Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-6958 for the Improvement of Pine Avenue, between Seaside Way and Anaheim Street; award the contract to All American Asphalt, of Corona, California (not a MBE, WBE, DBE or Local), for the base bid in the amount of $4,370,286 and the additive bid for items AB-2, AB-3 and AB-5, in the amount of $57,021, for a total of $4,427,307, plus a 15 percent contingency of $664,096, for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,091,403; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents and necessary amendments to award street light additive bid items AB-1 and AB-6 through AB-13, for a total of $751,331, plus a 15 percent contingency of $112,700, for a total contract amount not to exceed $864,031, to City Light and Power under its existing agreement with the City of Long Beach; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $2
Motion carries nine votes. Item 2222 is a recommendation about plans and specifications for the improvement of Pine Avenue between Seaside Way and Ninth Street. An award of contract to all American asphalt in an amount not to exceed $5.091 million and authorize city manager to execute an agreement with city lighting power for the provision of well, I can't see here an additive additive street light additive bid items. We got it. Thank you. I'm a conservative councilor. Lowenthal thank you. Just continuing on with my gratitude for our community partners and our staff as well, and particularly the Dolby, for its commitment. We're very fortunate to have many distinct neighborhoods here in the city and business corridors, each with their own character and Main Street like element to them. However, Pine Avenue has been our city's main street historically and without a doubt a critical part of the downtown's revitalization with its cultural, entertainment, dining, retail and residential contributions. So it's been over two decades since Pine Avenue was improved to this degree, but the timing could not be better in terms of public sector investment that supports private sector prosperity. I trust from the stakeholder meetings held recently that staff has an appreciation for the types of issues, construction for the types of issues construction will bring to businesses and residents so that we can make improvements in an efficient manner without severely impacting our daily routines. And I'd like to thank you for your support for that. Thank you. Mr.. And come on up and as you come up, this is extremely exciting for for us in Leamington downtown, we're essentially reimagining Pine Avenue from Shoreline all the way to Anaheim with streets, new landscaping, street furniture. It's going to be a real great project. And thank you to to you and the deal for being such a part a big part of that. So thanks. For coming. I really appreciate that. And I just want to take a moment to thank you, Councilmember Lowenthal, as well as city staff for resurrecting this project. This project could have easily been left in the grave when the RDA was dissolved, but with the forethought and certainly the perseverance of yourself and Councilmember Lowenthal City staff and our board of directors, we resurrected this project, although it's not the $35 million project that it was three years ago, the $5 million or four and a half million dollar project today will go a long way. And certainly the residents and the business owners are looking very much forward to this. We want to be able to thank you as well as the stakeholders and our board for this. We look forward to that celebration, hopefully later this month or early next month and really kick off this project and get it done and really make Pine Avenue look the way it should look. And certainly it does help with the new stakeholders coming in. To the district. And to the area. So thank you very much for your support. Absolutely. And to all the residents on this issue. Be patient. Pine Avenue will be under construction for for a few months, but it will be a great end result. So with that, we have a motion on the floor. Please go ahead and members, cast your votes. I mean. Yes. Great job, Greg. Motion carries eight votes. Yes. Okay. And we did 23. So we're going to go and move on to new business. Councilman Andrews. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would like to announce the 26th annual Martin Luther Junior King Peace in Unity Parade celebration on January the 18th this year. Our special guest performance is by the R&B band Rolls Royce, singing the hit song Car Wash leading up to the parade. We have martin luther king jr. Peace week, a week long celebration of events within the community to instill a peaceful environment and utilize the teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King's This Week celebration January 11th to the 18th Peace Week included the seventh annual Martin Luther King and Candlelight Peace March. That will be Saturday, January 11, by 5 p.m. for McBride Park. This is the march in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. I invited all the residents of Long Beach to join me and Mayor Bob as we continue this wonderful neighborhood, March for Peace.