Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an agreement with Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation to conduct an Integrated Design and Technical Analysis of the Long Beach portion of the Los Angeles River in an amount not to exceed $250,000 for a term of 12 weeks; Increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the City Manager Department (CM) by $250,000, offset by FY 15 Year-End Surplus; and Identify additional funding sources for the remaining cost of $250,000. (Citywide)
Motion carries. Next item please. Report from City Manager Recommendation to execute an agreement with Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation to conduct an integrated design and technical analysis of the Long Beach portion of the L.A. River in an amount not to exceed $250,000 citywide. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Yes. We have a report here from our deputy city manager, Arturo Sanchez. Good evening, Vice Mayor Lowenthal. And members of. The City Council. The item before you. Is an agreement with the L.A. River Revitalization Corporation to conduct an integrated design and technical analysis of the Long Beach portion of the L.A.. River. The L.A. River Revitalization. Corporation has assembled a technical team that includes Gehry, Partners Olin and Geocentric to develop an integrated design that looks at the entire river. So this is really exciting. They're looking at the entire 51 miles. But they're going to start the first phase of their analysis down in the lower portion in this area of Long Beach. And so their first phase of their analysis will actually begin down here. Commitments have been made by the Ramsay. The Santa monica. Rivers and Mountains Conservancy as well. And we are essentially just contributing to the pool of money that's looking at a way to revitalize the entire stretch of the Los Angeles River in a holistic way that will add recommendations and layers as to the types of developments that we can have in our portion. That would be. That would fit in. Well with whatever other recommendations they have in the upper portions. So the recommendation from staff is. That you authorize the city manager to execute an agreement with the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation to conduct the integrated design for the Long Beach portion of Los Angeles River in an amount not to exceed $250,000 for a term of 12 weeks. Thank you, Mr. Sanchez. And I want to thank staff for bringing this item forward. And I'm looking forward to our participation in this process that is long overdue and very exciting. That renowned architect Frank Gehry and his firm are working on the very iconic parts of what this river revitalization will be about. So I'm definitely looking forward to that. Councilwoman Price. Of no comment. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. I just wanted to chime in and say how exciting this is. And Mr. West and Mr. Sanchez, you guys are doing a great job on this, how you figured out how to how to pay for this. And I want to I want to say, as a community that has the river in it, I'm really excited to see improvements here in Long Beach to our river. So congratulations. You have my support and to the leaders, the mayor and other districts with the river in it. This is really exciting for for all of us. So I you know, this is another big thing for our city that we should all be excited about and seeing how it develops. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. I, too, just wanted to share my excitement. This has been a long time coming. I want to thank the city staff, Arturo and and Pat, as well as the mayor, for keeping this on our radar. I know we're hearing it a lot out there and the 710 Project Committee, and they've included that. And it's exciting to know that Long Beach will now be a part of of this. So thank you for all your efforts. Councilman, you Ranga. Thank you, Mayor. I represent the seventh District and a river runs through it. I want to thank staff for supporting this. I think it's it was a no brainer in the sense that so much is going on in the northern portion of the river and we need to take care of ourselves in the southern part of the river. So I want to thank Stephanie for doing this. Thank you. Emotion. In a second, public comment on the item saying please cast your vote. Motion carries. 22.