection to the Wissahickon Green Ribbon Trail leading to a more cost-effective and improved trail alignment. • We have an excellent working relationship with PEC from several years working together on the 58th Street Greenway and collaboration on trail projects for the last six years through our on-call agreement with PEC. On the 58th Street Greenway and several recent trail planning efforts, PEC and Michael Baker shared public outreach efforts in the same manner as proposed for this study. This existing experience working together will streamline the public involvement for this study. • Our bike/pedestrian team has over two decades of planning and public outreach experience with similar trail feasibility studies. Local examples include the LBT Study (Lansdale Borough), Turk Road Neighborhood Trail Study (Doylestown Township), Frankford Creek Greenway Study (City of Philadelphia), Rail Trail Feasibility Studies (City of Philadelphia), Swarthmore Borough Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan, Schuylkill River Trail Gap Analysis (City of Philadelphia), and several others. This extensive background gives us many lessons learned and effective approaches to trail planning and implementation, property negotiation/acquisition, public engagement, environmental permitting, and agency coordination. • Our proposed project manager Chris Stanford, PE, PMP, AICP is a certified planner and professional engineer with over 27 years of experience successfully completing a wide range of trail, greenway, and transportation projects in southeast PA. Chris has been a resident of Franconia Township for over 20 years and knows the nearby Souderton and Telford Borough areas very well. This local knowledge will be beneficial to the team and facilitate cost-effective field views and municipal meetings. Chris will be assisted by experienced trail engineers Steve Disciullo, PE and Bill Torr, PE. Michael Baker International, Inc. 500 Office Center Drive, Suite 210, Fort Washington, PA 19034 | Office: 215-444-0888 | Fax: 215-444-0889 • Our public outreach expert, Hannah Clark, AICP, a former senior planner from the City of Allentown, will assist the PEC team with municipal outreach. Our virtual public meeting room website will be very helpful for this large-scale study. Hannah will be assisted by veteran planner, Matt Bodnar, AICP. • Similar to approaches we have used in Doylestown Township, our plan will recommend SALDO changes, addition of the LBT to official maps, use of municipal and PennDOT pavement surfacing programs to create bike lanes, and use of private development projects to construct trails or make contributions towards future design and construction of the LBT. • We have partnered with Jenkintown resident and avid bicyclist Steve Spindler of Wikimapping to assist with the public outreach process. Wikimaps is a cost-effective and easy to use tool to gain public input on a map-based platform that the public can conveniently access on any device at any time. The tool allows the public the ability to comment on proposed alignments, to indicate barriers to walking/bicycling at specific locations, to provide suggestions for trail connections, and to ask questions about potential trail routes. This tool will be linked to each Township’s website, social media accounts, and PEC’s other online messaging to achieve maximum input from many residents and gain feedback that will be beneficial to this planning and feasibility study. Wikimaps was used effectively as part of the Bike Montco plan, which included the LBT. • Our knowledge of grant funding programs, such as DCNR, PennDOT TASA, PennDOT Multimodal, DCED Multimodal, DCED Greenways and Trails, DVRPC Regional Trails Program, and others will result in a superior implementation plan. We understand that the scope of this study is an update of the LBT Feasibility Study, including a 11-mile corridor within 7 municipalities. Our team has all the qualifications required by PEC and DVRPC to successfully complete this study. As demonstrated from our in-depth proposal that follows, the Michael Baker Team has a solid understanding of this project’s unique challenges and has formulated a streamlined approach to meet PEC’s goals. Our Montgomery County-based team provides a unique combination of trail planning experience on similar studies, excellent working relationship with PEC, public outreach coordination enhanced by Wikimaps, and previous experience with LBT studies that make us distinctly qualified for this study. Please contact Chris Stanford, Project Manager, (phone: 215-528-7072; email: [email protected]) if you have any questions regarding this proposal. Sincerely, MICHAEL BAKER INTERNATIONAL, INC. (Federal ID # 25-1228638) Eric Frary, PE Chris Stanford, PE, PMP, AICP Senior Vice President Project Manager Michael Baker International, Inc. 500 Office Center Drive, Suite 210, Fort Washington, PA 19034 | Office: 215-444-0888 | Fax: 215-444-0889 TABLE OF CONTENTS Profile of Firm 1 Methods and Procedures 21 Work Schedule 28 Appendix A: Scope of Work 29 Appendix B: Resumes 33 PEC | Liberty Bell Trail Planning & Feasibility Study PROFILE OF FIRM Michael Baker International, Inc. (Michael Baker) is a Pennsylvania- based corporation, founded in 1940, with its headquarters located in Michael Baker Office Locations Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Michael Baker is authorized to perform professional engineering services in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Headquarters: Local Office: and is incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth. Locally, 500 Grant Street 500 Office Center Drive Michael Baker has three eastern Pennsylvania offices located in Suite 5400 Suite 210 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Fort Washington, PA 19034 Philadelphia, Fort Washington, and Allentown. Our Montgomery County presence began in 1997. Since then, Michael Baker has continuously www.mbakerintl.com completed projects ranging from small municipal projects to $100+ million PennDOT highway and bridge reconstruction projects over the past
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