Committee advances roughly $699,000 amendment for Kennedy Jenks construction support at Westlake Tahoe plant

Sara Wissant Johnson, engineering manager, told the committee the Westlake Tahoe Regional Treatment Plant remains under construction and staff proposed Amendment No. 5 to the professional services agreement with Kennedy Jenks to update construction support through project closeout.

Sara said the amendment extends the project schedule (the current anticipated construction completion date is February 2025) and adds engineering-of-record and on-site inspection and commissioning support. She gave program metrics to show the work remaining and the level of effort: "We have processed 918 submittals," she said, and reported 352 requests for information and 83 design-change memoranda. Sara told the committee the amendment "brings our construction support total to 6,600,000," and recommended the item for consent.

Committee members agreed to place the amendment on the consent agenda. The transcript lists the amendment amount with ambiguous punctuation; staff described it to the committee as roughly $699,000 and said the change would increase the construction-support total to about $6.6 million. Clarifying details recorded by staff include the submittal and RFI counts used to justify the increased construction-support effort. The committee did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript; staff recommended approval on consent and the chair confirmed consent.