Crews repairing Custer Road between State Highway 121 and Hedgcoxe Road found more damage below the surface than the city's inventory showed, and Plano's Public Works Department is asking the City Council for $206,600 more to finish the job.
The change order is on the consent agenda for the council's meeting Monday, Nov. 9. It would raise R&A Legacy Construction's contract from $2,091,725, awarded in February, to $2,298,325.
What crews ran into
According to a memo from Public Works Director Abby Owens, the extra money pays for more of the same contract items: concrete repairs that staff identified in the field once work was underway. The memo cites further deterioration of the soil beneath the road and of the pavement itself, along with drainage problems that were not apparent when the repairs were first catalogued.
Concrete repair estimates usually land within 10% to 15% of what a street ends up needing, the memo says, and on this project the estimate came in about 10% low. The unit prices in the contract would not change.
The money would come from funds set aside for arterial street repairs in the 2026-27 street improvements capital budget, and the memo says approving it would leave $268 in that project's account.
Ahead of an overlay
The concrete work is preparation for a later asphalt overlay. The city plans to seek bids in spring 2027 for an overlay on Custer Road from Spring Creek Parkway to SH 121, and the concrete has to be repaired before asphalt can go down.
