RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AGENCY - B. BARNES

Approve the consultant agreement with Pavement Engineering, Inc. for Pavement Management System Services in the amount of $174,150.00. The project is exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines §15262 Feasibility and Planning Studies.

SBC FILE NUMBER: 105

Staff is requesting authorization to enter into a contract for consultant services for development of a Pavement Management System. Consultant field work will be used to build a County-wide database that can in turn be used to prepare "management scenarios" for pavement repairs and reconditioning. Please see attached proposal and staff report for more detail.

Staff has determined and recommends that the Board find that the work to be performed under this contract is exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines §15262 Feasibility and Planning Studies, because it involves feasibility and planning study for possible future actions which the Board of Supervisors has not approved, adopted, or funded, and it does not involve the adoption of a plan that will have a legally binding effect on later activities.  The services to be provided involve an analysis to assess current roadway system conditions, recommended repairs and improvements, and funding estimates, to assist the County in identifying possible projects in the future, which would undergo the appropriate CEQA analysis at the appropriate time.

1)     Find and determine that the consultant agreement with Pavement Engineering, Inc. for pavement management system analysis is exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines §15262 Feasibility and Planning Studies, because it involves feasibility and planning study for possible future actions which the Board of Supervisors has not approved, adopted, or funded, and it does not involve the adoption of a plan that will have a legally binding effect on later activities; and

2)     Approve the contract with Pavement Engineering, Inc. in the amount of $174,150.00, and authorize the Chair to sign it.