TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Erick Lee, Public Works Director
Katherine Doherty, City Engineer
Helen Shi, Senior Civil Engineer
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of a Resolution Adopting a List of Street Repair Projects for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Funded by Senate Bill 1: The Road and Accountability Act of 2017; and Authorizing the Public Works Director to Submit the Necessary Project Information to the California Transportation Commission (Public Works Director Lee).
ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 23-0043
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that City Council adopt Resolution No. 23-0043:
1) Re-adopting and revising the Fiscal Year 2021-2022 list for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 for street repair projects to be funded by Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) and The Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) revenues.
2) Authorizing the Public Works Director to submit the necessary project information to the California Transportation Commission (CTC) as required by the Act, including year-end reporting for all SB 1 Projects.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The City anticipates receiving $876,876 in SB 1 revenues for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-2024 for street repair and maintenance. In order to receive these funds, the City must adopt, by resolution, a list of qualifying street projects intended to be partially or fully funded with SB 1 funds on or before May 1, 2023. The funding from RMRA is received by the City starting on July 1 of each year. The budget appropriation for SB 1 funded projects will occur with the adoption of the City’s 5-Year Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Plan.
BACKGROUND:
SB 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Chapter 5, Statutes of 2017), was passed by the State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Brown in April 2017 to address significant transportation funding shortfalls statewide.
Beginning November 1, 2017, the State Controller began depositing funds into the newly created RMRA in order to distribute them to eligible cities pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Section 2032(h) for basic road maintenance, rehabilitation, and critical safety projects on the local streets and roads system. As a condition of receiving SB 1 funds, Manhattan Beach is required to adopt a project list and provide year-end reporting on completed projects. Over the past six years, the City has adopted the following SB 1 projects:
FY 2017-2018: Manhattan Avenue/Highland Avenue Resurfacing Project.
FY 2018-2019: Marine Avenue Resurfacing Project.
FY 2019-2020: Cycle 1 Street Resurfacing Project, which included 14 street segments at various locations between Liberty Village and Sepulveda Boulevard.
FY 2020-2021: Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project, which includes five deteriorated street segments at various locations west of Sepulveda Boulevard between 33rd Street and Valley Drive.
FY2021-2022: Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project, which re-adopted the list of streets from FY 2020-2021.
FY2022-2023: Cycle 3 Street Resurfacing Project, which included five street segments at various locations in Liberty Village and Mira Costa neighborhood.
DISCUSSION:
The Annual Street Resurfacing Program identifies streets for rehabilitation based on the triennial Pavement Management Program Final Report, which ranks the condition of each City street segment on a scale from 0-100 (100 being best). City Council adopted the 2021 Pavement Management Program Final Report on January 18, 2022.
The Annual Street Resurfacing Program has been delayed by the COVID-19 Pandemic, which affected the streets adopted by the City Council in April 2020 and April 2021. Additionally, due to the inflation resulting in construction material price increases, the bidding results in January 2023 for the Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project were much higher than the budget would allow.
The City is processing the downscaled Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project and rebid the project in February 2023. The construction contract award for the rebid project is also being considered by City Council on April 18, 2023.
The CTC recognizes the predicament caused by inflation and construction material price increases in many cities and is allowing for the carry-over of previous fiscal years’ monies, revising and re-listing the streets for construction in FY 2023-2024.
The Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project consists of the following street segments:
Street Names Between Intersecting Useful
(Resurface or Streets Life (Years)
Reconstruct)
Base Bid
27th St. Laurel Ave. - Pacific Ave. 15-20
29th St. Blanche Ave. - Agnes Ave. 15-20
Agnes Rd. 29th St. - Marine Ave. 15-20
Additive Bid
Flournoy Rd. Ardmore Ave. - 19th St. 15-20
Flournoy Rd. Valley Dr. - 33rd St. 15-20
Marine Ave. Blanche Rd. - Valley Dr. 15-20
The City intends to resurface or reconstruct these streets by milling the top two inches of the existing asphalt concrete, repairing the base structure in select locations, and overlaying the streets with two inches of rubberized asphalt concrete, where applicable. This rehabilitation method will extend the street pavement life between 15 - 20 years. Where necessary, repairs to curbs and gutters and installation/upgrades of Americans with Disabilities (ADA) curb ramps improvements will also be constructed.
Based on the current progress of the Annual Street Resurfacing Project, staff recommends that City Council approve a resolution re-adopting and revising the FY 2021-2022 street list from the Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project for the upcoming year’s allocation of SB 1 funding to support the rehabilitation efforts.
PUBLIC OUTREACH:
The first community meeting was held via zoom on April 20, 2022, in which property owners had the opportunity to learn about the proposed improvement, ask questions, and provide input on the design of the Cycle 2 Street Resurfacing Project. The second community meeting was held on September 29, 2022, in the Council Chamber and via Zoom. At the second meeting, staff and the design consultant presented a project overview and responded to multiple questions from those present at the in-person meeting, as well as those attending virtually. Targeted outreach will occur before the start of construction for those near construction activities.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
The proposed project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) provisions. Per the State CEQA Guidelines, the project is exempt pursuant to the following provision: Section 15301, Class 1(c). Based on CEQA requirements, a Notice of Exemption will be filed for the project with the Los Angeles County Clerk’s office prior to the construction phase.
LEGAL REVIEW:
The City Attorney has reviewed this report and determined that no additional legal analysis is necessary.
ATTACHMENT:
1. Resolution No. 23-0043