' Council Will Vote On $1.7+ Mil For "Demand Needs Assessment" Of IT Items For New Civic Center Plus $350k To Assess Need To Build LBPD HQ Parking Garage
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Council Will Vote On $1.7+ Mil For "Demand Needs Assessment" Of IT Items For New Civic Center Plus $350k To Assess Need To Build LBPD HQ Parking Garage


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(March 12, 2018, 8:45 a.m.) -- The City Council is scheduled to vote on March 13 on a city management request to approve spending up to $1.7+ million more (unbudgeted) for LB's new Civic Center for what it calls an "Information Technology Integration and Parking Facility demand needs assessment" plus $350,000 (previously budgeted) to assess the need for, and analyze possible construction of, a new parking garage for adjoining LBPD HQ parking.

Council approval would increase the amount payable under a previously approved $8+ mil City Hall contract with Arup North America for services generally related to overseeing completion of the project.

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A publicly agendized city management memo says the $1.7 million additional IT cost "will consist of technology engineering and consulting services to enable the new Civic Center to be ready, tested, and operational by June 2019." The cost item was previewed during a December 5, 2017 presentation on what city staff called the city's "critical technology information needs" (a broader category that received general Council approval.)

City management's agendizing memo doesn't provide documenting reports on the additional IT costs, summarizing them as "19 technology tracks of work, including: Council Chambers, Conference Rooms, Reprographics, Operations, Access Controls, Cameras, Cable Television, Personal Computers, Phones, Wireless Network, Wired Network, Telecommunications providers, Data Center, Main Distribution Frame (MDF), Intermediate Distribution Frame (IOF), Fiber Loop, Microwave, Cellular Distributed Antenna System (DAS), and Application Migration and Decommissioning."

[City management agendizing memo text] In each track, Arup will assist the City's Technology and Innovation (TI) and Public Works (PW) Departments in coordinating with City departments, Technology Subject Matter Experts, Technology Suppliers, Arup, Plenary-Edgemoor Civic Partners (PECP), Clark Construction, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) Architects, Syska Hennessy Group, and other stakeholders with building and delivering the 19 integrated technology systems. The Project completion is expected in June 2019, and will encompass several major parallel phases including: 1) Pre-design, where the scope and approach of each track will be further defined and validated with key stakeholders; 2) Design, where the technical specification for all key systems are further defined and validated with key stakeholders; 3) Procurement, where all critical systems, components, and resources will be acquired and delivered; and, 4) Construction, where all critical systems will be coordinated for installation, testing and transition.
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Management also seeks $350,000 "to analyze parking alternatives including the construction of a garage on the surface lot adjacent to LBPD HQ (with over 200 spaces, explained as follows. "Since the original project was approved in April 2016, additional demands are impacting parking resources. Through Measure A funding, the Police Department was able to deploy the South Division Patrol. This has added 100 sworn and non-sworn employees working out of Police Headquarters, who are utilizing the Broadway Parking Garage. While this is a positive addition to the City's law enforcement efforts, it has created further challenges in providing adequate parking for the public and City employees."

[LBREPORT.com comment: Following LB voter-approval of Measure A (raised LB's sales tax to the highest rate among CA cities), the Council has restored 17 citywide deployable police officers for taxpayers out of 208 erased since FY09 with no commitment to restore the remainder. City management's agendizing memo doesn't explain why parking was previously sufficient to handle South Division and roughly 200 officers that LB previously had.]

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The Civic Center transaction, which includes a smaller main library and permanently gave away a portion of the publicly owned land for a private development, will require LB taxpayers citywide to begin paying 40+ years annual escalating sums (under an annual CPI escalator) to a private operator (starting on city occupancy in mid-2019) in amounts city management said would roughly parallel current Civic Center operating costs. The Civic Center transaction, patterned after the "public private partnership" used to build and operate LB's new courthouse, was supported by downtown interests, commercial property owners, Mayors Foster and Garcia (the latter while 1st district Councilmeber along with then-2nd dist. Councilmember Suja Lowenthal) plus all LB Councilmembers (with the exception of Gerrie Schipske) without seeking bids to seismically retrofit LB's 1970's City Hall and without seeking LB voter approval.

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