REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
July 20, 2017
FROM: THOMAS C. ESQUEDA, Director
Department of Public Utilities
THROUGH: MICHAEL CARBAJAL, Planning Manager
Department of Public Utilities - Utilities Planning & Engineering
BY: KEVIN L. NORGAARD, Supervising Professional Engineer
Department of Public Utilities - Utilities Planning & Engineering
SUBJECT
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Actions pertaining to a Waterless Fire Suppression System for the Data Recovery Room at the Fresno/Clovis Wastewater Reclamation Facility (Council District 3)
1. Adopt a finding of Categorical Exemption of Class 1, pursuant to Section 15301(b) (Existing facilities) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines
2. ***RESOLUTION - 4th amendment to the Annual Appropriation Resolution (AAR) No. 2017-165 appropriating $200,000 to install a Waterless Fire Suppression System for the Data Recovery Room at the Fresno/Clovis Wastewater Reclamation Facility (Requires 5 affirmative votes)
3. Award a Design-Build contract for $187,500 to Fire System Solutions of Fresno, California - Bid File 3541
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends the City Council adopt the findings of Class 1 Categorical exemption, approve the AAR to appropriate funding and award the design build contract for the construction of the waterless fire suppression system to Fire System Solutions.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Public Utilities, Wastewater Management Division, has recently completed the remodeling of a room that will function as a full data storage and recovery room. The electronic equipment and computers will not be usable if the existing water sprinkler fire suppression system is used. This project will install a new waterless inert gas fire suppression system.
BACKGROUND
The Fresno/Clovis Regional Wastewater Reclamation Facility (RWRF) is operated by a state of the art computer control system. As with any large old wastewater facility the system to operate the RWRF must be highly customized to ...
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