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Recommendation to Authorize the Interim City Manager to Execute a Contract in the Amount Not to Exceed $5,299,614, Including Contingency, to McGuire and Hester for the Cross Alameda Trail - Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway Improvements, No. P.W. 03-18-11; and
Adoption of a Resolution Amending the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Capital Projects Fund Budget for the Cross Alameda Trail (Main to Constitution) Project by $1,794,060 from Various Funding Sources. (Public Works 310)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: David L. Rudat, Interim City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since 1991, the City has worked to implement the cross-town, four-mile Cross Alameda Trail (CAT) project with many segments now in design or constructed. The Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (RAMP)/Atlantic Avenue segment from Main Street to Constitution Way has been in development since 2014. In 2015, the Transportation Commission (TC) and Planning Board approved the preliminary design for the Main Street to Webster Street segment, and after the one-block segment along Atlantic Avenue from Webster Street to Constitution Way was added to the CAT-RAMP segment, the TC and City Council approved a final concept plan for this unfunded segment in March and April 2017, respectively. On July 24, 2018, the City Council received a project update, which included the existence of a funding gap that would be addressed when the project returned to City Council for award of the construction contract.
The project was put out to bid in August 2018, and three bids were received. Staff recommend awarding the construction contract to the lowest responsible bidder, McGuire and Hester. Awarding that contract requires allocating an additional $1,894,060 to the project from the Construction Improvement Tax (Fund 164), General Fund (Fund 001), and remaining grant funds in order to complete this long-anticipated project.
BACKGROUND
Once completed, the full CAT will be a premier east-west walkin...
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