Recommendation to authorize City Manager to amend Contract No. 33457 with Ford E.C., Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, for the Naples Island Permanent Seawall Repairs Phase 1 Project, to increase the contract amount by $300,000, for a total contract amount not to exceed $11,717,637; and execute all documents necessary to complete the Project. (District 3)
Report from City Manager, Financial Management and Public Works recommendation to amend contract with Ford SC for the Naples Island Permanent Seawall Repairs Phase one project to increase the contract amount by $300,000. District three. Thank you. I'm gonna have a motion on a second about Councilman Price. I think we're gonna hear from Mr. Lopez. Or did you want to start off, Councilwoman? No, I was going to ask staff if they could give us an update on this item. Okay, great. So turn this over to Mr. Lopez. Thank you, honorable mayor, members of the City Council, we are happy to announce that we have substantially completed the construction of the Naples Island Permanent Seawalls Repairs Phase one project and have reopened the northeast quadrant that will allow the canal and the adjacent sidewalks to for public access. The additional contract authority that's being requested today will allow us to fully complete the project and be able to tie some loose ends and fully complete all construction activities at the site. That concludes Steve's. Report. Thank you. Thank you to Eric Lopez and Rachel Tanner for the update and for the amazing work that you guys have done on this project. It's been outstanding. And I want to thank resident who is here today, Maureen Po, for her 20 plus years of work on this project. And of course, my predecessor, Gary DeLong, for his work on this project as well. As you know, this project had been approved prior to me coming into office, but I've had the pleasure of working alongside city staff when the when the project commenced and then when phase one was completed just last week. On Saturday, the mayor and I had the pleasure of celebrating the grand reopening of the Naples canals. The rebuilding of phase one of the seawall started last December with demolition of the old concrete cap and sidewalk, installing 47 feet long steel sheet piles, redoing the drainage system, pouring new sidewalks and adding new lighting and benches. The canals provide a unique recreational opportunity that is special and a defining part of the Naples community and the city of Long Beach as a whole. People come from all over the region to kayak, stand up, paddle board or take a gondola ride through our charming canals. The Naples Improvement Association is gearing up for the 69th Annual Boat Parade on Saturday, December 12th. I hope residents from all over the city visit the canals during this holiday season to see the new infrastructure as well as the wonderful holiday decorations that the Naples community is known for and takes great, great pride in. I'd like to just ask for your indulgence for a few minutes to show a short video that staff has put together showing the work on phase one of the seawall. Okay. But. That is quick turnaround. That was great video. I like that song. Very catchy. And I have to say, it was a very I told the group it was an unexpectedly romantic morning with the mayor on a gondola at the height the tide was high. So the boat that we were originally going to be on couldn't make it under the bridge. So it was a fantastic event. Again, staff's done an amazing job. My team, the third district office team, of course, Julie's been on this project for many years. Christina Duggan from my office has been attending the monthly meetings, and we've worked very closely with the Naples Improvement Association. So it's been a wonderful partnership. And, you know, I just want to make sure that everybody is clear that this is a project that really, you know, but for the special care that went into some of the selections, like the lighting and the the palm trees and some of the special touches really was, you know, proceeded very well and efficiently and within the budget. And so all the extra time and money that's being spent on it is really being being done to make sure that it the project ended on a positive note and that the residents were happy with the final outcome. So thank you staff for making that happen and for the amazing outreach that you did throughout this project. You guys did a great job. I hope every project is just like that. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on the item? Please come forward. Very good you. I don't live down around that area, but I fully support the use of public monies for that. And some people may not understand why if. You don't live around the water. Imagine if there were an earthquake and your big gap appeared and you're down the center of your street and the city decided not to do anything about that. Eventually, the foundation of your house may take a couple of years, but would collapse. So too would it be here if the seawall gives way. Those homes would get flooded out, the foundations would be eviscerated, and eventually it would destroy that tax base. And the tax base within that area is almost equivalent to I don't know what the exact figures are, but it would dwarf almost, I think, one or two tax bases of this district in other parts of the city and so forth. Beyond that, once that goes, the commercial area on Second Street would go within Naples. I do have concerns. I want to make sure there's some clarifications. It's my understanding this is phase one and phase two. Is that allowed to begin now or is that the one where the Corps of Engineers comes down and says, no further work on the sea walls unless and until the Sorento pathway is completed? There was an article in the paper in that and I think I saw something like that in the permit. But that needs to be clarified because the Corps of Engineers, I've asked for the inspector general, the Corps of Engineers, to get inside and make an order do that, because I can, as my factory senses, tell me there's going to be a problem with the Sorento. Pathway easily addressed, but you'd have to have the right type of management to do that, and I'm not sure we have that in place right now. So I think that needs to be clarified when if this first phase is all work, stop. And I think the Naples people need to know that there's a stop right now at the end of this phase and wait until Sorrento or are they allowed to go through a phase two period? And the last thing I question, quite frankly, in the order to get inside of it, why, when we're talking about the billions, the millions we're talking about, an additional $300,000 is needed. Something's wrong there. You know, the olfactory sense of it is going into high gear. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. He was dancing down there. That's. Maureen Po one four, four, seven. A walk. Thank you for providing an opportunity for me to come and talk to you all today, because you have all been part of the rebuild of the the Naples Sea walls for over 20 years. I've been the chairman of the committee, but it's a committee of volunteers, people who wanted to get together and help and work with the city. And we've had a remarkable time. And the result is what you saw in that beautiful video. And I was presented this afternoon with a booklet from one of the homeowners that were so grateful. And they took pictures during the whole trip, and they have more pictures to bring to me. But they just wanted to let me know how much it meant to them to have a safe wall. And I know that as you have looked at the rains and the decomposing of the sea walls down in South Carolina, I went to bed sleeping better, thinking, well, our walls are getting fixed and they're not just getting a new rod put in that could hold a little bit and then have the wall crumble. They're actually getting new stainless steel walls that will be there for 70 years. And so I won't be here to worry about it the second time around. I think that it's going to last longer than that. But we really had a public and city project because I know that Eric Lopez and Rachel Tanner have been with us all the way through. And I we had a whole lot of other people that had worked in their positions that came back to see the grand opening of the seawalls. Susie Price has made herself available at any hour. I can send her a message and I know she'll get back to me within a half hour. She stays up late just to make sure that she keeps us in touch. And I know that the mayor, he worked hard before he became mayor and when he was on the Coastal Commission to provide a way for us to see a mitigation that could occur with the Sorento trail is one of those things that he helped with. He had the insight to to be able to work with that, because I know it took me three years of meeting over and over and again with the Coastal Commission to make sure that they were aware of the project and how much we were in need of it. And so I just thank you very much for everything that you've done, and it's been a pleasure to work with the city on this project. Thank you. I'll repeat in a maureen what we we said over the weekend, it would not be possible without you and obviously the whole committee. So thank you for your for your work. There's very work in the committee's work and it's been fantastic. So with that, there's a motion and a second on any of the public comment. Seeing nonmembers, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Let's do I understand there's a few folks here for item 24, so why don't we go into item 24? Next report from Public Works and Financial Management Recommendation to award a contract to Sally Milliken Contracting Company for improvements of the bicycle system gap closure and improved Los Angeles River Bike Path Access Project for a total contract amount not to exceed 1.1 million districts one, six, seven, eight and nine.