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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The City Council approved funding for the design of this traffic signal on October 21, 2003, for a total cost of $16,595. The design of the signal was reviewed by Foothill High School administration, the Police Department, and City engineering staff. The design provides signalized access and egress to the student parking lot, and egress for the drop-off/pick-up loop. This was accomplished by constructing a double signal at the two driveways that is controlled by a single signal controller. The traffic signal was built at the request of the Pleasanton Unified School District to provide more orderly movement of traffic at the High School driveways, thus improving driver comfort levels and safety. The traffic signal project included minor widening of the loop parking lot driveway. The project did not include any widening of Foothill Road, so traffic congestion still occurs during those tunes when students are coming and going from school. In an effort to have the new signals in operation prior to the beginning of the school year, City Council authorized the expenditure of up to $75,000 for the purchase of traffic signal equipment in advance of construction of the project. Sealed bids for the construction of this project were opened on April 13, 2004, and ranged in price from $273,056.00 to $297,358.70. The engineer's estimate was $336,284 for this work. There were several alternative bid items included in the bid. Alternate bid Item #1, the reconstruction of the median between Oak Creek Drive and the School, was completed by a local developer under a separate contract and was removed from the Traffic Signal Project. Additionally, the installation of fiber optic communication cables linking the High School signal to City Hall (alternate bid Item #3), was not constructed. These deletions reduced the low bid amount to $177,876.75. The low bid was received from Mike Brown Electric Co. and all bid documents were found to be in order. Staff is recommending the acceptance of the project and authorization of final payment and the payment of the retention in the amount of $18,759.28 to Mike Brown Electric Co. thirty days after filing the Notice of Completion. It should be noted that the total project cost includes $26,700 for a wireless WlFI communications system linking the City's Traffic Operations Center to the traffic signal and video detection cameras at the school driveways in place of the originally proposed $40,000 fiber optic cable installation. SR:05:087 Page 2 of 3