Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Sarah Birkeland, Acting Parks Director
Subject: Measure K: Amendment to the agreement with the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District for the Old Haul Road Sediment Reduction Project in Pescadero Creek County Park
RECOMMENDATION:
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Measure K: Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to an existing agreement between the County of San Mateo and the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District for advertisement, award, and administration of contracts for the Old Haul Road Sediment Reduction Project Phase I, in Pescadero Creek County Park, extending the scope of the agreement to include Phase II, extending the term of the agreement through November 14, 2019, and increasing the amount of the agreement by an additional $159,923 to an aggregate amount not to exceed $289,923.
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BACKGROUND:
The San Mateo County Resource Conservation District (RCD) is a non-regulatory, public agency that works in partnership with landowners/managers and provides technical support for restoration projects that achieve watershed protection goals. In 2015, San Mateo County Parks and the RCD signed a Stewardship Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for coordinating projects within the Pescadero Creek County Park Complex. One of the projects identified is the Old Haul Road Sediment Reduction Project.
Old Haul Road is a legacy logging road now used for recreation, access for emergency response and fire protection, and access to privately owned timber property. The Dark Gulch Creek crossing on this road has been showing signs of failure and actively contributing sediment to Pescadero Creek. County Parks initiated work to address these impacts in cooperation with the RCD in Phase I of the project. During Phase I, the consultant performed topographic and geotechnical surveys and analyses for replacement of the Dark Gulch crossing and completed a draft ...
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