Surrey city council approved more than $23.5 million in public works contracts at its regular meeting Monday night.
All told, it amounts to $23,554,930.70.
First up, the City of Surrey's engineering department recommended that council award a $10,043,561.85 contract to Lafarge Canada for 64 Avenue road improvements between 152 Street, and 164 Street and $382,242 to R.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd. for related engineering construction services, as well as issue a $210,000 purchase order to Southern Railway of British Columbia for rehabilitating the existing railway crossing surface on 152 Street at 64 Avenue;
"The intent of this report is to seek council’s approval to award construction contracts for the widening of 64 Avenue, between 152 Street to 164 Street, and road surfacing improvements on 152 Street in the immediate area," Surrey's general manager of engineering Scott Neuman explained in a corporate report that came before council Monday. "This contract represents the final phase of a multi-phased program for congestion relief along the 64 Avenue corridor and will result in a continuous four lane road along 64 Avenue from 120 Street to 196 Street."
The contract work is expected to start in May and be completed by Spring 2026. Neuman said 80 per cent of the funding for this contract will come from development cost charges, 17 per cent through TransLink and three per cent through Surrey's road and traffic levy.
Next up was a staff-recommended $9,173,745 contract for Tybo Contracting Ltd. for 72 Avenue arterial widening from 188 Street to 196 Street as well as a $369,799.50 contract for Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd for related engineering construction services.
"This contract involves road improvements along 72 Avenue from 188 Street to 193 Street, to a four lane standard with cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. As well, these works include converting the segment of 72 Avenue from 193 Street to 196 Street from two travel lanes and two parking lanes to four travel lanes such that the entire segment of 72 Avenue from 188 Street through to 200 Street in Langley is complete and consistent," Neuman explained in a corporate report.
"Recognizing the high demand for parking in Clayton resulting from public consultation, and to mitigate the loss of on-street parking, the contract work also includes the creation of approximately 74 on-street parking spaces on adjacent streets and includes maintaining 97 on-street parking spaces along 72 Avenue," Neuman added.
The contract work is expected to begin in May and be completed by Spring 2026. Neuman said 85 per cent of the funding for this will come from development cost charges, Development Cost Charges and 15 per cent through general revenue while 55 per cent of the utility work will be funded through development cost charges and the rest, general revenue.
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke called it "another great initiative for engineering and another one that is just demonstrating the amount of roadwork that we're doing in our city."
Moreover, Surrey's engineering department also successfully asked council to award a $1,083,241.59 contract to Rollins Machinery Ltd. to supply three 4-wheel drive
tractors with mid-mounted boom mowers to replace others that have aged out, and to reimburse $2,292,340.76 to Peninsula Estates Housing Society for construction of downstream sanitary works that service parts of the Semiahmoo Town Centre Plan Area.
"The developer is constructing a six-storey multi-family residential building at 15077 and 15145 – 20 Avenue to develop 91 non-market rental units," Neuman noted. "As part of the servicing requirements, the developer is required construct downstream sanitary works in order to accommodate additional units as proposed by the developer."
