Dallas City Council approved raising the contract amount with the firm Freese and Nichols for services related to dredging White Rock Lake by no more than $347,500.
The increase is “to provide engineering design for the detailed design, design development, construction documents, bidding and negotiation, and construction administration” for the project, according to the City Council’s resolution from the Jan. 28 meeting. The change is funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dallas Park and Recreation. The contract amount is now $1,372,450.
In 2022, the City Council authorized a contract with Freese and Nichols for preliminary design of the dredging project for $952,700. Then during the next year, the contract was increased to $1,024,950, so that the firm could “provide initial report, assessment and proposed solution, including (opinion of probable construction cost) for erosion control at White Rock Lake along the North Garland Road.”…