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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to sign all documents necessary to execute the City-County Cooperative Agreement with Los Angeles County for construction of the Termino Avenue Drain Project (TADP) as designed by Los Angeles County for an estimated amount of $2,910,000. (Districts 3,4)
DISCUSSION
The City of Long Beach (City) and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works (LACDPW) have been working together since 1993 to alleviate flooding problems by construction of a storm drain in an area that extends from the intersection of Redondo Avenue and Anaheim Street southerly to the Colorado Lagoon. This proposed storm drain is referred to as the Termino Avenue Drain Project (TADP).
On November 18, 2008, the City Council adopted a resolution approving the TADP as designed by Los Angeles County, authorizing the City Manager to sign all documents necessary to execute the City-County Cooperative Agreement (Agreement) with Los Angeles County for construction of the TADP, and adopting a responsible agency environmental finding pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In the Council letter attached to that resolution, staff indicated that the total project cost is estimated at $26,400,000 and under the agreement the City would be contributing $2,000,000, which is primarily being used to offset the costs of water quality enhancements such as catch basin inserts and low-flow sewer diversions. The LACDPW will be funding a majority of the remainder of the project.
The Council letter also indicated that the project includes some water main work, at an estimated cost of $910,000, which is anticipated to be funded by the Long Beach Water Department. This funding proposal is expected to be presented to the Board of Water Commissioners for their consideration on February 5, 2009. The Agreement aggregates the cost for water main work into the City's contribution. Therefore, staff seeks to ensure that Council understand that the City's ...
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