Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an amendment to Contract No. 33344 with Arup North America Limited, increasing the contract amount by $700,000, for technology optimization, closeout activities, and contract management services related to the Civic Center, in a revised total amount not to exceed $11,281,545; Increase appropriations in the General Services Fund Group in the Technology and Innovation Department (TI) by $480,000, offset by funds available; and Increase appropriations in the Civic Center Fund Group in the Public Works Department (PW) by $224,704, offset by funds available. (Citywide)
Thank you. Item. 19. Report from Public Works, Technology and innovation. Recommendation to execute an agreement to contract with Arab increase in the contract amount by $700,000 for services related to the Civic Center citywide. Thank you. There's a motion in a second. Ms.. Control. Miss carelessly, please come forward if you want to speak. Mayor. Your staff report. Mr. Modica, you want to give a quick staff report on this? Yes, Craig. Back where? We have the staff report. Think you may remember City Council. The item. Before you this evening. Is an extension of an ongoing contract that we have. With Eric. Eric has been the city's consultant through the development of the Civic Center project. We are close to closing out a few items and we seek their expertize in ensuring that the close out process goes smoothly. On the public works side, that includes finalizing all of the change order documentation. The warranty. Elements and the as built. Plans. And on the technology side. That includes finalizing some of the technology components, including how we move forward with. The. Finalization of the civic chambers. I'm available to answer. Questions and it is as. Well if you have technology. Questions. Thank you. It's. Or. I'm sorry, Miss Cantrell. Yes. And control and. I really am horrified by the fact that you're having to spend $700,000 more. For the technology at the Civic Center. This has become a. Dead whole that were throwing money down. And that's not to exceed $11 million. I'm puzzled as to where these funds are coming from. It says that 480,000 will come from funds available from the General Service says Fund in the Technology and Innovation Department. Is this something that's in the budget? Or I'm I'm really concerned about where we got. $700,000 more. And 224,000 are coming from the public works department. Does that mean that. The infrastructure. Our city streets and sidewalks will not be repaired because the civic center needs. More money. To close out your contracts. I would appreciate if somebody could answer where these funds are coming from. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. Speaker, please mislead. I've been musing over this extension of measure, and I started looking into it and finding the charts that showed what we're spending that money on. And there was something called structural. And then a friend of mine who's in finance said, Oh, that means structural deficit. And I looked up the definition of a structural deficit. And that means you're spending more than you earn or you have revenue for, and that it is a consistent problem when it's structural. So that means we have money problems already and we're not going to be able to live up to the promise of sunsetting measure. And then we look at this money pit that we're in right now. This building, according to the kafir, will cost $1,000,000,000 by the time we're done paying for it. So it seems like there's a lot of unnecessary spending going on when in fact we should be tightening our belts. And I'm really disappointed in this council in terms of I don't know that we have anyone with a business background in this group. That is being careful with our money. Anyway. I'm appalled. Thank you. There's a there's a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Next up is item number 20. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation Declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of City Council for Final Reading Citywide. If there's a motion or a second, is there any public comment on this item? There is. Let me. And I make a few may talk before public comment. Yes. Let me let me just do this really quick. I just need you to organize public comment to give me what I didn't realize it was so lengthy. I'm going to come back to the stadium in just one minute.