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Consider recommendations regarding a Construction and Maintenance Agreement with Union Pacific Railroad for the Lookout Park Road Crossing, First District, as follows:
a) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Construction and Maintenance Agreement with Union Pacific Railroad for Lookout Park Road with an initial cost of $28,647.00 and an annual cost of $2,114.00;
b) Approve the Union Pacific Railroad Material and Force Account Estimate for surface improvements for a total not to exceed amount of $200,000.00 and authorize the Public Works Director to reimburse Union Pacific Railroad for expenditures at completion of work; and
c) Determine the project was found by your Board to be exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to 14 CCR 15301(c) on October 1, 2019 (as the proposed project(s) consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that previously existing, including but not limited to existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities), a Notice of Exemption was filed on October 1, 2019 on that basis, and the proposed action is within the scope of that Notice of Exemption.