Placement: Consent Agenda
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Approve the Agreement with Respect to Florida Power & Light Street Lighting for Anthony F. Sansone Sr. Boulevard Phase 3 and a Portion of Hegener Drive East with Sansone Group, LLC.
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Submitted By: Diana Spriggs, P.E - Assistant Director, Public Works
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of high-quality infrastructure and facilities.
Summary Brief (Agreements/Contracts only)
1. Prepared by: City Attorney’s Office
2. Parties: City of Port St. Lucie and Sansone Group, LLC (Sansone)
3. Purpose: Enter into an agreement that establishes a payment that Sansone will provide to the City equivalent to the cost Sansone would have incurred if it had installed the street lighting theirself.
4. New/Renewal/Modified: New
5. Duration: Perpetual until payment is received as outlined in the agreement.
6. Benefits to Port St. Lucie: Facilitating completion of the street lighting without the installation cost being a burden on City residents. Sansone will provide a payment of $30,355.60 for the Hegener portion and $148,325.20 for the Sansone Phase 3 portion that the City will use to make payments with FPL Lighting Agreements and general City streetlighting needs.
7. Cost to Port St. Lucie (Annual and Potential): The City will pay the monthly rental fee of $1,009.24 for the Sansone Phase 3 portion and $188.86 for Hegener East plus the monthly rental fee of the poles, fixtures and electricity for the lighting.
Presentation Information: Questions will be answered upon request.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council complete motion in the affirmative.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and complete motion in the affirmative.
2. Move that the Council not approve and provide staff direction.
Background: The City became aware over the last year that the monthly rental fee being charged to the City in Florida Power & Light (FPL) agreements includes the initial cost of fixture, pole, conduit and pull box materials and their installation broken up over years as FPL does not charge separately for installation. The City in turn also learned that the developer obligated roadway extensions were not being required to fund the street lighting fixtures and installation. After negotiations with Sansone, we were able to get a cost estimate of what the furnish and install price for street lighting would have been for this portion of roadway, which these cost estimates were used to determine the funds Sansone would provide to the City in lieu of installing street lighting.
Issues/Analysis: The monthly cost to the City for FPL Street Lighting can change over the years due to a change to the Lighting Tariff controlled by the Florida Public Service Commission. A long term analysis does show the financial benefit to utilizing FPL Street Lighting versus City owned and maintained lighting systems.
Financial Information: The City shall receive $30,355.60 and $148,325.20 from Sansone as a reimbursement of the material and installation cost of the street lighting, to be placed in a financial fund to pay future payments and costs associated with FPL Lighting Agreements and for general City street lighting needs.
Special Consideration: N/A
Location of Project: Anthony F. Sansone Sr. Boulevard from Hegener Drive to Marshall Parkway and Hegener Drive from Anthony F. Sansone Sr. Boulevard to the east end
Attachments:
1. FPL Lighting - Hegener East Agreement
2. FPL Lighting - Sansone Blvd. Phase 3 Agreement
NOTE: All of the listed items in the “Attachment” section above are in the custody of the City Clerk. Any item(s) not provided in City Council packets are available upon request from the City Clerk.
Internal Reference Number: Legal Intake 25272-01
Legal Sufficiency Review:
Reviewed by Elizabeth L. Hertz, Senior Deputy City Attorney. Approved as to Legal form and sufficiency by Richard Berrios, City Attorney.