REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on an Agreement with CSG Consultants, Inc. for Design Professional Services for the Santa Clara School Access Improvements Project [Council Pillar: Deliver and Enhance High Quality Efficient Services and Infrastructure]
Report
BACKGROUND
Since 2011, the City of Santa Clara has administered a Safe Routes To School (SRTS) program to promote bicycling and walking to school. Twelve of Santa Clara's public schools participate in the program: Bowers, Briarwood, Haman, Juan Cabrillo Middle School, Montague, Scott Lane, Sutter, Bracher, Hughes, Washington, Westwood, and Don Callejon. Bicycling and walking to school are promoted through both non-infrastructure methods such as education, encouragement, and enforcement, and through physical infrastructure improvements.
The City has implemented several capital improvement projects to improve the public infrastructure for routes to schools, with recent examples being the Safe Routes to School Pedestrian Infrastructure Improvements project completed in 2019, the Lick Mill-East River Parkway Crosswalk Improvements project currently in the bid and award phase, and the Uncontrolled Crosswalk Improvements project currently in the final stages of design.
As part of the continuing efforts to make infrastructure investments in safer routes to schools, the City applied for and obtained federal grant funding for the Santa Clara School Access Improvements project. Similar to past improvement projects, this project will also enhance connectivity for students walking, biking, and scootering to school by designing and constructing various infrastructure improvements. The improvements contemplated in this project are along the routes to Central Park Elementary, Haman Elementary, Scott Lane Elementary, and Sutter Elementary. A location map is attached to this report for reference (Attachment 1).
Improvements that will be reviewed and considered under the project may include upgrading traffic si...
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