To: Board of Supervisors
From: Warren Lai, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Report Title: APPROVE and AUTHORIZE Budget Amendment No. BDA-26-00559 for the East County Service Center Project.
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE Budget Amendment No. BDA-26-00559 authorizing the appropriation of $30,000,000 from General Fund Capital Reserve for the construction of the 117,000 square foot government services center in Brentwood, the East County Service Center Project.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The transfer of $30,000,000 from the General Fund Capital Reserve will provide the necessary budget to begin phased contract work on the East County Service Center Project.
BACKGROUND:
East County Service Center Project Background On March 7, 2006, the Board of Supervisors directed the County Administrator’s Office to conduct a regional needs assessment to determine if County departments providing services to the public had equitable distribution across the county. On May 9, 2006 the Board accepted the regional needs assessment report from the County Administrator’s Office which identified East County as the geographically disadvantaged in relation to County service delivery and recommended that the County plan to add, expand and replace aging facilities to accommodate that changing population and growing demand for services. On January 18, 2011, in response to the regional needs assessment, the Board of Supervisors authorized the purchase of 2.83 acres on Technology Way in Brentwood at a cost of $1.3 million for the eventual construction of the East County Government Center. The Board’s direction to construct regional service centers was reaffirmed on September 20, 2022, when the Board of Supervisors adopted the Capital Facilities Master Plan, which again identified the need for equitable distribution of County services by means of creating regional service centers in East, Central, and West County. East County was identified as the first of the regional service centers for construction given the ongoing rapid population growth. In March of 2025, the County began the procurement process for a Design-Build team for this project through the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), resulting in the selection of Webcor Construction, whose Phase 1 - Preconstruction/Design Contract for this project was approved by the Board on July 8, 2025. Details of the overall procurement process for this project are listed in the attached staff report to the Board dated July 8, 2025. On May 13, 2025, the Board of Supervisors authorized the purchase of an additional five acres on an adjoining parcel to expand the site plan of the ECSC Project to approximately 8 acres. County staff have actively solicited local input from City of Brentwood staff and elected leadership in a series of meetings between October 2024 and January 2026; exact dates of these meetings are referenced in the attached correspondence to the Brentwood City Manager, dated February 17, 2026. The approval of this action, including the contract award to begin Phase 2 - Construction, will keep this project on schedule with an estimated completion date in December 2027.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Public Works will not have adequate budget to continue with the East County service Center Project