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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation, recommending the Board consider the following pertaining to the New York Creek Trail East - Phase 2 Project, Contract PW 15-31108, CIP 72308:
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: Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (99.79%) (Federal Funds), and Accumulative Capital Outlay (.21%) (ACO Funds).
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services (CDS), Department of Transportation (Transportation), recommending the Board consider the following pertaining to the New York Creek Trail East - Phase 2 Project (Project), Contract PW 15-31108, CIP 72308:
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 Project’s construction phase is $1,206,000).
The Project is budgeted in Transportation’s 2017 CIP, which was adopted by the Board on June 27, 2017 (Item 25), with a direct construction budget of $1,070,000.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The purpose of the Project is to construct a Class I bike path from the west end of the New York Creek Trail East - Phase 1 project to Tam O’Shanter Drive. The Project includes an 8-foot wide (concrete) Class I bike path with 2-foot (aggregate base) shoulders and a pre-fabricated bridge (approximately 12 feet wide and 110 feet long) over New York Creek.
Due to federal funding, both California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance are required. A CEQA Notice of Determination / Mitigated Negative Declaration was filed on January 26, 2012 and the Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration was approved by the Board on January 24, 2012 (Item 28). A California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) NEPA Categorical Exemption/Categorical Exclusion Det...
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