Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Ann M. Stillman, Director of Public Works
Nicholas J. Calderon, Parks Director
Subject: Agreement with John Boylan Engineering, Inc. for the Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Historic Monument Project
[County Project No. P35I1, Project File No. E5108]
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing:
A) The President of the Board of Supervisors to execute an agreement with John Boylan Engineering, Inc. for the Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Historic Monument Project, in the amount of $144,935; and
B) The Director of Public Works to:
1. Execute subsequent change orders to grant time extensions for project completion and payment up to a maximum aggregate amount not to exceed $14,494, or approximately 10% of the agreement amount; and
2. Approve payment up to the not-to-exceed amount of $159,429 for items requiring adjustment based on unit bid prices without execution of a change order; and
3. File a Notice of Exemption for a California Environmental Quality Act Categorical Exemption.
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BACKGROUND:
On June 25, 2019, the Board of Supervisors accepted the Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Feasibility Study (the "Study"), which proposes a 90-mile-long multi-use regional trail that traverses the route used by Gaspar de Portol?'s 1769 expedition through what is now San Mateo County. During the expedition, Portol?'s crew became lost and depleted all supplies; local Native Americans rescued, fed, and guided the expedition from village to village. With help from the Ohlone people, the Portol? expedition recorded the first sighting of the San Francisco Bay by Europeans.
Previously, the State of California designated State Historic Monuments at each of the expedition's campsites-which were located adjacent to Native American villages-but the monuments did not acknowledge the Native Americans themselves. The Study provides design recommendations for o...
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