Amador County – Amador County Transportation Commission on Wednesday will consider seeking bids on teleconferencing equipment and furniture for the new Sutter Hill Transit Center, for a potential partnership with the Amador Community College Foundation.

ACTC meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday to consider staff recommendations, including authorizing invitations to bid to add teleconference and tele-presence equipment, along with staff training on-call assistance for the Center. The Commission will also consider a $7,000 change order to complete employee restrooms at the facility.

Executive Director Charles Field made the recommendations in a Dec. 8 report to ACTC, saying the Transit Center’s Phase 3 construction project is “close to schedule and slightly under budget. This means the project contingency fund remains in the range of $80,000 and it is somewhat safe for the Commission to consider budgeting up to $70,000 for teleconference and tele-presence equipment.”

In the report, Field said if ACTC “earmarks $70,000 in presently available contingency funds” for the equipment and furniture, the Commission “will be $17,000 short of the total cost estimated for the facility.” He said in a meeting with Amador Community College Foundation on Nov. 17, College Board members suggested that the may have up to $17,000 in funding available to help ACTC pay for the project. This would be in return for the College Board being given some priority for usage of the facility after it is completed.”

Field also recommended Commissioners authorize that the equipment be advertised for bids, and also to have ACTC staff “work with Amador County General Services on a more accurate cost proposal for furniture.” He said staff “can also solicit proposals from local cabinet makers for the custom dais, podium and conference room credenza.”

He said actual costs for the equipment and furniture “should then be known in time for the ACTC meeting on Jan. 18,” and it was “possible that the actual bids and costs could be lower than the amount estimated at this time,” or $87,000. He said staff understood that “this schedule also coincides with the time needed for the Community College Foundation to determine their strategy and position for possible cost and facility sharing.”

Field also recommended hiring Amador Electric to “adjust outside lighting circuits using available Proposition 1B Transit Security Funds.” He also recommended the Commission authorize staff to pursue a backup power generator with power conditioner using available Prop 1B funds. He also recommended possible landscaping invitations to bid using $45,000 in interest earned on Transportation Enhancement exchange funds from fiscal year 1999-2000.

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