Item 6-D
Council Meeting: October 12, 1999 Santa Monica, California
TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
SUBJECT: Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute a One Year Contract in an Amount not to Exceed $100,000 for Storm Drain Catch Basin Cleanout and Catch Basin Inserts Installation with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps
Introduction
This report recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manger to negotiate and execute a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC) to provide maintenance services to the Wastewater Division of the Environmental and Public Works Management Department for storm drain catch basin cleanout and litter characterization, and catch basin insert installation.
Background
The City of Santa Monica, as a permittee to the county
=s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit, is required to take steps to improve the water quality of the Santa Monica Bay through the improvement of urban runoff quality being discharged into the Bay. To help achieve this regional goal, the city received a Los Angeles County Proposition A grant for the purchase of 400 catch basin inserts, which will be installed in city catch basins, and is now in the process of soliciting bids from companies that produce these inserts. Grant conditions require the City to install these inserts as soon as they are delivered. Therefore, an installation contract must be in place prior to delivery. At the same time that the catch basin inserts are installed, catch basin public information stencils at each location will be checked and added or replaced as necessary.Discussion
Each year during the dry weather season, city crews remove debris from city catch basins as well as record information about the characteristics of litter removed. In addition to cleanout work, the basins are physically inspected and repaired if necessary. This fiscal year the crews will have additional tasks -- adding or replacing catch basin stencils and installing catch basin inserts to trap litter and to remove possible pollutants such as hydrocarbons, heavy metals and sediments, thereby preventing them from entering the Santa Monica Bay and improving the quality of the coastal environment. This project is one of a series of City Best Management Practices to remove pollutants from or keep pollutants out of urban runoff.
The LACC is a non-profit agency operating in Los Angeles since 1986. It was founded to help young people, specifically at-risk youth, return to productive, self-sufficient lives by assisting them in obtaining job training and in completing their education. LACC provides participants with temporary jobs, income, recent work experience, job references, and feedback on their work habits. The LACC members will supplement existing city catch basin cleanout crews, doubling the number of crews available for this project to remove debris, install catch basin inserts and add stencils. The LACC must demonstrate that a minimum of 50% of the workforce for this project is comprised of Santa Monica-based residents.
The term of the agreement is for one calendar year in an amount not to exceed $100,000. Staff anticipates that the project will commence December 1, 1999. For Fiscal Year 1999-00, approximately $70,000 will be spent. The remaining $30,000 of the contract will be expended in FY2000-01, and these funds will be included in the Proposed Budget for FY2000-01.
Budget/Fiscal Impact
Funds of $70,000 are available in the FY99/00 Stormwater Budget for these services in
account# 31661.566630.70036W.
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a one year contract with the LACC in an amount not to exceed $100,000 to provide installation and maintenance services for city stormwater catch basins.
Prepared by:
Craig Perkins, Director, Environmental and Public Works Management
Neal Shapiro, Acting Urban Runoff Management Program Coordinator