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C I TY OF SAN LU I S O B I S P O
FROM: John Moss,Utilities Directo /1-1
Prepared By: David Pier , Water Projects Manager
SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEM DESIGN SERVICES
CAO RECOMMENDATION
1)Approve and authorize distribution of a Request for Proposal for Irrigation System Design
Services. 2)Authorize the City Administrative Officer to award and execute contract with
qualified service provider for an amount not to exceed$75,000.
DISCUSSION
The Water Reuse Project will make use of a valuable local resource by providing recycled water for
irrigation customers. The project includes $500,000 to pay for modifications to the customer's
irrigation and plumbing systems to make them compatible with the recycled water distribution
system, which may have different pressure and flow characteristics than the existing potable water
system that serves a site. The initial phase of this project will be serving City Parks and some play
fields irrigated at City expense and located at local schools along the pipeline corridor. This
funding will provide for the necessary redesign of their irrigation systems to allow them to use
recycled water. This money was included in the project to provide the resources up front to allow
the customers to use recycled water rather than setting lower ongoing rates to offset the capital cost
of the conversion to the customer, which in this case is largely the City General Fund. State law
will not allow us to mandate customer conversion to recycled water it doing so results in an
increase in cost to those customers.
The consultant for these design services needs to be hired at this time to allow some coordination
with the distribution system designer and to prepare the plans and specifications so that the
construction can be accomplished in an orderly process allowing these sites to begin using recycled
water by 2004.
FISCAL VAPACT
The Water Reuse Project CIP currently has a balance of $189,000 in the account for user site
modifications and The FY 2001-2003 Financial Plan (appendix B page 106) indicates that another
$300,000 will be available for FY 2002=2003..
The Request for Proposal is available for review in the Council Office.
(Specification No. 99124.90555A)
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