Item 21 - Amendment to the Agreement with Bernards Bros, Inc.

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Group 4 & Sub-Consultants - Qualifications & Exclusions EXHIBIT 2 ASR 01 B - Demolition of Plaza of the Fountains - PART 2 CONTEXT: In 2023 the City of Santa Ana (City) purchased approximately 0.46 acres from the State of that is adjacent to its City Hall for the purpose to land bank the parcel for future City purposes yet to be determined. Within the boundaries of this parcel is a vacant nine story building with the address of 28 Civic Center Plaza (State Building) and portions of an elevated outdoor space called Plaza of the Fountains (Plaza), a covered parking area below the Plaza, and adjacent at grade portions of Orange County Civic Center(OCCC) campus roadways, sidewalks, landscape and infrastructure. Basic Services were initially scoped with the intention to demolish State Building and City owned portion of the Plaza. In Basic Services Phase 1 the following findings were made: • Demolition of the State Building is greatly facilitated by and has lower cost when deconstruction activities can be conducted along both long sides which requires demolishing the Plaza of The Fountains first. Therefore the City now intends to proceed with Plaza demolition first. The City determined it did not have funds currently available to demolish the State Building and intends to proceed at this time with demolition of The Plaza of the Fountains only. • The City-County property line is located mid-way in one of the elevated Plaza's long span structural bays. Demolition of onlythe City's portion of the Plaza would require costly interim structural reinforcements of the County's remaining portion, and the County's remaining portions would result in an awkward half demolished condition. Consequently, the City and County intend to execute an agreement with the County to adjust the property lines so that essentially the full Plaza will be within the City's control so that the full Plaza may be completely demolished in one deconstruction and adjacent areas repair sequence. • Adjacent and partially interlocked with the Plaza is the County Law Library(Library). The Library has a third floor entry from and a second floor exit onto the Plaza (Library Exits). After the demolition of the Plaza the Library Exits will need to be replaced with new exterior stairs. • Below the plaza is a lower level on-grade parking area that after the Plaza is demolished will be open to the sky. The City desires to continue to use this area as an open-air parking lot in much the same way as it is used today. SASB PLAZA DEMO ASR 01 B—PART 2 GROUP 4 ARCHITECTURE 2026-02-23 Page 1 of 10