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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: BACKGROUND The Bernal Creek restoration project is identified in the FY 2005-06 through 2008-09 Capital Improvement Program. The overall project restores the existing Zone 7 flood control channels (identified as the B-2 series channels on the Zone 7 Flood Control Channels Base Map) traversing the Bernal Property and provides for construction of restored channels to take place in phases (see map below). The overall project consists of four phases. Portions of the channel restoration occur on private property (Phase III) and will occur as private development takes place and as the future City park site develops on the north-east portion of the Bernal Property (Phase IV). The project bid consists of Phase I, which regrades the portion of the Zone 7 B-2 channel, commonly known as Lower Sycamore Creek, and the revegetation and planting of trees along the creek banks. The project also provides for the construction of portions of Phase II (as depicted below), and includes the revegetation and landscaping of the channel relocation that was completed as part of the Valley Avenue Underpass Construction Project (currently being built by Greenbriar Homes), as well as completing the gap of channel restoration between the 1680 freeway and the Valley Avenue underpass work. Grant funding has been received for channel restoration for Phase I, and channel restoration north of the freeway, Phase II. A grant in the amount of $400,000 was received from the Department of Parks and Recreation for Lower Sycamore Creek and a grant from the Department of Water Resources in the amount of $580,000 for channel restoration north of the 1-680 freeway. The deadline to use the grant funds from the Department of Water Resources ($580,000) is May 15,2007. Staff has learned that this deadline is not negotiable. Since construction in the channel is not allowed between October 15 and April 15 (per the California State Regional Water Quality Control Board and the Department of Fish and Game), any construction using these funds would, in effect, need to be completed by October 15, 2006. To meet this schedule requires that we begin construction as soon as possible. Delaying the award of bid would, in effect, cost us the grant funds, as construction could not be completed prior to May 15,2007. SR 06:119 Page 2 of5