WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville City Council on Tuesday approved a $303,116 contract with Verde Design, Inc. to complete the Watsonville Slough Connector Trail Project at Ramsay Park.
The project seeks to enhance underused space at the city’s largest urban park by adding and improving trails, planting several new trees and creating educational displays.
The bidding and construction phase of the project is scheduled to start in late 2020 and is expected to be completed in spring of the following year.
Council will have final approval of the project, which is expected to incorporate several elements of the recently approved Ramsay Park Master Plan.
An Urban Greening Grant awarded to the City of Watsonville by the California Natural Resources Agency will cover $246,423 of the project. The other 18 percent will come out of the Parks and Community Services operating fund.
Other teams approved in the council’s consent agenda:
• The council also Ok’d the $142,025 purchase from of traffic signal video detection hardware for the Green Valley Adaptive Traffic Control System. The City in 2017 received a grant from the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District for $364,945 with a matching contribution of $43,700 to install an adaptive traffic control system on Green Valley Road from Carnation Drive to Harkins Slough Road. The project will improve traffic flow along that corridor, reduce air pollution and modernize traffic technology to modern standards.
• The council also approved agreements with World Fuel Services, Inc. and Ascent Aviation Group, Inc. to serve as Watsonville Municipal Airport’s lone fuel suppliers for the next five years.
• The council approved a $352,840 contract with Psomas for construction management and inspection services for the Airport/Freedom Trunk Sewer Replacement project.
• The council also moved ahead on a $441,948 project at the Watsonville Airport that would seal cracks and remark Runway 9-27, as well as Taxiways B and C. Ninety percent of the project will be covered by a Federal Aviation Administration grant, five percent will be covered by a CalTrans Airport Improvement Program grant and the last five percent will come from the Airport Enterprise funds.
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These items were part of the Watsonville City Council’s consent agenda. The consent portion of a meeting agenda contains items that are expected to pass without discussion by the agency in question. Board members and members of the public may pull any of the items for discussion during meetings. For details on any of these items visit https://watsonville.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
