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BACKGROUND The City has two annual projects designed to maintain roadway infrastructure: the Annual Street Resurfacing and Preventative Maintenance Project and the Annual Slurry Seal of Various City Streets Project. The first project resurfaces various roadways by overlaying the existing pavement with a new layer of asphalt concrete, while the other project slurry seals a different set of roadways. The resurfacing project is considered a street rehabilitation project, while the slurry project is a preventative maintenance project. Together, these projects are designed to maintain the condition of the city's roadway pavement. Bernal Avenue bridge over the Arroyo Del Valle was constructed in 2009 and did not include an approach guardrail. The approach guardrail in the southeast quadrant was identified as a necessary safety improvement to protect the bridge structure, redirect vehicles away from the pedestrian path, and keep vehicles from leaving the roadway. The project was funded in the 2022/23 CIP program. DISCUSSION Bids for both the Annual Street Resurfacing and Preventative Maintenance Project and the Annual Slurry Seal of Various Streets Project were opened on May 10, 2023, and May 9, 2023, respectively. While the Annual Slurry Seal of Various Streets Project received seven bids and met the City's expectations, the Annual Street Resurfacing and Preventative Maintenance Project only received two valid bids with the lowest bid at $4,988,888 (41 percent higher than the Engineer's estimate of$3,530,000). The bidders were informed the bids were rejected due to insufficient funding and the work delayed to next year. The higher costs were attributed to an unusually large amount of Caltrans maintenance projects in the area that purchased the local supply of asphalt. To perform the necessary preparatory work for the Annual Slurry Seal of Various Streets Project and install the guardrail at Bernal Bridge, a new capital improvement project, the 2023 Streets Preventative Maintenance Project, was created to have a unique project identification to aid in bidding and project expenditure tracking. The project consists of preparatory work for approximately 1.35 million square feet of roadway scheduled for slurry sealing later this year. This work consists of pavement repair and crack sealing. Pavement repair involves removing 4 to 6 inches of the existing pavement section down to the roadway aggregate base material and replacing it with new asphalt concrete with the same thickness as removed. This is done when the pavement has failed in isolated areas and before the entire street surface is slurry sealed. Crack sealing involves cleaning the pavement cracks and application of sealant to prevent water and other substances from entering into the pavement. The following is the list of streets to receive preparatory work. Page 2 of 5