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CITY MANAGER'S DEPARTMENT
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and Members of the City Council
From: Lauri Aylaian, City Manager
Date: September 12, 2019
Subject: Status Update for the President's Plaza Parking Lot Improvement Project
This informational memorandum is provided to you in response to a request by
Councilmember Jan Harnik at the August 22, 2019 meeting of the City Council.
The President's Plaza Parking Lot Improvement Project was presented to the City Council with
five design options at the City Council meeting on July 11, 2019. Option 5 was selected with
instruction to staff to incorporate additional trees/landscaping and placement of full-size waste
receptacles in the center of both parking lots.
Since then, the design consultant has submitted a site plan with additional landscaping and
waste receptacles to the City to solicit comments before proceeding with the full detailed
design. Public Works Department, Fire Department, and Burrtec returned their comments to
the consultant about two weeks ago so that the consultant could move forward with the full
design.
The design consultant anticipates submitting the 60% design plans in mid -September. As
noted in the presentation at the July 11th Council Meeting, the modifications to the design will
cause a delay in the overall schedule, due in large part to impacts on the existing utilities. The
utility companies, not the City's design consultant, will perform redesign of Southern California
Edison and CVWD services, meters, and lateral lines.
With these anticipated delays taken into account, staff anticipates completion of the design in
February 2020, bidding the project in March, and beginning construction in summer 2020.
This maintains the goal of having the project under construction during the off-season. Staff is
in close communication with the design engineer and utility companies for any issues that
might arise that would cause changes to this schedule.