Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents necessary for a Lease with GCC LONG BEACH, LLC (Landlord), and the City of Long Beach (Tenant), for the use of the premises at 2019 East Wardlow Road for the temporary location of Fire Station 9, for a period of three years; Increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Fire Department by $246,400; and Decrease appropriations in the Capital Project Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $246,400, to offset the transfer to the General Fund Group. (District 5)
It gives me great cause. Could we please do item 21? I'm sorry. Absolutely. We're going to look at 21. Item 21 Report from Economic Development and Fire. Recommendation to execute a lease with JCC, Long Beach and the City of Long Beach for the use of the premises at 2019 East Wardlow Road for the temporary location of Fire Station nine. District five and any further comments in the statement? Vice Mayor. We do have a presentation on this item. A short presentation? Fine, thank you. Can we please hear? Right. So economic development will be given a presentation on this. This is a wonderful item on our new temporary location for Fire Station nine. The team has worked really hard to find a new place to have our temporary headquarters, which also helps reduce response times. So with that, I will turn it over to Sergio Ramirez, who will give the report. Thank you, Tom. Good evening, Vice Mayor and council members. As you know, Fire Station nine had located at 3917. Long Beach Boulevard had a was forced to close in 2019 due to environmental and health concerns that forced us to relocate the crew, equipment and apparatus. The staff and the apparatus had to be relocated to two nearby fire stations in the area fire station 16 and 13. Accommodations for staffing include temporary trailers that are not considered sufficient for long term habitation and compliance with health and safety and operation requirements. A permanent site development is likely to take place for another 2 to 3 years. Is that that. No, no, I'm sorry. I have a little bit more. We're having technical difficulties. Okay, but go ahead. If if we have the item to display for the public, we would like to get that. Sure. We have identified a temporary location at the former Boeing. Fitness facility, which is located at 2019. East Wardlow Road. As you recall, the Boeing sold the property, the former C-17. Site, which included the Boeing. Fitness facility to Goodman last year. The building is approximately 16,500 square feet and can accommodate the of the the temporary fire station. This will help reduce response time by about to approximate 2 minutes. In regards to proposed lease terms, we're going to be the city will be paying approximately $10,000 per month for about a three year period . This will allow this lease will allow us to activate the building. For during the temporary. Period while the Permian location is identified and secured. And built. As part of the lease, the city will pay the maintenance and improvements of the building. The total fiscal impact as mentioned for the for the the lease based on the 10,000 roughly $10,000 a month will translate to about $123,000. Utilities are anticipated. About. $43,000 per year. And we are anticipating a one time capital tenant improvement cost of about $200,000. Funding sources for this project will. Be a mixture of measure. Refunds, as well as the admission or temporary savings from the elimination of the trailers and some general fund. Annual operation. Budget savings. If approved this evening, we will immediately execute the temporary lease and move forward with tenant improvements over the next couple of months and target a moving date of October 1st. And with that now I complete my presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Sergio. I did want to add one thing. Actually, our response times are looking at about a minute and a half for the engine in terms of an improvement to the response time and up to two and a half minutes for the rescue. And with that, we are available to answer questions. Fine. Is there any public comment available? There is no public comment for this item. Any comment about an error? I can go ahead and just I'll go. I know we had Councilman Austin and Councilmember Ringo that did the first and the second. Councilmember Austin, did you have any additional comments? Yes. This is actually welcome news. To our community. I want to thank all of our staff for the focus, the commitment from Tom, the entire team, economic development, obviously our fire department, public works, everyone who had anything to do with moving us to this position. Obviously, this is not the optimal solution. We would love to be able to say that we have a permanent fire station, a fire station nine secured. That is still underway. We also have the money from air fly 20 to help us achieve that. I did have a couple of questions just to get some clarification and. I guess this is for the city manager. How soon will the tenant improvements be able to be completed and that this location can be opened? We have an estimated date. Yes. So with there, with your approval, we would sign this lease agreement in July. We would do the tenant improvements immediately and have Goodman do those. And they're going to do those very quickly in August and September with a target moving date of October 1st. Okay. That's very encouraging. So little over two months. And so I've also heard from several residents, and I just want to put it out there who would love to see Fire Station nine? Current Fire Station nine preserved and adaptively reuse. I know there's some current. There's apparently a drought. The air that we're currently studying in the former site along the boulevard probably. And take your time. By the council approved in the lease for Fire Station nine. Does that help to fill the temporary station? Does that help take off some of the urgency of having to take action at the former site? Yes. So we had originally when we started this about a year ago, we were looking for a the fastest temporary site available. So that looked to be station nine at the time. We got, however, deeper into it and discovered we needed to do a full year. That air is just about done and ready to be released. However, we do expect that our common period to take some additional time. We know there's a high level of interest in the community and so this was a quicker building for us to be able to get into. We still want to finalize that air process, but and then the council will be able to make some decisions on what to do with that city asset. I appreciate that. And and I think it's important to mention that this is not negotiations for a permanent site is is the search in negotiations for a permanent site is still ongoing. And then one final question time. I would just say, with the air still moving forward, is it correct that ultimately it will be up to the city council? What happens with the former fire station site? Yes, that's correct. It will be a city asset and we'll have a lot of information from the air on the status of it, including also some of the challenges that that building has in terms of, you know, the damage in the mold. But it would be up to the city council, first in closed session and then an open session on how to what to do with that facility going forward. Okay. Well, thank you for for clarifying that. Again, I want to thank the entire team, city team for all their work to do to help address our public safety response system. This temporary site, I believe, will help do that. Again, I want to thank Chief Espinal, especially for his dedication to help make this happen as well. And with that, I would just ask for my colleagues to support this. Thank you. Thank you, customary, Ringo. Thank you, Mary. And I want to thank Cosmo Rossett for his comments on this question. He addressed basically everything that I had in mind, especially when it came to pay life. And I'm very happy to see that there will be a continuation of service in that area, very much needed. And hopefully that the time, the response rates will stay as low as possible. Thank you very much. Thank you Councilmember I'm seeing nobody else queued up customers and day house I know you had try to second the motion or did you have a comment. Good. Thank you, Mayor. Great. I just want to I just want to add I want to just concur with the council members. This is such an important project and just so important to have for the community. And I'm just really want to thank first both Councilmember Offset and Councilman Ranga. They've both been working on this issue incredibly hard and in the community. So I just want to thank them both for this and also the staff and the fire department. We want to make sure that obviously fire service all across the city, but also in this part of town, that people are well served and the people feel good about their access to the department. So just thank you for all the work. And with that, we do a roll call vote. District one. I district to. On District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. I just put seven. I. District eight. Hi. District nine. All right. Motion carries. Right. Thank you. We are now moving on to the next item, which is going to be item number 18.