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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 10131987 - 2.4 ' '• BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Me"®(�4 Fes: BARTON J. GILBERT, DIRECTOR OF GENERAL SERVIC CJlJlllra Costa DATE: .0c,tober 13, 1987cam SUBJECT: APPROVING CONSULTING SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR REMODELING AT -45 CIVIC AVENUE, PITTSBURG (0122-4217; 0928-WH217B) SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION S) & BACW4=ND AND JUSTIFICATION I. RECOWMNDED ACTION A. APPROVE a . consulting services agreement with John Friedman, Architect, 1529 Cypress Street, Suite 104,'. Walnut Creek, for architectural services. ' for Remodeling . at 45 Civic, Avenue•, Pittsburg, for.-Delta Municipal Court. . . B. AUTHORIZE the Director of General. -Services to execute the agreement- and to issue written authorizations' for extra work, provided that the cumulative -total extra cost for .all such authorizations shall not exceed $25,000.00. The agreement, will be effective September 29, . 1987 and will. . provide for full architectural ' services, with a payment limit - for basic services of $70';475.00, which amount shall not be exceeded without prior, written authorization by the Director of- General Services. II. FINANCIAL IMPACT. ; Funds in the capital account established for : the project are sufficient - to cover the.- amount -encumbered by . this agreement. III. REASONS FOR RECONKENDATIONS/BACKGROUND. A. On' 'January -30, 1987, . the County : Architectural Selection Committee interviewed architects for various projects and ranked Friedman/Osajima first for .the subject project. B. Subsequently; Friedman/Osajima was retained ' to prepare a master• plan for remodeling .45 . Civic Avenue for the Delta Municipal Court. The master plan - was completed and approved- by -,the County Administrator and. Delta Municipal Court: C. The, approved master plan recommends a phased remodeling program which will, ultimately; replace th'e - existing crowded, inadequate and obsolete conditions -with adequate, efficient accommodations for current needs. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATURE; RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER , S I GNATURE 19 i: ACTION OF BOARD -ON October 13, 1987 APPROVED' AS RECOMMENDED OTHER X APPROVED a consulting services agreement with John Friedman, Architect, for architectural services for remodeling of County building- at 45 Civic Avenue, Pittsburg, . for the Delta Municipal Court; REFERRED to the Finance Committee for review prior to start of actual construction; and REQUESTED Finance' Committee to review the.establishment of .a Capital Project Fund and a priority process for such projects. VOTE OF SUPERVISORS 1 HEREBY CERTIFY- THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. cc: Administrator' s office ATTESTED _ ��,..�9p 7 ..-- -.... County Counsel PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF AudltOr-Controller SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Architectural Division Delta Municipal Court M382/7-83John Friedman, Architect BY ..DEPUTY G.S. Accounting Finance Committee . .� -2- 345-8406/A. 1.1 III. REASONS FOR RECOME NDATIONS/BACKGROUND. (Continued) D: Approval of this agreement will provide full architectural services necessary to accomplish the first phase of the remodeling recommended in the master plan. This first phase includes construction of a courtroom and expanded office space for the clerk administrator functions. Currently, the Traffic Commissioner is using a conference room as a courtroom; the court administrator does not have enough staff to support the existing case load and there is no space -available to accommodate more staff. The first phase construction will occur in space which will be vacated within the next six months by the Social Service Department. Consequently, this first phase of remodeling will not cause significant disruptions in the court operations. E. The full architectural services covered in this agreement include ' schematic design, design development, construction documents, bidding and construction support services. F. The County must proceed with this consulting services agreement for architectural services because it does not have sufficient staff to provide the required services. 34506B09.30B RDH:pg I BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM: Harvey E. Bragdon, � Director of Community Development Cmtr Costa DATE; October 12, 1987 County SUBJECT: Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation Areas V SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Take • -final action to adopt the boundaries of the Briones' Hills Agricultural Preservation Areas including the minor modification recommended by the . Contra Costa County General Plan Congress (for the removal of the 16-acre Hallisey prop- erty) as shown on Map 1. 2. Refer this Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation Area res- olution (previously adopted) and the final boundaries to the cities of Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Orinda, Richmond, San Pablo, Pinole and Hercules for their adoption. 3. Authorize Supervisors Fanden and Powers to arrange a signing ceremony with the affected cities which would publicize this agreement. Authorize the Chairperson of the Board to sign a joint version of this resolution that would also be signed by the affected cities. 4. Upon adoption by the participating cities, refer this matter to LAFCO for its acknowledgement and to affected service providing agencies. FINANCIAL IMPACT The major staff cost to develop this proposal and to coordinate with the cities has already been expended;- remaining costs will be for coordination with the cities on their adoption of the res- olution...and publicization of the agreement. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: X YES SIGNATOR , RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMME ION F OARD COMMITTEE APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(SI: ACTION OF BOARD ON / November 3 1 _87 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X. OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES.- AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. cc: Community Development ATTESTED November 3 , 1987 County Administrator's Office - -- - •-- - ----- ------ County Counsel PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Cities listed in Recommendation 2 LAFCO BY412M M382/7-83 ,DEPUTY 1 1 2- BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION BACKGROUND/JUSTIFICATION At the conclusion of the August 4, 1987, public hearing on this subject, the Board approved the Briones Hills Agricultural Pres- ervation Area in concept. As part of that action, the Board . referred two separate parcels of land to the Contra Costa County General Plan Congress for a recommendation -on whether they should be deleted from the boundaries of the Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation area: They were the 167acre Hallisey-and 240-acre Spenser Trust requests. . The Jobs-Housing Subcommittee considered these requests on August 20, 1987, and the full Congress considered the matter on October 1, 1987. At both the subcommittee and the Congress meetings, the public was allowed time to present their views on these refer- rals. The actions of the Planning Congress concurred with the findings of the Jobs-Housing Subcommittee in Position Paper No. 6 (Attach- ment A) . The specific rationales for the actions taken by the Congress are identified in that report. It can be stated in summary fashion that the Congress felt that the Hallisey property should be deleted from the Briones Hills Agricultural Preserva- tion Area because it might be a logical area to consider for future growth. The motion to recommend this change was approved with only one negative vote. The Spenser Trust request was recommended to remain within the preservation area since its removal could jeopardize the philosophy of the preservation area and the joint city-county cooperative basis of the project. The recommendation to have the Spenser Trust property within the preservation area was approved with only four negative votes. With the receipt of this referral back from the Planning Congress, it is now appropriate for the Board to consider final adoption of the boundaries and .to refer the program out to the cities for their action. Should the cities concur with this approach, a signing ceremony might be arranged. The Chairperson of the Board should be authorized to sign a joint version of this resolution with the affected cities. If the program proceeds to that point, Supervi- .. . . sors -Fanden and Powers., in concert with the Community Development Department staff, should be authorized to,::. arrange a signing ceremony. JWC:jn l:briones. jwc S •t1 ti ATTACHMENT A CONTRA COSTA COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE GENERAL PLAN REVIEW PLANNING CONGRESS Jobs/Housing Sub-committee .Position Paper.No.,,% i BRIONES HILLS STUDY Background The Briones Hills Study was referred to the General Plan Congress for a presentation by the Board of Supervisors for its September 23, 1987 meeting. On August 4, 1985 the Board of Supervisors adopted the Briones Hills Agri- cultural Preservation Area. They adopted the proposed concept and generally approved the boundaries. . However, they withheld final action on two properties which had requested to be excluded from the' ' agricultural preser- vation area and referred those two properties to the General Plan Congress for a recommendation prior to Board finalization of the boundary. Since-this is basically a land use plan issue, it was referred by staff to the jobs/ housing sub-committee for recommendation to the full Congress. Represen- tatives of the property. owners were invited. to make presentations -to the committees when they considered this item on August. 20,. 1987. As a reminder the Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation Area concept was developed by a committee of representatives of eight cities and the County. Its purpose is to develop a "political compact" on protecting the existing nature of this 62 square mile area between west and central county. That process began before the General Plan Congress was operational . The two requests for exclusion and the sub-committee recommendations on each are discussed individually below: The Hallisay Request . The Hallisay family has requested about 16 acres of their 260 acre land holding be taken out of the -Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation Area. The parcel is located directly across from the Franklin Canyon Golf Course which has been approved for development by the City of Hercules. It is bounded by State Route 4 and the Santa Fe railroad tracts and is largely level land. The reason the land was placed within the proposal was that there is currently a Williamson Act contract on the property. The Hallisay family felt the railroad track made a better boundary than the original proposal . The sub-committee approved the following findings. Recommendation: The Jobs/Housing Sub-committee recommends to ' the General Plan Congress that the Hallisay request for exclusion from the Briones Hills Agri- cultural Preservation .Area be approved based on the following findings: . (1) The property is- located along major highway and directly across from the current:Franklin Canyon Golf Course that has been approved for development by the City of Hercules and would therefore be consistent with future uses in the area. (2) The property is sandwiched .bef een State Route 4 and the Santa Fe ra.ilroad' and is bordered on the eastern side by light industrial area creating -a small peninsula of land not significantly connected to the remainder of- the agricultural preserve. The Spencer Trust Property A second request for- deletion from the Briones Hills Agricultural Preser- vation Area is for- the 270 acre Spencer Trust- property adjacent to Crockett. The site has -very- rugged portions- and currently has -very limited access. The staff recommendation to the Board of Supervisors .was not to amend the boundaries to delete this property. Merle Gilliland gave a.presentation on the Spencer' Trust property based on a set of maps. He said this was an open space rather than an agricultural issue. He felt if. this parcel was included it would eliminate the potential for future growth.. He felt the Crockett area maybe needing more growth and that for all other communities they had an area to grow around them, but in Crockett -the proposal was immediately adjacent - to existing development. 'There is an EBMUD tank right next to the site and they were discussing the issue-with the sewer district. He stated they had'an option on the property. He felt over 50% of the site was not buildable. The subcommittee spent a considerable amount of time discussing this request and on an 8 to 4 vote took the following action. Recommendation The Jobs/Housing Sub-committee recommends to the -General Plan Congress that the Spencer Trust property request for exclusion from the Briones Hills Agricultural Preservation Area be denied based on the following findings:. (1) That the amount of area involved is a significant' portion of the preservation area and that its approval could jeopardize the entire philosophy of preservation and the joint city-county cooperative basis of that approval . (2) The property involved is unimproved property which is not crossed or adjacent to major transportation routes or sanitation networks thereby imposing substantial burdens on the infrastructure. JWC/ib/bhpospap.no5 � M �,,�,� � ,; ��.•-_ i:- �.. �G.. Jit\�y ! ,:1�`�� at► "�`fes ,F �,� .%►fit *. '/�`� r FIR JIM o-4 la , OPFA kjt� Aso ism s� T1-�A7 i��5:# • �� '�.- . ��r ,t' �� ♦ s„ II',1yt � �