DATE: June 21, 2016
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works
SUBJECT
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FY 2016 - Pavement Rehabilitation Project: Award of Contract
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That Council adopts the attached resolution (Attachment I) awarding the contract to O'Grady Paving, Inc., in the amount of $11,198,918; and authorizing the expenditure of an additional $2,350,000 on this contract for additional street work and contingencies.
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BACKGROUND
On March 15, 2016, Council approved the plans and specifications for the FY 2016 - Pavement Rehabilitation Project, and called for bids to be received on April 26, 2016. Subsequent addenda extended the bid opening date to June 3, 2016.
DISCUSSION
The approval of the Measure C local sales tax in 2014 made additional funds available to the City's Street Pavement Management Program that are over and above funds the City receives annually from Measure B, Measure BB, Gas Tax, Vehicle Registration Fees, and from the Street System Improvements Fund. This has allowed the City to engage in the largest street pavement improvement program in the City's history, and provides a one-time opportunity to improve more of the City's street network. The City's Pavement Management Program falls into two main categories: 1) Street Pavement Preventative Maintenance & Resurfacing Program, which was award by the Council on May 24, 2016; and 2) Street Pavement Rehabilitation & Reconstruction Program, which is presented in this report.
The Pavement Rehabilitation & Reconstruction Program involves repairing severely deteriorated streets to return them to acceptable pavement condition standards and may involve one of several types of treatments: 1) standard overlay of the existing street pavement with new Hot Mix Asphalt Concrete; 2) Cold-In-Place Recycling (CIR), which involves pulverization of the top layer of existing asphalt concrete pavement, treating the resulting ag...
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