CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
City of Campbell, 70 N. First St., Campbell, California
STUDY SESSION OF THE CAMPBELL CITY COUNCIL
T uesday, April 4, 2023 – 5:30 p.m.
City Hall Council Chamber
70 N. First St., Campbell, California
This City Council meeting was dul y noticed pursuant to open meeting requirements of the Ralph M. Brown Act (G.C. Section 54956).
CALL TO ORDER
The City Council of the City of Campbell con vened this day in the special meeting place, the City Hall Council Chamber, 70 N. First St., Campbell, California .
ROLL CALL
Attendee Name Title Status
Anne Bybee Mayor Present
Susan M. Landry Vice Mayor Present
Dan Furtado Councilmember Present
Sergio Lopez Councilmember Present
Elliot Scozzola Councilmember Pres ent
PUBLIC COMMENT
Public comment wa s taken following the staff report presentations.
STUDY SESSION
1. Overview of Measure O – Budget Allocations, Project Status, Schedule, and Construction Staging
Recommended Action: That the City Council receive additional information on Measure O budget allocations, project status, schedule, constructability review, and construction phasing and staging.
Public Wo rks Director Capurso introduced the item and spoke about the budget allocations for the Library and Po lice Departments projects.
Senior Public Wor ks Project Manager Ahme d provided an o ver view of the project status and schedule.
Minutes of April 4, 2023 City Council Meet ing Page 2 John Hughes a nd Lance Solomon of Griffin Structures presented an overview of the construction management process related to a constructa bility review , specifications re vi ew and a site sta ging plan .
Following th e staff report presentation , the Council asked general questions related to the draft site logistics plan and the draf t phasing plan.
Following Council questio ns , Mayor By bee asked if anyone wished to provide publi c c omment.
El izabeth Gibbons, former Councilmember and Campbell resident , requested the full financial status of the Measure O bid documents such that there is confidence that the bids will come in under the Engineer ’s E stimate and to prevent bids coming in o ver budget.
Councilmembers discussed the b udgets and funding allocations for the police and library projects as well as the intended use for the existing City Hall sp ace in relation to the P olice Department pro ject.
Public Works Director note d that staff is on track to bring the approval of plans and s pecs before the Council in the May or June timeframe. At that time, an esti mated co st estimate wi ll be provided. To date, construction estimates have been done at every phase of the design .
Vic e Ma y or La ndry e xpressed concerns with the potential impacts to a Magnoli a and Re dw ood tree lo cated at the Libra ry project site . She req uested the Council ’s opinion on the importanc e of saving the trees.
Cou ncilmembers did express s upport for savin g the tr ees to the ext ent possible provi ded it was cost effective to do so.
Public Works Director Capurso recognized the challenges with the existing trees and recognized the re may be the pot ential of some of th e trees in that area being compromised. Howe ver, at thi s time the consultant landscape ar chitects are co mfortable in preserving the Magnolia trees , which will also be conf irmed by a third -party arborist review. If the trees do have to be removed, it is rec ommended that the trees be re placed in kind . D irecto r Ca purs o also noted that it does appear the Redwood tree had a higher potential of being compromised and a new specimen tree is being pro posed .
Vice Mayor Landry sta ted that if the tree cannot be saved, she preferred that the tree be removed now and not five years from now.
Councilmembers disc ussed uses for the $1.3 mil lion of construction contingenc y funds.
Public Works Director Capurso noted po tential projects that were c urrently unfunded such as the rec onstruction of the gravel p arking lot , constr ucti on o f a Minutes of April 4, 2023 City Council Meet ing Page 3 new trash enclosure and reconstruction of si dewa lks and d riveways along the pe rimeter of the block .
Mayor Bybee commented that the Council should be made awar e if cons truction costs cannot be met as soon as possible so that al ternatives can be discusse d.
ADJOURN
Mayor Bybee adjou rned the meeting at 7:00 p.m.
APPROVED :
ATTEST:
Anne Bybee, Mayor
Andrea Sanders, City Clerk