Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFQ PW14-033 and award a contract to HDR Engineering, Inc., a Long Beach-based business, for engineering and architectural design services for the final design bid documents, construction bidding and support for the Shoemaker Bridge replacement project, in an amount not to exceed $4,700,000, for a period of three years, with the option to extend the contract for two additional one-year periods; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto regarding the term and/or scope of services.  (Districts 1,2)
Councilmember Richardson Andrews. Okay. It's. Motion carries 7 to 20. Item 20. From the Office or Department of Public Works and Financial Management. Recommendation to award a contract to HDR Engineering for Engineering and Architectural Design Services for the Schumaker Bridge Replacement Project in an amount not to exceed 4,000,700. Districts one and two. Councilman Gonzales. I want to first think that the dynamic threesome over there, which is are a million Derek Leask and Keiko Andersson for their very hard work on this project. I know every meeting we talk regularly about the updates for Shoemaker Bridge, and I'm always asking for updates and they're always gladly providing that. So I really want to thank your diligence in your hard work. I truly mean that in all of this. This has been a long time in the making, and I know that we're finally here at one point. And it's a it's a very large priority for the west side of the city and also for the district residents in the first district. I know the more that we connect and redesign the bridge to the park project, this will greatly benefit and contribute to the sustainability for our downtown and West Side residents. As I mentioned, for many reasons for safety, beautification and functionality, including green and open space, bike patters, bike and pedestrian paths. And and, you know, I couldn't be more proud of this project and what it will become hopefully done in the future. And I know this is only about a third, about 30% of the funding needed for the design portion. But we're looking for future collaborations with the public with public works and our government affairs director who's been wonderful as well, donating to find other funding streams. I know we went to D.C. a few months back to the Department of Transportation. We talked to them about what we could do. And I also want to think I would be remiss if I think or mayor as well, because he's the one with all these great ideas. And so I'm kind of finishing the times of great ideas. Yes. And so it's great to have that collaboration. So thank you very much for bringing this forward. Thank you, Councilmember Ringa. Yeah. There's also been a lot of discussion and the 710 committee that both leader and I said, well, you I used to sit on it. Lena sits on it now. And it's very important not only for the community of Long Beach in West Palm Beach, but also for the lower end of the 17 freeways as it transitions into the city. So looking forward to this development, finishing up. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Yes, I'm in full support of this. And also, I sit on the Gateway Cities Caucus of been a priority of that body as well. I did have a question. I know this is the initial study will be will be used with the funding with early action funds. And I wanted to know from Derek if if other early action items would be funded in this first round as well. Mayor, members of the City Council Council member Austin. Currently Shoemaker. Bridge Replacement Project is one of two funded early action projects. We anticipate more in the future as funding becomes available. There is 590. Million available over a 30 year period for the 710 corridor early action projects. However, the majority of the funding. Is in the what they call the second decades, which starts in 2019 is the second decade, and we anticipate a large chunk of funding at that time. Okay. I know that the the sound walls along the 17 Metro Blue Line near Los Cerritos were part of that early action request. Is that in the first decade or second decade? That's an excellent question. Let me be clear. The two projects I just mentioned are the two where the city of Long. Beach is the lead agency. The other early action project that is very important to the city of Sound Wall, but currently Metro as the lead agency are the sound wall projects. Those are broken up into freeway and non freeway sound walls. Council Member We've talked about what they call the non freeway sound walls in your district. The currently we're still in the inverter. Metro is still in the. Environmental phase and they anticipate that the actual design process will begin this year and construction is anticipated to begin as soon as funding is available within the next two years. Thank you for that clarification. Just just to compliment on Derrick's comments, there's a total of $10.8 million dedicated for the design of the sand walls for the entire corridor. But the most of the sand was in the city of Long Beach. So hence the city of Long Beach will benefit from majority of these sand walls. And as soon as a 710 environmental document is released, then the boundaries of the sand walls will be will be clear at that point, and then they can finish the design and the construction immediately following that. That's welcome news to many of our residents. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Supernova. Yeah. A question is brought up about the support structure for the new bridge. And would you have to take out the old bridge to accommodate for that? I guess it relates to maybe displacement of water or impeding the flow of water. And do you have a response to that? Absolutely. I have a small presentation if you have the appetite for it at this time, but we have a part of our design is to repurpose the existing bridge. And because of that we're going to leave the existing bridge in place and modify the, I would say, the West End to allow for a bike lane to connect the east side to the west side because of that and also because of army course requirements that hydro hydraulic calculations have shown that putting anything in the river will increase the hydraulic grade line or will cause the water line to exceed its that the dam at this point. So we probably will have to design a bridge that is a simple span spanning the entire span of the river without any supports. So even if the existing bridge remained or it did not remain, the new bridge had to be designed to be spanning over the entire span of the river. But also, if we want to have a signature bridge, we do want to have some kind of a stay cable state design that will be a signature to the entrance or the exit to the city at that point. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Or did you have any anything that you wanted to show the council briefly on? I have a presentation. It depends if you want to see it or not. If there are any questions, we can answer it. That's amateur. We'll in pleasure. And you have the presentation at your disposal in front of you. Okay. So I think, Councilman, did you did you want to go through. There's just some highlights that you'd like to point out just to get the the. What? Okay. Why don't you briefly go through it? I know it's a project of significance, so you can just take the council really quick through it. Absolutely. Oops. Okay. This is basically a site plan that shows the location of the project in reference to the overall IE 710 corridor and specifically the location of Shoemaker Bridge. This aerial photograph shows the location of the Shoemaker Bridge in reference to the other bridges, the Anaheim Bridge and Ocean Boulevard Bridge. As you can see, this is the third bridge from the mouth of the river. And it's. And it said the next slide will give you a little bit more history. This this bridge was designed and constructed and opened in 1959. It was the longest bridge span in that time. It was named after the chief harbor engineer, Robert R Shoemaker. And it connects the 710 to downtown Long Beach. This bridge is approximately 1300 foot clear span. The new bridge will be 1300 foot span spanning over L.A. River. It's 200 foot longer than the Gerald Desmond Bridge. I'm having some technical difficulties. Here we go. In 2000. In 2000, US City of Long Beach got into a milieu with the CTSI. Basically, the decision was at that time to relinquish the Tie Freeway to City of Long Beach and Caltrans will take over the the ownership of Shumaker Bridge. Deserve comparison between the I7 ten. The purpose and need and compare the shoemaker. Basically, you'll see there's a lot of similarities between the two projects, with the exception that Shoemaker Bridge now has to connect to Cesar Chavez and Direct Park Master Plan and also be part of the park expansion and re-use of the existing bridge is considered in this in this proposal. This is to define the project vision. We're basically trying to connect to downtown. Esthetically, it has to be a significant and a signature gateway to Long Beach. My comments have been to the consultants and to city staff that I would like to see this bridge on a U.S. stamp one day as far as it has to be sustainable and it has to have the safety elements that the current bridge does not have. These are our current partners and stakeholders. We have about 40 stakeholders and partners that we will be dealing with planning. Parks Harbor Department I 710 Esthetic Committee, the Willmore City Heritage Association. Caltrans Metro Gateway called the LBA and numerous other partners. The project goals are to create an extraordinary entrance to the city, enhance and improve green and open space. Preserve and repurpose the existing shoemaker bridge. Improve safety and calm traffic at entering downtown. This is just a picture of the two parks and how this bridge will be part of the the combination of these two parks and how we can combine them and create create a master park. This was a this is a picture or concepts of how the existing bridge can be repurposed and used for park and other recreational purposes. Going really fast. Basically the selection process we had so queues and RFQ sent out about May of 2014. A team which I'll tell you who they were before, are selected for firms that pre-qualified them. We ask them to to to bring their projects. We interviewed them and unanimously the team selected the HDR engineering company. The team was comprised of city managers, office and different departments, COG and Metro. Highlights of the HDR team's work in the city of Long Beach that are a local business. I'm kind of excited also that the structural consultant is Thailand International. They are very famous in designing long span bridges and they have designed the bridge at Hoover Dam. If you've seen the new bridge connecting it, that's part of that that work. First, look at the project schedule. We're hoping that by if you're gracious enough to allow this contract to move forward tonight, we will be able to have 30% design by mid 2017. With having more funding. We should complete the design of the bridge in 2018 and pending funding start construction in 2020. Potential cost for the bridge is between 130 to $200 million. That includes the repurposing of the existing bridge. And we estimate that this bridge construction will generate about 800 local jobs. It will require significant state and local funding and local funding. These are the coordination with the future. Future coordination as there are needed with a 7 to 17 corridor improvement project director Chavez and park master plan planning peer be with with the port they'll be must which is another public works project for municipal urban storm water treatment plant Yellow River Master Plan Improvements. I just conclude this report. If you have any more questions, you're more than welcome to ask. Thank you very much. Good report, Councilman Richardson. I just want to take a moment and say, you know, I've heard about this project for a long time. I know how important this is to the council districts wanting to congratulations. I think it's encouraging when you have a big vision. I know, Mayor Garcia, you worked on this a long time as well. I know when you have a big vision and you want to go for it and sometimes you might not have all the funding, but you want to shoot for it. Eventually it comes around. So congratulations. This inspires me to think even bigger in North Long Beach. So congratulations. I can't wait to see this. This park. Thank you. See? No other comment. Any public comment on the item? Senior public comment. Members, please go ahead and cast your vote. Motion carries nine zero. Thank you. Next item. I am 21. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending ordinance number c-6646 Providing for a change in establishing an IT and advisory body. Read an adopted as read citywide.