For City Council Meeting [November 14, 2017]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Michael Story, City Administrator
FROM: Robert G. Eisenbeisz, P.E., Public Works Director/City Engineer
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Request City Council to Award a Construction Contract to Promised Land Nursery, a California Corporation, in the amount of $417,777 for the Bloomington Avenue Median Conversion Project, City Project No. 140806 and 160808.
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BACKGROUND:
On May 13, 2014, the City Council approved a Professional Services Agreement with Architerra Design Group for the requested services related to the Engineering, Landscape Design and Project Management Services for the Rialto Community Garden Project and the Bloomington Avenue Landscape Median Conversion Project.
On April 1, 2015, the Governor issued an Executive Order directing the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt emergency drought conservation regulations that result in a collective Statewide 25% reduction in potable urban water usage as compared to 2013.
On May 5, 2015, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) adopted Resolution No. 2015-0032, which amended and readopted the emergency drought conservation regulations adopted in 2014. These regulations went into effect on May 18, 2015. Pursuant to Article 22.5 Section 864(a) of the Drought Emergency Water Conservation, "To prevent the waste and unreasonable use of water and to promote water conservation, each of the following actions is prohibited, except where necessary to address an immediate health and safety need or to comply with a term or condition in a permit issued by a state or federal agency: (7) The irrigation with potable water of ornamental turf on public street medians.
The City proposed the Landscape Median Conversion Project in response to the emergency conservation regulations to remove and replace median turf with a drought tolerant alternative. Since the restrictions continue to prohibit the use of potable water for tu...
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