To: Board of Supervisors
From: Monica Nino, County Administrator
Report Title: Change Order for West County Reentry, Treatment and Housing (WRTH) Project
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
AUTHORIZE and APPROVE the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a change order to increase the payment limit by $2.5 million dollars, to a new payment limit of $106 million dollars with Sletten Construction Company, a Montana Corporation for the construction of the West County Re-entry, Treatment, and Housing project.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No fiscal impact. This action moves contingency funds already in the overall project budget of $126.5 million into the construction contract but does not increase the already approved overall project budget. State funding of $70 million has been approved towards the construction costs.
BACKGROUND:
Sletten Construction was awarded the contract to build the West County Re-entry, Treatment and Housing (WRTH) project on December 7, 2021. The project is a 288 bed, five housing unit, detention facility with a complete medical clinic built into the facility. Two of the five housing units, comprising 96 beds, are specifically designed for the treatment of detainees with medical and mental health issues. The facility also includes visitation, including family visitation areas, classrooms and training facilities and space for non-governmental service providers to deliver re-entry services to the detainee population. The majority of the funding for the project is from a State of California grant in the amount of $70 million dollars. However, delays in construction due to excessive rain delays have led to cost escalations in the project during this period of extensive construction cost inflation. In addition, several of the authorities that have jurisdiction over aspects of the project including Pacific Gas and Electric and the West County Wastewater District have imposed new and previousl...
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