TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Steven Lederer, Public Works Director
REPORT BY: Steven Lederer, Public Works Director
SUBJECT: Receive a report on an emergency project for the Napa County Airport
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve a report of emergency Public Works actions on a project to repair airport runway lighting as authorized by Resolution No. 2015-37, determine that the emergency does not permit the delay associated with competitive bidding procedures, and that the emergency actions are necessary to respond to the emergency pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 22050(c)(1) and affirm the need to continue this action. (No Fiscal Impact)
[4/5 vote required]
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BACKGROUND
Per Public Contract Code section 22050(c)(1), when expedited contracting procedures are used, the Board shall review the emergency action at its next meeting and at every regularly scheduled meeting thereafter (but not more often than every 14 days) until the action is terminated, to determine, by a four-fifths vote, that there is a need to continue the action.
Project: Airport Runway 6-24 End lighting repairs ($137,100)
A transient jet aircraft departed Runway 24 at max power, causing several large pavement pieces of the blast pad and two of the eight Runway threshold lights to dislodge into the Runway Safety Area, exposing sections of live high-voltage electrical cable, potentially fatal to people and wildlife near it. Airport Operations immediately secured the electrical circuit to the threshold lighting systems, issued proper notices to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and began to repair the blast pad area where they could.
Runway threshold lights mark the beginning of the usable runway for landing. From the opposite direction, these same lights appear red to signal the end of the runway for landed aircraft. This lighting system is required for Airports with instrument approaches and for all aircraft operating in inclement weather. Inoperable lights require FAA notice to a...
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