Speaker 1: Item 14 Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine and Financial Management. Recommendation to execute amendments to contract with Bellingham Marine Industries and Concept Marine Associates relating to the Alamitos Bay Marina. Rebuild Project and increase appropriations in the Marina Fund in the Parks Recreation and Marine Department District three.
Speaker 4: Thank you. And I know Councilwoman Price has a presentation to make, so if I can turn it over to her.
Speaker 6: Thank you very much, Vice Mayor. I want to first acknowledge Rick Jerry, who is here, he's the chair of the Marine Advisory Committee. And I want to thank him for his service and for everything that he's done to support this process. I also want to recognize the hard work and dedication that Parks Recreation and Marine Director Steven Scott and our Marine Bureau Manager Alveda Hallinan have displayed during the rebuild of our marinas a major undertaking and one of the largest infrastructure projects that the city has embarked upon. The city of Long Beach has the largest municipality managed marina in the United States. Our marinas are in the best location in California as vessels are protected by a series of offshore breakwaters and natural bays with easy access to open water and sailing conditions that are nearly perfect year round due to prevailing winds. All three of our city's marinas were originally built in the 1950s and the 1960s, and our occupancy rate has remained steady at 98% and 2005 and 2007. The city rebuilt the downtown marinas, and in 2011, construction started on the Alamitos Bay Marina, Bellingham Marine. The company completing this major infrastructure project is the global leader in design, manufacturing and construction of marinas. Bellingham Marine enjoys an unrivaled reputation within the industry and has installed more than 20 million square feet of concrete floating docks throughout the world. Reconstruction work has included demolition of existing wooden docks, removal of piles, dredging, installation of new piles, assembly and installation of concrete docks, upgraded utilities at the docks, as well as restroom and parking lot rebuilds. The magnitude of this project has required the Marine Bureau to.
Speaker 1: Temporarily.
Speaker 6: Relocate boat owners during reconstruction. Reconstruction includes demolition of existing wooden docks, removal of piles.
Speaker 1: I think already set those.
Speaker 6: To date, we have completed basins one, four, five and eight. Basin two is planned to be completed by spring 2016, and Basin three will be completed by December of 2017, followed by Basin six and seven in December 2018. The total estimated cost to rebuild the Alamitos Bay Marina is $110 million. I want to thank John GROSS and Alveda Hannan and Hallinan for working so closely with one another when we earlier this year approved.
Speaker 1: The.
Speaker 6: The bond sales. They have done a fantastic job. And I'm so grateful for their their service and their commitment to this project. Thanks to our chief of staff, Julie Maliki, we have a short video that we'd like to show regarding the rebuilding process for Basin four, which is the basin located next to the Long Beach Yacht Club
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Speaker 6: Julie That was awesome. I'm wondering if that song is part of Julie Maliki's playlist. I would have gone with more of a Spanish flare song, but that was good. I liked it. Thank you very much, Julie, and the team that she assembled to put this video together. Honestly, this project is so amazing. The marinas look wonderful. Almost brought me to tears to watch that video. I'm so proud to have that in the city of Long Beach. Boat owners all around the region thank us and are so appreciative for this process. We are way ahead of so many other marinas and still offering these these spaces at a very reasonable cost to to the user. So I am so grateful for that. I'm not sure if there's a staff report. I just kind of took over.
Speaker 1: But I.
Speaker 2: Can't remember. I think you covered it very well and we're available to answer questions if needed.
Speaker 6: Thank you guys very much. This is such a pride for the city of Long Beach. I'm so grateful for your leadership. And Elvira's very balanced. Mechanisms that she uses to make sure that boat owners are treated consistently and fairly. I'm so grateful for that. I think that's a very important attribute to bring to the position. So thank you, Alveda.
Speaker 4: Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public? Well, Councilwoman Price, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I forgot to mention one thing. I would be remiss not to mention that my colleague, council member, Iran is on the Coastal Commission and I thank him for all the approvals that made this project possible because without their support, we would not be able to do these great things with our properties along the coast. So thank you.
Speaker 4: You can speak on this item.
Speaker 1: Yes, I was going to.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Diana Le Jean. I think it's just really brief. I've seen a figure here of $96 million.
Speaker 4: Almost.
Speaker 1: Close to $100 million. Is that what it is? I'm. I'm just sorry. I'm just having such a hard time with that. That amount of money. It's beautiful. I mean, there's no question about it, but I'm having a really hard time understanding $100 million. And yet here we're we I mean, on some boats and a luxury item when people who are sick and and we're we're arguing about you know it will be coming up but I'm just amazed at the amount of money being spent here when we're we're worried about a fairly small amount of money facilitating people who are really , really sick. So I just.
Speaker 4: Had to say that. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please.
Speaker 5: Hi. My name's Stephanie Dawson. So I'm a resident of Second District. I'm just struck by the kind of contrast that was created today. We had the chief of the Housing Department talking about a 120 day wait list for applicants, which I will add there is a they have not accepted more people on the waitlist since 2007. As a result of this, we're now subsidizing essentially the cheapest rent in the city of Long Beach by providing $100 million to dredge this and reformat this marina for boat slips that costs $500 a month. So in the era of a fort, when we're in desperate need for affordable housing, when people are losing their homes because they're being priced out of the city of Long Beach. $100 million would go really, really far to developing places where people can actually live.
Speaker 6: Councilman Price. Thank you. If I could just have staff educate the folks regarding where the money for the marina rebuild came from. I think there's some confusion, miscommunication there.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Councilmember Vice Mayor. Yes, we'd absolutely like to do that. This is a completely restricted fund. This is the Marina Sub Fund of the Tidelands. This is money collected by boat owners and can only be used for boat owner purposes. It could not be used for any of the other purposes that we would use in the city. So none, no general fund funds were used, no tidelands dollars with the exception of marina funds in the sub funding of the Tidelands Fund.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item 14? See none. Members cast your vote.
Speaker 1: Councilwoman Mango's, Councilman Andrews. Motion carries.
Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute the Eleventh Amendment to Contract No. 31687 with Bellingham Marine Industries, Inc., for Phase 8 of the Alamitos Bay Marina rebuild project, and increase the contract amount by $28,636,597, plus a $1,431,830 contingency, for a total contract amount not to exceed $96,555,525;

Execute the Third Amendment to Agreement No. 29587 with Concept Marine Associates, a Division of TranSystems Corporation, for continued construction management of the Alamitos Bay Marina rebuild project; increase the contract amount by $1,463,060, for a total contract amount not to exceed $8,036,549; and extend the term to December 31, 2019; and

Increase appropriations in the Marina Fund (TF 403) in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department (PR) by $49,244,796, offset by bond proceeds.  (District 3)