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City Council
November 28, 2023
RIVERSIDE GATEWAY PARKS – ADDITIONAL
GRANT FUNDS, CONTRACT INCREASE AND
EXTENSION, INCREASE CHANGE ORDER
Parks, Recreation and Community Services
Department
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2 This project is made possible with funding from the California State Coastal Conservancy. The Coastal Conservancy is a California state agency, established in 1976, to protect and improve natural lands and waterways, to help people get to and enjoy the outdoors, and to sustain local economies along California’s coast. It acts with others to protect and restore, and inc rease public access to, California’s coast, ocean, coastal watersheds, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Its vision is of a beautiful, restored, and accessible coast for current and future generations of Californians. https://scc.ca.gov/
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4 Master Plan Process
Inventory
and
Analysis
Outreach
Design
Alternatives
Outreach
Master
Plan
Concept
CEQA
City Council ‐ Park
Master Plan and
CEQA documents
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5 • Project Website - RiversideGatewayParks.com
– Over 2,400 visits
• Sidewalk Decals
• Project Site Signs
• Postcards – 18,000 invitations mailed to residents near the project areas
• Newspaper Ads
• Social Media -(40,000+ Facebook impressions and Email (to 1,100 addresses)
Community Engagement - Marketing
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6 • Online Survey (275 responses)
• Interactive Project Input Map (157 comments received) • 3 Technical Advisory Committee Meetings – 73 total
attendees
• 3 Virtual Community Workshops - 158 attendees and 220 Jamboard comments
• Downtown Area Neighborhood Alliance Presentation
• Neighbors of the Wood Streets Presentation
• Cultural Heritage Board Workshop
• Pop-ups
Community Engagement - Events
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15 • CEQA document completion and public review
– winter/spring 2023/24
• CEQA certification/Council Approval
– spring/summer 2024
• Design Development
– to be determined pending funding
• Construction
– to be determined pending funding
NEXT STEPS - SCHEDULE
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16 CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE
Total
Design, Engineering,
Project Admin,
Construction AdminConstruction
$74,000,000$15,500,000$58,500,000Camp Evans
$5,100,000$1,100,000$4,000,000Loring
$2,600,000$600,000$2,000,000St. Francis/Carlson
$51,300,000$10,700,000$40,600,000Tequesquite North
$87,300,000$18,300,000$69,000,000Tequesquite South
$9,900,000$2,100,000$7,800,000Greenway
$20,400,000$4,300,000$16,100,000Martha McLean
$7,900,000$1,700,000$6,200,000Jurupa Trailhead
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17 Grant Opportunities
• Urban Greening Grant
• Statewide Parks Program
• Land and Water Conservation Fund
• Recreational Trails Program
• Habitat Conservation Fund
• California Coastal Conservancy
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18 Strategic Priority No. 1 – Arts, Culture and Recreation Strategic Priority No. 2– Community Well-being
Strategic Priority No. 4 – Environmental Stewardship
Cross-Cutting Threads
STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT
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19 RECOMMENDATION
That the City Council:
1. Accept additional grant funds from the California Coastal Conservancy and with at least five affirmative votes, and upon execution of grant agreement, authorize the Chief Financial Officer or designee, to record an increase in revenue in the amount of $354,000 and appropriate an equal amount in
expenditures in the Santa Ana River California Coastal
Conservancy project revenue and expenditure accounts;
2. Authorize 33% change order authority of $634,988.83 not to exceed total compensation amount of Two Million Five Hundred and Ninety-Eight Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars and Sixty-Two Cents ($2,598,670.62) for Professional Consultant Services Agreement with MLA Green, Inc. dba Studio-MLA;
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3. Approve Agreement Amendment No. 2 to increase
compensation to not to exceed Two Million Five
Hundred and Ninety-Eight Thousand Six Hundred
Seventy Dollars and Sixty-Two Cents ($2,598,670.62) and extend the contract term to December 31, 2025; and
4. Authorize the City Manager, or designee, to execute
the Professional Consultant Services Agreement
Amendment with MLA Green, Inc. dba Studio-MLA,
including making minor and non-substantive changes.
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