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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute an agreement with CelPlan Technologies, Inc., to purchase components and install a video camera system along Pine Avenue from Shoreline to 6th Street, in an amount not to exceed $400,000, and increase appropriations in the Redevelopment Fund (RD 224) in the Community Development Department (CD) in the amount of $400,000. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
During the past two years, Long Beach Police Department (Police Department) staff researched the possibility of using video technology as a crime suppression tool. Other cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago and London deployed systems that have successfully impacted criminal activity. The Police Department analysis concluded that use of video camera systems would be most beneficial in parks, near schools, high crime areas and the Downtown Entertainment District along Pine Avenue.
In August 2005, the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency allocated $400,000 for the capital costs related to creation of a video monitoring system along Pine Avenue in the Downtown area. On October 18, 2005, the Police Department presented a report to the City Council on the feasibility of using this technology.
In October 2005, a Request for Proposals (RFP) process was initiated to obtain the services of a qualified company to design, purchase, and install a video monitoring system along Pine Avenue from Shoreline Drive to 6'h Street. The RFP was posted and advertised on the City's bid management system and 87 vendors specializing in security systems were notified; fifteen were Minority-owned Business Enterprises (MBEs), fourteen were Women-owned Business Enterprises
(WBEs) and five were Long Beach businesses.
The RFP document was made available from the Purchasing Division located in City Hall and on the Division's webpage at www.longbeach.gov/purchasing. An announcement was also included in the Purchasing Division's weekly update on Open Bid Opportunities, which is sent to 32 local,...
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