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September 20, 2022
Honorable Mayor & City Council
Mandana Motahari, City Architect
Eli Benitez, Associate Project Manager
Per the Request of Mayor Bosse, City Council is Requested to Review and Provide Recommendations for the Update on CCTV Installation at Remaining Parking Structures
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INTRODUCTION
The City of Beverly Hills Capital Improvement Program includes a project to address capital maintenance and improvements of the City’s parking facilities. These improvements include the addition of closed-circuit camera system (CCTV) in all parking structures. The City owns and manages 19 parking structures. Over the past several years, CCTV installations have either been completed or are scheduled for completion this calendar year in fourteen of these structures. This includes installation of 351 cameras.
The installation of CCTV cameras at the five remaining parking structures was scheduled to be implemented incrementally, two structures at a time, with the last structure scheduled to be completed in Fiscal Year 2024/25.
Per the request of Mayor Bosse, staff was tasked with determining how these five remaining CCTV parking structure projects could be expedited with public safety as the primary goal. The Police Department supports an accelerated plan to install CCTV cameras at the remaining parking structures. While criminal activity in the City’s parking structures is relatively low, the addition of CCTV cameras in parking structures helps to deter crime, assists the Real Time Watch Center (RTWC) in identifying crimes before they occur and assists investigators in locating and identify suspects responsible for crimes that may occur.
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Meeting Date: September 20, 2022
DISCUSSION
Fund 810, Capital Improvement Program (CIP 00786), Parking Program Upgrades and Improvements, includes a project to address capital maintenance and improvements for the City’s parking facilities. These improvements include adding infrastructure to support a video security system within parking structures as well as upgrades needed for lighting, painting, signage, hardware replacement, etc.
Per the request of Mayor Bosse, in order to bring immediate CCTV monitoring to the remaining parking structures, staff from Public Works, Information Technology and the Police Departments visited the five remaining parking structures with the goal of identifying priority camera locations to provide video security coverage. Staff has concluded that 82 strategically placed cameras within the remaining five structures would provide adequate video security capabilities while a permanent solution is being developed.
Staff has determined that system expansion based on existing enterprise standards would not only meet the immediate need but would also augment the permanent video security system. That is, camera locations for the interim phase have been strategically planned to remain in place as part of the final design to lower the cost impact. To expedite installation, staff will directly purchase cameras and engage the services of a contractor from the City’s list of prequalified contractors. Installation of the conduit system will start in late October and installation of cameras will be completed in late December 2022. Staff has also explored expediting design and integration by combining CCTV system installations for all remaining parking structures as a single multi-site project. The aforementioned planning will be possible if the selected contractor has the required certifications, project history and resources to perform construction on all structures simultaneously and if reassignment of other CIP projects enables staff to manage the project in a timely manner. As a result, a few upgrade projects currently slated for the current fiscal year, such as parking structures slab repairs and waterproofing, will be deferred to a future date. The estimated completion based on the above will be approximately December 2023.
FISCAL IMPACT
Fund 410, Community Video Security (CIP 00342 ) will cover the cost of cameras and switches, the cost of the infrastructure upgrade of the project may be available as part of Fund 810 Capital Improvement Program (CIP 00786), Parking Program Upgrades and Improvements. Other projects slated for Fiscal Year 2022/23 under this CIP and Parking Facility Concrete Rehab and Waterproofing (CIP00936) will be deferred to a future fiscal year.
The cost of Phase 1 infrastructure upgrades, equipment cost plus installation of an interim camera system is estimated to be $227,120; this cost will be able to be absorbed with current CIP funds available.
Meeting Date: September 20, 2022
The cost of Phase 2 infrastructure upgrade, equipment and related work is estimated to be approximately $2,850,000. Staff will present the final cost estimate to City Council once the design has been completed.
David Schirmer,
Chief Information Officer
Shana Epstein,
Director of Public Works
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