By Terry Miller
From a staff report for Monday’s Pasadena council, members agreed to a temporary medical facility at the Pasadena Convention Center should the need arise.
There is an alternative site being considered to treat COVID-19 patients in Pasadena.
The city report requests and will authorize the City Manager to “enter into a contract with Redrock Entertainment Services, in an amount not-to-exceed $700,000 without competitive bidding pursuant to City Charter Section 1002(G), contracts for labor, material, or supplies for actual emergency work, and Pasadena Municipal Code Section 4.08.049, subdivisions (A)(6), labor, material, supplies or services for actual emergency work and (B), contracts for which the city’s best interests are served, to furnish and deliver equipment necessary to establish a Temporary Medical Facility at the Pasadena Center for a three month period.”
Council authorized the city manager to enter into a “zero-dollar Services Agreement with Pasadena Hospital Association (dba Huntington Memorial Hospital) without competitive selection pursuant to Pasadena Municipal Code Section 4.08.049, subdivisions (A)(6), labor, material, supplies or services for actual emergency work and (B), contracts for which the City’s best interests are served, for the operation of the Temporary Medical Facility, during the pendency of its establishment at the Pasadena Center; and, appropriate $700,000 from the city’s 5% General Fund reserve to the non-departmental portion of the Fiscal Year 2020 Operating Budget.”
