Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-6999 for the East Division Police Substation, award the Base Bid and Alternates 2, 3, 4 and 5 to Robert Clapper Construction Services, Inc., of Rialto, CA, in the amount of $5,617,736, and authorize a contingency in the amount of $498,774, for a total contract amount not to exceed $6,116,510; authorize City Manager to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto, and adopt and accept Mitigated Negative Declaration No. MND 02-13; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $7,063,951; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) by $226,348, increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund (SR 120) by $132,762, and increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) by $660,000, all in the Police Department (PD). (District 5)
Item 15 Recommendation to Adopt Plans and Specifications Award a bid to Robert Klapper Construction Services for a total contract amount not to exceed 6,000,116. Increase appropriations in capital project funds. District five moved. A contribution to Java. Yes, I think this is great and long overdue and in the spirit of consistency, I just wanted to, I guess, raise a question to to step in and ask whether or not there's a local hiring agreement in place for for this project. Montgomery Councilmember. I don't believe that that was included in the RFP. Constable Austin. So is there a possibility to do that? I at this point, it would require renegotiating with the the bidders. Possibly rebidding. Them. What I would just just say in the future and this is a rather large, large project that that understand understanding that for an interest of expediency that we need to move forward but but future and I think we're addressing that through other means anyway that that we would consider this as well because this is a significant public works project that will benefit the entire city. And again, we have made a commitment on numerous occasions now, and I've heard from just about every council member, most of us want to see a local preference in terms of hiring for projects in the future. Message received. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Councilman, if I can just point out that that's absolutely true. The Council's directed us to do that, and Mr. Miller was earlier in this evening. We're in the process of negotiating that right now. So the Council did directives to come back. And I'm hoping in the next 30 to 60 days you'll see a play project before the city council that would allow all projects above $500,000 to be. Involved for that. So we certainly would do that. Thank you. And, Mr. Mayor, one the before we leave the subject, I do want to I see Mr. John Keisler standing back there. I want to highlight John. John is our finance guru in the police department. And he was although Mr. Conway's been incredible getting us here tonight, it was Mr. Keisler who was able to work so wonderfully with the police department's budget to guarantee that this facility is all that the police department wants it to be. And if I could I'm sorry to follow up with that, Mr. West. I can't overlook Sarah Price, who's in the audience here this evening as well, who's really project managed this through a couple of arduous periods of time. So thank you, Sarah, for your efforts as well. Thank you, Katherine Mungo. It would be. I would be remiss not to thank the police department and the. City management staff. Not only did we take this project and I think we're financially in a better standpoint than we thought we would be when we originally bid the project. It also is a lead certificate certified facility all within the context of the current. Contract before you. Thank you, Councilman Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. I want to also well, I want to thank Councilmember Austin for bringing up a very important issue in regard to local hires. But I think more importantly, I think I want to bring up the point that there were a number of maybe Whidbey Seabee. Enterprise enterprises that applied for this and that want got got appointed. So I want to in the future date, I want to have a report on how many contractors we have out there who are maybe will be the BCB entities out there because I'm not seeing it. I'm not seeing it on this report. We talk about diversity. We talk about diversity on this on this council. We talk about diversity in hiring. We talk about diversity in in the city. And I'm not seeing it in contracts. And if we're going to affect local hires and we're going to affect providing job opportunities for people who live in Long Beach, people who look who look and live like us, I think we need to hire contractors who have that type of sensitivity. And I'm not I'm not I'm not seeing that. So I'd like to perhaps get a report later on, just like I want a report on diversity to bring this forward so we can start addressing how we can go out and find those. Maybe we BCB DB enterprises that can do the job that we want to do. Do you want to explain what that is for? I there's a couple of customers who may not. Know what you're referring. To. Okay. Minority business, enterprise, we have been in enterprise. I don't know what SB is small, but small business enterprise and. There's a disadvantage advantage. Business enterprise. And you know, I mean, I think that should be an important aspect of what we look for when we go out and look for contracts. It's not only about the lowest possible bidder, but it's also looking at the types of businesses that we contract with. Mr. West. Hello. The council was asked for either a public update or some kind of report back on the process, because I think that there's a lot of interest in that. And so, I mean, maybe this is a larger discussion. You and I have talked about this, but I think that we need to have a conversation at the council about that process so that everyone understands what it's like. And there's a there's a commitment to supporting, obviously, that that process as well. Certainly, we'll come back to you. As you see, every project that we do award has a list on where we have the disadvantaged businesses, minority businesses, and we'll get back to a report on how that some evaluated in the bid process. Thank you. There's a motion on the floor. Any public comment on the item? Seeing none. Please cast your votes. Motion carries seven zero. Next item item 16 Communication from Mayor Garcia Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Charter Chapter 2.36 relating to the Economic Development Commission. Read an adopted as read Group.