Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute the Tenth Amendment to Contract No. 31687 with Bellingham Marine Industries, Inc., for an additional $15,372,553, plus a $724,158 contingency, for a total increase of $16,096,711, for Phase 6 and Phase 7 of the Alamitos Bay Marina rebuild project, for a revised contract amount not to exceed $66,487,098; Execute the Second Amendment to Agreement No. 29587 with Concept Marine Associates, a Division of TranSystems Corporation, to increase the contract amount by $871,489, for a total amount not to exceed $6,573,489, and extend the term to December 31, 2017, for continued construction management of the Alamitos Bay Marina rebuild project; Execute all documents necessary to complete Phases 6 and 7, including all documents necessary to accept the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund loan of $16,900,000, as approved by the State Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Boating and Waterways; and Increase appropriations in the Marina Fund (TF 403) in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PR) by $17,948,033. (Dist
Item 18 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine and Financial Management. Recommendation to execute these the 10th Amendment to contract with Bellingham Marine Industries for Phase six and seven. Of the Alamitos Bay Marina Rebuild project for a revised contract amount not to exceed 66 million. Execute the Second Amendment agreement with concept Marine Associates for a total amount not to exceed 6,573,000. Execute all necessary necessary to complete phases six and seven include the Harbor and watercraft revolving fund loan of 16 million and increase appropriations in the Park, Recreation and Marine Department by 17 million. District three. Thank you. There's been a motion by Councilman Price and a second by Councilmember Austin. Councilwoman Price. I wanted to get a staff report first and then I was going to make some comments regarding what a wonderful job our staff is doing on this. Absolutely. Mr. West. Thank you, Councilmember. Mayor. We are very, very excited to bring forward to tonight based on two and three with the opportunity to complete the work in the Alameda Space Marina. The people behind me have done a lot of work in this. Our Marine bureau manager, Vito Halloran, as well as our Parks and Rec director and Marine Director George Champion and our finance director, John GROSS. So I'm going to turn it over to George for the quick staff report. Thank you, Mayor. And members of the city council and city manager. I'm going to turn this over to Leader Hallinan, who's been doing a lot of work, and I'd like her to do the presentation on this. She'll give you a brief background on what's been done so far. If I can give you a quick background on what's been done so far. So far we've rebuilt Basin one, five and four. Right now we're in the process of last April you approved a portion of Basin two and that includes 160 slips. What we're proposing to do now is the rest of the basin to add a portion of dredging in Basin three. What this will accomplish is it will accomplish us allowing us to to dredge more of what needs to be dredged within the permit expiration date of our dredging permit. And it will. We are in the process of relocating 293 vessels that will come back into basin to basin to at the completion will have 515 vessels and that will only leave us with the completion of Basin three, six and seven. So what you see before you is a deeper loan that we received in November for the completion of Basin two. And then you also see before you the funding that we that we need from our fund balance in order to do the dredging for Basin three, in order to accomplish what we need to accomplish. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. I want to start by commending our city staff, especially Olivia Hallinan. She is amazing and I know firsthand the incredible amount of work that she puts into making sure that the boat owners are kept apprized of the developments of the construction and that she's responsive to the needs of the the very large group of boat owners that we have active in our community. So I want to I want to thank you for giving a personal touch to the residents and the boat owners in our community. It really it means a lot to me, and I know it means a lot to my residents as well. So thank you for that. And then I want to thank John GROSS for a moment, too, because I'm going to ask him a question in a minute. But staff has done an incredible job at trying to be creative with funding sources for this major project, and that's especially appreciated at a time when we are facing some serious constraints on the available moneys that we have to work on projects in the Tidelands area and the loan as an example of some of the creative work done by our staff, our Parks Rec and Marine Department and trying to bring some revenue, some money source to these projects to complete Basin two and to complete the dredging in Basin three. So I appreciate that. I want to ask Mr. GROSS for an update on the the possibility, the bond possibility that we've discussed and see if you can give us an update in terms of what the future looks like for us in that regard, especially in regards to the necessary completion of basins three, six and seven . Thank you. We are working as a team and that's what it takes to get this done between the two departments, parks and Financial Management. At this point, with the lack of low oil revenues, we have turned our attention to see if a bond issue supported by the Marina Fund and not using any additional tidelands funds may be available to complete the water site. Improvements for the ABM rebuild as of today. We work on it every day and we are continuing to move on a potential bond issue that will, if we can sell it, if it will work out, we'll complete the rest of the water site improvements with a single additional financial transaction, a bond issue not requiring any additional tidelands money. We do not know yet whether we will be successful. We will know that over the next few months. But we're hopeful that we will be able to complete financing of the ABM, rebuild water site improvements with a additional bond issue supported by the Marina Fund and slip these. And would you be expecting that as soon as you know that you would bring that information to council? Because that is going to impact our prioritizing of Tidelands dollars, given the criteria that we've already approved as a council because of the public safety issues associated with the current docks at this. Yes, we will. But I think it's important to say that at this at this stage, we believe that the that financing appears to be viable. I can tell you that we actually won't know till we sell the bonds, and that will be after we come back to council as soon as we can for permission to try to sell the bonds. And that's when we know we'll know whether we will be successful. At this point, we are very hopeful so that we anticipate coming back in the next several months. Thank you very much. I'll be moving to approve this item, and I thank you again for your work. Mr. Mayor and council members, I also want to recognize Mr. Jerry in the audience. The chairman of the Green Advisory Board has been very, very helpful and instrumental in this as well. Thank you. And thanks again for everyone, for all their hard work. Is there any public comment on the item? Good to hear. Very good, Hugh Clark as the address as well as follow this. Project since its inception. I joined with the Council Third District in their praise of the. Director of Parks, Recreation, Marine, and particularly the Marine bureau manager. Had she been aboard when this started, we wouldn't be here tonight discussing it. It would already be finished. Period. Having said that, I want to make sure a couple of things are a couple of things. First of all, in terms of the bond rating that we're going after, I again suggest that we would inherently intensify the propensity of getting a better bond rate if we were able to demonstrate. That though we may be the second worst managed city in the country. We have recognized our problems. And that we have spent the dollars amounts sufficient to hire a federal master to oversee the city. Until we have at least this project completed and or the new mayor and possibly a new city manager in place. Second of all, I want to get into I attended the last planning commission of the Marine Advisory Commission meeting, and I listened to the very good explanations. One of the things I want to make sure of, and I have no question relative to the integrity of the Parks Department or the manager or the Marine Bureau, I do have serious concerns relative to the integrity of the Tidelands Group and the city manager. I want to make sure that any monies, particularly contingent funds, do not suddenly are not suddenly swept away and used for projects within the Tidelands area. And I'm specific and concerned about the Leeway Center based upon the information a part of that MCC meeting. The dock may be repaired, but there's nothing going to. The existing structure will remain as it is. There will be no molestation of that at all. When time comes, that will come under review again. However, I want to make sure that there's no money quietly siphoned off. To undertake that project using the same logic that was used to fund other projects. Well, it was approved in a general budget without any specifics. So I want to make sure I'm going to put my foot on the neck of that and watch that. But I really do think it makes sense. To hire that, use those moneys, hire that federal math master to over city, over see the city. And we could possibly get an even lower rate than we think we get. Now, what would they be able to get now is just good business sense to not do it. It's sort of dumb, in my view. Thank you. Thank you. The main motion and second, no other public comment. Please cast your votes. Motion carries eight zero unanimously. Thank you. Next item. Item 19 Report from police recommendation to receive and file the application of Potholder Cafe for an original application. Application of an ABC license at 2246 Lakewood Boulevard District four.