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File ID: 2022-01415 8/16/2022 Consent Item 7.
Establish Capital Improvement Projects and Related Budgetary Adjustments for 2022 Clean California Local Grants
File ID: 2022-01415
Location: Districts 2, 4, 5, 7, and 8
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution: 1) establishing the 21st Avenue Beautification Project (T15235300) as a new Capital Improvement Project; 2) establishing the Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project (T15235100) as a new Capital Improvement Project; 3) establishing the Florin Road Community Beautification Project (M17600500) as a new Capital Improvement Project; 4) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the 21st Avenue Beautification Project (T15235300) by $1,758,178 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704); 5) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project (T15235100) by $4,858,267 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704); 6) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Florin Road Community Beautification Project (M17600500) by $1,122,173 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704); 7) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Del Rio Trail Project (K15165100) by $5,000,000 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704); and 8) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Hanami Line at Matsui Park Project (L19911200) by $3,202,221 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).
Contact: Lucinda Willcox, Program Manager, (916) 808-5052, [email protected], Jesse Gothan, Supervising Engineer, (916) 808-6897, [email protected]; Megan Johnson, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-1967, [email protected], Department of Public Works; Raymond Costantino, Park Planning, Design, and Development Manager (916) 808-1941, [email protected], Department of Youth, Parks, and Community Enrichment; Megan Van Voorhis, Cultural & Creative Economy Manager, (916) 808-5979, [email protected]; Department of Convention & Cultural Services; Fedolia “Sparky” Harris, Principal Planner, (916) 808-2996
Presenter: None
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Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Clean California Local Grant Program has the following goals:
· Reduce the amount of waste and debris within public rights-of-way, pathways, parks, transit centers, and other public spaces.
· Enhance, rehabilitate, restore, or install measures to beautify and improve public spaces and mitigate the urban heat island effect.
· Enhance public health, cultural connection, and community placemaking by improving public spaces for walking and recreation.
· Advance equity for underserved communities.
The City was awarded funding from this program for the following five projects: 1) 21st Avenue Beautification Project; 2) Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys; 3) Art Installations on and the construction of Del Rio Trail; 4) Florin Road Community Beautification Project, and 5) Hanami Line at Robert T. Matsui Park. Establishing CIPs and making related budgetary actions is necessary to implement these projects.
Policy Considerations: These projects are consistent with a variety of City policies to support additional parks and public spaces, active transportation, litter abatement, and improvements to public facilities, including the following policies listed below:
M 1.3.4 Barrier Removal for Accessibility - The City shall remove barriers, where feasible, to allow people of all abilities to move freely and efficiently throughout the city.
M 5.1.9 Conversion of Underused Facilities - The City shall convert underused rights-of-way, including drainage canals, freeway easements, railroad corridors, and underutilized travel and parking lanes to bikeways bicycle and/or pedestrian facilities where possible and appropriate.
PHS 5.1.9 Healthy Communities - The City shall encourage the planning of new communities and revitalization of existing urban areas to achieve improvements in overall public health by encouraging a healthier living environment that includes walkable neighborhoods, access to recreation and open space, healthy foods, medical services, and public transit.
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Creative Edge Cultural Plan 5.1 - The City of Sacramento’s Creative Edge cultural plan calls for celebrating and infusing all Sacramento neighborhoods and districts with arts and culture. It calls for supporting and expanding neighborhood-based programming and creative placemaking through community- and artist-initiated projects as well as artist-designed neighborhood markers.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): The establishment of a CIP, appropriation and transfer of funds are administrative actions that will have no effect on the environment, thus are not subject to CEQA. (Calif. Code of Regs., Title 14, § 15061(B)(3).) Appropriate CEQA review for each grant funded project will take place or has already been approved as part of project development.
Sustainability: This grant is intended to reduce waste and debris in public spaces and to support actions to promote greening, active transportation modes, and mitigate the urban heat island effect.
Commission/Committee Action: None.
Rationale for Recommendation: The establishment of CIP projects and the appropriation and transfer of funds are necessary to deliver these projects.
Financial Considerations: The City was awarded nearly $16 million in state grant funding for five projects, as identified in the table below. In order to initiate work and authorize grant reimbursements, it is necessary to establish CIPs and make related budgetary adjustments. The amount of local match funding required depended on the project. Some projects already include funding that can be used for required match purposes, or in most cases, no match funding is required by the grant or existing funding in the project can count towards match. Some local funding may be needed to cover ineligible indirect costs. Staff will seek to minimize these costs by outsourcing most of the work; any local sources of local funding will be further analyzed and if any actions requiring City Council approval are identified, these will be brought back at a later time.
CIP No. Title Grant Funds
(Fund 3704)
T15235300 21st Avenue Beautification Project $1,758,178 T15235100 Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project $4,858,267 M17600500 Florin Road Community Beautification Project $1,122,173 K15165100 Del Rio Trail Project $5,000,000
L19911200 Hanami Line at Matsui Park Project $3,202,221 City of Sacramento Page 3 of 6
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CIP No. Title Grant Funds
(Fund 3704)
T15235300 21st Avenue Beautification Project $1,758,178 T15235100 Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project $4,858,267 M17600500 Florin Road Community Beautification Project $1,122,173 K15165100 Del Rio Trail Project $5,000,000
L19911200 Hanami Line at Matsui Park Project $3,202,221 Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Background: The Clean California Local Grant Program included the following selection criteria:
§ Demonstrated need of the applicant and ability to achieve the program’s goals. § Demonstrated enhancement and beautification of a public space(s), including improved access to the space.
§ Enhanced greening to provide shade, reduce the urban heat island effect, and use native, drought-tolerant plants.
§ Abatement of litter and debris to improve access and use of public space(s). § Public engagement that reflects community priorities and is consistent with local or regional plans such as General Plans, Improvement Plans, bicycle and/or pedestrian plans, and complete street plans. The project should also align with the public outreach that occurred during the preparation of these plans.
§ Identification of the population benefit, including to underserved communities. Projects that demonstrate a benefit to an underserved community, either directly or indirectly, will be more competitive. For these projects, applicants must explain which underserved community is benefited, how the project benefits that community, and the percentage of the work and budget that benefits that community.
§ Project deliverability, in which projects are open to public and/or all funds are expended by June 30, 2024.
In February 2022, the City submitted six grant applications. The following five projects were funded:
21 st Avenue Art Corridor (District 5): This project will connect a Caltrans-planned Clean California grant that will add murals in the SR99 underpass at 21st Avenue by creating an art walk along 21st Avenue to Franklin Boulevard with pedestrian improvements to Ethel Philips Elementary school. The project will include five murals between Ethel Philips Elementary and the SR99 underpass, utility box art, widening sidewalks where feasible, replace dirt ditches with bioretention swales to mitigate trash accumulation and adding trees on Ethel Philips Elementary school adjacent to the sidewalk.
The project is sponsored by the Franklin Boulevard Business Association with key neighborhood partnerships.
Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys (District 2): This project will begin with the removal of abandoned vehicles and illegal dumping on candidate alleys in the Old North Sacramento community. This project includes the installation of permeable pavers and other alley activation measures to transform candidate residential alleys into attractive public spaces. Greening would include replacing unimproved dirt and gravel alleys with engineered permeable pavers to control City of Sacramento Page 4 of 6
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stormwater runoff and to create an attractive surface to encourage outdoor recreation especially for local children. The project will replace gates on the candidate alleys with more pedestrian-friendly countermeasures where applicable. A locally driven effort will occur as part of the project to curate and install art in public places such as decorative paver art and/or murals. Shade trees will be installed on participating adjacent properties to further support greening of the alleys.
Art Installations on Del Rio Trail (Districts 5 and 7): The Sacramento Southern Railroad’s Walnut Grove Branch Line formerly occupied a north
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south corridor that runs through the Land Park, South
Land Park, Freeport Manor, Z’Berg, Pocket, and Meadowview neighborhoods between Interstate 5 and Freeport Boulevard. Abandoned since 1978, this corridor has been identified by the City of Sacramento and the adjacent community as a vital segment of the City’s Bicycle Master Plan. The City proposes to construct 4.8 miles of Class I multi
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use trail along the abandoned railway corridor
west of Freeport Boulevard from south of Meadowview Road/Pocket Road to the Sacramento River Parkway north of Sutterville Road. The proposed Del Rio Trail Project consists of a Class I multi ‐
use
trail (12 to 16 feet of pavement with unpaved shoulders generally ranging from 2 to 3 feet). In locations where the trail directly abuts existing rail, the shoulder is widened to 5 feet and the tracks are preserved in decomposed granite, concrete, or other material but visible. The Del Rio Trail would include at
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grade crossings and intersection modifications at each location where the trail intersects a vehicular roadway.
Public art will play an important role in celebrating and reconnecting the community to its natural landscapes along the Del Rio Trail. A team of artists will develop and execute on concepts and designs for improving the aesthetics, safety, function, and visibility of the Del Rio Trail Project and its arterial crossings. Public art opportunities may include, but are not limited to, vertical shade features, seating, walkways, crossings, landmarks, and landscape enhancements that improve pathway visibility and community access and links to the approximately 4.8 miles of Class 1 multi-use trail along the abandoned railway corridor. The goal is to create significant gateway entrances integrated and grounded in the site, addressing the demarcation of the urban landscape beginning and ending between the park trail and the City.
Florin Road Community Beautification Project (Districts 5 and 8): The Florin Road Community Beautification Project is a combination public outreach campaign and beautification effort. Partners include the Department of Utilities, Department of Convention & Cultural Services, Sojourner Truth Museum, Florin Road Partnership, Florin Square, Luther Burbank High School, and Keep California Beautiful. The public outreach campaign will involve high school students from Luther Burbank High School in beautifying their neighborhood. The project would include a paid internship program where students would adopt the area around Luther Burbank HS and come up with their own ideas for improvements. This, self-directed outreach campaign could include options such as performing litter source assessments, conducting business outreach to offer local businesses cigarette and trash receptacles, adopting an area to routinely clean up litter, organizing clean up events, and beautifying their neighborhood with public art. Students would be led by a paid college student(s) and guided by City of Sacramento Page 5 of 6
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Keep California Beautiful mentors and local business owners.
The broader community beautification project would stretch along Florin Road from the Florin Square Shopping Center (home of the Sojourner Truth African American Museum) toward Florin Road and SR99 (which is also part of a Caltrans Clean California project). The project will include banners, box wraps, murals, water/sound features, interactive structures, wall poetry, landscaping, and museum signage. The works of art will provoke thought by providing an education platform for children, youth, and families to engage and read the historical content created on the art pieces.
Hanami Line at Robert T. Matsui Park (District 4): The Sacramento Tree Foundation (STF) will install cherry trees, additional decorative waterwise grasses and vegetation throughout the park, decomposed granite areas for programming spaces, decorative benches, step seating, decorative shade structures, pathways, and an art installation.
The park is primarily unused as a unique space and acts as a passthrough for pedestrians and walkers using the adjacent public path along the levee. The waste receptacles are often overflowing with trash littering the area between trash pick-up days. The revitalization of the park will create a destination spot to complement MOSAC, the Railyards project, Old Sacramento, the new I Street Bridge connecting corridor, and other revitalization projects in the area.
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RESOLUTION NO.
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
Establish Capital Improvement Projects and Related Budgetary Adjustments for 2022 Clean California Local Grants
BACKGROUND
A. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) established the Clean California Local Grant Program has the following goals:
Reduce the amount of waste and debris within public rights-of-way, pathways, parks, transit centers, and other public spaces. Enhance, rehabilitate, restore, or install measures to beautify and improve public spaces and mitigate the urban heat island effect. Enhance public health, cultural connection, and community placemaking by improving public spaces for walking and recreation.
Advance equity for underserved communities.
B. The City applied for and was awarded funding for the following five projects from the Clean California Local Grant Program:
1. 21st Avenue Beautification Project
2. Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys
3. Art Installations on and the construction of Del Rio Trail
4. Florin Road Community Beautification Project
5. Hanami Line at Robert T. Matsui Park
C. In order to proceed with work on these efforts and receive grant reimbursements, it is necessary to establish new capital improvement projects and take related budgetary actions for all projects funded with this grant.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The 21st Avenue Beautification Project (T15235300) is established as a new Capital Improvement Project.
Section 2. The Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project (T15235100) is established as a new Capital Improvement Project.
Section 3. The Florin Road Community Beautification Project (M17600500) is established as a new Capital Improvement Project.
Section 4. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the 21st Avenue Beautification Project (T15235300) by $1,758,178 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).
Section 5. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Dixieanne Neighborhood Clean & Green Alleys Project (T15235100) by $4,858,267 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).
Section 6. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Florin Road Community Beautification Project (M17600500) by $1,122,173 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).
Section 7. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Del Rio Trail Project (K15165100) by $5,000,000 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).
Section 8. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to increase the revenue and expenditure budgets in the Hanami Line at Matsui Park Project (L19911200) by $3,202,221 (Other Capital Grants, Fund 3704).