Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. 3002120001 REBID and award a contract to Reyes Construction, Inc., of Pomona, CA, for construction of the Colorado Lagoon Open Channel Phase 2A Project (Project), in the amount of $20,817,600, authorize an 18 percent contingency in the amount of $3,747,168, for a total contract amount not to exceed $24,564,768, and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to amend the Memorandum of Understanding between the Public Works and Harbor Departments to accept an additional contribution of $5,700,000 for the Project; and Increase appropriations in the Tidelands Operating Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $5,700,000, offset by a transfer from the Harbor Fund Group in the Harbor Department. (District 3)
This is our final item of the evening. Item number 41. Item 41 is a report from Public Works Recommendation to award a contract to raise Construction Inc for construction of the Colorado Lagoon Open Channel Phase two A project for total contract amount not to exceed 24 million. Amanda And will you between the public works and harbor departments and increase appropriations by 5.7 million District three. Understand this is a very big project. It's been moved by Councilmember Price before. Would you like to. I'd like to ask for a brief staff report, please. We'll have Eric Lopez, the public works director, give a brief staff overview. Thank you, Linda. Council members at the now we we are in a very exciting place. We're ready to award a construction contract for the final phase of the Colorado Lagoon Restoration Project. This is a project that's been decades in the making, and this is a project that's had countless community volunteers and residents that have both advocated and helped with various parts of the restoration efforts. And now we're ready to kickoff the last phase, which is to reconnect the lagoon with a more natural open channel and reconnect the to alum, Marine Stadium and Alamitos Bay. This project that's possible through the creation of a mitigation bank, we were able to successfully work with the resource agencies at the state and federal level and create a mitigation bank proposal that was approved that allows us to create credits that harbor department are our partners at the Port of Long Beach have agreed to purchase. So it's the project is funded primarily through that through the ad revenue sourced from the sale of those credits. That's why we have a memorandum of understanding and it and it allows us to move forward with what this project were. We also got a good partner with Reyes Construction and we're ready to work with them and the community on the details for construction, which we anticipate will start sometime in the fall. So we will not be impacting any summer related activities at Marina Vista Park. So with that, I'm here to answer any questions, if you have any. Thank you. So I don't have any questions because I did receive a briefing on this earlier in the week. And of course, today I just want to thank staff for their amazing work and collaboration just within the city team and also with the harbor department. I want to thank the harbor commissioners who have considered this project and been tremendous partners to the city on it, allowing us to create this first coastal mitigation bank in the state, which has been a huge opportunity for reinvestment into this environmental habitat by the Port of Long Beach. This is going to be an incredible project and it's a necessary project. A lot of people don't realize that for the long term benefits of this particular lagoon, we're going to need to have open access to the open channel so that we can have ongoing water circulation to allow for good water quality in this lagoon for for generations to come. And so this is a huge project. Staff has been working on it for a very long period of time. I want to thank the community who's also been involved and especially the friends of the Colorado Lagoon for being incredible partners on this project. We're getting a lot of calls from residents regarding the project and when it's going to start. I'm grateful that it's not going to start until after the summer because I know we already have a lot of programing for the youth and for the communities in the park space surrounding the lagoon and Marina Vista Park. And I look forward to the project's starting and I have committed to the residents and of course confirmed with our staff today in our Tidelands meeting that we are going to stay in consistent communication so that we can let residents know at every opportunity what is coming next in terms of the project and the construction so that everyone can get ready for it. And this is an amazing environmental project for the city and I'm grateful for the work the staff has done. So Mr. Lopez and the entire Tidelands team, thank you for your work. Great. Thank you for those comments. Thank you for the report, Councilwoman. Your Honor. Yes, if I recall correctly, this project came before the Coastal Commission a few years ago and I was very happy to see the project going forward. I think we approved it and it's finally coming to fruition. If I remember correctly, it's it's quite a project that offers a lot of opportunity to activate a lot of the play areas and a lot of opportunities for for kids or for summer programing as well as throughout the year. So looking forward to this project being completed and to a ribbon cutting eventually some day early. I. Is in. And I'm told that this is one of a kind in terms of this is the only project that was happening in the state of California. So kudos, Councilmember Price, kudos, public works and Coastal Commission and everyone who had anything to do with this, any public comment. Dave Shukla and David. Paretsky. Wonderful piece approached the podium. Someone asked, and while they're walking up, I would be remiss to say I am the closer on this project. But Congressman Lowenthal, Gary DeLong, Frank Colonna and our mayor have had a tremendous role in this. I am just literally the closer of a project they all started, and I'm grateful to have been in that seat when the project came forth. Dave Shukla. Quickly walk all the way back home using this very route. And it's. In the past 25 years improved, but especially in the past couple of years really improved. And this is a great project I'm fully in support of. It would be helpful if we already owned and operated all of our own utilities to be able to move projects like this one along faster. But that notwithstanding, there is a considerable amount of. Redoing of the natural landscape that was done in a very short amount of time to develop it. And this is one of the very few projects, not the only one actually in the state, just the only one that is coastal, but with a few projects in the state that's designed to actually increase and restore some of the natural capacity of from previously urbanized areas. With respect to the utility. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Dave Peraza, board member with Friends of Colorado Lagoon. I've got so much to say that it would take 30 minutes, but I'm just going to say a couple of things. First of all, I want to thank the council and particularly Councilmember Price's leadership. It would have been easy to, at the beginning of her last term to say, you know what, we made great progress. Let's let's call it done. But she really made a priority of getting this last step done. And we are forever thankful for that work. I also really want to thank Public Works. We've been fortunate over this 20 year process to have had some incredible people to work with in public works, and we've had a lot of curves along the way. Obstacles came up in not just funding, but technical obstacles and things like that. And every single time, city staff, particularly in public works, has found a way to make this work. We've done this. Mr. LOPEZ. Correct. Can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe we've completed every single step that was identified in our restoration feasibility study except for this open channel. And we've done so without using any general funds from the city of Long Beach. It's all been done by bringing grants into the city of Long Beach, federal, state and and even the original restoration feasibility study was paid for by a grant from the California Coastal Conservancy. So my hat's off to Mr. Lopez and his staff. Truly incredible work. And lastly, I'd like to thank the Port of Long Beach. They've been great partners throughout this process. They've saved our bacon multiple times. They have supported us financially. They have provided technical expertize, and they even bring their port volunteers down to events we have at the lagoon. They have been truly great partners. And this is one of the great things about Long Beach, if you ask me, is we've got a port, we've got great city departments, we have a wonderful city council that can see these visions. And this is how over 25 years since we first started that we have arrived here today. So obviously I urge your consideration to approve this. We're very excited as the whole community is, to get this project going. There have been some wonderful renderings that have come out of the design documents, and when people in the community see these renderings, they get very excited. It's really going to be beautiful. Hope to see all of you down there when it's complete in what may be a year or 18 months. And again, I thank you all and please support this next. That concludes the public comment. Okay. Thank you. Is there any other comments from behind the rail with not let's vote on this momentous occasion. Members, please vote. The carry.