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To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	June 13, 2017

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Costa

County

Subject:

Tassajara Parks EIR Contract Amendment

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 06/13/2017

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:

John Oborne, 925-674-7793

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: June 13, 2017
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with First Carbon Solutions, to increase the payment limit by $70,668 to a new payment limit of $475,092 to complete the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Tassajara Parks Project in the Tassajara Parks / San Ramon area, with no change to the original term ending on September 9, 2018.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No impact. The applicant is responsible for paying the costs of the additional work to complete the Final EIR for the project.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If the Board does not approve the EIR contract amendment, there would not be sufficient funds for First Carbon Solutions to complete the EIR.

BACKGROUND:

The Department of Conservation and Development contracted with First Carbon Solutions in September of 2014 to prepare an environmental impact report (EIR) for the Tassajara Parks Project. The Project involves the construction of a 125 unit residential subdivision with substantial dedication of park land in the Tassajara Valley / San Ramon area.

The County released a Draft EIR (DEIR) in May of 2016 for a 45-day comment period. During the comment period substantial new information arose regarding the Water Supply Evaluation upon which the DEIR relied for analysis. As a result of the new information on September 29, 2016, the County released a Recirculated Draft EIR (R-DEIR) as required by law under circumstances when substantial new information regarding the project is added to the EIR after public notice availability of the DEIR and before certification.

As a result of the volume and complexity of the comments received on the R-DEIR First Carbon Solutions has identified additional tasks to complete the comment matrix for the DEIR, R-DEIR and prepare additional water demand calculations. The increased payment limits is necessary to cover this additional work. This is the fifth budget amendment. There is no change to the term of the contract which is valid until September 9, 2018.