DATE: September 15, 2015
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: Director of Public Works - Engineering & Transportation
Director of
Library and Community Services
SUBJECT
Title
21st Century Library and Community Learning Center and Heritage Plaza Arboretum - Approval of Addenda and Award of Construction Contract
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
That Council adopts the attached resolutions (Attachment I and II):
1. Approving Addenda Nos. 1 through 5, providing revisions to the plans and specifications for the
21st Century Library and Community Learning Center and Heritage Plaza Arboretum project;
2. Appropriating an additional $4,780,000 for this project from the Measure C Capital fund; and
3. Rejecting one bid protest and awarding the contract to T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc., in the amount of $52,550,000.
BACKGROUND
On May 26, 2015, Council approved the plans and specifications for the
21st Century Library and Community Learning Center and Heritage Plaza Arboretum project and called for bids to be received on June 30, 2015. Addenda Nos. 1 through 5 made revisions to the drawings and specifications by adding additional information to the project documents, providing clarification to bidder questions, and revising the bid opening date to July 21, 2015.
A new main
library and plaza was identified as a critically important capital need in 1998. Noll + Tam was selected as project architect in 2007 and has completed the project's design and bid phases. This project's design is the result of extensive public outreach and input that began in 2007 and continued through 2015 and involved thousands of Hayward residents and stakeholders. It involved: dozens of community focus groups; community visioning workshops; multiple field surveys; a comprehensive community needs analysis; a dynamic and interactive project website; and dozens of public/civic meetings, including seven City Council sessions, twenty-four
Library Commission sessions, multi...
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