Chapter 15. Long Beach Civic Center of California Government Code >> Division 6. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 15.
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Best interests of the city" means a procurement process that
is determined by the city to provide the best value and an expedited
delivery schedule while maintaining a high level of quality
workmanship and materials.
(b) "Best value" means a value determined by objective criteria
that shall include a combination of price, financing costs, features,
functions, performance, life-cycle maintenance costs and abatement
offsets, and development experience.
(c) "Business entity" means a partnership, corporation, or other
legal entity that is able to provide appropriately licensed
contracting, architectural, engineering, financial, operations,
management, facilities maintenance, and other services for
development of a new Long Beach Civic Center.
(d) "City" means the City of Long Beach and its departments,
including the City of Long Beach Harbor Department.
(e) "Long Beach Civic Center" means the area bounded by Broadway,
Pacific Avenue, Ocean Boulevard, and Magnolia Avenue, containing
approximately 14.98 acres, and the parcel on the south side of 3rd
Street between Pacific Avenue and Cedar Avenue, containing
approximately 0.89 acres.
(f) "Private entity" means an individual, business entity, or
combination of individuals and business entities.
(g) "Private portion of the project" means those parcels of land
within the Long Beach Civic Center to be conveyed to a private entity
and developed as residential, retail, hospitality, institutional, or
industrial facilities.
(h) "Project" means the revitalization and redevelopment of the
Long Beach Civic Center with a new city hall, port headquarters,
public library, and public park, and residential, retail,
hospitality, institutional, and industrial facilities.
(i) "Public portion of the project" means those parcels of land
within the Long Beach Civic Center to be developed as a city hall,
port headquarters, public park, public library, or other government
facilities.
(j) "Public-private partnership" means a cooperative arrangement
between the public and private sectors, built on the expertise of
each partner, that best meets the city's needs through the
appropriate allocation of resources, risks, and rewards for the
purposes of, and, including, but not limited to, studying, planning,
designing, constructing, developing, financing, operating,
maintaining, or any combination thereof, the project.
(a) The city may contract and procure the project pursuant
to this chapter.
(b) The city shall evaluate the project proposals it solicits and
receives and choose the private entity or entities whose proposal is,
or proposals are, judged as providing the best value in meeting the
best interests of the city. The city may enter into a public-private
partnership through a concession agreement, design-build agreement,
design-build-finance agreement, project agreement, lease-leaseback,
or other appropriate agreements combining one or more major elements
of the foregoing agreements, with one or more private entities for
delivery of the project. The city shall retain the right to terminate
the project prior to project award should the city determine that
the project is not in the best interests of the city or should the
negotiations with the private entity or entities otherwise fail.
(c) The contract award for the project shall be made to the
private entity or entities whose proposal or proposals are determined
by the city, in writing, to be the most advantageous by providing
the best value in meeting the best interests of the city.
(d) The negotiation process shall specifically prohibit practices
that may result in unlawful activity, including, but not limited to,
rebates, kickbacks, or other unlawful consideration, and shall
specifically prohibit city employees from participating in the
selection process when those employees have a relationship with a
person or business entity seeking a contract under this chapter that
would subject those employees to the prohibition of Section 87100.
(e) All documents related to the project shall be subject to
disclosure under the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7), except those exempted
from disclosure under that act.
(a) The project is subject to compliance with the California
Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section
21000) of the Public Resources Code). Neither the act of selecting a
private entity, nor the execution of an agreement with the private
entity, shall require prior compliance with the act. However,
appropriate compliance with the act shall thereafter occur before
project construction commences.
(b) The public portion of the project, at all times, shall be
owned by the city, unless the city, in its discretion, elects to
provide for ownership of the project by the private entity through a
separate lease agreement. Notwithstanding Section 5956.6 or any other
provision of this code, the agreement shall provide for the lease of
all or a portion of the project to, or ownership by, the private
entity or entities, for a term up to 50 years. In consideration
therefor, the agreement shall provide for complete reversion of the
public portion of the project to the city at the expiration of the
lease or transfer term.
(c) The private portion of the project shall not be financed or
developed by the public-private partnership or otherwise using public
or tax-exempt financing.
(d) The plans and specifications for the project shall comply with
all applicable governmental design standards for that particular
infrastructure project. The private entity studying, planning,
designing, constructing, developing, financing, operating,
maintaining, or any combination thereof, the project shall utilize
private sector firms for studying, planning, designing, constructing,
developing, financing, operating, maintaining, or any combination
thereof, the project. However, a facility subject to this chapter and
leased to a private entity, during the term of the lease, shall be
deemed to be public property for purposes of identification,
maintenance, enforcement of laws, and for purposes of Division 3.6
(commencing with Section 810). All public works constructed pursuant
to this chapter shall comply with Chapter 1 (commencing with Section
1720) of Part 7 of Division 2 of the Labor Code.
(e) This chapter shall not be construed to authorize the city to
use tidelands trust revenues that are subject to Section 6306 of the
Public Resources Code or any other applicable granting statute for
general municipal purposes or any other purpose unconnected with the
public trust.
The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any
provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications that can
be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique and special circumstances surrounding the
existing Long Beach Civic Center, and the need to immediately,
quickly, and efficiently develop the project, and to resolve property
issues potentially delaying the project.