BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
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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:
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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 pri...
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