TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Bruce Moe, City Manager
FROM:
Stephanie Katsouleas, Public Works Director
Prem Kumar, City Engineer
SUBJECT:Title
Consider Adoption of a List of Street Repair Projects for Fiscal Year 2019-2020 to be Funded by Senate Bill 1: The Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Public Works Director Katsouleas).
ADOPT RESOLUTION NO. 19-0032
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the City Council adopt Resolution No. 19-0032 (Attachment):
1) Adopting a list of street repair projects in Fiscal Year 2019/20 to be funded by Senate Bill 1 (SB 1): The Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) revenues (approximately $596,000).
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 SB1 projects.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
The City of Manhattan Beach anticipates receiving $596,000 of SB1 funding in FY 2019/20. On or before May 1, 2019 of each year, the City must adopt, by resolution, a list of qualifying streets projects intended to be partially or fully funded with SB 1 funds in order to receive funding from the Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation Account (RMRA) starting July 1 of that same year. The actual budget appropriation of SB1 funding will occur with the adoption of the City’s annual Capital Improvement Program Budget.
BACKGROUND:
SB 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017 (Chapter 5, Statutes of 2017) was passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Governor Brown in April 2017 in order to address significant transportation funding shortfalls statewide.
Beginning November 1, 2017, the State Controller (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. In FY 2017/18 the City programmed approximately $199,000 of SB1 funds for the Manhattan Ave./Highland Ave. Resurfacing Project. In FY 2018/19, approximately $598,000 of SB 1 funding was programmed for the Marine Avenue Resurfacing Project, which is currently under construction through June 2019.
As a condition of receiving SB1 funds, each City is required to adopt a project list and provide year end reporting on completed projects. The list identifying projects that will utilize the SB 1 funding must be submitted to the CTC prior May 1, 2019.
DISCUSSION:
On January 15, 2019, the City Council received the 2018 Pavement Management Program Final Report, which ranked the condition of each City street segment on a scale from 0-100 (100 being best) and emphasized the need to continue with a robust rehabilitation effort to address streets that are deteriorated. Based on that report, staff recommends that City Council adopt a resolution authorizing the current year’s allocation of SB1 funding to go towards the rehabilitation efforts of the following deteriorated (lowest scoring) streets:
Street Names Work Limits
19th Street Meadows Avenue - Peck Avenue
27th Street Laurel Avenue - Pacific Avenue
21st Street Meadows Avenue - Herrin Avenue
Flournoy Road Ardmore Avenue - 19th Street
Agnes Road 29th Street - Marine Avenue
Chestnut Avenue 17th Street - Manhattan Beach Boulevard
The City intends to resurface these streets by milling the top 2-inches of the existing asphalt and capping them with 2-inches of rubberized asphalt concrete after fixing any isolated structural asphalt sections. 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.
Design services for development of plans and specifications for these and other streets also funded by local returns (e.g., Gas Tax, Measure R, Measure M, Proposition C) will be presented to City Council in the near future for award consideration. Staff’s goal is to have the designs completed and ready for bidding this fall, a construction contract awarded by December 2019, and commencement of construction in February 2020. This would allow all work completed by June 2020, barring any unforeseen issues.
PUBLIC OUTREACH:
A community meeting will be scheduled during the design phase of the project and targeted outreach will occur prior to the start of construction for those who are near or adjacent to construction activities.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
In is anticipated that the proposed project is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Per the CEQA Guidelines, the project is exempt pursuant to the following provision: Section 15301, Class 1(c). Based on the California Environmental Quality Act (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 no further legal review is necessary.
Attachment:
1. Resolution No. 19-0032