Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7187 and award a contract to E2 Contracting, Inc., of Irvine, CA, for construction of the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Facility Phase 1C Wetlands Project, in the amount of $2,689,210, with a 20 percent contingency in the amount of $537,842, for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,227,052; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments.  (District 1)
District nine. Motion is carried. All right. Item 29 for your. Report from Public Works Recommendation to award a contract to E two contracting for construction of the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Facility. Phase one C Wetlands Project for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,227,052. District one. Move your rank of second to the very highest council meeting. Rank anything. I yeah. I'm also worked on the reverse amount conservancy was able to acquire $2 million to go towards this project. Very happy to see that it's moving forward with the wetlands component to it. Thank you. In fact, the councilwoman said they are. Thank you, Vice Mayor, and thank you to Councilmember Dunga for supporting this awesome project. I'm really excited for this project and everything that comes with it. It's been, you know, again, a long time coming, but I think it's going to be one of the most fantastic things that we have in Long Beach. So I'm really, really happy to see this project moving forward. Thank you, Councilwoman Ciro. Yeah. So just out of an abundance of caution, I work for ANSI, who provided the funding for this contract. So I would like to recuse myself from voting on this item. Okay. I think you have to exit the meeting. Do I hear? The second reason for the last meeting. So tonight, Councilman Austin, I just want to throw my support behind this item. This is something that I have also worked on with the Gateway Cities Council, the government, as well as been a long term member of city council. This is great to see us putting more investment toward stormwater infrastructure, but at the same time continuing to develop parks basically along the L.A. River. So congratulations to to the city, to the residents, and happy to support this. All right. Interesting. I'll offer my comments and support. This is a project that touches every district along the river. There's opportunities not only to clean our clean our water and have a more sustainable system. It also helps us to add some natural wetlands and some of those things. Our staff has a photo that they'd like to show if that would be a good time to pull it up. Thank you, Eric Lopez. We'll pull that up. And just a real quick rendering. This is a wonderful, wonderful project. The council talked a lot about parks and open space. And this has been a great partnership to be able to take land that is currently not a usable open space and turn it into something beautiful. I. Council members, I'm showing the renderings on the map or on the screen as part of the previous action. The actual treatment facility is already under construction, and tonight's action will have kicked off the actual construction of the wetlands. That's going to be across the street from the facility that's adjacent to that to the river. This was a former private development parcel that we acquired with grant funding support that we've been working to to empty. And now we'll be ready to demolish the site improvement and create or restore some wetlands with visitor serving amenities, including a walking path. So I'll go through some of these renderings to just show the the proposed project and and what we plan for the area to look like once we complete the work. And that concludes that customization. All right. Thank you. They look incredible. Look forward to seeing this project and all the enhancements along the river. Let's go ahead and go to public comment. There is no public comment for this item. Fantastic. Whatever. We'll call the district one. High District to. High. District three. I district for. All right. District five. I. District seven. I. District eight. Hi. District nine. I. Motion is carried.