Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7006 for Bellflower Boulevard, between Pacific Coast Highway and Atherton Street; award a contract to Sequel Contractors, Inc., of Santa Fe Springs, CA, in the amount of $1,786,611, and authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $178,661, for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,965,272; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments; Increase appropriation in the Gas Tax Street Improvement Fund (SR 181) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $397,084, offset by reimbursement grant revenue; and Accept Categorical Exemption No. CE 14-125. (Districts 3,4)
All right, let's reset the screen, please. It's two nine. And bring up item 33, please. Just for the 30 3 a.m.. Quick read 30. Item 33 is a report from Public Works. Recommendation to Award a contract to SIEGEL Contractors for Street Improvement on Bellflower Boulevard between Pacific Coast Highway and Atherton Street for a total contract amount not to exceed 1.9 District three and four. Councilman price care if this item. Is there. Staff report. Shawn Crombie Good evening Mayor Council. I'm 33 six to work construction to sequel contractors in the amount of 1.965 million. The project will rehabilitate Bellflower Avenue between Pacific Coast Highway and Atherton Street. Protected bike lanes will be added as part of the project and we're funded with 397,000 and bicycle grant funds. I'm available to answer any questions that you have. Thank you for coming on side of me. I have a question. Would you be willing to reconsider the green on the bollards? White bollards? Maybe. Now it's green. Purple. I had to ask you on the record. Green ballots are the choice to represent bike lanes, and this area is going to have bike lanes on it. So green is what the standard would be. I'm hearing that's a soft. No. Very soft. Thank you. All right. Kate Lewis next. Councilmember. Oh, yes. If Mr. Crombie would like to explain and we've had this conversation, so I know what you're going to say, but for my constituents and I think a lot of them are probably still watching tonight. If they're wondering how the separation, the bike lanes work at the driveway of the YMCA and the restaurant, and then across the street, the medical building and the gas station, there's actually no separation of the bike lane at that point. Cars will be able to cross over. So really, the the bike lanes, the protected bike lanes stops at Dalton Creek, which is the border between the third and the fourth. That's correct. The protected bike lanes do have brakes at intersections and at all crossing driveways. And so that would be the case here. It would stop short of the intersection. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Mungo. I want to thank the public works department. I know that the bike lanes in my district are also not as popular. And to Councilman Price's comment about the color of them. I will say that I did a little bit of additional research after the green was so firm from public works and all the ones that are in L.A. that are white. They look terrible. They actually don't maintain very well. They're the worst looking bollards you've ever seen. The green actually maintain their color better even against fading. And people who do hit them, which we're glad they hit those instead of the biker. So while Green can be alarming, then there are there are other setbacks. The only thing I would recommend is that they're not as close together as they are right now, even when I'm biking inside them, which I've done now a few times to get to dinner and kind of experience it, I don't know that the density of every however many feet apart they are is as necessary. If we could spread them out a little further, we'd save some funds and perhaps not be as alarming to the drivers. I would say that. We're refining the design of the of the protected. Bike lanes, looking at things like spacing to. Try to make it more. Appealing. Thank you, Councilmember Super. Now, once again. Thank you, Mr. Crump. I would hope that public works can reach out to Cal State Long Beach. I know they have some construction projects that are about to start. One is a sewer project on Earl Warren Drive that will redirect busses in this area. So I think that's your standard operating procedure, is to reach out to the university and make sure your construction projects don't conflict. Okay. Any public comment on this item saying members, please cast your vote.