We start the evening with no closed sessions, no study sessions, no presentations, no special orders. That’s fairly unusual. Anyway, we get right to business. The consent calendar is fairly large. There’s a resolution which is required before the City can accept Measure B transit improvement funds (which we can’t accept right now anyway, because Measure B is blocked due to ongoing litigation). There’s a $145k contract to inspect the coating of two water tanks at Mary and Carson (which, from memory, involves hiring divers to go into the tanks with SCUBA gear and check them out, but I could be wrong). There’s an extension/amendment of a contract to add $150k in additional temporary engineering services to our public works traffic efforts. There’s proposed rejection of a bid for sewer siphoning services – it was estimated at $100k and the low bid was $1.1m (due to a huge demand and no competition for services). There’s a contract amendment to add $87k to fire protective clothing (we’re hiring officers faster than anticipated). There’s approval of this year’s slate of League of California Cities Peninsula Division officers (Councilmember Smith is on the slate). And finally, there’s approval of Sunnyvale’s voting delegate for the September League of California Cities conference (Councilmember Smith is proposed).
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