Chino approves $163,735 cooperative agreement with county to fix airport driveway grades

The Chino City Council on May 20 approved a cooperative reimbursement agreement with San Bernardino County to complete on-site driveway and parking-lot work at the Chino Airport hangar area.

Michelle Anderson, senior engineer, told the council the county requested the city perform additional grading and paving because an elevation difference existed between a newly constructed left-turn pocket on Kimball Avenue and an airport hangar parking lot. The county could not procure a contractor in a timely manner and asked the city to perform the on-site work while the turn-pocket was under construction. The county will reimburse the city for actual costs up to a not-to-exceed amount of $163,735. The city will establish the Chino Airport Driveway Improvement Project as CIP R7250 and appropriate the matching funds to the transportation fund.

Anderson said the project scope includes grading the lot to meet the new approach grades, paving, restriping, applying a slurry seal to the remainder of the parking lot, and reconstructing a west-side drive approach to city standards. The county intends to execute the cooperative agreement at its next board meeting; once executed the city will conduct informal bidding for construction and select consultants for geotechnical inspection and construction oversight. Staff anticipates construction this summer with completion in the fall, and found the project categorically exempt from CEQA.

Councilmember Lucio moved to approve the cooperative agreement and establish CIP R7250; Councilmember Comstock seconded and the motion passed 4-0 with the mayor absent.