To: Board of Supervisors
From: Monica Nino, County Administrator
Report Title: Purchase Order with Parkworks for additional control cabinets
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the County Administrator, or designee, to execute a contract with Parkworks Mechanical Systems, in an amount not to exceed $200,000, for additional control cabinets for the parking system at 1026 Escobar Street, in Martinez.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This funding for this purchase order is already part of the total project budget for 1026 Escobar Street, no additional funding is needed.
BACKGROUND:
Parkworks is a qualified contractor from the list maintained by the County pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22034, whose work and products related to the parking system at 1026 Escobar Street are proprietary. Parkworks installed the existing parking stacker as part of the 1026 Escobar Street project to increase the amount of off-street, covered parking at the location. The system, as installed, uses control cabinets that are handing 20 parking spots each. In practice this has led to increased time for parking operations, especially during peak parking or departure times. The addition of three control cabinets will allow each cabinet to control 10 parking spaces. This will decrease the waiting time if individuals show up at the same time and increase user satisfaction with the parking system.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Not approving the additional cabinets will maintain the increased parking times during peak operation and decrease the use of the system putting additional strain on other parking resources.