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City Council agenda previewWHAT: Santa Clarita City Council meeting
WHEN: 6 p.m. Tuesday
WHERE: City Hall, 23920 Valencia Boulevard
CONTACT: (661) 259-2489
The council will consider the following items Tuesday:
• Approve an exclusive right to negotiate an agreement with AF Main Street LLC to redevelop a full block in downtown Newhall for a potential mixed use retail/residential project
• Renew the contract worth no more than $3,200,000 for a five-year period with Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc. to provide the red-light photo enforcement equipment for the Citywide Red Light Photo Enforcement Program
• Approve the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Santa Clarita Valley Station's request to continue funding the Career Offenders Burglary Robbery Apprehension (COBRA) Team using the fiscal year 2008-09 Citizens' Option for Public Safety Funds
• Adopt a resolution authorizing submittal of an application for grant funds from the Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District Specified Grant Project
• Direct the city manager to continue efforts with community stakeholders to create a Joint Powers Authority or nonprofit organization to partner in the administration and direct financial support of Channel 20
• Appropriate funds worth $180,000 from the Public, Education and Government (PEG) Capital Grant Fund Balance and appropriate $25,000 to continue the operation of Channel 20. Enter into a professional services agreement for no more than $25,000 with SCVTV to operate Channel 20
• Reject all proposals as nonresponsive to the published requests
Next meeting:
6 p.m. Jan. 13 at City Hall, 23920 Valencia Boulevard.
(No City Council meetings are scheduled for the remainder of 2008 due to the holidays.)
Signal Staff Writer
tmarashlian@the-signal.com
Posted: Dec. 7, 2008 5:44 p.m.
If all goes to plan, Santa Clarita Valley drivers will be able to use the eight-and-a-half mile cross-valley connector roadway linking Canyon Country and Valencia as early as 2010, a city official said Friday.
All city workers need to build is one quarter-mile bridge that runs over the Santa Clara River and connects Golden Valley Road to Highway 126 through the northern edge of Valencia.
"This is the end. The last leg of the $245 million cross-valley connector road," said Gail Ortiz, city spokeswoman.
The Santa Clarita City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to approve the plans and specifications and award a construction contract worth $21,223,403 to Rancho Cordova-based C.C. Meyers, Inc. for construction of the bridge.
Along with the main contract, the council will decide whether to award various construction support contracts totaling $2,165,000 to other organizations.
Once approved, construction will last 14 months, Ortiz said.
"We are on the big countdown," Ortiz said.
City officials view the cross-valley connector as a way to relieve congestion on heavily-used city streets like Soledad Canyon Road and the intersection at Bouquet Canyon and Soledad Canyon roads.
"It's the first major east-west alternate roadway in this valley," Ortiz said. "This has been long needed."
The nine-year process to build the cross-valley connector involved numerous agencies and environmental approvals, Ortiz said.
Portions of the cross-valley connector were completed since the city initiated the project in 1999.
Building the final piece of the puzzle is a complex undertaking because of the dramatic topography of the river, Ortiz said.
Ortiz anticipates a Jan. 26 ground breaking ceremony for the final six-lane bridge.
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