REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
August 28, 2014
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 Third Amendment to Agreement with Sharp Inspection Group in the amount of $626,968 and extend the completion to April 27, 2015 for the construction management services on the City of Fresno Commercial Water Meter Retrofit Project (Citywide)
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff is requesting that the Council approve the Third Amendment to 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 the Spring of 2013. Due to the nature of some commercial businesses such as being open 24 hours a day, being unable to be without water at specific times and so on, it has taken more time for this project to be completed. Staff is requesting to extend the contract with Sharp Inspection Group for additional inspection services.
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, al...
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