The Redlands City Council voted 4-1 on July 21 to approve a $5.54 million construction contract for the California Street and Redlands Boulevard Intersection Widening Project, which will expand a key arterial roadway and upgrade traffic, utility and flood control infrastructure near Interstate 10.
Councilmember Paul Barich cast the lone dissenting vote.
The council awarded a public works construction contract to Beador Construction Company Inc. of Costa Mesa in an amount not to exceed $5,537,700. The council also approved transferring $4.4 million currently budgeted in the Arterial Street Fund to the Local Transportation Fund and authorized an additional $1,137,700 appropriation to fully fund the project…