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City of San Leandro <br />Meeting Date: July 16, 2012 <br />Staff Report <br />File Number: 12 -347 Agenda Section: CONSENT CALENDAR <br />Agenda Number: 8.K. <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 the Resolution Accepting the Work for Street Light <br />Undergrounding - East 14th (150th to South City Limit), Project No. <br />07- 210 -38 -172 <br />SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Staff recommends acceptance of the work, filing of the Notice of Completion, and authorizing <br />the City Manager to release the Maintenance Bond for the subject project upon successful <br />completion of the one -year maintenance period. <br />- Tits] life] Yell] 0I W7 <br />The master plan for the undergrounding of overhead utilities in San Leandro was created in <br />1992. East 14th Street was included as an underground utility street in this master plan. In <br />October 1999, the City Council created an Underground Utility District (District) on East 14th <br />Street from 153rd Avenue to the southerly city limits. In April 2003, the District was extended <br />northward to 150th Avenue to encompass the subject project area. <br />In 2000, PG &E started to underground the existing overhead utilities, but declared bankruptcy <br />and suspended work on the project before it could be completed. AT &T assumed <br />responsibility for the project and installed conduits along East 14th Street for the <br />undergrounding of the overhead wires in 2010. The City then moved forward with the subject <br />project to install new street lights to replace the obsolete light poles powered from overhead <br />wires. <br />Construction is now completed for the subject project, which installed twenty -one new street <br />lights between 150th Avenue and the southerly City limits on the southwesterly side of East <br />14th Street. The old street lights were powered from overhead wires, were in poor condition, <br />and did not meet current standards. The new lights have longer mast arms to help distribute <br />light to the northeasterly side of East 14th Street and are fed via underground electrical <br />conductors. Vandal resistant pull box inserts were installed to prevent wire theft. <br />City of San Leandro Page 1 Printed on 711012012 <br />