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Staff report for a City of San Leandro City Council Resolution to Approve a Consulting Services Agreement with BKF Engineers, Inc. for Conceptual Design of Shoreline Park at the Marina Project No. 2020.3080 for an Amount Not to Exceed $597,190; to Authorize Individual Agreement Amendments Up to 5% of the Contract and to Authorize Cumulative Agreement Amendments Up to 15% of the Contract
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This agreement will provide for development of site plans and estimates suitable for approval of the project scope by City and Regulatory Agencies.
Staff recommends the following actions:
* Approve a consulting services agreement with BKF Engineers, Inc. (BKF) for the project;
* Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and approve individual agreement amendments up to 5% of the contract; and
* Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and approve cumulative agreement amendments up to 15% of the contract.
BACKGROUND
In the 1960's, San Leandro constructed a new marina on the shore of the San Francisco Bay that included a harbor master's office, boat docks, fueling station, parking lots, restrooms for the public and for boaters, and three restaurants: the Blue Dolphin, El Torito, and Horatio's. A 9-hole golf course was across the street and shortly thereafter an 18-hole course with driving range, Marina Park, and the Marina Inn were added to the neighborhood. While the San Leandro Marina operated successfully for more than thirty years, by the year 2000, the Blue Dolphin was vacant, and the Army Corps of Engineers had reduced its dredging to just the shipping channel out in the San Francisco Bay. Dredging from the harbor to the shipping channel, and in particular the disposal of the dredged material, proved to be prohibitively expensive for the City and the last dredging of the harbor was performed around 1997.
As the Marina silted in and the water became more shallow and less navigable, the conversation eventually turned to op...
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