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MADELEINE PAUKER fleet to electric buses by 2030, a goal over its 12-year lifespan and provide Daily Press Staff Writer the Santa Monica City Council set a smoother, quieter ride for up to three years ago. The agency’s first zero 75 passengers, said BBB director Ed The first electric bus in the Big Blue emissions bus will debut on Route 1, King. Bus (BBB) fleet will begin carrying which ferries riders between UCLA, An additional 18 electric buses will passengers this month. Santa Monica and Venice, and change drive on the BBB’s 20 Westside routes BBB is aiming for a nearly 70% routes every month. by 2021. By 2030, all 195 buses in reduction in its greenhouse gas The bus will eliminate 385,740 emissions by transitioning its entire pounds of nitrous oxide emissions SEE BUS PAGE 11 Schools reopen with improved facilities Courtesy photos VISIT: On August 20, JD McCrary, star of The Lion King, visited UCLA MADELEINE PAUKER Every ninth and eleventh-grade the first International Baccalaureate Mattel Children’s Hospital (UCLAMCH). JD and his family joined several Daily Press Staff Writer student in the Santa Monica-Malibu school in the district. And the John patients and their families for UCLAMCH’s music therapy program, Unified School District will receive Muir Elementary School and Santa Songs Under the Stars, following a screening of The Lion King at the Several local schools will reopen a take-home Chromebook, joining Monica Alternative School House hospital. JD, who lent his voice to the character of young Simba, sang Thursday with recently completed students in the eighth, tenth and campus has been thoroughly cleaned acoustic versions of I Just Can’t Wait to be King and Hakuna Matata. renovations, in-progress construction twelfth grades. Will Rogers Learning Patients and their families participated by singing along with JD. projects and new technology. Community is on track to become SEE FACILITIES PAGE 11 Calendar SANTA MONICA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT 2 THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2019 Visit us online at www.smdp.com NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CALLING FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Santa Monica Community College District, acting by and through its Board of Trustees, hereinafter “the District” will receive up to, but not later than the below-stated date and time, sealed Bid Proposals for the work of the Project generally described What’s Up as: TEMPORARY CLASSROOM VILLAGE: MODULAR CLASSROOM UNITS AND EXISTING BUILDING REMODEL. The estimated construction value range for this Project is $6 Million to $8 Million. The Project encompasses the following overall scope: Westside OUT AND ABOUT IN SANTA MONICA • MODULAR CLASSROOMS: Purchasing, hauling and setting up of nine (9) Modular Buildings, site adapt including ADA upgrades, site utilities, set up and connect dry utilities to the new Modular Buildings, including electrical, Fire Life Safety and low voltage systems for Audio Visual, Access Control, Video Surveillance and Emergency Telephone. • EXISTING BUILDINGS REMODEL: Partial demolitions of four (4) small offices, structural repair at the areas of demolition. Light demo of hardscape, landscape and partition walls, ADA upgrades. New wood framing, and partitions, new interior painting, new mechanical units, new Thursday, August 22 your own cardboard yacht to seat two lighting and electrical system per remodeled areas, upgraded Fire Life Safety System and low people, and race across the pool. $15 voltage systems for Audio Visual, Access Control, Video Surveillance and Emergency Telephone. Get Started with 3D Printing per yacht. All ages. Spectators free. 5 Learn the basics of 3D printing and design – 8 p.m. Annenberg Community Beach TERMS AND CONDITIONS by completing a guided project during House. Register online at this 90-minute class. To register, email https://www.annenbergbeachhouse. 1. Contractor’s License Classification: California Contractors License A or B. [email protected]. Main Library, 6 com/activities/public-events.aspx 2. Mandatory Pre-Bid Walk: WEDNESDAY, August 28, 2019 beginning at 10:00 am. – 7:30 p.m. 3. Location: 1530 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 VANIR TRAILER American Stories Group 4. Bid Documents will be available on August 26, 2019 at ARC West LA Branch LEGOS and Games Book: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. 1736 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025. Point of Contact: Mitchell Caceres. Get creative with LEGOs, try our fun table- Pico Branch Library. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. top games, or some coloring! Ages 4-10. Deadline and Location for submission of Bid Proposals: Wednesday, September 25rd, 2019 at Main Library, 3 – 4:30 p.m. Summer Reading Finale 1:00 PM, Pacific Time. Application must be Hand-Delivered at Santa Monica Community College Concert with David District, Facilities Planning Department at 1510 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405, Attention: Classic Film & Discussion: Tobocman Charlie Yen. Contractors shall have a representative at Bid Opening. Galaxy Quest (1999) David’s exquisitely crafted songs for 5. Labor Compliance Program (AB 1506). The District has established a Labor Compliance Film scholar Vivian Rosenberg screens and kids are playful and sweet, don’t miss Program (‘LCP”) pursuant to Labor Code 1771.5. The Contractor awarded the Contract for the Work discusses this film in which the actors from out on this gem of a concert! Fairview shall comply with the LCP and provisions of the Contract Documents relating to implementation, a cancelled sci-fi series help aliens win Branch Library, 1 – 1:45 p.m. compliance with, and enforcement of the LCP. a war. (Film runtime: 103 min.) Montana Avenue Branch Library, 2 – 5 p.m. 6. No Withdrawal of Bid Proposals. Bid Proposals shall not be withdrawn by any Bidder Santa Monica Human for a period of sixty (60) days after the opening of Bid Proposals. During this time, all Bidders shall Services Public Meeting The City of Santa Monica’s Human guarantee prices quoted in their respective Bid Proposals. Current Events Discussion Services Division is seeking com- 7. Substitute Security. In accordance with the provisions of California Public Contract Code Group Join organizers for a lively discussion of the munity input to better measure the §22300, substitution of eligible and equivalent securities for any monies withheld by the District latest news with your friends and neigh- impact of human services programs to ensure the Contractor’s performance under the Contract will be permitted at the request and bors. Fairview Branch Library 1 – 2:30 p.m. (Homeless, Senior, Disabilities, Youth expense of the Contractor and in conformity with California Public Contract Code §22300. The & Families, Immigration Physical and foregoing notwithstanding, the Bidder to whom the Contract is awarded shall submit its written Behavioral Health, Legal, and Economic request to the District to permit the substitution of securities for retention under California Public Baby Time Storytime, songs and rhymes for babies Opportunities) across Santa Monica. Contract Code §22300 prior to submission of its first Application for Progress Payment. The failure ages 0-18 months. Ocean Park Branch Refreshments and child care provided. of such Bidder to make such written request to the District prior to submission of the first Application Library, 10:45 - 11:05 a.m. If you require ADA accommodations, for Progress Payment shall be deemed a waiver of the Bidder’s rights under California Public please contact the Human Services Contract Code §22300. Division at (310) 458-8701 or humanser- 8. Award of Contract. The Contract for the Work, if awarded, will be by action of the District’s First day of school All public schools will be back in session [email protected]. For more information, Board of Trustees of 10-01-19, to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsible and starting on Thursday, August 22. visit santamonica.gov/hsdproject. 1 p.m. responsive Bid Proposal. If Alternate Bid Items are included in the bidding, the lowest priced Bid The Broad Stage, 1310 11th Street, Proposal will be determined on the basis of the Base Bid Proposal or on the Base Bid Proposal and RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ the combination of Alternate Bid Items selected in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Friday, August 23 santa-monica-human-services-pub- Instructions for Bidders. Sunset Swim lic-meeting-registration-67600790785 Ages 18+ - Enjoy a fun evening at the pool, exclusively for adults. $10 adults, Costume and Portraiture with $5 senior (60+). No reservations required. Mimi Haddon 7 – 10 p.m. Annenberg Community Beach Create masks and costumes using House upcycled materials. Bring in tired cloth- ing from your closet and give them new Mat Pilates life as a costume with fabric paints, Learn the techniques of Pilates, a sys- inventive stitching, hot glue and details. tem of controlled exercises that engage Participants can bring a digital camera the mind and condition the total body. or smartphone, and a seamless paper Montana Avenue Branch Library. Please backdrop will be available to create bring a yoga or Pilates mat. 3:15 – 4:15 p.m. costumed portraits and self-portraits.