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construction and following construction. Rather than postpone the pump station bid (and very likely increasing the bid cost), staff is working with our City Park's Department and a landscape architect to prepare plans and specifications to remedy this situation. The design work (a not-to-exceed cost of $15,000 which is covered within the $345,000 estimate for construction services recommended to be approved as part of this staff report) will include a pre-construction phase to relocate all existing irrigation systems and landscaping around the new pump station site. This phase will also assure that all of the existing landscaping can be properly watered and maintained by the City Park's Department during the approximate one- year long construction period. In addition, a second phase is being designed which will re- landscape the site following completion of the pump station so that the new pump station will blend in well with the existing and adjacent landscaping at the LPFD Fire Station No. 5 location and the new surrounding residential development located to the west of the site. The construction cost for the irrigation system and landscaping modifications is estimated at $60,000 and staff is requesting authorization to award a contract for this amount to allow for the landscaping work to be completed. Construction Management and Soils/Material Engineering & Testing The City commonly enters into a separate consultant contract to provide technical shop drawing review, specialty inspection services, quality control and soils/material engineering and testing during construction of the City's utility pump stations, reservoirs, and other types of large utility facilities where the City does not have staff specializing in these areas. The pump station and turnout facilities are two projects that staff believe would benefit from specialty construction management (CM) and soils/material testing expertise. As a result, we have received a construction management budgetary proposal for work on these projects and are in the process of obtaining other CM and soils/material engineering and testing proposals. However, based upon this one proposal and staffs experience with specialty inspection on similar pump station projects, we have included a recommended appropriation of $345,000 in this staff report to cover the CM and soils/material engineering and testing for these two projects as well as the pre-bid and post-bid engineering services needed to construct the turnout and pump station facilities. Staff will bring back to Council contracts for these services as necessary (based upon the City's approved purchasing guidelines) once we decide upon the successful CM/soils consultant firms or teams for the work necessary for these two construction projects. Page 7 of9