Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an amendment to Contract No. 32983 with Central Parking System, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, for providing parking operations and management services, to increase the contract amount by $450,000, for the period ending March 31, 2017.  (Citywide)
Thank you. Congratulations to them as well. And on 16. Report from Public Works Recommendation to authorize city manager to execute an amendment to the contract with Central Parking System to provide parking operations and management services to increase the contract amount by 450,000 citywide. Councilman Gonzales. Yes. Thank you. Craig, can you provide a staff report, please? Certainly Councilmember Gonzalez, the mayor and other council members. This item is before you tonight requesting to increase the contract authority with Central Park, which is now ESP plus central parking, provides oversight of all the city parking operations, including the downtown city place garage. And in particular, we are needing this contract increase to be able to cover cost associated with increased security in our downtown garage and some of the infrastructure improvements that we've done. I want to share with everyone that we are in the process of updating our parking RFP and that should be on the street by the end of the month. So we will be refreshing some of our requirements within our parking operations and we will be looking to have that new contract in place within the next few months. That concludes my staff report. Okay. Thank you. I have a couple questions. So I know that we had met and we went over a list of various items that would be improving the city place garages specifically. And so from that, I remember. We had also talked about. Smart meter money that was to be used for improvements. And then I know measure a money will also be used for improvements at City Place. So I guess my question is why we would need an extension of the 400 or an additional $450,000. So I think those are two different items. This is the operating side of the garage. So ESP plus again not only operates city place garage but our beach lots in any location where we collect fees for for parking and where we have attendants that are working in those lots. So this is, again, primarily needed to cover increased security cost for the garage. If you recall, at some time ago, the city extended an opportunity for Molina Medical to park in the garage. And with those additional parkers, there was a requirement to increase the level of security within those garages that that at the time, we did not come to council and ask for a contract increase. So this increases essentially to cover those increased costs. So the operational portion of the parking lots and garages is going to go out in a new RFP. The physical improvements to the garages are being accommodated under a different contract. So that would be a construction contract and a design contract, not necessarily under ESP. Plus they do do small maintenance issues. So if we needed to add a security camera, for example, in a garage, we would usually rely on our parking operator to do that for us. But if we are talking about some of the things that you and I reviewed in City Place Garage, those are going to be handled under a different contract. Okay. So then, just so I am clear, and when is this contract is this contract up with the current with ESP plus? Is it up any time soon or. I know. Yes. So we're currently on an extension that I believe takes us through I want to say February, but we don't believe that we'll need that entire term of the current operation timeframe because we think we'll have a new vendor in front of council. Or it could be SB plus, but that will have a new contract in place ready to go for council approval by June. Okay, great. And so with all that, I would like to ask if we could if I'd like to just make a substitute motion, if I could, to be able to get an itemized list of these improvements first prior to approving this tonight, because I think I need to get a little bit more clear on what we're doing and also to provide that to our public, because I don't think I've been verbalizing that to a lot of our downtown residents and business owners, but I just don't think that they realize what is actually happening at the city place garages. So all of the security measures you're talking about, the improvements to solar lighting, I mean, all of this. In addition, I'd like to know the. The space is available because I know there has been some confusion as to the private spaces available and the public spaces available. And I think we need to clear that up first before making a decision on this contract or extending. This. So that is my motion. Okay. So there was a substitute. Mr.. City attorney. Is the motion to lay it over until next. Week, or do you have a date that you would like to continue it to? Let's lay it over for the next 30 days. So if we can. April, I don't know when that would be. Let me take a look. And I think the issue with laying it over into April may be they may run out of contract authority for the for the existing contract. So, Councilman, we just we'd like to bring that back as soon as we can answer those questions, because we are nearing the time where we would need some additional decisions to be able to move forward. So we'll bring it back as soon as we can, whether it's 30 days or less. If that could be the direction, we'll get it back to you as soon as we can. Okay. That would be great. Thank you. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Councilman Andrews. Councilmember Pierce. Now I just want to thank the council member for bringing this to my attention. And I think, yeah, if we could just get a list of what those improvements are so we understand where we're at and what we need to do moving forward. I think it's a great motion. Thank you. There is a motion and a secondary public comment. Like to suggest you add to it at something which would not require reconvening the Council of Trent, and it's presented itself a number of times. I don't know if the Council's aware of this, but when there are other meetings taking place in the evenings here, a number of times people lose their tickets. So what needs to be done? And these are members of the public and sometimes even a commissioner. They lose their ticket. The gates are locked. That is. The arm is down. So there should be some arrangement by which. Whoever locks up the building for the night, has the ability to raise that bar, allow the people to get out in the car without having to hand over the cold, hard and ready to wear. And I don't think you need to wait for this contract to do that. Just figure out a common sense way to do that. Imagine yourself locked in here. You lost your key. How would you get out? Okay. Thank you. See no other public comment on this item. Please cast your votes. Councilman Andrew. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Just so you know, our next two items are are item 20 and item 19. We've both been requested to get moved up, so I'm going to try to get in there. We have folks here for both.