Sutter County supervisors are scheduled to consider a proposed $231,000 purchase of 0.66 Riverine Riparian Reestablishment Credits from Hamilton Bend Mitigation Bank for the Sanders Road bridge replacement at Larkin Road. The Oct. 13 Board of Supervisors agenda also calls for a $46,200 down payment and a $254,100 irrevocable standby letter of credit to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The action is an environmental-compliance and project-finance step; the agenda does not establish that construction is about to begin. The credit purchase and financial guarantee are tied to permit conditions for the bridge replacement, but the supplied record does not explain how the $254,100 amount was calculated.
The project has already faced delays. A county Public Works/Support Services Committee agenda from Oct. 8 said bidding, permitting and right-of-way work had delayed the Sanders Road project and proposed extending R.E.Y. Engineers’ bridge-support agreement through Jan. 31, 2028. The staff material listed $477,286.77 remaining on the consultant’s $973,468 contract and said the extension would preserve support for permitting, bidding and construction.
The Oct. 13 agenda materials available for this report do not show the board’s final vote, whether the mitigation terms changed or a current construction start date. The next records to watch are the meeting minutes, an executed mitigation agreement and future bid or construction agendas.
