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Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager, or Designee, to Execute a Third Amendment to the Agreement with CDM Smith to Increase Compensation by $586,000, Including Contingencies, for a Total Aggregate Compensation Not to Exceed $3,158,930, to Complete the Plans and to Provide Construction Support for the Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this project is categorically exempt under CEQA Guidelines Section 15301(c) Existing Facilities (Minor alterations to existing facilities including bicycle facilities) and Section 15304(h) (Minor Alterations to Land and the creation of bicycle lanes on existing public rights of way). (Planning, Building and Transportation 20962740)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Staff is requesting that the City Council authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute a Third Amendment of the CDM Smith contract to allow for continued Caltrans coordination, the completion of the design work with the roundabouts and for construction support on the Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project (Central Avenue Project). The Third Amendment would increase compensation by $586,000, including contingencies, for a total aggregate compensation not to exceed $3,158,930.
BACKGROUND
Project Objectives: The Central Avenue Project implements the City Council's 2018 Transportation Choices Plan, 2019 Climate Action Plan, 2019 Intersection Daylighting Policy, 2019 Lane Widths Policy and 2021 Vision Zero Action Plan by achieving four overarching objectives:
1. Reduce crashes and improve safety for all modes of travel and for all members of the community including school children, seniors, people with disabilities, bicyclists, transit riders and automobile drivers;
2. Improve bicycle and pedestrian access and safety between West Alameda and Central Alameda and along the San Francisco Bay Trail;
3. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
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