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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into an agreement, and any necessary subsequent amendments, with the Bluff Park Neighborhood Association, to accept and expend funding in the amount of $38,114, for Phases I and II of the Bluff Park Historic Lamppost Project, and any future funds for subsequent phases; and
Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $38,114, offset by funds received from the Bluff Park Neighborhood Association. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into an agreement with the Bluff Park Neighborhood Association (BPNA) to allow the City of Long Beach (City) to accept and expend funds for Phases I and II of the Bluff Park Historic Lamppost Project (Projects).
The BPNA has been actively raising funds through personal donations and from charities since 2017 to help fund the Projects. The vision of BPNA’s Bluff Park Historic Lamppost Project is to remove the uncharacteristic modern streetlights in the Bluff Park Historic District and install historically appropriate lampposts matching the look and pattern of the late-1920s East 1st Street lampposts. The Projects are scheduled in phases, with installations on each street from Junipero to Loma Avenues running from Ocean Boulevard and 2nd Street. Overall, the Projects will result in the removal 104 cobra head style streetlights and installation of 149 decorative lampposts covering the boundaries of the Bluff Park Historic District. To date, the City has completed two phases (20 lampposts): Phase I - Paloma Avenue completed in June 2019, and Phase II - Temple Avenue completed in October 2021.
The total cost of Phase I was $120,903 and $152,209 for Phase II, inclusive of the purchase of lampposts, construction, inspections, and project oversight. In June 2019, the City received $20,057 from the BPNA to partially fund Phase I. The City recently received ...
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