Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · 1:00 PM · Council Chambers, City Hall
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Criado Engineering Services Supplement (26-1299A)
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Get assignment papers for Criado corporate conversion to LLC
Context: The April 20, 2026 item expressly identifies the contracting party as Criado & Associates, LLC, 'formerly known as Criado & Associates, Inc.,' but the record contains no assignment instrument.
Recommended: Pull the consent-to-assignment or novation documentation covering Criado & Associates, Inc.'s conversion to Criado & Associates, LLC, and confirm the LLC is bound by the original contract's insurance, indemnity, and bonding terms. If the city amended a contract in the name of an entity that never formally assumed it, that is a defect worth raising before the supplement executes, not after.
Request subsurface utility and survey scope for convention center work
Context: The April 20, 2026 committee item adds up to $1,000,000 for engineering, subsurface utilities engineering, and survey services under an existing Criado & Associates agreement rather than a new procurement.
Recommended: Ask procurement for the task-order breakdown behind the $1,000,000 supplement to see how much is subsurface utility engineering versus survey, since those are commonly subcontracted rather than self-performed. Firms that wait for a future solicitation may find this work fully absorbed into an existing prime contract instead.
Ask why convention center engineering contract grew 38 percent
Context: The April 20, 2026 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee item authorizes a not-to-exceed $1,000,000 increase from $2,642,569.00 to $3,642,569.00 for Criado & Associates, but no supporting scope narrative appears in the record.
Recommended: Request Supplemental Agreement No. 1 and the justification memo for Supplemental No. 2 to trace how a $2,642,569 engineering contract reached $3,642,569 without a new solicitation. The public record shows the increase but never explains what scope changed or whether the added subsurface utility and survey work was foreseeable at original award.
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Insights by Role
Contractor
HighHigh significance — major decision, large financial impact, or broad community effectSeven contract items totaling $11.6M were on the agenda, including a $7.5M Love Field garage repair contract that drew nine bidders and two separate Kimley-Horn engineering scopes. A design-build delivery method was proposed for Fire Station No. 5, and supplemental agreements to existing contracts with Criado & Associates, LLC and Concourse Communications were also scheduled.
Developer
MediumMedium significance — notable action worth trackingThe proposed Chapter 43 ordinance amendment (item H) introduces new driveway radius standards for residential and commercial construction, a utility clearance letter requirement, and city cost recovery authority for delays caused by public service providers — changes affecting any project that involves work in or adjacent to the public right-of-way.
Journalist
MediumMedium significance — notable action worth trackingFour policy briefings were on the agenda — Vision Zero 2025, TxDOT project updates including I-345, a TxDOT right-of-way audit, and a parking program update — each scheduled as an information item. The I-345 and right-of-way audit briefings in particular raise follow-up questions about scope, findings, and city obligations.
Lobbyist
MediumMedium significance — notable action worth trackingThree of the four policy briefings were presented by Transportation & Public Works Director Ghassan Khankarli, making him the primary staff contact for transportation policy moving through this committee. The I-345 briefing, presented directly by TxDOT's District Engineer, is the highest-profile policy item on the agenda for organizations with interests in that corridor.
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#ABriefing presenting the Vision Zero 2025 Annual Progress Report, updating the council on the city's initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
#BA briefing by Texas Department of Transportation District Engineer Ceason Clemens covering TxDOT project updates in Dallas, with a specific focus on the I-345 highway project.
#CBriefing memo on a right-of-way audit conducted by TxDOT, presented by the Transportation & Public Works department at the request of the City Manager's Office.
#DBriefing memo providing an update on the city's parking program, presented by the Transportation & Public Works department at the request of the City Manager's Office.
#EA general briefing forecast of upcoming items from the City Manager's Office.
#FAuthorization of a not-to-exceed $7,473,015 construction services contract with Restocon, LLC to repair water infiltration, expansion joints, concrete cracks, traffic coats, and moisture protection at Garages A & B at Dallas Love Field.
#GAuthorization of Supplemental Agreement No. 2 extending the Wi-Fi and Distributed Antenna System concession contract at Dallas Love Field with Concourse Communications Group, LLC through October 2026 and correcting a scrivener's error in the concessionaire's legal name; minimum revenue guaranteed to the Aviation Fund is $337,500.
#HOrdinance amending Dallas City Code Chapter 43 to update sidewalk and street infrastructure standards, including cement specifications, driveway radius requirements, right-of-way restoration obligations, steel plate cover rules, and utility coordination procedures; allows the city to recover costs from public service providers that cause delays, and establishes a penalty up to $500, with no cost to the City.
#IAuthorizes a professional engineering services contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. not to exceed $1,500,000 to design multiple traffic improvements across Dallas, including a roundabout, warranted traffic signals, street restriping, a pedestrian hybrid beacon, signal upgrades, and a corridor study; funded by 2017 and 2024 Bond funds.
#JAuthorizes Supplemental Agreement No. 2 with Criado & Associates, LLC for professional engineering, subsurface utilities engineering, and survey services, increasing the contract by $1,000,000 from $2,642,569 to $3,642,569, funded by the Convention Center Construction Fund.
#KAuthorizes the Seventh Amendment to the Use Agreement between the City and the Dallas Museum of Art to enable planning, design, construction, renovation, repair, replacement, and improvements to the DMA facility, at no cost to the City.
#LAuthorizes a professional services contract with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for architectural, engineering, and construction administration services for a new vehicle maintenance facility at the Southeast Service Center, not to exceed $1,046,500, funded by the 2006 General Obligation Bond Fund.
#MAuthorizes a design-build construction contract with Cooper General Contractors for capital improvement upgrades at Fire Station No. 5, covering design, preconstruction, and architectural and engineering services, not to exceed $285,487, funded by the 2024 General Obligation Bond Fund.
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