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Staff Report for a Resolution to Award a Construction Contract to American Asphalt for the Annual Street Sealing 2014-15 Project, Project No. 2015.0070 and City Council Approval of Appropriating $485,000.00 from the Measure B Local Streets and Roads Fund
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This contract provides for the application of preventive maintenance treatments on various City streets in the 2015 Asphalt Maintenance Areas.
Staff recommends award of a construction contract to the low bidder, American Asphalt, in the amount of $1,175,102.42 for the subject work of the Base Bid and Bid Alternate "A". Staff also recommends that City Council approve appropriation of Measure B Local Streets and Roads funding of $485,000 for the Annual Street Sealing 2014-15 project.
BACKGROUND
Street sealing is an annual maintenance activity that can prolong the useful life of streets. The treatments associated with this project include slurry sealing, asphalt rubber chip sealing, and micro-surfacing. These treatments involve the application of one or more layers of aggregate materials, crumb rubber chips produced by recycling used tires, and asphalt emulsions. The particular process is individually selected for each street based on its street condition.
The City was awarded a grant from CalRecycle for the use of the crumb rubber chips in the rubberized chip seal process and will be reimbursed at a rate of $1.00 per square yard of roadway where that process is applied on this project.
Project streets were selected with priority given to arterial streets and by assigning treatments to streets that are suitable for street sealing starting with those with the lowest pavement condition index within the annual pavement maintenance area.
The bid documents contain a Bid Alternate "A" for repair of asphalt base failure that is required before installing street sealing treatments. This work was separated from the base bid so that it could be rem...
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