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Recommendation to Consider an Informational Report on City's Facility Condition Assessments. (Public Works 310) (30 minutes)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Consider an Informational Report on City's Facility Condition Assessments
BACKGROUND
On December 17, 2014, the Public Works Department executed a contract in the amount of $74,999 for professional services with Faithful & Gould, and on May 19, 2015, the City Council approved a First Amendment to their agreement in the amount of $74,786, for a total contract amount of $149,785 to perform facility condition assessments of the City's-owned thirty-eight buildings. Faithful & Gould has performed thousands of facility condition assessments, including recently at the municipalities of Novato and Santa Monica, and the state governments of Oregon and Utah.
A facility condition assessment establishes baseline asset inventory of facilities, the facilities' condition, renewal needs, and rates of investment required to keep them in various conditions. For the assessments, trained professionals conduct an on-site inspection of each facility, and then analyze those results together with the facility's history and input from staff and facility users. The assessments are comprehensive and include the building's envelope; roof; heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC); plumbing; electrical; flooring; ceiling and wall tiles; and drainage. These assessments then feed into a long-term facilities plan and options for funding the plan.
DISCUSSION
A summary of the facility condition assessments is in the attached presentation. Faithful & Gould found that 17 of the City's 38 facilities are in good condition, including City Hall, Alameda Police Department, City Hall West, Civic Center Parking Structure, and the Main Library. Four are in fair condition, including Fire Station No. 2 and the Alameda Recreation & Parks Adminis...
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