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positive drainage from the private properties to the roadway and to the storm drainage system. The proposed improvements will include installation of concrete curb, pedestrian sidewalks on both sides of Stanley Boulevard, two vehicular travel lanes, one parking lane (on the north side), two bike lanes, a decorative street light system, extension of the sewer main to accommodate existing homes on sewer septic systems and minor storm drain facilities. As part of the project's roadway widening, the existing PG&E poles currently located in the future roadway's path were intended to be relocated behind the future roadway curb. Instead, if City Council concurs with undergrounding the utilities, the overhead utilities will most likely be placed under the existing or future roadway pavement. The exact location of the utilities to be undergrounded will not be known until the design phase is completed and approved by the utility companies. The design will take into consideration the location of existing underground utilities (gas, storm, sewer, water) and determining whether to design around those utilities or relocate them, whichever is most feasible and cost effective. As previously mentioned, existing mature trees and some private homeowner features, (predominantly on the south side) within the street right of way have limited the available space to accommodate the new roadway widening improvements. These existing features and the difference in elevation between the street and adjacent properties (up to 3 to 4 feet in some locations), have prohibited the inclusion of parking on both sides of the street and a segregated two-way left turn lane into the design of the roadway. In order to accommodate the existing features and to accommodate the road widening, it was necessary to reduce the overall street width dimensions by decreasing travel lane widths, sidewalk widths, or landscaping. Reductions in our design standard widths were held to a minimum to preserve the functionality of the improvements and to maintain minimum ADA standards. In April of 2006, the First Street Underground Utility District (UDD-02-01) was completed. As a result of this project, the City's Rule 20A funding, which provides funding for the undergrounding of utilities, was exhausted and was not available for the Stanley Boulevard project. At that point, staff dismissed the possibility of undergrounding the overhead utilities as part of the Stanley Boulevard project. Reconsideration of Undergrounding/Scope of Work At the City Council meeting of August 19, 2008, a resident asked City Council to have staff reconsider adding the undergrounding of utilities to the project and Council asked staff to consider adding this to the current project. In response, staff held a second public meeting on November 19, 2008, to get public feedback on the impacts of undergrounding of the public utilities along Stanley Boulevard and looked at alternative funding mechanisms other than the Rule 20A funds. Page 3 of 7