Recommendation to authorize City Manager or his designee to execute all necessary documents to participate in the California Public Safety Procurement (CPSPP) Program for the 5-year period from July 31, 2014 to July 30, 2019.  (Citywide)
Next item. Item nine is reported to police permanent with recommendation to authorize participation in the California Public Safety Procurement Program for five year period. Can I get a motion in motion in a second. Any public comment on the item? Seeing an emptiness over the council. Councilwoman Pryce. Do we have. Do we have anyone here from PD that can give us a brief overview of this particular item? Yes. We have Deputy Chief Laura Farinelli and Deputy Chief Robert Luna. Good afternoon, Mayor. Members. City Council. Yes. This is a National Defense Authorization Act which allows us to acquire equipment from DOD that they are no longer going to use. So we can use it in our homeland security mission here, specifically in my bureau in the Port of Long Beach, to enhance our homeland security front and Homeland Security mission and the Port of Long Beach. So it's an examples of what would have required within a vessel, a vehicle and a trailer. And so we have a vessel on the water that we've acquired for. Free through the. Federal government. And it allows us to enhance our posture for homeland security within the port. So do does the procurement of these items allow you to be more efficient in terms of the services that you provide both for the city and the the port? Absolutely it does. And what's another benefit of that as well is that these are equipment such as a vessel which has a long life. And then when that vessel is so-to-speak tired, I can leverage then grant funds to enhance that vessel, to bring it up to current standards, to extend its life even more. Thank you. Thank you. Got some of your anger. Thank you, Mayor. Well, it would be my concern about the militarization of the police department. I do have some questions regarding what we're getting here. Is are the equipment is the equipment we're getting specific to the harbor department only, or is it also equipment that might be eligible to use in in other parts of the city? Well, the equipment I have currently and I received many, many years ago and it's a vessel, a four by four truck and a trailer in which to trailer the vessel to different locations and in and out of the water for maintenance. And those are the three pieces of equipment that I've acquired that was the police department acquired, I want to say, over five years ago. And we have not received any further items at that point for the Port of Long Beach. Okay. Is there a special skill or special training that the staff would need to go through in order to operate these vehicles and patrol the harbor? Not the vehicles, but the vessels? Yes. And we go to the Maritime Law Enforcement Training Center in the Port of L.A. All my officers that work in the port police division go through that process and are trained to operate vessels in the maritime realm. Given the concern that we have with budgets and and skill pays and the number of deployments that we have of officers, what kind of impact would having this piece of equipment have on our general services to the police department to provide this kind of service to the harbor department? It would be no new. Impacts at all. We currently have nine vessels in our fleet and that training goes along with that. This is nothing new. It's an additional vessel that we can cycle in like a lot of our daily patrols. We thank. Thank you, Councilmember Andrews. Yes. I mean, I think that by participating, this program will assist our police department in a lot of ways, and that is especially central to our city and homeland security and also the emergency response. I really applaud you for this situation here. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. I'm just seeking a little bit of clarity in the staff report here. It identifies items that we have already received. It doesn't really tell us what we're going to get. Is it the do is there any way to forecast what is available in terms of new new equipment or items that you might receive from the federal government ? Currently, we're not reaching out to look for any more equipment. We received this equipment on the inception of when we started providing police patrols on the water within the port. And we were trying to build our fleet. So it was a way to get free at no cost to get ourselves a vessel to patrol the waters within the port complex. And what you say, free and free is a good, good number. I agree. But what what type of maintenance cost are associated with the perception of these? Currently, majority, almost all of our. Maintenance costs we. Offset through port security grant funds. Okay. Well, I will. I will. I think this is a net benefit for the city of Long Beach, considering our port operations as a port of entry as well as the airport. I think it's important for us to have the resources and tools to protect our city. So I'll be supporting this. Thank you. Councilmember O'Donnell. Yes, thank you. I just want to be clear. This effort is about keeping our city and our officers safe. Is that correct? That's correct. Not about militarization, not a common sense approach. Getting something for free that someone's probably going to discard and save the city some money. So thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on the item, Casey? No public comment. I believe there's a motion on the floor. Please cast your votes. Motion carries nine votes. Next item. Item ten is report from Public Works and Financial Management, with the recommendation to award a contract to Sally Miller for the rehabilitation of Magnolia Avenue in the sixth and seventh District, an amount not to exceed $2.9 million.