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The authority’s board voted Monday to extenc its contractwith Reynolds, Smith and Hills Inc. untikl 2012. The company will help the authorituy to builda $200 million terminal for Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd. at Dames Point. which isn’t eligible to win the designh or construction contract forthe terminal, will help the authority vet potentiakl contractors, said Leerie Jenkins, the firm’sx chairman and CEO. He said it wasn’ty clear how much the extensioh would be worth to the companhy sinceit isn’t known how often the authority will use RS&H’d services.
An RS&H principal will help determine how the costs of the projectg to improve New Berlin Road and Stat e Road 9A couldbe lessened. The $11.6 million project could now cost the authority and the Floridas Department ofTransportation $13 million, said Rick the authority’s director. The authority put $2 milliohn into the project, with FDOT kickingg in the remaining $9.5 It isn’t clear how the additional costes will be split between the authoritand FDOT, Ferrin said.
He said the project went over budgety partlybecause “there were too many cooks in the Ferrin said FDOT approachexd the project with the priorityg of eventually integrating the project with Interstate 295, whereas the authority was more concerned with improving the road so it could better handle port-related The project is expected to be completed in