Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract with Penwal, of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, for the design, fabrication, and installation of the City's Police and Fire Memorial, in the amount of $625,000, with a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $62,500, for a total amount not to exceed $687,500; Increase appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $123,500, to transfer to the Capital Projects Fund Group; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $123,500, offset by a transfer from the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the City Manager Department; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $64,000, offset by donations received from the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Friends of Long Beach Fire Fighters, and the Long Beach Police Foundation. (District 2)
Item 37. Actually, I think I am 36. Let me actually do. I am 37. Let me do 137. Okay. Report from Public Works recommendation to adopt a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a contract with Pennzoil for the design, fabrication and installation of the city's Police and Fire Memorial for a total amount not to exceed 687,500 District two. Thank you. Let me just add to this. If I know we have actually a lot of our our police officers and those are involved with the with the memorial or actually watching it. I've been anticipating this item and including some of our fire guys and women as well. Oh, and our chiefs here as well. So let me let me just say that, first of all, you know, this great this morning, you know, joined, of course, both of our chiefs in our annual memorial service. It has moved around over the last few years because of the construction at City Hall. And this is this allows us to move forward. We have in front of us today with really a really important part of our city. And it really important part of our tradition and honoring are the men and women that have given the ultimate sacrifice to our community. And, you know, we noted, of course, this morning just the tragedy. So it's been about a year since Captain Rosa left us as well. And and his name will be on this wall, the newest name on the wall. And so I thought. STAFF Maybe, Mr. West, you can kind of walk us through. I think it'll be good for the council, too, to know what the city is planning as it relates to the civic center and the memorial. And then we can take it from there. Mr. WEST Mayor, council members, this is a as you said, this is a really exciting item tonight. We've been working on this for many years with with our colleagues in the police department, the fire department. As you know, we lost our previous memorial at the Civic Center today. So right now, we're in the process of putting together a new memorial that will be strategically placed at the convention at the Civic Center. It will be an iconic memorial. We couldn't be more excited about it working with our employees in the sworn departments without them to turn over to Craig Beck, who is the lead project manager on this, and he'll give us some images and tell us what we're going to be doing. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the city council. I'm privileged privileged tonight to share with you some of the work that representatives of the Fire and Police Department, Public Works Team and our design team for the Civic Center have brought forward. And we really believe that we've identified an opportunity to showcase and honor those fallen in the line of duty here in our city of Long Beach. So what you have before you in this particular slide is a layout of the new Civic Center project. And at the ellipsis or the southern side of our new council chambers, we've identified a location where we believe the memorial will be appropriately placed. So you see on the right side of the screen a layout that shows where the memorial will physically be located. The item before you this evening allows for the development. There we go. The development of the memorial sculpture that will place be placed in this garden area of our civic plaza. The design of the sculpture represents a folded flag, which is a tradition that honors someone who has lost their life in the line of duty. And the you'll see in this next slide, the folded flag represents a triangle, and the names of those fallen would would be inscribed on those different triangle elements. And the thought process behind the design is that you would create a backdrop that is also visible through the structure with a bunch of these triangles. And so this is an image of what the sculpture would ultimately look like. I think it gives you a representation of the size and scale of what we're talking about. Again, we're hopeful that no additional names get added to this wall, but if the opportunity to do that over time and to have a place honoring the men and women of our public safety services here in our new civic center, I think is appropriate. That concludes the staff report, and we're available to answer any questions. Thank you, Mr. Beck. You guys have done really excellent work in this. And I also want to thank our our police and fire departments. I know that all of you have been engaged directly with Mr. Beck and staff to ensure that the design and the outcome is it was appropriate and it was something that was being supported by by your teams. And so thank you for all of that. Councilman Pierce. I thank you. And I want to thank everybody that put on the memorial this morning. It was really beautiful and I was honored to be there with everyone as we remembered those that have passed before us in the line of service. I think that this design is fantastic. It's interactive, it's engaging. It has people come up and and and engage with the with the art. Anybody anybody watch Game of Thrones on Sunday. I thought I would get wrecks to pay attention. So I think one of at the very beginning, whenever he's talking about waiting until making sure that we memorialize those that have risked their lives for us until the last human draws his last breath or whatever that statement is, is poignant right now. And so I think it's wonderful that we have a memorial that is not one small statue, but again, is engaging for for lots of folks. And so I appreciate the time and dedication that the staff put into this. Thank you. Councilman Price. Thank you. I echo those comments. I want to thank staff and the stakeholders for being involved in this. The design of the project, I think it's very tasteful and and creates a memory that is fitting for the what we are trying to remember as we erect a memorial in honor of our heroes. So I thank you for bringing this forward, and I look forward to its completion. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you very much. Well, this is, I think, a special day as we celebrate it or memorialize the fallen fire and police officers earlier today. And I just this item is very timely, but also I can recall when we were planning the Civic Center process, the the the the direction from this council to have more public art , you know, in the in the the the the around the building there in in a visible way. I think this accomplishes that but also memorializes our fallen service public safety individuals. So I'm very much supportive of this and can't wait to see it. Councilman Mangum. I want to thank the staff for working collaboratively. Collaboratively. I think that this is a great outcome and I'm really excited for the opportunity to honor those that have so bravely served us. Councilmember Richardson. I really like the design on the new memorial. I look forward to seeing it in action. The clean lines, the triangles, the ways integrated into the larger plaza. You know, before the memorial was sort of off to the side. I think this is more appropriate right there next to our civic chambers, a daily reminder of the sacrifices that our public servants make every day. So thank you to all involved. I'm really glad to see this. Thank you. Councilmember Supernanny. Thank you. Great job. Staff and police and fire on the new memorial. You know, my very first day in office was Cinco de Mayo, 2015, and it was the day of the memorial. Remember, Chief Luna? He had some nice comments to me, and I really appreciate that. I remember it to this day that you recognize me my very first day in office. So thank you for that. I will say also that police and fire have done a spectacular job with the temporary location. I think today's memorial was just outstanding and thank you for all the efforts in that. Vice Mayor Andrews. Yes. I also, you know, echoed those sentiments. And I just hope it is just a miracle and no and never, ever be another name upon it. So I'm just hoping and praying for that. Thank you. Councilman Pierce. I was curious. I know we lost a K-9 a couple of years ago in the line of fire. Any placed on this memorial for our canines. I have a dog park that the people are very excited about trying to name after. At this stage, no. Chief Luna will tell us where our canines are resting. Thank you. Councilwoman Pearce, members of the council. Excellent question. We actually have a canine memorial park at our police academy, if you'd like, or any of you an invitation. I'll personally take you guys out there and walk you through there. I have one of my former. I used to be a canine officer once upon a time. Susie was my dog's name, and she's buried out there. Thank you for that. Thank you. Any public comment on. This dog. Seeing no public comment. Members, please cast your vote. She had a lot to say. She was a mouthy. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 38, please. Did you want to go back to 36 or continue on to 38? We're going to skip 36 for today. Okay. Just kidding. We'll go back to 36 there. Now, 36 is an important one, I think. Right. Let's let's get these little ones out of the way. And let me go back 36. Let's do 39 three. Go back to 36. It's probably our last item because I know it's I know it's important.