Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7026 for Improvements of the 6th Street Bicycle Boulevard Project; award the contract to Sully-Miller Contracting Company, of Brea, CA, in the amount of $821,000, and authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $82,100, for a total contract amount not to exceed $903,100; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments; and Accept Categorical Exemption No. CE-57-09. (Districts 2,3)
Thank you. We're going to take a couple out of order here. The next one is 19. That was the first one to be requested to move up the stairs. Take take that one now. Mr.. We'll take a moment. Mr. Vice Mayor, I'll be recusing myself from. Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to invite you to to do that. That's fine. Thank you. So we'll take a moment to allow Councilmember Price to exit the room and we'll move forward. Report from Public Works. Recommendation to award a contract to Sally Miller Contracting Company for improvement of the Sixth Street Bicycle Boulevard Project for a total contract amount not to exceed 903,100. District two and three. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. Okay. Can we have a brief staff report, please? We can have a brief staff report by Public Works director Craig Beck, who has been working on this for a few years. Okay, it's. Not quite a few years, but I'm getting closer. Vice mayor, member, members of the council this evening, we're pleased to bring before you another evolution in our ever growing master bicycle plan for the city. This is another bike boulevard similar to some that we've implemented on Pacific and Vista. This is on Sixth Street. We believe it's an important East-West connection linking a number of different neighborhoods. We're excited to have this before you this evening and are available to answer any questions. Thank you. Councilmember Pierce. Yes, I did ask for a staff report. Card staff has been working really hard on this and the community members around this bike boulevard are really excited about it. So I want to thank you guys for all the work and I urge my colleagues to support this vote tonight. Well done. Thank you, Councilman Austin. I support. Thank you. Is there any public comment on this item? Please come forward and you have 3 minutes. Good evening. Know Neal Belmont Heights. I have a question about. Originally this project was proposed as a application for a funding federal fund. Safe routes to school, I believe, was the initial application by Sumi Gant way back in 2011. So my question is, has that grant been granted? I think it was $500,000 initially. Is this contract being paid for partially by that grant or is this going to be city money? So who's paying for the Bike Boulevard? AS My first question and second question is, does this $821,000 cover the complete two and a half miles of the Bike Boulevard from Junipero to Bellflower? And if not, what portions does the $821,000 contract cover? And then my third question is. To date, there has not been any public notifications. To six Street Boulevard. Residents regarding the Bike Boulevard itself. What it's going to look like, how it's going to affect their parking, how it's going to affect their passing through the neighborhood and so forth and so on. And so my question is what sort of public mailings will be issued, public notices about the construction that is apparently, at least under this agenda item going to start in July, which is just very. It's in a couple of months. So I'm a sixth Street resident and I would like to know what the plans are. And will we have will the residents on Sixth Street for. That two and a half miles have public notice of the construction and information that they can be educated and contacts that they can reach if there's any questions? That was it. Thank you for your time. And I know that there's quite a few questions there. Some are outlined in the memo. And Councilman Pearce, do you want to just. Yeah, I was just going to ask Steph, if you could just clarify, one, the funding and to the community engagement process? Yes, certainly, this has been a process that's been evolving. There have been multiple community meetings to talk about the Sixth Street Bike Boulevard. We are prepared to move forward, as you mentioned, in July. So we're roughly 45 days out before we we see a notice to proceed. And all of the funding is from transportation grants. There is no general fund involved with this particular project. And I'm happy to after this item, I can talk to you about specifics and give you my card and you can address any questions you have my way. Banking Council among them. And then just a point of clarification, I appreciate when our city management staff talk about grant funds. They're all tax dollars in one way or another. The difference is also with these types of tax dollars, if we don't apply it, another city would get them. So it's not as though we want to use money on things that we don't need. That's never the goal. But they are grant funds that are specific for a purpose. And so they have to be used within that purpose. And I know that that can often be confusing on some of the other projects we've worked on. When people ask about that variance, I just wanted to make that clear. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no further comment or public comment or council comment members, please cast your vote.