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CITY OF SAN MATEO
Agenda Report
City Hall
330 W. 20th Avenue
San Mateo CA 94403
www.cityofsanmateo.org
Agenda Number: 12 Section Name: CONSENT CALENDAR Account Number: 10-4661 File ID: 25-10434 TO: City Council
FROM: Alex Khojikian, City Manager
PREPARED BY: Public Works Department
MEETING DATE: November 17, 2025
SUBJECT:
Delaware Street Safe Routes to School Corridor Bike Lane Improvements — Agreement RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt a Resolution authorizing an appropriation of $400,000 from the unallocated fund balance of the Sewer Enterprise Fund to the Delaware Safe Routes to School Corridor Project in the Capital Projects Fund; approve an agreement with Goodfellow Bros. for construction of the Delaware Street Rehabilitation and Bicycle Improvements Project in the amount of $2,619,845; establish a contingency reserve in the amount of $265,000; and authorize the Public Works Director to execute the agreement in substantially the form presented, issue change orders as allowed by the contract documents, and approve change orders within the construction agreement contingency amount.
BACKGROUND:
The Delaware Safe Routes to School Corridor Project (Project) is a grant-funded initiative through the State’s Active Transportation Program Cycle 5. The Project will improve safety and connectivity for students biking and walking on Delaware Street, while also enhancing public multimodal and transit access to the Hillsdale and Hayward Park Caltrain stations. It advances the City Council’s FY 2025-26 priorities and implements a high-priority bike infrastructure project identified in the City’s Bicycle Master Plan and is in alignment with the policies in the General Plan.
The Project will deliver Class IV protected bike lanes between 19th and 28th Avenues, convert S. Delaware Street to a bicycle boulevard south of 28th Avenue, improve pedestrian crossings and ADA curb ramps, and add intersection safety enhancements through installation of bike signals and new crosswalk treatments.
Two robust phases of outreach have been completed for the project – one in Spring 2024 and one in Spring and Summer 2025. These included multilingual mailers to more than 10,000 residents, online surveys, door-to-door canvassing, school- based engagement, pop-up events, and three community workshop meetings. During the second phase of outreach, though many were largely supportive of the proposed protected bike lanes along the corridor, some concerns arose about the proposed reduction of one southbound travel lane between Bermuda Drive and Saratoga Drive, including increased congestion during event traffic at the County Event Center, emergency response access times, and blocked travel lanes due to delivery vehicles.
In response to the identified concerns, staff developed a revised design that retains both southbound lanes while still accommodating the protected bike lanes and pedestrian improvements, but results in a total of twelve parking spaces lost on the east side of Delaware Street compared to the four lost spaces lost in the original design. To offset the revised design’s parking impacts, six additional parking spaces will be implemented with the project on Pacific Boulevard, just west of the Delaware corridor in front of the Mode apartment complex, by converting the existing parallel spaces to diagonal spaces resulting in an overall parking loss of just six spaces for the entire project. Residents who attended the third community meeting in August 2025, where this revised design was presented, generally supported this design as a
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balanced compromise that addressed the community concerns regarding the project while still delivering on the project’s planned safety improvements.
On September 2, 2025, the City Council unanimously directed staff to move forward with this revised design. By preserving both southbound travel lanes, the design requires narrowing all vehicle and bicycle lanes and results in a greater reduction of on-street parking compared to the original plan. This outcome reflects the City’s effort to balance multiple priorities, including improving bicycle and pedestrian safety, maintaining traffic operations, and addressing community concerns regarding parking and congestion.
Bid Results
The Engineer’s Estimate for the construction of the Project is $3,100,000. The Project was advertised on September 9, 2025, and a total of fourteen (14) bids were received and opened on October 7, 2025. The bids received are listed below in order of increasing bid amounts.
BIDDER RANK CONTRACTOR BID AMOUNT
1 Goodfellow Bros $2,619,845.00
2 G Bortolotto & Company, Inc. $2,662,143.50
3 Bay Cities Paving & Grading $2,680,106.50
4 Interstate Grading & Paving $2,689,127.00
5 O’ Grady Paving. Inc. $2,719,418.00
6 Graniterock $2,726,379.00
7 McGuire & Hester $2,731,900.00
8 DeSilva Gates Construction $2,771,771.00
9 Teichert Construction $2,774,073.00
10 Ghilotti Bros., Inc. $2,789,034.00
11 Ghilotti Construction $2,817,549.50
12 Redgwick Construction $2,879,408.00
13 S&H Construction, Inc. $2,998,600.00
14 Kerex Engineering, Inc. $3,783,373.00
Staff reviewed the bids and determined that Goodfellow Bros is the lowest responsive and responsible bidder. Therefore, staff recommends that Council award the construction agreement to Goodfellow Bros. Staff also recommends a $265,000 contingency be established to address unknown challenges due to the complexity of the pavement rehabilitation, traffic signal modifications, and civil improvement elements of the Project.
BUDGET IMPACT:
Of the State’s Active Transportation Program Cycle 5 $1,661,000 grant, $37,000 has been used for project approval and environmental determination for the project, $213,000 for preparation of project plans, specifications, and engineer’s estimate, and $10,000 for the right-of-way phase on the project. After reserving $176,000 for construction management and inspection services, the remaining $1,225,000 will be allocated to the construction contract. Additional funds are needed to fully fund the construction costs, in part due to increased costs of construction since the project was initially estimated in 2021, and in part due to including project components that aren’t eligible for funding under the grant, such as repaving/slurry sealing the Project corridor.
For repaving/slurry costs, staff is allocating $1,050,000 of Measure A funds from the Citywide Street Rehabilitation Program (469997) project account to cover the majority of the pavement rehabilitation costs. Additionally, staff is requesting Council appropriate $400,000 from the unallocated fund balance of the Sewer Enterprise Fund to address accelerated pavement deterioration on Delaware Street between Saratoga Avenue and 25th Avenue resulting from the Underground Flow Equalization Structure (UFES) project. Finally, staff is allocating $150,000 from the Bike San Mateo Program (46r027) and $60,000 from the Quick Build Mobility program (46r026) to address overall increased costs in implementing the protected bike features since the initial project estimates. The combination of these various sources will
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fully fund the agreement, contingency reserve, staff costs, and locally funded Project components.
Status Phase of Work Project Elements Funded Funding Source Project Amount Eligible budget
available for use
Construction Street Repaving and
Associated Improvements
Measure A Citywide Street
Rehabilitation
Project (469997)
$1,050,000
Eligible budget
available for use
Construction Bicycle, Pedestrian, and
Traffic Signal Improvements
Measure A Bike San Mateo
(46r024)
$150,000
Eligible budget
available for use
Construction Bicycle, Pedestrian, and
Traffic Signal Improvements
Measure S Quick Build Mobility
(46r026)
$60,000
Requesting
budget
appropriation
Construction Street Repaving and
Associated Improvements
Sewer Enterprise
Fund
Sewer Enterprise
Fund
$400,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
This project is categorically exempt from CEQA as an “existing facility,” because it 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 use. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15301.)
NOTICE PROVIDED
All meeting noticing requirements were met.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment 1 – Proposed Resolution
Attachment 2 – Agreement
STAFF CONTACT
Sang Hee Cho, Associate Engineer
[email protected]
(650) 522-7348