Agenda Item Wording:
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Riggin Avenue SCE Pole Relocation Agreement: Authorize the City Manager to execute the Southern California Edison (SCE) Facilities Relocations Agreement for $1,081,000 and adopt Resolution 2024-xx for the Riggin Widening project between Kelsey St to Shirk St.
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Deadline for Action: None
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Diego Corvera, Senior Civil Engineer, Diego.Corvera@visalia.city, 713-4209
Dolores Verduzco, Financial Analyst, Dolores.Verduzco@visalia.city, 713-4540
Jason Huckleberry, Engineering and Building Department Director, Jason.Huckleberry@visalia.city, (559) 713-4495
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council:
1. The City Council authorize the City Manager to execute the SCE Utility Agreement No. CP0398-SCE2490; and
2. Adopt Resolution 2024-46 for the transmission pole and distribution pole relocation agreement along Riggin Avenue between Kelsey St to Shirk St.
Background Discussion:
The Riggin Avenue widening project, from Kelsey Street to Shirk Street, is preparing to go out to bid for construction to start in the fall of 2024. The project will increase vehicle capacity on Riggin Avenue by adding additional lanes and to provide for an efficient flow of traffic to support growing industrial development within the surrounding area. The City Council identified this segment of Riggin Avenue as a priority transportation corridor and to advance its construction through the use Measure R Regional Bond Funds at the December 3, 2019 City Council Work Session meeting.
Before any roadway construction can begin the Southern California Edison (SCE) Transmission and Distribution poles in conflict with the project will need to be relocated to their ultimate location. This relocation agreement needs to be executed in order to mobilize SCE crews to relocate the facilities.
Based on liability research, historical records and agreement with SCE,it has been...
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