DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2023
DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
FROM: DAVID JACOBS, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
TITLE: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF SALINAS AND HARRIS & ASSOCIATES FOR THE GABILAN CREEK RESTORATION DESIGN RECOMMENDED MOTION:
A motion to approve a resolution to approve an addendum to the Master Services Agreement with Harris & Associates for the design work related to the Gabilan Creek Restoration Project in an amount not to exceed $90,640.50.
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that City Council approve a resolution to approve an addendum to the Master Services Agreement with Harris & Associates for the design work related to the Gabilan Creek Restoration Project in an amount not to exceed $90,640.50.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
On April 12, 2022, the City accepted an Encampment Resolution Grant (ERF) from the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) Encampment Resolution Fund Program.
The CDD - Housing & Community Development Division staff has successfully engaged and collaborated with several agencies and community partners on a comprehensive service strategy, that has focused on encampments in and adjacent to the Natividad, Alisal and Gabilan Creeks Public Works is now starting the process to restore Gabilan Creek, which is included in the ERF grant. The City’s Gabilan Creek restoration is in the area between East Laurel Drive and the Creekbridge Apartments.
BACKGROUND:
On April 12, 2022, the City accepted an Encampment Resolution Grant (ERF) from the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) Encampment Resolution Fund Program. ERF grants awarded through the Request for Application (RFA) will support Cal ICH mandates by funding local demonstration projects that incorporate Housing First approaches to provide services to address the immediate crisis of experiencing unsheltered homelessness in encampments, to support people living in encampments onto paths to safe and stable housing and result in sustainable restoration of public spaces to their intended uses while safeguarding the needs of unhoused people seeking shelter.
Grant funds received shall be appropriated to the City and its program partners as follows:
City of Salinas CDD SORT $1,791,381.00
Coalition of Homeless Services Providers $ 114,399.26 Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Monterey $ 238,102.46 City of Salinas Public Works $1,385,670.00
Monterey County Water Resources Agency $ 491,335.00
Return to the Natives – CSUMB $ 58,529.00
The CDD - Housing & Community Development Division staff has successfully engaged and collaborated with several agencies and community partners on a comprehensive service strategy, that has focused on encampments in and adjacent to the Natividad, Alisal and Gabilan Creeks Public Works is now starting the process to restore Gabilan Creek, which was included in the ERF grant. The City’s Gabilan Creek restoration is in the area between East Laurel Drive and the Creekbridge Apartments.
The City received a scope of work from Harris & Associates to assist with the Gabilan Creek restoration design and is currently working with the City to acquire Creek Alteration permits for the creeks within the City limits. These permits would allow the City to maintain its creeks, more specifically to remove the silt built up in the creeks.
Harris & Associates’ proposal includes the below six (6) tasks.
Task 1: Project Management/ Meetings
Task 2: Review of Existing Studies
Task 3: CEQA compliance documentation
Task 4: Regulatory Compliance
Task 5: Conceptual and Engineering design plans
Task 6: Preconstruction Surveys and Plan Implementation CEQA CONSIDERATION:
Not a Project. The City of Salinas has determined that the proposed action is not a project as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (CEQA Guidelines Section 15378). In addition, CEQA Guidelines Section 15061 includes the general rule that CEQA applies only to activities which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. Because the proposed action and this matter have no potential to cause any effect on the environment, or because it falls within a category of activities excluded as projects pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15378, this matter is not a project. Because the matter does not cause a direct or foreseeable indirect physical change on or in the environment, this matter is not a project. Any subsequent discretionary projects resulting from this action will be assessed for CEQA applicability.
STRATEGIC PLAN INITIATIVE:
This action supports the Council’s initiative of “Infrastructure and Environmental Sustainability”.
DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION:
The Cal ICH ERF Program will be administered by the City’s CDD – Housing Division. The design contract will be administered by Public Works. CDD will coordinate with the City’s Finance and Legal Departments to ensure regulatory compliance and the efficient, full disbursement of funds.
FISCAL AND SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT:
Funding for this project is available and appropriated in 2954.50.3240.
ATTACHMENTS:
Resolution
Scope of services
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