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City Council Minutes
Study Session
March 13, 2001- 5:00 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Present: Ridgeway, Proctor, Glover, Bromberg, Mayor Adams
Absent: Heffernan (excused), O'Neil (excused)
Mayor Adams announced that beginning with the current meeting, Adelphia Cable
Company would be broadcasting the Study Session meetings. He stated that this
should make the City Council's deliberations more accessible to the public.
CURRENT BUSINESS
1. CLARIFICATION OF ITEMS ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
There were no items needing clarification.
2. BONITA CANYON SPORTS PARK (C -3270) - PROJECT UPDATE.
City Manager Bludau stated that when the bid was awarded for the Bonita
Canyon Sports Park, the City Council requested that staff provide an update
midway through the project.
Utilities Engineer Sinacori stated that the staff report provides an update on
the current status of the park. He stated that it is a twenty -month
construction project, with the highest activity level beginning to take place.
Mr. Sinacori introduced the project team, which included Rob Masters,
Public Works Inspector, Andrea McGuire, Senior Recreation Manager, and
Marcy Lomeli, Park & Tree Superintendent. Mr. Sinacori also introduced
Jim Engelke with EPT Landscape Architecture, the firm that designed the
project.
Mr. Sinacori announced that after ten months of construction on the $6.2
million project, there is nearly a breakeven on change orders. He pointed
out the exhibits of the park available at the meeting, and noted that the
drainage facilities and pipelines have been an interesting part of the park
construction. Mr. Sinacori reported that it would be approximately ten
months before the park would be usable.
Referring to the staff report, Mayor Adams stated that there were six
alternative bid items considered, with the West Park Tot Lot and the Mid
Park restroom facility approved by the City Council. He asked what the
total cost of the four remaining items would have been. Mr. Sinacori stated
that the West Park Open Space item was bid at $240,000, but had gone up to
$342,000 since the time of the bid. Mayor Adams additionally asked
Mr. Sinacori to point out the alternative bid items on the exhibits.
Mr. Sinacori noted that not all of the landscaping would be present in the
final park, and that natural hydroseeding would be used instead. Mayor
Adams confirmed with Mr. Sinacori that the detention basin in the area
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would remain. Mr. Sinacori added that all of the hardscape in the West
Park area would be put in, and that it was just the irrigation system and
plantings that would not be included.
Mayor Adams asked if there was any financial benefit to putting in the
irrigation system and plantings while the park was still under construction.
City Manager Bludau stated that the amount for the West Park Open Space
item has already gone up and attempts have even been made to have The
Irvine Company share in the cost. Mayor Adams stated that the plantings
seem dense. Mr. Sinacori explained that the majority of the cost is in
extending the irrigation pipes and not in the plantings, themselves.
Mr. Sinacori stated that the West Park tennis courts and the West Park
basketball courts, also alternative bid items not approved, would each cost
$85,000 and $28,000, respectively. He added that it was planned to add the
two items in the 2001/2002 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budget.
Mr. Sinacori stated that the West Park Open Space item would not be
handled in the same CIP, but that other options were being considered.
Regarding the fourth alternative bid item not selected, the five decorative
park signs, Mr. Sinacori explained that the signs were originally bid at
$50,000. He added that since that time, the General Services Department
has offered to build the signs at a lower cost.
Council Member Bromberg confirmed with Mr. Sinacori that there would be
no athletic field lighting at the park. Mr. Sinacori added that there would be
low level lighting on the trails and in the parking lot.
PUBLIC COMMENTS - None.
ADJOURNMENT - 5:15 p.m.
The agenda for the Study Session was posted on March 7, 2001, at
3:30 p.m. on the City Hall Bulletin Board located outside of the City of
Newport Beach Administration Building.
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