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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: May 7, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -181 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.M. <br />TO: City Council <br />FROM: Chris Zapata <br />City Manager <br />BY: Uchenna Udemezue <br />Engineering & Transportation Director <br />FINANCE REVIEW: David Baum <br />Finance Director <br />TITLE: Staff Report for a Resolution Appropriating $80,000 in Development Fees for <br />Street Improvement (DFSI) Funds and Approving Plans and Specifications <br />and Calling for Bids for the Redundant Fiber Optic Ring Project <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends appropriating $80,000 in DFSI funds and approval of plans and <br />specifications and a call for bids for the subject project. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The 1 -880 HOV project is set to start in fall 2012. The project will add a 3 -mile long <br />High- Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane to 1 -880 southbound from Hegenberger Road in Oakland <br />to the Marina Boulevard exit in San Leandro. The 1 -880 interchanges at Davis Street and <br />Marina Boulevard will also be reconstructed to allow for the wider freeway. Unfortunately, the <br />project will disconnect the fiber optic cables at the east end of the overcrossing on Davis <br />Street, thereby eliminating communication to all of our traffic signals and facilities west of <br />1 -880. <br />ANALYSIS <br />By adding fiber optic cables on Washington Avenue between Springlake Drive and Fargo <br />Avenue, the communications going through Davis Street to Doolittle Drive will be routed <br />through East 14th Street, Hesperian Boulevard, Halcyon Drive, Washington Avenue, Fargo <br />Avenue, Farnsworth Street, Manor Boulevard, Wicks Boulevard, Merced Street, Williams <br />Street, and back to Doolittle Drive. The result will be the establishment of a complete <br />redundant fiber optic ring throughout the city. This will allow us to maintain communication <br />with our traffic signals and facilities that are located west of 1 -880 during the construction of <br />the 1 -880 HOV Project. <br />The work will include pulling fiber optic cable on Washington Avenue between Springlake <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 51112012 <br />