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Staff Report for a Resolution of the City of San Leandro City Council to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Terraphase Engineering, Inc. for $789,036 for Design and Permitting Services for a New Treatment Wetland at the Water Pollution Control Plant; to Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate Contract Amendments up to 20% (or $157,807); and to Appropriate $501,917 from the Water Pollution Control Plant Enterprise Fund Balance Reserve for the Project in Fiscal Year 2019-20
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This is for the design and permitting phase of a project to construct a new multi-benefit treatment wetland at the Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP).
Staff recommends City Council adopt a Resolution to approve and authorize the City Manager to execute a Consulting Services Agreement with Terraphase Engineering, Inc. for the Treatment Wetland Design Project for $789,036 and authorize the City Manager to negotiate contract amendments up to 20% (or $157,807). Staff also requests City Council adopt a Resolution appropriating $501,917 from the WPCP enterprise fund balance reserve for 2019-20.
BACKGROUND
In April 2018, the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority (SFBRA) awarded a $538,926 Measure AA grant to the City to plan, design and permit a multi-benefit Treatment Wetland. This Treatment Wetland project is intended to remove nitrogen, phosphorus and other contaminants from a portion of the WPCP discharge water.
In addition, this project will include enhancement of wetland habitat along the San Francisco Bay Trail for educational opportunities, and demonstration of cost-effective contaminant removal/sea level rise adaptation strategies via green infrastructure. The project involves a community-based, multi-landowner planning effort to develop a larger-scale restoration and shoreline resiliency vision along a heavily urbanized shoreline site.
Analysis
In May 2019, the City opened a formal R...
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