Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents necessary for a Supplemental Agreement to Management Agreement No. 21667 with SMG, a Pennsylvania joint venture, for the completion of certain capital improvement projects at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center located at 300 East Ocean Boulevard, in the amount of $2,150,000.  (District 2)
Motion carries. Item 19 Please. Report from Economic and Property Development Recommendation to execute a Supplemental Agreement to Management Agreement with SMG for the completion of certain capital improvement projects at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in the amount of 2,150,000 District two. Thank you. City staff, please. Our esteemed assistant city manager, Tom Modica, will handle this. Thank you, Mr. West. Mr. Mayor and members of the Council. These are tidelands dollars that we're investing back into our convention center. It will be a mix of projects to upgrade some of the infrastructure and also to help the convention center book more business, especially out in that plaza area, which is very rapidly becoming a quite marketable area for them to bring in convention something like nobody else has around in the area. So we're available to answer questions if you have specific questions about the project. Thank you. Dr. Pierce. Yes. I want to thank staff for their hard work on point rather the funds to make sure that our convention center, as I was talking earlier, has the bones working. And when do we expect some of these projects to break ground? So we expect the the fountain repairs to begin very, very quickly and we will sign an agreement with SMG and they will be conducting that project. We expect it hopefully in the next couple of weeks and to be completed by the end of the year. And with the fountain repairs because it's 1.5 million, does that trigger a project labor agreement? And this it would. I'd have to check the actual agreement, I believe, because it's not done by the city, but by and done by an outside party, that it is not part of the project labor agreement project. The Labor Agreement covers city projects that are done with by city staff, but we can certainly take a look to see if they were included in that. So let me ask, are the entitled costs of the found repairs 1.5 hours, some or someone else putting additional funds into. The cost of the found is is 1.5. So it's all city funds being used. That is city funds for that particular project. Yes, there are funds in the seaside way, general improvements. There are SMG funds that are that they are putting their own money into that and CVB money into that. Okay. I do want to point out, though, prevailing wage does trigger. And so it is a prevailing wage project that is required when there is any dollar going into a project like that. Thank you, Tom. Yes. Just thank you for this. I know that we're making sure that, as we mentioned earlier, that not only is the convention center a beautiful place that people remember, but that we're maintaining our competitiveness by investing in it and making sure that that's an investment that's going to last a long time. So thank you very much. Vice Mayor Richardson, any public comment on this? Kate members, please cast your vote. Motion carries.