BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Cost Reimbursement Agreement with Google, LLC for Construction of Bay Trail Improvements as Part of the Sunnyvale East Channel and West Channel Flood Protection Project, Project No. 26074002 (Sunnyvale), (District 3).
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Approve the Cost Reimbursement Agreement with Google, LLC for Construction of Bay Trail Improvements as Part of the Sunnyvale East Channel and West Channel Flood Protection Project.
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SUMMARY:
Google, LLC (Google) has proposed improving the existing San Francisco Bay Trail at trail segments A, B, and C as shown on the attached Cost Reimbursement Agreement, Exhibit A, by resurfacing the trail segments with decomposed granite. These improvements will be made at no cost to the public. Google has requested that the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) incorporate the trail improvements into Valley Water’s Sunnyvale East Channel and West Channel Flood Protection Project (Project).
The existing San Francisco Bay Trail runs along the Sunnyvale East and West Channel levees and is maintained by the City of Sunnyvale (City) under a 1998 Joint Use Agreement (JUA) between the City and Valley Water. The Project proposes levee raising and floodwall installation along the existing Bay Trail. Incorporating the Bay Trail improvements within the Project will minimize construction impacts to recreation, detour impacts during construction, and protentional damage to the Bay Trail. Integration of the trail improvements into the Project will also reduce the overall cost of both efforts by avoiding unnecessary duplicative levee work and providing a single unified construction management administration. Once Valley Water acquires the necessary permits from the resource agencies to construct the Project, Valley Water will advertise and publicly bid the Project and include Google’s Bay Trail Improvements as a "supplemental bid item" to ascertain the bidders' proposed price for this work.
This agenda item presents a request for the Board of Directors (Board) to consider cost reimbursement by Google to Valley Water to incorporate the San Francisco Bay Trail decomposed granite resurfacing improvements within the Project.
Project Background
The Clean, Safe Creeks & Natural Flood Protection Program, approved by the voters in 2000, whose funding was subsumed into the more recently voter-approved Safe, Clean Water measure in November 2012, provides funding for the planning, design and construction of flood improvements to provide flood protection to residents and businesses of the City of Sunnyvale and unincorporated Santa Clara County, situated along both the Sunnyvale East and Sunnyvale West Channels. The Project, when completed, is expected to provide 100-year flood protection to an estimated 1,618 parcels in the Sunnyvale East Channel Watershed and to approximately 47 acres of industrial and government lands in the Sunnyvale West Channel Watershed.
In September 2014, the Board certified an environmental impact report (EIR) for Valley Water’s Sunnyvale East and West Channels Flood Protection Project. Since Project approval, Valley Water staff has completed the design documents and is currently working with regulatory agencies to obtain the necessary permits for Project construction. Upon receipt of the required permits, staff will recommend the Board to adopt the plans and specifications and authorize advertisement for bids.
In October 2017, Google approached Valley Water management regarding a potential partnership to modify the Project along an approximate 1,110 linear foot section of the Sunnyvale West Channel, where Google is currently planning a campus development project. On April 24, 2018, the Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding by and between Google and Valley Water, to negotiate a cost-sharing agreement for a portion of the Project.
Google is currently in the process, with the City of Sunnyvale as the CEQA lead agency, of completing the necessary CEQA documents. Once the CEQA review process is completed, Valley Water and Google will execute a cost sharing agreement for this enhancement project along the West Channel.
FINANCIAL IMPACT:
There is no financial impact associated with this item.
CEQA:
In September 2014, the Board of Directors (Board) certified an environmental impact report (EIR) for Valley Water’s Sunnyvale East and West Channels Flood Protection Project, and the surface material substitution of decomposed granite does not result in any new environmental impact.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachment 1: Agreement
UNCLASSIFIED MANAGER:
Manager
Christopher Hakes, 408-630-3796