PREPARED BY: ARTURO CASTILLO DATE OF MEETING: 09/16/2024
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CONSIDER ADOPTING A RESOLUTION APPROVING A ONE-TIME APPROPRIATION OF $1,500,000 FROM UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE (RESERVES) TO FY 2024-25 GENERAL FUND DESIGNATED RESERVE (GFDR) FUND BALANCE FOR THE POTENTIAL PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RUMRILL BOULEVARD COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT (PROJECT NO. 0700)
CEQA: This proposed action is not a project as defined by CEQA.
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CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
Major Policy Goal: Build a Healthy Community - 109 Develop Public Facilities for Active Living is a priority item under the FY 2023-25 Council Priority Workplan, effective on May 1, 2023.
BACKGROUND
The Rumrill Boulevard Complete Streets Project is a 1.7mile-long comprehensive roadway improvement project that modified Rumrill Boulevard in the City of San Pablo between Costa Avenue and San Pablo Avenue (Project). The Project goal was to improve safety in and along the Rumrill Boulevard for all users including motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians. With the elimination of one traffic lane in each direction, the Project added safety measures for pedestrians and increased the access to bicyclists. This was done with the addition of Class 4 bike lanes in each direction and the addition of bulb out extensions at most intersections along the alignment. Stormwater quality was improved with the additions of bioswales and detention basins, which filter trash and debris from stormwaters and prevent that material from entering Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks which cross the Project limits. New signal timing and lighting was added to the Project to aid in the safety of motorists making left hand turns from Rumrill into residential streets. New lighted street name signs were added to intersections in Old Town to aid drivers and clearly identify streets.
During the course of construction of the Project, Ghilotti Brothers, Inc. (...
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