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Staff Report for a Resolution Approving the Plans and Specifications and Calling for Bids for the Annual Street Sealing 2012-13 Project, Project No. 2013.0070
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This project provides for the application of preventative maintenance treatments on various streets in San Leandro. The current program will concentrate primarily in the 2012 and 2013 Asphalt Maintenance Areas.
Staff recommends approval of the plans and specifications and calling for bids for the subject project.
BACKGROUND
City staff conducts an annual pavement condition survey using the City’s Pavement Maintenance System to establish the condition of City streets. Based on this survey, various City streets are recommended for one of three maintenance treatments: reconstruction; overlay; or sealing. This project will conduct a street sealing treatment. Sealing is the recommended treatment for streets in fairly good condition to rejuvenate and prolong the life of the pavement. Sealing treatments to be used may include: slurry seal; microsurfacing; scrub seal; and asphalt rubber cape seal.
The City of San Leandro is divided into four Asphalt Maintenance Areas, which allows Engineering and Transportation and Public Works Services staff to coordinate their activities to ensure an efficient use of resources to maintain City streets. The streets scheduled for this project are primarily in the 2012 and 2013 Asphalt Maintenance Areas (see attached map).
Annual street sealing projects typically concentrate work in just one Asphalt Maintenance Area, but the subject project is a combination of work from fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13. This is due to the fact that bids received for the Annual Street Sealing 2011-12 project were too high and were rejected by the City Council. Additionally, a minor amount of work left over from the 2009-10 Maintenance Area has been included with this contract.
Only slurry seal and scrub seal work are included in this b...
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