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Uel 4 0 WMA1: <br />JULY 19, 2010 <br />TITLE: <br />EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR <br />• <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1s' Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the Executive Director and Agency Secretary to execute the attached construction <br />contract with Vizion's West Inc. in the amount of $216,770, subject to non -substantive changes <br />approved by the Executive Director and Agency General Counsel. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Community Redevelopment Agency (Agency) has acquired properties in the Santa Ana <br />Boulevard area for the purpose of enhancing the entryway from the freeway into the downtown, as <br />well as creating new affordable housing opportunities. At this time, the Agency is prepared to <br />enter into a contract to demolish the structures on the following parcels: 501 E. Fifth Street and <br />507 N. Mortimer Street, 505 E. Fifth Street, 505 and 507 N. Minter Street, 601-603 E. Fifth Street, <br />615 E. Fifth Street, 621 E. Fifth Street, 508-510 N. Porter Street, 610-612 E. Fifth Street, 620 E. <br />Fifth Street, 712 E. Fifth Street, 720 E. Sixth Street, 714 E. Sixth Street, 710 E. Sixth Street, 617 <br />E. Sixth Street, 613 E. Sixth Street, 609 E. Sixth Street, 611 N. Minter Street, 623 N. Garfield <br />Street, 801 Santa Ana Boulevard and 707 N. Garfield Street (Exhibit 1). <br />A Request for Proposals (RFP) was prepared and made available on the City's website on June <br />10, 2010. Availability of the document was made known by means of a notice published in the <br />Orange County Register on June 11 and June 12, 2010. It was also made known by means of an <br />email message sent to the seventeen qualified demolition contractors known to be interested in <br />working with the Agency. <br />With the exception of the newly acquired properties at 609, 613, 615 and 617 E. Sixth Street, all of <br />the properties were tested for lead and asbestos prior to the issuance of the RFP, and some of the <br />structures tested positive for these environmental hazards. The RFP requires the contractor to <br />properly remove and dispose of these materials. It also requires the contractor to test for the <br />3-1 <br />