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12 FRIDAY, FEB. 24, 2017 THE DAILY NEWS PALOALTODAI LYN EWS.COM 150 Feds delay funding, potentially derailing electric BY KATY MURPHY AND JASON GREEN Bay Area News Group In a major blow to a 15 - year -long effort to modern- ize Caltrain, federal transit officials on Feb. 17 said they are withholding $647 million the agency was counting on this month to start work on a project to electrify the train line between San Francisco and San Jose. The decision by the Fed- eral Transit Administra- tion comes just weeks after California's Republicans in Congress asked the Trump administration to block the funds in an effort to halt one of California's most contro- versial public works proj- ects: high-speed rail. In a letter to the board that runs Caltrain, the FTA said it needed "additional time to complete review of this significant commit- ment of Federal resources," and would make a final deci- sion after President Donald Trump releases his bud- get for the 2018 fiscal year, which starts on Oct. 1. Caltrain officials say the delay could have dire con- sequences for the $2 bil- lion electrification project as they needed the fund - NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS CITY OF REDWOOD CITY REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA ing by March 1. Replacing the line's diesel trains with cleaner electric ones would allow the agency to run longer and more frequent trains and boost daily riders from 65,000 to 110,000. "Deferral of the decision to execute the (grant) will prevent Caltrain from issu- ing the notice by this date and may jeopardize the vi- ability of the project itself," Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by the City of Redwood City at the Office of the City Clerk, 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, California up to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2017 for the following bids "Recycled Water Tank Water Quality Control System" The Notice Inviting Bid packet may be obtained from the Public Works Services Department, 1400 Broadway Street, Redwood City, CA 94063, online at http://www.redwoodcity.org/business/bids-proposals, or by calling (650) 780-7464. All bids must be submitted at or before the specified time and place and plainly marked on the envelope: "SEALED BID FOR RECYCLED WATER TANK WATER QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM DUE 3:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15". Late submittals will not be accepted. The Council of the City of Redwood City reserves the right to reject or accept any proposal or bid or any part or portion thereof or any combination of bid items or bids, and further reserves the right to waive any informality or honest clerical error in any bid. Silvia Vonderlinden City Clerk Date: February 15, 2017 Published in the Daily News on February 24, 2017 rail project m the statement said. The delay comes on the heels of a request from California's GOP delegation to block the funds pending an audit of the bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which would use the electrified train's infra- structure. The California High -Speed Rail Authority has invested $700 million in Caltrain's electrification project. "Here's the irony," s W Carl Guardino, CEO of (DQ Silicon Valley Leaders Group that has long ch, v pioned the electrificat.,... project. "This opposition was intended to stop high- speed rail. It's only a flesh wound to high-speed rail, but it could be a mortal wound in our efforts to elec- trify Caltrain." Police subdue armed man with death wish A suicidal man advanced at police while wielding a 10 - inch knife, asking that they kill him, but deputies were able to defuse the situation, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. Just before 8 p.m. Feb. 17, sheriffs deputies re- sponded to the 400 block of Beresford Avenue in un- incorporated San Mateo County near Redwood City on a report that a man had not taken his psychiatric medication and was threat- ening family members and himself with a "butcher - type" knife, according to a news release. When they arrived, the man was standing in front of the family residence with SAN MATEO COUNTY the knife in his hands and began advancing at the dep- uties while screaming, "Kill me, just please kill me." Recognizing the man might be unstable, the depu- ties maintained distance and verbally communicated with the man to try to calm him. After a brief communi- cation and the visual pres- ence of a police K-9, the man dropped the knife and "peacefully laid down on the ground as instructed." The man was trans- ported to a local psychiat- ric emergency center for a mental health evaluation. — Kevin Kelly Pedestrian killed in car collision A pedestrian was killed after being hit by a car while crossing El Camino Real near the Shops at Tanforan on Saturday evening, ac- cording to San Bruno police. Officers were called at 7:57 p.m. to the 1100 block of El Camino Real on reports of the collision. They found the victim lying in the road- way south of Commodore Drive. The injured person was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead. The victim's identity was not immediately released SAN BRUNO pending notification of fam- ily. The driver stopped at the scene. Police said the victim was not in a crosswalk when the collision occurred, and the death remains under in- vestigation. Anyone with information about the case may contact San Bruno police at 650- 616-7100 or sbpdtipline@ sanbruno.ca.gov. — Robert Salonga