Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Nicholas J. Calderon, Parks Director
Subject: Agreement with the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship to provide the professional services required to design and construct the Flood Park Pump Track
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the President of the Board of Supervisors to execute an agreement with the Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship to provide the professional services required to design and construct the Flood Park Pump Track, for the term of May 23, 2023 through May 22, 2024, in an amount not to exceed $550,000.
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BACKGROUND:
The Realize Flood Park Project ("Project") is a comprehensive overhaul of the visitor serving amenities within Flood County Park ("Park"). During the Project's robust, multi-year public engagement process, members of the community identified the features they desired most in the Park. Participants in this process, particularly the youth, identified a bicycle pump track as a top-desired amenity. A pump track is a continuous circuit of banked turns interspaced by rollers and other features that can be ridden on a bike, skateboard, scooter, or rollerblades.
Phase 1 of the Project includes construction of: the pump track, a multi-use sport field, two tennis/pickleball courts, two sand volleyball courts, a basketball court, picnic and reservation areas, and walking paths. Although most of Phase 1 is being designed by the Project's design consultant, CMG Landscape Architecture, the pump track will be implemented through a separate Design-Build process. Unlike other features in the Project, designing and shaping a pump track is a specialized form of art. Therefore, allowing one contractor to design and construct the track will result in a higher ride quality for track users.
To assist in this effort, the Department contracted with CPM, Inc. to prepare the necessary Design-Build ...
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