Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Ann M. Stillman, Director of Public Works
Nicholas J. Calderon, Director of Parks
Subject: Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Historic Monument Project
(County Project No. P35I1; Project File No. E5108)
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution:
A) Adopting plans and specifications, including conformance with prevailing wage scale requirements, for the Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Historic Monument Project; and
B) Authorizing the Director of Public Works to call for sealed proposals to be received by October 9, 2025, at 2:30 p.m. in the office of the County Executive/Clerk of the Board; and
C) Authorizing the Director of Public Works to extend the call for bids and bid opening up to sixty (60) calendar days beyond the time and date originally set forth by the Board of Supervisors.
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BACKGROUND:
On June 25, 2019, this Board approved the Ohlone-Portol? Heritage Trail Feasibility Study (Study). The Study, which was developed with oversight by a project steering committee comprised of over 60 partners including federal and state agencies, cities, tribes, special districts, legislators, historical interests, and land trusts, proposes a 90-mile-long, multi-use regional trail that traverses the route used by Gaspar de Portol?'s 1769 expedition in what is now San Mateo County. During this expedition, the expedition team became lost, used all available supplies, and was reliant on local Native Americans who rescued, fed, and guided them from village to village. As a result of the Ohlone people's generosity, 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. Since 2019, t...
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