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Acting as the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:
Consider recommendations regarding Unit 2 Channel Drainage Capacity Improvement Project, Fifth District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute Amendment No. 1 to the Agreement with Penfield and Smith (a local vendor) for engineering services for the Unit 2 Channel Drainage Capacity Improvement Project increasing the Contract from an amount of $274,452.00 to a new Contract amount of $315,017.00, an increase of $40,565.00 and extending the Contract period from June 30, 2014 to December 31, 2016;
b) Authorize a 10% increase in contingency in the amount of $4,056.50 for a total amount of contingency of $31,501.70 with Penfield and Smith (P&S) for additional work that may be needed to complete work for the Project; and
c) Find that the proposed action is an administrative activity which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a project as defined for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5).