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TRANSPORTATION/FLOOD CONTROL DEPARTMENT- SURVEYOR 825 East Third Street • San Bernardino, CA 92415-0835 • (909) 387-2800 Fax (909) 387-2667 March 4, 1999 COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO PUBLIC SERVICES GROUP KEN A. MILLER Director HARD COPY RECD x/ED Daryl J. Parrish File: 2-114/1.00 199 Assistant City Manager MAR 0 8 City of Colton 650 North LaCadena Drive CITY OF :, XTON Colton, Ca. 92324 CITY M�iyAGER Dear Mr. Parrish: Reference is made to our meeting of December 15, 1998 and your City's Council Action of January 5, 1999 regarding Comprehensive Storm Drain Plan 3-5, Phase 11. Phase 11 would, in general, consist of the planning, design, and construction of the storm drain from Valley Boulevard southerly to the Santa Ana River, including necessary environmental work, right-of- way acquisition, utility relocations, etc. Your Council's action of January 5, approved a language amendment to Section 2.13 of the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), between the County and the City, County Contract No. 95-590, dated June 27, 1995. The language amendment stated, "Colton will only be required to reimburse the County for those portions of the project that would normally be funded by development fees collected by the City of Colton", and "The portion of the project funded by the County will immediately be encumbered upon approval of this Amendment to begin additional pre -design, environmental, and right-of-way acquisition work to get this project moving forward". We will incorporate these recommendations into a draft amendment to the MOU and will target the Board's agenda for March 16, 1999 to consider the revised document. At present, I believe we all understand that the available funding is limited to the amounts of $1,500,000 and $400,000 identified in the existing MOU and are not adequate to complete the project which has been estimated to cost approximately $10 million. Also, that we will continue to work together to identify other funding sources to enable the project to be completed including possible funds from Caltrans, an existing Community Facility District, the Redevelopment Agency, etc. It would appear that the existing funding will be more than adequate to perform all of the pre -design and design work as identified by the Arrowhead Management Group. The existing MOU identifies the City as the lead for the project work. We would like to propose one change in this area. As the County's Flood Control District will be accepting the completed storm drain into its system of operated and maintained facilities, we would prefer to - handle the duties of contract administration and quality assurance for the construction phase of the project and will provide appropriate MOU language to address this. i a