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Consider recommendations regarding the Award Agreement for Construction of Project No. 19014, Probation Headquarters Building Project, First District, as follows:
a) Approve the plans and specifications for the County of Santa Barbara Probations Headquarters, County Project No. 19014 on file in the General services Capital Projects office;
b) Award, approve and authorize the Chair to execute the construction agreement in the amount of $37,817,413.00 to the lowest responsible bidder, ProWest PCM, Inc. (ProWest), whose address is 22710 Palomar Street, Wildomar, CA 92595 (Contract), subject to the plans and specifications applicable to the project and California Law;
c) Authorize the Director of General Services, or his Assistant Director or Capital Division Chief designee, to approve change orders in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,903,370.65, provided that no change or alteration shall exceed $210,000.00, as authorized under California Public Contract Code Section 20142(b); and
d) Determine that pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15162, no substantial changes are proposed to the project covered by the above recommended action (c), and no new information of substantial importance has come to light regarding environmental effects of the project or of the sufficiency or feasibility of mitigation measures, and therefore these actions are within the scope of the project covered by the mitigated negative declaration and monitoring program under (SCH2023040126, GS-042022-19014-MND) approved and adopted by the Board for this project on March 19, 2024, and determine that therefore no new environmental document is required.