TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steven Lederer, Director of Public Works
REPORT BY: Graham Wadsworth, P.E., Engineering Supervisor
SUBJECT: Approval of Amendment 4 to Purchase and Sale Agreement No. 230262B in support of the Construction of the Dry Creek Road Bridge over Dry Creek Replacement Project, RDS 15-22
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RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize Amendment No. 4 to Agreement No. 230262B with Christopher A. Marusich and Michelle F. Del Rosario, Trustees of the Marusich Family Revocable Trust Dated May 4, 2017, to increase the maximum compensation from $199,082 to $201,853 to provide a housing accommodation during the construction of the Dry Creek Road Bridge over Dry Creek Replacement Project. (Fiscal Impact: $2,771 Expense; Roads Capital Improvement Projects Fund; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
The original Dry Creek Road Bridge over Dry Creek (0.8 miles west of Mt. Veeder Rd.) was over 100 years old. Caltrans identified the bridge as structurally deficient, functionally obsolete, and unstable due to scour under the north abutment. The Federal Highway Administration Highway Bridge Program is paying nearly 100% of eligible expenses to replace the existing bridge.
AASHTO is a standards setting body which publishes specifications, test protocols, and guidelines that are used in highway design. The new bridge structure is an approximately 80-foot-long by 32-foot-wide, single-span concrete slab bridge constructed on pre-cast and pre-stressed concrete girders. The project also includes 900 feet of new roadway to remove two curves in Dry Creek Road. On May 6, the Board awarded a construction contract to Gordon N. Ball and work is completing in October 2026.
During the project design, the consultant determined that the County would need to purchase right-of-way, maintenance, and temporary construction easements on the Marusich property to construct the Project. On July 18, 2023, the Board authorized the Chair to sign Purchase and Sale Agreement No...
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