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Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to submit a grant application to the California Department of Parks and Recreation Habitat Conservation Fund Grant Program, for the implementation of active transportation trails as part of the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Recycle Facility project; accept grant funding in an amount up to $250,000; and, execute all documents necessary to accept the grant funds and implement the project. (Districts 1,2,6,7,8,9)
DISCUSSION
The California Department of Parks and Recreation Habitat Conservation Fund Grant Program (HCF) provides funding for projects that involve the development of trails that provide opportunity for urban residents to experience wildlife areas. The City of Long Beach (City) has identified the Long Beach Municipal Urban Stormwater Treatment Recycle Facility (LB-MUST) project as meeting the requirements of the HCF.
Long Beach’s proximity to the Los Angeles River, available park space near the Shoemaker Bridge, and regional active transportation trails make the City an ideal location to build an urban runoff treatment facility. When constructed, the LB-MUST project will improve recreational water quality by intercepting water runoff and reducing and/or eliminating pollution causing metals, bacteria, and hydrocarbons that would otherwise discharge into the Los Angeles River and spread to City beaches and the ocean.
Treated water produced by the LB-MUST project will be used in the Cesar Chavez/Drake Park Wetlands project (funded by the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy - Prop 1 Grant) to create and sustain the wetlands proposed and supplement potable water for the irrigation of parks, parkways and riparian habitat within the park complex. Grant funds will be used to construct the trails within Cesar Chavez/Drake Parks and the LB-MUST project.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Amy R. Webber on August 30, 2017 and by Budget Analysis Office...
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