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LOS ANGELES COUNTY
METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

SPECIAL BOARD MEETING

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Metro Headquarters
3rd Floor - Board Room
One Gateway Plaza
Los Angeles

Monday, June 7, 1999

Called to order at 9:52 A.M.

Directors Present:

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, First Vice Chair
James Cragin, Second Vice Chair
Richard Alatorre
Michael Antonovich
Hal Bernson
John Fasana
Don Knabe
Jose Legaspi
Jenny Oropeza - Via teleconferencing
Frank Roberts
Zev Yaroslavsky

Chief Executive Officer - Julian Burke
Interim Board Secretary - Michele Jackson
Inspector General - Arthur Sinai
General Counsel - County Counsel

 

NOTE: Members voting are reflected on the attached "RECAP OF PROCEEDINGS" matrix.
GENERAL
1. APPROVED Consent Calendar Items 8 through 17.
NON CONSENT Items 2 through 5
2. APPROVED AS AMENDED BY MOLINA/YAROSLAVSKY/BURKE/KNABE ON A ROLL CALL VOTE authorizing the CEO to execute and deliver the following agreements: Memorandum of Understanding between the Metro, the Pasadena Blue Line Construction Authority (PMBLCA) and the California Transportation Commission (CTC); and a Funding Agreement; Property Trust Agreement and a Master Cooperative Agreement between the Metro and PMBLCA.

AMENDMENT:

That the Board adopt the Memorandum of Understanding with the California Transportation Commission and the Pasadena Metro Blue Line Construction Authority (PMBLCA) with the following additional provisions:

(A) All unencumbered, local funds transferred from the Metro to the PMBLCA can be used for only completion of the Phase I of the Pasadena Blue Line from Union Station to Sierra Madre Villa; and

(B) The Metro is not and will not be obligated or committed to providing any funding toward Phase II of the Pasadena Blue Line from Pasadena to Claremont until other high priority projects are completed, such as (in no specific order): Consent Decree obligations; Fixed Guideway Systems to the Eastside, Mid-City, and San Fernando Valley Corridors; and other projects identified in the Long Range Plan and the RTAA that has been previously approved by the Board of Directors; and

That the Metro insert language in the MOU that sets conditions on the expenditure of the remaining $68.7 million to be transferred to the PMBLCA. These conditions should only allow local funds to be spent as follows:

(A) Phase 1 of the Pasadena Blue Line project from downtown Los Angeles to Sierra Madre Villa.

(B) Engineering and construction related contracts necessary for the completion of the project. Professional services and consultant contracts must also be engineering and construction related. No local funds shall be spent on public relations and lobbying.

Roll Call:

Ayes: Alatorre, Antonovich, Bernson, Burke, Fasana, Knabe, Legaspi, Oropeza and Roberts
Noes: Cragin, Yaroslavsky
Absent: Molina, Riordan
Abstain: None
3. APPROVED awarding of a contract to Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc., to prepare specifications for Universal Fare System (UFS)-compatible cash and electronic fare collection systems for the bus, rail and shuttle systems and for modification of the SCRRA Ticket Vending Machines (TVMs) to accommodate UFS transactions in the amount of $273,694. This authorization is inclusive of an initial award for Phase I, Farebox specifications, and Phase II, Metro and SCRRA TVM specifications.

AMENDED TO INCLUDE THAT STAFF :

  1. ensure that the exploration of a "cash-less" bus is evaluated in the consultants and/or staffs development of the UFS general specifications, and
  2. return in no later than 60 days with a schedule and scope for an Metro comprehensive fare structure, fare policy and fare administration study consistent with the schedule for the implementation of the UFS as well as the previously Board-adopted Director Antonovich motion.
4. APPROVED:
  1. negotiation and execution of Change Order No. B281T-CO-90.00 to Contract No. B281T, Hollywood Tunnel Completion with Kajima/Ray Wilson, JV, to provide for an increase in the excavation and removal of sinkhole debris on the Metro Red Line, Vermont/Hollywood Corridor, in the amount of $378,271 (inclusive of Change Order No. 16.00 amount of $350,000 previously approved by the Board), increasing the total contract value to $50,389,416; and
  1. an increase in the Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) to Contract No. B281T to provide funding for Change Order No. B281T-CO-90.00, in the amount of $28,271, increasing the current Segment 2 B281T Contract AFE to $51,564,350.
5. APPROVED the following actions on State Legislation AS AMENDED:

  1. SB 1243 (MURRAY) - Mandates the creation of Exposition Boulevard Fixed Guideway Construction Authority. NO POSITION

  2. AB357 (CALDERON) - Provides additional funding for grade separation projects. OPPOSE NO POSITION

  3. SB 928 (BURTON) - Authorizes the State Treasurer, in cooperation with the CTC and regional transportation planning agencies, to issue federal highway grant anticipation notes (GARVEE bonds) to accelerate funding for eligible transportation projects. SUPPORT WITH AMENDMENTS.
CLOSED SESSION
6. Conference with Legal Counsel - Existing Litigation - G.C. 54956.9 (a):

  1. Fonseca v. Metro,
    Case No. BC 195151
    APPROVED SETTLEMENT OF $2.6M

  2. Graw V. Metro
    Case No. CV 97-8641
    WITHDRAWN.

  3. Lezama v. Metro
    Case No. EC 022220

APPROVED SETTLEMENT OF $700,000.
7. Conference with Legal Counsel - Anticipated Litigation - G. C.54956.9(b):

One Case

APPROVED SETTLEMENT with E. J. Ward for the amount of $120,000
APPROVED CONSENT CALENDAR Items 8 through 17
8. APPROVED:
  1. negotiation and execution of Change Order No. B261-CO-7.00 (CN48.01) to Contract No. B261, with Tutor Saliba-Perini, JV., on the Metro Red Line/Hollywood Corridor (Segment 2)Vermont/Sunset Station Contract, to provide for a variance in the contract quantities for temporary decking for the station box and station side structures in the amount of $391,698, increasing the total contract value from $49,992,294 to $50,383,992. The Board previously approved CN 48.01 for an amount not to exceed $625,000 at the September 1995 Board meeting; and
  1. negotiation and execution of Change Order No. B261-CO-33.00 (CN110.00) to Contract No. B261, with Tutor Saliba-Perini, JV., on the Vermont/Sunset Station Contract to provide for a variance in the contract quantities of temporary decking over the station entrance areas in the amount of $690,333, increasing the total contract value to $51,074,325. The Board previously approved CN 110.00 for an amount not to exceed $601,900 at the May 1996 Board Meeting; and
  1. an increase in the Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) to Contract No. B261 to provide funding for Change Order Nos. B261-CO-7.00 and B261-CO33.00 in the amount of $1,082,031, increasing the current Segment 2 B261 Contract AFE from $52,609,201 to $53,691,232
9. APPROVED execution of Change Order No. 141 to Contract C0311 with Traylor Bros./Frontier-Kemper, JV on the Metro Red Line, North Hollywood Corridor (Segment 3), to provide compensation for the settlement of Claim No. 5, due to Differing Site Conditions (DSC) for remedial work to fill voids and for the additional support measures to control the shear zone in the AR tunnel from Sta. 754+00 to Sta. 753+32, in the amount of $222,822, increasing the total contract value to $162,392,205.
10. APPROVED negotiation and execution of Change Order No. 111 to Contract C0311 with Traylor Bros./Frontier-Kemper, JV, on the Metro Red Line, North Hollywood Corridor (Segment 3), to provide compensation due to Differing Site Conditions (DSC) for the additional support measures to control the shear zone in the AR tunnel between Sta. 727+00 and Sta. 726+12, in the amount of $650,199, increasing the total contract value to $162,119,582.
11. APPROVED conveyance of a non-exclusive permanent subsurface easement for a 30" natural gas pipeline to Southern California Gas Company (SCG) containing approximately 4,495 lineal feet extending from 495 feet South of Imperial Highway to El Segundo Boulevard in the City of El Segundo for a total compensation of $206,736.
12. APPROVED negotiation and execution of contracts with CompuCom, Inc., Sacramento, and GE Capital Information Technology Solutions, Irvine, and their successors, to acquire computer hardware, software and services as provided for in part by competitive contracts awarded by the State of California under Public Contract Code Section 10324 for a five year period with a total expenditure not to exceed $12,000,000, subject to availability of funding.
13. APPROVED award of contracts to the following selected firms to serve on a Joint Development Advisor Bench that will be established for Metro owned properties for a period of five years beginning in May 1999 through April 2004: Keyser & Marston Associates, Inc.; Sedway Group; Maxima Group/Price Waterhouse Coopers; PCR Kotin; and Kosmont & Associates in an amount not to exceed $500,000 per individual contract; Subject to an aggregate limit of $500,000 for all services performed under this authority.
14. APPROVED negotiation and execution of a Change Order to Contract No. PS-4310-0412 with Myra L. Frank & Associates on the I-5 Freeway Interim HOV Lane Improvements initial study/environmental assessment consulting services in the amount of $68,377 for a total revised contract amount of $1,222,713, and extend the period of performance from June 30, 1999 through July 31, 1999.
15. APPROVED execution of a Change Order with Perdomo & Sons to provide the Metro with additional recycling/trash services in an amount not to exceed $220,000 and extend the period of performance from August 28, 1999 through September 30, 2000 for a total revised contract amount of $415,046.
16. APPROVED execution of Change Order No. 125 to Contract C0311 with Traylor Bros./Frontier-Kemper, JV, to provide compensation for the settlement of Claim No. 14, due to Differing Site Conditions of adverse ground behavior at Sta. 656+57 to Sta. 656+49 in the AR tunnel and at Sta. 665+83 to Sta. 665+71 in the AL tunnel in Reach 1, on the Metro Red Line, North Hollywood Corridor (Segment 3), in the amount of $990,885, increasing the total contract value to $163,142,060.
17. ADOPTED the following position on State Legislation:
  1. SB 1276 (Hayden) - Mandates certain requirements on the Authority pertaining to the Consent Decree. OPPOSE

RECEIVED PUBLIC COMMENT.

Adjourned at 10:15 A.M.

Prepared by: Christina Lumba-Gamboa
Recording Secretary

Michele Jackson
Interim Board Secretary

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