TITLE
Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7021 for the DeForest Wetlands Restoration; award a contract to Ford E.C., Incorporated, of Los Angeles, CA, in the amount of $4,872,567, and authorize a 20 percent contingency in the amount of $974,513, for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,847,080; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto, and consider Categorical Exemption No. 15-115 (15301, Class 1). (Districts 8,9)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into a contract with Ford E.C. Incorporated, for development of the riverfront park, approximately two miles long, on a 39-acre site located within the East Basin of the Los Angeles River between Del Amo Boulevard and Osgood Street. The vicinity map showing the project location is attached.
On November 6, 2007, the City Council authorized the City Manager to accept $2,500,000 dollars in grant funds awarded through the Los Angeles County Proposition A Excess Funds Program for the planning and Phase 1 development of the DeForest Wetland Restoration project. On June 10, 2008, the City Council authorized the City Manager to accept $217,580 in grant funds from the California Coastal Commission.
Since then, the City of Long Beach has secured additional grant funds from three State agencies: $1,000,000 from the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy; $2,500,000 from the California Resources Agency River Parkways Grant Program; and $1,500,000 from the California State Coastal Conservancy, for a total grant appropriation of $7,717,580. On May 19, 2015, the City Council authorized the City Manager to submit a grant application to the Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District, in the amount of $623,600, for the implementation of Phase 2 of the project. Phase 2 will further improve habitats through enhanced landscape plantings, expand...
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