Jersey Village council approves street design contracts, concrete and generator awards and bond-interest budget amendment

Jersey Village — At its June regular meeting the Jersey Village City Council approved several capital and procurement items: a design/bid/construction management agreement for street rehabilitation work, a concrete panel improvement contract, purchase of emergency generators funded largely by a FEMA grant, and a budget amendment to use bond interest earnings for early project work.

Council authorized staff to negotiate and execute an agreement with Garza EMC LLC to provide design, bidding and construction management services for the Ashton and Coen street rehabilitation project. Assistant City Manager Robert Bassford told council the engineering fee is roughly in the 9–11% range of typical projects and that Garza EMC has worked on similar street-rehab work for the city.

For pavement work, the council accepted Garza EMC's recommendation and awarded the Crawford, Tahoe and Capri concrete panel improvement project to SAS Concrete Construction after the city received 11 bids and reviewed qualifications.

Council also approved purchasing two trailer-mounted diesel generators for municipal wastewater lift stations under a FEMA grant. Staff reported the low bidder, Aviate Enterprises, offered the two Generac units for $139,958.60; the grant will cover the majority of the project cost and the local match was described in the packet. Delivery is expected in about 11 weeks.

Finally, Finance Director Jennifer Brown presented ordinance 2026-17 to amend the 2024 GEO bond capital projects fund using interest earnings so the city can advance engineering and some construction-phase work on Colewind and Ash Burton reconstruction, street-panel replacement and sidewalk repairs. Brown told council the city has earned interest on bond proceeds and recommended spending some of those earnings now rather than waiting for the next fiscal year to avoid IRS arbitrage constraints.

All items were approved by voice vote; where appropriate the items will proceed to procurement and contract execution consistent with the terms described in the staff packet.

What happens next: staff will finalize agreements, schedule project bidding and manage procurement according to the approved authorizations; generators are expected to be delivered in ~11 weeks.