7.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Adopt plans, specifications, and working details for the Adams Avenue and
Pinecreek Drive Intersection Project, Federal Project No. CML-5312(104),
City Project No. 23-11, and find the project categorically exempt from CEQA.
2. Approve a Public Works Agreement (PWA) in the amount of $2,877,242, and
a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $287,724 to Gentry
General Engineering, Inc., 320 West Tropica Rancho Road, Colton,
California 92324.
3. Approve a Professional Services Agreement (PSA) in the amount of
$209,762 and a ten percent (10%) contingency in the amount of $20,976, to
Interwest Consulting Group, Inc., 444 North Cleveland Avenue, Loveland,
Colorado 80537, for construction management services for the Adams
Avenue and Pinecreek Drive Intersection Project.
4. Approve a budget transfer, authorizing the use of the Measure “M2”
Fairshare Fund from the Citywide Street Improvements project budget
(400015) in the amount of $705,500, and appropriation of $750,000 from the
Traffic Impact Fee Fund balance, to the Adams Avenue and Pinecreek Drive
Intersection Project.
5. Authorize the City Manager and the City Clerk to execute the PWA and the
PSA and any future amendments to the agreement within Council authorized
limits.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
The proposed project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA). The project involves an organizational or administrative activity of
government that will not result in direct or indirect physical change in the
environment. The proposed project is categorically exempt under Section 15301
relating to the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, and/or minor alteration
of existing public facilities. A Notice of Exemption was prepared by City Staff and
was filed and posted at the Orange County Clerk-Recorder Department on
March 4, 2022. The Notice of Exemption was subsequently posted to the Office
of Planning and Research on March 22, 2022.
The proposed project is categorically excluded from the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA). Per the Code of Federal Regulations 23 CFR 771.117(c)(3),
the construction of bicycle and pedestrian lanes, paths, and facilities are
considered actions that meet the criteria for categorical exclusions from NEPA
and are deemed to not have any significant environmental impacts. A
Preliminary Environmental Study classifying the project as categorically