Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to submit grant applications to the Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District (District) for the Fourth Supervisorial District Excess Funds Program (Program), upon receipt of a grant award; accept a total of $2,600,000 in Competitive Excess Funds from the District for the Program to be utilized for the development of park projects in the City of Long Beach; and, upon acceptance of the grant award, Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $2,600,000, offset by revenue from the grant. (Citywide)
Okay. Motion carries item 24 and Mr. West, I know this is I don't 24 is a pretty big deal. And we're very thankful to Supervisor Tanabe for his work on this. Did you want to do a short staff report? Yes, I think we should. This is huge, $2.6. Million at the end of the term here. I'm going to turn this over to our director, Marie Knight. But scrutiny married members of the council. In June 2016, the Competitive Access Funds became available from the fourth supervisor Supervisor of the District Access Funds Program. This program is provided under Los Angeles County Proposition eight and allocates excess grant funds equally to each supervisor or district, which distributes available funding to eligible recipients through the Office of Supervisor Duncan Harvey. The City of Long Beach was notified that it would be receiving $2.6 million in competitive excess funds. Funding may be used for park projects that consist of acquisition, development, improvement and or rehabilitation of real property in the fourth Supervisor District. County staff indicated that funds must be prioritized for shovel ready projects that can be implemented in a short amount of time. The Department of Parks, Recreation, Marine and the Department of Public Works to prioritize park projects for this funding based on a set of established criteria designed to leverage existing funding and maximize grant funding. These park projects would include shovel ready projects that can be completed in a short amount of time, and specifically those that require gap funding for completion are related to park safety and accessibility projects and priority projects, not funded by Measure A. So here are the projects that we have chosen 14th Street Park expansion project that is underway. There's $200,000 being dedicated to that citywide park, irrigation and landscape improvements. As you know, we are in desperate need of upgrading many of our irrigation systems throughout the city. And once we do some of those upgrades, which will in some cases require us to re landscaped those areas after we have done the irrigation improvements. That money will be used in those areas. El Dorado, Duck Pond. El Dorado, West Duck Pond Restoration. This will be added to some existing grant funding that we have already. El Dorado Regional Park Restroom Rehabilitation. This will help us rehabilitate two of our restrooms in our regional park. The next one is ADA improvements and some relocation of some park amenities at the heart. Hutton Park Stearns Park Community Center improvements. This is to go towards some existing emergency funds that were set aside from our general fund for some repair of the roof there. And we're having some major issues there with some structural issues and some leaking of the roof. The Wrigley Greenbelt Trail. This will help us provide the final piece of gap funding that's needed so that project can move forward. And the red car greenway, this extends that Greenway project into the next segment in the next phase. So again, we are very, very grateful to Supervisor Tanabe for this funding that allows these projects that some of them were in sort of a holding pattern until we had this money to move forward. Think. And I just want to add also my thanks to Supervisor Tanabe. I know that he was very supportive of his projects and it's his last, I guess, last ability to give to the projects. And as a note, I know he's giving these to Long Beach, but he's doing some projects across the county. And so I think all cities are benefiting from the projects added in this pool. So thank you for that. And Councilmember actually, I'm sorry, Councilman Andres, you didn't have any comments on the motion, right? Okay. Let me go to Councilman Austin. Did you know Councilmember Pearce? I yes. I also want to thank. Supervisor Tanabe for prioritizing our parks. And I just had a question for the citywide park. Irrigation and landscaping improvements. I'm not sure if Bixby Park is included in that, if it is included in that when we return to redo the landscaping there from doing new irrigation. I wanted to comment that I would really love to see a dog park there and to get some dollars for us to explore what that would cost and how quickly we could turn that around, particularly with trying to activate the entire park right now. So at this point, the irrigation projects won't include landscaping in addition to what is needed just to repair the landscaping that has been torn up because of the irrigation projects. So that landscaping that's included in this is not additional or landscaping in other park areas, but it is to replace what is being torn up from the construction. And do we know, is a Bixby Park included in at this point? I do not have the final list. We're combining this money and projects with some of the major aid money that we have. We are prioritizing those park areas where we are either manually turning on irrigation, which is very inefficient. So for example, there are some areas in Hartwell Park that will be looking we'll be looking at parks that are not using reclaimed water so that we can be more efficient with that. So I don't have the final list at this point in time, but I will let you know because the park makes that list. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you. There's a motion and a second and a public comment saying now please cast your votes.