RESOLUTION NO. (XX)
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF COTATI APPROVING A MINOR
CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT WITH STREETLIGHT RESTORATION
SPECIALISTS, INC TO REFURBISH STREETLIGHTS ON OLD REDWOOD HWY AT E. COTATI AVE AND AT VALPARAISO AVE AND AUTHORIZE THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE SAID AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, the City owns and operates several streetlights and two of them are decorative, with many artistic features, and have become worn with the surface paint having pealed back causing an unsightly appearance; and
WHEREAS, the City has received many complaints from the Public about the weathered look of these streetlights and the City has now made it a priority to have them refurbished; and WHEREAS, in July of this year, City Staff made contact with Streetlight Refurbishment Specialists, Inc (SRS) and requested a quote for refurbishing two streetlights along Old Redwood Highway; 1) at E. Cotati Ave and 2) at Valparaiso Avenue, and SRS provided a quote and Staff has reviewed the quote and finds it to be fair and reasonable; and WHEREAS, the poles, luminaire arms and mast arms, traffic signal heads, visors, pedestrian heads, push button housings and luminaires, push button poles and decorative bases will be scraped and repainted, and SRS is to provide traffic control with uninterrupted traffic flow during the refurbishment work, and existing decorative bases will be restored, however, replacements of the missing decorative bases is excluded, and these bases have gone missing over the years either having been struck by cars and damaged or missing for some unknown reason; and
WHEREAS, to fund the proposed project, the City desires to reclassify $45,000 ($41,040 plus contingency) from the Capital Projects Fund to the General Fund – Streets Repairs and Maintenance account, thereby reducing the transfers out of the General Fund and the corresponding transfers into the Capital Projects Fund by the same amount; and WHEREAS, this action is found to qualify for a Class 1 Categorical Exemption under CEQA Section 15301 in that the project consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of the existing or former use.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Cotati hereby determines:
1. The above recitals are true and correct, and
2. The Streetlight Restoration Specialist scope of work to provide streetlight refurbishment work on two City streetlights is approved, and
3. Approve the budget reclassification and appropriation of $45,000, and
4. Authorize the City Manager to execute the subject agreement.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cotati held on October 28, 2025, by the following vote, to wit:
Approved:___________________________
Mayor
Attest:______________________________
Kevin Patterson, City Clerk
Approved as to form:______________________________
City Attorney