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C. 53

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	John Kopchik, Director, Conservation & Development Department
Date:	August 2, 2016

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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: 08/02/2016

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, 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: August 2, 2016
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Conservation and Development Department Director, or designee, to execute a contract amendment with First Carbon Solutions, to increase the payment limit by $24,200 to a new payment limit of $333,039 with no change to the original term of September 10, 2014 through September 9, 2018, for services required to prepare the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Tassajara Parks Project in the Tassajara Valley (San Ramon area).

FISCAL IMPACT:

No impact to the General Fund. The applicant is responsible for the payment of additional services.

BACKGROUND:

The Department of Conservation and Development contracted with First Carbon Solutions in September of 2014 to prepare an EIR for the Tassajara Parks project. The project involves a 125 unit residential subdivision and includes substantial dedication of park land in the Tassajara Valley / San Ramon area. The project requires approval of a General Plan Amendment, Rezoning, Subdivision and Development Plan applications. First Carbon Solutions has been working on the EIR and identified additional analysis necessary to complete the Draft EIR. Staff concurred that it was necessary to evaluate additional water supply options for the project as well as to provide additional traffic impact analysis. As a result, the level of effort changed to include additional analysis of a recycled water pipeline and traffic impacts in order to complete the Draft EIR. The increased payment limit is necessary to cover the additional work. This is the third budget amendment; the second budget amendment was approved by the Board on January 5, 2016. There is no change to the term of the contract which is valid until September 9, 2018.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

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