Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
JUNE 14, 2017
Subject
SUBJECT: ROSECRANS/MARQUARDT GRADE SEPARATION
PROJECT
Action
ACTION: AMENDMENT TO INCREASE FY17 BUDGET
Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title
APPROVE an amendment to increase the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget in the amount of $4,300,000 out of Measure R 20% funds for the Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project.
Issue
ISSUE
Metro Board approved the acquisition of three real properties located at 13900 Rosecrans Avenue, 13720 Rosecrans Avenue, and 13750 Rosecrans Avenue in a May 2017 for the construction of the Rosecrans/ Marquardt Grade Separation Project. One of the three properties at 13720 Rosecrans Ave requested a closing date by the end of June 2017. If Metro does not close by June 30, 2017, an additional closing cost fee of $75,000 is being requested by the seller since an initial offer by Metro was made last year on that property. The recommended action will enable the acquisition and closing sale of the property to occur by June 2017.
Discussion
DISCUSSION
The Rosecrans/Marquardt Grade Separation Project (Project), located at milepost 157.8 on the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision, was environmentally cleared in 2003 with the Third Track and Grade Separation Project on the BNSF Railway Company East-West Main Line Railroad Track EIR SCH #200204111. The Metro Board approved the professional services design contract in March 2015 in the amount of $6,273,305.
The Project consists of a vehicular and pedestrians overpass that will be separate from the rail corridor located on the BNSF right-of-way on the San Bernardino Subdivision on which Metrolink, Amtrak, and BNSF trains operate. Since the rail corridor lies diagonally at the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Marquardt Avenue, it lengthens the vehicular and pedestrian crossing, ranking it as the number one ranked crossing in the state by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Last month, the Metro Board appr...
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