REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
March 26, 2015
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
BY: ROBERT N. ANDERSEN, PE, Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Capital Management Division
SUBJECT
Title
Approve the Fourth Amendment to the Agreement with Sharp Inspection Group in the amount of $50,000 for construction management services on the City of Fresno commercial water meter retrofit project (All Council Districts)
Body
RECOMMENDATION
Staff is requesting that the Council approve the Fourth Amendment to the Agreement with Sharp Inspection Group and allow for the Public Works Director or his designee to sign on behalf of the City.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City has been replacing Commercial Water Meters with the Automatic Meter Reading ("AMR") technology since Spring of 2013. The meter replacement should be completed by March 2015. This amendment is for the replacement of 300 Type B-12 boxes with Type B-16 boxes that will allow foe lockable Armorcast lids.
BACKGROUND
Since 2009, the City Department of Public Utilities has been working diligently to get all of the 110,000 residences throughout the metropolitan area on water meters. This was due to the various Senate bills requiring the City to be completely metered by January 2013 or face losing our Federal water allotment. We completed the residential project in Fall 2012.
City staff has started retrofitting the remaining commercial manually read meters with the AMR meters that the rest of the City is using. This means either upgrading or replacing the manually read meters on our commercial customers. There are approximately 20,350 commercial meters to retrofit. These meters run from 5/8" to 2" in size. The larger meters (above 2") will be retrofitted by City staff. By doing this project, all water customers will have their water usage collected electronically. Also, the Utility Service Workers we currently employ will be able to assist ...
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