People walking to Bob Woodruff Park South along East Park Boulevard would get a connected sidewalk under a $311,139 construction contract on Plano's City Council consent agenda Monday night.
The project would build a new sidewalk from the south park's entrance on East Park Boulevard to the East Park Boulevard bridge, tying the park into sidewalks and trails that already exist nearby, according to the city memo. Without it, the memo says, those connections "will remain incomplete and inaccessible to the public."
Thirty bids
The city notified 2,295 vendors and opened 30 complete bids on Aug. 27, and 11 more companies sent back no-bids, according to the bid recap.
North Rock Construction & Associates LLC came in lowest at $311,139.08, including all bid alternates. The highest bid was $794,160, more than two and a half times as much, and the second-lowest was $324,234.
The work would be paid for from the 2026-27 Park Improvements capital budget, which would have $131,861 left in that line for other spending after the award, the memo says. Parks and Recreation Director Ron Smith is listed as the director on the item.
No parking on part of Summit Avenue
A separate consent item would ban parking at any time along the north side of Summit Avenue for 710 feet east of K Avenue.
Summit is a 36-foot-wide collector street between K Avenue and Jupiter Road in a light industrial area. Cars parked along its north side block drivers' view as they pull out of business driveways and can get in the way of commercial vehicles using those driveways, according to the Engineering Department memo.
