Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Gates and Associates, Inc. for design of the Shoreline Park Project 2020.3080 for a Total not to Exceed Amount of $3,015,700; to Authorize Individual Agreement Amendments up to 5% ($150,785) of the Total Not to Exceed Amount and to Authorize Cumulative Agreement Amendments up to 15% ($452,355)
Staffreport
COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Infrastructure
SUMMARY
The resolution approves and authorizes the City Manager to execute an agreement for design of phase 1 of a new 13 acre park on the jetties of the old Marina.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends:
* Approving an agreement with Gates and Associates, Inc for the Shoreline Park project for the not to exceed amount of $3,015,700.00.
* Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and approve individual amendments up to 5% of total not to exceed amount.
* Authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and approve cumulative amendments up to 15% of the total not to exceed amount.
BACKGROUND
In the 1960's, San Leandro constructed a new marina on the shore of the San Francisco Bay that included a harbor master's office, boat docks, fueling station, parking lots, restrooms for the public and for boaters, and three restaurants: the Blue Dolphin, El Torito, and Horatio's. A 9-hole golf course was built across the street and shortly thereafter an 18-hole course with driving range, a new Marina Park, and the Marina Inn were subsequently added. While the San Leandro Marina operated successfully for more than thirty years, by 2000, the Blue Dolphin was vacant, and the Army Corps of Engineers had reduced its dredging to just the shipping channel out in the San Francisco Bay. Dredging from the harbor to the shipping channel, and in particular the disposal of the dredged material, proved to be prohibitively expensive for the City and the last dredging of the harbor was performed in 1997.
As the Marina silted in and the wat...
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