HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04072009 - C.69RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to
execute a contract amendment with the San Francisco Estuary Institute (Contractor),
effective April 8, 2009, to increase the payment limit by $30,000 to a new payment amount
not to exceed $220,000, with no change to the contract expiration date of December 31,
2009, to allow Contractor to provide additional services associated with an assessment of
historical natural resource conditions in the County.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No impact to the general fund. The Conservation and Development and Public Works
Departments have raised $330,000 in grant and mitigation funds to support the proposed
historical ecology project, more than enough to cover the proposed $30,000 increase to the
expenditure limit for the contract. The County has been awarded two grants for the project:
$150,000 from the California Coastal Conservancy and $80,000 from the California
Department of Fish and Game. The County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
has contributed $100,000 in mitigation funds to the project. The Contractor will provide the
scientific expertise for the project, perform most of the
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 04/07/2009 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Susan A. Bonilla, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: Abby Fateman 925
335-1272
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board
of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: April 7, 2009
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Celicia Nelson, Deputy
cc:
C.69
To:Board of Supervisors
From:Catherine Kutsuris, Conservation & Development Director
Date:April 7, 2009
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY INSTITUTE FOR
ASSESSMENT OF HISTORICAL ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE COUNTY
FISCAL IMPACT: (CONT'D)
data collection and analysis and author all reports. The Department of Conservation and
Development (DCD) will assist with the Geographic Information System (GIS) and
public involvement components. Within the existing capacity and budget of the Water
Agency, staff from the DCD will also provide some project management services in kind
as part of the required local match for the grants.
BACKGROUND:
The proposed increase in the contract payment limit is needed because Contractor is
performing a larger portion of project tasks than originally anticipated. County staff have
been forced to attend to other business and are performing fewer tasks associated with the
historical ecological project than initially anticipated. The proposed contract amendment
does not change the scope of the actual project, just shifts workload from the County to
Contractor.
The Board of Supervisors has approved a number of past actions relating to this project.
On April 10th, 2007 the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors authorized staff to
submit a grant proposal to the California Coastal Conservancy to work with the Contra
Costa Watershed Forum and the San Francisco Estuary Institute to assess historical
ecological conditions in the County. On June 26th, 2007 the Board authorized an initial
contract with Contractor for work associated with this project.
The historical ecology project has been recognized by individuals and organizations
involved in the Contra Costa Watershed Forum as an important initiative providing
information on historical conditions to better inform future restoration and management.
The completed project would provide direct benefits to the County, including new GIS
data layers (such as digital, ortho-rectified versions of the earliest available aerial photos
for the County (ca. 1939) that can be overlain with other layers in the County’s GIS),
baseline information and analysis useful for flood protection and integrated water
management (e.g., information useful for locating sites for County projects that provide
the most cost effective and sustainable mitigation and infiltration opportunities), and
baseline information on landscape trends and trajectories that will help guide
conservation and restoration efforts in which the County is involved (such as the East
Contra Costa County Habitat Conservation Plan / Natural Community Conservation
Plan).
The project is county-wide in scope but has an East County focus. At the County scale,
the project is collecting baseline historical data resources (including historic aerial
photos, Spanish rancho maps and other geographic information from the Bancroft
Library at UC Berkeley, early public land surveys and an array of other sources that
Contractor has found useful and available for other investigations and has produced an
initial public outreach document for the County that was released at the third quadrennial
Contra Costa County Creek and Watershed Symposium in November 2007. For eastern
Contra Costa County, the project will carry out more detailed data collection, mapping,
analysis, and reporting. However, the intention is to extend such analysis to other areas of
the County in the future when additional funding becomes available. The county-wide
data collection that is part of this initial project will support those future phases.
Staff recommends that the Board authorize the Director of the Conservation and
Development Department or her designee the authority to amend the existing contract
with the San Francisco Estuary Institute for funded work associated with the historical
ecology project.
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