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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The subject project consists of installing a new 12" diameter water main along Longview Drive from the Longview Pump Station to a 250,000 gallon tank located at Augustine Bernal Park. This new water line will serve as a parallel discharge line to provide adequate transmission capacity to pressure zone 770 and improve the performance of the Longview Pump Station. This improvement was identified as part of the water master plan update. The other improvement included in this project is to replace old galvanized service connection pipe with new industry standard pipe for six homes along Bernal Avenue between Tawny Drive and Vineyard A venue in anticipation of this roadway section being resurfaced. The project plans were prepared by Pakpour Consulting Engineers. A public meeting was held on January 23, 2006, to inform the public of the project and answer questions about the project. Primarily, residents were interested in knowing the construction schedule and the contractor's contact information once the contract is awarded. The City will do the necessary correspondence in order to inform the residents once the contract is awarded and the contractor provides a schedule. Sealed bids for this project were opened on March 23, 2006. There were a total of four bids received, which ranged from $344,142.00 to $426,020.00, as compared to the engineer's estimate of $358,000.00 for the project. The low bid of $344,142.00 was received from Talus Construction, Inc. All bid documents were found to be in order, with past work performed by the contractor verified to be satisfactory. A 20 % contingency amount is recommended due to the nature of the work, which consists of constructing a trench for the placement of water piping. The trench will be through hillside terrain with saturated soils from the winter storms and special care may need to be used in de-watering the trench or placing backfill in the trench. Project funding will be provided from the Longview Water Line Project funds, the Ruby Hill water line project and the Annual Water Replacement Project funds and are presented below. BUDGET Funding Sources Longview Water Line, CIP 041015 Ruby Hill Water Line, CIP 041014 (*remaining funds) Annual Water Replacement, CIP 001000 (*remaining funds) TOTAL $ 250,000 $ 160,000 $ 125,000 $ 535,000 SR 06:104 Page 2 of3