Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Third Amendment to Contract No. 34242 with Plenary Properties Long Beach, LLC, of Los Angeles, CA, to modify the conditions to conveyance of the Midblock site, extend the project long-stop date, and include additions to Lincoln Park; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into an agreement, including any necessary amendments, with the Harbor Department, to accept and expend grant funding in an amount not to exceed $981,280, for the Lincoln Park Landscaping Project; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute and accept a Water Line Easement Agreement establishing a utility easement over a portion of the Midblock site; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an Indemnity and Reimbursement Agreement in connection with existing City obligations to remediate impacted soils existing on the Midblock site; and Increase appropriations in the Civic Center Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $1,736,227, for the revitalized Lincoln Park, offset by Cou
Hey. Motion carries and our final staff item is item 31. Madam Clerk. Report from Public Works, Park Recreation and Marine. Recommendation to execute a Third Amendment to contract with plenary properties. Long Beach to modify the conditions to conveyance of the Mid-Block site. Extend the project long stop date and include additions to Lincoln Park. Enter into an agreement with the Harbor Department to accept and expend grant funding in an amount not to exceed 981,280 for the Lincoln Park Landscaping Project. Execute and accept a water line easement agreement and execute and indemnity and reimbursement agreement. District two. Thank you. Our turn this over first to Mr. Modica. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Do we have Craig back on the line? Yes, I'm on the line. So this is an important this is an important part, mayor and council really finalizing the public private partnership. We're excited to be at this point today. We have this motion and then a motion at the planning commission that will happen on Thursday, and that'll really complete the major agreement for the private development on the Mid-Block site. So what is envisioned is when this project was originally envisioned, they had looked at a hotel and about 300 units of housing. That was about four years ago, and market conditions had changed. And so we actually have 1200 units of hotels that are either have been built or are in the process of being entitled, are being built. And so naturally, this has been changing. The the new entitlement is actually sort of the newer plan is to actually maximize housing at 580 units as opposed to the roughly 300 they were looking at before, 10% affordable and actually bringing on a grocer in downtown as well, which we're really excited about and then creating some synergy around features and some community benefit so that teachers would be able to to have about 100 of those units and really create kind of a synergy downtown. So additionally in the South report, we have the ability to move forward with the final agreement on city hall and then also using some of the dollars that we're mostly getting from impact fees, but also the harbor department and some county imagery to enhance Lincoln Park and make it really a special park. So I will turn it back to the Council for questions and Craig Back can answer any questions you may have. Thank you. And before I before I make some comments, I just want to make sure to the clerks are getting some reports that some members of the public can't hear the audio. So are we are we looking are we trying to look at that. By doing that? Okay. Thank you. And if we can if we can also just please mute your phones. Thank you. The council and staff commute their phones. Thank you. We want to just make some comments, just obviously in light of how difficult the last couple of weeks have been. This is one, I think, significant and positive development that has happened over the course of the last week or two. We have been working with our partners at Cal State, Long Beach, Long Beach City College, as well as Long Beach Unified. I've talked to the the heads and CEOs of those organizations, and there is a proposal in front of us, as Tom described, that is going to include also this opportunity to dramatically increase the amount of housing on the Mid-Block site. And the developer is looking at building a 100 unit teachers village approximately, I believe, 100 unit teachers village. Of those of that teacher's village, which will be part of the development, about half, approximately half of those units will be affordable units. The other half will be more market rate units. But all of the units will have benefits that could include no deposit payments, free Long Beach transit, free bike share, access to community space, certain fees being waived, and other benefits. Special marketing to to bring teachers and faculty from the city into the civic center. And so that is something I know that staffs work very hard on, as well as our partners. I just wanted to uplift that as to to add to what the comments that Mr. Modica had mentioned. Let me turn this over to Councilmember Pierce. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you. STAFF You know, the city center project was voted on in whole before I got on this council and midwifed something that has been very exciting to talk about and to dream about what the next steps might be. And I want to applaud the mayor and staff for their work that they've done with this developer, even though I have not had the privilege of actually meeting with them. I know that, you know, housing is something that we all care about having it be affordable. Housing is something we all care about. I know that that's not the vote that is in front of us right now being able to move this project forward quickly, I want to thank you for bringing it forward. Weeks before, we thought we would have it making the easements and talking about what we're going to be doing at Lincoln Park or something that's really exciting and important to me and our downtown residents. Ensuring that we have more space for kids, for teenagers, for young adults is going to be really important. But I want to applaud the developers in working on this and want to take a moment just to say we've had a lot of conversation on this council about three child services. Obviously, my office and several others put in some funds to make sure that we can have child watch during council meetings. But we also had a lot of discussion about an onsite child care facility. And I know that this site has a space that the city is going to be look to to do the programing. So I wanted to say probably with with everybody and with the mayor that I want to talk hopefully about what that might look like for child care in our civic center down the road. But exciting projects. Again, thanks everybody, for getting it here. I'd like to make a motion to vote yes and I hope that I can get a second. Thank you. Can there be a second half? A second second on the second on the on the motion in front of us. I'm going to go out and take a roll call vote. Unless there's any objection, there's no public comment on this item. So let me go and begin that District one. I district to my district three. May I? District four. I District five. I. District six. Five seven. I hate. All right. And now. Hi. Thank you. Before we move on to the last item. I want to make sure that the clerk is aware that there's some reports of Granicus not working and the connection. Is that correct? That is correct. Our tech and innovation team is working on it right now. Okay. I'm going to I know that. I know there's a lot of folks that want to speak and are interested in the next item. So I'm just going to take just a brief two minute recess as the tech team wants just a little time to adjust the the connection. So council members, please don't hang up. Stay on the teleconference. We're just going to take a two minute recess and see if we can make the adjustment. If not, we'll just go ahead and continue. But we will be back in just 2 minutes. I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and restart the meeting. I think that from what I understand, there are a lot of folks that are trying to log on at once more than more than is usual, which is which is maybe why the issues are there. But the tech team and the caucus team are working on it. So we're going to we're going to go ahead and go back into recess. And I've checked in with the city attorney and everything as far as all legal procedures are all being followed. So everything is in good shape on that point. So let me go ahead and go back to do a roll call, check in and we'll start the last item. And I'm Clark. Councilwoman Zendejas. Cancer Council member Pearce. Yes. The Councilwoman Price. There. Council member, supra. Here. Councilwoman Mongo. So. Vice Mayor Andrew. Pear. Council member Urunga. Councilman Austin. Janet. Councilmember Richardson. Here.