Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles (Metro), to accept the donation of the retired P865 Nippon Sharyo light rail vehicle car #100 of the former Long Beach Blue Line; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents with Heavy Transport, of Long Beach, CA, to transport and deliver the vehicle from its current location to Long Beach, in an amount not to exceed $40,000.  (District 2)
Thank you. And now we pull item six. If I can, please have the clerk read item six. Recommendation to execute an agreement with Metro to accept the donation of the former Long Beach Blue Line and authorize city manager to execute an agreement with heavy transport to transport and deliver the vehicle from its current location to Long Beach District to. Thank you. If I can get a motion and a second on this and I do have some comments, I'm going to have staff. Just make a few remarks. Thank you, Mr. Modica. I want to I'm going to just have staff make a few comments in a minute if there's anything to add to the report. But I do want to broadly add that I wanted to pool this because this is this is an initiative that we've been working on now for for a few years. When I was serving on the Metro Board, we noticed that the as the Metro trains were going to be replaced, they were going to scrap the old car 102, which of course, for those that know car 100, it was actually named after our city. It's called the Long Beach Car 100 and is the very first metro car in the history of the L.A. County rail system. And it traveled from downtown Los Angeles to downtown Long Beach decades ago and kicked off. It was the very first metro ride in the region. And on that on that train, it was actually then Janice Hahn, who was a young girl at the time, who was with her dad, Kenneth, then supervisor Kenneth Hahn, who actually inaugurated the line. There's a lot of history to that train. I began some efforts and with Supervisor Hahn support to restore and preserve the train. We worked with our staff. I want to thank our entire team. This became much more complex, of course, than you can imagine. But we were able to get Metro to donate the train to help us restore it to its original look and in the way that it was a service. And now being able to actually accept the train now that it's complete and we can now store it here in the city on that train, there is a plan to install it in downtown Long Beach in the East Village, right adjacent to where the train actually went right through when it came from downtown L.A. And we have a great team working on that. I do want to thank Supervisor Horne for her work and continued partnership and fact. We have a strong partnership in the future and how we're going to actually restore this train. Mr. Mark, is there anything that you want to add to that? I think you said that very well. This is an exciting project and thank you for your time on the Metro Board and helping to make this a reality. We have cobbled together a number of different funding sources from federal, state and regional. We don't have any general fund in this project. This is all grant funded and it's a great opportunity to activate a space that is currently not all that active over on the first street behind the Westin and bring a piece of Long Beach history. So, Eric Lopez, if you want to add anything else as the project manager, I will turn it to you. Thanks, Tom. I would just add that we're really excited to move forward. This is an exciting project that our team is has been working hard on. The next step is to continue with the planning and design, and there will be more opportunities for the public to. Get involved and engage in this and this in this. Great effort. So that that's what I'd like to add. Thank you, Mr. Lopez. And I think for the council also, the kind of original proposal was to bring the original train. It would be installed onto the street and affixed to the street, and it could hopefully really create a as a museum of sorts and to honor the history of rail across the county and honor the history of that car, particularly being called the Long Beach Car 100. But then also look at ways of activating that same space. And maybe there is a way of bringing a cafe or a food service adjacent to the train that could provide and activate the space around the train as well. And so that really becomes an experience for people as they as they visit downtown or riding the blue line. They can come back, come right off the bat station, their one on one boulevard in a first, and the train will be visible from that station. So it's a very exciting project. I have a motion by Councilwoman Allen and a second by Councilmember Durango. Councilwoman Allen. Thank you. I am very excited about this. And thank you, Mayor Garcia, for your leadership in securing this valuable historic asset for our community. And I also want to thank staff for all of their work in coordinating this. I can't wait to see this, which will be located in the heart of downtown. And it's just going to be a great experience for all of our friends and neighbors and children who come to visit. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Ranga. Thank you, Mayor. Before I continue, I want to thank you for the statement you made for opening our opening our city council meeting. It's very appropriate that we recognize and condolences and congratulations to the Floyd family. Thank you for preserving part of Lambert's history. And I think it's going to be a wonderful addition to our downtown and I looking forward to it being activated as either an active museum and or a restaurant. That would be that would be great. And I'm glad to have the motion. Thank you, Carlton Brosnan. Thank you. I was queuing up the second the motion, but I will just say that this is a good news for our downtown preserving the airline. I believe I was with you or Mr. Mayor when they actually retired that car a few years ago, maybe three years ago. And it was discussed that we would actually get to this point. And so I'm happy to support the item, and I think I'm really excited about the opportunity to honor rail on the blue line now. Now, the A-line is is synonymous with with Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. And Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just wanted to chime in. I think projects like this are great. It's very exciting. Whenever we get to recognize a piece of history now about hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, we're able to write them on the on the Long Beach 100. And so to bring it back is a really, really exciting project. So congratulations to you. Congratulations to the Metro Board. Congratulated supervisor on your report. What this turns into. Thanks. Great. Thank you. And with that, we do have a member of the public, I believe it's a representative from Supervisor Humphrey's office, Freedom Corp. I'm sorry. She did not make the call tonight, so there is no public comment for this item. Great. Well, thank you very much. Let's call the rock office. District one. I. District two. I district three. I. District for. I District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. All right. District nine. All right. Motion carries. Thank you. And then with that, I have item number nine, please. There is a bit about four requests for items to be moved up before the study session. So to try to honor all the requests, I know various council members have asked for different ones, so I'm going to try to get through those as much as possible