Title
Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate and Approve an Increase in the Cumulative Change Order Amount from 25% to 43% (from $167,372 to $287,879) for the Wicks Boulevard and Manor Boulevard Traffic Signal Upgrade Project, Project No. 2020.5620; and to Appropriate $509,564 from Account No. 143-38-392 to On-going Projects
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COUNCIL PRIORITY
* Quality of Life
* Economic Development
* Public Safety
* Infrastructure
SUMMARY
This contract provides for the traffic signal upgrade at the Wicks Boulevard and Manor Boulevard intersection. The increase in change order authority will allow for additional work required by PG&E to relocate the electric meter.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the following actions:
* Authorize an increase in the cumulative Change Order Cap from 25% to 43% (from $167,372 to $287,879); and
* Appropriate $509,564 from Account No. 143-38-392 to on-going projects.
BACKGROUND
The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, signed into law on December 4, 2015, established the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) as a core Federal-aid highway program. The primary goal of HSIP is to significantly reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads by implementing infrastructure-related highway safety improvements.
In 2017, the City was awarded $323,910 through the 2018 HSIP Cycle 9 to upgrade the traffic signal and enhance safety at the intersection of Wicks Boulevard and Manor Boulevard.
The project includes a full signal upgrade at the intersection. Improvements consisted of installing protected left-turn signals, upgrading signal heads and related equipment, implementing video detection systems for cars and bikes (including advanced detection), and installing accessible pedestrian pushbuttons and signals. The project also included the construction of curb ramps to meet current ADA accessibility standards.
Analysis
On May 15, 2023, the City Council awarded a cons...
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