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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation, recommending the Board consider the following pertaining to the Pony Express Trail Slipout, Contract PW 18-31214, CIP 78718, Contract 2726:
1) Approve and adopt the Plans and Contract Documents and authorize the Chair to sign the Plans; and
2) Authorize advertisement for construction bids.
FUNDING: Local and State discretionary Road funding initially (100%), with Transportation staff working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and California Office of Emergency Services to obtain reimbursement of up to 93.75% of total project costs. The project also proposes Additive Alternate Schedule B work that extends the project limits and if approved would be funded with Road Fund. (Local, State, and Federal)
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Department of Transportation (Transportation), recommending the Board consider the following pertaining to the Pony Express Trail Slipout (Project), Contract PW 18-31214, CIP 78706, Contract 2726:
1) Approve and adopt the Plans and Contract Documents and authorize the Chair to sign the Plans; and
2) Authorize advertisement for construction bids (the total estimated cost for the Schedule A and Additive Alternate Schedule B Project’s construction phase is $1,136,500).
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
This Project is necessary to repair a failed slope and damage to sections of Pony Express Trail Road caused by the storms of 2017. The Project will be bid as a Base Bid (Schedule A) with Additive Alternate Bid (Schedule B). Base Bid (Schedule A) is within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved Project limits and includes roadway improvements along Pony Express Trail from ‘PE’ line Station 10+50 to Station 14+45 to repair a failed slope and section of the roadway that includes roadway excavation with a geosynthetic reinforced embankment, HMA paving, HMA dike, cold planing, drainage system improvements, rock slope protection...
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