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From: Jill Ingram
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 3:58 PM
Cc: Executive Team; Craig A. Steele; agreyson@rwglaw.com; Dana Engstrom
Subject: RE: Agenda Questions
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Please see responses to Mayor Varipapa's questions below on tonight's agenda, and as always, please call if you would
like to discuss further.
Jill R. Ingram, City Manager
City of Seal Beach - 211 Eighth Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740
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Original Message
From: Mike Varipapa
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 4:15 PM
To:Jill Ingram
Subject: Agenda Questions
Local Coastal Permit:
When is in anticipated that the LCP will be completed?
The tentative completion date is estimated for July 2020.
When does the consultants contract end?
The consultant is contracted until the completion of the draft LCP based upon the grant terms. After the completion of
the LCP draft, the City may choose to initiate a separate contract with the consultant to assist with the Coastal
Commission review/approval process. If this is the City's intent,the contract must be presented and approved by City
Council.
When does the grant expire?
The grant term was initially set to expire in October 2019 however, City staff has been working with Coastal Commission
staff who is aware of the City's staffing challenges and has agreed to revise the grant term to reflect the new estimated
completion date.
Item C:
On p. 3, Check No. 8658,
What is "Advanced Disability Payment"? Is this new?
Check number 8358 is a payment for which the City will be reimbursed by CaIPERS. Officer Craig Jones was granted a
disability retirement and this is his initial payment.
P. 4, check no. 8370.
Is this for city "swag"? Is there an account for this?
These items were purchased with the intent to be given away at events at which the "pop-up" City Hall is present. The
account depends on the type of purchases. The items purchased in this particular case were purchased using funds from
the Waste Management Act account (Fund 005). All items purchased were made of recycled content or are
biodegradable and thus keeping with the intent of the Waste Management Act Fund which is to promote solid waste
diversion and recycling.
Item H:
What do you attribute the big difference in the two bid amounts to?
It is a very busy time for contractors right now and as such, relatively small projects (like this one) are simply not
attracting bidders. Rasic Construction has a very good working relationship with the City and gave a very fair bid.
Meek, currently mobilized in our City (the Pier contractor), is the other contractor that submitted. They did show
genuine interest in submitting a competitive bid but I believe the challenges for them were (1) they are not optimized to
do a small job and (2) they were planning on using their sub electrical contractor which means they were going to charge
20 percent mark-up on all their work.
Has the bldg. permit been issued?
Plans were resubmitted for plan check and are currently under review. Therefore, no permits have been issued yet.
Has the 4 month rent period started? No.
Is 600 Amp more than what we have now? Is this a replace in kind? If not, is the tenant obligated to pay anything?
The existing service connection/panel was a 200 Amp that dated back to the late 70's. As part of the Building
Assessment completed earlier this year, it was determined that this existing service panel was undersize for the facility's
intended use and past its useful life. It was originally estimated that a 400 Amp Service Panel would be needed.
However, SCE informed staff that their electrical circuit that services this area of the City is one of the few remaining
single phase circuits. As a result having to tie into this more inefficient circuit,the service connection has to be upsized
to 600 Amp to meet the load demands required by the Tenant.
A not-to-exceed renovation budget of$180,000 was established to fund need improvements to specific building
systems. Staff currently estimates that there will be sufficient project funds to complete specified improvements
including this SCE Service connection replacement.
Thanks,
Mike
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