The budget for the Trenton West End Sewer Project will be seeing an increase.
Quinte West council approved increasing the budget for the project from $31,881,000 to $38,379,000 at its meeting on Wednesday, an increase of $6,498,000.
The reason for the increase is a combination of the lowest bid from the recently completed RFQ, combined with updated design, engineering, and contingency costs.
The majority of the project is being funded through development charges, with wastewater, water, and city reserves, as well as a grant from the province’s Housing-Enabling Core Servicing Stream rounding out the remaining funds.
As part of the recommendation, council also approved awarding provisional work from the original RFP in 2022 to Jacobs (Engineering/ Consulting) for “provisional contract administration and inspection services with pricing adjustments and scope changes which amounts to approximately $1.23 million.”
The West End Trunk Sewer project is expected to provide sanitary capacity for an additional 5000 residential units on the west side of Trenton.
The city says two other projects are reliant on the sewer project to move forward.
Those two projects include Highway 2 Urbanization and the Phase 2 component of 2nd Dug Hill Road Urbanization.
A breakdown of the budget for the sewer project project can be found below:
