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Contract Amendment for Ransome Company On March 16, 2004, the City awarded a contract in the amount of $512,196 to the Ransome Company for construction of joint trench utilities (electrical, telephone, gas and cable) to serve the golf course. This also included joint trench utilities for the residential lots adjacent to the golf course property. After further discussion with the core residential lot owners, it was determined that additional secondary utility services (electric, telephone, cable and gas services from the mainline service to each individual lot) must also be constructed to serve the residential home sites. A proposal has been received from Ransome Company to complete the work for $118,000. Most of that cost will be included in the reimbursements by the developers of the golf course residential lots. In addition to the joint trench work, staff has requested a proposal from Ransome Company to construct concrete headwalls and slope protection for three storm drain culverts crossing Clubhouse Drive. That work is estimated to cost approximately $250,000. Staff requests authorization to execute a contract amendment with Ransome Company for an amount not to exceed $368,000. Reorientation of the Driving Range The golf course was designed with a driving range. It is located near the clubhouse parking lot. As designed, persons using the driving range will hit golf balls in a generally southerly direction. Because of the need to protect people and property in the parking lot, as well as to protect the private property (owned by the General Electric Company and used for grazing) to the east, from errant drives, the driving range was designed to have netting, supported by poles, on its eastern and western sides. In addition, in order to protect persons walking along the trail at the southern end of the range, the range also was designed to have poles and netting there as well. When the poles were delivered to the site and set in the ground in October 2004, Council became concerned that the views from the Happy Valley area would be negatively impacted by reason of the poles and netting. Accordingly, Council directed staffto investigate the feasibility of removing the poles and netting from the southern end of the range and to investigate the feasibility of rotating the driving range such that persons using the driving range would hit golf balls in an easterly direction, toward the GE property. By reorienting the driving range in that way, the poles and netting could be removed. The poles and netting have been removed from the southern end of the range. In their place will be a six foot chain link fence that will stop most balls from reaching the trail. To the extent balls clear the fence, the golf course operator will pick up those balls by hand. SR:05:068 Page 9