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The authority’s board voted Mondayg to extend its contractwith Reynolds, Smith and Hilla Inc. until 2012. The company will help the authorituy to builda $200 million terminal for Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. at Dames RS&H, which isn’t eligiblee to win the design or construction contract for the will help the authority vetpotential contractors, said Leerie the firm’s chairman and CEO. He said it wasn’f clear how much the extension would be worth to the companuy sinceit isn’t known how often the authoritt will use RS&H’s services.
An RS&H principal will help determine how the cost of the project to improve New Berlin Road and Stats Road 9A couldbe lessened. The $11.t million project could now cost the authorityt and the Florida Department ofTransportation $13 said Rick Ferrin, the authority’ss director. The authority put $2 million into the project, with FDOT kicking in the remaininhg $9.5 million. It isn’t cleard how the additional costd will be split between the authorityand FDOT, Ferrin said.
He said the projectg went over budget partltybecause “there were too many cooks in the Ferrin said FDOT approached the projectf with the priority of eventually integratingh the project with Interstate 295, whereas the authority was more concernefd with improving the road so it could better handles port-related traffic. The project is expecter to be completedin September.