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City of Colton Agenda Report Council Meeting of March 21, 2000 Page 2 DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS: When AMG presented its original scope of work to the City of Colton the schedule reflected completion of the storm drain design and the formal negotiations with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services "USFWS" (for Delhi Sands Flower Loving Fly mitigation) by March 1, 2000. The extension currently being requested is through August 2000 for the following reasons: Delays are associated with the slow response of USFWS with regards to project submittals and the scheduling of the necessary meetings as part of the informal consultation period. Additionally, USFWS has requested an extensive biological assessment, a growth inducement analysis and other information not anticipated in AMG's original scope of work. Because of design modifications required by USFWS and other agencies, additional design work will be required by the sub -consulting engineers (Engineering Resources) during the 135 -day formal negotiation period with USFWS. The cost of the attached Consulting Services extension will be $92,710. Additionally, and more recently, it has been noted that during rains the fact that there has been a great deal of storm water flowing down Meridian Avenue south to Valley Boulevard. At the same time it has been noted that the Meridian Avenue Detention Basin (located near the northeast corner of Meridian and Olive) has storm water flowing through it, but is not detaining any of the storm water and hence is not mitigating the storm water flows. Based on the fact that the Meridian Avenue Detention Basin is associated with Project 3-5, we suggest that a comprehensive evaluation of the basin be performed with the intent that it provides a strategy for the construction of basin modifications and potential offsite facilities that will increase the effectiveness of the Meridian Basin. The cost for this additional work will be $8,640. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: None. FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for Phase II of Project 3-5 was approved by the City of Colton and the County of San Bernardino when the MOU was approved in 1995. $1,900,000 was transferred from the County of San Bernardino to the City of Colton to specifically fund a portion of Phase II of the Project 3-5 Storm Drain. The 1999 Amendment to the Consulting Services Agreement relating to the Project 3-5 Storm Drain was in the amount of $432,000. The contract extension submitted to the City Council with this report is in the amount of $92,710 for additional Project 3-5 specific work, and in the amount of $8,640 for the additional work associated with the Meridian Avenue Detention Basin (said detention basin is a part of the Project 3-5 drainage area) for a total fiscal impact of $101,350.