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Consider recommendations regarding the Northern Branch Jail Project, Approve, Authorize and Ratify Change Orders, Third District, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Director of General Services or designee to execute a change order addressing the top of wall concrete masonry unit wall detail work in an amount not to exceed $543,247.00 on the Northern Branch Jail Project Bid Package 1 (BP-1) contract to SJ Amoroso (BC16215);
b) Approve and ratify issued change orders numbers three through six on the Northern Branch Jail Project Bid Package 2 (BP-2) Contract to Spiess Construction (BC16217);
c) Re-authorize the General Services Director or designee to approve additional change orders to Spiess Construction (BC16217) for a contingency amount up to $158,082.00 for the construction of the AB900 Northern Branch Jail Project Bid Package 2 (BP-2) for a total project authorization of $3,385,891.00; and
d) After considering the Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), State Clearinghouse No. 2007111099, that the Board of Supervisors certified on March 11, 2008, the December 6, 2011 SEIR addendum, and the October 8, 2013 SEIR addendum, determine pursuant to 14 CCR Section 15162(a) that no subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is required for this project because: i) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR; ii) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions of the 2008 Final Subsequent EIR; and iii) No new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time that the Final Subsequent EIR was certified in 2008, has been received.