Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to enter into a Grant Agreement with Community Hospital Long Beach Foundation, a Long Beach-based nonprofit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000, for reimbursement of predevelopment costs incurred by the City of Long Beach to rebuild and replace buildings located at 1720 Termino Avenue, 1760 Termino Avenue, and 4111 East Willow Street (Subject Property), to continue to operate an acute care hospital at the site; and Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement with Perkins + Will, a private for-profit corporation in Los Angeles, CA, for hospital facility architectural design and consulting services, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000. (District 4)
We are now doing the Long Beach Community Hospital Foundation, which is item 21. So, Mr. West, we can get the staff report. Item 21 is the report from Economic Development Recommendation to enter into a grant agreement with Community Hospital Palm Beach Foundation in an amount not to exceed 1 million for reimbursement of pre-development costs to rebuild and replace buildings, to continue to operate an acute care hospital at the site, and a resolution to execute an agreement with Perkins will for hospital facility architecture, design and consulting services for. Mayor Council matters. One of the things, you know, we've been working on night and day for the past year has been trying to reopen community hospital with an acute care facility. One of our. Partners working just as hard as us is the Long. Beach Foundation Community Foundation for the Hospital. And John Kiser, our director of economic development, is going to give a report on our work with them. Honorable Mayor and members. Of the city council. I'm very happy to bring this item before you tonight. This is a major first step in the process of developing the construction plants that will ultimately aid us in the process of achieving seismic compliance for community hospital Long Beach. We are grateful that our partners at the Community Hospital, Long Beach Foundation, members of our community who have been supporting the hospital for decades, in some cases individuals who have been serving on the board, donating their own time and money to fundraise in support of the hospital, and now in support of these construction plans that will help us to reopen the hospital in the coming year. So this action before you tonight is to receive $1 million that will be used for the construction planning. It also will allow for us to establish the contract authority that we have with our architect, Perkins and Will. And the reason that we are using Perkins and Will as the architect for this project is because they were the firm that actually did our compliance plan when we were evaluating the feasibility of retrofitting and rebuilding the hospital. The third thing that I need to read into the record is that unfortunately in the address that is listed, 4111 East Willis Street does not actually exist. It is 411 East Wilton Street. And so the city attorney has made sure that I read into the record that it is the funds for this project will be dedicated to construction plans and pre-development costs associated with 1720 Termino, 1760 Termino and 411 East Wilton Street, which include all of the properties that the city owns of Community Hospital. So with that, I'm happy to take any questions, but I just want to finish by thanking Matthew Faulkner, the executive director, Ray Burton, the chair of the Long Beach Hospital Community Foundation. And for all the community members and board members who have donated to make this a reality for the city. Thank you so. Much. Thank you very much, Mr. Chrysler. In terms of the controversy or not. Thank you for that report. And to any resident that might live it for one on one Willow Street, you almost hit the jackpot, but not quite. I just want to echo what Mr. Chrysler said, that we want to thank all the community hospital, Long Beach Foundation board members in particular, Ray Burton, the president of the board, whom I've talked to almost daily for the past 18 months, and also special recognition for executive director Matthew Faulkner. Although this has been pretty intense for the last 18 months. We looked up the first time he spoke at one of my community meetings and that was September 2015. So Mayor Matthew has been hard at work on this project for a long time, so thank you very much and thanks to staff for putting this all together. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. And I, too, want to acknowledge this the step forward and give a special recognition to our city staff, the community foundation and, of course, councilman superstar for his leadership on this item. Thank you. Thank you. I also just want to add, again, I think staff has done a phenomenal job. Saving a hospital is incredibly hard work and almost always hospitals end up closing. And I think that the the staff has done a great job. The foundation, who is making a substantial gesture of support and strength in this case, I think is also very welcomed. And so I know we've all thanked the foundation individually and publicly. And I just want to again thank the Long Beach Community Foundation I'm sorry, the Community Hospital Foundation for for this and for their ongoing commitment to support community hospital, which we are all committed to reopening. And I know it's been said again, but the Councilmember, Superman and the other council members that have been engaged on this, particularly Councilman Price and Councilwoman Mongo and the rest of the council that of all are all supporting moving forward. I just want to I want to thank them again. Is there public comment on the community hospital item? Seeing none where. Mr. Goodhue, please come forward. All right. Good. Hugh Clark, as the address. As I said last week, this is the last time this is up. This is certainly a commendable project and the city owes a great deal to the council. And sure enough, one of the great aspects of this is that we will get considerable money. I think the figure don't quote me, I think it was like 90 million. I forget what it was. But they deal with the various. Troubling issue. That some people have mental. Disturbing conduct. Such as. As manifested by our governor and other people that are drooling over the slot Kamala Harris and people like that. And there is money that is missing. You know, Mr. Goodhue, I told you this last time you're here, but you don't use it to demean women every time you come up to speak and say that word. I sit up to a sitting elected official. So I don't know how many times we have to. I know you have a First Amendment right to say things you would like, but I would hope you have a little decency not to say that again. And you misrepresent. I do not say that. Represent all women. Women. Period. You were the one that's doing that. 90% of the women are fine. I think they're all right. Go ahead. Go ahead and get back on topic. Get him. Percent. All right. It's the percentage. The. It's the percentage of people. The percentage of people such as she that the US Ninth Circuit Court bipartisan panel founded. Edit engendered an epidemic of corruption. Period. And the only people that would saddle up to that person would be disease minds such as our new governor or our mayor. Period. And there's 90 million. I believe the figure is 90 million. Set aside to deal with those disease mines, period. And you're misrepresenting the facts. I've never said that all women are like that, period. The issue is focuses on the men that saddle up. To the people such as the slut Camilla Harris. All right. You're off topic. Unbelievable. That concludes public comment on this item. There's a motion and a second. Is there more public comment on community hospital? On community hospital, please come forward. Take your. You can take your time. You're okay. We're okay. Good evening. For the rest of the panel. Please come forward. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Garcia and the rest of the panel. I do want to speak on community hospital. I have had two generations of families that has come through community hospital. And I. Feel that it's an excellent resource into the community. Not one is nonprofit, and secondly, it has the heartbeat of the community. I as a medicare recipient, I have to go through the senior Obama's plan, which is that Kaiser and this is what is coming against community hospital. So my question is what is in place to keep it from failure again when you have the rising of Kaiser not only on terminal but also now on Pacific Coast Highway. Thank you. Let me I'm going to answer, but do you want to conclude with your comment? Yes, sir. I just want to make sure that as we rally and advocate for community hospital, because I have been involved with that of two generations coming through there. And now my third, which is my great great grandson, that will reopen and go there again because of our loyalty to community hospital, what is in place to keep it from staying in place again. But the community, the heartbeat that it has and is right diagonal, which is almost ten steps from Kaiser. Thank you. I'm going to answer that question and the other as you would any of the public comment on this item so that I can answer the question. Okay. I'm closing public comment there. Let me just there's a community meeting coming up that I would invite you to consider support or do you want to? Yeah, if you're available tomorrow night, 6 p.m. at the big rec clubhouse, we'll be there and answer all your questions. Will have John Molina will be there. Ray Burton, the the president of the board and Councilwoman Price and myself will be on hand. So that's the best place to ask your questions. And we're going to and we're also going to someone's going to commit you over here on the site separately, and we're going to get you all the information you just asked about, because we have a whole packet of what we're doing around community hospital. So Mr. Ramirez can get the information and we'll we'll connect with you right now. Then I'll be back in again for the lifeguard and in Jordan. And it's not coming. Okay. West Side. Okay. Thank you. The lifeguard item already passed, but think we will connect with you right over here. Thank you very much. Members, please go out and cast your votes on this item. Because remember, price motion carries.