Construction Bids Sought for Malibu’s Legacy Park Project

• Lawsuit Does Not Stop the Clock

BY BILL KOENEKER

Notwithstanding the Santa Monica Baykeeper suing the City of Malibu over its approval of Legacy Park, the city sent out a notice for construction bids recently.
At the same time, the city council is meeting this week to discuss the details of artwork and signage it wants for the park.
“It is a good time to seek bids,” said the city’s Public Works Director Bob Brager. “There is no injunction, so it is a good time to do it.”
The public works director said, given the economic times, it is extremely difficult to determine how low the bids will come in. “There are a lot of firms with so few projects. We might be surprised at how they will bid just to get work,” he said.
The bid seeks a contractor who can build an eight-acre stormwater detention pond and park facility that includes grading, concrete and asphalt, concrete pavement, concrete pavers, decomposed granite walkways, concrete curb and gutters, landscaping, irrigation systems, plantings and vegetation, pedestrian bridge, kiosks, stormwater channel tie-ins, reinforced concrete, ductile iron and PVC piping, storage tank, drain inlet structures, buried piping, ornamental metal cantilevered trellis structures, electrical work, pump, station wet wells, valve vaults, manholes, crosswalks, gross solids removal devices, piping.
The bids will be opened on July16.
The city did not give an estimate of the costs in the bid notice.
The agenda for the special meeting this week on Wednesday night, after the Malibu Surfside News goes to press, calls for the council to review the plans and design elements of the park for the art element, donor recognition, and educational exhibits.