ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
MEETING DATE: January 8, 2025 AGENDA CATEGORY: Consent - Agreement TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Zachary Meyer, Public Works Director
DATE: December 5, 2024
SUBJECT: Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 2024-103 with A and B Trucking Services, Inc.
(increasing compensation by $500,000; revised not to exceed $2,655,000) to continue transportation services for the City of Bakersfield, Public Works Department, Streets Division.
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends approval of the amendment.
BACKGROUND:
On April 24, 02024, the City Council approved Agreement No. 2024-103 to provide transportation services for the City of Bakersfield, Public Works Department, Street s Division with A & B Trucking Services , Inc., in the amount of $2,155,000; renewable annually thereafter for four consecutive one-year periods.
This contract is utilized by the Streets Division for transportation, hauling paving materials and to move large volumes of earth, rock, and other materials. Since late April, staff performed an excessive amount of street maintenance work to close out the last fiscal year, and to perform additional work the current fiscal year to expend ARPA dollars by the end of the calendar year. This extra work utilized the contract more frequently and the compensation was spent down more quickly. Additional compensation is now needed to for staff to continue street maintenance work through the end of the current agreement term.
Amendment No. 1 will increase compensation by $ 500,000 for a revised not to exceed amount of $2,655,000 to allow continued transportation services to the term date of April 24, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The funding for the agreement will be from varying funding sources including Street’s General Fund Operating account, ARPA, Capital Outlay, Gas Tax and PSVS funds. All of which has been budgeted in the respective budgets for Fiscal Year 2024-25.
COUNCIL GOAL:
Reliable Infrastructure
ATTACHMENTS:
Signed Amendment No. 1 to Agreement No. 2024-103
Exhibit “B”