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CITY OF DUBLIN
AGENDA STATEMENT
City Council Meeting Date: March 27, 1989
SUBJECT:
Dublin Sports Grounds Barrier Fencing for Softball
Fields
(Report by Public Works Director Lee Thompson)
EXHIBITS ATTACHED:
Sketch of location; specification '¡¡ill be available at
the Council meeting
RECOMI1ENDATION:
.~) Approve installation of fencing at Dublin Sports
~1 \ Grounds as a new parks Capital Improvement Project
/ / J'v 2' Authorize $16,000 budget transfer from the street
~ - maintenance operating budget to the Capital
Projects fund.
3) Authorize Staff to solicit bids.
FINANCIAL STATEME~T:
Estimated cost of the barrier is less than $16,000.
Some additional cost will be incurred from MCE for
trimming the trees so that the fen~e can be installed.
That cost will be paid from the parks operating budget
for Dublin Sports Grounds.
DESCRIPTION:
Caltrans is presently in the process of constructing auxiliary lanes on 1-580.
The new westbound lane is located in what was formerly a shoulder area, making
it much closer to the Dublin Sports Grounds than the travel lanes have been in .~
the past. The estimated date of completion for this lane is April 15th;
however, traffic will be using this lane as a detour as early as the week of
March 27th. Softball season begins the first week of April.
A few weeks ago, Staff was put on notice by the Umpire's Association that
there is a problem during the season with softballs being hit onto the freeway
on a daily basis from the two fields that are nearest I-58~. Restricted-
flight balls are already being used, but was found that the adult or teenage
players still have been able to hit balls over the existing six-foot fence and
onto 1-580,
For fields I and 2, Staff is proposing to install an 18-fo~t-tall barrier of
black-clad chain link in order to stop the balls from going onto the freeway.
The pole supports would be 18 feet high with the fabric lo~ated on the upper
12 feet. The existing six foot fence will cover the lower area. In addition,
a small extension to the batting cage for Field 6 is being proposed.
Because of the iIT~inent opening of both the auxiliary lane and the softball
season, Staff recommends that this barrier be installed as soon as possible.
The fence is considered to be a Capital Improvement, for w~ich funds have not
been budgeted for FY 1988-89. There will be sufficient funds available in the
Street Maintenance Operating Budget (based on the recent bid opening) to
transfer to ¡-he CIP Bur1D""'t for this project. Staff theref~re recommends that
the City Co~ncil add t:_:~ project as a new Capital Improve~ent Project,
authorize a budget transfer in the amount of $16,000 from the Street
}laintenance Operating Budget to the Capital Fund to cover the cost of the
project, and authorize Staff to solicit bids for construction.
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