TITLE
Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary, to amend the contract with Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship, Inc., to increase the contract amount by $177,000, plus a 15 percent contingency in the amount of $26,550, for a revised total annual contract amount not to exceed $623,070, for the maintenance and management of environmentally sensitive areas. (Districts 2,3)
DISCUSSION
On March 22, 2016, the City Council awarded a contract to Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship, Inc., for the maintenance and management of environmentally sensitive areas in the City of Long Beach (City), for a total annual amount not to exceed $419,520, for a period of two years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods (Contract).
Since the Contract was awarded, additional park grounds have been developed Citywide, including the Bixby Park expansion and Appian Way planters (Attachments A, B). As a result, it is necessary to update the scope of services and service areas of the Contract. City Council action is requested to amend Contract No. 34275 with Los Cerritos Wetlands Stewardship, Inc., to increase the annual Contract amount by $177,000, plus a 15 percent contingency in the amount of $26,550, for a total annual Contract amount not to exceed $623,070.
This matter was reviewed by Deputy City Attorney Erin Weesner-McKinley and Purchasing Agent Tara Yeats on October 8, 2019, and by Budget Analysis Officer Julissa José-Murray on October 23, 2019.
TIMING CONSIDERATIONS
City Council action is requested on November 19, 2019, to ensure the contract amendment is in place expeditiously.
FISCAL IMPACT
The requested action will increase the current annual contract authority by $203,550, for a revised annual contract amount not to exceed $623,070. Of this amount, $115,00 is budgted in the Tidelands Operating Fund Group in the Public Works Department, and $88,550 is budgeted in the Tidelands Operating Fund Group in the Parks Recreation and Marine Department. This recommendation has no staffing impact beyond the normal budgeted scope of duties consistent with existing City Council priorities. There is no local job impact associated with this reccomendation.
SUGGESTED ACTION
Approve recommendation.
Respectfully Submitted,
CRAIG A. BECK
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
GERARDO MOUET
DIRECTOR OF PARKS, RECREATION AND MARINE
APPROVED:
PATRICK H. WEST
CITY MANAGER