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Staff Report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Accept the Work for the Annual Street Sealing 2017-18 Project, Project No. 2018.0070
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This $2.3 million dollar project installed pavement surface sealing treatments to preserve and prolong the useful pavement life on approximately 15.2 street lane miles, three parking lots at City parks, and Fire Station No. 13's parking lot. The project also installed forty-nine concrete curb ramps to meet current accessibility standards at locations within the street sealing work areas.
Staff recommends the following actions:
* Accept the work by American Pavement Systems, Inc.;
* Authorize the City Manager to file the Notice of Completion;
* Release the performance and payment bonds; and
* Release the maintenance bond upon successful completion of the one-year maintenance period.
BACKGROUND
Street sealing is an annual maintenance activity that can prolong the useful life of existing pavement up to ten years, depending on the treatment and significantly lower the overall life-cycle cost for maintaining our 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 rock chips, crumb rubber chips produced by recycling used tires, and asphalt binders. The particular process is individually selected for each street based on the pavement condition.
Forty-nine curb ramps within the street sealing work areas were upgraded to comply with current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.
The City was awarded a grant from CalRecycle in March 2017 for the use of recycled 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 was applied on this project. The City will be reimbursed $80,004 from the grant for this project and the efforts diverted ...
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