CITY HALL — Santa Monica makes up just a tiny portion of the Ballona Creek Watershed — .32 percent of its overall land area — but City Hall still has to pay its fair share to help limit urban runoff from flowing into the Santa Monica Bay.
Accordingly, the City Council on Tuesday is being asked to approve $3,511 to cover Santa Monica’s share of a new implementation plan aimed at meeting the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s bacterial, metals and toxics maximum daily load requirements.
The price tag is just a small piece of a $1.9 million spending package expected to receive the council’s approval tonight.
The council is also expected to approve $1.57 million to purchase six new garbage trucks. The vehicles are for the commercial trash, commercial recycling and food waste collections programs. The contract is with Boerner Truck Center.
Also on the agenda is a $150,000 contract with accounting firm Levitt & Rosenblum for services required by City Hall’s Community Development Program. The proposed contract is for a five-year term and would be for conducting fiscal evaluations of City Hall-funded non-profit organizations.
A proposed $212,000 contract for operating and monitoring the landfill gas extraction system at the municipal yard is also on the agenda. It’s expected to go to ICF International, City Hall’s longtime operator at the former landfill. Portions of the City Yard and Stewart Street Park lie over an inactive landfill. City Hall installed a gas extraction and treatment system to collect gas generated from the former landfill. The extraction system has been operating on a continuous basis since July 1998.
As part of a plan to begin offering mortuary services like embalming, casketing and cremation at a City Hall-owned graveyard, the council is being asked to officially re-name the Woodlawn Cemetery the City of Santa Monica Woodlawn Cemetery, Mausoleum, and Mortuary. The panel is also expected to approve a new logo for the property.
The council is also expected to jack up the rent for Hot Dog on a Stick, which operates a concession stand on Ocean Front Walk near the Santa Monica Pier. The famous corn dog company is being awarded a 10-year lease, but will have to pay $75,000 per year to City Hall, or 15 percent of gross receipts, whichever is greater . Its rent this fiscal year is expected to be $34,299, according to a City Hall report.
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