The Concord City Council is set to consider a project aimed at replacing turf landscaping along portions of Clayton Road with new drought-tolerant improvements. The proposed Street Median Turf Conversion Project would focus on medians along Clayton Road and Kirker Pass Road extending to Schenone Court. The council is being asked to award a construction contract worth up to $226,636 to CLS Cervantes Landscape Services Inc. for landscaping renovations and related work. In addition, the proposal includes a $500,000 budget transfer from the Clayton Road Pavement Rehabilitation project to help fund the median conversion effort.
City officials say the work is intended to renovate street median landscaping, which could include replacing traditional turf with more water-efficient materials and drought-resistant landscaping features. The project would be funded through Measure V revenues, Concord’s local half-cent sales tax measure used for infrastructure and transportation improvements.
Keep the half million in the Clayton Rd pavement rehab fund …. it’s needs all it can get
The Concord City Council complains that the City of Concord has no money, is running a deficit, and they’ve talked about having to raise Concord’s sales tax by putting a Measure on the ballot again in the future. If the City of Concord is in fact hurting for funding, then don’t spend the money on this landscaping project, just spend money on what’s necessary.
Will the project include a BRONZE PLAQUE listing names of council members,
as was done at Todos Santos ? ? ? ?
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Did city staff seek competitive BIDS, or is it a NO BID contract ? ? ?
The City opened a request for bids in Dec ’25 and closed the request a month later, Jan ’26.
Contract would be for 5 years of median and road maintenance with jobs valued up to
$10,000,000.00 per year.
Since they closed that request, one might assume they have already chosen Cervantes as the Five Year Contract bid winner.
This “formality” of bringing a request to the council for a single-job approval is just blowing dust in
our eyes to distract us from an already “done deal.”
If it weren’t for Public Comment minutes, I’d call Council meetings a total waste of time, but then we
know the attending ‘officials’ depend on these meetings to get their
per-attendance $$ Boost.
“$10,000,000.00 per year”
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Had no idea Concord was so flush with $ $ $ $ $ $ $
I heard they want to erect a giant bronze statue of Mark DeSaulnier in the median. Did they change their minds?
if they want to work on a road project around that area, why don’t they fix the abysmal state of affair/complete lack of walkways around the concord pavilion. In an area with so much foot traffic in and out, you would thing they would have large nicely paved areas to make it safe for people to walk. I just walked there for the first time to go to Kids Fest this weekend and was appalled at the complete lack of walkable sidewalks or pedestrian crossings.
It has been that way since I was a kid back in the 80’s, the roads look to be in the same shape as well. Too bad Concord/Clayton used to be such a safe slow suburb now all that city trash has been forced on us by the very people we elected in.
how about setting up a permeant speed trap there! cars come flying around that corner and speed all the way into Clayton. for sure would help pay for the landscaping…