City of Emeryville as Successor Agency to the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

The time is 07:15. This is a regular meeting of the city of Emeryville as successor agency to the Emeryville Redevelopment Agency. Madam clerk, the roll.

Council member Pryvars?

Here.

Council member Solomon?

Here.

Council member Welch? Here. Vice mayor Carr? Present. And mayor Mora?

Here. Members, do we have a motion to approve the final agenda?

Motion to approve the final agenda.

Second. Madam clerk, the roll.

Councilmember Prifour's? Aye. Councilmember Solomon? Aye. Councilmember Welch? Aye. Vice mayor Carr? Aye. And mayor Mora? Aye. Motion carries.

Members, do we have any ex parte communications? Seeing and hearing none, we will now move to public comment for the consent agenda or items not on the agenda. Do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on the consent agenda or items not on the agenda? Welcome. You'll have two minutes.

Hello, everybody. Thank you, mayor, council members. Nice to see you again, council member Welch. My name is Tom Ferrera. I'm ER tech over at Summit Hospital just down the street from here.

I've been there ten years. I'm speaking on behalf of Sutter's closing of Berkeley campus. Big hospital, same ER size as ours, but they're gonna be closing it. And they're gonna be building the hospital here in your city, a smaller hospital, smaller beds. So I'm just concerned about the future of your constituents, Berkeley, Oakland, anybody that's nearby here.

They're gonna have to go to Summit. We're already crowded in the ER as it is. And then having a double amount of ER staff over ER people there to take care of, it's gonna be overwhelming. And currently, with Emeryville, they Sutter said they're gonna build this in 2033. It'd be finished. So that's eight years. But then we have Sutter is building a cancer treatment center with 60 beds at our campus from dirt up, and they're finishing that in two years. It's gonna be done in November 26 next year. So I don't know what the delay is. It shouldn't be a delay.

Your constituents, everybody deserves the right to have health care. We're, and especially l and d, especially that. The l and d is the only one in Alameda County that we send all our rigs to. I used to be on the nine one one ambulance force for Alameda County for twenty two years, so that was the main place to go. So, I'm just I have a lot of concern about their proposal about building the smaller hospital in your town. It should be a bigger hospital, not smaller.

Thank you for your comment. Welcome. You have two minutes.

Good afternoon. Good to see you again, mayor and council members. Doug Jones, political organizer from SEIU UHW. To put a point on, what, brother Tom just mentioned is that the statement that they've made to the San Francisco Chronicle about wanting to complete a new hospital here in Emeryville by the year 2033 becomes problematic when you look at the fact that the current hospital that they're operating in Berkeley cannot operate past the year 2030 without a rebuild or retrofit because it's not seismically compliant. So if there is a three year lag time between the period of time in which hundreds of beds in Berkeley become non operational and the completion of the rebuild here, obviously we might be tremendously short on inpatient beds and the timeliness of building of a hospital here becomes very important.

Unfortunately, Sutter Health has not submitted itself to any examination of what its plans are up to and including having conversations with the workers that are represented by both SEIUHW and the California Nurses Association. In a circumstance like this, it's very routine for the employer who's doing a rebuild of a hospital to meet and confer with its contracted employees when there's a circumstance like this. Since Sutter announced these plans back in January, again in a private meeting with a health care reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, they have refused to meet with us despite our wish for them to meet with us so we can discuss this. It concerns us greatly. That's why you're going to continue to hear from us and other members of the public about the importance of doing this rebuild right.

So thank you for hearing from us, and we'll talk to you soon.

Thank you for your comment. Any other members of the public? Seeing none, we'll now move to the consent calendar. Members, do we have a motion?

Yes. I'll move to approve the consent calendar. Second.

Madam Clerk, the roll.

Councilmember Pryforst. Aye. Councilmember Solomon.

Aye.

Councilmember Welch. Aye. Vice mayor Carr. Aye. And mayor Mora. Aye. Motion carries.

We have one action item today, the resolution of the city council of the city of Emeryville, a successor agency, increasing contingency amount for the FMW site demolition and excavation project. Is there a staff presentation for this item?

We do have one if you'd like, or if, you'd like to weigh a presentation, we can do that. This overall has been, technically approved back in January through the ROPS, the funding for this additional cost, for the change orders. So if you like it, we do have our consultant available to do a short presentation for you.

Thank you for clarifying. Members, are you amenable to waiving presentation?

I think it would be beneficial for the public to have the short presentation.

Okay. Let's have the presentation.

So let me introduce, our consultant with DKI, Earl James. He'll be presenting for you.

Good evening. I've been coming to these meetings since, about 1998. Our our original work with the city of Emeryville Redevelopment Agency at that time was, for what's now Bay Street to, do the environmental cleanup of that particular site. So this, FMW project is, kind of the endgame of a lot of work through a lot of years. In this case, we're talking about, the former Marshawn Whitney site.

And, maybe next slide. We've been working through a process for about fourteen years on this that, kind of the main document that describes the work we're doing is called the remedial action plan, which was approved by the Department of Toxic Substances Control. We've been implementing the elements of that wrap of which the first element was the demolition of the former warehouse that was on the property and then excavation of soil generally down to a depth of five feet and in one area to a depth of 10 feet. And so we're gonna just talk quickly about the project where we're at, and then we can talk about the change orders that are summarized in this amount of money. Next slide, please.

FMW site is located down the street, right next to Horton Landing Park. Next slide. These are the elements of the remediation project that's being implemented. The first, as I said, was the demolition of the warehouse that was on the site and the soil excavation, which we're finishing up at this point. Next end of this year, into next year, we'll be beginning thermal treatment and in situ extraction of groundwater.

We're bringing in 2.5 megawatts of electricity to put into a 100 wells that'll be in the ground down to a depth of about 60 feet and boil the volatile organic chemicals that are in groundwater there that were released as a part of the Marchant calculating machine operations to build mechanical calculating machines and then a valve company that was there that made metal valves. And after that will be periods of time of monitoring and perhaps some additional in the ground work. Next slide, please. Timeline. Successor agency approved the bid package for this excavation work, the phase one back in June 2023.

Bids were received, and ICS, innovation Innovative Construction Solutions, was the lowest responsible bidder. The agency approved their base contract, was based on the bid of 7,500,000.0 and a contingency amount which we knew about at that time, for some soils that got identified between the time we did the plan and when the project got going, that are gonna cost an extra $1,280,000 to dispose of. Permitting went on, and they mobilized the site and began the demolition and soil excavation work in the 05/28/2024. And today, actually, I think next slide. Well, we're still talking about dollars.

Today was the last day of excavation. We finished the soil excavation work today, so the site will start getting put back together for the next phases of work. So this was the original base contract at 7,500,000.0 and that original 1,280,000.00 contingency for the disposal of PCB impacted soils. Next slide. This is just a quick kinda run through of the last year.

This is the building demolition of that big warehouse that was there. Next slide. We've had to pull up all the concrete that covered the top of the site. Next slide, please. Then we had to put up a big tent, and the highly impacted soils with the BOCs.

We excavated inside a tent, and you can see in this picture off to the left, there's a couple of pipes that come out of the tent and go to the big shipping containers that are full of carbon, and we pulled the air out of the tent as we were digging, ran the air across carbon to capture those volatile organic chemicals, before they were released to the air so that we protected the neighborhood while we were working. Inside the tent, people were working in supplied air, sort of like scuba divers with tanks, because it was a dangerous atmosphere to be breathing while they were doing the digging. That was finished. Next slide, please. And, today, we finished the soil excavation.

And, next slide. We're backfilling and grading the site at this point. It'll then be take another few months to finish installing some utilities, stormwater treatment systems, and so forth, and then it'll be asphalted, generally, landscaping around the edges. Building's gonna be put up that'll hold our multiphase extraction system, the groundwater extraction and treatment system. And then after that, the thermal system will come in, is a temporary setup, and a 120 wells will get drilled.

So this

fall into early next year, there'll be a lot of drilling out there and setting up all that equipment to start boiling the chemicals out of the ground and treating them. Next slide, please. Stormwater, treatment facilities will be installed as part of that process of putting the site back together, and and that'll stay there long term. Next slide, please. And the site restoration and paving.

Next slide, please. So these are the major change order items. For a lot of little items, the one big one for that soil disposal for the TOSCO, which is toxic substances control act, which regulates PCB handling. And in total, it added up to the $2,471,000 of the change order that we're requesting here to be approved. Next slide.

These are, again, just more of the individual items that added up to that sum. It's a lot of little changes that couldn't be seen when we set up the bidding. Nothing particularly large. We did change that grading plan there, item 26, changed so that we put the site into a more permanent condition, which was dictated by the fact that we needed to put our treatment equipment in a building to do sound control, to meet our requirements for sound control because it's kinda noisy equipment. It's got a big fans that pull the air out of the ground, and so that was a a big ticket item on there.

One more slide. So there's the total of those contingencies that, we're asking to have approved tonight. Questions?

Members, any questions?

First of all, congratulations on completing the having it done today. Yes. Really happy about that because it's such a large amount, and we have had these kind of, you know, things to do deal with over the last year where we have had big amounts. So it is important, I think, for the public to know. I am just wanting a clarifying question.

There is something in the resolution here that says, and authorizing the executive director to approve and execute change orders. Is this only for this one? This particular $2,004,071.03 45 and 60? Is it just for the items here or is it something beyond this?

It's just for those items there. Yeah. Already had authority for the 1,200,000.0. Now it's the additional 2 point.

There's an additional for this. I will make the motion for the resolution of the city, city council of the city of Emeryville as successor agency to the Emeryville redevelopment agency increasing the contingency amount for the FMW site demolition and excavation project, CIP number 23, EPW zero zero three by an additional $2,471,003.45 and 60¢ and authorizing the executive director to approve and execute the change orders.

Second. Madam clerk, we have a motion and a second. The roll.

Councilmember Pryforst?

Aye.

Councilmember Solomon?

Aye.

Councilmember Welch? Aye. Vice mayor Carr? Aye. And mayor Maura?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Thank you.

Thank you. The time is 07:32.

This

meeting is adjourned.