Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an Early Works Agreement between the City, the Harbor Department and Plenary Edgemoor Civic Partners, LLC, to continue the design development of the Civic Center project for a limited period of time.  (District 2)
Thank you. There's a motion in a second. Members, please cast your votes. We already did. Public comment. Motion carries an excited please. A report from Economic and Property Development and Financial Management recommendation to execute an early works agreement between the city, the harbor department and plenary more civic partners to continue the design development of the Civic Center project for a limited period of time. District two. Okay. Any public comment on the item? Come forward, please. Very good. You click as the address. I sent you guys each an email. I don't know if you have seen that access and you'll see it as super over Super Bowl day. NBC Today they had the Academy Award winning Marie actress Helen Mirren, who is going to be doing the Super Bowl spot for a Budweiser. And the thrust of it they are to be commended for it is they're going after drunk drivers. And essentially she spends 15. She spends the entire I don't know if it's two or 3 minutes essentially creating a new orifice in the rear end of someone that's drunk. And she concluded at the end that. Drunk people are so bad. That if they died and left their. Brain to medical science, it would be rejected. And that immediately, the moment she had mentioned that, I thought of this council relative to embracing this buffoonery. Relative to the City Hall Project. The only intelligent way to approach this is I have mentioned the last couple of meetings is one. On this terra firma here. We build two economic engines, a hotel and office building. Number two, the port, the city hall, together with the Port Administration building, will be built back out in the port period. And then the school, the main library will be interface with the Paradine over the art school, so forth, which will name after Marian Anderson. That's the only intelligent way to do this. And I was very glad to. And that was an excellent retreat you had. And I remind you of what you were cautioned about from the bond expert relative to your. Well turned out to be your personal exposure in this day and age. All the words good, bad and ugly have to be out there. Know, it's my understanding that in closed session you have been advised that there is nothing wrong with this building in terms of earthquake stability, so forth. And I find it very difficult to believe that you'd be able to put a bond out there, not only for this, but for anything else, if you were to follow a course of action. That would suggest that your brain has either been impacted, if not by alcohol, by maybe that which. Is Pablo in Flint, Michigan, or Porter Ranch? Very it. Rethink your for your own financial stake. Thank you, Mr. Goodyear. Check it out with your spouse. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Roger Suarez. I represent the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. I'm here to speak on this issue. The city is gambling with large sums of taxpayer money. Here on this Early Works Agreement motion, the city management is solely responsible for being in this predicament. The AM was ready to come to the table last year at the beginning of October and made requests for information early on. City management was unresponsive to our requests to meet and confer at this time. At that time. And it wasn't until just recently that the majority of the information was provided after being strung out in piecemeal fashion for months. We still can't get answers to some of our questions as these managers at the table don't seem to know the answers and don't know who to get these answers from. This lack of transparency and willingness, ability to bargain in good faith in the prescribed manner is what led us to this predicament, not the IAM or its members. You can build your Taj Mahal while city workers will continue to qualify for food stamps and you can continue to manipulate the work hours so they don't qualify for the Affordable Care Act. The act. The act. Excuse me? The act actions you are being asked to sign off are are reprehensible. Please honor the oath you took. To protect the community, the city. And more importantly, your own labor force your employees. Stop sanctioning whatever the city manager wants you to do. You're the council. It is your decision. Mr. Work, Mr. West works at your pleasure, not the other way around. The IAM continues to be ready to meet and confer in good faith. We've got a problem here and it seems that the problem has been put on our shoulders. We're the ones that are not cooperating. We're being asked. To go along with an agreement that has taken place. Do you give up? Our work rights to the new civic, civic, civic project for 41 years. We weren't asked to be a part of that. Now you're asking this community to pay $1 million, $900,000 a month so that you can preserve some commitment and some building funds a month. And if you look at the fiscal impact of the letter that stated today that you have before you from the city manager that he approved, the fiscal. Impact says. There's no guarantee that you're going to get that money back. It's right there in black and white. This is a huge gamble. It's $1,000,000 a month. I ask you to really think about this? Thank you. Thank you. There's emotion and sickened on the floor to approve the agreement. Mayor Garcia? Yes. Sorry to interrupt. If I could do a couple of small changes to the early works agreement. May 1st is a Sunday. We'd like to modify the Early Works Agreement to expire April 29th, which is a Friday. Secondly, plenary more is in the process of changing its name, so we'd like to have the early works agreement effective for successors and assigns as well. And that's it. Okay. Council made a note of those two changes. There's a motion on the floor. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries. Next item, please.