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6.1.E. - Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager February 26, 2018 SUBJECT Redwood Shores Lagoon Aquatic Vegetation Management Services RECOMMENDATION By motion, approve and authorize the City Manager to execute Amendment No. 1 to the General Services Agreement with Waterworks Industries Incorporated for aquatic vegetation management services from April 1, 2017 to September 7, 2017 in an amount not to exceed $233,502.50 for a total not to exceed contract price of $622,202.50 BACKGROUND Public Works Services Department (PWS) monitors and maintains water quality in the Redwood Shores Lagoon. The maintenance of the water quality includes removing aquatic vegetation and controlling algae. The City has been utilizing a contractor to perform these tasks. In a typical year, the work starts at the beginning of April and ends in early September. ANALYSIS To control algae in the Lagoon, a copper -based algaecide has been used under a permit from the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The City has been in contract with Waterworks Industries for aquatic vegetation management since 2004 until the last agreement ended in 2014. In the process of issuing a new Request for Proposal (RFP), for the Lagoon maintenance, PWS Staff was advised by the City Attorney's Office to perform a CEQA Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) process in order to receive a regulatory exception to continue use of copper -based algaecide. The MND process took over twenty-six months and the City received an exception determination on March 24, 2017. During that time, PWS continued to use Waterworks Industrial for aquatic vegetation management on an as needed basis and paid them as services were received. The same month the City received the regulatory exception determination from the RWQCB, staff issued an RFP for Redwood Shores Lagoon Aquatic Vegetation Management and Waterworks Industries was again determined as the lowest responsible bidder among the three bids that were received. On August 28, 2017, the