HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-04-07 Ordinance 5240ORDINANCE N0.5240
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2014 TO
PROVIDE AN APPROPRIATION OF $2,257,200 TO CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT NUMBER WQ-80021, DUAL
MEDIA FILTER OPTIMIZATION AND SECONDARY CLARIFIERS
PROJECT, OFFSET BY A REDUCTION TO WQ-04011,
FACILITY EQUIPMENT ASSESSMENT AND RETROFIT PROJECT,
IN THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FUND.
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The Council of the City of Palo Alto finds and
determines as follows:
A. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of Article III of
the Charter of the City of Palo Alto, the Council on June 10, 2013
did adopt a budget for fiscal year 2014; and
B. In July 2012, the City Council accepted the Long Range
Facility Plan for the Regional Water Quality Control Plant; and,
C. The Long Range Facility Plan identified the need to use
ongoing CIP Wastewater Treatment projects to reinvest in the Dual
Media Filter (DMF) and clarifiers, to rehabilitate these
facilities, and to keep these facilities in a state of proper
maintenance and operational readiness. The DMF removes suspended
solids from the upstream secondary clarifiers prior to discharge to
the bay; and
D. In April 2013, the City Council approved a contract with
Kennedy-Jenks Consultants to prepare construction bid documents for
the process design modifications to optimize the performance of the
Dual Media Filter (DMF) and make improvements to the Secondary
Clarifiers; and,
E. A project has been developed to optimize the secondary
clarifiers and DMF performance by making modifications to the
Secondary Clarifiers (weirs, scum drives, mechanical piping and
valves, and concrete) to improve their performance and to install
air blowers with mechanical piping for a new air scour system to
optimize the performance of the DMFs; and
F. Staff seeks City Council approval to authorize the City
Manager or his designee to execute a contract with Anderson Pacific
Engineering Construction, Inc. in the total amount of $2,052,000
for the DMF Optimization and Secondary Clarifiers project at the
Regional Water Quality Control Plant; and
G. Staff seeks City Council approval to authorize the City
manager or his designee to negotiate and execute one or more change
orders to the contract with · Anderson Pacific Engineering
Construction, Inc. for related, additional but unforeseen work
which may develop during the project, the total value of which
shall not exceed $205,200; and
H. The sum of $2,257,200 is recommended to be added to the
Plant Equipment Replacement project {WQ-80021) with an offsetting
reduction to the Facility Equipment Assessment and Retrofit Project
{WQ-04011); and
I. City Council authorization is needed to amend the 2014
budget as hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. The sum of Two Million Two Hundred Fifty Seven
Thousand and Two Hundred Dollars ($2,257,200) is hereby
appropriated to CIP Project WQ-80021, Plant Equipment Replacement
Project, increasing the project from $5,088,141 to $7,345,341.
SECTION 3. The sum of Two Million Two Hundred Fifty Seven
Thousand and Two Hundred Dollars ($2,257,200) is
from CIP Project WQ-04011, Facility Equipment
Retrofit Project, decreasing the project from
$1,076,519.
hereby reduced ,
Assessment and
$3,333,719 to
SECTION 4. As provided in Section 2.04.330 of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, this ordinance shall become effective upon
adoption.
SECTION 5. The Council of the City of Palo Alto hereby finds
that the recommended action is exempt from review under the
California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to CEQA Guidelines
Section 15301 (b), which includes maintenance of publicly-owned
wastewater facilities involving negligible expansion.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: April 7, 2014
AYES: BERMAN, HOLMAN, KLEIN, KNISS, PRICE, SCHARFF, SCHMID,
SHEPHERD
NOES:
ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT: BURT
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Senior Assistant City
Attorney
Mayor
Public Works