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174-12 September 11, 2012 RE S O L U T I O N WHEREAS, the Township of West Orange entered into a contract with Conquest Industries, Inc. having its principal place of business at 32 Woodland Avenue, Westwood, New Jersey for Downtown West Orange Streetscape and Traffic Improvements in the amount of $1,549,696.25 as awarded by a Resolution of the Township Council No. 50-11 dated March 8, 2011 for the base bid and two alternate bids; WHEREAS, these improvements are funded by a Federal Earmark Grant in the amount of $2,015,777 which is administered by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT); and WHEREAS, the Township previously approved two NJDOT Change Orders in the amount of $120,000.00 and $74,455.90 which increased the contract amount to $1,744,152.15; and WHEREAS, during the course of construction numerous field conditions were encountered which required field changes to the plan; and WHEREAS, the field conditions required adjustments in curb location and construction, inlet reconstruction, building foundation reconstruction, modification of electric junction boxes, additional test pits for traffic signals, traffic signal modification, crosswalk relocation and in some locations additional site clearing; and WHEREAS, the field conditions resulted in 15 supplemental items identified as S-9 through S-21 on Change Order No.4 and S-22 and S-23 on Change Order No. 5; and WHEREAS, on Change Order No. 4 the 13 supplemental items resulted in an additional cost of $53,947.13; and WHEREAS, on Change Order No. 4 an additional 1000 man hours of Uniform Traffic Directors were added at a cost of $60,000 bringing the total increase associated with Change Order No. 4 to $113,947.13; and WHEREAS, Change Order No. 5 accounted for As Built quantities to date throughout the project for all previously approved items as well as additional costs associated with two