Rialto council awards $3.5 million in contracts to rehabilitate residential streets in Zone 3

The Rialto City Council on Aug. 25 awarded two construction contracts worth a combined $3,548,038 to rehabilitate residential streets.

The vote was 5-0, according to minutes posted with the council's Sept. 8 agenda. Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott made the motion and Council Member Edward Montoya Jr. seconded.

The contracts

The item (file 26-0514) covered two phases of what the city calls Residential Streets Rehabilitation Zone 3.

Phase I, City Project No. 26083, went to Hardy & Harper Inc. for $1,434,000. The city received 12 bids on July 15, against an engineer's estimate of $2.2 million, according to the staff report.

Phase II, City Project No. 26084, went to LCR Earthwork & Engineering Corp. for $2,114,038. The city received 11 bids on July 16.

The staff report identifies each company as the low bidder that was both responsible and responsive for its phase.

The council also authorized two task orders with Onward Engineering for construction management, inspection and materials testing: $76,093.85 for Phase I and $74,156.82 for Phase II.

Including design, the report estimates a cumulative cost of $1,653,634 for Phase I and $2,347,810 for Phase II.

Where the money comes from

Both phases are funded through the city's SB 1 gas tax fund, the report says. It puts the fund's current balance at about $8,390,133.

SB 1 is the state Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017.

The staff report says Phase I was on a list of SB 1 projects the council adopted in June 2025. It describes the project as targeting an area where residents have called and asked for street rehabilitation many times in recent years.

The report reviewed does not list the individual streets involved.

Staff determined the work is exempt from state environmental review as repair of existing facilities.

Also on Aug. 25

The council separately approved, 5-0, a Measure I capital project needs analysis for fiscal years 2027-28 through 2031-32 (file 26-0499).

Scott had pulled the item from the consent calendar. He said the listed projects were already completed and that the action moved Measure I money to repay the city, the minutes say. He asked that such items come as a separate agenda tab in the future so the spending can be explained to the public.

The consent calendar included a resolution (file 26-0535) authorizing a state Urban Greening Grant Program application for the Cactus Trail Urban Greening Project.

The council also approved side letter agreements with the Rialto City Employees' Association and the Teamsters mid-management union, 5-0 (file 26-0533).

After a public hearing, it adopted a resolution to file liens on properties with delinquent refuse accounts from the first quarter of 2026 (file 26-0506).

The meeting adjourned at 7:13 p.m.