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Consider recommendations regarding East Mountain Drive Low Water Crossing Replacement Project, County Project No. 862357, Federal-Aid Project No. BRLO-NBIL(526), First District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the professional services contract for professional structural design, geotechnical design and environmental services with Drake Haglan and Associates, 11060 White Rock Road, Suite 200, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 (not a local vendor) in the base contract amount of $423,986.92;
b) Authorize the Director of Public Works or designee to approve clerical amendments and amendments to the professional services agreement within the scope of work in an amount up to and not to exceed $42,398.69; and
c) Find that the proposed contract does not constitute a “Project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to 14 CCR 15378 (b)(5) (Organizational or administrative activities of governments that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment), and approve and direct staff to file a Notice of Exemption on that basis.