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City Couhcil Meeting: July 27, 1982 Santa Monica, California
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T0: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Costs of Extra Work for Broadway Sewer
Introduction
This report requests that the City Council approve costs for extra
work for the Broadway Sewer project.
Background
In April 1981, the City engaged a consultant to design a new trunk
sewer to extend from First Court and Colorado to Broadway and 20th
Street. This sewer was to supplement the trunk sewer in Colorado
Street which is more than 60 years old and serves the entire north
one-half of the City. The project was budgeted at $1.5 million.
A new sewer connection fee ordinance was adopted to help pay for
this project and to date, more than $900,000 has been collected.
In September,
for $724,360.
estimate.
the City awarded a contract to Peter C. David Co.
This bid was about $300,000 below the engineer's
The project is now almost completed; only certain lateral
connections and final paving remain to be done. During the course
of the work a number of unknown underground obstructions were
encountered. These included a buried concrete alley about three
feet below the surface of First Court, the necessity of realigning
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a portion of the new sewer to clear certain underground telephone
facilities, a significant amount of very heavy and wet soil which
was unsuitable for backfilling, the necessity to replace a number
of house laterals and the necessity for delaying work for
approximately one month while the gas company moved one of their
facilities.
All requests by the contractor for extra work have been evaluated
by the Engineering staff and the consultants. Requests in the
amount of $29,000 have been denied by staff.
Extra work in the amount of $162,000 has been approved by the
staff in accordance with previous Council action authorizing
change orders and considering credits for changed items of work.
It is necessary at this time for the Council to approve a
change order in the amount of $206,000 for the costs are
additional extra work which was necessitated on this project. The
total project cost will be $1,092,360 upon approval of this change
order. This is over $400,000 below the budgeted amount.
Recommdendation
It is recommended that the City Council:
1. Appropriate $206,000 from Sewer Account to Accou-nt
No. 31-500-661-000-901.
2. Approved change order for Broadway Sewer Project in
the amount of $206,000.
Prepared by: Stan Scholl
Doug McAteer
Toivo Marjanen
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