Recommendation to find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety, and welfare of the City and cannot be delayed; that alternatives to excavating, such as alternative routing, or construction methods, such as boring or excavation of the parkway, are not possible; approve a discretionary permit to excavate nine City streets, which have been resurfaced within the previous 60 months, in accordance with Section 14.08.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.  (Districts 7,8,9)
I don't think there's bills here. Okay, so why don't we go to the item from content calendar that was pulled, which was item 11? Was that right? Yes. Okay. Report from Public Works recommendation to find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety and welfare of the city and cannot be delayed and approve a discretionary permit to excavate nine city streets. District seven, eight and nine. Johnson V Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. You know, many of our residents have waited years to have their street improvements. And here we have an opportunity for Tesoro to tear up the street within the the moratorium period of the moratorium. So I just want to include or amend the motion that we include a that we have Tesoro, maybe in partnership with our public works department to notify those residents of the pending street improvements. Well, the pending excavation that's going to be taking place. So that's for District 17, right? Okay. That's an addition to the motion. Councilman Austin, do anything. You know, like you speak in support of the motion. I want to thank council member for your Urunga for bringing it forth and removing it from the consent calendar. I did have a question for our Public Works Director in terms of the scope of the work, because particularly on one of the these streets that is actually being proposed to have the survey done. It's a street that we just spent a considerable amount of money actually resurfacing. And so what is the scope of work that will be done there? And, um, can we, can we be assured that, that the street will be repaired to the level that it's supposed to be? Yes, Councilman Austin, this is really exploratory work that De SA is doing to ensure that their pipeline cathartic protection system is working. Cathartic protection keeps a metal pipe that's in the ground from degrading as quickly as it would without it. So these are very small holes that are being drilled so they can put a probe into the ground. The holes are about three quarters of an inch. So somewhere in the in the neighborhood of a size of a of a quarter. This type of work isn't going to do anything to degrade the streets. If they do find that their pipelines need to be replaced, they'll have to come in and do trenching. And that is a whole different topic that will we'll need to address and discuss with them should that be required. But the work and the scope before Council on this item is merely a monitoring of those pipes, and there's going to be no degradation occurring in the streets as a result. And how often does do those pipes need to be monitored? Different pipeline widths and capacities have different monitoring requirements. So it really just depends on the type and size of the pipe that they're looking at. Okay. I know we just passed Measure A and we have an aggressive infrastructure repair plan in place. I would just hope that we are coordinating our efforts to make sure that, you know, we're not. Repairing streets and then going digging back into them to to repair pipes. All of that is kind of synchronized. So thank you. Can I talk to. I'm sorry. Vice Mayor Richardson? Yes, you can talk to the vice mayor of Richardson. So. So I'm typically supportive of these for a number of reasons. One, we normally like to Soros being particularly great at doing outreach and reaching out to our office and to the local community. But we were notified about this when it showed up on the city council agenda. We didn't get any notice about it. And the and we've encountered these drilled holes before in the past, and that's one of the reasons we put the moratorium in place. It's not real excavation. But it still damages the street. It still damages the street. And you can actually see it when these holes get drilled in. So my concern is, like I'm looking at a number of these. Some of them are like just a few inches ice and ice in an isolated spot, but some of these run an entire length of a street. So the first question is how like how far in between are these holes drilled? Tesoro is telling us that they are approximately 10 to 15 feet apart. And how big, how large are the holes themselves? Three quarters of an inch. Okay. And and have you know, if. So for example, some of these are brand new. We're going to what like patch the top of the hole with like a slurry seal stuff. We're gonna like paint over it. Like, What do we do to this whole. So they would put some kind of mix in the hole. Most likely a concrete patch mix and then top it with with some asphalt. Okay. So I would just say, you know, I'm not going to make a huge issue out of this because it's you know, it's late. But I would you know, I would have preferred, frankly, that we get some get some heads up and get out and get to wrap our minds around this stuff. Because if it's a length of street, you know, I just get questions like, is there an opportunity just to if, you know, if it's along the perimeter of the street, just slurry and a straight line. So it all looks looks kind of consistent. So in the future, I would just like to have just more notice and more conversation about these because, you know, some of these streets have waited a long time to be repaved. Linden Avenue was one of the worst streets in North Long Beach. And, you know, and I really don't want to see it drilled into, but I'll move forward with these things. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? CNN, please cast your votes.