Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7177 and award a contract to All American Asphalt, of Corona, CA, for the Market Street Pedestrian and Streetscape Project, in an amount of $7,394,311, authorize a 12.5 percent contingency in the amount of $924,289, for a total contract amount not to exceed $8,318,600; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary subsequent amendments; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $6,071,837, offset by $2,838,000 of State Local Partnership Program Funds (LPP) and $3,233,837 of Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) funds; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $6,071,837, offset by transfer of $2,838,000 State Local Partnership Program Funds and $3,233,837 of Federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program funds from the Capital Projects Grant Fund; and Accept Categorical Exemption CE 21-1
All right. Item number 35, please. Report from Public Works recommendation to adopt plans and specifications and award a contract to all American asphalt for the market street pedestrian and streetscape project and a total contract amount not to exceed 8,318,600. And accept categorical exemption. S.E. 21-01-100 District. Eight. Thank you. Who's been moved and seconded and you want to say anything else when asked if. Sure. I'm happy to see this this motion and item come forward. It's been about eight and a half years in the making and something that many residents in North Long Beach, in my district, the great eighth District, have been looking forward to for many, many years. And so I would not do it just if I did not allow Mr. Lopez in Public Works segment, Mr. City Manager to give a brief report on this matter. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. We are extremely excited to be here today. This has been a huge priority. There are four major corridors that we've been really investing in strategically. It's been a market. It's been Artesia, it's been Anaheim and Studebaker. And this is the one that we're just so excited to be delivering today. So I'll turn it quickly to Eric Lopez. Thank you, Tom. Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. The limit of our Market Street project goes from city edge to edge, so it's one of our bigger corridor projects that we had in the wild in a while. 2.2 miles. Overall, we're looking at existing conditions that are deteriorated, are in need of major improvement, major investments from sidewalks to the roadway itself to path of travel, improved lighting. There's really a whole lot of different areas that we're going to be investing in. The all of these all of these improvements are made possible by a variety of funding sources that I will get to. But I want to show what some of these are going to look like. So here's an example of both buyouts at select locations. We're going to make the crossings at certain intersections safer, and we're also going to be able to build different classes of bike lanes to reinforce, depending on on where we're at, we're in Market Street. We're also going to be investing in high visibility crosswalks and rectangular, rectangular, rapid flashing beacons throughout the corridor. And a lot of path of travel improvements, a lot of sidewalk work, new curb ramps are relocating some of the fire hydrants. And we're we are going to be able to expand the length of sidewalks at various locations. Streetlight improvements, not just for the street, but also on the sidewalk and the pedestrian corridors. That's a that's an important part of the project as well. I'm not going to focus too much on on on the design, but we wanted to show at various locations the existing condition and with the improvement that we're going to implement. So it is going to differ from the L.A. River to Long Beach Boulevard. We have one solution from Long Beach well over to Orange Avenue. We have a different solution. And and there are slight variations as we go through the corridor. Major corridor projects are usually require various funding sources to really bring them together. And so we have a series of different sources that we've been able to accumulate in order to fully fund the project and allow us to proceed. The recommendation today is to award a contract to all American asphalt, and our target schedule is to break ground in May and our estimated completion target is around the fall of 2023. That concludes our presentation. So Councilmember, I'd. Like to just thank you for the presentation, but I would be remiss if I didn't thank the many residents who who advocated to to make changes started with the request for a street light. And it grew and the need grew and the working with staff, public works. And we worked with many folks over the years, many of them who are not with us today. But a lot of hard work and effort went into this with public outreach. And I think we've had, you know, at least a half a dozen or more public outreach sessions with residents. And this project will impact a number of neighborhoods in North Long Beach, the the heart neighborhood, the Jackson Park neighborhood, the Adams neighborhood, the in the Virginia Village neighborhoods and Sutter, all of these neighborhoods will be impacted. And I think it greatly the character greatly improved as a result of this project. So I'm excited to break ground and see the finished product and I would ask my colleagues to support this matter. Thank you. All right. I'm going to have my kudos here in the this is an exciting project. Congratulations, Councilman Austin. I know you and the community have worked really hard on this. And I'll tell you, between this project and Partizan project both happening this year, it's going to make a huge, huge difference. And so this is certainly an incredible upgrade, doesn't it tie in to the is there a connection to the river? There could be a connection to the river. I think it ends at the L.A. River. Absolutely. Absolutely. No, don't don't forget to mention that we did pretty good work on South Street as well. South Street was a little more, more to do, but absolutely lots of corridor. And you got to work cut out for us. And. Along looking right and the level that's right so so he says an on and I lot to do so thank you so much every public comment here. No public comment on the. Site. All right let's. Members please cast your vote.