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I REPOR T ~o the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the City Manager <br />May 6, 2002 <br /> <br /> Subject <br /> 1. Award of Contract - Hoover Sport Field Improvement Project. <br /> <br />2. Consultant Agreement with Beals Sport for providing Technical Support and <br /> Construction Administration for said Project <br /> <br />Recommendation <br />1. Approve and authorize execution of agreement awarding the contract for the Hoover <br /> Sport Field Improvement Project, to the lowest responsible bidder, Robert A. <br /> Bothman, Inc. of San Jose, California, for their lowest Base Bid (using the product <br /> "FieldTurf") of One Million Four Hundred Ninety One Thousand One Hundred Fifty <br /> Seven Dollars ($1,491,157). <br /> <br />2. Approve and authorize execution of a Consultant Agreement with Beals Sport to <br /> provide technical support and construction administration during construction of the <br /> Hoover Sport Field Improvement Project, in an amount not to exceed $33,950. <br /> <br />Background <br />Hoover Sport Field is the third in a series of sport fields that the City has or will improve <br />over the last three years. Similar to Taft and Garfield, this field was conceived of as <br />another sand-based field. However, staff and the consultant quickly realized that any <br />type of natural turf field would not be able to sustain the level of use that this field <br />experiences. Hoover field gets so much utilization that, even' with' the highest <br />maintenance efforts and periodic closures, the turf in the soccer area cannot regenerate <br />quickly enough. This fact, coupled with the rapid developments in synthetic turf, makes <br />it an ideal alternative for this site. <br /> <br />Synthetic turf, especially the in-filled system that this project is designed with, is a very <br />new concept in sporting field construction. The in-filled system differs vastly from the <br />original form made famous by the 'AstroTurf' products. The new system is still laid <br />down in a fashion similar to laying carpet. The turf blades are very similar to shag <br />carpet yarn, and are more than two inches long. The first one and one-half inches of <br />the blade's zone is 'in-filled' with tiny rubber chips or a mixture of sand and rubber <br />chips. This in-filled layer provides cushion to users and support the turf blade in the <br />vertical position. The final process;is to fibrillate the portion of the blade protruding from <br />the in-filled zone so they resembletine grass blades. <br /> <br /> -1- <br /> <br /> <br />