Say goodbye to the deteriorated timber paseo bridge over Carrizo Drive near Valencia Valley Elementary School.

The Santa Clarita City Council is scheduled to award a construction contract Tuesday to replace it with a new, prefabricated steel truss bridge.

The current bridge didn’t pass muster with a recent county inspection of bridges.

The city’s landscape maintenance district, responsible for maintaining all paseo bridges in the city, put the project to bid in July. There were three bidders: Toro Enterprises of Oxnard, which offered to do the job for $359,910; C.A. Rasmussen of Valencia, $401,738; and Los Angeles Engineering of Covina, $487,523.

According to a report from Curtis Nay of the public works department, Toro failed to sign and return necessary paperwork so its bid was tossed out. Nay is recommending the contract go to the next lowest bidder, Rasmussen, which is “in good standing with the Contractors State License Board” and whose bid “has been reviewed for accuracy and conformance to the contract documents and found to be complete.”

Nay is recommending that the council authorize a contingency iof $60,261 for a total contract amount not to exceed $461,999.

The project shouldn’t come as too big a surprise to nearby residents; Nay’s report indicates the city has “worked with the North Valley Homeowners Association and Valencia Valley Elementary School to inform them that the pedestrian bridge crossing at Carrizo Drive will be replaced.”