Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into an agreement with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACFCD), to accept and expend funding in the amount of $10,800,000 for the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment (LB-MUST) - Phase 1 Project from the Safe, Clean Water Program’s (Measure W) Regional Program Transfer Agreement No. 2020RPLLAR02; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department in the amount of $10,800,000, offset by Measure W revenue from LACFCD; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $10,800,000, offset by transfer of Measure W revenue from LACFCD funds from the Capital Projects Grant Fund. (Districts 1,7,8,9)
All right. Motion carries item 16, please. Report from Public Works. Recommendation to adopt resolution to enter into an agreement with L.A. County Flood Control District to accept and expand funding for the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Phase one project districts one, seven, eight and nine. I do have a I do have a motion and a second. I do want to add the next three projects. And Mr. Modica, correct me if I'm wrong, but the next two or three projects are projects that have received funding through the L.A. County Measure and measure W And Mr. Modica, do you want to maybe talk briefly on each one so that the community knows about these projects? Sure. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We also have public works here to answer any specific questions. But Long Beach has been very, very active in Measure W. We were one of the major proponents for Measure M and Measure W to really bring additional stormwater resources to Long Beach to make sure that one city's upstream from us are paying their fair share and taking care of their stormwater. But then we also have solutions available to ourselves. So we're really excited to bring over $24 million to you tonight. One, you know, it's got to be one of the largest awards that we're aware of. The first project is for the Long Beach, Ms.. Project, which is a really innovative stormwater treatment plant down by the Drake Chavez Park and is going to be really a signature project to treat water, have wetlands on site, to fill those with treated water, and also to do irrigation. We're also able to do under a number 18 I'm sorry, number 17 is a stormwater retention basin to capture and filtrate water at scaling. And then we're also improving our Eldorado Lake projects with this money as well. So kudos to the entire team for putting this together and a real big investment in our water quality and also part of our L.A. River projects that we're constantly working on to improve the L.A. River. And that's the whole be must project. And any other questions? Eric Lopez and his team are available. Great. Why don't we go ahead and Madam Kirk will? Well, we'll vote on all three of these together. Do you want to read the other two items so we can all go round them together? It's all part of the same big grant program. 17 is a report from Public Works. It's a recommendation to adopt resolution, to accept and to expand funding for the gaming golf course at Willow Stormwater Capture Project, District five. And Item 18. It's also a report from Public Works to adopt resolution to accept and expand funding for the Eldorado Regional Project District five. Thank you. Well, with that, we do have a motion by Councilman Sun House and we have a second by councilman, mongo, councilman and Day House. Thank you, Mayor. I just really want to say how excited I am about the we must project here in the First District. This is such an amazing opportunity for both to address serious environmental challenges in our area, but also to, to, to it's an opportunity to develop this area. And it's going to be incredible having the wetlands space there for our community and to continue our Drake Charvis master plan in this area. Staff has been working really hard on this. So for that I'm very, very thankful for your continuous updates to my office on this and thank you for your hard work on this. I'm especially excited about the way that we that we can expand this project. And this is this is an idea that that is growing and that we'll we'll keep that in mind as well. And it really is going to become a regional leader in the L.A. River area. This is something that's built with growth in mind. And I can't wait to see all the amazing opportunities that are going to be created here, not only for ourselves and our residents, but but for for the entire county and staff. So I'm really excited about this. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Thank you. We're very excited about this project that's been in the works for several years and the community is very supportive. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson, did you have any comments? Oh. Comments supportive. Thank you. Councilwoman. Sara, was that just a motion or any comments? Now a motion. Okay. And, Councilman, your anger or those comments are just emotion. No, I actually have some comments. I'm a member of the Rivers Animals Conservancy, and we contribute some money to go towards a law which must. And with these gone with these contributions, now that we have it almost fully funded. So I'm really looking forward to the completion of that project. Thank you. Thank you. And I want to just congratulate the team. I think a lot of us were involved in Measure W and we were active supporters of that county measure, and it's producing some significant projects for the city as it relates to stormwater and water in general. And so this is a significant award for the city and we're going to see other projects in the future also receive funding. So we are we're excited about that. And so with that, we're going to take one vote. This is for items 16, 17 and 18 benefit. District one. I. District two. District three. District three, District four. All right. District five. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. I. District eight. All right. District nine. All right. Motion carries. Thank you. We will go back now up to item number 11, please.