TO:
Honorable Mayor Powell and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Jim Arndt, Public Works Director
Sona Kalapura, Environmental Programs Manager
SUBJECT: Title
Site Design for the Manhattan Beach Strand Ocean-Friendly Garden
RECEIVE AND FILE
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council receive and file this report.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Funding for this project is being provided through a grant from the Department of Water Resources and West Basin Municipal Water District (West Basin) in the amount of $23,000. As a participant in the grant program, the City is expected to assist with site design and soil assessment services ($700), and provide landscape support to prepare and maintain the project site. These costs will be paid for out of the existing maintenance fund. In addition, the City will need to provide signage at the site designating the project as an Ocean Friendly Garden and include logos from the funding partners and participating entities.
BACKGROUND: In July 2011, the City was awarded a grant from the West Basin Ocean Friendly Demonstration Gardens Program. West Basin and the Surfrider Foundation (Surfrider) plan to build ten demonstration gardens throughout the West Basin service area (two in each of the five West Basin Divisions). The site selected for the grant project is located at the northeast Pier Garden, the sloped area between the elevated parking lot and the Manhattan Beach Strand. This area was selected as an ideal location to highlight the main goals of the program, namely to conserve water, reduce dry-weather and storm water runoff, and educate the public on how they can implement ocean friendly landscaping.
DISCUSSION: The City of Manhattan Beach was awarded a grant to turn the existing northeast planter on the Strand into an Ocean Friendly Garden. This new landscape will create a demonstration garden highligh...
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