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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />AUGUST 5, 2013 <br />TITLE: <br />AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT WITH <br />URS CORPORATION FOR <br />ENGINEERING SERVICES <br />CI NAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUkIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />? As Recommended <br />? As Amended <br />? Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />? Ordinance on 2n° Reading <br />? Implementing Resolution <br />? Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute a Second Amendment to the <br />Agreement with URS Corporation, subject to non-substantive changes approved by the City <br />Manager and City Attorney, to provide engineering services for the Santa Ana Delhi Channel <br />Diversion Project in the amount of $340,000 plus a contingency of $25,000, for a total agreement <br />not to exceed $565,000, and to extend the term of the agreement to August 30, 2014. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The City was recently awarded $2.5 million for the construction and construction engineering <br />phases of the Santa Ana Delhi Channel Diversion Project. However, the design engineering <br />phase must be completed by the June 30, 2014, construction contract award deadline. The <br />recommended action will allow URS Corporation to complete the project design so the grant funds <br />may be used to construct the improvements. <br />On August 18, 2008, the City Council awarded a contract to URS Corporation (Exhibit 1) to provide <br />engineering, architectural, and landscaping services on an on-call basis, for an amount not to <br />exceed $200,000. On September 10, 2012, the Public Works Agency (PWA) amended the <br />agreement (Exhibit 2), redirecting $65,000 of the contract amount for the preparation of a feasibility <br />report for the Santa Ana Delhi Channel Diversion Project. <br />The Santa Ana Delhi Channel Diversion Project will address the water quality requirements of <br />urban surface runoff in accordance with the Orange County MS4 Permit and the Total Maximum <br />Daily Load (TMDL) for selenium discharge to the Upper Newport Bay. The primary impetus of <br />developing this diversion system is to address the current Selenium TMDL and also to address <br />potential future TMDLs, including bacteria, trash, toxics, metals, and nutrients. The diversion <br />system has the ability to essentially eliminate discharges to the Upper Newport Bay and, therefore, <br />eliminate the threat of pollutants entering the receiving waters. <br />25H-1