Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman, you can return back to the room. I have a number 13 police.
Speaker 0: Report from Public Works, Park Recreation and Marine recommendation to award a contract to Sally Miller Contracting Company for improvement.
Speaker 4: Of the Daisy Myrtle.
Speaker 0: Bicycle Boulevard Project for a total contract amount not to exceed $4,325,908. District's one.
Speaker 6: Six, seven, eight and nine.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Can we have the cruelest and shortest staff report that gets everyone excited and supportive about this item? Craig Back will provide the coolest and shortest staff report ever. Craig The expectations are set.
Speaker 10: Yes. Good evening. Council Vice Mayor Members City Council Lucky number 13. Item 13, this is Daisy Bike Boulevard, which has been in the making for multiple years. And in fact, there were many times when we didn't believe we were going to be able to bring this project forward. We had funding issues, we had design issues, we had timing issues. But we all before this council this evening, this is a key bicycle project that will create a 9.5 million 9.5 mile excuse me connection between our downtown and our north town neighborhoods. So it will go through the district's named one six, seven, eight, nine, but it starts in two. So we are picking up most of the council districts in our community. We're very pleased to bring this forward. We anticipate, starting with council's approval tonight, we anticipate starting construction in January and finishing in early summer. And that concludes my staff report.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Councilman Austin Ferreira will support this motion and this has been a long time coming. And I can tell you that as we've had multiple community.
Speaker 3: Meetings on this.
Speaker 1: Reviewing design, I think this is going to be a great project that.
Speaker 3: Connects an entire city. So I'm looking forward to support it and encourage everybody else to do the same.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. I'll just offer my comments here. This is we've seen this for a long time and a lot of people probably wonder whether this project is real or not. We finally get to answer that question. Looking forward to construction. Looking forward to our new roundabout at Harding and Myrtle. Councilwoman Gonzalez.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to say thank you to the public works team. This was a long time in the making, and I know.
Speaker 0: A Willmore City representative was here, but I really appreciate.
Speaker 4: You providing us the timeline.
Speaker 0: I want to ask as to.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 0: This is going to.
Speaker 4: The one more city. What about parking in that specific historic district? Is parking going to be an issue?
Speaker 10: Councilmember Gonzales We don't anticipate any are very few parking impacts. There may be some locations where we're adding traffic calming measures. That could be a traffic circle. That could be a roundabout. And that's done to ensure that we are slowing the traffic to make the passageway safe for bicyclists, but would be minimal. One, maybe two. I can provide specifics for you in the one more area here and it's great.
Speaker 4: I know we'll be getting.
Speaker 0: About four roundabouts, so we're excited about that. Thank you very much. Great work.
Speaker 1: For roundabouts. Wow. Maybe I should renegotiate. Any public comment on this? Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, let me come across one of them.
Speaker 1: Representatives.
Speaker 3: I represent Jesus against a Jewish churchgoing man, man. Yeah. See? Hey, you're right. Anyway, so check out this cool. But I remember that $25 million bike lane thing some months or.
Speaker 1: Whatever that was.
Speaker 3: On me. There we go. Okay. The 25 million bike length. There was a 25 million. That's six, seven months ago. Voted eight nine. Then it was about three, four months ago, 25 million. And that's when I came up here and see the day. If you give $500,000 to me, that's why I had my son here that day. And I say, if you give 500,000, the rest will go get some people will paint with brushes and everything. Okay, all of that. That was to take care of everything. I was done. Larry Bohlen came up here and said he'd been riding for 70 years in Long Beach and everything, and he was asking, why did you have to spend all this money? So that was 25, another 25, and now we got 4 million. So we we took a 54.
Speaker 1: Million for bike lanes.
Speaker 3: And what does it take for bike lanes? I mean, are these.
Speaker 1: Go bike lanes or are they.
Speaker 3: Pay? I mean, come on, man. It doesn't cost 54 million for bike lanes.
Speaker 1: JetBlue lost 2 billion. I'm talking straight up about.
Speaker 3: This even is money and.
Speaker 1: Everything. I'm looking at the repair side.
Speaker 3: Of me because it.
Speaker 1: Talks about all the books for yeah, we want $10,000 for.
Speaker 3: Immigrant Alliance.
Speaker 1: Project 13. Would you say divide number 13? I'm talking.
Speaker 3: About money. I know what it is. I'm saying give me pass because I didn't get seven. As as we talk about buying books for somebody that have speak English and stuff. Well, come on, we talk about put money somewhere else. Why don't we just teach.
Speaker 1: People English in school, you know?
Speaker 3: But anyway, this is getting back to the item. Okay. So as far as this, all I'm saying, why all this extra money? We up the money? I know you're not going to answer me now, but I really want to know because really, I mean, out of serious, all this money, 4 million.
Speaker 2: Give me 500,000.
Speaker 1: I'll hook that up. I do it.
Speaker 3: Five and everything. This is costing too much and we need to find another way. I mean, it sounds all good, but this I've been seeing three feet high weeds around Long Beach. I haven't seen a lot but we can do I see methods crack is they need help we need money for other things. We're people and we have a lot of projects. I mean, there needs to be not nice. It's nice. I don't want to live in Hawthorne. I don't want to live in L.A. I like Long Beach. It's a nice city, but we got to take care of the people. It's too many. I ain't never seen this many white folks on dope in my life, and that scares me because, you know, we'd first get third last get hired. I, I see white folks doing business and black folks and all that no more. So we need to.
Speaker 1: Get things right and it's not spend your time.
Speaker 3: Wasting it. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Members, please cast your vote. Councilwoman Pierce.
Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7080 for improvements of the Daisy-Myrtle Bicycle Boulevard Project; award a contract to Sully-Miller Contracting Company, of Brea, CA, in the amount of $3,932,644, authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $393,264, for a total contract amount not to exceed $4,325,908; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments;

Increase appropriations in the Transportation Fund (SR 182) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $4,621,101, offset by grant reimbursement revenue; and

Accept Categorical Exemption No. CE-58-09.  (Districts 1,6,7,8,9)