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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles (Metro), to accept the donation of the retired P865 Nippon Sharyo light rail vehicle car #100 of the former Long Beach Blue Line; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an agreement and all necessary documents with Heavy Transport, of Long Beach, CA, to transport and deliver the vehicle from its current location to Long Beach, in an amount not to exceed $40,000. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to enter into agreements with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles (Metro), to accept the donation of the retired Nippon Sharyo P865 light rail vehicle car #100 of the former Long Beach Blue Line; and, with Heavy Transport, to transport and deliver the vehicle from its current location at a Metro storage facility in Los Angeles to a temporary site at the Long Beach Water Department (Water) storage facility at 32nd Street and St. Louis Avenue. The Public Works Department (PW), in conjunction with Water, has identified the 32nd Street and St. Louis Avenue storage facility as the best temporary site for the vehicle. PW is in the process of plan development for reuse of the donated vehicle in a future project that will both historically preserve and repurpose the car for intended civic use and benefit to the residents of Long Beach and Los Angeles County.
Per Metro Board approval, Metro may make donations of its available surplus material, equipment, revenue service vehicles, and non-revenue vehicles (surplus assets) to public agencies, municipalities, school districts, and nonprofit organizations for continued public transit services, or for other re-purposed public uses and services that benefit all Los Angeles County residents. Approved donation requests must meet a policy standard that all donati...
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