Council approves $2.3 million construction plan for emergency operations center, armory and evidence storage

The Huntington Park City Council approved an award to Bedrock Group Inc. for construction work that will convert the annex building adjacent to the police department into a modern emergency operations center (EOC) and upgraded evidence storage and armory facilities.

City staff said the project is built around a $1,000,000 grant awarded through the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), with a required 25% city match (described in the staff report as $333,000 from ARPA). Staff said the remainder of project funding, to cover the combined scope, would come from Public Finance Authority monies. The staff presentation listed the construction contract with Bedrock as a $2,000,000 base award with a $300,000 contingency, for an approved project total of $2,300,000. Staff told the council that an earlier Bedrock bid had been $2.6 million but that scope adjustments…