Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7136 and award a contract to Sully-Miller Contracting Company, of Brea, CA, for the Taxiway D Rehabilitation between Runway 8L-26R and Taxiway J at the Long Beach Airport, in the amount of $5,657,950, with a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $565,795, for a total amount not to exceed $6,223,745; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments; Increase appropriations in the Airport Fund Group in the Airport Department by $7,798,525, offset by grant revenue and funds available; and Adopt Categorical Exemption CE-18-185. (District 5)
I'm 21, please. Report from Long Beach Airport. Recommendation to award a contract to Sally Miller Kohn Contracting Company for the Taxiway de Rehabilitation for a total amount not to exceed 6,223,745 District five. I'm going to mention in a second. Of most significance from boring to any public comment. There's one public comment for this item. Dave Shukla. Your time begins now. Hello. This is Dave Chappelle. I just walked away from city hall because it's chilly and I go to the bathroom, but black lives matter. And with this item, if you compare the process. The open bid process for the contract. They're fighting with the one that's coming right after it. You can see a market different. In how we prioritize certain types of work, certain types of local knowledge within our own department, as well as within the local economy. As I understand it, the actual construction engineering work. Or this item would not be terribly complicated. It's something that we could benefit from. A local firm learning how. And there's got to be a better process, got to be a better process for supporting our local economy in this moment. And for the record, I'd just like to ask the city clerk, what's the function of this public comment? Because they just switched to before the council discussion. But for a couple of years and we just had earlier today they were after, you know, the council had its deliberations. I'd like to see the public's input prior to their council. People making decisions on their. Thank you and BlackLivesMatter. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. We'll cover. District one, i. District two. I. I. District for. I. District five. I. District six. I'm seven. I. District eight. I. District nine. High ocean carries.