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Yorkville looks at 5% per hour increases for engineering services on construction projects · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville looks at five percent per hour increases for engineering
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  Speaker 1: services on construction projects. Written by Joey Weslow, This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by EVERLTT. Engineering services in Yorkville are likely to get
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  Speaker 1: a little more expensive. Engineering Enterprises, Inc. Of Sugar Grove
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  Speaker 1: is requesting a five percent per hour rate increase. EEI
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  Speaker 1: is the main engineering firm the city partners with when
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  Speaker 1: awarding contracts for engineering services on infrastructure projects. The five
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  Speaker 1: percent increase is one percent higher than last year's request
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  Speaker 1: by EEI of a hike on hourly rates. The City
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  Speaker 1: Council approved the four percent change in March twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: These hourly rates are used as the unit price for
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  Speaker 1: supplemental engineering contracts, but are also used in the city's
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  Speaker 1: base contracts city officials set in city documents. The City
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  Speaker 1: Engineer is brand Sanderson, who is also the president and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of EI. City staff is currently recommending approval of
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  Speaker 1: EI's rate increase requests. The City Council must approve the
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  Speaker 1: increase at its March twenty fourth meeting. The cost of
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  Speaker 1: living adjustment is two point eight percent for twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six according to the Social Security Administration. In twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: the rate was two point five percent. If approved, the
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  Speaker 1: new rates would be effective May first. In the state
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  Speaker 1: of Illinois, cities are exempt from using traditional competitive bidding
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  Speaker 1: for professional engineering contracts that are typical of the standard
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  Speaker 1: for antitrust regulations commonplace on most construction projects. This is
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  Speaker 1: because engineering is considered a professional service, making expertise qualifications
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  Speaker 1: outweigh price considerations in awarding Contractsbruary, the city Council approved
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  Speaker 1: a four hundred nineteen thousand, four hundred and ninety five
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  Speaker 1: engineering services contract with EEI for water main work. In
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  Speaker 1: September twenty twenty five, the City Council approved at two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three thousand, three hundred and fifty four
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  Speaker 1: engineering agreement with EI regarding the Downtown Hydraulic District renovation