Speaker 8: Item 18.
Speaker 1: Report from Public Works recommendation to find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety and welfare of the city and provide and approve a discretionary permit to excavate in Santa Fe Avenue between Pacific Coast Highway and Willow Street Districts one and seven.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Councilman.
Speaker 5: Yes. All right. I just had a question as to the outreach. For the businesses that are out there and then what the timeline will be as to when it will begin, when it will begin.
Speaker 4: Honorable Gonzalez That's a great question. We have asked Tesoro, who was the oil company, who is the owner of this pipeline, to have a 24 hour phone line available for any questions. And also, they have told us that they will be notifying all the residents and businesses when they start or when that comes to to do this . They've told us or guaranteed us that they've done this numerous times in the last ten years, that they had no problems. The way they do it, nobody will notice it. And it has minimal impacts to all the residents and and businesses.
Speaker 5: Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 8: Councilmember, you're on. Good.
Speaker 2: In regards to frequency, though, how often does this occur?
Speaker 4: Are you talking about the frequency of the holes or half when they do this to us?
Speaker 2: Does the company go about doing this kind of project?
Speaker 4: They're telling us that they need to do this every three years. But at the same time, when they drill these half inch holes every ten feet on center, they're going to fill it with materials that it's strong enough. But also they don't need to come back and we re drill it. So they're going to use the same holes, the locations, and be able to probe it. So the material they put in will be able to to have their probes basically penetrate that material and detect their pipeline if they're sound or not.
Speaker 2: Now, should they find a major issue with any of those pipelines? Is it going to be their responsibility to either repair it and replace it or that the street would.
Speaker 4: Correct if if in doubt in a case like that, if they find that they need to repair the pipeline, they still need to get a permit from us. And in that instance, we can impose conditions to fix the street to our new standards, which is slurry sealed from curb to curb. Since this condition that they're working in doesn't constitute that. It's it's very minimal and there's no nexus. We cannot ask them to do that. But any time they open the street with any kind of trenching, then we can ask for not only to fix their pipeline, fix the trench, and also fix the pavement on top.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm assuming that you have a map of where all these pipe pipelines will go through the city, correct? Correct. So when they do their these projects, they tell you in advance what areas they're going to be going into units on some of these holes to check on their pipes.
Speaker 4: Well, they they need to have a street use permit whenever they are in the in the public quite a way to perform any type of work. The reason we are here tonight before you is because of the moratorium. These two streets had slurry seal in 2014 and paving in 2010, 2013, I believe. So they're within the five year moratorium. That's why they're here. Usually drilling a half inch hole would not constitute the staff bringing this item before you because there would be past the moratorium. But the answer to a question is yes, they will have to get a permit from us to utilize the public right away. We have to make sure that they have proper traffic control devices so traffic can go around their activities. And we approve those traffic control plans ahead of time for issuance of the permit.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm bringing it up now to turn to the disruption that it might have in the neighborhoods and to the businesses along that strip. So. Just want to make sure that those individuals who are affected by it are well aware of what's taking place and why, so that there's not a pushback from neighborhoods and businesses that say, why are you doing this again? Especially within the within them that that period of time, that five year plan. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Councilmember. Thank you, Mr. Malloy. Is there any member of the public that wish to address the Council on item 18 seeing none. Members. Cast your vote.
Speaker 1: Motion carries.
Speaker 8: We had heard item 19 earlier. Is that correct? Correct.
Speaker 1: Item 20 Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to Declare Ordinance Amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to testing in Operation Read and adopted as read citywide.
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 in Santa Fe Avenue between Pacific Coast Highway and Willow Street, which has been slurry sealed within the previous 24 months, and in Webster Avenue between Hill Street and Willow Street, which has been repaved within the previous 5 years, in accordance with Section 14.08.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.  (Districts 1,7)