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City of Coiton Agenda Report Council Mee4ing of September 16, 1997 Page 2 Aman Environmental Construction is a subsidiary of Dames and Moore, a Fortune 500 Architectural, Engineering and Construetion Firm. The !ow bid is $2,465,237, well below the engineer's estimate to complete the work of $3,288,824. ALTERNATIVES: The City of Colton committed to construct the traffic mitigation and infrastructure improvements specified in the attached bid documents when the MOU was approved by the City Council in May of 1995. Considering the quality and price of the lowest responsible bid, and the fact that the MOU dictates the improvements be in place by March 31, 1998, staff would not recommend an alternative. FISCAL I M PACT: The aforem�ntioned improvements are to be funded via an advance from the County of San Bemardino as per the MOU. The advancement of funds will be repaid to the County (wifhout interest) from fees paid by future development as their part of mitigation on #raffic and storm drainage..The MOU identifies Colton's share of impacts on the improvements to be constructed in percentages, (of the specific improvements Colton is responsible for) and the cosfi of Colton's share of the improvements in dollars. While the percentages have not changed, the dollar amounts specified in attachment one of the MOU are significantly overstated. The dollar amounts specified in attachment one of the MOU were derived from a Traffic Impact Analysis performed in 1992 by Linscott, Law, and Greenspan. Colton's share of the costs is roughly sixty percent of the improvements or approximately $1,480,000. ENUIRONMENTAL IMPACT: On March 25, 9997, the infrastructure improvements surrounding the San Bernardino Medical Center went before the Planning Commission as File Index D-61-96 and was approved with a mitigated Negative Declaration. The conditions specified in the report to the Planning Commission were addressed by improvements made to #he detention basin located on the Medical Center site. RECOMMEWD�4TION: Staff recommends that the City Council award the Contrac# to Construct Street, Storm Drain, Landscaping, and Traf#ic Mitigation Improvements �n Pepper, San Bernardino, Meridian and Rancho Avenues to the lowest re�ponsible bic#d�r, Arraan E�vironm�ntal Construction. Attachments {3): MOU Attachment I MOU Attachment III Bid Documents _ T-„ � 7 _ _ ,,