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A resolution approving a proposed Memorandum of Understanding amending the 2019-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Fire Fighters - Local 858, IAFF, AFL-CIO, to defer salary increases, suspend the City’s contribution to Post Employment Health Plan, and suspend pay for selected holidays and uniform allowance in 2021. Amends the collective bargaining agreement with Denver Firefighters Local 858 to defer salary increases, suspend the City's contribution to Post Employment Health Plan, suspend selected holidays, birthdays and uniform allowance. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 12-21-20. This resolution was approved by the Committee on 12-2-20.

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11 eyes. Council Resolution 1356 has been adopted. The next item up is Council Resolution 1416. Councilwoman Ortega, would you please put Resolution 1416 on the floor for adoption and remove the Council Resolution 20 1416 be adopted. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Questions or comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Sawyer. You're good. All right. I tried to make sure I. Got about 15 screens happening here. Give me just 1/2. Let me pull up my next screen. Thanks so much. Hang on. No worries. There we go. Okay. Thanks so much for your patience. I really appreciate that. So I called this out for a vote because I'm going to be a no vote tonight. I spoke to Chief Fulton and David Foster of 858 tonight. And we talked through my reasons, which are mostly just consistency. I'm incredibly grateful for all that our firefighters do and the relationship that we have with them. And I don't mean to belittle or demean that in any way. And I want to thank every single one of the brave individuals that our fire department in our fire department for putting their lives on the line for our community. However, just like the Police Protective Union contract, this ammo you includes raises. And given the city's financial status, I just can't support that. While I recognize that this is a different circumstance because Local 858 was already owed raises under the terms of their contract, I'm just not comfortable giving one set of employees raises while others see pay cuts during an unprecedented financial and public health crisis. Council staff and Denver's career service employees were furloughed this year, and they'll be furloughed again next year. And let's be honest, a furlough is a pay cut. All members of this council, except one give back, are raises and salaries for those furlough days in solidarity with our coworkers. And I will commit to doing that again next year. But no raises means no raises. And so in the interest of fairness and on principle and consistency, I cannot support this MRU. Just like I did not support the pay contract. So I'm going to be a no vote tonight on this and I just wanted to go on record as saying that. Thanks so much, Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Sawyer. Councilman Herndon. Thank you, Madam President. In just I will be in support of this, and I'm going to remind my colleagues that this is a different set of circumstances than with the pay of the sheriff's, because Local eight five did not have to come forward to renegotiate. But recognizing the fiscal challenges that they that the city is in, they wanted to be a partner in and recognizing that they wanted to as well make some sacrifices. And so I applaud them for doing that. If we vote this down, then their current contract will remain in effect and the current contract will give them a salary increase next year. And we will lose the savings that we're going to get with this contract if we approve it tonight. So once again, thank those eight, five eight for coming forward. And I certainly hope my colleagues to support this today, as I will. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. Madam Secretary, roll call. Sawyer? No. Torres. I. Black I. CdeBaca. I, Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Hines. I. Cashman. I can each. I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. One name. 12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Resolution 1416 has been adopted. The next item up is Council Bill 1364. Councilwoman Torres, please go ahead with your questions on Council Bill 1364. Thank you so much, Madam President. Perhaps Lauren Harvey is in the queue. Yes. Hi, Loren. So I just wanted to go through a couple of the questions. I was able to email you these earlier so you get a sense of what they were going to be. But because we didn't get to see this come through committee, because it was over the holiday week, I just I had questions about what's been spent so far in terms of rental and eviction assistance and how DHS is distributing this money. And additionally, what does DHS consider to be eviction assistance? Thank you so much, Councilman Torres, and I do appreciate you sharing some of your questions ahead of time. So pertaining to our general assistance program. Within that bucket, the amount of funding that has been spent on the evictions and rental assistance through October of 2020 is $625,131. And we did see a sharp uptick, especially in September and October, which we believe has to do with some COVID related issues. And we anticipate that continuing through November and December, which is why we wanted to request the supplemental to get out as much assistance as possible to folks. We also we do have that broken out into a few different specific assistance under that. But to your question, the way that it's paid out is through direct payments to the landlord in those cases when it's a rental or eviction assistance for a rental. And can you remind me of what your last question was? Sorry about that. Right. How DHS is distributing both the rental and eviction assistance. So kind of the procedural process that you all go through. Sure. So by ordinance, this is meant to be shorter term assistance. So basically we take applications and we look at it through some of our qualifications. So the income qualifications as well as if it's something where the person would be requesting assistance on a short term basis. So the duration by ordinance is for no longer than 90 days of assistance. So it's really a short term assistance for that person. And we also look at if they have, they also have to like show us that they don't have other means of paying for whatever the need is. And if for some reason they are not necessarily qualifying for this particular assistance. We do work closely with partners and other agencies. We work closely with TrueCar to try to connect folks to where they might be able to get further assistance. And is that answering your question about how we get this out? It is. It is. And I guess I'm just I just want to make sure I'm understanding is are the recipients of the funding already signed up for benefits through Denver Human Services or new people walking in the door explicitly for this funding? Just trying to distinguish this portal from that through a portal. I'm sure. So I could ask for that data. I don't know if we. To be honest, I don't know if we ask when somebody applies, if they are receiving other benefits. However, I'm not aware that we disqualify somebody for this assistance just because they might be receiving other benefits. But I can just double check with our folks, if that's a question we ask if they're receiving other benefits. But I'm I'm not I'm not aware that that disqualifies somebody. At this juncture for this assistance. Okay. Thank you, Lauren. Appreciate it. Thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilman Torres. That concludes the items to be called out. All bills for introduction are ordered published. Council members remember this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of Ramon Orozco, dba Barbie’s Bar, 1008 East Artesia Blvd., for Entertainment Without Dancing. (District 9)

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Lucian Karis. Thank you. We'll be going on to hearing number three. Report firm financial management recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions on the application of Ramona Orozco doing business as Barbie's Bar, located at 1008 East Artesia Boulevard for Entertainment Without Dancing District nine and oath is required. If we can do the oath, please. Everyone is going to speak on this. Please raise your right hand. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the cause now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you. We can have a staff report, please. Mayor, members of the city council providing the report today will be Brett Jaquez, business services officer for Finance Management. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the city council. Tonight you have before you an application for entertainment without dancing for Ramon Orozco doing business as Barbie's Bar located at 1008 East or TiSA Boulevard. Operating as a bar tavern lounge in Council District nine. All of the necessary departments have reviewed the application, have provided their recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet. I, as well as Police Department, stand ready to answer any questions Council may have, and that would conclude staff's report. Thank you. Anything else on the staff report side? Not at this point. Okay. Any public comment on the hearing? Please come forward. Hi. My name is Mon about a bear and I am a homeowner. I'm representing myself as resident board member in the community, as American Youth Soccer Association Organization, board member, Little League Board member, program manager, as a home visitation program for Healthy Families America and a member for Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in the City of Long Beach. So I have a couple of concerns in regards to Barbie's Spa. I've been a resident for 13 years. I am the second home in the area and I don't know for what reason. Things have changed in regards to having loud music. We've had noise control issues, parking. They have about 8 to 9 parking spots. They're able to manage to squeeze in anywhere from 20 to 22 cars in that area. We can no longer play catch outside with our kids. I brought my family. We are in baseball and soccer. Like I mentioned before, as well as softball. And we have a big charter bus that parks right on our street. And so along with taking having that big view, wonderful view, as you guys can imagine, we also have trumpets. I love Mexican music. I am a mexican myself. But when you are dealing with a large band like they've been bringing in as the beginning, I would say about this year, the bar has always been there. We're not opposed to that. I didn't even know it existed for many years. There must be a new owner. I don't know what it is, but now the interest is in the back. We have various women coming in and out being dropped off. So that's kind of a concern for me. I cannot come home and get out of my car without sleazy comments. I do not need to be talked to inappropriate. I do not need to come out in the morning and find all these bottles in the front of my house. I don't I want to come home and be able to park in my parking lot without asking people to move. Now they have a taco truck and they are bringing in taco trucks. So we have people ordering, thinking it's drive thru and that it's okay to come and park and block the residents driveways as you can. As you might already know. Been aware a lot of people are scared. Residents are scared to speak up ever since our election. So you won't have residents speaking up at this moment. I wish this hearing would have been before our election, but it's not. And so, therefore, we are speaking with the residents. They're not going to be speaking up. But I can tell you that here I brought my family to represent that we are role models in the community and that I hope that as much as we live Long Beach, that language allows us to. Thank you very much. And the next speaker. Please, please come forward. Oh, yeah. Please just come to the mike. Hi. I'm a mayor and city council manager. I'm one of those condos, owner of Bobby's bar and 449 of the occupancy that I have, I have probably one security guard as the police department advised me to do so. I also do neighborhood watch in the neighborhood. I have provided the building with lighting and in the street of of California, which it did not have any lighting. It was very, very dark. I have provided that also. I'll provide. I have. Lighting in the sidewalk for a bit for a safer. Safer neighborhood. We check everybody's IDs as they go in and out. If I was provided with the entertainment permit, I could bring more business to the uptown side of Long Beach. I also do walks neighborhood walks around the neighborhood on Lois and California and Artesia. The neighborhood has been safe. And. Well, that's all I have to say about that. Thank you. Any other speakers? Please come forward. Evening. My name's Vivienne Span. Homeowner in the north district. Not too far from this location. I wasn't aware of this. The gentleman says he does. Patrols and neighborhood watch. But there was a. Shooting at that location maybe three months ago where someone, I believe was killed. There's a church in next door to that facility, as well as another church on the corner. And it's only a couple of blocks from Jordan High School. And like the lady said. You would pass. By. I think it's. A nonstop party. They are parked on the sides of the street, which is a residential street. You're only getting, you know. That little view. And there is development coming to the north district. And I don't think this is the development that we need. Thank you. Thank you. Casey, no other comments. Well, sir, I think you did there the your public commentary. Mr. Attorney, can the owner speak one more time? Is this under the hearing? Under the hearing? Yes. If there is a rebuttal to anything or should come forward. I have an I have an example of the neighborhood watch. One of the churches left its doors unlocked. I was doing my patrol work. I have pictures of it. They left their door locked. Other equipment was inside of the church when I opened it. I went in. Light up the place when my flashlight took video recordings of others stuff still in place. I locked up the church for them. I put a chain and I text the owner of the of the church. That is that his church is safe. Now, there was no break in. That's all I have to say about. I never watched. Thank you. Okay, we're gonna take this back to the city council so much that it's over to Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. And thank you to the speakers who came down. This is pretty easy for me. I. I think there's. Mr. Roscoe, thank you so much for your interest in doing business in North Long Beach. But there's sort of a new pep in its step. And the standard of operation in the past is no longer the standard of operation today. And the bars on Artesia Boulevard, it's been a significant area of focus for our city in cleaning up those bars and making sure that the nuisance activities that have plagued residents for a long time, that we've abated those and gotten rid of those. So I don't think this application is quite ready today. So I'm not going to I'm not going to reject it or approve it. I'm going to make a motion to the council to continue it for two months and try to give you an opportunity to. You've never come in to meet with my office. The neighborhood association hadn't heard about this. Let you do a little bit of due diligence and try to build some neighborhood support, because if we vote on this today, it will not be approved. So my motion is to continue for two months. Thanks. There's a motion and a second to continue the item. I see no other council questions or comments. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. We're going to be moving on to the regular agenda. Now, one councilmember has to leave a little bit early tonight. There's been a request to move one of the items up. So we'll be carrying item number 13 and then going into public comment.

Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7031 for the Leeway Sailing Pier and Shed Structural Rebuild; award the contract to John S. Meek Company, Inc., of Gardena, CA, in the amount of $2,099,859, authorize a 20 percent contingency in the amount of $419,972, for a total contract amount not to exceed $2,519,831; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments. (District 3)

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Thank you. Carries number nine, please. Madam Clerk. Report from Public Works. And Parks, Recreation and Marine Recommendation to award a contract to John s Company for the leeway sailing pier and shed structure structural rebuild for a total contract amount not to exceed 2,519,831 District three. Moved. Back. Well, let's look. Councilman Price, do it. You want to make a motion, Councilman? I did. Thank you. I didn't know how to get word to you that I did. Okay. Yeah, go ahead. And then is there a second? Second. Okay. Is there any public comment on this case? None. Roll call vote. I just wanted to thank staff for the for their efforts on this. This is a really exciting project for my district. It's a big issue and people are so excited to see this area. Even the whales are coming to see it. So we're very supportive. Great. Thank you very much. A roll call vote, please. Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Pearce, Councilwoman Price. Yeah. Councilmember Super now. Councilwoman Mongo here. Councilman Andrews I don't know. Councilmember Your Honor. Councilman Austin Vice Mayor Richardson Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And next item, please. Ten.

Public Hearing to Consider the Collecting of the Water Quality and Flood Protection Fees on the Property Tax Bills; and Adoption of Resolution Finding [No] Majority Protest, Directing the Collection of Fees on the Property Tax Bills for Fiscal Year 2020-21 at the Rates Approved by Property Owners. (Public Works 351)

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It's one of the highest needs in our community. In June 2019, the council approved allocating $100,000 of its operating and capital budget to help fund the school district's mental health programs. The city subsequently contracted with Airbus to provide these services for the 2019 2020 academic school year. I would now like to introduce Kel Jenks, the principal program director, to make a presentation about the services provided before our school year under the contract. And also Catherine Schwartz, the executive director of affairs, is also here tonight to answer questions. Okay, great. I didn't see her on the screen, but great. Hi, Mr. Jenks. Welcome. Nice to see you. And the floor is yours. Awesome. Thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor and members of the council. As Eric introduced, my name is Kelly Jenks with Alameda Family Services and I'm the director of our school based services program. I want to start by thanking you for allowing me to come to share with you all how AFS was able to utilize the support from City Council to provide additional mental health services to high school youth in need. I believe there is a PowerPoint. I don't. Can you all see it? I don't think I can see it. Uh, not yet. But our clerk works magic. There we go. You heard that was going to have. No idea how. I was going to say next slide, but I didn't see it. All right. So on the next slide. So I just want to be able to share a brief history. So Alameda Family Services has been providing health and wellness services to the Alameda Unified School District for many years. We provide the three school based health centers on Alameda and Snell. And our focus is really to minimize the barriers to access for those families most in need by providing mental health and medical services to use with medical. There's been a high demand for mental health services for youth that have private insurance, specifically at our schools. ALAMEDA And then to now and as it was shared in the introduction over the past three years, the Social Services Human Relations Board, the Alameda Collaborative for Children, Youth and Families and a USD all separately identified youth mental health as an important issue that is greatly impacting our city. Next slide. Thank you. So a U.S. drone attacks have been working in partnership to identify ways to address these mental health needs. Together, we created a whole new system of supports in the elementary and middle schools, which had the most significant gap in service. However, there was still a need to address the mental health needs at Alameda High and Encino High. And so the Board of Education in Alameda sought out support from the city and designated AFC as the recipient of the city's support to address these needs. Subsequently, a new position was created to ensure that any youth coming to our health centers, regardless of insurance, was going to be able to connect with a clinician that's going to assess their level of need and support them in connecting with an appropriate service. Next slide. So over these next two sides, I'm going to go over the services that we provided. So screening and assessments, initial meetings with the clinician, including you selling out a screener and a clinician conducting the in-person assessment. We really wanted to make sure that any student who came in was going to meet in person with someone. They were going to get screened to determine their level of need. And then our therapist, through this funding, was going to provide them the resources to connect with an outside provider or provide that service themselves. The next thing that happens a lot in the high schools are check ins. So some youth come into the health center and they don't necessarily want ongoing services, but they do just want to be able to talk to someone about a timely issue that's causing them distress. We see this a lot during the beginning of the year, especially for freshmen who are coming in. And we see this a lot during AP testing, when the holidays are coming up, when you might be traveling to a different family member's house. And so we really had this as an area of need that the therapist provided check ins and then also a crisis drop in follow up. So students who were seen as a crisis drop in received additional follow up to ensure they were connected to a service. And so crises are distinguished as a situation that needs immediate attention where there is a significant concern for the youth safety. So we might have youth coming in who are talking about suicidal ideation, severe depression or experiencing a panic attack. And in that setting, this therapist would make sure to immediately with that youth, and if they were at another school, they would actually travel to whatever school that student was at to be able to connect with them. And we had that specific therapist through this funding, be that person, because then they were able to follow up with them either the next day or two days later or a week later to make sure they were connected to a service next line. The three other services that were provided. Are on. Were individual therapy students with a high level of need.

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild to be effective January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2020; amending Ordinance 125493, which amended the 2018 Budget (Ordinance 125475), by increasing appropriations to the Seattle Police Department and the Police Relief and Pension Fund; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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The bill passes in the chair assign it please read the first agenda. Item three part of the City Council Agenda Item one Council Bill 119 368 related to the city employment authorizing the execution of the collective bargaining agreement between the City of Seattle and Seattle Police Officers Guild to be effective January 1st, 2015 to December 31st, 2020. The many Ordinance 25 493 which amended the 2018 budget by increasing appropriations to the Seattle Police Department and. The Police Relief. And Pension Fund and ratifying confirming certain prior acts all by three fourths vote of the City Council. Okay. So this is actually an action that's come out of the Labor Relations Policy Committee, which I chair, but it's a public safety police department matter. And certainly Councilmember Gonzales is the lead there. So, Councilmember Gonzales, we'd like to introduce the matter and speak on it. I have one minor amendment to make that came to me from the law department. So I'm going to first put the council bill on the table and then I'll need a second and then we can discuss the amendment, vote on the amendment, and then we'll have a bill amended bill to discuss. Okay, so that was your motion. I moved to pass Council Bill 11936 8 seconds. So just so people understand, this sort of this amendment is being moved in second for the bill to be amended. And Catherine Gonzalez, can you explain that a little bit? Yes. So I moved to amend Council Bill 119368 and of Section two by adding the following language, quote, Any portion of the above appropriations shall not lapse at the end of the 2018 fiscal year, but shall automatically carry over into the 2019 fiscal year until fully expended, abandoned or reappropriated closed quote. So the effect of this particular amendment is to add language that allows the appropriations represented in Council Bill 119368 to effectively carry over into the 2019 year as opposed to ending on December 31st, 2018. So this was an error in the originally transmitted bill from the mayor's office that we were asked to correct in order to appropriately reflect the appropriation actions we are going to take upon vote of Council Bill 119368. Thank you. So just to be clear that this is a technical amendment. This is not the controversial piece of it at all. This is a more of a fiscal note. So this is just the amendment. This is not the base legislation. So you're just amending it, the technical piece, and you can still reserve your right to vote on the base legislation either way. So any questions about the amendment? Okay. It's been moved in. Second, on all those in favor of the amendment as articulated by Councilmember Gonzales, say I, I oppose the ayes have it. The base legislation is amended. And Councilmember Gonzales, you could proceed. Thank you. Council Bill 119368. So I wanted to just make some remarks. I would love to be able to sit up here and say that they are brief, but they will not be brief. So buckle up. So before becoming a council member, I was a civil rights attorney for ten years. My law practice included many types of cases, but the foundation of my practice was representing people whose civil rights were violated by those in power, including by police officers. Many of my clients were monolingual Spanish speakers, women or people of color. I had the honor to advocate for their civil rights as a constitutional lawyer in federal and county courtrooms across the state of Washington, including here in Seattle. But my advocacy for people's civil rights and my commitment to advocate for police reform extended well beyond the courtroom. For example, in 2008, I was appointed by then Mayor Greg Nickels to serve on a blue ribbon panel to recommend changes to the city of Seattle's police accountability system. After eight months, the task force recommended almost 30 changes to the police accountability system, many of which needed to be negotiated with the city's police unions. Some of those changes were successfully negotiated while others were not. So I understand that disappointment that comes along with not getting everything you want in labor negotiations after advocating for them for so long. My work as a civil rights lawyer was fueled not just by my law degree, but by my lived experiences as a Mexican-American woman growing up in central Washington as a migrant farm worker. I have unfortunately personally experienced what it means to not have public confidence in the police. And as recently as this past July, I witnessed one of my own brothers be pulled over and treated unfairly and disrespectfully by my by law enforcement in front of the house I grew up in. So for those people that are passing judgment on me for supporting this contract on the basis that I somehow don't get what is at stake here, let me disavow you of that belief. I do get it. Not because I have heard a recent story about police brutality, but because I've seen my own brothers and family members experience racial profiling and unconstitutional policing. I have sat in rooms with black and brown families as well, with men who have been stripped of their dignity by a man wearing a police uniform. I've sat in a room holding a woman's hand while she sobbed and cried about being tased and physically assaulted by an officer and then been unfairly prosecuted for assaulting that same officer. I've sat in a room listening to a mom or grandmother telling the trauma of having lost her son or grandson after an encounter with an officer. I became a council member to put those lived experiences, my legal experience and my subject matter expertize in the specific area of constitutional policing, police reform and accountability to work. And I certainly did not sign up for this job to take a step backwards on police reform. That's why in 2017, I was honored to work with my friends on the Community Police Commission to chart a path forward on passing a belt and suspenders ordinance that would laid out our pie in the sky vision for the police accountability system in Seattle. There is no question that our goals were lofty, and along the way we each knew that many aspects of the accountability ordinance that so many of you have cited here in this room today would need to be negotiated in good faith with the Seattle Police Management Association and the Seattle Police Officers Guild. Indeed, that is why in section 3.29.510, the accountability ordinance we lay laid out our collective understanding of how and when the accountability ordinance would or could be implemented into effective law. The language of the accountability ordinance clearly provides that the accountability ordinance is in limbo until two things occur. One, collective bargaining is completed. And two, the court overseeing the city's compliance with the consent decree reviews the collective bargaining agreement and the ordinance, all to determine compliance with the spirit of the consent decree. The accountability ordinance also clearly provided that until these two things occurred, quote, the current accountability system shall remain in place to the extent necessary to remain consistent with provisions of the consent decree in the matter of United States of America versus city of Seattle, close quote. Shortly after passage of the 2017 Accountability Ordinance, the city attorney's office filed our legislation with the federal court seeking approval of it and requesting permission to immediately implement the accountability ordinance. The Court, in an order dated September seven, 2017, declined to approve the accountability ordinance, thereby consistent with the accountability ordinance leaving the current accountability system in place. And in that September seven, 2017 order, there were three different areas in that order in which the court not only invited, but in fact ordered the city to submit to the accountability ordinance and the collective bargaining agreements. At the end of the collective bargaining process to the court for judicial review. And I'm going to take a moment to read directly from the Court's order on the first on page three, lines three through eight, the Court indicated that the court declines to rule on the entirety of the ordinance as it relates to the speedy accountability system at this time, until the collective bargaining process is complete, the court cannot be assured that the ordinance, as it stands today, is a final product. The court declines to rule on a variant of the ordinance, but will await the final version that is ultimately implemented following collective bargaining. Also on page three lines 14 through 18, the court stated the court simply declines to place its final imprimatur on what is essentially a work in progress. The court cautions the parties who either are or will be engaged in collective bargaining over provisions of the ordinance that the United States Constitution and the right of the city's citizens to have constitutional policing ultimately trumps all other concerns. At issue here and on the final pages, page four, lines eight 311. The court conditionally approves the creation of the Office of Inspector General and also some of the provisions related to the Office of Police Accountability, but cautions that its approval is conditional. And states, quote, If these provisions change in any way as a result of the collective bargaining process or otherwise, the parties, meaning the city of Seattle and the Department of Justice, must so inform the court and resubmit the provisions to the court for further review. On November 5th, 2018, Judge Ro Bar held a status conference to learn more about the tentative agreement and the city's next steps. It was clear to me during that hearing that Judge Robart had some concerns that aligned with some, but perhaps not all of the Community Police Commission's concerns. I also heard him state that he would not that he could not and would not weigh in on those concerns until this city council voted to approve the tentative agreement. Colleagues, I would suggest that it is incumbent upon the city council to now take that step to approve this contract and to petition the court to, with the city's guidance, evaluate whether the deal represented in this contract meets the mandates of constitutional policing. I believe that the city's best interest in our ongoing journey of reform is best served by pursuing a legally viable path through the judicial process. Some have argued that rejecting the accountability ordinance aspects in this contract and heading back to the negotiating table on those issues is the more viable option. Unfortunately, I disagree with that position. Rejecting this contract will send the parties back to their respective trenches, where each side will begin the process of orchestrating their legal positions and likely litigation that will consume whatever reservoir of good faith is left between the parties. And that is unacceptable. Again, I believe that it is now the City Council's turn to approve that tentative agreement, as we did last November with the Seattle Police Management Association. This is the next step in what has been a very long journey of progress towards the long term and sustainable police reform, accountability that we all seek. As one of the authors of the Accountability Ordinance. Let me assure you that there is perhaps no one else on this dais that is more vested in protecting the integrity of the legislation that the City Council unanimously passed in May of 2017, together with community partners and our former colleague, Tim Burgess. We clocked hundreds of hours and insights and yes, in some cases literally shed tears and sweat to craft this legislation. I care deeply about the accountability ordinance and about this city's ongoing and iterative work of constantly reforming the Seattle Police Department. The accountability ordinance, however, is not the Constitution of the United States of America. It is an important piece of legislation that aspires to meet the mandates of constitutional policing. It is also an important piece of legislation that, as I've previously discussed, the Federal Court has declined to approve. Intel Collective bargaining with our police unions is final. That moment has come. And on balance, I believe that the contract is a better deal for the city than the contract that expired on December 31st of 2014. And today is one of those days where I find myself in the unfortunate position of agreeing with some of the observations made by my friends at the CBC while disagreeing as to others and fundamentally disagree. Disagreeing as to one, the impact of this contract on our ongoing police reform efforts and to the appropriate next steps to take to continue making progress on police reform. I believe that friends can remain friends, even in the midst of disagreement on substantive issues. And just because I have come to a different conclusion than the Community Police Commission, that does not mean that I do not have profound respect for their work and role within our accountability system. And there have been many remarks made publicly and privately to me about the CPC that I find incredibly troubling. So let me be clear. I believe that the CPC is doing exactly what it should be doing for those, it's not easy to lift up concerns that are not politically expedient for those that question the cpc's legitimacy within our accountability system or the depth of their representation of community. I ask you to reevaluate your position. For years, communities that have been disproportionately impacted by unconstitutional or unlawful policing have not had a voice within the morass of government. And the CPC was specifically created by the consent decree to address and lift up those concerns of those community members. So accordingly, the CPC has taken its charge under the consent decree seriously and we must continue to support the spirit of what CPC was designed to do. Second, I am recommending that my colleagues approve this tentative agreement for three basic reasons. One chief, Carmen Best, who's with us in chambers today, has clearly stated that approval of this contract is necessary to increasing department morale and to her basic ability to hire and retain additional officers. The contract brings the compensation we offer to our officers up to a competitive level with cities that we ordinarily compete with for recruits and lateral hires. Currently, Seattle is dead last in this wage comparison. This contract would bring Seattle officers wages to the middle of the pack of the seven comparative cities on the West Coast that historically have been used as a benchmark for compensation comparisons. Second City sanctioned public safety service continue to tell us time and time again that virtually every single neighborhood in the city of Seattle believes we need additional officers to effectively deal with neighborhood specific public safety concerns. That is an important aspect of the evaluation for this city council in determining whether or not to approve this contract. While I am not satisfied with every term included in this contract, this contract does advance some critical refer reforms to our accountability system that we will lose for years if this contract is not advanced and reviewed by the judge overseeing our compliance with the consent decree. So I'm going to spend time on that last point. And while I don't have time to go through every single aspect of the contract that could fairly be characterized as progress, I do want to spend some time to highlight a few that are important to me. One, I believe that this contract allows the City of Seattle to increase civilian oversight of the police department in order to strengthen public confidence in our police department. It does this in a few critical ways. It increases the number of civilians in the Office of Police Accountability, which investigates complaints of misconduct lodged against officers. Many have criticized that the civilian ization of the Office of Police Accountability doesn't go far enough. But and they cite the accountability ordinance as requiring complete civilian ization. But my reading of the accountability ordinance simply provides that there be a mix of civilian and sworn investigators. And this advances us in the direction of increasing the number of civilians within the Office of Police Accountability. Secondly, it legitimizes the entire existence of the of the Office of Inspector General as the third leg of the city's accountability system, with full and unfettered access to information from CPD and OPA. Let me say that again. This contract legitimizes the entire existence of the Office of Inspector General for Public Safety, which has the responsibility to do full system wide audits of the Office of Police Accountability and the Seattle Police Department to ensure the health and the fidelity of our police reform efforts as it relates to the consent decree and the need to continue to engage in ongoing, sustainable police reform. Without this contract, the Office of Inspector General effectively would sit on a shelf and have no power to do anything. Thirdly, this contract abolishes the disciplinary review board, otherwise known as the Derby, as the third venue for officers to pursue appeals of disciplinary actions. In my experience, that is the area in which we saw many disciplinary proceedings be dismissed or be reversed in favor of police officers and in contravention to those filing complaints about this about discipline and excuse me, about misconduct. In my view, abolishing the Derby goes a tremendous way towards increasing the public confidence in our disciplinary system. At the Seattle and at the Office of Police Accountability. And lastly, this contract would allow for full implementation of body worn video cameras to be worn by all uniformed officers. Body worn video cameras are seen as a tool for improving police services and public confidence, and I believe it is time for us to fully deploy that as a tool. So from my perspective in this thing, we call in a gauci ation. It is fair to say that there was an appropriate amount of give and take to balance the needs of bringing wages up to a fair and competitive level and cementing key aspects of the accountability ordinance. The question for us is whether we are willing to forego not just pieces of police reform, but all of it while we continue to wade through the legal battles that will ensue if we reject this contract. We cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater. We should not leave aspects of the accountability ordinance that are included in this contract on the table. We should take what we've been able to achieve and commit to continuing to work for more, both through the judicial review process and through the impending labor negotiations that are going to come to us very soon and through the various re-openings that are included in this tentative agreement. This contract is not perfect, but it is progress and it continues the reform process that we began in 2012. Our labor negotiation process on this contract in particular has been tough. It's been tough on us as management. It's been tough on community. And it has been tough on the men and women of the Seattle Police Department who have been working in 2018 under 2014 conditions. But ultimately, we have before us a contract that recognizes the collective bargaining rights of SPARC members under Washington state law, while also prioritizing the need to ensure that the public can continue to have confidence in our police officers. And I believe that rejecting this contract now would be a mistake. This being said, I believe that there are aspects of this contract that worry me. This is why I'm advancing a resolution that we will consider after this bill that would request that the city attorney's office petitioned the federal court to review the tentative agreement and the accountability ordinance, as he indicated he wanted to do at the recent status conference on November 5th, 2018, and in his September seven, 2017 order in which he declined to approve the Accountability Ordinance pending City Council action on a contract with our police unions. I believe that this that that that is the appropriate venue to address concerns about the standard of review when discipline is being appealed by officers adjustments to the 180 day investigation rule and the narrowing of the subpoena powers of the Office of Police Accountability and the Office of Inspector General, as reflected in our original accountability ordinance. It will be up to the Federal Court overseeing the consent decree to pass judgment on those aspects of the contract and the accountability ordinance that bump into the consent decree and the Constitution and colleagues. With all of that being said, I. I would urge you to join me in voting in favor of ratifying this contract and then saying yes to the resolution. We will discuss shortly. Thank you, Councilman Gonzales, for your explanation. I'm sure many of my colleagues will have things to say. I have a few things to say to you, but I'll wait for a moment until I see Councilman Mesquita grabbing that. Mike Kaspersky, as you like to say a few words, my comments. Thank you, Mr. President. So, as Councilmember Gonzales so eloquently explained. Really, we're. Being asked to vote on two issues today. First, should we approve the collectively bargain negotiated wages and benefits for workers who've been without a contract for years? And what we've heard. Today is. Unanimous agreement. Yes. On the comments that we've heard. From people today and the many emails and calls we've received over the last few months, the answer is yes. And it is my commitment that anyone who works for the city. And anyone who contracts with the city. Should be paid. A fair wage. So that we can afford to live in the city that we work. And I will continue to advocate for that in the budget that's coming up in the next week. Second, should police reform long demanded by black and brown communities by the Latino and African-American and the API communities be realized? And the answer here is also clear. Yes. Today, we are being asked to vote on both of these issues at once. And unlike regular legislation, our options today are limited for amendments that would help clarify the points that Councilmember Gonzalez has just raised. I know that we all agree we need good living wage jobs. And we also need to. Make sure. That there is accountability in the system and that. We make improvements centered on racial justice. I deeply respect the collective bargaining process. I also deeply. Respect the individuals and the. Organizations that have raised questions and concerns. And my hope is that with judicial review by a federal judge, we will be able to. Get the answers. To the questions that have been raised and. Clarity on a path. Forward. The resolution that accompanies this collective bargaining agreement makes sure that if the federal judge tells it that there is a violation or a misstep on any aspect of the contract, we will be back at the bargaining table and we will be bargaining in good faith. Thank you, Councilman Mesquita. I customer and jobs feel like safety. Just briefly, I know that other folks will probably speak for longer about this topic than I, but I just wanted to offer a few thoughts. You know, when the consent decree was signed two years ago, I think that the officers and leadership of MPD have made really great strides towards reform, and I recognize that there are differences between the negotiated contract and the accountability ordinance that was passed last year. Those have been outlined very well by my colleagues. I'm looking forward to hearing more from the judge about Judge Robart, about how the new contract affects compliance with the consent decree. But fundamentally, I believe that Seattle's police officers work really hard to serve our city and keep our neighborhoods and communities safe. I believe they deserve a living wage. I believe and respect that the city should bargain in good faith, and the collective bargaining process is something that we should respect. So I'm looking forward to voting yes on this bill today. Thank you. Councilmember Johnson. I'll say a few words since I did chair the LPC and then I'm certainly not meaning to be last. I don't have notes. You guys had notes, so I just sort of keep it real as my kids say, you know, I sort of grew up in a city born here where if you didn't believe in accountability and you didn't believe in reform. You are a Uncle Tom. You're a sellout. You. You're lost track. You are. It's one of the worst characteristics you're going to have in the streets that I grew up in, in Seattle in the sixties. And I see your signs. We're rolling back reforms. And I heard a lot of testimony to that effect. So what I did was I tried to listen and I dug deep to see exactly what reforms we were rolling back. And many of you who testified and said, hey, man, you're rolling back reforms, you are losing police accountability. I say as an attorney, as a person that is committed to my community, that we are not. That if you look specifically at the suggestions that are made, and I'll take them one by one from the subpoena power of the inspector general to the clause in the contract that says if there's a conflict between the accountability ordinance and the SPA contract, that this contract will prevail. I'll take that as an example. That does not roll back reforms out of standard contract union language that we there's no clause in there that where there's a contradiction, we are rolling back reforms. I'll tell you, my introduction coming out of Garfield High School of dealing with the police officers was very simple. It was testifying in superior court on behalf of Pastor Witherspoon from Mount Calvary Church against his brother, looking at an officer. And basically the officer gave testimony one way, I gave testimony another. And I realized right there that. Let me just put it this way. There was a lack of trust in that situation because I know exactly what I saw and it was different from what the officer saw. So when I. Tell you at the ripe age and how old I am is none of your business. But at my ripe age that we are committed to reform. We are and it is in this contract. So if you go through each one of these these clauses where we're saying that not one person said, how in the hell we're rolling back reforms, that one person said that they just repeated this rumor. And I got to tell you, rumors usually have more wings than a truth. So if you go back to the first one, it says and by the way, KUOW did a very nice piece on looking at the highest criticisms, the first one about the contractual language, about if the SPARK contract, there could be a clause where the spot contract could supersede the accountability. What clause is that? Where are we losing what we fought for? In fact, if you remember, in 2017, we passed a racial bias law. We gave private people a right to sue the city, one in a few cities in this country that allowed citizens to sue for racial bias policing. One of the concerns I had is who gets stopped by the police. I want to see that demographic. Because I could tell you experiences about that demographic. So we are required the department is required to keep those demographics such that attorneys can look at that and see if they do see a pattern. Who said, who are these folks that seem to get more Terry Stotts than others? Okay, so you go back through the data and like I said, I could go through each one. This notion of somehow the. The investigation on bad offices is thwarted. We are giving the inspector general a position. We created unfettered access to these files and we are staffing that through our budget. We are giving them more resources to do their job. And if you look at who the inspector general is hiring for these positions, these people are not sellouts. Let me tell you, these people are committed to protecting the rights of people who routinely and historically have gotten the bad end of the deal on policing. So don't tell me we're rolling back reforms. That is an insult. I understand what the CPC is. I understand where your hearts are. But trust it. When we go through this thick binder. We're going through it to make sure we get the reform to protect our community. That's what we do. So when I hear that, I understand and many of you are my friends are my good friends. And there's an old saying that fake friends believe in rumors and real friends believe in you. And I will vote for this contract. And I will say that we have not rolled back any reforms. And today, tomorrow and the next day, I'll protect my kids and my grandkids for misconduct from the police. And one last thing about the police. I believe in leadership. You change the culture by changing some of the people. I believe in Chief best. I believe in Andrew Meyer Burge as an inspector general. I believe in as a as an opiate director. I believe in at least a judge. I believe we are changing people to change the culture. And there have been times where I have mistrusted officers and there's been times where I've relied on officers to protect me and my family. And I believe we are achieving both in this contract and I make no excuses about supporting this contract. I will support it. I'll say whatever I have to say when I vote for, because I think it's a darn good contract both to achieve accountability. And to protect the people that needs to be protected in this city. I yield the floor. Council members sworn you had the floor, man for you. When do you get to go? And my blood pressure high up in here. I will be voting no on this proposed contract between Seattle police and the city of Seattle, which I cannot support in its current form. I am a rank and file member of a public sector union. I want to be clear that I support the right of all public sector workers to negotiate raises, including the police. Though it is deeply unfortunate that few public sector workers get raises as substantial as these, including EMT. I also want to be clear that I support the right of the police to their union and to collectively bargain. However, I am completely opposed to the serious and unacceptable rollback of police accountability measures in this contract. I do not share the view of the establishment that the accountability measures passed in last year's ordinance were, quote unquote, landmark legislation, because I believe that they did not go nearly far enough, but they were extremely important and they were hard fought by years of activism, by working people, especially led by communities of color like the black and brown communities and the indigenous community. And now this proposed contract between the city and Bog would dramatically undermine even those steps forward, unanimously approved last year by the same city council. As I have said before, it is my view that the Seattle police have had a long record of police brutality and racial bias and that this is an ongoing problem. This is also a nationwide problem and in reality is part and parcel of the capitalist system which relies on structural racism and inequality. Council president. Carol, I think it is disrespectful for you to say that community members are going by rumors in the last week. More than two dozen community groups have come forward to oppose this rollback of police accountability, including the Seattle King County and ACP, the Church Council of Greater Seattle. One America. Casa Latina. Not this time. El Centro de la Raza. The Northwest Immigration Rights Immigrant Rights Project. The American Civil Liberties Union. Creative Justice. Africa Down. Models for Police Accountability, Asian Counseling and Referral Service. Latino Civic Alliance. Real Change. See more. And last but not least, the experts on this issue, the Community Police Commission, who unanimously voted to reject the contract. I joined these groups, along with more than 40 of my fellow union members who have signed a statement opposing this contract in its current form and calling for it to be renegotiated with all police accountability measures restored. The labor movement has a proud history of standing with working people facing racism and oppression in its best traditions. The labor movement has fought against how the ruling class uses the police to oppress and divide sections of the working class against black and brown workers in particular, but also against the community homeless community members, impoverished people, and against protest and picket lines. Also, as Naomi Finkelstein said in public comment, an injury to one is an injury to all. It is with this proud tradition and with my fellow union members in Seattle who are opposing this contract in its current form that I stand in calling for the contract to be renegotiated and all police accountability measures restored. Our statement from the union members says, quote, The right of community members, as enshrined in the 2017 law, are not bargaining chips to be traded away, unquote. In 2011, public sector workers in Madison carried out a courageous occupation of the Capitol building and met in Madison to prevent rightwing Republican Governor Scott Walker from ramming through legislation to strip all public workers except police and firefighters of their right to collective bargaining. Hundreds of thousands of people at that time occupied the Capitol. Enough teachers and students called in sick that many schools were forced to close during the protests, and there was even widespread discussion of a general strike among public sector workers. Of course, I am greatly happy to say that Scott Walker will no longer be Governor Walker, but. At that time, as always happens when there are strong progressive movements. The police forces were mobilized to attempt to quell the protests. However, we also saw many of the individual rank and file officers had personal or political sympathy for the other public sector workers who were protesting with signs reading cops for Labor. Some of them even marched with other protesters. Police were given orders to guard the doors of the Capitol building and while they did, stationed themselves there as ordered, many did not obey their superiors orders to physically stop the public sector union members from entering. Unfortunately, this break in the chain of command out of sympathy with fellow workers is not usually the case with the police . But on that day it was for many on the left. The police are the force that physically stops you from exercising your free speech rights. The force that defends the interests of billionaires and those in power against everyone else. And the reality is, that is how big business and corporate politicians use police forces around the world. Workers are arrested if they steal $10 out of desperation or poverty. But when bosses are, banks steal billions from workers, they are rarely held to account. When mass movements break out and big business and the political establishment attempt to use the police to put down the movement. Police officers connection to the labor movement to their unions can sometimes be the difference between the violent suppression of the movement and an uncommitted police response like in Wisconsin. I raised these examples to explain that if this police contract was fundamentally a labor issue, if it was fundamentally only about wages and benefits and working conditions that do not infringe on the rights of other workers, then it would be my position as a socialist and union member to vote yes. However, what this contract in its current form, I feel this is clearly and fundamentally an issue of police accountability. It is working people who are the most impacted by crime and a lack of public safety. Well, there is no doubt that the police frequently play a useful role in apprehending violent people and preventing violent attacks. It is also, unfortunately, the case that the police are too often a source of harassment and at worst, terror among particularly communities of color, homeless community members and poor people. I do not agree with the union representative who said that these are outside groups that are trying to influence the police contract. What about our own union members who are black and brown? While we do not believe that all police officers behave the same way? There are far too many examples and far too systematic a record of people being wrongfully arrested. There have been far too many people of color who were killed for no reason at all. Like Charlene, who lives in Seattle, an elderly black man, William Wingate, was arrested walking with a golf club. And then after it was proved that it was racially biased policing, the officer faced no disciplinary penalty because a 180 day investigation window was closed. Such abuses must stop. When the details of this contract were released to the public, it was met with unanimous opposition from the members of the Community Police Commission and later a letter of opposition from the 24 organizations that some of whom I mentioned, which represent tens of thousands of workers who are concerned that this contract would harm their human rights. Today this morning, we saw the ACP, not this time. Nikita Oliver and others say loud and clear that the black community and others facing the brunt of police brutality strongly reject this contract. That is not a labor issue. It's a police accountability issue. Other council members have argued that the accountability changes in the contract are inconsequential or somehow even positive. This is appallingly dishonest and inaccurate. What are some of the specifics of why so many have objected to this contract? And I'm guided here by the CBC's expert recommendation, not rumors. First, the proposed contract states that in any conflict between the accountability laws and the language of the contract, the contract language takes precedence. If, as the mayor and some council members have claimed, this contract does not reverse important accountability measures. Then why was this this clause deemed necessary in the first place? Next, the contract language reintroduces the 180 day accountability loophole that dubs officers Cynthia writ large from facing consequences for the racist arrest of William Wingate for walking with a golf club. That is an illustrative example because it also points to another problem. That is, the language also hampers the ability to investigate reports of police brutality, racially biased policing, etc. It puts extreme limitations on civilian investigators. Again, the SBT will be investigating. The SBT and the rest of society is just expected to accept that they are policing themselves fairly. It prohibits. It prohibits accountability in investigations from coordinating with criminal investigations into the same incident. It removes some of the subpoena powers of the investigators, meaning that investigators again need to rely on the information that is volunteered. In other words, this contract reverses many of the hard won and yet limited police accountability reforms to defend the rights and in some cases, the actual lives of regular people in Seattle. This is completely unacceptable. Even Judge Roberts, in reviewing this contract, has questioned the city's contention that the contract is consistent with a consent decree, saying he doesn't believe that to be, quote unquote, accurate. He also responded sharply to the addition of what he called a quote unquote bribe to pay officers for wearing body cameras when in fact, they have already been ordered to do so in the context of the 2012 Department of Justice consent decree. I have stated as I have done so right now and in the past, that the accountability bill passed last year is not sufficient to create genuine accountability, to end discrimination and violence from the sort from the forces that are given the immense power over life and death that the officers are given. Really, we need to go much further in passing serious reforms. We need an elected community oversight board with full powers to hold police accountable, including the right to subpoena. This would also include the right of police to have union representative if being interviewed or disciplined. In this contract, we can see that when police negotiate with the political establishment, there is no one in the room that cares about how police officers impact communities of color and other working class people. This blog is advocating for their members, but the political establishment is mainly interested in maintaining the police as a force to reliably defend their power. What elected officials here is defending the rights of Sharlene Elias. Winning real change and serious police accountability measures will require that we all those of us who care about our members of the community, who are impacted by police brutality and racial profiling that we all together join to bring a stronger build a stronger and broader movement. As I've said so, for the last five years, social movements and class struggle are how change will be won in Seattle, not by putting any confidence in this city's Democratic Party led political establishment. We can take, as an example the inspiring block the Vanguard movement right here in Seattle, which forced this establishment very much against its will to halt the construction of what would have been the most expensive police station in the nation. While the city languished and still languishes in a deep housing affordability crisis that are gentrifying the working class and communities of color out of the city. This housing crisis is a central part of the deep and growing inequality in the city deep inequality, which is itself at the root of crime and public safety problems. We can also take as an example the movement that demanded and finally won justice for Laquan McDonald in Chicago, but doing more far reaching and urgently needed reforms. We will need a far stronger movement that brings together different sections of the working class and the labor movement, together with the oppressed, to fight together. I want to be clear. I support the wages and benefits negotiated in this contract, and if they were proposed without reversing any of the city's accountability legislation, I would be voting yes . For people who consider this fundamentally a labor issue. I would ask you to also consider the rights of other union members and working people in Seattle when they are negatively impacted by the police force. Think about your fellow union members who are stopped by the police simply for driving while black. I have read in the news that some have said that voting against this contract would lose me their support in the next election. However, at the end of the day, I am not a career politician. I am here to fight for all those who are left out in the corporate politics of City Hall and its backroom deals . If I wasn't going to consistently stand up for working people and oppressed communities, there would be no point in my being here. In closing, I also want to point out that the upcoming resolution that council members are claiming is somehow some sort of evidence that this police accountability will be upheld. I just want to let you know, I will have my comments later. But that does not the resolution does not address anything. I would hope that council members would today send this contract back to the mayor and the Labor Relations Policy Committee to restore all accountability measures and bring back a new version that the movement and I can support, one that does not increase the discrimination people face everyday or the danger of military mistreatment at the hands of the Seattle police. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Stewart. Councilmember. Councilmember O'Brien. You have the floor, sir. Thank you. I want to thank all the folks who came out to testify today. I really appreciate hearing passionate. Dedicated testimony on two different sides of an issue, but in a respectful way of the whole system. We what I heard today broadly was agreement in the room that we want to see. Fair wages for our public servants and their right to collective bargaining. And I also heard a commitment that we want to see police accountability. Unfortunately, it feels like the vote today has made those two mutually exclusive, but I do not believe that they are mutually exclusive. I do believe the reality of what we're facing today is particularly challenging and is one of the public commenters said it's an unfortunate place we're in where it feels like we have to pick between those two. I am 100% dedicated to making sure that all workers have the right to collectively bargain and that certainly public servants have a right to a fair and living wage. I also am 100% committed to the police reform work that's necessary. The decision before us today with the contract we have could go further. I think it could be a better document. But I'm going to support and vote yes on this today. I think that when I look at the options that are going to play out before us and the options I have by voting yes or no, I believe the best path forward to getting the reform we want is a yes vote on this contract. I know that the contract is not as strong as the legislation we passed earlier this year. That legislation that we passed was a unilateral decision by this council, as opposed to a bilateral negotiation. And the idea that we would get everything we wanted in that legislation in the contract. That would be ideal. But it's maybe not the reality that we could do. I think that when I look at the contract and what's in there, there are some good things that will allow us to move forward and improve police accountability. There are some things that folks have raised questions about that may prove to be challenges or they may not be. We're going have to look at those. And there are probably also components of this legislation that we have not focused on much. And yet when we move forward, we'll find them to be challenges that need to be worked on. The reality is that police accountability work is an ongoing exercise, that we're going to continually be moving in the right direction. And I believe what we have today and the choices before us that the most prudent thing to do is move forward. Council President Harrell, you spoke a little bit about your experience growing up in the city and I was also born and raised here. But my experiences are very different. My interaction with the police are very different, and that's largely because I'm white. And I think as we move forward on police accountability, it's critically important that we center race and thinking about how police accountability works. Unfortunately, the color of your skin is a huge predictor about getting involved in the criminal justice system today, and it shouldn't be that way in our city and our country today. And yet it is the reality. I'm proud of what's in this contract. Many aspects of it. I'm also disappointed that we weren't able to go further here. But I think what's going to be necessary, the next step is to live with this and learn from it and be ready to continue to revise it and move forward going forward. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Brown. Councilmember Herbold, I believe you have the floor. So to start off, I just want to make note so I don't forget that I'll be making a motion after consideration of this legislation and after Councilmember Gonzalez's resolution to move the clerk file that I mentioned earlier in that relates specifically to some needed transparency about the documents referenced in this contract. I want to vote for a contract way to raise officers wages and pay them their four years of fairly negotiated back pay. I also want to defend all of the reforms contained in the historic ordinance the Council passed in 2017. Many of these reforms are outside of the consent decree, but that doesn't make them any less important to me. 1300 Seattle police officers, detectives and sergeants provide critical public safety services to the residents of the city of Seattle, and they've done so without a labor contract since January 2015. Officers have implemented police reform. The Federal Monitor's report on use of force from 2017 said. At the same time, the force that MPD officers do use is by and large reasonable, necessary, proportional and consistent with the department's use of force policy. Credit for this major milestone goes first and foremost to the men and women of the Seattle Police Department. I've also heard very compelling principles from Labor about the importance of preserving the sanctity of bargaining in a post Janis reality. The Janis decision has put public sector unions in a challenging position, so they need to show that they can be effective in representing their members. The bargaining process is paramount as unions face a nationwide struggle in the wake of a Janis decision. We've heard strong critiques of this agreement from the Community Police Commission and from a number of community leaders, some of the same leaders whose original complaint to the DOJ in 2010 led to the DOJ's findings in 2011 and the consent decree in 2012. I've heard a lot of reassurance that reform is a result of incremental change. And to be really honest, I find that reassurance, really cold comfort. I was working on the council in 1999 when the OPA was created. I'm really well familiar with the incremental reform that we've eked out since that time, and I don't feel that incremental form is acceptable for policing today because I feel we need transformational reform. The public believes in the need for transformational reform with a statewide passage of i. I. 940 lives lost here and nationally proven that we in Seattle need to pave the way here and not incrementally. I believe we in Seattle need to pave the way for the nation because we have a president that in 2017 told officers, when you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head, you know, like don't hit their head and they just killed somebody. I say you can take the hand away. Okay. We need to pave the way, like we said we were going to do when we passed legislation in 2017 that was heralded by this council as historic, that was unprecedented in other cities. So acknowledging this urgency in 2013, the Community Police Commission was formed by agreement between the City of Seattle and the Obama Justice Department, nod to Mayor Durkan and asked to inventory the accountability system, which had been incrementally revised over 14 years and to propose a complete revamp. This work was co-led by ideologically diverse participation from the downtown Seattle Association director Kate Junkie's Spark, then vice president Kevin Stuckey and Mothers for Police Accountability founder Harriet Walden. The proposals that the CPC had drafted before the last contract expired in 2014. In order to be available to the city for bargaining without constituting an you LP were put forward in the midst of a major scandal, as a large number of disciplinary findings were reversed contrary by SPD leadership, contrary to OPA recommendations in 2014 and at the high watermark of the Black Lives Matter movement, this law was not created upon ideology. Every sentence of the 71 place page plus page ordinance was crafted with the experience of 18 years of experience with the OPA. We have today. Each sentence addresses cases that were overturned or on sustained and identified by our auditor or community leaders as justice not served. But that could, in the future, with reform, be fixed. The changes and appeal process were made in the ordinance because of a group of disciplinary findings revealed to be overturned on appeal in a deal by CPD management contrary to OPA recommendations. The changes in the 180 day timeline were recommended because of a high profile case mentioned earlier today by my colleagues in which an officer who was fired by Chief O'Toole for bias and making an unlawful arrest was given backpay and allowed to resign in lieu of termination because the 180 day limit made her termination vulnerable to being overturned on appeal. And also because OPA faced repeated challenges in competing completing quality investigations due to the time limit. The prohibition on using unpaid leave to serve suspensions came after repeated public frustration at the idea of officers who had been found to have committed serious abuses being paid to sit at home. These are all specific, necessary changes resulting from actual cases that will not be made with passage of this contract. I think it's really important for us to recognize this. You know, don't clap. I'm sorry. I'm going to be letting you down. But I want I want this all to be on the record because it's really important to me, because I believe that we should not miss the chance to do what happened at the state level last January when backers of Initiative 940, knowing that they were overwhelmingly likely to win at the polls, still chose to sit down with statewide law enforcement leaders and find language that police groups found more palatable than the original version of I-94. That process of finding a win win Third Way actually built lasting relationships of trust, that foster harmony between police and community. And I hoped that we could do the same here locally by by choosing another approach rather than forcing through the contract that is before us. Based on the requests from the CPC and the 24 community organizations writing to council last week. I was very interested in proposing today a one week delay on voting on the contract and immediately moving next week to pass a separate piece of legislation. A proper appropriating spouse. Three years of backpay of $65 million with a request that Spag and the Executive bring back a contract in December and one in less than one month . With all of the points of agreement in that contract, including Spock's economic package, a back pay and raises body cameras and other points of agreement, such as the authority of the new OIG with a re opener for only the identified items of agreement. Was this a viable path? Officers would be paid their new wages begin to receive their 6065 million in three years of three years back pay beginning in January. That approach was intended by me to ensure that this Council expressed today a good faith to SPOHN, that this Council would support passage within a month of a contract with their wages in their back pay. Even without agreement on reform elements and with a desire to bargain those reform elements, however long it took without exerting the leverage held by management around wages. Yet good intentions aside, I understand that the Council unilaterally expressing an interest via legislation and doing what the Union, what Spargo or any other union wants outside of bargaining flies in the face of what unions are for. If the Council stated, as a matter of course started saying, Yeah, we'll pay you what you want, you don't have to bargain it. Unions would have a more difficult time demonstrating their worth to their members. This approach and this affects all unions and that the city bargains with this approach that I would have liked to pursue has been explained to me to be in violation of those very principles that I referred and referenced earlier as so important to a post Janice world. For this reason, what I had hoped was a win win proposition is actually not a viable path forward. I also proposed an amendment this morning that would move the ordinance effective date to sometime after the Federal Court has ruled on whether the elements identified in Councilmember Gonzalez. This resolution, which we hear about later, conflicted with the consent decree. Upon light advice of legal counsel, I'm not moving that amendment forward. So I'm left with a difficult decision where there's no clear path forward to vote for a contract, to both raise officers wages and pay them their back pay and guarantee our ability to defend all of the reforms contained in the historic ordinance the Council passed in 2017. And so since there's no path forward to do, both of those things are to work even towards both of those things, recognizing that we wouldn't necessarily get all the reforms in the ordinance. I have to actually weigh the relative value of what reforms this contract does guarantee with my desire to vote in favor of the economic terms of the contract. So to help me make that decision, I turn to the three legged civilian accountability system that has been created in part to guide our policymaking around issues of accountability. We've heard and discussed a lot the KPCC's view of this contract, and I value and deeply respect their experience and expertize that they carry on these issues generally. And the 2017 Accountability Ordinance specifically, Councilmember Gonzales requested that each the OPA director and the Inspector General on the contract requested their input on the contracts ability. On the contracts impact on their ability to do their job. So I appreciate that I have their perspective to consider in this balancing act. The EPA director has said there were improvements included in this agreement, the elimination of the Disciplinary Review Board, which included a SPA member civilian association of two OPA inspectors, changing the triggering event for the start of the 180 day clock, simplifying classification notifications, adding flexibility around OPA transcription, due dates and initial complaint notification around timing requirements and finally implementing a rapid adjudication pilot pilot. These also, much like I identified the reforms that aren't moving forward. These also are actual things. They're actual things that have arisen as needs for change to our accountabilities accountability system because of justice. That was not done in other cases. But I have to say, those identified improvements against his concerns that expressed that reservations around elements of the agreement that deviate from the accountability ordinance, such as his concern that we we're limiting the EPA's authority to coordinate criminal investigations. His concern that we were placing screen constraints on options, ability to allocate staffing and resources as it sees fit, and further complications around the 180 day timeline. Even as we we we remove some complications in one area, we are adding additional complexity around the 180 day timeline that are actually more restrictive in the SPA contract that then are in the SPM contract. The Inspector General similarly noted that the agreement legitimizes the Inspector General's authority within the labor structure and solidified the ability to function effectively. But again, I have to weigh those identified improvements against her stated concern that expressed reservations about elements of the agreement compared to the accountability legislation regarding access to information, in particular restriction of subpoena power, and the standard burden of proof about which Judge Robert has also raised concerns. She also identified issues around the ADA calculation and changes in finding or discipline. Neither the EPA director nor the Office of Inspector General has said that they can't do their job with this contract, but they do not dispute the CPC observation that on some very key points the contract would actually set us back as compared to what was promised in our Historic Accountability Ordinance passed in 2017. So I'm left with the impression that OPA and OIG are looking at this contract as it relates specifically to accountability as a glass half full, not half empty. Secondly, I have expressed over and over again to my constituents who write to me daily about public safety, that I support the speedy hiring plan that seeks to add additional officers. And I feel today that if I were to vote no, I don't know how I could say with a straight face to my constituents. Understanding how dire the recruiting picture is for CPD right now. I don't know if how I could say with a straight face that I support adding to the size of our police department because recruiting is so necessary to hire both for separations related to lateral hires and retirement, as well as to add to the size of the force. Maybe many in our labor community have promised us today that they're in this for the long haul, in the long haul for labor conditions for our workforce, but also in the long haul for law enforcement oversight. And I'm really going to count on that, and I look forward to working with everybody in this room, including having the leadership of labor moving forward in the contract negotiations that will begin with the reopenings in this contract and then later in negotiations for a new contract in 2020. And I just want to, in closing, say I really appreciate that so many of the folks who are before us today who have been actually urging us to vote no , have also said that they support our acting today to approve increased wages. Unfortunately, I feel like the negotiation process at this juncture does allow us to do both. It only allows us to act on the shared value as it relates to the economic package. It doesn't allow us to continue to work on the identified shortcomings, on the accountability. So consequently, I regretfully intend to vote yes today. Thank you. Herbold I think we've heard from most. I will say that every now and then, facts do matter. We've had 285 officers, police officers go through crisis intervention training and de-escalation training and and anti-bias training, all who have left the department. And we do concern ourselves with the department we were trying to build. I'd also say that the criticisms about the 180 disciplined timeline that seem to stimulate some applause because it seemed as though we didn't do anything, we actually improved that. The Wingate matter that Councilmember Swan mentioned. And others. I know very well, because he goes to my church and he's in my day right out in my office right after that unfortunate incident happened. We actually if there's material new evidence, it can trigger that day. So we did look at that and last I'd say that the OPI directors. Ability to, quote unquote, coordinate a criminal investigation that apparently we lost. The intent of that provision always to make sure that the director is not in the dark, that he or she knows what's going on in there. And so we look very closely at that and made sure that he continues or whoever is in that position continues to be in the loop. They can't affect the outcome of that investigation, but they are to be apprized of that process. So what's the bottom line there? The bottom line is there's that when we negotiated over years and looked at our negotiated and says we will not cave in on some very critical aspects of accountability. And the finance piece was, as in any union contract, was always leverage when we look at what we're willing to pay to to build, to find apartments, to make sure we get what we what we, what we needed to achieve. So. Councilmember Gonzalez, if you're prepared, maybe you can close debate and then we can vote. Great. I did want to, just in closing, highlight a couple of things. One is I will go through some of the key police accountability reforms that were achieved in this collective bargaining agreement. And then lastly, I just wanted to clarify that my reading of the Office of Police Accountability and Office of Inspector General Letters does not indicate that we are taking a step back from reform by virtue of the differences that are in the tentative agreement. And so I just wanted to clarify the record from my perspective in terms of what I thought I heard Councilmember Herbold say. And so the Office of Police Accountability, Andrew Meyer Berg wrote in his letter to the City Council that, quote, I recognize, however, that the conceptual argument surrounding the T.A. cannot be divorced from the reality that officers, detectives and sergeants have been working without a contract for the last four years. We have done so while implementing the reforms under the consent decree and acting as the engine to move the department to full and effective compliance. I firmly believe they deserve a contract. I share the concerns raised by many others that department morale is low and if the tape is rejected, it would it could undermine the oversight system and further erode the trust in mind that OPA has been working hard to undermine it has been working hard to undermine. To build. Sorry. These concerns must be balanced against the city's prerogative to negotiate lasting reforms that will ensure accountability and equitable policing moving forward. Labor contracts consist of a bargain of a bargain for exchange. Whether the trade offs included in the TO and the non inclusion of several provisions contained in the accountability ordinance are acceptable is not a question for you to answer. That is for City Council to decide. Similarly, I cannot speak to whether the TIA is consistent with the consent decree as this is a question for the parties to the decree and ultimately District Judge Roberto, regardless of the Council's decision. OPA will continue to carry out its mission and effectuate its purpose under both the accountability ordinance and the consent decree and the Office of Inspector General likewise issued in its its letter to us its conclusion, which provides that on balance, the Inspector General is empowered to perform accountability duties under the terms of the tentative agreement with with potential limitations. As highlighted above, OIG will have a role moving forward as the objective check on the system to review, audit and evaluate the systems as they play out under the tentative Agreement and Accountability Ordinance. OIG can use that information to help the city's oversight partners advance recommendations that improve the system and serve as guidance for what is needed to sustain public confidence. And then lastly, I just wanted to highlight some of the things. There's been a lot of talk in the room today and an email and otherwise about this concept that somehow we're rolling back police reform. And I think that because of those comments being stated in public, it's important for me to highlight what what I think we actually were able to achieve and move forward in terms of accountability reforms in agreement with the members of the Seattle Police Officers Guild and with the leadership of Chief Best. And so if you will just indulge me for another few moments, I would like to highlight those now. So Article 3.3 regarding indefinite suspensions expands the ability of the chief of police to impose an indefinite suspension. In addition to felonies, the chief can now suspend an officer without pay pending investigation for a gross misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or sex or sex or bias crime, where the allegation, if true, could lead to termination. Article 3.5. Due Process Hearings. The Office of Inspector General for Public Safety is now allowed to attend Article 3.5 Disciplinary Review Board abolishes the Disciplinary Review Board as an avenue for appealing a disciplinary action. Community members consistently express concerns about the fairness of Derby to those alleging this. Act. Article 3.6 B2 regarding criminal investigations modifies existing contract to clarify that the 180 day clock is told when a county prosecutor is reviewing a matter and not just a city, state or federal prosecutors. Article 3.6 F5 Interviews The Office of Inspector General for Public Safety is now allowed to attend all interviews. Article 3.6 Statute of limitations is extended from 3 to 4 years, with a relatively broad interpretation of what constitutes concealment of acts of misconduct. Article 3.6 Age related to open investigative file access allows the Office of Inspector General for Public Safety to access all open files. Article 3.6 AL Files Retention Sustain files will now be retained for the duration of an officer's employment plus six years. Not sustained files may be retained for three years plus the remainder of the current year. Article 3.7 related to criminal investigations establishes that the Office of Police Accountability may communicate with those conducting criminal investigations about the status and progress of the investigation, but but may not direct or influence the conduct of the criminal investigation. The current collective bargaining agreement prohibits any coordination between the Office of Police Accountability and the Criminal Investigators. Article 3.11 Rapid Adjudication. It establishes a new system allowing for the rapid adjudication for matters in which the officer agrees to waive formal investigation and accept discipline. While either the office or Office of Officer or Office of Police Accountability may initiate the process. Both the OPA and the officer must agree before the process is actually utilized. Article 4.2 A regarding personal files will allow the OIG to access personnel files. Article 4.2 C Written Reprimands. This deletes the requirement in the collective bargaining agreement that after three years, an employee may request that written reprimands be removed from an employee's personnel file. So I have just quickly went through 12 additional things that we have been able to achieve through this labor negotiations process that I think we should feel proud of. Does that mean that we can stop and that we can throw our ticker tape parade and say mission accomplished? Of course not. This process is iterative. We have to continue to be vigilant. We have to continue to test the systems. And let me tell you, we I feel very proud of the fact that we will have an office of inspector general who's going to be in a position to have full and unfettered access to help us monitor from a systemic perspective whether or not we are fulfilling our obligation to keep our officers safe and to keep the people that they are intended to keep safe, also safe. And so I just I want to make sure that folks understand that we have been able to accomplish a lot through this contract. That doesn't mean that our work is over. It does mean that I think this council can be proud in taking a vote today, in supporting this collective bargaining agreement and in taking the next step to making sure that the judge is also in agreement with some of the policy decisions that we have made today. Thank you. That's very bizarre. Okay. Having said that, and you see, I was being polite. I could have reminded you had. Translated transcripts out there like. That. So we're going to keep voting, if you can hear me. Thank you for that. Please call the roll on the passage. First of all, let me move to adopt counts bill 119368 as amended is removed. And second, please call the roll on the passage of the bill. By John Gonzalez. Herbold. By Johnson. Suarez Macheda. O'BRIEN All right. So I don't know. President Harrell I in favor one opposed. The bill passed. Chair assignment please read your clap back. And. We thank everyone for coming out, whether you got what you wanted or not. Thank you for your testimony and participation. Please read the next edition item into the record.

Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an ordinance amending Chapter 2.44 of the Long Beach Municipal Code to: (1) revise the title of the Human Relations Commission (HRC) to the Long Beach Equity and Human Relations Commission; and, (2) to amend the purpose, functions, and membership of the HRC, as outlined in Attachment A. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. Let's have item number 15, please. Report from City Manager Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to revise the title of Human Relations Commission to the Long Beach Equity and Human Relations Commission. Will make the motion on this one. Staff report. That evening, Vice Mayor, members of the Council will have ah this presentation made by the Theresa Chandler, our Office of Equity, along with Katie as the equity officer. Thank you. Okay. All right. We were locating locating the clicker. All right. Good evening. Honorable Mayor and members of the city council meeting are here this evening to present the proposed amendments to the Human Relations Commission and to seek approval for the ordinance to be revised. The reconciliation report we presented to you last August included four main goals. The first of which is to end systemic racism in Long Beach in all local government and partner agencies through internal transformation. From their strategy for is focused on building robust organizational capacity to support anti-racist reform. And one of the action items included reevaluating the role and function of the city's Human Relations Commission as an institutional asset. Since then, the Commission has been going through a robust evaluation process to develop the proposed recommendations we are presenting to you this evening. January of this year, Council directed the city manager to work with the commission to not only change the name, but to also update and expand its mission and scope to align with the recommendations from the Racial Equity and reconciliation initial report. Here is a timeline of the process we've been engaging in since you provided this direction in January. In February, the Commission met to discuss counsel's direction, a timeline process, and formed an ad hoc committee who could dedicate some additional time to this effort outside regular monthly meetings. This ad hoc committee met with the city attorney to best understand the parameters of the City Charter and role of advisory commissions. In March, the Office of Equity held a visioning session with community stakeholders to gather input around what the functions and role of a Re-envision commission could entail. In April, the Ad Hoc Committee reported back to the Commission on the visioning session themes and began discussing and forming recommendations which the Commission voted on in May and circulated for review with the city attorney and city manager in June. We are excited to share these recommendations for your consideration this evening. The proposed amendments in the Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 2.4 cover four key areas related to the Human Relations Commission, including the name, purpose, functions and membership. It will now walk through each of these areas. Thank you, Theresa. So the Human Relations Commission proposed the revised name of the Equity and Human Relations Commission. There are multiple options being explored by the commission members and community stakeholders, but ultimately they narrowed it down to a few options. An Equity in Human Relations Commission emerged. The name was selected to lead with equity first, while also acknowledging and uplifting the human impacts that we were seeking to achieve through our equity efforts. Next, I will walk through the three revised purposes of the commission. The first is to make advisory policy recommendations to the City Council on Equity, Human Relations and social justice issues, including racial equity and reconciliation. Also to serve as a forum for community discussion on equity and social justice policy issues, and to encourage input and participation from the groups most impacted by these issues. Second, the Commission proposes that they consider and recommend programs that foster a more equitable and socially just Long Beach at the individual community and system level, and to evaluate and provide recommendations regarding such programs, information and services relating to advancing matters of equity, human relations and social justice in the City of Long Beach. Finally, the Commission seeks to cultivate and sustain equity, diversity and inclusion in the City of Long Beach through accountability, measurable outcomes, and civilian oversight to provide accountability and transparency in government in the city of Long Beach. The Commission also recommended the following updated functions to provide a public forum where matters of equity, human relations and social justice may be presented, discussed and evaluated for the purpose of submitting recommendations to the City Council. Recommend policies and programs to the City Council in matters affecting human relations, equity and social justice issues, and recommend legislation for the implementation of such policies. Collaborate on project development with community groups, city commissions and other related institutions, including but not limited to the Human Dignity Program, to foster a more equitable and socially just Long Beach. Review and make recommendations on the equity action plans implemented pursuant to the City's Framework for Racial Equity and Reconciliation. Submit a report to the City Council Biannually that details the status and progress on equity measures in the city and any other areas or topics related to equity, human relations and social justice as directed by the City Council. Related to the membership of the Commission. The first recommendation is to expand the number of members from 13 to 15. The second recommendation is to ensure that the Commission is broadly representative of those persons and groups impacted by inequity at the individual community and systems level. And the third is that commissioners should possess experience either personal, professional or academic experience related to equity, human relations and social justice. And finally, that members must attend an implicit bias or anti-racism training upon being appointed to the Commission. Tonight we ask that city council request the city attorney to prepare an ordinance amending Long Beach Municipal Code Chapter 2.44 to revise the title of the Commission, as well as amend the purpose and duties of the Commission if directed. Between August and October, the City Attorney will work to draft the ordinance update, which could return to city council. That concludes our presentation and we're happy to answer questions. Thank you. I'll offer my comments here and here from the city council will go to public comment. So, first of all, thank you to the Human Relations Commission taking up this charge. The city council directed you to I, you know, find a way to modernize and update your commission. The last update was 1989. At the same time, the PCC was updated. As we're going through the process of updating the PCC and only made sense to update the Human Relations Commission to place a focus on equity. I think what you present it, I think shows much more clarity in the mission and the focus and thank you , the staff for for doing your job and facilitating this process. I even think the name of what you came up with, equity in human relations, I think that represents compromise and inclusion. I know there was a debate there, but that that represents inclusion. So I think you've done you've done your job, and I'm happy to support what you put in front of me. There's one area and, you know, I you know, I think it needs to be a little tighter on one area. So, you know, focus on the programing and all these other things. I would have loved to see systems or policy added in there, too, because the part of this is really systems and policy. So, you know, that's just my only feedback there. But in general, I think we've done a great job and those are my comments. Councilwoman Allen. Yes. Thank you, vice mayor. And also, I just want to say thank you to the members of the commission and the support staff. That was a wonderful presentation. Also a special thanks to the chair and Vice Chair Ellis and Amy. I am very grateful for your frequent communications and I'm so happy to have you both residents of the Second District. I wholeheartedly, wholeheartedly support the inclusion of equity, specifically in the title and mission of the Human Relations Commission, and support renaming the Commission the Long Beach Equity and Human Relations Commission. I also support the recommendations to increase membership on the Commission and also increase their scope of work. The Commission can and should be empowered to serve as an advisory body, recommending solutions from and for the community. I look forward to continue to work with you and all of the wonderful commissioners. Thank you for all your hard work and testing. Thank you. Councilman Ciro Ings Vice Mayor. I also want to add my thanks to Ms.. Chandler and Ms.. Balderas for the presentation and their work with the Commission. I know it's. I also want to thank our commissioners for their hard work and just going through such a process to ensuring that there is dialog and conversation about what it means to be inclusive and to work toward equity. And so I think it's really important that we do consider how the commission is relevant to our times and the needs. So I just want to thank all the hard work that was put into coming to this point and with the renaming and the additional board members to the commission , which I fully support. Thank you. Thank you public comment for any public comment on this item. There is the first speaker is Amy Erickson. Chanel Smith, Melissa morgan and John Schultz. Can you please line up? Good evening, Vice Mayor. Council member. So nice to see you all inside here again. And to city staff, especially to Kelly, Colby, Tom Modica and Charlie Parkin and your staffs for all the hard work that you've all done on this change to this ordinance. I am Amy Ericson. I'm a lifelong resident here in District two, and I am coming to you as the vice chair of the hopefully soon to be renamed Equity and Human Relations Commission. I'm here to support agenda item 15, which is this recommendation to revise the title of the Human Relations Commission to the Equity and Human Relations Commission and to amend the purpose, functions and membership of the HRC. I would also say to also fund $200,000 per year to support the work of the Commission and those staff members that work diligently on all of their work and then have to find time to do this work. We want to see some dedicated staff time so that they don't have to work five times harder than most other folks. As the City of Long Beach engages in efforts to institutionalize equity and infuse an equity lens throughout this process, it's we want to move that through its practices, policies and decision making. And it has and it is critical that an independent citizen commission has the ability to advise, advise city council on matters of equity and social justice and be on hand to provide accountably accountability and partnership throughout the process. Just as you said, vice mayor. I think policy is most important in the work that we're doing. This is something I know we've been able to do in past years as we present and comment in council. But with this change in ordinance, we will ensure that this work continues into the future. On that note, we are hoping that not only will you support this ordinance tonight, but that you will look at the items that were recommended through the process from community commissioners and staff. One important piece is that we also need to staff this important work. But as Chair Sardinia's stated in the Cape Cod presentation, all commissioners want the community to come out and share their needs so each commission can help. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month and would like to make sure that any of the community here come out to our meetings and be a part of it. Another recommendation we have is about commissions. What we found through our work is that this is not the only commission we need to look at. A women's commission is desperately needed in this town to look at the work of what we can do to uphold these people. It's critically important, especially when we're thinking about naming buildings and naming bridges. It's important to think about women in that as well. I wanted to also share that some of the work that we also need to be doing is around ensuring that this work goes on. So we are going to be coming back to you to talk to you about how we can make this a charter commission. We know that you all uphold the values that we that we hold dear, this commission. But we don't know that you're that the people that come after you will as well. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name's Chanel Smith. I'm a resident of District three and the district appointed to the Human Relations Commission. And I want to thank Council for your recognition of all of the hard work that went into this new name and the new purposes. And to that, the staff, Teresa and Katy, for the amazing work that they did in helping us through this process. I won't take up too much time. I think that Commissioner Erikson said it perfectly. Vice Mayor, I appreciate your comments on how this is really a systemic issue and how this commission needs to start looking at systems , which is why we want to have the revised duties that the Equity and Human Relations Commission are asking for. And also we'll be coming back to you guys to discuss this becoming a chartered commission. I want to second Commissioner Eriksson Eriksson's comments regarding the $200,000 ask that is not a part of today's mission or today's motion, but we'll be coming back. It's really important that we have staff to support this and that we recognize that we're not asking to reinvent the wheel. As the Relief Human Relations Commission moves into the city manager's office, the staff that we currently have is not going to follow us until we want to make sure that we have that continued staff support. So thank you all for your time and for the acknowledgment of the need for this commission to change its work. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. Well, good morning or no I'm I got an evening long day I. Did that. Pandemic life blurs their everyday is blurs day. I'm. Hello Mayors. City Council city manager and city staff. I'm Melissa morgan speaking tonight on behalf of Long Beach Forward where I am privileged to work and learn and grow. We support this important step to provide some citizen led oversight and advisement and accountability regarding the city's equity driven efforts . And we support amending the Commission's purpose, functions and membership in line with recommendations from the Racial Equity and reconciliation initial report. We also support $200,000 of funding for staff support. You may not know, but once upon a time I staffed the Human Relations Commission when I worked in the same offices, our city manager here and I was in the city manager's office. Back then, maybe you could imagine the Human Relations Commission was a little bit pooh poohed, for lack of a better word. It wasn't really lifted up or valued. There was not budget and staff support that I was able to give was very minimal. And so that commitment just wasn't there. So this is very encouraging to see this effort being made and this support from staff and hopefully from you, all this council and really making this change. I had the honor to independently outside of my 9 to 5 or nine train or depending how late this goes tonight, my full time job to participate in the March 24th Community Stakeholder Visioning session. There were about 25 no 35 passionate community members and ten staff, I believe. And it was an amazing experience. Folks shared, very frankly, how much they care about human relations. Some great tips on how commissions could function. So I definitely encourage you to read the report that is added here in the materials. And I wanted to tell all of you council members that some people in the community have a perception and concern that you all don't necessarily embrace equity to its fullest and that there may be staff who do not embrace equity to its fullest and that there's work to be done there. We're really looking for actions beyond words, as well as funding and budget and change in system and policy. So the community was very clear that they're looking for your leadership to really show how deeply you embrace equity, diversity and inclusion. Something I was reminded in the process is that the Human Relations Commission was started and then restarted again in response to police brutality. And back then there was an article about 30 years ago where a person who was involved said, We really hope this commission gets some teeth this time, so we're asking you for some teeth. Please support this item. Please support deeper equity regardless of race, sexual orientation, our age or immigration status. It's vital that we see diversity, equity and inclusion priorities in our government. We're waiting for your leadership. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Vice Mayor Rex Richardson, council people, city staff. I see the equity team over there. I see fellow commissioner here. My name is John Schulz and I'm a 20 year resident of the fifth District. Today I speak to you as a member of the Human Relations Commission. I'm the newest member, and really, I've only seen these people on on Zoom. And you guys all look better in person briefing. I ask you for your support of agenda item 15. Up on the screen, the logistics call for a name change. Some additional commissioners that's likely to pass at a moment. So today I'm going to advocate, advocate and encourage the city manager, the mayor and the council to help find the funds requested in this item. It's a relatively small amount, and we do have some federal one times to look at, especially any of those funds that require an eye on equity. We have a huge task of reconciliation ahead of us. Help us help you. In the policies, logistics and implementation of equity and everything that that word means to our city. That's what I got. Thank you for your time. Stay healthy. Fantastic. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you all for your participation here. And and good luck to the new HRC and members. Please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Let's take item number 27 now.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer to release a portion of an existing transmission corridor easement to the City of Kirkland; and accepting the payment of fair market value for the partial release of easement.

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The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item three into the record? Every part of the Transportation and Utilities Committee and I have three counts above 120008 relating to the City Department authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer to release a portion of an existing transport transmission corridor easement to the City of Kirkland and accepting the payment of fair market value for the partial release of easement. Can we recommend the bill pass? Thank you so much, Madam Clair CASMIR Peterson, you are chair of the committee, and I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to you to provide the the report on this bill. Thank you. Council President. Council Bill 120008 facilitates the completion of part of the Regional Rail Trail Project by having Seattle City Light grant a small easement to the city of Kirkland. The City of Seattle is retaining sufficient rights for ongoing satellite access for maintenance of the power line. Our committee held the public hearing March 3rd and then recommended unanimously our committee on March 17. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Peterson. Really appreciate it. Are there any additional comments on this bill? Hearing none. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Morales. Yes. Macheda. Hi. Peterson Hi. So what? Yes. Strouse Yes. Herbold Yes. Suarez All right. Lewis Yes. President Gonzalez High nine in favor. None opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read the short title of item four into the record?

AN ORDINANCE relating to appropriations for the Seattle Department of Transportation's Delridge Multimodal Corridor Project; amending Ordinance 125475, which adopted the 2018 Budget; and lifting a proviso.

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Thank you agenda item to your council. Bill 119306 relating to preparations for the Seattle Department Transportation. Multimodal Corridor Project. And many more 125 475, which adopted the 2018 budget and lifting a proviso the committee recommends the bill pass. Customer Brian. Thank you. So we heard a little bit in public comment today and I talked about this in committee a bit really excited about the multimodal work being done in the Del Ridge corridor. We had previously put a proviso on that and said the Department of Transportation has met the criteria to lift that proviso, which is what this legislation would do to allow that planning process to move forward. There's an amendment and I'll turn it over to Councilmember Herbold to introduce that they would place a second proviso on the next phase of this when it gets the 30% design phase. And now that Councilmember Herbold talked about that. Consumer Herbold. Thank you so much. I'm. Common Council Bill 1190 3006 by adding a new Section two and re numbering the remaining sections accordingly. Second has been moved and second, Councilor Herbert to walk us through the amendment, please. In the 2018 budget process, the Council adopted a proviso requiring the Council approval before it could spend funds beyond a 10% design. This was for the Council to start beginning the to begin using the stage gate writing process for capital projects. Stage gating is a process that delivers more accountability and oversight from a legislative body to a body that is charged with implementing these capital projects. And so this particular amendment would require council approval to proceed beyond the 30% design and includes a request for a clear definition of sidewalk and bicycle infrastructure improvements in the project's scope per community requests, as well as ongoing community engagement requirements. Very good. So it's been moved in second. Any other questions or comments on amendment number one articulated by Councilmember Herbold? I just mentioned that we've had conversations with the Department of Transportation, and they agree that this is an appropriate next step and will not hinder them from moving forward with this, but will certainly be appropriate way for us to have a check in when they get to that design threshold. And that's a really critical design threshold where a lot of the decisions that community members have concerns about and interested in will be made. So this works well. The more comments are those in favor of amendment. Number one is articulated by Councilmember Herbold to council 119306. Please say I. I opposed. The ayes have it. The amendment passes. Councilman Brown, as you like to say more about the base legislation? Nope. Any other comments from any of our colleagues on the Bass legislation as a minute councilmember skater? No. Nope. Everybody get ready to vote. Okay. Please call the roll on the passage of the amended. Bill Herbold, i Johnson. Maurice Metzger, I O'Brien II Sergeant Bagshaw, President Harrell High Aide In favor and unopposed. The bill passed and chair assignment please read agenda item number three.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to execute amendments to wheeling agreements between The City of Seattle and North City Water District and between The City of Seattle and Olympic View Water and Sewer District.

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Agenda item number 4010. Spill 118 565. Relating to Seattle Public Utilities authorizing the director of Seattle Public Utilities to execute amendments to Wheeling agreements between the City of Seattle Inner City Water District and between the City of Seattle and Olympic View Water and Sewer District. Can we recommend the bill pass? Thank you. Councilmember Harrell. Thank you very much. So this legislation basically amends the water wheeling agreement that we have with the North City Water District and the Olympic view water and Sewer District. So basically SBU, the utilities department sells water wholesale to 31 municipalities or water districts in our region. And this legislation amends our agreement with the North City Water District and Olympic view water and Sewer District and basically provides better rate predictability for these two very important wholesale customers for their constituents. The agreement basically uses the same rate formula. Unless there are major changes in some kind of assistance system assets or uses that are not contemplated in the agreement. And the two utilities will also be able to give input on system projects and with costs that could affect their wheeling rate. So the committee recommends approval of these agreements. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Got him. Gonzalez. Harrell. Licata O'Brian. Rasmussen. I want President Burgess. High. Eight and favorite unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 41 through the first semicolon.

Recommendation to direct City Manager, or his designee, to draft an ordinance regarding hotels with 100 rooms or more that includes, but is not limited to the following: · Panic Buttons: Requiring that hotel employers provide panic buttons to each hotel employee assigned to working a guest room without other hotel employees present, at no cost to the hotel employee. · Notice to Hotel Employees: Requiring hotel employers to provide notice to employees, prior to starting their scheduled work, of any guest on the list of alleged harassers or is a sex offender under Long Beach Municipal Code Section 9.66.010 who is staying at the hotel and the number or name of the room assigned to the guest and warn the hotel employees to exercise caution when entering that designated room during the time the guest is staying in the hotel. · Notice in Guest Rooms: Requiring hotel employers to provide a sign on the back of each guest room door, written in a font size of no less than 18 points, that includes the heading "The Law Protects Hotel Housekeepers and Hotel Employees from harassment," no

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So I just. Just the point of how we're going to transition here. The next item up is the hotel item. And what I'd like to ask is, obviously, if you were here for C sip, if we could exit that to create more space for those that are here for the other items. And what I'm going to do is just take. A small. Short recess as we let those folks exit and then fill in as many of those empty seats with some of the folks that are in the lobby. They'll sit those seat and then maybe in about 2 minutes will reconvene with the items so we can get our fire department can move those folks into these seats. So we will begin the item in 2 minutes. Two minute recess. Okay. We have we're going to end the recess. Hopefully folks got brought in so they can sit down. So everyone, please take their seat. We're going to go and start. Everyone, please take their seat. I can. I can have everyone. Please take a seat. Okay. And just as a note to our our fire guys out there, there does seem to be open some open seats. So I think we could probably, as we begin, let a lot of you folks come in and grab the empty seats that are here as well as yeah, we do have empty seats. So. Thank you. Okay. We're going to go ahead. Roll call, please. Councilwoman Gonzalez Council Member Pearce. Councilwoman Price. Council Member. Suber. Not here. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilman Andrews. Council member your UNGA presented. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. Mary Garcia. I'm here. Thank you. I want to. Before we take this over, can the clerk please read the item? And then I have an announcement actually about this, the process. So we make sure that everyone that wants to speak can speak. Go ahead. Communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilmember Pearce, Councilmember Turanga and Vice Mayor Richardson. Recommendation to direct the city manager to draft. An ordinance regarding hotels. With 100 rooms or more. That includes but is not limited to the following panic buttons. Notice to hotel employees notice in guestrooms hotel employees rights, humane workloads, voluntary overtime recordkeeping, anti retaliation. Waiver and. Enforcement. Okay. Thank you. Before I turn it over to the councilwoman. Just want to make sure obviously, we're going to begin to we're going to do what a call public comment. There's obviously a lot of folks here for the item will have public comment, but there's also a lot of folks that are not in here that also want to do public comment. So I just want to make sure that we're getting obviously are I know are our fire team out there. Once we get through public comment or as we're able to get folks in, if you can please let folks that are here to speak on the item on the hotel issue item so that everyone gets a chance to speak. So I want to make sure that people that are outside, I know that can hear the proceedings. If you're here for the item, you'll have an opportunity to speak on the item regardless of where you are outside. And so I know that we'll just try to keep everything as orderly as possible, but I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to speak. So with that, I know there's folks coming in. Please, please take your seats. I want to turn this over to Councilman Gonzalez. Yes. Thanks, everybody, for being so patient tonight. I know it's a very long night. It's a very big night. And in my opinion, it's one of the largest nights we have here in Long Beach. There's a lot on our plate here. And I have actually created a PowerPoint presentation. I wanted to make sure that I got my point and my message across because we've been hearing so much, whether it's in the news or media and from each other, and it has been a bit divisive. And so I want to make sure I'm driving the message home. So we'll start now. Okay. So this is the ordinance, the Long Beach Hospitality Workload and Safety Ordinance. That's our logo here that I'm sure you've seen and all of our social media outlets. So the next item we're going to talk about the various events we have in the city. The city of Long Beach has never looked better. And in fact, we actually have 2017 hospitality by the numbers. We're the third largest. The hospitality industry is the third largest industry in downtown Long Beach. There's over 360 conventions and meetings. 1.4 million visitors in downtown alone through the busiest cruise terminal on the West Coast, 80% occupancy rate in downtown hotels, which is 15% percentage points higher than the national average. That was a quote actually retrieved from the Long Beach Business Journal under hotel occupancy skyrockets. And in addition, there's over $660 million in estimated economic impact from the convention business alone as well. As far as annual attendance, we can see here, 1.6 million convention business, 1.5 for the Aquarium of the Pacific, also 1.5 for the Queen Mary , and over 67 million attendees and tourists annually. And I know given all of this information, we can see clearly that the city of Long Beach, we're doing really well. And ah, we must also be cognizant of the physical effects and demands though of the industry's growth that has that they have on the hotel workers, particularly those who clean and service nearly 5000 hotel rooms across the city daily. The hospitality industry, by all accounts, is strong and growing on an annual basis and serves as one of the most visible industries in our city. However, the working conditions of these employees must be improved, in my opinion. As a city, we have consistently invested in improving our convention facilities, negotiating the total return to the city of Long Beach for new hotel developments, and recruited countless organizations to bring their event business to Long Beach. Now it's time for the City Council to adopt an ordinance that puts workplace protections in place for our hotel housekeepers here in the city of Long Beach. As we go to our next slide. While Long Beach tourism grows rapidly, how can we support our Long Beach working women in our local hotels? A few points to add here. 85% of housekeepers are women in Long Beach. As an industry, hotel housekeepers are increasingly subject to indecent behavior by guests. Per the Chicago and Seattle reports that we've seen, over 50% of housekeepers had experienced some sort of harassment. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 68% of sexual assaults go unreported. Our Long Beach housekeepers endure exhaustion and intense workloads in an eight hour shift, heavy mattresses, exposure to germs, etc.. And in Long Beach, we have seen the annual supply of room rooms increase, while the hotel workforce shrunk by about 7%. Again, this is with almost 70 million visitors each year. Now, the policy at hand, it does about four things here, provides reasonable protections for women in the workplace, creates an achievable standard for humane workloads, empowers housekeepers to voice concerns without fear of retaliation, and for fulfilling Long Beach's promise to create a world class tourism industry. We know that in downtown alone, the Long Beach hotels that we have here at 100 rooms or more represent about 85% of all available hotel rooms. That was from the debate economic development report. And in Long Beach between 2007 and 2013, as I stressed earlier, over 11% were occupied. Hotel rooms increased by 11% and the workforce decreased by 6.9%, thus providing more workloads and more issue to our hotel employees. Now, here's a matrix that's really key to to look at. We see four of one of our major hotel chains, four of our hotel chains here, their rooms average size of their traditional room, daily room quota . So it's about 14 to 15 rooms per day. And the square footage. We have from 3000 upwards of 4200 square feet. That's an average of about 3777 square feet that the city of Long Beach hotel workers are currently working in one day. So as we go on, I want to address what will not work in this policy. There has been a lot of discussion about what may work and some ideas out there, so I'll go over a few. There have been few reported incidents of sexual assault and harassment, so there is no problem. One too many. Once one assault is one too many. In Long Beach, we cannot minimize women's voices in our hotels by demanding more reports. The importance here is that we're providing safeguards for our our hotel workers. To say that there is only one or two reported really is too many. And we should not have a threshold to say that there has to be 50 in order for us to see that there's a problem. We know that that's not true. The second point is let's work on the sexual harassment issue, but set aside the workload discussion for another day. The two items, in my opinion, need to coexist. As our city grows, both protections and workload improvements provide humane working conditions to our Long Beach working women. It's important that these two issues stay together. Thirdly, Seattle has 5000 square feet. Why can't we just keep it the same here in Long Beach? Based on a study of downtown Long Beach hotels, 4000 square feet, as I had showed you, represents less than a 10% change in workloads. We would be compounding the issue to add 1000 more square feet to this ordinance. Lastly, this is putting the safety of hotel guests against the safety of hotel workers. Creating a wedge between the safety of our hotel guests and our workers clearly is just an irresponsible statement. I don't know why a business would market themselves that way and say that has to be one or the other. It's unfortunate. And then I'll finalize with this approx. This is actually a 2014 police report. Approximately 5 minutes later, the suspect and I'm going to read this and it may be a little disconcerting to many of you. It will be, I'm sure, very uncomfortable. But this is what's happening in some of our hotels. Approximately 5 minutes later, the suspect moved the cart from the front of the room and entered the room. The suspect was unclothed and had a bath towel covering his lower torso. The suspect asked about a late checkout and before she could answer, he dropped his towel and walked towards her. She said, I'll find out for you, but you need to leave the room. In the notes provided in the police report, it should be noted. It was stated that it should be noted during my interview with her. She was still very distraught of the incident and was fidgety and appeared to be nervous. At one point she began crying and was unable to continue for a few minutes. So this information I know we have talked about this issue for many years. I've been elected now for three and a half years like many of my council colleagues here. But we've been talking about this issue well beyond three and a half years. And I felt and my colleagues, I want to thank them for being on the item with me. But I really did feel that it was at this point in time that we really need needed to address the concerns and move forward with this policy because it's not the political thing to do. It's the right thing to do. And as many of the hotel workers that I've met with both, you know, when I first got elected, you do a day with a hotel worker, and I did that. And to see the day in, day out, you know, the incredible workloads and to see the unpredictable situations that may occur from going into a hotel. This, I believe, is is a policy that is beyond reasonable. We are not only addressing the fact that we're making a Long Beach connection by addressing the fact that 4000 square feet already works for us because that's currently what our hotel workers are doing. But it also addresses the fact that there needs to be some some protections and safeguards for sexual harassment and assaults. Very reasonable and minor protections, I think. And I will say that personally, I've sat down with our hotel industry for many years. Just recently I sat down with the Hospitality Alliance, the Long Beach Business Chamber. I met with the president. I've met with everyone involved, Steve Goodling from the convention bureau. I've met with many business interests, but I've also met with Unite here. I've met with hotel workers. And more importantly, the hotel workers is is what is really the root of the issue. Those individuals, these women primarily, are the ones that give a good first impression to many of the tourists that come in our city. They're the first line that many tourists and people see in our city. And I want to thank them for their service to this city. They often don't get a lot of thanks. I'd like to thank them. So I don't think it's unreasonable to provide all of these stipulations in this policy. And quite frankly, I also read I told many people, I read investor reports myself, maybe it's the nerdy thing to do, but I've read them. And many of the investor reports for our hotels don't even suggest that labor issues or unionization or any sort of thing like that would be a detriment to business. In fact, I think it reaps more benefits to provide safeguards to your to your local, to your hotel work force than it would provide negatives. Seattle, in fact, for the first quarter of their fiscal year, 17, received a jump in about 12% of their adjusted room revenue. And so I see the benefits for cities, for a city on the waterfront where a city that has so much diversity. And now it's our time to provide the dignity and respect back to those hotel workers that do everything they can to make sure that our city works at its best. So thank you. I suggest I want to just offer as well to the colleagues that signed on with me. I thank them for their work. I want to thank my city staff and my city hall team for for all their research and work. And I also offer this to the other colleagues that are not on here, as I really wish that we can reflect on what has occurred so far. And I hope that we all make the best decisions for our city, not for ourselves personally. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. So. Okay. So you just answered my question. So you made the motion as submitted, correct, councilwoman? Okay. And so the second of the motion is Councilmember Ginny Pierce. All right, everybody, this has been a long time coming. And I want to say how much I appreciate everybody's commitment to partnering and sharing your conversations. And especially I want to thank my colleague, Councilmember Gonzalez, for leading on this item. We've been here before, guys. We've been at this moment before. And so I'm excited and I'm really proud today to be standing with hotel workers and with women, because I've been standing for a long time. And you guys know that we've been at this point before when business said, we can't do that, we can't give workers a living wage because we'll go broke. We can't take another dollar out of the bank because we'll leave. We can't do that or they won't come and build here. Today, Long Beach is thriving. It's strong. Our downtown has multiple new hotels coming in. This is the day for us to continue to say we can do it and we can do it the right way in a measured way. That is the Long Beach way, right? Because in Long Beach we don't just say, hey, you know what, we're going to pass a minimum wage and we're going to do it our way today at the highest rate away immediately. No. During the minimum wage talk, we sat down with everybody. Right. And we actually voted on something that was a middle ground. And I think that we've had this item out there for a long time. We've had this item since that hotel worker went to PD. I got to meet with her back in 2014. And that moment where when she was crying, doing the police report. What? Did it feel like right after? And how much time did she have to sit with the things that have happened to her? This is not about the union. This is not about our political futures, guys. This is about women coming up here. And I'm sure we'll hear today their stories. And that's the one thing before we start public comment, two things I really want to echo is that those are personal stories. And for us to ever tell a woman that her reality was not her reality is not okay. It's not okay. For us ever to say, you know what, it's not as bad as you thought, because what I have in front of me is from the women's shelter. And they have a long list of reasons why women don't speak out against sexual assault. The numbers are stark, guys. 15 to 35% of women actually report their domestic or sexual abuse. And there are lots of reasons. RICHARD Retribution, fear of what might happen at home, immigration status. The list goes on and on. As somebody who has personally been sexually assaulted 14 years ago. It took me three years to tell somebody, anybody I didn't even tell my best friend. And whether or not it's something, someone tapping someone's sign and doing that multiple times and someone saying, shake it off, we've got to get back to work. It wears on you. And I know that we'll hear from people about the emotional impacts of that. And this policy is about a vision that says that Long Beach, we're thriving and we can do better. We've got great managers there. We've got great staff. But we have to recognize that there's a problem in an industry and we can fix it. We can be the leaders with measure. In a year later, we have 7% increase in profits. So this is a city that can do this. They can say, we stand with women that can say we can have an industry that's going to thrive. No dollar is worth too much to make sure that women every day do not get scared or worried or have panic attacks before they knock on a bedroom door by themselves. So I am excited that this policy has a vision. It fits the needs of Long Beach. It's measurable, and it's something that we can all be really proud of. So as we're continuing to thrive, when we're talking about our conventions in downtown and we've got great Steve Goodling, who does a fantastic job. He can say, you know what, we are one of the few cities. There are others. There's Chicago, there's Seattle, there's New York. There are other cities, guys that have done this. But we are one of the few cities that you can come to on the water and have an awesome, awesome time and know that workers in every single hotel feel safe and respected and dignity is treated to them. So I'm thrilled to hear from you guys today. I hope that those two arguments around sexual assault and the idea that this is just a union ploy are taken out of the conversation right away. So before I close, I will address the union conversation. Right. Because I know that we'll hear that. We heard it about a month ago. To be clear, the sexual assault piece, we want to make sure that every hotel is included in that, that that is something that every single hotel has. When people say in the letter that we got from the chamber, it says, just come to us and talk to us. Right. Just come and talk to us. Well, people have people have come in and talked. And there's class as a class action lawsuits that have happened in this city. And I'm not going to name which hotels or anything. Class action lawsuits. There's been unfair labor practices filed time and time again for things like interrogating workers concerning union activities, making statements, equating support for the union disloyalty, prohibiting workers from accessing certain floors, etc., etc., that have been won at at the level that it needs to be won out, that have taken years. And so this policy is not about that because workers have decided to unionize. They've gone through a process. This is about creating an industry across the board that has the highest standards, where women can walk in and walk out and feel proud every single day. And so I'm excited to hear from you guys. It is the day that I stand with workers, that I stand with women, and I really hope that I can count on my colleagues to stand with women as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. So unless there's unless there's any objection. Councilman Gonzalez, the presenter of the motion, is asked that after the motion of the second here from public comment and then to come back to the council to continue the comments. So unless there's any objection. Great. So we will go ahead and do that. So we will now open it up for public comment on the hotel item, please. And so please again, begin lining up here. And again, if you're outside, we will have an opportunity, of course, to let folks come in as well. Okay. We will. We will go ahead and. Okay. All right. Well, I know that the middle is getting a little crowded, so if you take a seat, well, once this line goes down, we will allow everyone else to to come back up. So please, everyone else, just take a seat. The lines for right now. Allow us. Please take a seat. I would appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. I want to start with three and I go down to two. Okay. Well, going to be good public comment, please. We've got to convince you. Okay. I like that. I agree. What we're doing what we're doing is we're just like last time we're starting at three. And then after a while, we go down to two, and then we'll do the same thing for the next time, like we did for the first one. Go ahead. Great. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor. City Council Member Staff Jeremy Harris, senior vice president with the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce here tonight on behalf of our over 850 members. These members include hospitality partners, many of whom you will hear with hear from tonight. But more importantly, we're here tonight on behalf of our members in the Long Beach business community and all industries. Because tonight's item is just bad public policy. Long Beach hasn't experienced an unbelievable economic rebirth and has risen out of the recession, which has been noted. Great. Thanks due in large part to your vision, Mayor, and the development community. So the question is why slow the momentum down? Because if this proposed ordinance is allowed to move forward. That is exactly what's going to happen. The chamber, for years, if not decades, has made it a point to ensure the government doesn't hinder the progress of the private sector. In fact, one of these areas we focus on this year, and I quote, mitigate costly business regulations. What does that simply mean? Or just an excerpt from our policy manual for this year. We will protect business sectors that currently drive the local economy and seek ways to support their efforts, oppose any state, county, local or other governmental agencies, mandated business regulations that put Long Beach area businesses at an economic disadvantage. But since we're not just in the business of saying no, it further reads we will secure reasonable solutions in order to balance business interests with the creation of new regulations. So at a minimum, we've asked in the past to compromise when we cannot agree. Tonight's item is example, an example of the exact opposite. There's no compromise here. Our members and partners will speak later tonight on exactly what is at stake to their civic energy industries and mainly the hospitality industry and the negative impacts on our area hotels. I believe the greater issues at stake here are the leadership of the city is on the verge of passing something that will set an example not only in our region but throughout the nation. A bad example. I ask the question, why does Long Beach want to be the forefront of passing bad public policy and baseless facts and statistics that one entity or group has portrayed through a false narrative? That group has not reached out to us. We've done all the educating through our Long Beach Hospitality Alliance. It was only a month ago we hear before you providing data and facts about how the industry works and necessary safety protocols that are already in place. We talked about the hospitality industry as one of already heavy, heavily regulated. The state and federal levels once again, others will dove deeper into this issue. The language that is included in tonight's item is wrought with misinformation and looks too heavily regulated. Private industry where the government has no business and being. And we need to ask ourselves, is this the kind of city we want to be known for? This potential policy penalizes industry that's provided good paying jobs, help put Long Beach on the map through its total dollars and provides a positive local economic impact wherever hotels are located . And with this agenda item tonight, the city wants to say thank you on behalf of our chamber members, the business community. I urge you to oppose this idea. Commissioners. Okay. Thank you. Next Speaker Please. Do. It took a lot for me to stand here and listen to that. Take control, sister. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez, for your courage and for your leadership. So members of the city council who have the same courage. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. My name is Marielena Durazo and I am national vice president of Unite Here Hotel and restaurant workers throughout the United States and Canada. Tonight is a momentous night for all of us. It feels consequential for all of you in front of me because you are being asked to take sides, and that can be an uncomfortable place for you to be in. But in all honesty, it is much more significant to all of the Long Beach housekeepers and immigrants who are forced to live in fear, fear of the whims of a pathological president, fear of what is on the other side of a hotel guest door, fear of having an unreasonable workload demanded of you and not having the power to say, Yeah, basta, enough is enough. Tonight, these brave men and women have stood up. They have pushed to make their voices heard. And tonight they look to you, the mayor and the City Council of Long Beach to match their. Courage. In this political climate, we are all faced with hard decisions and we have to choose sides. Tonight, you have the power to tell these immigrant workers and their families that you are with them and that you are watching their back. I urge you to take the lead and stand on the side of women who work so hard every single day and their immigrant families. Gracias. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. I am Father. William Connor, the pastor emeritus of St Joseph Catholic Church in East Long Beach. I am here asking for your support to help some of the hardest working people in our city. These are the. Women. Tending guests and cleaning rooms. It is because of their work that our city's hotel industry. Has grown. To meet the needs of visitors from across the world. These women are the economic engine driving the hotel industry in Long Beach. The Bible is full of passengers calling for the fair treatment of workers by their employers and showing how exploitation is against our Judeo-Christian faith tradition. Today. You all have a decision to make. Will you stand only on the side. Of the rich and powerful of our city? Or will you listen to the voices of those that are most vulnerable, the voices of these very hard working women? I would like to think that we Long Beach residents will look back on your. Decision as the day that. City leaders. Stood on the side of justice and righteousness by standing with these women. And I would simply add that. The very few unionized hotels we have in Long Beach, where the rights of workers are observed and they are treated with dignity and respect and given a living wage and decent working conditions. Those hotels are thriving. And so will the other hotels continue to do better and thrive more if they give rights to our workers. Thank you for having me. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Rusty Hicks. I'm the executive secretary treasurer of the L.A. County Federation of Labor. And I appreciate the opportunity to stand before you and ask you and call upon you to support this important policy. My friend from the Chamber stood before you and said that Long Beach had been rejuvenated, that its economy was thriving in large part due to the policies of this body. And unfortunately, there are some in our community they are being left out of that that prosperity. The workers that are paying the price in abuse, whether it's inhumane workloads or sexual assault, and both bring indignity to their work. And it was Dr. Martin Luther King that said that all work has dignity, and that includes the work of a housekeeper of women here in here in Long Beach. And so you have the chance tonight to really live out the words of of Dr. King, to stand with these workers and support them in their in their struggle. These policies are sweeping the nation, whether it's in Seattle or Chicago or other cities to follow. And I only hope that Long Beach will be the next in line. I know there's been a lot of back and forth about this particular policy, but the choice before you, in my view, is really pretty simple. It's pretty straightforward. It's the question of where you will stand. Will you stand on the sides of workers or will you turn your back on them? I know many of you have spent your careers fighting and working with and supporting communities just like this. I hope you will continue that work. Tonight and support this policy and pass it. And implement it as quick as possible. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Her Linda Chico Field, deputy for L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn. And I. Have a letter on behalf. Of the supervisor that I'd like to read into record. Dear Mayor Garcia and Honorable Counsel, thank you for your consideration of an ordinance that puts workplace protections in place for the men and women in the hospitality industry. And I strongly encourage your full support. I have been fighting alongside our brothers and sisters in the hospitality industry for years. They are the individuals who welcome us when we first arrive and provide warm and satisfying experiences while we are away from home. Sadly, we have heard all too many stories about hotel guests who violate the standard code of conduct and sexually victimize our housekeepers. We must do better to protect our workers as one of the most desirable tourist destinations in the United States. The city of Long Beach must be a leader in protecting hotel workers from inappropriate sexual advances and burdensome workloads by requiring safe and humane workspaces. Seattle has already passed an ordinance to protect workers, and Chicago is currently considering a similar ordinance. The leisure and hospitality industry employs over 7 million women in the United States. In 2015, the majority of them been women of color. As Long Beach thrives and grows, so does the hospitality industry in the city. And while we welcome, welcome that growth, it must not be on the backs of our hotel workers. It is up to us to recognize the physical effects and demands on our hotel workers who clean and service the nearly 5000 hotel rooms across Long Beach Daily. I stand with our hotel workers and urge you to pass this ordinance to reinforce the protection of all of our hotel workers. Sincerely, Janice Hahn, supervisor for supervisor, local district. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you, mayor and council members. My name is Reverend Janet Prager. I am a Lutheran. Pastor, a representative of Clu. I teach at Cal State Fullerton, the Religious Studies Department, and I am part. Of Clue Empower. Honestly, sir, you're my first speaker. My heart is pounding because as a former hotel worker, I can tell you that that is not a false narrative. The work that. I did as a hotel worker. The amount of abuse. I really can hardly speak at your denial of my reality and the reality of all of these women and others who have spoken about what it is like to be a service person in this industry. It requires long hours. It requires safety issues. And I ask you tonight, as a person, speaking of my own experience and from the point of view of a pastor, it is the right thing to do. I do not. I find the argument of regulations to be ludicrous. There are regulations in every field to protect your workers rights and their dignity. This is not an add on. This is a requisite for the dignity of these women who service each of our visitors and all those who who are requiring YouTube to have a wonderful place to stay. Who is the first person that you meet? The woman who is in your hotel room, who smiles and then makes it clean? And I, as a person who goes to hotel, the first thing I check on is how clean is my room? So I ask you tonight to remember the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You are sitting. In a council. Chamber with many protections. Police this nice space. Can you not give women who clean room, who work every day of their lives, who make sure that your industry and your city thrive and that you become the Long Beach that you are talking about earlier today? Please do the right thing. These women need and deserve your protection. They need and deserve your dignity by giving it to them. By dignifying their requests. And and above all, we are here to respect and give it to each other. And I speak to you from experience, but I also speak to you as a pastor. Harmony, respect and dignity creates economic benefit. And in that we have a quality of life. So please do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. What's wrong again with the Los Angeles County Business Federation? As stated earlier, Biz Vet is a massive, diverse, grassroots alliance of business organizations, employers and employees. Throughout Los Angeles County that. Advocates for policies and projects. That strengthen our regional economy. And we are here to express our concerns with the motion to draft an ordinance which would further regulate the hotel industry. Language hotels are hotels in general are some of the most regulated. And regulated businesses in the state. So far, Long Beach Hotel has worked extremely hard to ensure a safe working environment and takes sexual harassment very seriously. Over the past. 18 months, these 18 months season hotels have mandated training programs for their employees, such as sexual harassment, human trafficking and self-defense. To date, hundreds of employees. Have participated in these programs. We encourage you to review the protections that are already in place and before you make your decision. We thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor. City Council and staff. I'm Sherry Bastian, the executive director of the Long Beach, Ronald McDonald House. Many of you know and are familiar with what our mission is. We are a home away from home for families with critically ill children. We provide a place to. Stay, a source of comfort and care, and a chance for parents to focus all their energies on what matters their child becoming well. Fulfilling this mission is possible because of the generosity and commitment from our community. More on that in a moment. These gifts of time, talent and financial support the Long. Beach Ronald McDonald House. Provide, receives or receive 365 days the year a year for the families with these children facing critical, often life threatening illnesses. In 2016, our mission served over 2800 guests. Our occupancy was over 80%. Our average length of stay for these families is anywhere between ten and 12 days. We had five over 5000. Volunteers assist us with this mission. Which includes 15000 hours served. Now back to the community component. We have some. Unbelievable individuals, businesses and community groups that have supported us since we opened in 2011. One particular business group and partner that has been with us since the beginning, our hotels and their wonderful staff. When our house is full. These hotels are the first to come through for. Us and help. Put our these families up. When we cannot. These are some nights when we don't know whether or not we'll be able to accommodate these families and our hotel partners help us with reassuring that when they also when we also provide meals for the families who stay with us. Many of these hotels staff volunteer to do so with us, both in cooking at our house and providing food from their respective properties. We've created. Wonderful. Relationships with both the operators of the hotels. And their. Staff. We view the hotels in. Long Beach as a wonderful as a both a wonderful partner. And a very viable, valuable. Resource. To help us. With our mission, our house, and those we assist for all the families that. Walk through our doors. We know that they do this. Because they care about our families and the commitment to the. Community. We hope that. This business model is allowed to continue for our direct. Mission. While it would be difficult. After hearing. What I've heard tonight to say. I ask. You to oppose it. I do hope you. Will strongly consider the. Good that these hotels. Are doing for our. Mission and many others. I hope you'll support in seeing that support. Seeing the value in this agenda item on both sides. I appreciate. My opportunity. To give comment. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Larry Goodyear. During college years, I spent a number of years working for a major hotel and restaurant chain. And then for five, six years after was under the management staff of that chain. And I have a healthy respect, profound respect for hotel workers, restaurant workers. No ifs, no answer, no buts. And the panic button dynamic is something that's a 2/2 conversation. They should have that no ifs, ands or buts, period. It does not. And but equally what I'm troubled about is the way this was advertised to protect immigrants and protect this group or that group goes back to all lives matter. Does it make any difference whether or not the person was an immigrant? Or born here in the United States, that third generation, fourth generation family. There's some people who like working in the hotel industry, in the restaurant industry. They deserve the respect and the protection. If that panic button, if it rises to that level or if that's what is needed, that should be put in place, period. But again, I go back to it is not a case of being an immigrant. It's not a case of being in this race. That race all lives matter. All people matter, particularly when it comes to women. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. So this is our this is our 10th speaker. Our first 30 minutes of public comment. So after listeners objection, after the speaker will then move down to 2 minutes like we did for the first hearing and continue that. Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is Kent Peterson. I'm the chief operating officer of repeat to US Engineering here in Long Beach. And I have the pleasure of serving as chairman of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors this year. I'm here tonight on behalf of our board and our members. I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about the potential overreach. If a proposed ordinance is indeed drafted with the language that's included in the agenda item as written. This will have immediate impacts on our entire business community. Our hotel and hospitality members can speak to you about their business models and the lengths to which they have gone to in order to ensure safe work environments for their employees. Tonight, my goal is for you all to respectfully understand the potential consequence of etc. ordinance with the language as stated, will have not only to the hospitality industry but other sectors of the local economy. The item before you is merely political. This is not even close to being good public policy. The chamber in the Long Beach business community have heard this tune before when a particular group or in this case an organized union cannot force its will upon the private industry. They look to the folks such as yourselves to provide the answer when it should be decided by the market in the private sector. The language on the agenda item is riddled with half truths and. Potential legal ramifications. But the more troubling issue about the item is the blatant potential overreach of local government to enact and regulate an industry that is already heavily regulated through the state and federal levels of government. Unless you start the collective bargaining process, of course, that begs the question what industry is next? As the mayor and council know, Long Beach is currently undergoing a renaissance as it comes to development increase in the local economy and revitalization through many of the neighborhoods and business corridors. Business in Long Beach has faced its fair share of increased regulations and costs just in the past two years through the minimum wage increases and increased sales tax to our retailers. No one is saying tonight that business should not be regulated. We're just saying it should be done with collaboration and much discussion based on the facts and not on the will of one entity not getting their way in the private market. I urge you to oppose this agenda item and protect the industry that provides so much economic value to Long Beach because we know if this passes, other industries are next and that is just setting a bad precedent for the city and the local economy. Thank you. Thank you for being up. Now we're going down to 2 minutes. Thank you, Mayor and council. Members, for this opportunity to comment. My name is Lynn Moore Feldman with the California Hotel and Lodging Association. I'll just be commenting on some of the legal and related concerns we have with the proposed ordinance. As a preliminary matter, the proposed square footage requirement is completely arbitrary, with no foundation and scientific studies or analysis. Which leads me to a second point. Local government is not an appropriate body for these standards. In California, Labor Code Section one for 2.3 expressly provides that Carlos Jazz Standards Board shall be the only agency in the state authorized to adopt occupational safety and health standards. Therefore, this ordinance would be preempted by state law. In fact, Carlos, the Standards Board has been looking at this issue since 2012 when the same labor organization that represents a number of our hotel employees here in Long Beach petitioned the Standards Board to adopt a square footage limitation following numerous advisory committee meetings, soliciting expert testimony of scientists , industrial hygienist, ergonomics, economist and others. The Standards Board released a proposed standard that notably does not contain a square footage. Limitation and identified. Such quotas has not appropriate in the workplace standards and something that is better left to collective bargaining. Equally troubling is maintaining a blacklist of guest against whom mere allegations have been made, sharing that list with employees and prohibiting such a guest for at least three years. These provisions violate the due process rights of the hotel guests under the California Constitution and the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution will embroil both the hotels and the city in years of. Expensive and time consuming. Litigation. These provisions are also unnecessary as the Fair Employment Housing Act already makes hotel employers liable for sexual harassment committed by third parties, including hotel guests. For these reasons, if this proposed ordinance is poorly drafted, not scientifically based, and is preempted by state law and raises significant legal and constitutional issues. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is Mary Ketchikan. I work in Health and Long Beach for about six years. I start like a rona tender at 3 p.m. to 1130. And then I transfer to the morning 8 to 430, then transferred to lovey like areas. And then usually I start 4:00 in the morning to 1230 and I never feel unsafe even if I work runner tending or a public area. Right now I'm doing housekeeping supervisor. I've been trained for how to be safe. Safety training. We always get it. We always get advice from our managers saying how we can protect ourselves. We get tools like whistles, like alarms. If you're in dangerous, you can call somebody. And also we have security like 24 hours a day walking on the floor. I never feel unsafe. Also, one thing that I want to mention, security. It's if you want to protect yourself, you have to put it and practice. It doesn't matter if the company bring you all the tools that you need, but if you didn't practice, that is nothing we can do. And another thing that I want to mention, sometimes the room attendant never put the. Cart in. Front of the doors. Like our manager. Mentioned every single day, you have to put the cart in front of the door. So that way you're not put yourself in dangerous. So if you want to be in danger, you're not going to like you going. You're not going to do that. I mean, that's all. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Get in America and council members. My name is Catherine Conrad and I live in the ninth District. So I thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson, for supporting this ordinance to protect the hard working and brave women present tonight and all hotel employees in the city's city of Long Beach. I am a member of Gabriela, a grassroots organization of Filipino women dedicated to advancing the rights and welfare of women and children and linking these issues to root problems in the Philippines. I care about the health and safety of the hotel workers because we should all care about the safety and dignity of the people working some of the hardest jobs in our city. This issue is also personal to me because my mother worked as a housekeeper when she immigrated to California from the Philippines in 1971, and every day she went to work in fear that she would be sexually harassed by her employer, whom hired advances toward her. She would ask her cousin, who worked with her, to stand guard at the door while my mother cleaned each restroom of the facility, scrubbing floors on her hands and knees. At my job at ABC, I'm grateful that I do not face the same fear and anxiety going into work that my mother did as a housekeeper. But safety in the workplace should not be a privilege. Safety in the workplace should be a basic human right. And the fact that now not all. Of our council members agree is unacceptable. In Long Beach, there are many Filipino and Latino housekeepers who depend on these jobs to support their families, and they should not have to go to work in fear of being verbally, physically or sexually harassed and harmed. The various hotels in Long Beach made huge profits from the hard work of hotel workers, and without housekeepers and other workers, these hotels would not be successful. When housekeepers are overworked, hotels are more concerned about how much more profit they can squeeze from their employees, not about their health and well-being. This is why we admire the courageous hotel workers here who are here tonight standing up for their rights, standing up against abusive employers that see them as a commodity rather than as human beings. As Gabriela, we stand in solidarity with the Long Beach Coalition for good jobs and a healthy community to stand up for hotel workers fighting for safe and humane working conditions. As city council members, you have a responsibility to protect all workers in our city, and we encourage you to take a stand to thank you so much for the hardworking women in our community who dare to organize and struggle for their rights. Thank you so much. Next. Next speaker, please. Good evening. Honorable Mayor Garcia and Council Councilwoman Gonzalez and Pierce, I applaud you. My name is Bishop Bonnie Redden. I am the senior pastor of Refined Aspire Fellowship United Church of Christ in the Eighth District Youth District. I'm also a member of Club Clergy and Lady United for Economic Justice. Let me also. Say. That one of the first jobs I had at a high school was cleaning rooms and it trembled. Causes me to tremble the day to even think about that job. I'm here tonight because I am deeply invested in this community and walked. Alongside. These working. Women, listened to their stories from these Long Beach hotels experiencing injustice in their workplace. These are working women. Who are the foundation. Of our local tourism. Thanks to their. Hard work in cleaning these rooms and serving these guests, our city thrives and we attract thousands of guests. I host conferences here from my organization and bring hundreds of people every year. Unfortunately, many of these women work under inhumane working conditions that subject them to heavy workloads and unfortunately, sexual harassment. For years. We as clergy. And Lady United for Economic Justice have stood time and. Time again. With these hotel workers through their struggle. We come together. Tonight again and we say this is shocking. In this day and age, women must still. Face this type of behavior. Really, as persons of faith, I believe that we all have the responsibility to be the prophetic voice and the prophetic witness to these issues, to take a stance, to make a statement, and to take action so that these workers no longer have to experience this injustice. My father had a saying and he said this do what's right because it's right and then do what's right. Please do that. Thank you. Next speaker, please. When you ask that anger District seven, I'm. You know, when I got elected to the council years. And years ago, I was so excited because finally I could be a voice and make. Decisions for women. And as a woman, I had a lot of. Ideas of. What what needed to be done. And I was so happy to cast that vote. On any policies or any actions that would improve their lives. And as a former executive director of this sexual assault crisis agency, I have to tell you that the majority of assaults go unreported, the majority of assaults go unreported. And this definitely is a woman's issue. And I'm proud that we have four women on the council, and I hope they dig deep in their hearts and know that this is right. This is what has to happen for women who are working for working. Women, not only in the hotels, but everywhere. I'll tell you, it is also an immigrant issue. When you talk about the majority of. Housekeepers being women and being from immigrant backgrounds, then this is an immigrant issue. Don't pussyfoot around. This is what it is. And so you have to take a stand on behalf of women and on behalf of immigrants. And thirdly, I was so happy because I was able to. Make decisions about the working families in our in our city. And when you have a good job, then you have a great city, a good job at Dignity really, really promotes a great city. And so. I'm here to ask you to really consider dig. Deep, think about what this is about. And, you know, I know we have to consider the hotel industry. We have great hotels in the city. I have family that work in the hotels. They it's a good living for some. And I have to tell you that the bottom line is this. They were crying. You know, the sky is falling. When we had measure in. I mean, we had a proposition. And nothing happened except that their their their profits went up. And it is this shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. We've had workshops and seminars. And we asked everyone to come to the. Table and to listen and to learn. So I want you to think about this and think about the women in this audience. Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Reverend Melinda Teeter. Dodge and I serve as a pastor in East Long Beach in the fifth District. I also live there. I work and serve the community of the Los Altos United Methodist Church. I'm here today standing with the women working in Long Beach Hotels, and I'm asking you to stand with us today. Similar to many other speakers, I can attest personally to the hardships, having heard the stories and walked alongside them in their journey for years. Not only must they complete heavy workloads, they are also at risk of physical and sexual assault, as you have heard, because there are simply little too few protective measures on the work site for them. And even when these incidents do happen, as again already spoken to women, the majority of women stay silent because of an existing and very powerful culture that says the customer's always right. As city leaders, you have the ability to ensure that there are common sense security measures, such as the panic button and signage that can make a significant impact toward hotel worker safety. And these are included in the ordinance before you. This ordinance is not a radical demand. It is common sense. And it comes from and through the hotel workers there themselves. My faith. My Judeo Christian heritage teaches me that all of God's children are born of inherent worth and have every right to live and. Thrive and prosper. In a work environment that is both safe and conducive to their capacity to succeed. Let us stand with women today and pass this ordinance. Prioritizing the safety and well-being of long beaches. Primary Welcoming Force. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is Ann Burdette. I am a Cradle Long Beach resident. I live in the seventh district, but in 1980 I moved away. I was away for 30 years and then I came back in 2012 to a very changed and much improved Long Beach. I was so happy to see the development in downtown. I was so happy to see zip codes that I had been raised in no longer just white people. And that made me so proud of the city. I share it on Facebook. All the time. Tonight, though, I'm here to urge. You to protect some vital human. Resources. In our city, and that is these hotel workers who make all of these attractive elements of our city possible. It was great to see that you had passed the minimum wage increase in 2012, but that's an earmark of an international city and that's what we call ourselves. The spirit and the right thinking of those wage increases is completely lost if hotels respond by increasing their employees workloads, or worse yet, deny them the simple protection of a way to call for help when their safety is threatened. Our city's hotel. Workforce needs to not only be compensated fairly for their work. But protected from abuse. Otherwise, we lose our credibility. As an enlightened city. These workers, kids go to school here. They pay taxes here. And the dollars they earn are spent here. Please pass this policy to protect women from heavy workloads and sexual harassment. Let's demonstrate that Long Beach is a true international city, honestly committed to respecting and protecting all of its residents. I think Michelle Obama said it best. She said the difference. Between a broken community. And a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued. I want to thank Councilman, Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez and the co-sponsors for this leadership in bringing this forward. I want to commend every person in this audience who has worked for years to press this policy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor Garcia. Council members. My name is Richard Hoyt. I'm a member resident of the seventh district. When I read the background information expecting to learn important facts about this issue, I was surprised that I learned everything I needed to know about average rates and occupancy rates in 2015, 2016, 2017, and how this thriving hotel industry in Long Beach is looking at a glorious future. But nowhere did I find any data or evidence whatsoever concerning the issue that we're talking about. There's no reference to assault. There's no reference to safety issues or workplace injuries in Long Beach. Only anecdotal comments based upon alleged. Conversations and hearsay. The only fact that I found provided is a memo from Police Chief Luna in which he reports that only two incidents were reported to have occurred in an entire one year period. One male, one female. Now, we seem to. Have forgotten the male because we're here supporting Long Beach working women, apparently not the men. And if you do the math, if we're cleaning 5000 rooms a day, that's 1,000,825 rooms a year. And we've had two incidents out of 1,825,000. I agree. One is too many. This isn't the answer. With all due respect, I question not only your motives, but your level of expertize in this matter. How can you provide these solutions without considering expert opinion? How do you define a human workload as. 4000 square feet? Cal OSHA Standards Board Standards Board has come to a completely different conclusion that contradicts your own. You're violating the California Constitution, Article one, Section one. The blacklist is not private or confidential. You're violating the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. You serve due process. Next week, please. Next weekend. Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is John Howard and I'm the owner and operator of Chick-Fil-A at Long Beach Town Center. I also serve as the incoming chairman of Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Board, a board of directors. I'm here tonight to encourage you to oppose this agenda. I know from firsthand experience that the hospitality industry is already heavily regulated and has in place safeguards for their employees as. And since we do as well. It begs the question of my industry. The restaurant industry is next when it comes to overreaching policies such as what we were discussing tonight. We face very similar regulations in our business on a daily basis. As you know, we've already faced such an example when politics forced public policy to be shaped around a few interests and not based on facts and economics. Speaking to my industry specifically, we operate on the thinnest of margins. When government begins to interfere with regular business operations based solely on the responsiveness of one group, it puts jobs and local economic output at stake. Good businesses have a long term strategy based on market conditions in order to meet expectations of owners. Shareholders and ultimately the community. It serves so it can remain in business when government places unnecessary burdens on business, disrupts the business model and may jeopardize its continued success. We need our leaders in Long Beach to recognize when our community is being used as a pawn. This item is an example of this and it's concerning if not recognized. We cannot allow Lambie's to be a test case for political maneuvering of one particular entity. On a personal note, I will say my grandparents grew up on sharecropper's farm and their grandparents were brought here as slaves. My grandfather wound up working as a housekeeper in the DeSoto Hilton in Savannah, Georgia. During the Jim Crow era. And he always ensured and made sure that I believe that hard work and getting my education, keeping my nose in the books would pay off someday. Even as he worked in the Jim Crow era and couldn't even rent a hotel in his the hotel that he cleaned. He encouraged me to continue to work hard and do my best. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. All right, let's do double the time for interpretation. Bonus when I'm not a member of the concert hall. Good evening. City Council Mi Nombre de Yolanda Zavala, Estonia, kiko Motorhead, Laura la compania. But. But I put the hero logo here. My name is Yolanda Zavala. And I'm here representing the Stand with Women Campaign. Aprovado in La Industria or the hotel area in Long Beach for our news camera. Camera. If we go in El Distrito Nuevo and Long Beach, I have worked in the. Hotel industry in Long Beach for eight years as a housekeeper and I live in the ninth. District in Long Beach. Como como my my a esposa. Your character had a Luna Ambiental Seguro Papi Quero guitar. You got beba e Salvadorian mi casa but are poor there. So the net are mi familia tengo dignidad como muerte embrace respeto. As a. Mother, wife and daughter, I want to work in a safe environment because I. Want to arrive home alive and healthy and be able to. Care for my family. I have dignity as a woman and I deserve respect. M was a leader and was a leader. Alaska Mutual basis. Mujica though i key. But I get my attention. We have marched in the streets many times and we have come here many times. To call your attention to this matter. Jabba the Gate. Amos He can be a star citizen. Enough is. Enough. We want this situation to change. Necesitamos the need only get the inner city the commune. But up to here. No sur la muerte is killing Pyramus Waters. And Long Beach. We need a common sense law that will protect us. Women who clean rooms in Long Beach. Los. Lobos head into the Delos hotels estan biondo north nostro nostro bajo para la para la policia para protected areas a uses 10 billion though in in contra. Nosotros. We are upset because those hotel managers here today that are watching us as we stand for ourselves and women against abuse a law that they are fighting against us. For far more unethical nosotros. But I provide noise properly so please. Unite with us to pass our policy. Nosotros muertes. No, no, no, no, no. Shameless. As women, we will not be silent anymore. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the testimony. That's for the police. Good evening, council members. My name is Elizabeth Garcia and I'm here representing the Democratic Socialists of America Long Beach chapter as an organization that focuses on ending the economic exploitation. I'm here standing with the women that work in Long Beach hotels. Hospitality is the second largest source of wealth for the city of Long Beach. That success is made on the backs of mostly women, a majority of them immigrant and women of color. Without the work done by these women, local hotels would not be able to function, let alone profit. The hotel owners and management know that, even if they're unwilling to admit it. In 2000, 12 Long Beach voters passed a minimum wage increase for hotel workers. But none of that matters of the hotel workers are over. The hotel owners are allowed to respond by increasing workloads to unreasonable and abusive levels. The hotel industry has shown that if left to their own devices, they will protect their bottom line and profit margins over the lives and safety of their employees. We want we all want to live in a city with a vibrant economy, but are we willing to sacrifice the bodies of our working class communities in order to have one? We have an opportunity to stand up and protect the most vulnerable and marginalized residents in our city. We cannot purport to be a diverse, welcoming and progressive city while at the same time turning a blind eye to the economic exploitation and sexual abuse of the women on whose back our economy is built. I hope to see all of you do the right thing today, not the politically expedient thing and stand up for our hotel workers. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Vice Mayor and council members. My name is Greg Keebler. I'm the general manager of the Hilton Long Beach. And I have heard a lot of incredible stories and incredible. Opinions of which I value everything that I've heard tonight. Even while there may be some things that I don't agree with. Or I think there may be factual. Inconsistencies. The one thing that I know to be true is that this is my 37th year. Standing up for immigrants, families, all workers, females, people with disabilities. Any one who needs a job. And I'm not standing here to make this an emotional play, but rather to say that our industry is one that is absolutely about people. It's not about the buildings. It's about our guests. And our employees. My personal concern with this ordinance as written is not in its intent, because we absolutely are diligent in making sure we have a safe workplace for our people. We issue panic buttons. We have all the policies and procedures and trainings that any other industry has to safeguard against these risks that are in our society everywhere we go . The difference is in the wording of this ordinance and the things that are so prescriptive that they have been written to not allow for a resultant outcome which may be worse than what you expect. They were written by people who have not spent 37 years in the industry. To know what was up on the board is not exactly possible. There are many ways to address these concerns. Councilman, we can counsel people. This is not the way. Thank you very much. Thank you for your testimony. Let's take a police. Good evening. My name is Linda Calderon, and I am the president of the National Council of Jewish Women of Long Beach. We are a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who turn progressive ideals into action inspired by Jewish values. And KW strives for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families, and by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms. Ideally, we are always striving striving to embody the Jewish imperative to make the world a better place by caring for those who are most vulnerable and most in need of our compassion and our defense . Tonight, I am here to ask you to support the ordinance to protect women from physical and sexual abuse in Long Beach Hotels, workers in Long Beach hotels, the majority of whom live in Long Beach, face working conditions that are simply unacceptable. Speaking from personal experience, when you allow the existence of sexual harassment, even one example in the workplace, you are creating a hostile work environment which violates many labor laws. Moreover, the lack of humane work assignments also contributes to this unhealthy work environment. The workplace environment becomes one where communication is curtailed and replaced by fear of losing one's job. We're asking for your support for the working woman and immigrant families. The success of our society is judged not by how well the rich and powerful are doing, but rather how the most vulnerable in our communities are being treated. Please cast your vote tonight to ensure that Long Beach is on the right side of history. When our children look back at this moment, let them say that on this night, Long Beach said yes to respect and dignity and no to fear and injustice. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is Holly Stewart. I live here in downtown Long Beach. I've been here before the council and the mayor before. And I want to say I'm here to support this idea of protecting women from sexual harassment and from overwork, from heavy loads and things. Maybe none of you have a daughter or a granddaughter. I have those, and I don't want to see them groped by anybody. And one of them works. And, you know, the entertainment, not entertainment in the food and hotel industry. And I'm not going to tolerate that. And and if you have daughters, you shouldn't want to tolerate that. It's interesting that most people have tried to talk against this thing are men, you know, not women. And those men may not have been groped for all I know, but if they would have been, they probably would have been talking different because it's a different thing. And I think it's time that we really look at it. The women have a right to be protected and they shouldn't be allowed or pushed or made to do work that is beyond their physical capability. This is a matter of human rights, not women's rights versus men rights, or the corporation has a right to not boss. People around know these are human rights and the dignity of all of us, both men and women, because, as I said, the men behind you wouldn't do this to women. I don't think the women behind this thing would allow it to be done to them. And so you can't allow it to be done to other women. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Nicole Ababa and I'm with the Filipino Migrant Center. And my name is Don. Markings, an organizer with Black. Lives Matter. And we're both here tonight as women who care about our workers here in Long Beach. Because what matters. Most to us is that Lumbee stand up for workers rights and stand up for justice, dignity and respect. And it's no surprise today that we heard from so many hotels and those who represent the industry that hotels don't want to regulate because their bottom line is profit. But what the hundreds of community members here are, bottom line is justice. And it's important. For us to recognize that minimum wage is a regulation. Overtime is a regulation. All of these were fought for by workers themselves. And it's up to us and the community and city council members to really support them and make sure that we do everything we can. Earlier today, another previous speaker said It's not the local government's responsibility. It's absolutely your responsibility. As the hotels here have received heavy subsidies, including the Hilton Long Beach, where I've met hotel workers who've been overworked and forced into retirement because they've been injured on the job. So as Black Lives Matter, we stand and we stand in the name of those who have been harmed by the state. Right. We're looking out for lives that have been impacted by state violence in so many ways. And tonight you have the opportunity to represent as a responsible acting representative of the state, as local government, to look after these women who are being harmed in the workplace. I'm hearing a lot about the protections that they currently have, but if that was working so well, then we wouldn't have to push for. Policies to protect them. We stand in solidarity with these workers. We stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers who are in this struggle to represent for workers rights, for human rights. You have a responsibility to look after that, to represent for that. This is even more important because these are predominantly women of color, and we cannot continue to view women of color as disposable if it are Filipino women, black, Latino, Latina, right. Loading them up with the over burdensome workloads and then turning them out of the out of the profession more quickly. You have a responsibility to act responsibly. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is Reverend Carolyn. Wilkins and I'm with Clu. I'm here today. And so much has been said that I won't repeat, but I'd like to leave you with three points. First. I spent time. I'm not just a minister, but I spent over 30 years in corporate America doing operations, product, launch management and quality analysis. So you can make up numbers to say and do whatever you want. So there have been conversations. Tonight that said regulations and rules may be overbearing for the hotel industry, but I encourage you to look at not the quantity of the regulations, but the quality and the effectiveness. And if they're not working, they need to be changed. Secondly. I invite you to look at the two levels of service. The women and the men. Who are the hotel workers provide service to the clients who receive the service, and in between is the infrastructure and the management. And it is the management that is trying to say that these are. An ordinance that does not work. Please honor the women who are doing the work. I've been a recipient of the service and I invite you all if you haven't ever made a bed, lifted a mattress, cleaned a toilet. To go do it yourself and see if you'll change your mind. And lastly, I implore you to be pull by a vision, a vision of dignity, justice and peace, a dignity of a vision of inclusion, rather being push by the management. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and the members of the Council. My name is Cab Off, Managing Director of Ensemble Investments. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight. First of all, congratulations to Mayor Garcia and the city of Long Beach for co-hosting the upcoming 2028 Olympics. Our industry will be a major part of that. We want to show off our beautiful city to the whole world. The hospitality industry is a very good industry for Long Beach or for any other city for that matter is clean, brings in substantial tax revenues to the city and provides good jobs to a wide spectrum of people with different skills. Most cities seek and encourage hotel development. Long Beach has excellent brand name hotels such as Hyatt, Marriott Hilton. Most of these hotels continue to reinvest and modernize their properties and continue to be great assets to the city and its residents. The hotels in the city are run by professional managers and reputable owners. The hotel industry is in the hospitality business. We're here to take care of our guests and visitor to the hotels and to the city. Our employees are the ones who are the direct contact with our guests. They are the ones who interact with our customers, not me as the owner of the property. We respect, honor and care for our employees so they can care for our guests, even for selfish, profit oriented reasons. If you want to call it that, it is in our best interest to take care of our employees. I am sure you have been to. Restaurants or hotels where you. May not have been treated well by an employee. Would you go back? You would think twice. The way the preamble to this ordinance reads, if someone not knowing the hotels in Long Beach and just reading it off, you would think that Long Beach hotel owners are bunch of slumlords. Running hotels with. Dirty rooms occupied by substantially large number of sexual predators. It is embarrassing. Is that the message you as a city council want to send to the outside world because your baby works very hard. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Thank you very much. This is Commissioner Nicholson, and I'm proud to be bringing you the letter of unanimous support for agenda item number 22 from the Human Relations Commission. I am going to sum this up a bit, but I brought you the full letter as well. Our perspective on this topic has been informed by the testimony of community leaders, hotel workers and data provided by the hotel workers advocates. Long Beach hotel workers have reported verbal and sexual aggression or assault by hotel customers. To add further concern, Long Beach hotel workers have stated that managers have asked them to return to their work floor , even after reporting inappropriate behavior or harassment from hotel guests. It has been reported that when hotel security has been called, responses are either delayed or designated as inappropriate. Local hotel workers also report inhumane working conditions related to workload shift lengths and the inability to refuse overtime for fear of retaliation. Worker testimony suggests that the current policy in many local hotels is inadequate in addressing issues related to workload safety. Following consideration of our charter and purview, it is our view as the Human Relations Commission. We voted unanimously in support of agenda item number 22 in its entirety, with the hope and vision that Long Beach, where a city continues to embrace the values of justice, equity, respect and dignity for all its residents. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor Garcia, city council members. My name is Alexandra Wayman and I am a research. Analyst with Unite Here. Local 11 focusing on the city of Long Beach. And it has been my privilege to work on this issue. This policy addresses three key issues in the hotel sector. Heavy workloads, mandatory overtime, and the risk of sexual harassment and assault by guests. We have collected reliable data from four of the downtown hotels with 100 rooms or more, and we found that. These hotels already have standard daily quotas for housekeepers of. Less than or just slightly above 4000 square feet. Our methodology included obtaining. Information. From hotel workers, data collected from hotel management, as well as information from hotel websites and phone calls to these hotels. By multiplying the traditional average room size by the standard daily. Quota, we were able to. Calculate the total square footage cleaned in an eight hour shift. Our research shows that in downtown Long Beach, 60% of the overall number of. Guestrooms in downtown Long Beach. That is, three of every five guest rooms is already cleaned by a worker whose daily workloads are below or just slightly above 4000 square feet. The threshold is modest, in achievable the proposed. Daily maximum workload of 4000 square feet, after which premium. Pay for the shift is. Required, is a reasonable approach in the contact context of the Long Beach hotel sector. Two other cities, Seattle and Emeryville, have already adopted similarly similar legislation. It incentivizes new hotels to provide reasonable workloads for its housekeepers, providing reasonable workloads, while also ensure that housekeepers have. Enough time to properly clean hotel rooms, including doorknobs, remote controls and other places where germs spread in. Order to protect public health. We look forward to working with you on these much needed protections. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name's Nadir Tushnet, and I live in the third district. I'm a member of the Long Beach Area Peace Network and LabCorp and join the coalition because we are concerned with granting women equal access to good jobs and safe environments. But I'm going to speak tonight about my per my own life. Before I retired, I traveled 2 to 3 weeks a month. I was in lots of hotels. I want to tell everyone that people behave differently in hotels than they do at home. Inhibitions are gone. There's more drinking. There is more everything. I'm going to one story I will share. I'm not going to talk about the sexual harassment because we all know that that's true. Once we were all a group of us were in a hotel for a conference and my supervisor invited us into the room for cocktails and snacks and they were throwing peanut shells on the floor. Nobody does that at home. And that housekeeper has to clean that room in 30 minutes. Imagine doing that with the peanut shells on the floor. And I'm sure we're not the I was not the only room that had that. I was in my room. I wouldn't. I actually said something not to endear me to my supervisor. Long Beach has been known to be a city where you can find a good job, raise your family in a safe community, and provide them with a good education. We believe that this is still possible, and we ask our city leaders to act on behalf of these women and pass this policy to lift standards in our tourism industry. I want to thank Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez for her bringing this forward and for the other council members who are supporting it. Thank you very. Much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Natalie Schuman and I'm a research analyst for Unite Here Local 11. I'm going to briefly. Reiterate and expand upon some of the information that Councilmember Gonzalez already mentioned during her presentation regarding why this ordinance is so important at this particular moment. Well, the number of hotels in Long Beach has increased in recent years. The workforce has not. Between 2007. And 2013, the supply of hotel rooms in Long Beach. Increased by. 12% and the annual number of occupied rooms increased by 11.2%. During that same period, the hotel workforce shrunk by 6.9%, indicating that workers workload had increased. Across the hotel industry nationwide. There has also. Been a trend towards. Hotels putting. Building their brands with unique amenities, such as high quality bedding, more pillows and heavier mattresses, which make housekeepers jobs harder. The workload and voluntary overtime provisions of this policy are closely related to one another and reinforce. Existing law to support Long Beach hotel workers. First, the minimum wage for Long Beach hotel workers that voters passed in 2012 would be undermined if hotels are allowed to increase workers workloads. Beyond reasonable levels. Second, it is not possible to make voluntary overtime a reality if we do not also ensure that workloads are reasonable. Otherwise, hotels can respond by simply making housekeepers squeeze more. Square feet of. Work into their normal eight hour shifts. Together, the proposed ordinance will incentivize hotels to provide workers with a humane workload and ensure overtime is truly voluntary. We urge you to move forward tonight with this policy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. I just want to start off by telling the hotel workers that have testified and shared their stories tonight and over the past several years that you're heard, you're appreciated, and that I believe in you. My name is Miles McNeely. I was born at St Mary Hospital and I've lived in Long Beach almost my entire life. I currently live in the second district. Professionally, I work in the field of social science and health behavior research. So I have a special appreciation for data. And I wanted to highlight highlights some of the data and research related to sexual harassment among hotel workers. But first, I wanted to point out that because hotel workers, particularly housekeepers, often work alone in the intimate setting of visiting guests, hotel rooms without security cameras or witnesses, it seems intuitive that housekeepers may be at risk of being sexually harassed or assaulted by guests. As for data, in a 2016 survey of hospitality workers in Chicago, 58% of hotel workers reported being subjected to unwanted sexually harassing behavior by a guest. A 2016 survey of downtown Seattle housekeepers found that more than half of their survey respondents had experienced sexual harassment on the job. On a local level, the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community has collected their own data, showing Long Beach is not immune from what seems to be a widespread issue in the hotel industry. And I'm not very shocked by these numbers and data. I believe that this sometimes unsafe and unsavory work environment will continue unless legislation is passed to ensure that hotel workers basic human dignity is protected. And I believe that providing workers with panic buttons, creating signage, and allowing workers to cooperate with law enforcement and reassigning workers from the workplace if they feel unsafe work are tremendous steps, yet very reasonable steps. Thank you. Stopping abuses. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. When I'm not just me, I'm with you. Double time, please. Sorry. Good evening. Members of the council. I mean, early that year. Yesterday, again, Representan de la Campagna. But up to here. Let's move, Highness. My name is Elida Aguirre. And I'm here representing. The campaign to stand up with women. Everywhere having a little My Paradis in the I news.com.au recommended. I have worked in the Hotel Maya for 19 years as a housekeeper. Sorry, mother, that addressee was M.I.A. So you're somewhat the then I propionic. Also, I. Am a mother of three children and my husband and I are the owners of our own business. Just keep working. So my data is there. Look, isn't the owner here when those things went wrong one time and now they are causal six? Well, they parted ways, but there isn't one. Don't no one has all the same idea that our home is the only one. Those parts are not animals, see, all of which are finished. Demos. Are you there? I am here because I am a housekeeper and I know what it feels like to be a woman. Faced with the. Threat of sexual harassment from guests. Sometimes we have to work alone in our work areas, and if something happens to us, we don't know if someone will hear us. If we need help. It's a little scary which I business you got lucky on a hunter del consiglio must be escaped bodily contact but I am out of sweat. And so I have marched in the streets and I have come here to city council meeting more times than I can count to call your. Attention to this. A strike on Saturday. Yeah. They believe that boys are seeing onerous boys attacking. I am tired of. Asking for your support here without a clear answer. Estamos aqui. Alright, but I sit in a safe area or that I ask cannot bear on this at Amazon. Silencio, you can sing it anymore. Luciano, for my daughter's condition, this button was thrust, but I'm not certain out of them. Head hit in no less. We are here again today because we will not remain silent and we will continue to fight for better working conditions for ourselves and women in our hotels. For far more unethical nosotros parable of our own Napoli Success When the solution consented Giacomo. Please unite with us to pass a polity policy that has common sense. Thank you. In a sentimental spirit, the hera bearing in mind that audience at Boyan del Norte Boyan the waste automation man, has brought the heat up. Orcas will no protection from me. And I feel. Less protected today because I know our managers are here watching me and I feel less protected that they're not supporting this lot. Tonight. Thank you. Phenix, the police. Translation. Okay, so we'll make sure, obviously, all translation will double the time. Okay. Thank you. Hey, when I notice a member of the concert hall. Good evening. Members of Council. Min Comrades Maria Mercedes to represent Angela company appropriately. Hitler's mockery. My name is Maria Meza and I am here to in standing for the ordinance to protect women. And terrorism in this Rotel era. Puerto Rico Madeira. I have worked in the in this industry for 12 years as a housekeeper. So mother of little seahorse, the tobacco opera musical thing and on patrol you know this bonanzas. I am a mother of two children, and I work hard to make sure that my children are full of hope. I meant asking the mother that the Center for Telethons will be no matter what. The local heroes added me. No. Meanwhile. While the number of hotels and the earnings of hotels have increased, the number of workers have decreased. Significantly with their role as cargo. The Trabaho. This means that they are have REO workloads. At the moment especially the TRABAHO and the socialism virus could travel Hamilton in the throttle era and for the time I mean that's are the course of sexual patrols was but this protection I think protection alone. In addition to heavy workloads we women who work in the hospitality industry confront the throat of sex, the threat of sexual harassment from guests with very little protection. It's a communal monster industry. This is a very common practice in our industry. Which is reflect routine. I mean, that's how they set up personas, experimenting with tobacco for particulars, what's personal and for middle of May, the ones that can avert. A. Hazard. Many woman who who who face the threat of sexual harassment from their guests do not speak do not speak out because they're scared that they might them and they're ashamed that they might be retaliated against. And with a little escapism, which are the basis IMJ are they keeping in line with our neighbors? Must we have marched? We have marches throughout many times and we have come here to ask you to help Estamos aqui. Paracelsus were not there when they said Amazon's insulins here. You can think of them as a trend upon what is continuing as the time. When here again today to let you know that we will not remain silent and we will continue to fight for better working conditions. Necesitamos the national effort to protect the hair. A hint that homophobia, tourism is companeros. Tribal committees among the court is commonly seen as a taboo. We need a strong law to protect people like me and my coworkers who deserve better working conditions. But if I unethical nosotros para providing a police case when the coalition comes into the common place. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker and I just want to make sure I just from a point of view in 1/2, I believe and maybe our fire folks can our fire captain can confirm everyone that wants to speak is here. Correct. Okay. So who's the last person in this line? Okay. So I'm going to close a speakers list. I'm going to. Okay. So I want to make sure that if you want to speak on this item, I have everyone that's has your hand up. So you're okay that we just just want to make sure that we're going to close the speakers list. Okay. Unless I'm going to close the speakers list. Everyone from the outside wants want to speak on this item is inside, so please continue. Thank you so much. Good evening. My name is Ciaran Paradis. I am a field representative for Congressmember Alan Lowenthal and I. Our office submitted a letter in support of this ordinance. I'm not going to read the entire letter, but I would like to read a couple of extracts from it. The working conditions of the employees of the hospitality industry must be improved. We know of the existence of sexual harassment, excessive workloads and mandatory overtime in our Long Beach hotels. Workers should have the right to an environment free of sexual assault, a right to safe workloads, and a right to rest. The City of Long Beach should be a leader in ensuring safe and humane workplaces in our growing tourism sector. I urge you to stand. With the working woman of our Long Beach hotel workforce by supporting the Long Beach Working Woman Hospitality, Workload and Safety Ordinance. This ordinance will improve the quality of the workplace for hundreds of our hotel workers by providing protections against inappropriate conduct by guests while also addressing increased workloads and mandatory overtime. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Couldn't be. My name is Maribel. And as you know, our country is facing many challenges at this time. We have a president who during his campaign, openly bragged about his sexual harassment of women. Now, as a president, he has called for the increased deportation of immigrants, which tear families in our community apart, regardless of what the federal government does. You, as local leaders, have the authority to pass laws that can protect local residents. This includes hotel workers. These people are some of the most vulnerable and mistreated members of our society. Hotel workers, particularly housekeepers, work in intimate settings of guests, of guests, hotel rooms without security cameras or witnesses. This puts housekeepers at great risk of being sexually assaulted by guests. Unfortunately, the incidents are common and many attacks go unreported because they are scared. I hope tonight you will send a clear message that Olympic stands in the side of justice and is committed to protecting workers who make our city economy thrive. On a personal note, I would like to say that my mom has been working house cleaning houses for the last 20 years as a student of and graduated from Wilson High School. After school I would go and help her clean houses some afternoons and I saw the hard work that that that is. And I can only imagine these hotel workers multiplying that by 50. So I want to go ahead and thank all those workers for their hard work because I think they're not appreciated enough. So thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Lauren Saunders and I'm a Long Beach community member of the Second District. I am also a licensed clinical social worker with a background of providing community education and therapy services to. Survivors of sexual assault and domestic. Violence. I wanted to speak particularly on the issue of low reporting rates of sexual assaults and why having safety measures in hotels for our workers may be important. As a therapist, I can tell you there are many reasons why individuals may not report sexual assault. For example, fear being one of the primary ones. There may be fear from retaliation of an employer or coworkers. Fear of loss of employment. Fear of not being believed. Fear of being blamed. Fear of nothing being done even if they did speak out. There's also an issue of re traumatization. These experiences are very uncomfortable and very upsetting, and just coming forward and telling your story can be very, very traumatic in and of itself. So that's a reason why people may not speak up. Not wanting to confront your abuser, especially if it's in the workplace, can definitely be a hindrance to speaking up shame, guilt and embarrassment. These are really uncomfortable topics that we're talking about, and to come forward with that is a very difficult thing to do. And this is not just me and my professional experience speaking out about this. We heard a statistic of 68% of sexual assaults go unreported in my own research, that's consistent with what I find. So I just wanted to bring some of this information as a community member, as a professional who does work with folks on the receiving end of these traumatic events. And as a Long Beach member, I'm really proud of my community for coming up and speaking out about such a tough subject. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. You have someone cell phone. You left their cell phone on the podium. So, yeah, we're going to put it up. But actually, can you give it to the clerk, if you don't mind? And if you left your cell phone up there, please. We have one over here with the clerk. Thank you. 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My employer offer 24 hours a day confidential assistance in-house, offer many training classes. I have completed many of these classes, including ways to identify and report sexual harassment in my over 30 years of experience. I have never experienced harassment or have felt threaten it in any way. We have not asked for a la for housekeepers, the loves. We have work. My employer has brought really safe safety and we has employees not. I am here today because I truly believe that this ordinance will not help us. I am asking you to vote no on the proposed ordinance. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Well, thank you. Next week. Good evening. My name is Jeremy Blasi. I'm a staff attorney with the Unite Here Local 11. I'm not sure I've ever sat through a hearing on a measure to improve labor standards for low wage workers in the hotel sector or anywhere else, whether it's minimum wage or wage theft, where lobbyists or managers from the industry did not claim that if it went forward, it would cripple the industry. The sky would fall or it would be illegal for one reason or another. And those claims rarely stand up to scrutiny. Tonight is no different. Briefly, I'd like to respond to a few things I've heard tonight. First, the Hotel Alliance has claimed that repeatedly in an op ed in a memo to counsel at least three times tonight, that that the measure would create a blacklist that would bar guests from staying in hotels. That's simply not true. There's nothing like that in the measure. It simply would require that hotels advise workers that if they're being asked to clean a room where a guest is staying and that guest has previously been reported to sexually harass or assault a worker or is a registered sex offender that the worker be notified so that they can enter that guest room with some caution? It would not require that any guest never prohibit any guest from staying in any hotel anywhere. That's simply not true. Not true. And it's just a red herring. There's also been representations made that there's a preemption issue that's also simply not true. Cities absolutely have the right to regulate wages and hours and basic labor standards as they are here with the voluntary overtime provision and the premium for workers who are made to work more than a reasonable workload. Emeryville has had a measure just like this on the books since 2008. If it was truly illegal, it would have been challenged and overturned. The measure is hardly arbitrary. As other speakers have mentioned, three of five hotel rooms in downtown Long Beach are already cleaned by workers whose workloads meet the standard or just above it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Next speaker, please. Good evening. City Council Members and Mayor Garcia. My name is Gary Hetrick. I live in the fourth district and I'm a member of the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Health, a community. I'm also a member of the California Faculty Association at Cal State Long Beach, where I teach. Thank you for this opportunity to clear up a misconception of the opt out clause for hotels that have collective bargaining agreements. As you may know, collective bargaining agreements are mutually negotiated by the hotel employer and the workers at that hotel. That was language included measure, and that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in Long Beach in thousand and 12, an ordinance which seems to have a very positive impact on the industry. We know that workers at some unionized hotels have successfully negotiated collective bargaining agreements with complex clauses to ensure workers have reasonable workloads and humane working conditions. Laws and policies should not appear with that process or these agreements. What is important to keep in mind is voice and choice. The collective bargaining process allows workers to negotiate on an agreement that is consistent with their needs and priorities. This includes workload, health and safety, wages, wages, ways to balance work and family personnel, our personnel and sick days mechanism to solve problems, among many other issues. We know that workers have a guaranteed right to form and join a union if they choose to do so. They have the right to sit at the table with their employer as an equal to discuss all aspects of the workplace. The collective bargaining super session clause preserves that right. I urge you to vote yes on this ordinance. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. What are you doing? What do you want? My name is Cesar Galing. I'm proud. A union member and leader as a servant for the restoring academia. I have been an employee. Maya, for almost 17 years. I'm everything. I have a beautiful daughter. I work hard every day to improve working conditions in the Long Beach Hotels so that I can provide a bright future for my daughter. I recently learned that our general manager, Chris Island, use an incomplete clip of a video of me explaining how much I enjoy working at the hotel in my hotel. I was very confusing upset when I learned what happened. I do love my job. I love welcoming visitors to language. I love serving people in our restaurant. However, the part that crazy, not including the clip she showed you is, is the part where I explained that where we have a good job, so we course we. Have a union. Contract. I did not give. Her permission to show any part of the video to City Council as propaganda against a policy to protect women working in the hotel industry. Which. Which I, in fact. Support. I'm here to set the record straight. We have good jobs and they all tell me I have because we have a union I will hire so that all your hot sales and lobbyist can enjoy the same join in benefits that I do in the end to constantly improve working conditions at my own hotel. I'm here to tell you myself that I stand with women against abuse in our hotels in Long Beach. We do need to pass policies that protect my workers because they face the risks of sexual harassment and assault from guests. And this is not tolerable. I will continue to speak out against abuse and the hotel industry. I will not be silent and I stand with my coworkers and women are under siege. And thanks very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Next week, at least. Good evening. Honorable Mayor Garcia and our esteemed council members. First of all, I want to thank all of our hotel workers who have been here all night. And I want to thank them for coming out here because each and every one of them has to go to work tomorrow, early in the morning. I'm not here to give you data, sir. I'm not here to tell you it's not good for the city. I'm not here to tell you that. Most of what we have heard does not have any basis. I'm not here to. To ask you even why hundred rooms or less or more? 100 rooms. Just. I'm not here to ask you that all. All I'm here to tell you that we work really hard to make sure that our associates are taken care of. And most of them are here in support of that. And I do appreciate when you make your choice, all these things that you've heard on our side. I consider and I thank you a lot. Thank you very much. Next week a least. Thank you, Mayor Garcia, and council members, for allowing me, Harriet Ellis, to speak to you tonight. I represent Clews Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice to support those people working in the prosperous hotel industry in Long Beach. I particularly want to focus on the women who must work so hard, even endangering their health, to keep up with the many hours demanded of them, often asked to work far more than the normal workday and often uncompensated for this. In my book, that brings us back to the days of slavery. I was born in the South 93 years ago. And I can remember how our second class citizens were treated. And I never expected to see a city as progressive and enlightened as Long Beach in 2017 to drag its heels over a policy that would bring a measure of hope and health to its citizens. These immigrant hotel workers have a right to work in a safe environment to be free of harassment and sexual assault by hotel guests, and not to be criminalized if they should ask for support. When these things happen to them. The guest is not always right. They came here to work because they heard that in America they could be given a fair chance if they worked hard. But they did not imagine that they would be struggling under intolerable workloads. Our hotel industry needs to face up to the fact that it is their workers who keep their industry successful and thriving and humming. They could not exist without the energy and work that these women and men put out every day. No person should clean more than 12 or 13 hotel rooms a day and still function at the day's end. And remember, this is not just changing sheets and washing a sink and a toilet and vacuuming a room. Think about how you sometimes leave a hotel room when your vacation or your business trip is over. Thank you so much, because you've lived a much longer life than the rest of us. I'm going to let you continue, but we're almost out of time, so please continue. Okay. Especially if you brought your children with you. Just a couple of more words. Citizens like me are urging you to enact Claudia's law to help some of the most vulnerable in our community. People who pay their taxes, who came to America to better themselves and give their children a good education. Just as you and I do. My parents were immigrants, and I know how hard they worked to give me and my two sisters an education. These workers need Claudia's law. They have a right to humane workloads and to be compensated for overtime work. In my Bible, the last requires that we help and protect our workers, even to paying them before we pay ourselves. Our faith traditions demand that we confront injustice no matter where it happens and to whom it happens. This is a moral issue, not a politics. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Tough act to follow. My name is Catherine Benhamou. I'm a resident of District two. I've been a resident of Long Beach for five years. Over that time, I've come to know the work of the Long Beach Coalition, and I've been following the struggle of these hotel workers for about three years, and I've heard of many of their experiences. I've also seen that when they brought up their concerns with their managers, they were not addressed properly. And when that happens, I think you have to step in and help them out. I'm also a and so as a citizen, I'm concerned with maintaining a climate of civility, of equity, of respect for workers in the city, all workers, including women workers, including immigrant workers. And as a college professor, sorry, I'm an ant eater. I teach at UC Irvine. But we have worked hard to revise our protocols and policies to ensure that those who feel vulnerable to sexual harassment will feel safe reporting this. Our protocols were not working, and a. Couple of years ago. Some new measures were put into place. So if I feel strongly about protecting women from sexual harassment on my campus, I also feel the same way in my city. I as a college professor, I want to address the question of scale. You know, 100 rooms or more. That's not all hotels at certain hotels. As a college professor, I travel I travel to many conference hotels. I was surprised that only one person works a floor in many conference hotels. Two people are working the floor and working in twos does provide a measure of safety. So workload is linked to safety in very interesting ways. Finally, I want to call attention to investigative reporting at UC Berkeley that has revealed the risks of women working alone at night and how they have suffered assault. Thank you for your time. Press testimony. The next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Elizabeth Castillo and I am a sexual assault. Nurse examiner. And a member of the California Nurses Association. And I stand with Women Against Abuse. As a nurse, I have dedicated my entire career to protecting the public health, whether it's providing care for my individual patients. Or advocating for policies to make our community healthy. And gravely concerned about the lack of safety that exists in the city's hotels, especially the treatment of the hard working women. These women face the risk of being sexually assaulted by a guest on the job and have very few avenues through which to address these assaults with their employers. Nobody should ever have to endure or live through the trauma that comes with sexual assault. The question you. The question you as city leaders should reflect on is how many more rapes or assaults will it take to put policy into place to protect workers? Those opposed will claim that there are minimum reports of sexual assault on the job. The truth is, these incidents are often underreported and no charges are levied because of fear. If fearing for their own safety isn't bad enough, these women are extremely overworked. While the number of hotel rooms in the city have increased, the workforce has decreased, resulting in larger and larger workloads for these women. Such working conditions are exploitive and abusive. The hotel's reckless policies in regard to their employees has meant that in many cases, women are forced to clean without proper tools and supplies, often on their hands and knees. Providing reasonable workloads will also help to ensure that housekeepers have enough time to properly work clean hotel rooms, including doorknobs, remote controls and other places where germs can spread. In order to protect public health and make Long Beach, the city that respects the safety and. Dignity of working women. I asked Long Beach City Council to stand with these women and lift the. Standards in the city's hospitality industry to ensure that these hardworking women come home safe to their families every day. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next week, Apple's. Good evening, Callisto. My name. Is Graciela Beatriz and I. Am a featured organizer with Clergy and later United for Economic Justice. I stand tonight in support of Long Beach hotel workers in the ordinance to protect workers from sexual harassment and excessive workloads. This is a long time coming. This is what I call a kairos moment. Let me explain. When we think of chronological time, the abuse of housekeeper has gone on for far too long in the hotel industry. For years, workers have been coming together, speaking out in organizing for basic, basic rate and respect in the workplace. Tonight, as elected leaders in Long Beach, you can honor the commitment of the workers who for years sacrificed their bodies by cleaning beds, mopping floors, scrubbing bathrooms and dusting rooms so that this industry thrives. I am asking you to be a light of justice by valuing and protecting the workers who make your city profitable by the labor of their hands. And like I said here today, tonight this moment is a kairos moment. Kairos is a theological concept of time. Kairos refers to the time of God working in the world. Kairos refers to the moment when change is only able to occur because the Spirit of God is at work in a special way. Though we have been in this struggle for a long time, the spirit of God in the spirit of justice is here today. Let this let justice roll down. Let it ring from the mountaintops. And I ask you to please stand with women tonight. Thank you for your testimony. Next speaker, please. Good evening, council members. My name is Bibiana Lagunas. I am a mental health social worker as W employed in Long Beach, according to the National Research Council. Every 98 seconds a woman is sexually assaulted in the workforce. Unfortunately, sexual assault is vastly underreported. About 70 to 80% is under reported to law enforcement. In my daily practice, I hear stories about women feeling shame, guilt, distrust, loss of control, shock. And lastly, they feel fear, fear of retaliation against themselves. They report the assault. As a professional, I witnessed many victims living with depression, anxiety, addictions, PTSD. We cannot ignore the mental health impacts on these women who have experienced sexual assault. So I urge you, please council members. To vote yes. On this ordinance to protect women against physical and sexual abuse. Thank you for your testimony. Next speaker, please. Good evening, counsel. My name is Ebony Pearson. I serve as president of the Long Beach Democratic Club, the same club that unanimously, unanimously voted in support of Claudia's law. But I also stand before you as the daughter of an immigrant mother whose word countless hours for a low wage job that saw her as disposable. And because of that, she was afraid to advocate for herself because she was scared of being fired, just like hotel workers, in fear of retaliation. And when you're supporting a family, you can't afford to lose your job. And what's worse is the number of workers not reporting sexual assault. As a as a survivor of sexual assault, I can say there are countless people who. Go on not reporting for many. Reasons, many times silenced. By a traumatic event. We need an ordinance to protect our hotel workers, and we need a vote that chooses to protect people and not just profits. Thank you. Thank you for your testimony next week, please. My name is Reverend Darnell Wilson, organizer and director for the City Program. We Unite Here, and I also serve as. The chaplain for our union. I worked in this. Industry for 45 years as a chef and has been very good to me. Now, as I look at the council tonight, I don't see you guys really. Sweating. Because in fact, you don't have any panic buttons up there. Right. And the reason why you don't have a panic button up there, because you've got the Long Beach police officer sitting behind you yelling, saying, let them, but that's protection. And all we ask them for is protection for our. Women, for our Roma tenants. They deserve that protection. You cannot afford to put a Long Beach police officer on every. Floor at a hotel and you know that get a button form protection button. Work overload. Then we come to your home or one. Inch to tear. Up your room. Put it in the mess and make that bed up and fix that room for 8 hours a day. Think about it. Work overload issue. Repetitive motion. They get injured. The hotel is wealthy enough. They make a lot of money to. Hire other people. And talking about hiring, if there are any hotel operators still in the house, you need to change your hiring practices. Practices, because nobody has said nothing about the lack of hiring African-Americans in the hotel industry. And that needs to change as well, because we once had these jobs and we're not here to push the current workforce out , but to be included in it. So when you have to hire more people and you should because you're in a healthy industry. Long Beach, come on now. So when you start hiring hotel operators, make sure I can bring a busload of African-Americans. We're training them right now in the Hospitality Training Academy. All right. And you say African-Americans do not come in this industry, apply for a job, but I can bring you busloads and they are good workers. So take that in consideration and don't panic making this decision and do the right thing. Amen. Thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. Thank you for having me. Good evening. My name is Tracey McGee. I am a project supervisor at the Hospitality Training Academy. We are the Taft-Hartley Fund, Labor Management Partnership and training arm of Unite Here Local 11. For the past four years, we have operated a program funded by the city of Santa monica for $150,000 to target and ensure local hire and diversity in the city of Santa monica. This program has been hugely successful and we for the past four years, we have exceeded our placement goals. Additionally, I run a program called the Accelerator Initiative, which has $425,000 in government funding, and that is to train and place African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and trans transgender individuals into union hospitality jobs with good wages, health and welfare benefits. The HCA is very interested in bringing our targeted local hire, particularly focused on the African-American population, to the city of Long Beach. As we all know and we have heard before, only a job to stop a bullet. And this is something that I truly believe. And we are here to let you know that the MTA is interested in working with the city of Long Beach and the Union Hotels to ensure that if there is any initial, initial hiring that needs to be done to fulfill the demand of any current initiatives, we are here to track and assist with targeted African-American local hiring. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Hi, Council. My name is Wayne Murchison, second district and I too have had a lot of chapters in life. One of my chapters, I was working in the hotel industry, actually in a four tulip hotel. Wow. You all know what I mean? I started out as a bellman. Night porter security. After two weeks, I went to my supervisor, who hired me and said, you know, there's been some incidents and you got to get some walkie talkies because people shouldn't be going into behind into a room where they don't know what's going on without the safety of being able to contact someone, whether you're a male or a female, actually. Wow. They got walkie talkies and y'all write. It off on taxes anyway, so it's not. Costing you anything. Sorry. And that's safety for people. That's a no brainer as far as the the work load. If you're overworking your people, the rooms aren't getting as clean. How many people are going to come back if they don't got a clean room? You know, not taking care of your employees and putting them in danger like that. I'm going to call it crimes against humanity. That's what it is. And all your. Blue shirts that are supporting your owners and whatnot. You're all culpable. Crimes against humanity. The next picture, please. Because every day Mayor Robert Garcia and member of the Council. My name is Chad Hobson. I'm a resident of the second district and. Also the executive director or the power, in my opinion, association located in the. District, my organization. So a diverse student, woman and. A family. I'm here today in front of you to ask you if the hotel industry located in. The diversity allowing they should employ the diverse. People work. So we would like to see a diverse employee and any hotel industry in Long Beach. I'm here to support. And protect the hotel worker. I'm here this evening to ask you, the mayor and the city council, who, as the parent. The mother and the father think about the woman worker. In the hotel. All those women. Regardless of their status. Is a person who deserves respect. The same as. Everybody. An immigrant, a citizen. I woman, love and care. For their. Children. They work hard to raise them to be healthy, strong and productive men and woman. For the future. They are overworked and undervalued. It is. Not only the. Mother that suffer, but the. Children who. Also pay the price. The future. Of the children. And their hope. To become productive citizen. Civil society, subjugated. Woman and mother. Of color. Therefore, I would like to offer your full support to protect and provide safety to all this woman work by passing the policy tonight. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next week. Hello. I'm Ron Herrera. I am actually not prepared to speak tonight, but I was standing up back there and, you know, listening to all the testimony here, all the opinions compelled me to come up here and speak to you tonight. Quick introduction. I am the principal officer of Teamsters Local 1386, about 10,000 members, which 6500 of them are your UPS drivers. And we service the city of Long Beach. The other amount of members that we have are part of the commercial waste drivers here that pick up most of the trash here in Long Beach. I heard an argument made that this was about collective bargaining. It's not about collective bargaining. I'm an interesting person, not because I'm a union official, but because I'm also a resident of the city of Long Beach. This is a no brainer. I follow all of your careers, every single one of you. And I live in a progressive city. And I'm not going to be disappointed tonight because some of you may not support this this this measure. But interestingly enough, this is a worker's rights issue, specifically a women's issue. I'm here to support all you council women on this board and tell all the men on this board that you better support them. What's wrong with sticking up for women's rights? But here's the most important reason that I stand in front of you. And I came down here. How do I look for granddaughters in the eye and say that I didn't come up here and speak on their behalf? Because that's what this is about. It's about women's rights. All of us have stayed in hotels when we're the last room in the hallway, and we would be remiss to say that we didn't look back to to secure our safety, whether a card is in the front of the door or on the side of the door. There is no way that anyone is going to tell me that a housekeeper is so my attack. And another thing. One last thing, but. We've got to wrap it up. Okay. Mr. Mayor, I hear you. One last thing I hear about I hear about a blacklist. You touch one of my granddaughters. You've been on Ron's list. Thank you so much. Next picture, please. When? Not just. Me. Nobody's Maria Lopez. Good evening. My name is Maria Lopez. I am a resident. Of the First District and I'm also a community organizer for housing Long Beach. In 2008, during my college career at LBC, I worked at the Hilton Hotel to be able to. Pay for my college. Because I'm undocumented. And financial aid was. Not accessible at that time. So I worked. I worked like everybody else. My shift started at 11 p.m. and I had to clean everything by two. Am I clean the floors of the restaurant, several bathrooms and the basement? I carried a vacuum bigger than me, literally, to vacuum all conference and party halls while having to put up with a boss who consistently tried to make me apply for a housekeeper. I got paid $500 a month minus the first week of what was considered deposit. I quit a month later every day. I hated going to work. But I loved going to college. I decided to quit because I could not handle the workload, and I felt that there was not an answer I could give my. Boss to get him off my back. As a rape survivor, I know all too well that feeling. I didn't come out to my mom until I was 22 of my rape. And so when I hear someone say that every place is safe for me, I have to make it safe. Oh, is. It my fault I got rape? Hmm. Because that's all I'm hearing as a rape survivor. That deep feeling of fear that you may not be able to protect yourself and that no one will help. And it's not an emotional show when you have been raped, when your own words. And fight was not enough of a know for your perpetrator to stop. This policy is common sense. But if it's not. And if you need more encouragement, here they are. 850 to 851 individuals. Pledges were gathered so few 43 community organizations supported. Jonathon Lowenthal. Barbara. Laura. Laura. Megan Kerr. I got to keep this. I can keep going, but I urge you to vote yes. Thank you so much for. Our providers of life and for our leaders. Morrow Thank you. Next speaker, please. And I'm just trying my best to just be respectful of the time, obviously, to give everyone equal time. So please. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor. City Council. My name's Christine Pettit. I'm a resident of the sixth District and I wasn't planning on speaking tonight. I'm not even feeling well, which is why I was sitting down instead of standing in line. Many of you know me as executive director of Building Healthy Communities, Long Beach, and we did early on vote to support this policy. But I'm and I'm not going to even tell you all the reasons because you heard them tonight, right? There was a lot of compelling testimony. So that's not why I'm here. I'm here really as a resident of the sixth District, I called my councilmember today. I called Councilmember Andrews office today. And I heard that you were undecided on this very important issue. And I want to urge you tonight to vote yes on Claudia's law for all the reasons that you have that have been articulated, as well as the fact that as a district with some of the city's highest poverty levels, we know that the workers that we're talking about, many of them live in the sixth District. And so this is an important item for our district because of that. And so I just really want to encourage you to, you know, stand up for the workers of our neighbors and also just say that standing with women is an investment in our hotel industry. It's an investment in our workers and in our city. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. What about? Shows me. No worries. Alicia Carlos. You'll be on the street those days. Will you let me, though? Because they have the Andrew Gay whatever personally. But I the hairdresser. How old is your tailors? They also confront them in the street in Colorado. Is your telescope more concerned about the industry's capital gain? Gay uses water. You saw people come back and say, help paraprofessionals. Yes. My name is Alisha Carlos. I live in the sixth district. I asked them why City Councilmember Dee Andrews votes to pass this law to protect. Workers in our. Hotels from the abuse that we face as city councilperson in our district. I ask that you use your vote and. Your role to protect us. Thank you. Okay. Whether or not just a todos. Graphic protester Kiko nosotros. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for being here with us today. Estella keep out of retirement when they'll kill us and us outside without us, a.k.a remove from us. I am here to yell to the whole world that abused women will be silent no more. I mean this one. Aladdin. My name is one Omolara Josiah. Huh? Esposa, Willa or Goliath? Are they both ninos or. No, they are all. You go through the cuatro and yes. I am a daughter, a wife and a proud. Grandmother of. Two grandsons of eight and four year old. Daughter back home in Long Beach. Joe Throughout our home in Long Beach, Jutras, Commodore, Paramount and Mi Familia. I work in Long Beach and I work very hard to maintain my family. Secondly, you are going through a media business event. And I know that my job contributes. To the economy of the city. Better. Monsanto Invisible. But I feel invisible. My polka persona and theme. The lucky person must be the last mile head of travel harmless airline industry with the. Very few people know what we go through every single day. Those of us. Who are housekeepers in the hotels. And thank the listeners felt that our handle must empower them. 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They think our last bit of order and meditation Gwendolyn Membrane throws a rock on Jamila Puerto. They say that she was vacuuming the room when he came in and locked the door with his key. A little Kyle Kahlil daughter Ella, they hope and diva mientras la law. But I came up there for the rescue. Charla. He tied her up with a vacuum cord and he left the vacuum running while he raped her so that nobody could hear her. You're not observing, require evidence, and you gotta look past the Alamo here for your ladder. The managers often remind us. Remember, ladies, what happened to that woman. Who was raped in the room? So, Santiago McKeithen. The Scandal. Canada Hand mouth case total Serrano's water. They make us. Feel like we have to make sure that to us. But honest enough, in the manner known about us, they would rather give them a real meaning if they would have loved it. But they are. Actually doing nothing to make sure that we are safe in our workplaces. Golden Lozano's durante el Grand Prix I mouth three thoroughbred or the Latin or the will beloved one. Every year during Grand Prix, there are more and more. Tourists around our hotel. Thank you. I'm going to let you continue. But we got to we've got to wrap it up. So thank you. Yeah. Win the day. You'll need to get us on with belief. And some of them. Are not even guests at the hotel. I'm walking. Your thing, Olympia, but I'm your key. Then on third is the problem. I have the courage to. To talk up here to you all and announce what's going on at our. Hotels where I'm which I'm working a lot. And then at the end, they merely think I unlosable so six wireless major Garcia Gonzalez of telephone no sonic go get the poor there they come yet after he put as a statement like that. Yes Mayor Garcia and all of the city council people, you are the. Only ones who have the power to change this. So we're asking for your help. Thank you. Thank you so much. And of. Our final speaker. Good evening. For those who don't know me, my name is. Mary Ada Soto. I live in the ninth district and I was born and raised in Lumbini. I have worked in the hospitality for four years now and working at a hotel is a very different from most jobs. Very different. We interact with our guests in a very personal level. We must serve their meals. We must be the first person they see in the morning, like I do, that we have to clean their rooms, scrub their toilets, clean their restrooms, serve them, serve all of their friends. But often times, hotel. Hotel guests try to take advantage of our situation. Particularly at their drunk. Or under the influence of substance. I know because it has happened to me. After that happened, I felt scared. I was humiliated. I was mad. And I didn't know what to do about it. I didn't say anything. How was when I was part of the 68%? That was me. I take pride in being a strong woman now and a strong woman that I have become. I take pride in that. But that pride should not come with having to be sexually harassed and assaulted. I should not be strong. On that aspect. That should not happen, but it does. And we need protection. And I'm here and I'm asking for it. I no longer want to be part of that 68%. When my coworkers come to me and they ask me that either I'm like, I don't what are we going to do? What's going to happen? My coworkers that have been assaulted, I don't know what to tell them because council and the mayor have been silent for two years. What do I tell them when they look at me for help? I look at you and I get silence. I urge you to vote yes today. And to stand with the woman that make our whole hospitality industry run every single day. It is us that make your profits. It is us that keep your rooms clean. Thank you. It is us that keeps the convention center full of business. It is us. Thank you very much. We will no longer stay silent. And even though we leave today, we will come back. Until we get what we need. Thank you very much. We need protection. Just as. Shit. Thank you very much. Panic buying. We won't panic buying. Thank you. Thank you very much. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you to all the all the speakers. We're going to go ahead. We've closed the speakers list. So now we will go back to the city council for discussion and deliberation. So you sort of take take the names as they come up here on the order. So we did council member Gonzales and price for the motion and Pierce for the motion. So we go now to Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to start with just thanking everyone who attended tonight or communicated with our offices in weeks past. I also want to acknowledge I have a number of letters that were submitted to the clerk. So I do want to acknowledge the Human Relations Commission for expressing their support tonight. I think acknowledge Supervisor Hahn, Senator Laura and both Congress members that represent Long Beach, Alan Lowenthal and Annette Berrigan for expressing support. So I thought it was important that we acknowledge that this has been a conversation that's taken place for quite some time. I do remember, you know, the initial conversations of this prior to when I took counsel, I spent some time as a chief of staff to former councilman Steve Neal. And I remember this was a conversation in the downtown and and I do remember sort of the last council beginning these conversations. So I haven't had an opportunity to sort of watch and follow. And I do want to just acknowledge and take a moment just to acknowledge the two council members that represent downtown. So Janine Pearce and Lena Gonzalez. And you know, Lina, just want to say thank you for taking the courage of stepping up. This conversation is not an easy one. And and sometimes it's more convenient to let the conversation come to you. But I do acknowledge, you know, sometimes a political risk on the threats, the pressure when you step out and raise and elevate. An issue. To a local body to engage on that issue. Now, I think the fact that this came tonight is a good thing. I think it's an opportunity for us to cut the politics for a minute and get to the policy and actually take a look and talk with our city attorney and talk with our council members and get to the meat and the crux of this issue. So I'm going to start my comments just talking about the issue that's come up the most aside from me. And I do want acknowledge the, you know, the issues related to women and buttons and all of that. But I want to start with the square footage now. The presentation I saw tonight. You know, I've seen some of these numbers before, the numbers that shows an average among some of the bigger hotels, larger hotels about how many square feet people clean. I also, you know, I am here every year when we receive the presentation from the Convention and Visitors Bureau on how tourism is is growing and thriving. And we do pay attention and that is something we're proud of and we pay attention to. I think the square footage conversation, if the average what I saw tonight and what I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, councilmember, but it said something like 3800 square feet was that was the average. And I saw, you know, one hotel was maybe just over 4000. Some were just below 4000. But you know, the conversation about economic impact, I want to sort of dig into that a little bit. If the square footage cap is 4000 square feet, that means you lock it in what it is today. And it guarantees that as tourist, tourism and industry grows, that that additional economic benefit is not squarely placed on the backs of workers, but rather it sets a cap on work load and says we should hire additional staff in order to accommodate this economic growth. So if the if if the 4000 square feet is average today, there shouldn't be an economic impact today. The economic impact should be realized as economic benefits are realized. So what it says is, as we grow, we're not going to place that burden. We are going to share in the benefit in higher additional workers. Now that I can support. Ensuring that as we grow, we hire additional people. And that is an opportunity for me to say, Brother, I never met you before, but what you said about doing the hospitality, training and all of that, that makes sense to me. That says let's create the economic opportunities in the future. As the Olympics come to Long Beach and these other things happen. What message do we send to the world? What message do we send to the women of the world? I think it's a strong message to say, as we grow, we keep our local folks in mind and we hire additional people. That's the way I'm breaking this down. I know there will be, you know, contrary opinions. But that's the one issue that I haven't. Heard a specific response to. You know, economic impact to me means they're hiring additional people. So where is that threshold? Where is that threshold? You know, where the square footage is of 4000? The data shows me 4000 is above average. That means there shouldn't be an impact here. So I spent the moment talking about that. They don't want to just acknowledge, just in general, I know how difficult it is to have conversations. And and I want to acknowledge the people who did come down to the dais and share their stories. And and I acknowledge those stories. As a son of a domestic worker, my mother was a home care worker. She cleaned. She took care of people. All right. I heard someone mention sharecropper. That's something I'm really proud of. I can trace my lineage back to sharecropping and to slavery. I acknowledge. That. You know, I you know, I'm a father, two daughters, two Afro-Latino daughters that are beautiful. And that's my pride. And nobody better than, you know, Rick's List. But the reality is to say that and to also somehow diminish the evidence that exploitation of workers in this country or the history of that says that we are not acknowledging our past. Now, whether this happens in your hotel or not. That does not prevent me from saying What can we do to prevent it from happening in the future? That is our responsibility. We should create policies for the future, the next generation of workers as they come in. I mean, we can debate all night about what happens to the middle class, which is getting richer, poorer, getting poorer. But the reality is the service industry needs to be supported. These are the most vulnerable workers. And it is our job as as, you know, as as a regulatory agency, as a government to take that into consideration . This is not and, you know, city attorney, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is not something that's absolutely unheard of. Truck drivers regulate work load. Nurses regulate workload. Public safety officials regulate workload. This isn't something that is inappropriate in front of city council. I'd rather get down to the actual nuts and bolts of the policy and and get the feedback from the city attorney. I'd rather get to that point and cut through the politics. So I'll conclude. My. My, I'm gonna sleep well tonight. I would like the opportunity to actually vote on this item if there's other things going to happen. Substitutes now that I actually want to vote on this item tonight. So I want to hope I hope that we do get to that point. I do want I don't what I want to be able to do that. And I know I want to close and just say I hope, you know, I want to sleep well tonight with my daughters, with my wife and and sort of this is one of those moments where you just have to have a gut check on where you are. I acknowledge the I acknowledge the impacts, potential perceived impacts of the community to communicate it to us. Let's actually go forward. Tear off the Band-Aid. Start this conversation that will evaluate what that is and see if we can mitigate or talk about the economic impact in the city, because that's a conversation I want to have. But thank you again to all of you who who spoke up in this motion has my support. Thank you. And just before we got to count some of your anger, I just to clarify also, Mr. City Attorney, so the motion would be, I believe, councilwoman to the city attorney to craft an ordinance, is that correct? Yes, I mistakenly added city manager. So if I can just amend that to say city, to direct the city attorney to create this ordinance. And just for Mr. Parking, just for the public so that we they understand the process. So essentially the motion would be for you to craft an ordinance. And then the ordinance, of course, would then come back to the city council. Is that correct? That's correct. Through the discussion this evening, we would clarify the motion and any amendments, and then we would craft an ordinance and bring it back for a first reading and then a second reading, and then it would go into effect subsequent 31 days after it's signed by the mayor after second reading. Okay. Thank you, Councilmember. Your income. Thank you, Mayor. And I want to thank all of you for sticking around, staying here. I know it's late into the evening, and I know it's bedtime for Rex, so I hope Richard has a good night tonight. Little known fact is that I have a son and a daughter in law who work in the hotel hospitality industry . So this issue was a no brainer for me to get into because I do very much care about their safety and where they work and how they work. There was a person earlier who spoke and threw out two statistics that out of 5000 rooms that were cleaned over the last year, there were only two reported instances. One of those two were my son or my daughter. That's too much. That's enough. There was also some commentary made about this is bad public policy. Well, when that public policy deals with employee safety. Is it bad policy when that public policy deals with the public interest, when that public policy deals with civil rights and employee health ? Is that public bad public policy? I don't think so. There were arguments made. When we were dealing with Measure N and raising the minimum wage for hotel workers. There was this big discussion about Chicken Little. This guy is going to fall. Tourism is going to drop. Hotel rooms are going stay empty. The economic impact will be tremendous to see Long Beach. We've actually heard quite the contrary, read after measure and pass. We've had a burst of growth and a burst of economic interest in Long Beach, but yet employee workloads increased and employee hiring went down. But yet we still benefit from measure in because because salaries went up and has been steady. We're looking at a future where we're building more hotels, which means more rooms, which means more conventions, which will affect our ability to house people when 2028 comes to town. And there is going to be a huge, huge economic interest and economic benefit to the city of Long Beach. Are we going to be prepared for that? That's what we're talking about. So what kind of future do we want for our employees, for for our hotel workers, for our housekeepers? We want to secure a future for them that is going to be violence free, that is going to be making them happy to go to work, to want to come to work. And finally, there was a discussion earlier made about the possible loss of hope to our philanthropy, to smaller nonprofits, because this would affect the economic bottom line of our hotels. I hope that does not happen. I hope that is not true, and I don't think it will be. But it had to be stated because there's a genuine concern out there that if hotels don't thrive and don't make money, their ability to support nonprofits is going to go down. I hope not, and I don't think it will, because this measure that we're dealing with today, the ordinance that we're working with today, is going to actually strengthen us. It's going to strengthen our hotel. It is going to provide them with greater opportunity to hire more people, to do more beds, to do more work, and to. Not only that, the best part of our tourism industry is when you go anywhere in this city and you're greeted by a hotel worker, a service worker, a police officer, a firefighter, and they give you a greeting with a smile that's going to want you to come back. Not stay away. So I'm very supportive of this measure as it is, and I hope it stays that way. And I hope my colleagues my colleagues can support that as well. Thank you. Very much. We have Councilwoman Price. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to my colleagues for speaking and thank you to my colleagues who brought this item forward. And, Councilwoman Gonzalez, for bringing this item forward and for giving us the presentation. I know that this is something that she feels genuinely passionate about, and I respect that. And I think that there are a lot of issues that were raised tonight that are incredibly worthy of consideration and talking about and I want I want to talk about those a little bit. I also want to thank the folks from Unite here because they have taken the time to meet with me and they've educated me on the topic and they've asked me a lot of questions. And from day one, I've been very honest with them about my concerns. And I have to be honest, I still have those concerns today about aspects of the proposed ordinance. So I do have a few questions and I think I'll direct them to city staff to the extent that city staff can answer them. But then if city staff can't answer them, I think I want to raise the questions and hear from my colleagues. So in reading the the item that was filed tonight, it looks to me I know that Councilman Gonzales in her presentation talked about the issue of safety and the issue of controlling or limiting or regulating workloads. Go hand in hand. I personally am having difficulty with that nexus and I look forward to hearing from my colleagues of what that nexuses. And what I mean by that is. If we were to put all the safety measures into place, the panic buttons, the notices, the every type of support, the training, everything that we can do, which I think is absolutely important. The public safety aspects of it, I think are of zero issues with them. I'm completely 1,000% in support of the panic buttons, doing everything that we can to make sure that women and men are safe in their work environment. I think that's really important. But reducing the workloads, so limiting the number of square feet that a person cleans, will that make them less likely to be the victim of sexual assault? And that's what I don't understand. And so I would like to hear how how is that? Is that is it because if if they're cleaning more, then they don't have I don't understand if they're cleaning less than how are they more able to prevent a sexual assault from happening? So I can't see the Nexus. And so I just so that's just something I'm putting out there is a concern because I think to me, in my opinion, they are I understand they're being brought as a as a package of issues. But it's you know, we have a test that we do and legal analysis that we say. But for this, that wouldn't happen. So can we say but for them working. More square. Footage than they should, a sexual assault wouldn't happen. We can't say that. So to me, whether you're cleaning 2000 square feet or 7000 square feet, you still have the same risk of coming into a room with a man who or a woman or anybody else who is drunk, has bad intentions, is disrespectful of you, as Anita pointed out, is is on a vacation or something. And that has no inhibitions. Whether you're cleaning 2000 square feet or 7000 square feet, that client doesn't know the difference of that. So if they're going to attack you, it doesn't matter how many square feet you're cleaning, they're still going to attack you. So I think we really need to be thinking and maybe I'm missing it. I'm more than happy to listen, but I just don't know what that nexus is. I'm sure I am. So that's why I said I'm looking forward to listening and having a civilized debate about it. So I really would love to hear more about that. The question that. I would have for our. Police department, I guess, and I don't know if the chief is here, Chief, I know there was a staff report produced with some data based on questions that council was asking. And I think one of the questions that was asked was what are the number of sexual assaults that have been reported? And look, I'm a prosecutor. I know that. Most. Sexual assaults go unreported. That is that is absolutely true. I know issues whatsoever with that. Having said that, we did have two incidents of reported activities that were violations or alleged violations of the law, one against a male and one against a female in the period of time that we studied. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Do we have any data that says that people are more likely to be assaulted if they're working in a hotel with 100 rooms versus working at a hotel with less than 100 rooms? I don't know of any information like that. At least I haven't been exposed to that. Another. I mean, one of the things that concerns me, too, is if generally people who stay at hotels are more likely to commit sexual assaults, I would think that would be true for motels or even hotels under 100 rooms. I could be wrong. And again, I'm open to hearing if that's that data. But my curiosity is why aren't we trying to protect workers at hotels for under 100 rooms? So I guess that's not that's not really a question. Well, it's not. Really I guess that's not really a question for the chief. But maybe I more I think we should adopt a policy tonight to put into place safety measures for all of our housekeepers. But I think we should do it for all hotels. I really do. Does it matter if you have ten rooms or if you have 300 rooms? If we want to protect housekeepers, we should protect them regardless of whether they work for a national chain or not. So the other question I would have for the city attorney and I don't know if you know this, but one of the comments was that there was no litigation that resulted out of similar statutes passed in Emeryville and other cities. Do you know if that's true? Because that's not the research I did and I could be wrong. But I'm just curious if you know anything about that. I'm not the expert on it. But we did look at Emeryville, and I don't believe that they had the panic button issue. They passed an ordinance that had a square footage. Oh, cleaning requirement. Seattle had an initiative that had the both the notice requirements and a cleaning limitation. Mm hmm. Okay. And so with. With either of them, was there any litigation, if you know? Yes, I do know. And yes, there was litigation in both situations. In Seattle, there was a challenge under preemption issues as to the square footage and cleaning Seattle. And that was under the I believe it's called the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act. And there the court found that there was not preemption, that the city of Seattle, the language in that statute was did not preempt the city of Seattle from issuing that regulation and limiting the square footage. And then there was also challenges on constitutional basis as to the list. And in that case, the court found that the challenge was a facial challenge. And the the court found that there was no facial challenge, that it was constitutional. But they left open the question of as and as applied challenge, that there was no list and there were no people on the list as of the time of the oral argument. Okay. I understand. And do you have any idea how much those those suits cost the cities or how how significant they were, if at all? I mean, lawsuits are common, so that's certainly not a deterrent from us engaging in good policy. But I'm just asking the question. That's certainly not. But the my information from the city of Emeryville is they spent approximately 750 $800,000 in defending their suit. I do not have that similar information for the city of Seattle. Okay. The I. I want to stay on the topic of the safety concerns, because then I have a few questions on the workload concerns. On the safety concerns in on page two of the item. It talks about providing notice to hotel employees, requiring hotel employees to provide notice to the employees prior to starting their scheduled work of any guests on the list of alleged harassers or a sex offender. So I have a couple of questions about this. And really, it comes down to privacy. So if someone is a convicted sexual offender and required to register as a sex offender pursuant to Penal Code Section 290, the law gives them the right to stay at a hotel. The largest allows them to stay at a hotel. What I'm concerned about is alleging violations of sexual misconduct and that person ending up on some sort of a list. And the reason I worry about that, I'm sorry that. It's not an item. It says of any guest on the list of alleged harassers. So, okay, so maybe I guess my question would be it says here that there's going to be a list of alleged harassers. So if that is actually in the item on page two, I could be wrong. I'm just reading the item. If that actually is on the item, then my question would be, who is making the allegation? Where is the list going to be maintained? Does the allegation have to be corroborated like it would in, you know, a criminal justice setting and what privacy information of that guest would be made available pursuant to that list? So I could be wrong. Maybe it's not on there. Regarding workloads. So there's a lot of the comments we heard tonight and in my meetings with Unite Here. One of the things that they said was that it's important to regulate. Square footage of hotel rooms, because hotel rooms of today have a very different realities than hotel rooms in the past. Heavier mattresses are used. The pillows need to be treated with different care because of the quality of the pillows. More glass is used in the room requiring more wiping down. And so that makes sense to me that the work load time you're spending in the room might be longer. But in looking at the item on page three, what it says is that. The square. Footage limitation, it says this limitation should apply to any combination of spaces, including guests, rooms and suites. Meeting rooms are hospitality rooms and apply regardless of the furniture, equipment or amenities in any room. So I guess my question would be, does this mean that if a person is cleaning a banquet room, does that go into the 4000 square feet calculation? And the reason I ask that is because I'm certainly not an expert in this industry, which is probably why I have concerns about us regulating workloads in this industry. But the arguments that were made to me by Unite here had to do specifically with hotel rooms, and that's not how the item is written. So I'd like some clarity on whether that applies to all rooms and all spaces. And I know these are kind of nuanced details that that aren't very exciting to talk about, but nevertheless, there are questions that I have. In regards. To. I did have a question regarding the protections about workload that we provide to our own city employees. Other than what. We go through with OSHA. Do we have any limitations on the workloads of our own employees that our city and that's for the city manager, that our city regulations not having to do with OSHA, like do we limit the number of police reports a police officer can write or do we you know, do we have anything like that that has nothing to do with OSHA? Most of our regulations come to us through our muse, and our meeting confers whether it's whichever of our 11 organizations that we work with. Certainly, as you mentioned, we do have OSHA regulations in our fleet and public works departments. There's D.O.T. regulations for our refuse department on how many hours a driver can work or how many how many hours per day. We certainly have other regulations for use and our fire department, we have four man crews instead of three man crews, and we limit how many hours in a row a fire department fireman, a firefighter can work. Same thing with a PD officer. But most of the limitations that we have would be through our memorandum of understanding when we go through our labor contracts with our organizations. Okay. And and do you know, Mr. West again and I know this is kind of an unfair question to ask you, because this isn't a staff item. But do you know if. There are. Overtime requirements and things that. Are regulated through. The state that we have to follow for our own employees? Yes, FLSA we have to require we have to provide. Overtime when people work certain hours and things and that's regulated by the state. Yes. Okay. And again, since this isn't a staff initiated item, I'm not sure who to ask the question of, but I don't how many hotels have mandatory overtime because I've not heard of too many that have mandatory overtime. So I'd like to know the answer to that question if anyone has it. And of course, anti retaliation, I'm 1,000% supportive of that. People should not be getting retaliated for advocating for their own rights or for engaging in a collective bargaining association, which I've been a member of for 18 years. I'm fully supportive of that. And they shouldn't be retaliated for for involved getting involved in that activity. In regards to the workload regulations, I will say one thing. I mean, I know this was presented and has been presented a lot as a woman's bill, but I will I will tell you guys one thing, and I can already anticipate what the reaction is going to be. But I'm going to speak genuinely and I'm going to speak from the heart. I am a woman and I am a working woman. And it is very, very important to me that I be given equal pay for equal work that I do in my work environment. And what that means to me is I don't need any accommodation in terms of the number of hours I work or the type of assignments that my employer gives me in my job, which is a male dominated job, I can do every single thing my male counterparts can do, and I expect to be paid exactly the same as my male counterparts because I will work exactly the same hours. That they require. And so perhaps I'm missing. Something here. But if. We're going to regulate. Workloads, we should be regulating workloads for men and women, not just for women. We are equal in every way. Whatever a man can do, whether it's in the battlefield, in a in a mechanic shop, in an operating room, a woman can do two and she can do it at the same level. And I would argue in some cases better. So, so for me, I, I, I, I think there are aspects of this proposed ordinance that are fantastic. And I would be and I want to hear comments from my colleagues. I mean, no disrespect in expressing my genuine opinions on this. I am engaging in this debate in the spirit of civility and respect, respecting my colleagues and understanding that we may not agree on everything. I will tell you, if there was a will, I'd be ready to vote on the safety issues right now and make that an ordinance. I have concerns about the workload conditions. I shared a story with a couple of the folks from Unite here who came to see me today. And again, I'm sure there's going to be internal and external eye rolling as I share the story, but I think it's an important story to share. I flew back from Montreal on Sunday night with my husband. We were seated at the back of the plane. There were 33 rows. We were in row 32, and so we got to spend a lot of time with the flight attendants. I'm kind of chatty and I talk to anybody who will talk to me. My husband won't. So I was talking to the flight attendant and I she doesn't know I'm a council member. She certainly doesn't know about Claudia's law. But I asked her, I said, Well, how do you like these international trips? And she said, We actually really don't like international trips because when we fly international, the flight's a little bit longer and people eat more on the plane, so they put more things in the seat back. There's always crumbs and things on the floor. And so when we deplane the effort and the work that's required by the flight attendants to get the ready, the plane ready in a short period of time for the next group of passengers is very cumbersome. It's a really hard process. It's it's hard cleaning. They don't like it. They prefer the one hour flights because people don't eat full meals in the one hour flight. And so I was thinking to myself, obviously, this woman doesn't know what I do, but I was thinking to myself what would happen next if the airline industry union came to us and said, we want you to regulate the number of international airplanes that our flight attendants have to clean per day, or if any other industry came to us and said, we want you to regulate, and maybe they're not an industry that's represented by a union. Maybe it's just a group of employees at a at a carwash or at a nursery or whatever the case may be who say, you know what, we feel overworked. What are we going to say to them that, I'm sorry, your industry is not as thriving as the hotel industry, so we're not going to get involved. Or. Your interests, whoever is representing you is not as significant to us. So we're not going to worry about you right now. Or. There's less than 100 of you. So sorry you're on your own. I just think that's not fair. So it's so in my opinion, if we're going to do this, then let's be prepared to really do this. We can't say yes to one class, one class of employees. I mean, I was just thinking, what about the janitors and the chefs and the people who work the front desk? Like what aren't they going to be sitting there saying, Well, what about my workload? You know, when we have a. Big convention and nobody's I'm having to, you know, be standing on my feet the whole time at the front door dealing with entitled people who, you know, are upset that I'm not getting their bags. I mean, what. About those people? So so for me, I don't know why we're picking this one classification and not everybody. These are just concerns I have. I remain completely open minded. These are genuine questions. That I have. So we all work hard. You're right. So I think it's really important that we allow one another. This is a democracy. And one of the beautiful things about our country is that as long as we're engaging in civilized and respectful debate, we are in a in a room that respects democracy and differences of opinions. And just because we don't all agree on everything all of the time doesn't mean what someone has to say is funny or rude and not worthy of consideration. Everything everyone said in this room tonight is worthy of consideration, including what I had to say. And I thank you for listening. Thank you. We're going to we have definitely a lot of folks lined up. I'm going to go through them here in a minute. But just want as a reminder, obviously, make sure that everyone on the council, regardless of their opinions respected and that we're obviously listening to what folks just saying. So. Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I want to, first of all, just just to say thank you to everybody who came out and spoke this evening. Appreciated all of the letters, all of the social media attention and all of the comments here this evening. I want to first explain something as well when we bring forth an agenda item. There can be no more than four people on an agenda item. Right. And also, our brownout prevents us from being able to converse. And so that is somewhat limiting for for for the city council in terms of our ability to to really coordinate and talk about our concerns and to to to to reach public policy, sound public policy. And so we this is our forum. And our forum is as public. And and, you know, usually the lobby city council is is well attended. And so I'm glad to see so many people here this evening. The the issue of domestic workers, I'll just give you a little history. My grandmother was a domestic worker. My mother was a certified nursing assistant. She cleaned beds and made beds. My grandmother scrubbed floors on her hands and knees in a hospital for many years and retired with very bad knees. I have spent a career in all of my my my adult life here in City of Long Beach, working for better working conditions for not only hotel workers, but all workers. Right. I was on an organizing committee over 20 years ago when there was this vision to make more hotels, union and unionize more hotels in Long Beach. We saw a need. I supported measure in I've walked picket lines with hotel workers over the years and those struggles will continue, I'm sure. But I want to just let you know that I've been there over the last five years. We three large hotels in the city of Long Beach have were unionized and entered into collective bargaining agreements. We all we have agreements in place for new hotels that are in development for those to be union hotels as well. That's progress. Am I right? And it's also those hotels and the workers and unite here for for reaching into entering into those agreements. And I believe those moves have significantly impacted the growth of convention and banquet activity in our city. When this this policy idea was first brought to my attention almost four years ago now, Suji Lowenthal was on the city council, and I thought she was going to bring it forward. For some reason, it just never came forward. Janine Peirce was an organizer with with the hotel workers at the time. And I think she was the first person to bring this to my attention. I did express reservations then and concerns, as did many council members, I think, over the years about moving forward with such a policy. But I have kept an open mind and I did keep an open mind and hope that I would get sufficient data and evidence to be gathered and shared with the Council in support of a need for such a policy. What I heard here tonight was a lot of people talk about sexual assault. And, you know, that's that's not acceptable for any workplace, for any worker to experience that at any time. Right. And and and I'm not going to argue whether or not it happened or not, because I don't know the hotel guest. And they're not here to tell me whether or not it happened or not, but I'm not going to second guess someone's experience. Mike, my question is whether or not this policy as proposed will do much to change. And I'm not sure the policy as proposed will do much to change. The, the, the, the, the work, the nature of the work of a hospitality worker and the risk and that that's that's the difficult part I'm having here. No matter how big the size of the rooms or what we regulate or if we regulate anything or whether or not there are even panic buttons, I think panic buttons or and or other technologies should be employed and looked at and we should in. Courage that strongly. From the hospitality, the hotels and for our workers, I represent and work with people who work in our state correctional institutions. Right. In some of our most volatile state hospitals, they have panic buttons, they have security systems, and they also have correctional officers close by. But guess what? They get their victims of violent attacks all the time. And as a union rep. And that's my profession. I and I've committed my, my, my, my, my, my life to this to this work. I am always in contact with Cal OSHA. When something like that happens, I make sure to put it on record because it's so, so important for future reference. When I go back and to see what happened and not, not have have a record of it happening. Makes it very, very difficult to talk, to inspire or to make change or to change a policy even in the workplace. I've got to say that I'm a little bit disappointed. I'm a lot disappointed in the tone of this issue because I want to dig in and fix it and fix the issue. To use a vice mayor's term. I want to do a deeper dove. Right. I think this this this policy, as has presented, is very, very complex. And there were a lot of pieces here that we can we can really, really work on. I'm not sure that it is something that we can do in one fell swoop tonight, though. I think there are a lot of unanswered questions here. And I like to get get information from both, you know, the hotels and and and the advocates for the workers who have done a, I think, very good job of bringing data. But I asked for a lot of this data like two years ago, and I got it today. You know, unfortunately, I didn't get it. If I'd had it last week, it would have helped me shape. My, my, my, my thoughts a little bit differently on this issue. And so, like I said, I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't able to get that. And I'll be the debrief. And while I appreciate the Iraqi's advocacy on this issue, I really didn't appreciate some of the like I said, the tone, the subtle threats, the direct threats. I found that to be very disparate, despicable, but also duly noted. And clearly from many of the comments that we received here this evening, I think some of the folks in the public are confused about the real intent and the complexity of this proposed policy. I'm sensitive I'm very sensitive to the issues of workplace safety and for hotel workers and all the workers in our city. And I hope we can walk away tonight with a commitment to support a safer, more dignified work environment and hopefully get something done. I'm enthusiastically in support of the right for union workers or workers to organize a democratic workplace and to choose a union to be their exclusive representative. Unionized workplaces result in better wages, benefits, and safer, fairer working conditions for all workers. Collective bargaining agreements work. And if you don't have one, you know, when I look around here tonight, if every one of these advocates and strong supporters of this policy were to go and talk to a union employee or nonunion employee and get them to sign a card, I think would be 100% unionized in Long Beach in no time, because it doesn't seem like we're impacting thousands and thousands of workers. We're talking about a few hundred workers. Recent Gallup polls released showed that over 60% of Americans understand the need for unions to support unions. And so to the hotel industry, it's not a matter of if, but when these hotels go union. And so I think when you and I when you sat down with me a few weeks ago, I said, I think you should get ahead of this as much as you possibly can and be prepared to work with with the the employees groups. That said, the item before us doesn't feel like super public policy, in my opinion, and it's not supported by my facts or the record of report it or there's no record of reported incidents. I'm still troubled with that. And I think, you know, we can do better. And I think tonight it would would would serve us well to do a reset hit a reset button. To to to to commit as a council to continue to work on this issue. I mean, this is there's not. I'm trying to figure out what what is the rush? This is we'll go back to the airport issue. What was what was the rush to get a policy? Why does this why can't we. Take our time. And deal with this issue by issue? Because truly, I mean, the clock there is a favor by giving us an abbreviated reading of this. This is this needs to be very, very, very complicated. And and it does a lot as it seeks to do a lot. I like to take our time and and break this down issue by issue and work on this to get a sound policy. And I want to have a question for the city attorney in terms of the enforceability of this. If we were to look at every element of this this this proposed policy, what role will the city of Long Beach have in terms of enforcing it as drafted? The motion seeks to have the enforcement be a self enforcement by the worker or a representative of the worker under the. The last bullet under enforcement. All of the provisions would be via a private right of action in superior court. So there would be no responsibility for the City of Long Beach to enforce this. As I currently read the motion. That is correct. I want to hear from some other council members on this. I in my opinion, this this this would be more of a vague. I think we'd be better served as a city council by offering a very strong resolution. I heard some things here tonight that I heard from the very first time that I'm interested in in pursuing. I know our hospitality industry will grow and is projected to grow over the next several years significantly. We will be hosting the Olympics and in several years we will be ramping up for that. And we will have new hotels on on on board. I'm interested in in diversifying this workforce, I think and I'll just be very honest with you, the the mental image that we have of of a hospitality worker is, is, is and so much has been made and made about Marion, the the the issues of immigrants and workers . And I get that that's important. But African-Americans should be represented in the workforce. Cambodians, the diversity of the city should be represented in that workforce. I'm not sure that the way this issue has been put before us that that is that is really reflected here. And I'm I'd like to know more about what that workforce looks like. So I'm going to just just take a take a shot at a substitute motion to request the city attorney to draft a resolution by the states, the city council, strong support for safe work, environment for all employees and Long Beach's hospitality industry that protects women . And encourage encourages the best technology with in terms of panic buttons and surveillance. You know, in the hospitality industry, in all hotels. Second, I'd like to encourage the hospitality industry to work with the London's police department to develop and review their safety plans and predict that and protect our guests and employees to come up with the best safety plan possible. Three I like the city of Long Beach to support the rights of employees to organize and democratically select a union of their choice and support collective bargaining process in the hospitality industry. Four I'd like to encourage the employees or I'm sorry to encourage the hotels and motels in Long Beach to place a priority on hiring local residents and diverse residents and the diversity of the city to fill jobs. In fact, I'd like to resolve that we support these protections for all workers and guests at Long Beach hotels and motels, regardless of their size. And that is my substitute motion. There's a substitute motion. Is there a second for that second councilmember, I think got some more stupider. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. We have that. We have to conduct a meeting. Please. Please. There's a second by Councilmember Supernanny, and I brought. Them to Friendly's from colleagues. There's a there's a motion. And the second customer I should probably want to speak to the second. I don't have to at this point. I want to make a couple of points. We can wait to hear from our colleagues. Next up is Councilwoman Mongo. I want to take the time to thank everyone who came tonight and. Brought their voice to this council. I think that discussing working conditions is always an important matter. Many of you know that I worked in a factory in Santa. Ana as one of my jobs out of college, and I have stood behind. Workers, stood beside workers and been a worker. When workloads get difficult. Times change and seasonal employment changes and the components of a workload are stressful and challenging. I echo the comments of Councilwoman Pryce that in any of those conditions, though, I want to be treated as an equal, and I want men and women to be treated the same. And I want to earn the same wages. I also want to thank the members of Unite here who. Met with me about two weeks ago or three weeks ago. And we discussed point by point throughout the policy that they had proposed and some of the concerns. That I had about the policy at that time. It was disappointing that in those dialogs and conversations there was no openness to modifications. I have some personal experiences. Almost two years ago, a member of my family who does work in downtown Long Beach, who does not work in the hotel industry, who does have a panic button in her workspace, pressed the panic button more than 12 times and nobody came for more than 40 minutes. She was held hostage and nobody came in her building. Our L.A. County Sheriff's. And nobody came. And so I have consistently stated that relying on technology is never enough. I am open to supporting ideas. Related to real change and real protections. Pairs of people working. Together, not just women, but women and men. And to other ideas that could be seen throughout this policy. And we sat through an hour and a half of public comment on this. And often the individuals speaking at the dais talked to how they had come to meeting after meeting and provided their feedback. And we accepted that feedback and made modifications. 100 meetings, 50 community meetings that came about with a policy that I know all of us feel very confident in and strongly behind. And I want to get to a place like that for each and every. One of you, because abuse in the workplace shall never be tolerated in Long Beach. So. I look forward to a continued dialog and I appreciate any opportunity to move in a direction of strong policy. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have Councilmember Pearce. Okay. Thank you, colleagues, for your comments and your questions. So I'm going to address some of the questions. Councilmember Price, you had asked the question, why together these items together are an item about inhumane working conditions, whether it's sexual assault or whether it's having to work overtime or missing your 15 minute breaks. You've heard I was in your office several years ago when we heard from women talking about increased duties because they were skipping the bathroom, because they weren't allowed to use the bathroom on the floor that they were cleaning. And there's been a lot of tension and there's a lot of fear in some women to come forward still. But this item is not an item that is here today and hasn't been here for three years. We've had the only request that we've really had has been, can you give us more data? Can you give us more data about the sexual assaults? Well, the data we have on sexual assaults is 91% of our victims are women. That's why this is a women's issue. 80 plus percent of the women in our hotel and the people in our hotel industry are women. That's why it's a women's issue. And I think we had men come out and speak to that as well. And there are men in that industry as well. But we cannot ignore that. While we've been fighting for equal pay, while we've been fighting for equal treatment of women, it still doesn't happen. Even when we have people that are fighting for that, it still doesn't happen. And so we have to, at a local level, be able to create as much opportunity to talk about structural oppression. It's not necessarily that the manager at that hotel is the one that says, we're going to do this to our women. It's because that's the way structures are created. It's because some of these women are immigrants. And whether they're documented or not documented, they come over here and they're fighting to get the best job they can or a job that they have family already in. And that's why these industries are that way. And so I just you know, why women that's that's why women live together, because it's about inhumane working conditions. And it's not about OSHA. It's about I tell you, my first year in council, I mean, I was tired, I was exhausted. And I went through some some trauma in my first year in council, some a lot of other things. And not sleeping well at night and going through the things that I'm going through at home meant that it made it worse. And that's what we're talking about when women are overworked and they have sexual assault on top of it and they have that on top of it, and then they have to go home and feed their families. They have to go home and try to do their homework with their kids. The days that I'm exhausted or the days that my kid is the most hyper or the days that she wants my attention the most. And so that's why this is packaged together and that's why workers have asked us to keep it that way. And I agree. Councilmember Price Let's go to zero. Let's do all hotels in the city. Let's say we need to have sexual assault protections for all hotels. All of them. And I do want to again embark on the conversation that we have been here for three years. Yes, Sergio was in the seat and this conversation was here and we've sat down. And when I first got to office, I really did make an effort. And whether you guys, some people out there want to short discount that effort. I sat down with every manager I had to beg for a meeting with the with the last manager of the Westin and another hotel still refused to meet with me. And I came to them with the message and I met with with you, Jeremy. I met with a lot of folks. And I came and I said, You know what, guys? I've worked with you right here for ten years, not on their payroll as a as a partner for ten years. And I understand this policy more than anybody. If anybody can sit down and say, where's a middle ground here? Where are the areas that we I can learn about your industry in a better way that might help me craft the very best policy. But what happened instead of that? Whenever me and the vice mayor and several other on this council said, you know what, let's create a long process. It could be a year where we do roundtables and we talk about the research and we do all of this instead of that. We got some complaints about my role at a nonprofit that doesn't make any money off of this policy one. And so basically we said we're going to wait a year. In that year, you guys could have been doing some research and bringing back to us some actual reasons to not pass this policy instead of don't Governor. You could have done that work and been able to come back and say, here's what's reasonable. Here's what works for us. We never heard what works for you. Besides, don't do it. And that's my frustration, because I saw people in this audience and I'll put you on the spot here a little bit because we partner every policy I've done the up, the entertainment stuff, everything I've done, I've put forward a full process. A roundtable sometimes includes people throughout the city to say, I'm not going to dictate. We're going to do this together. On this one, I didn't have a partner on the other side that was willing to sit down and do that. And that's my frustration today, was saying this is not a well-made policy. This is a policy that was done by people that are experts in this field. Right. These guys are there in hotels every day throughout the world. And they've seen best practices. And we know that in New York, these practices are there. We know that in Seattle, things are happening. And so I just really want to discount that. I know the process has been difficult. And as you mentioned, the Brown Act, you know, ties us from being able to have the really get in the nitty gritty with it. But the time is now. These women have been waiting, the time is now. And so what I want to do is I would like to make a substitute substitute motion. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, my first substitute substitute motion to pass the original motion, but to phase it in the 4000 square foot requirements over two years. In the following way, year one would be hotels over 300 rooms. Year two would be hotels 299 rooms down to 100. And I would like to see, you know, 0 to 99 in that group as well. I think that the city attorney has met several times with probably both sides. And they're this is a well-crafted policy. We've had the city attorney say that policies like this have been had litigation and they've fallen short. So I feel like we could do the right thing with our city, protecting our city and protecting our workers. And I really hope that I can count on you all to support something that people have worked really hard on. There's been a lot of research. We know that this square footage and one last time when you look at the square footage, that's something that took a long time to get to a number to understand what people are doing right now. And that's not a number that's too high. So when we know people are already cleaning that, it's about the extreme days. It's about the extreme days when we have conferences in town and conventions in town and a worker is asked to work ten or 12 hours. That's what this is about. So it's saying that we need to be able to protect that, and that's why that number is there. It's not arbitrary. Again, my substitute substitute motion is on the floor. I hope I can count on my colleagues support. They can just. Thank you. Let me let me just clarify also, just so where you just clarify, there's a there's a substitute substitute motion, which is the final motion. There's a second, but is there a second for the motion? Councilwoman Gonzalez. Okay. And the district attorney I think I think the reps have a different seconder because it's the same as the as the first motion or doesn't matter. Fine. It could be seconded by the councilmember from the first District. I just need clarification on the phase in period, if you could. Yes, repeat that. Thank you. It says that the phase in with the 4000 square foot requirement would go over two years in the following way, year one would be hotels over 300 rooms. In year two would be hotels 219. Well, yeah, 299 rooms down to zero. So that motion then eliminates the 100 rooms or more for the purposes of all of the issues the panic button, the meeting and everything, or just for the square footage. For the sexual assault piece. Well, that that's different than the square footage. We want it for everything. For everything? Yes. Thank. Okay. So we have a subset. There's a lot of speakers, so we're going to go through each speaker and continue the conversation. Councilmember Supernova. Thank you. And I'd like to thank everyone who's here tonight. Many of you have been here for 7 hours, so we really appreciate your diligence. I also want to thank Councilmember Austin for his substitute motion, which I think he said, let's hit the reset button. I like that language, but I really think what we need to do is fine tune this going forward. And I don't think the substitute substitute motion really addresses that. A couple of things that I want to follow up on that Councilmember Price had mentioned. First of all, was the Emeryville case and the cost of that. And Mr. City attorney Emeryville is a much smaller community. So if if the cost of litigation there was $800,000, I think we could anticipate it would be a greater sum here. Councilmember I think that's difficult to to make the analogy that based on the size of the city, the cost of the litigation would vary greatly, but the litigation would be expensive regardless. Yes, sir. Right. So if you look at the responsibility we have as council members, one of them is to protect the taxpayer. And it's one thing to say that this might trigger litigation, but we don't have consensus here right now that the. System would work. So we might be litigating an item that that didn't wasn't successful in terms of of initiating change. The other issue that Councilwoman Price brought up was mandatory overtime. That piece I don't know if we've discussed it enough, but I think the issue I have here and again with our responsibilities, that is. This is something that we don't have for. Our own employees in the city. So I have a hard time philosophically with that, that. How can we not how can we have mandatory overtime for our city employees? But now we're going to tell the private sector, you cannot have mandatory overtime. It's a classic do as I say, not as they do. And that's a real tough hurdle for me to get over. So back to the original point, I'll support the substitute motion by Councilmember Austin. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next up, we have Councilwoman Gonzalez. I. I want to thank Councilwoman Councilmember Pearce for bringing this forward. I know all of us. It's been a very long night, but I really do believe in this substitute substitute motion. I believe that we need to stick with the original plan. This is something that we cannot waiver on a resolution over. An ordinance basically tells. I think many of us that this is not something that should be taken seriously. To bifurcate the item to talk about again, the data, the non reports I think is just really a slap in the face to many of the victims that have have dealt with this. So. It is. And I will say council member, super or not taxpayers, sexual victims are taxpayers, too. And so I think it's they are. And quite frankly, to sit there and say that we owe it to taxpayers only. Well, we are all of us are taxpayers as well. And I think it's really important that we look at, you know, the overall investments that we're making here in the city and what we're doing with our taxpayer dollars to invest into the hospitality industry. We need to get that money back to be able to and reinvest in our hotel workforce. So I hope that we we do that. And as far as facts, you know, we absolutely need additional facts as much as possible to make a more formulated decision. But I think your facts are the people that are sitting right here talking to you and telling you how it is that they are dealing with this every single day. So I will say this, that I believe we should stick with the substitute motion. I'm certainly I think we're both open to friendly amendments because we want to make sure that this is right and we get it right. But they need to be reasonable and they need to make sure that they address a lot of the issues we've addressed here today. So with that said, I hope we can stick with the substitute motion, substitute substitute motion. And again, I hope we also are able to offer some ideas that would be that would work for all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Next up, I have Councilmember Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor and I. So I also would like to thank everyone who stuck around here tonight to listen to this very important, you know, item here on the diocese. But what I'm really seriously I do understand the efforts of all the workers in the hospitality industry and this. And I sympathize with the struggles that they face. You know, I think in both the hotels and the workers, the wonderful access to our city. Without another, we would not be able to be called or be known as the tourist city of Long Beach. You know, in my opinion, a resolution is a way, I think, to express hotels that we can be a city recognized, need to address issues in the workplace, but we also want to provide them. To an opportunity to resolve these matters. In a collaborative way in which we're going through, you know, not result. Your work is to understand each other and work together to identify problems that are needed in a feasible option and benefit each other equally. So as a city, I do think. We can do what we're working for them. But what we can do is support we can support their conversations and their resolutions. So my my support would definitely be like we do the pause button because the fact that this is a very, very, very complicated situation, I think we need to really understand all of this before we start making these decisions, because this is going to be a very important decision for all of us out here tonight. And if anyone out there do not believe that we do not believe in safety or a safe place for workers, not only for FEMA's, but for me, and also because we are struggling in that. And I want to thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. Next up is Councilman Austin. Thank you. And appreciate the support for the the reset, the pause. And I want to encourage strongly encourage all the hotel workers as well as the hospitality industry to work together. And I think Councilmember Gonzalez and peers, we can all work together to continue to have these conversations and work on these issues because we are a world class city and we are a tourist destination. I want to know why are our city hotels and how our city hotels are different from Santa monica and how they're different from Los Angeles and in Anaheim? You all know that. I don't know it. I want to I want to learn more about this this industry that is that is very important for the future of the city. I came to this city as a as an aerospace worker or as an aircraft worker from over 25 years ago. And that industry is gone. Right. The hospitality industry is more and more important today than ever before. And so I don't want to be rushed into any sort of decision on emotion. Right. I want to make sure that we're making measured decisions, that we're making decisions that are going to be in the best interest of of of all residents. And I want our residents and hospitality workers to to to enjoy the benefits and the the profits that that that will come. From this industry in the future. And so I think we need to be very careful and measured in how we do that. And so I'm going to stand on my motion, my substitute motion to start a resolution, but also ask that that labor, that community, that the city council continue to work together. And we can come back next week with other propositions to to to continue to study this. But I think this is going to be a longer term study then. Then. Then I felt a fell swoop. And let me just say something about the council and everybody behind this dais. Everybody has a story. Everybody comes from a struggle from one way or another. I think this this this council reflects great diversity, but also from and from at every level. We've got baby boomers, we've got Generation X's, we've got millennials. And none of us were raised in the same household. So, you know, we come with different ideas, and that is what the process of making policy is all about. And I really appreciate working with all of you all. I have nothing but respect for my colleagues, even though in disagreement. So I'll be standing on my subject to most thinking. Next up, we have Councilwoman Gonzalez. Hi, I'm back back on on the mic again. So what I would say to that, Councilmember Austin, is if you would entertain this is, you know, I really am adamant that we need to move forward with an ordinance. I really am adamant on that. I think the substitute substitute motion provides that. Look, you've been on council a lot longer than many of us have. So you've had and been privy to this information a lot longer than we have. We actually have a lot to learn from you. What I would say to you is that if we move forward with this ordinance, this can still you know, we have to. Is it two readings that we have to do still? That is correct. After it would come back. We have two readings we still have to do in the interim as we've done before and former ordinances. We can get you that data and information. I think you bring up a really good point about Santa monica and other cities. So what I would suggest is it wouldn't be unreasonable for us to provide that information in the interim while this ordinance is being crafted. But tonight, we have to make this decision. I think it's really important for us to stay on the side of workers to make sure that we're that we're moving forward with this. So that's my suggestion. I'm hoping that that will be looked at in a way that will be positive and make us all happy in some in some way. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. City attorney, can you clarify for me the timeline that we have on this? Because I don't have it right in front of me right now. Did was there a timeline in the original motion made to come back? There is not. It's a request. The as amended, the city attorney to draft an ordinance that would include these ten bullet points. But there is not a timeline to come back. Okay. I was going to echo the same points that my colleague said. I would love to to ask my colleague, Councilmember Austin, if there's a timeline that you think would be suitable for us to say we'll keep going forward as an ordinance. But how long would it take for us to. Is it 30 days? Is it 60 days to come back with some numbers to where we can continue to have this conversation? I think the after all the work and a policy being out there written for three years, it's really hard to go to, you know, to to just to support in general for me. So I just wanted to ask, is there a timeline that you think that you would want to see some of these questions come back and what specific questions to? Well, I really wish. I had the specific questions right now in front of. Me, but usually they say no. Actually, no, actually, I can't. I can't. I'm so sorry. We did public comment already. Was the council deliberating for 5 hours? I can't wait. We have to. We have to. We've done public comment. I'm so sorry, Councilman Austin. Yes. I appreciate the offer. I'm going to have to respectfully decline. I really believe that moving forward with the resolution is the right way to go here and and coming back and like I said, breaking these down. Issue by issue. I'm willing to work with you to study these issues moving forward. And, you know, I don't want to put a put a timeline on on anything. Right. Well, look, I don't see it as a as a as a what's going to happen to what's what's going to be the difference between what's happening today and 30 days from now? Now, now, look, look, look. Okay. All right, guys, guys, we have to we have to go back to my we had to deliberate. So, Councilman Austin. That's the story in the first place. Sorry, guys, guys, guys, we have to. We we I understand. We have to. I have multiple speakers, so I got to keep going through the speakers less. Councilman Austin. Under. Councilmember Blanca. I think we paid enough discussion to call the question. Okay. Questions being called. Mr. City Attorney, you wanted to cue in? Yeah. Just to. I need to ask for a couple clarifying on the motion, if I could. The the the waiver provision, I think, Councilmember Pierce, you mentioned that the waiver provision would apply to the workloads, I assume, and the voluntary overtime and the record keeping if there was a collective bargaining and all of the provisions would apply to all hotels. Is that the motion? So the motion would be that the. The what is it called the union union opt out? I guess it would apply only on the square footage. It's entitled waiver. Allowing for a waiver of this ordinance of a bona fide collective bargaining agreement is established with equivalent protections. And what I'm asking for is a definition of what is equivalent protections. So everything outside of the sexual assault piece, just as you lined out, as you outlined it, I took mine apart on my binder. So I have it and multiple pages. So apologize. I mean, 1/2. So the things that would be excluded from that let me go that way. Okay. That would be panic buttons would be employees to be informed of guests info who is listed as a already as a sex offender. On and if I may in that issue there it does state that of any guest on a list of alleged harassers or is a sex registered sex offender. Okay. So I'm assuming then that there would be a list of alleged harassers. And if someone could further do that for me. Please exclude that from there. That's no longer included in this. Thank you. Thank you. Notice of law protecting hotel employees from harassment on the back of each door. Okay. Unwanted sexual advances towards hotel employees and guests be able to contact the police or counselor on paid time and hotel employer to cooperate with investigation me 1/2. Let me read through the rest of these. Those are the ones that would be excluded from the union. Opt out. So. Hey, guys, we. I'm sorry. Let me make sure that. I may repeat a. Long day. If I may repeat it back to you as I was looking at it a little bit differently. But I apologize. Everything would be included with the exception. Yes. And under the opt out or what would be waived under the waiver provision would be the workload requirement, the voluntary overtime and the record keeping of the workload requirement. Those three items, everything else would be included in the ordinance applicable to all hotels phased in over two years. Yes. Thank you. Okay. There's this is that this is the substitute substitute motion on the floor by Councilmember Pearce and Council member Gonzalez. So please cast your votes on the substitute substitute motion. Motion fails. Motion fails. Now, now we're going to the substitute motion, which was by Councilmember Austin and seconded by Councilmember Supernanny. Please cast your votes on the substitute motion. Motion passes. That motion passes. Okay. So that that negates the the main motion. That's the motion that actually ends up passing, which was the Austin Superman motion. Okay. We're going to go ahead and take a one minute recess and go right into the Long Beach Values Act item, which is which is coming up next. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shame on you. Shame! Shame! Shame! No. I. Know we had. Oh. Oh. Have. I believe. Get. Okay. We are going to go we're going to go ahead and hear item number 23, which is the Long Beach Values Act. So if I can please get the council, we're going to go ahead and do a a roll call here. I don't know, cause I don't really know what to do. We can't do it at her. So I got to wait for Councilman Gonzales. It's okay. We are. We're just going to wait just a minute. We got to we've got to have the author to be here. They turn up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes or no? Yeah. Because I think out and. Okay. We're going to go ahead. And while I can't do this, I'm not sure we're okay. We know we have to wait for the author. The item that's up. Why do we move on to it? We're going to do maybe one of the consent item real quick and then we'll wait for Councilman Gonzalez. So we're going to we'll call, please. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Pearce. Councilwoman Price. Councilmember. Super now. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilman Andrews. Councilmember Barangay. Percentage. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson.

Recommendation to direct City Manager to work with the Parks, Recreation, and Marine Department to implement the Compassion Saves model as the operational approach for Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) ensure that this direction is reflected in the LBACS Strategic Plan and provide a report on the existing relationship and recommendations for improvements in policies and practices between SLCAla and LBACS to maintain facilities and financial conditions which are most conducive to promoting increased adoptions at the LBACS facility.

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Thank you. Next item is going to be. Item 32 communication from Councilmember Pierce. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilwoman Price. Councilwoman Mongeau. Recommendation to direct city manager to work with the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department to implement the Compassion Saves model as the operational approach for Long Beach Animal Care Services. Keith. Thank you. Let me this is item four, Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. This item came up fast. Appreciate moving it up in the agenda. I want to first and foremost say thank you to our team that has come on board and new to Long Beach to come in and help us not only our Parks and Rec, but with our animal shelter. And it means a great deal to me. And I know many of those that have worked hard for the last ten years to make changes in our shelter, to have staff that they can pick up the phone and call and brainstorm with. So I want to start it off with that and that that sentiment that it goes a long way. And I know I had a conversation with I won't call her out today, but someone that's in the audience about what does it take to make change? What does it take to build trust and to build lasting change? And often it's those one on one conversations where we get to be creative. And they really gave a big shout out to you, Stacey, for being accessible and for coming on to something that everybody has a different priority. And it is your task, too, to be on the front lines for that. So I want to first just say how much I appreciate that. When we had staff's presentation on Compassion Saves, I listened. I asked questions. I thought it was a great presentation on a vision that staff has on where they'd like to go. I recognize that there are lots of challenges and lots of pieces that need to move forward and that unpacking anything like this is a daunting task. So I also want to say how much I appreciate the task force that has come together as a community member that has served on task force and committees and commissions before. I know how frustrating it can also be to serve on a team that you don't know what the outcome will be. You don't know if your hours of volunteering is going to go towards a tangible outcome. And so I have a couple questions for first staff in a minute, just around the task force. But I hope that this process can really assist in giving the task force some confidence that this council, whatever way they direct staff today, will support them in making meaningful changes. The process I know a lot of people have asked questions about the process. The process is really we heard the staff presentation on the current state of our shelter. We heard some ideas around where they like to go, things that Stacey is already putting into place, like a volunteer program, attempting to get foster program up. And so I want to say that that process is moving forward and that today we hope to give a little bit of more direction and that that task force is really going to do the work. And so whenever that you guys come back is when we can prioritize and identify what resources and and what that looks like . So I know that we are in good steps moving forward. I have a couple of quick things to go over, but I'd like to hear from public comment first and then take it behind the rail and ask some questions of staff before we give our final our final vote. So I think this is a great step forward and in making sure that we reduce euthanasia rates in our animal shelter. And when I appreciate everyone who's been involved. So great, we're going to do public comment first. So if you have public comment on the item, please come forward and line up up on the on the dais. And if there's more than as this more than ten folks were to go down after that to 90 seconds. So please, if there. Unless there's any objection. Looks like the council wants to start at 90. Are there any objection? Okay. We're going to begin at 90 with the amount of people to speak, so please come forward. Madam Clerk, we're going start the clock at 90. Go ahead. Hi, I'm Anna Wong. I am a task force member and I appreciate the appointment. I appreciate the progressive thought movement and the compassion saves. However, I am asking and begging this council to vote no on it tonight. The reason being is that we are not ready to set a label on what we're doing. The task force is just now getting ready to start working. We just got now just appointed subcommittees. We are not ready for this. Most importantly, it is too ambiguous with regards to the tradable animals. 2 to 3 years ago, our shelter was killing kittens and cats with mange 3 to 5% on their body. Thank God we're not doing that anymore. But where are we going to to cut this off? What does it mean to be a tradeable animal? What does it mean to you? I know what it means to me. I know what it means to the majority of these back here. I know what it means to Stacy. I need to see more. Something in writing, telling us what is a treatable animal and we need to be in agreement on that. So please, please, please vote no and concentrate on the SPCA problem, please. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening. I'm Beverly Lifer from District two. I'm thankful that the city council is finally publicly recognizing the issues with the Long Beach Animal Care Services. However, I oppose compassion saves in its current form and oppose a city council vote on the related agenda item tonight. I wish for it to be postponed. Neither addresses the major issues, including the lack of a full autonomous adoption program. The agenda item and compassion saves does not make animal adoptions a priority. It does not include an autonomous adoption program. It allows SPCA, L.A. to continue status quo and process more than the majority of the adoption of live animals. It allows SPCA, L.A. to use their restrictive adoption policies, which prohibits the adoption of many pets to good homes. This agenda item is not a first step to an independent adoption program. It places the onus on the community transferring not only the city's homeless animals, but responsibility for them to rescues who are already beyond capacity, as well as the costs for caring for these animals. Long Beach needs to be accountable and provide the funding needed to have its own full, robust adoption program. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next next speaker, please. Thank you. My name is Laura Selma. Thank you, Mayor Garcia, for bringing this to this place. I would like to talk about the Long Beach spay neuter trust fund. The spay neuter fund can be found in municipal code 6.04.070. I paraphrase for adoptions, a spay neuter fee is assessed and all such fees are deposited in the spay neuter trust account. Municipal code ensures the fees goes directly to our own mandatory spay neuter fund. So what's the problem? We learned our city manager has directed our bags not to do adoptions in SPCA. She'll continue with all our Auerbach's animal adoptions. This directive from the House of Management diverts established collectible fees to a city trust account. To. An outside entity. The diversion of money has to stop. City Council in the 2019 budget provides $120,000 to start adoptions. It's not a city manager's role to circumvent municipal code and divert revenue from a municipal trust fund. Please direct the city manager to rescind his directive, allowing all banks to put up adoption signs and develop its adoption program. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Alex Armstrong. Good evening. That was a great speech by Laura. I'd like to also talk about some municipal codes. I'd like to talk about municipal code 6.046.04.050. It's titled Impound Care of Animals. Municipal Code, says the director shall safely keep all animals, and I quote shall furnish all necessary food and water. Looking at the Outback's financials. It is not furnishing all necessary food. It might surprise you that SPCA furnishes the majority of animal food, which the city is by law required to furnish. This amounts to a gift to a city agency of hundreds of thousands of dollars. This hefty gift, again worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, is not reported anywhere on Lubbock's financial reports. Worse, SB Sklar does not submit state manager mandated reports of gifts to our city clerk. The problem with handshake deals like this is that they violate the state and city's code of ethics. We keep hearing that city management wants to sign a formal agreement with SPCA and is already working on it. But with huge unreported gifts, it constitutes real bribery. But none of this is reported to the city clerk. Clerk. I hope you will direct the city manager to authorize emergency funds to uphold municipal code and furnish all necessary food until the public can be assured the SPCA gifts are not government bribery. Thank you so much. Next week. Hi. Good evening. My name is Joanne Quast. Thank you, honorable mayor and City Council for your time devoted to this very passionate issue. Thank you, Mayor Garcia, for bringing an experienced shelter manager to our city. These are huge steps. I look forward to working with all of you to get the next steps right. Thank you to Suzy Price and Janine Pearce for being the first council rep in 11 years to agenda is this item. Compassion saves would not be the words I would have chosen, but the name is not. In the long run, the concern what is is the collective programs that are put in place to save animals. We don't need to reinvent this. We have shelters all across the country who are successfully doing this. Let's leverage the best practices and use our time and resources to adopting out animals as that is ultimately what prevents shelter killings. We can adopt our way out of killing. Let me say that again. We can adopt our way out of killing, as that is ultimately what prevents shelter deaths. That's an independent adoption program is a must large adoption signage equivalent to SB plays adoption signage is a must because passion says without an independent adoption program is status quo, you will not get volunteers or funding without putting this in place. I've left you a red folder at your seat, so I think hopefully you all have it. It is a package that outlines eight serious shelter issues that we are asking City Council to re to consider addressing in your motion today with both audits and the public homework, we know a lot more recommendations have be provided that will set the shelter on the path to success. Thank you for covering the following eight issues that are in your packet. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Mayor, vice mayor, council staff and audience. My name is Christy Maloney from the third district. So far, this administration has excluded anything to do with no kill, whether being left off the task force hiding no kill advocate comments on city officials. Media Pages Ostracize No Kill at public meetings. Or completely left out of tonight's Compassion Safes policy. We would like to request that the city council delay voting on this new policy in order to have all of the. Information from all available. Angles. Why would the city deny us this right before this new policy is voted into place? It is painfully obvious that no skill isn't being considered and that this Council has not been fully informed in the positive aspects of Nokia. We respectfully request that this Dyas hear from a Nokia expert on the insights it gives in saving animals before any vote. A no kill expert. According to four separate polls in Long Beach, an average of a full 91% of respondents asked for no kill for our shelter. Let's bring in a no killer expert to get definitive answers about it before you commit your vote tonight. Clear the air about SPCA, L.A.. Let's be moral about this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Carol Patterson, fifth district. I can't support this. It's not the ordinance we wanted. It's not the resolution we asked for. It's simply an item pushing the compassion saves model, which, in my opinion, is just a nice sounding name for the status quo. We can't end the killing in shelters if we continue thinking that it's a necessary evil. One of those hard things in life you just have to accept. Well, I can't accept that. No kill advocates can't accept that. We want the killing stopped. In order to do that. We need to challenge the status quo. Yet exercising our right to free speech has had advocates being characterized as vicious. And if they're not. Quite vicious, they're just so negative. At the beer and politics event a couple of weeks ago, the Stacy's told the audience that it would be more helpful to stop telling negative things. I heard that to mean stop telling the truth. Here's one truth. Nobody wants to close shelter. Even more stains confirm. That it's not a tenant of no kill, and I haven't seen. Statistics to prove otherwise. But evidently Miss Mungo is so opposed to no kill that she makes stuff up again. At the beer and politics event. She stated that pet retention program is code. Vernon Open Admissions. Not only is her statement wildly inaccurate, but it shows she is misinformed. What concerns me is that others voting for this item may also be misinformed and that our animals will suffer as they have been for years. If Long Beach really wanted to give every animal. A chance as the. Slide read Ms. Monkeys presentation, you would. Vote to implement no. Kill rather than to bash it with beer. Next speaker please. Patricia Turner. I'm the director of Nokia. Long Beach. Nokia Long Beach opposes compassion saves because it does not address the key problems that are actively blocking our backs operations. First, it does not address the issue raised in the audits of the constraints that SPCA continues to place on our backs. City staff have told advocates that SPCA, L.A. will not allow our backs to have its own adoption program. Yet a comprehensive and autonomous adoption program is absolutely critical for the city shelter to operate, to scale and meet the needs of the residents of Long Beach. The audits recommended that the city review and formalize the operational agreement, which is verbal only between L. Bax and SPCA. L.A. We believe that this agreement must not only be formalized, it must establish Lubbock's autonomy from SPCA, L.A., so that it can be fully a fully operational, effective, life saving shelter that aligns with the humane values of the people of Long Beach. Without this key provision instituting a dog's autonomy, the programs Saddleback puts forth will continue to be undercut by SPCA. Therefore, we ask that you delay the vote presented this evening or vote no and ask that a national authority on no kill animal sheltering be given time to make a formal presentation to City Council and answer the questions from council and the public, the majority of whom support no kill programs and policies at the Long Beach Animal Care Services shelter. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. April Devane. Task Force Member While I appreciate you bringing this new policy to the forefront because we haven't seen anything like this in years, I think this is a little oh, we're a little bit too soon on this. We haven't even had a chance, as Anna mentioned, to go over things in the task force. It's premature. And I think we need a little more time to vet out some of the statements that are in the compassion saves policy. And I really would ask you to vote no or maybe postpone the vote on this so we can actually flesh these things out a little bit clearer. Thank you. Thank you, Nick Speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor. City Council members of Long Beach. My name is Sharon Logue and I am a resident of Huntington Beach. I am the plaintiff in Logan versus Oakley. Animal Care. Logan versus Animal Care was a game changer that brought much needed shelter reform to O.C. Animal Care. Our team of attorneys obtained a complete overhaul in O.C. animal care, intake policies, healthy animal care training, euthanasia practices, and the. Subsequent resignation. Of O.C. Shelter Director. I have fought tooth and nail since 2012 for the animals of O.C., just like the animal advocates are. Fighting tooth and nail for the. Animals that help us today. To the rescue, animal advocates and committee members that are currently fighting this. Battle for. Shelter reform in San. Bernardino instead of Cleveland right here. In Long Beach. Keep fighting. The animals need your voices. To the residents and community members here in Long Beach. I am living, breathing proof that your voices do matter. Your voices does make a difference. That animal advocacy works. This community and the residents in this city have the power to successfully reform and transform elex. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. It's Julie again. I'm wearing sunglasses because I forgot my other ones. No, I'm not on drugs. I'm here today to ask you also to postpone your decision about instituting the Compassion Saves program today. There's just too many loopholes. There's too many generalities, things that aren't explained, things that can fall through the cracks. We're all just asking for a postponement, which I've seen you do many, many times here. Whenever the an issue needs more review. As we all know the. Task force hasn't really had a chance to make decisions. I don't know if they ever will. We all know that the strategic planners aren't done making their recommendations, and also the community only has like 3 minutes here and there to let you know just exactly how we feel about the Compassion Saves program. But I will say congratulations to all of you for hiring the most qualified shelter manager that we've ever had. And I mean, she's fantastic. She was under the gun. You said write a program. She did it. It just needs more review. It needs more time to work the bugs out. And there are plenty of them. And also, Suzy, excellent questions that you gave, but I would encourage all the others who remain sanely, like Mr. Yarrawonga. Mr. Austin. Well, and Leena. Thank you so much. Okay. To speak more often in favor. Thank you. So much. Program next speaker, please. Hello, everybody. Nice to see everybody again. Thank you again. Thank you, Mayor. We're both educators. We talked about that and therefore we're data driven. Do you agree? So when we cited all those polls, I mean, there's all kinds of convincing research that tells us that people are not comfortable volunteering or even working in a in a kill shelter. When I brought that up at beer and politics. There was just dismiss. With I disagree. You know, you're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. We get a lot of that in on our, you know, national administration. The other thing is, is that the business about animal behaviorists, this is a recognized, discrete profession that is helping. And believe me, I know I've got a little dog that we picked up at a Fix Long Beach event who has an attitude? He's a growler. It would have been curtains for him at Lbc's, because when I brought up the profession of animal behaviorists, which is part of the no kill nonfungible 11 point formula, I had Stacy Mongeau say in a kind of a cartoon cowboy action Armageddon. What does that mean? She brought up B.F. Skinner. Come on, now. B.F. Skinner is a recognized animal behavior who did a lot of work with. Pigeons. And. Like that. But. But we need, you know, to keep animals alive. We need some behaviorism. Compassion saves. What it is, is it's a way of giving killing. Ownership. To the public. Thank you so much. Next speaker before we speak, give me 1/2 to have I think Ms.. Case will be the last speaker. So I have anyone else, so my case will be the last speaker. Okay. Go ahead. Hi. Ashley Summers of District two. I'm also a shelter volunteer. I think that Compassion Saves is full of a lot of great intentions. But those intentions won't mean anything unless our shelter has its own comprehensive adoption program. During my orientation, I heard something really disturbing, which was that if we have our own adoptions, SPCA will not do any spay and neuter for us. First of all, as somebody who is an organizer for an animal rights organization, I find it completely unconscionable that such a wealthy group would deny basic health care to any animal who needs it, regardless of the circumstances. But also, I find it equally disturbing that in a city as wealthy and prosperous as this one, we can't afford to provide basic preventative health care for the animals under our care. I mean, wouldn't if we're worried about money, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to make sure that we have the funds to spay and neuter and the resources to spay and neuter all of our animals rather than dealing with all the offspring of the animals that we did not spay and neuter. And finally, I have one more thing to say about the fact that we do have breeding laws on the books. And I want to thank you for that, because a lot of cities do not, but we need to enforce them. Too many people on Craigslist are flagrantly disobeying the laws and they need to be punished, not the animals that they're bringing into the world. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Vince Poggi in Third District. And I truly appreciate the effort that was taken by council members to approach the problem we have. However, I would almost always prefer passion over apathy, but there are times when our goals can get in the way of communicating. It seems like semantics has complicated the issues concerning the approach to animal welfare. Stacy Dean Excuse me. Stacy Dean seems to understand the shared belief that no healthy, adoptable animals should ever be killed in shelters in our shelter. This is not just a government problem. It's a community problem. Best Friends Animal Society is the largest no kill animal shelter in the country and probably the world. Their goal and slogan is to save them all. By 2025, the number of communities have achieved this goal is just south of 4000. The number of partners in the Coalition is also in the thousands and grows daily. Many, if not most, of these communities have significantly less resources than we do in Long Beach. But they are open minded. We accepted the challenge and accomplish their goal. In short, no longer business as usual thinking. Long Beach unfortunately, has a unique obstacle in the form of SPCA, LA. Of all the credible and worthy adoption rescue organizations that exist, best friends comes to mind. Unfortunately, we seem stuck with them. I think if Stacy has a chance to succeed, she needs to be in charge of our animal care services and they need to answer to her. And I don't know how that's accomplished, but it needs to be looked at. Thank you for your effort. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. Mayor Garcia and council members. My name is Andrea Hunt, third district. I would like to ask all of you, would you not. Agree that the best way to. Get animals out of this facility alive? It would be to have a. Very active adoption program. It has been said over and over and over again. These animals that are now declared not claimed by their owners because of the time that they have to be available for the owner to be picked up. That time is not utilized afterwards to groom the animal, to spay and neuter the animals so that they are ready for adoption. Time is wasted and I speak from personal experience. I took animals from a person who couldn't keep them any longer to the shelter. I had my name and number there and I said, Please let me know if you have any trouble adopting them. To animals were beautiful white cats, one long haired, one white short hair. They were not shown. They were in a back corner. They were disheveled, looking. I took them back. Out as a rescue where I can come back in. And I did. Run them. Myself. I wasn't satisfied. I took them to the groomer. I took them to the Irvine Shelter Adoption Fair. And they were taken and adopted as beautiful animals. Thank you so. Much, personalities. Thank you so much to you. Thank you very much. Next week, please. Hi, Anita Porter, second district. That's on a hunt. She is like my other mother now. And that woman has adopted thousands of cats. So you have to listen to what she says. I also want to point out that there have been mismanagement situations that have been going on in the been reported. There's been over 173 items that need to be addressed and there are specific problems with the leaseback. And it comes down to that situation that's going on with SPCA. We need to be separate from them. We need to I mean, I didn't realize that we were that as a city that that's a special thing, that we have our own shelter and it needs to be a shelter and it needs to be our shelter. As I said it last time I was here. We are Long Beach, and we're going to do this the right way. But in order to do that, we need more time. We need financial mismanagement to be addressed. We need the problems with the SPCA to be addressed. And we don't need. This is an excellent outline, and I am so thrilled that Stacy is here to do this. But what we need is more guts to this because there's just too many things that aren't answered yet. And without them in writing, we don't trust you. And that's what it comes down to. We. And if we don't trust you, we aren't going to turn our animals over to you. We're going to keep taking care of them because we know they'll be okay. And I'm you know, I got more cats than I should. I would love to be able to take them to to the to the shelter. So thank you so much. Thank you so much. Don't do this next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Pam Machado. I've been a volunteer at Long Beach Animal Care Services for four years. Before that, I was a volunteer for 11 years at SPCA, L.A. I live in the First District. I support Compassion Saves. I think that is reasonable and responsible model for shelter. And it puts most, if not all, of the programs in place to not only save, but also to help improve the lives of the animals that come into the shelter. And it is also a hopeful model. It is hopeful that the people who care about the animals will step up and help the shelter to achieve this. I think this is the crossroads that the audit was talking about, and right now is the opportunity to really improve the shelter and make it a place that the community wants to go and adopt animals. If all we do is complain about the shelter, nobody wants to go there. I I've read on lost and found page. Everybody says, oh, they'll be killed. Don't take the dog there. Don't take that cat there. So everybody thinks it's a horrible place. We can make it a good place, but people need to step up and do the work. And I think it's a time to call a truce to all of this and everybody just get together and actually do the work that needs to be done to make the shelter a good place . Thank you. Thank you. Speaker, please. Good evening, everybody. I'm Judy Crumpton and my address is on file. I agree with everything Pam said. You know, you guys hired Stacy Danes to do a job. And what she is doing tonight is her job and she believes in compassion saves. And I'm asking you to believe in it, too. I have to agree. It was a little surprising when it came out and it didn't go before the task force first, and we didn't get a chance to look it over. But nonetheless, I think it goes along. It's just part of perhaps what we are going to do with the task force. We still have work ahead of us. There's no doubt about that. Only 90 seconds. Listen, I don't agree. You can adopt your way out of this mess. I agree. Adoptions are very, very important to do and I support them wholehearted. But we can spay neuter our way out. Please, let's. I'm used to this 12 years of these people. Nothing shocks me. They've had more than enough time to bring their specialists here. And they brought plenty of people to say plenty of stuff. You would think by now they would have convinced you guys, but you're too smart and they're not going to do it. So please never support no kill. And you main education is very important. This is just ridiculous. This is what they do on social media. This is what they do to people who visit our shelter. I was one of them that was bullied and I think we need to do something about that next. So thank you. And please go forward and support compassion saves. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. I'm loving this vest that I have on because I think every one of you should be a volunteer. Because the reason why is we will not get enough of. These programs without more volunteers. And I'm almost here on tears right now. I was the one that spoke to Janine. It's really hard, you guys. Compassion. It's not. It's not. It's in the right direction, but it's not the ultimate goal. I'm sorry. I am for a lifesaving difference. I will always be, you know, kill. And and but I have to thank you for what you're doing and thank the women. I wish we would have more men who would support us. But thank you for. Listening to us. Because I have three cats. I have all three. Special need cats. I have one currently that's my own. That's at Primary Animal Care because it's having issues. But what we're doing here, like what Anna Wang said, is true. I'm on the task force. None of us brought this to our attention. We want to be a part of this equation. I'm part of the equation of being at the shelter, being. Here at city council, being on the task force. I do support the compassion saves to a degree. Because I've been told by certain individuals that that's a step. It's not the ultimate that we're going to move forward. For more. More security. I don't believe in SPCA and the direction that we have for relationship with them. There's definitely. Something there. The way that we currently do adoptions. I love that Stacy is making change, but she can't do it alone. So Devin and I are here to help. And so please, I ask. You guys, we need more volunteers. Thank you, Jenny. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Let me go back to Councilmember Pearce. Thank you, everybody. And I want to say thank you so much for keeping your comments focused on the item that's in front of you. So I want to first I want to say that I would like for this item to for the compassion saves model to be given to the task force to review, to evaluate and to give direction on that is the intent of this item to give kind of the box so that you guys have something to work on. It was not the intention to write policy and to do the fine tuning of a department. We never do that as council direct every single detail of a department. So I hope that you guys walk out of here understanding that that is the goal of this, which is exactly what you've asked. And it took a lot of work to get here. It took meetings with, I believe it's four meetings with the note kill group and phone calls with people and coffee and people's homes nine in the morning going line by line. And so your commitment and your passion is why we are here today. And so I want to thank you for your comments because it does pay off. Specifically, I would like the task force to to look at what it would take and hopefully get us to a place where we have an independent adoption program. An independent adoption program. And I know that that is a tough task sometimes to think about, but we are not going to be able to get to an independent adoption program. And so we do the very first step, which is understanding the relationship with SPCA and our shelter. And I know that my co-lead on this item, Council one, the Councilwoman Price, is going to give some of the the details to that and trying to get that information to come back as soon as possible. We need to have that information that we don't have. And I'm going to let her so we don't echo our comments, talk in detail about that. I will say that I hope that whatever we have come back from the city attorney that comes from as councilwoman pries, that that comes back at a reasonable time, 30, 60 days, so that we can really understand where we're at with that so independent adoption program that we have open admission and that that that is defined by having reduced or no fees for relinquishing your pets at our shelter. We know that that has to happen to be able often when people have a pet, particularly dogs, it's expensive, it's time consuming, it's more work than some people understand. And they need to know that they can safely take their pets somewhere that will not euthanize them. And so that is what an open admission shelter means to me and I think means to many of you. So this is hopefully a step to get us there where you feel that trust and that we get that put into policy down down the road, clear as day. I would like also to have the task force and city staff look at what is currently happening with our adoption fees and making sure that those are going to our spay and neuter fund and understanding what that balance is and what. What we need to do to ensure that everybody, including the SPCA, is paying those adoption fees so that we can have a spay and neuter program on the front end. That will be meaningful. I do not believe that any one solution, adoption or fostering or spay and neutering, not one of those is going to get us to a no kill shelter or a 90% rate. But it is going to take all of these measures to get us there. I also want to make sure that we call out in this again. And this was general for that reason, because it's not my intention to direct policy in that way. So I appreciate the task force and you guys will have a chance to go through this. I also want to make sure that we when we talk about our robust communication program, that we have an understanding of what our communication team at the shelter has right now. How are we relaying that information to our constituents, to the neighboring cities about what animals are available and that we have an understanding of the resources that you have now that we gave you in the last budget. Is that enough and will it take more? My expectation is that you guys do the work in the task force looking at the compassion saves model and defining what the compassion saves model is. It is not for staff to define. It is not only for council to define, but is for us as a community together to define. And that is why we wanted to start this conversation. So you have that work ahead of you in the next several months, along with the community members that come to the task force. I look forward to having the conversation about all of these programs. I look forward to the budget conversation on what it's going to take to make this real. And I asked that my colleagues join us in voting yes to ensure that a compassion saves model is something that really does save lives and gets us to the lowest euthanasia rate possible. So thank you again for my colleagues for working on this with us. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I want to first start out by thanking my colleague, Councilmember Pearce. We we joined forces on this item. We actually had two items that we merged into one and were both kind of leading a different part of the item. So I'm happy that we're having this conversation. It's been many, many years that we've heard from the various groups. And and to be quite honest, it wasn't until recently that I actually understood how the conversation should be framed. And I've shared with the advocates that sometimes when we feel passionately about something, conveying what it is we're trying to say in a way that allows us to be heard is difficult because there's so much passion behind it. So I appreciate the respectful dialog that those who have requested to meet with me have had with me. It's allowed me to see things from a from a different and I think clearer context. So and I think that's the reason we're having this conversation. So you know who you are. Thank you for allowing that respectful dialog to get us to this point. I echo what Council Member Pearce has said in regards to this being a starting point for us and us being able to work in collaboration with the task force to further define practices and policies as we move forward. I do think it's a good starting point. I'm grateful that we have our new director with us, animal care services director with us. The portion of the item that's mine and one that I intend to follow up on at every step of the process, is understanding some of the details of the discussion. And let me tell you what I mean about that. A lot of times we behind the dais and even out in the community have debates with people about various issues. And what I have always said is that I'm happy to debate anyone about anything and agree to disagree if that's the case. But it's important that we're all operating on the same fact sheet because if we're having a debate and somebody is under one set of facts and someone else is under a different set of facts, look, given my profession and my training, there are some things that are gray areas and some things that are disputed. But there are a whole lot of facts that are undisputed if we take the time to ascertain what they are. And from there, I think we can have a solid foundation for a debate. And the problem that I've had with this issue for a long time is that there is a lot of assertions or allegations or statements that are made that we've never actually been able to fact check or ascertain, allowing for us who are not experts in that industry, to not be able to get into the weeds on some of the things. And not that I'm saying, I want to get into the weeds. Trust me, I don't that's why we we hire staff that are special specialists in this area. You don't want a prosecutor making decisions about animal care services. You want an animal care specialist to be making decisions about animal care services. We're here to get data and help lead policy, but we're looking for direction and leadership from Stacy and and her her supervisor, the director of their division, to help us lead. That framework. But I do think there are a few issues that have come to light, whether they have merit or not, I don't know. But I cannot continue to have this conversation without for myself knowing some pieces of information. So the portion of the agenda item that that I wrote up and one that I hope to continue and I will I expect staff will keep us updated with this. I do expect we'll get a report back, but if not, I'll probably agenda is another item to get this information. And I'll tell you why. What I wrote in the agenda item is the city has welcomed a new director for the Animal Care Services Division, and this development presents an opportunity for us to review our existing relationships , practices, commitments and policies and to realign the same as we develop a strategic plan. Accurate information regarding the inner workings of the agreements between the Allied partners will help set the framework for a solid foundation from which to engage in discussion and debate. Without this information, speculation and implication may lead to poor policy and or distrust in the direction we determine is the best course of action for the city of Long Beach. What do I mean by that? And also I'll express it very clearly so. When I talk about specific information about inner workings with we've talked and Stacie touched about in her presentation to us a few weeks ago about that the just in general she went over the lease relationship and the relationship of the parties. We do have allied partners, obviously, and I think it's important for us as a council to understand the terms of the lease agreement with a little bit more clarity. So what and I'm not saying we need to know necessarily the terms of the lease agreement, but in general, we need to know what are the terms of the lease agreement? What are the responsibilities of each entity? Is there compliance from each of the entities in regards to the expectations and the understandings of the parties in regards to their various obligations under the lease agreement? So that's something that I would like included in this item in terms of a report back and whether that's the city manager who does it or whether it's the city attorney. We'd like to identify, you know, where we're at. And are there opportunities for us to have a little bit more compliance with the terms of the agreement in terms of the different facilities? You know, I would like us to understand what is the allocation of space in the context of the intended use of the two facilities? Are we exercising best practices in terms of the allocation of that space? And that can come back as a report. Back with the opinion of our Animal Care Services Director. I do think I was here when we went through our spay and neuter policy and enacted that. I think it's an interesting point that has been raised regarding the spay and neuter trust account. I'd love to get a report back on that. What is that account or what? What or what are we using it for? What options do we have for the future? And then there's one thing that and I don't know what the answer to this is, but there has been repeatedly allegations that there are aspects of the lease that have been kept confidential. And I don't know if that's true and I don't know why that is. And perhaps that's the subject of closed session. I don't know. Mr. Parking, are you aware are there aspects of this lease that are confidential? There are no aspects of the lease I'm aware of. They're confidential. Okay. So that's what I had heard as well. And that struck me as odd. You know, I don't really read anything into it because even if there were aspects that are confidential, I'm mindful of the fact that there are legal agreements at times or for protection of the parties. Things will be kept confidential. That's not an issue for me. I just know that we've heard that allegation repeatedly, and I'd like some clarity on that. So for me, what I would like is, you know, we get a lot of reports back from city staff with a lot of information. And sometimes the reports back that we get are very general and somewhat vague and more have a theme as opposed to actual data. The report back that I would like on this item is actual data so that to council, so that we can have if we're hearing something at the podium that is not accurate, we'll be able to know that based on the data that we have. If we're hearing something that is accurate and there's an opportunity for us to improve, then that allows us an opportunity to grow from the data that our staff is providing us. I want the staff. No. No disrespect to the audience at all or to the advocates. I want the data from our staff because it is that data that's going to drive our policy so we can debate the data once we get it. But let's get that data and the methodology that was used to get that data. Let's trust that methodology together. So if there's a question as to the methodology, we can talk about it. But let's start with the same set of facts. And from there we can build because one thing in this debate that for five years I have felt very strongly about. Is there's a lot of allegations, but there's not a lot of data and there hasn't been. So we need to know that information so that we can move forward. So I am requesting as part of this item that we receive a report back within 60 days regarding the specific items that I mentioned in regards to the lease agreement, the facility evaluation, the spay and neuter trust account. And that's it. Thank you, Councilwoman. Guys, please note nothing from. From the dais, please. I mean, from the audience right now. Yeah, and. Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. Of course, I forgot when I was talking about the lease agreement. I know that each entity has responsibilities in terms of what they're responsible for, maintenance payments, that kind of thing, what utility bills, things like that. So what are the different responsibilities and are we all in compliance? If not, is there an opportunity for us to improve? So I just want to get a handle on that because that information, I believe, has to come to me from our staff. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Mango. Thank you. I agree with a lot of what Councilwoman Price said. My methodologies are a little bit different. And again, it's unfortunate that both the current shelter manager and I have the same name because oftentimes I can't tell if you're making false statements about me or I didn't hear something she'd said, and that's unfortunate. I want to thank a couple of quick people. Ashley, I cannot tell you how much I agree with so many of the things you said. I think you're very bright and poignant in the things that you said and specifically how you said them. Pam, thank you for the work that you've done. I think the overarching thing that we all can agree on is two parts. One, save all the animals by 2025. And I think that we could get there. And I think that the goal of the Winograd methodology of no kill is saving every adoptable animal with a standard of adopting out 90% of the animals and having a really high live release rate. And I know that it can be frustrating when so I bring all my animal stuff that I've had from all of you. And I read that stuff and I look into it and I want to agree with Councilman. Price apps that even within your own information that you provide us, there's conflicting information. And so it's very difficult to get to the bottom of it. So I want to do a couple of things. This Council did not write the contract with SPCA. And I think this council would agree that in the current economic climate and the current. Success of the city of Long Beach. If we were going into an agreement today, it would look very different. But the city, the city, as it was then, was a very different city. And and animals might not have been as high a priority to that council. However, in looking at this agreement, the document that continues to be stated as confidential is cited on page five of the agreement listed as Exhibit B, and I would be interested in reviewing it if it is confidential. I'd be interested in reviewing it in the city attorney's office for me to know and understand and read what's in it. But if it is not. I believe Exhibit B is a floor plan and it's a public document. Okay. In some of the information provided by some of the volunteers that is listed as one of the complaints is that they can't see the specifics of a specific page. So maybe I misunderstood that. But specifically on the notes it says, where's exhibit B? And that parts of this are confidential. So I'm happy to go into that again. If I if I wrote that down again, we go we went over like 200 things in an hour and a half, so maybe I'm missing what part of it was confidential, but it says if the city attorney says it's not confidential, I'm happy to figure out what the group still thinks is confidential. I see that. I see the document you're showing yet it's still listed. So. To get to our own adoption program. The first step was taken by this Council with the support of Councilmember Austin and Councilman Price. Budget oversight. Last year, when we first funded a full time adoption coordinator, that is the first time in a long time that the city has had a person who is dedicated to that, and that person has only come on board within the last 60 days. And so I know there's a lot of training. I read the staff email that went out. I have a lot of issues with the current. The current strategy of the adoptions between the two facilities and the signage. However, I also recognize that Ms.. Staines has been on on staff for just a few months. And while I was not bringing this item forward, I want to thank Councilmember Turanga, who is also working on a similar item. And many know that I try to work directly with the shelter manager and the Parks and Rec director consistently, and I don't always think that an item is necessary. However, I appreciate my council colleagues, Price and Pearce, for asking me to be a part of the item because I am involved in some of these things, some of the reports that are being asked for in this document. Ms. Daines has already started on and started on them right after she met with each of us back when she came on board. So I expect that a lot of these reports will be coming soon. I also feel very strongly that the definitions really need to be decided through a community input process. There are lots of tools to do that. I think that we've consistently said that that's the direction we want to go. I think that's the direction that Ms.. Daines and I communicated a few weeks ago in our open forum. I know I've received a considerable amount of criticism for the type of set up for the forum, but I was a guest, as was she. And so I hope that that no one thinks less of her for the way that the forum was managed. But we are guests and we were there as their guests in the methodology in which they allowed us to be there. And I have never said no to a meeting with any of you. Not to mention the number of times I've been stood up for meetings where I sat around and waited for people to show up or they canceled on me with no notice. And so I want to meet with you. I am happy to talk with you. I'm happy to go to the bottom of what different documents are and and the criticisms of the shelter. I'm there often. I know. I just missed Alex walking to his car two weeks ago when I was walking in. But those dialogs don't happen at 90 seconds of you saying similar things over and over again that we still misunderstand because there's so much conflicting opinions about what that is. So I will state what I have stated for five years, and I know that Ms.. Daines and I have an understanding that this is coming more quickly. She's the first shelter manager that has a a real understanding of the chameleon system. But all of that data should be on our open data portal. There should be no need for public records request. You should be able to click on it and see specifically what's in Chameleon. It should be available to you immediately. And we've said that over and over again. There are open data being portals that have been built by other agencies that can be overlaid on the system we have. I spoke about it with our prior IT manager who was reluctant and the Open Data Task Force was not. Excited about animal data, but I am appreciative that both Leah Erickson, our new TY manager, and Ms. Daines are very excited to give the data freely and if there are mistakes with the data that we can correct it because unless we're all looking at the same information, it's very frustrating. So I want to end with thanking the more than 150 active volunteers at our shelter. We are getting, on average, 30 applicants a month to work at our shelter, and a lot of that is because of the the word of mouth of those who currently volunteer there and are feeling very fulfilled. We know it's not perfect and there's a lot we can continue to do. But I guarantee you, if you volunteered there five years ago, it's a different place already. It's a different place than it was two years ago. And we're still making strides. And I agree it is not fast enough. My method is to continue to provide suggestions on how to make it better. And if your method is not that I understand and respect it, but please don't disrespect the methodology that I use for for my advocacy for making a difference. So thank you. Now some are super not. Thank you. First, I didn't plan on saying this, but of all the items I thought would be brought up here tonight, I didn't think gender would be one of them. So I want to assure you that there was a male involved in this. That was myself. I think I held the very first community meeting where Stacey Daines appeared. Is that okay? She's given a thumbs up. And so we've been involved in this from early on. I want to get into the issue that Councilwoman Pryce brought up involving the contract with SPCA. And I guess I would like to get into the weeds a little bit here. So, staff, can you tell me, is there a possibility there are business units in existence that are not licensed? And do we need to look after that? Or is there a plan moving forward to get into that? Yes. Councilmember So there was a question on business licensing raised about a month ago about whether or not a specific grooming license was was at the right location. So staff took a look at that and found that it was more of a ministerial, just needed to be added to the description. But today it was come to our attention that there's also the potential for a retail license in a really quick look. We don't see that on record and on file, so we'll be heading out there tomorrow to make sure we know exactly what's going on and get the right licenses. But we are going to look at that and come back to you. So I endorse or I support the notion of sending everything to the task force, but this is something that I think can be addressed immediately. I think that if there are revenues to be collected, whatnot, we need we need to get right on that. Also, just in terms of the contract. The discussion is like this is an ironclad document and I'd like staff to weigh in on, on, on it. I don't think that's a fair description of what we have going right now, that it is a I don't want to say a work in progress, but it is something that we can make adjustments on on the fly. Would that be accurate? Councilmember I think that is not accurate. I think there's an existing agreement and to change it, amend it or modify it requires the consent of both parties. Okay. Thank you. So that would lend itself to the notion that this this needs to be vetted at the at the level that was suggested by Councilwoman Price. I think that's it. And this might be a Brown violation. So pick up. Charlie, you know, of all the things that have come to our office over the years, the policy on barking dogs has been one that just seemed to be not working at all. So if that's something that the task force could look into, that would be wonderful also. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Andrew. Yes, thank you very much. I want to thank you, Congressman Supernova, because the fact that I've been here for every one of these and I want to thank everyone of the animal activists, you know, because the care and compassion that you have for your animals and I think everyone should have that same form of compassion, because, remember , that's something your animal becomes some of the individuals who don't have kids become like your kid. And that's what I really applaud you, because the fact that I see your compassion, I feel your compassion. But I think here, because my office has been numerous and, you know, cause concern and compassion, save and kill and Nokia. But but I believe that we can do better in the management and the Animal Control Service. And I'm looking forward to report, you know, for my city manager. You know, I'm very pleased with the appointment of Mrs. Dion as a new head of the Albuquerque couple, because she strikes me as a very compassionate and professional manager who can help us, I think, through these tough, tough times, because the fact that you wouldn't come here every Tuesday to, you know, to express your opinion, your feelings about your animals, and I think everyone deserves animals. So that's what I really will stay and listen to and because I am compassion about it also. So with her leadership, I believe that we can get to these, you know, get to the point where the animal activist can be happy and with the service provided on behalf of our animals in Long Beach. So I want to thank you again for coming out and giving your concern and compassion. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. Just wanted to chime in and thank everybody for coming out and speaking. You know, we had a good study session on this. I learned a lot during the course of that study session. I look forward to really seeing our new director in action and seeing how she engages on this on this issue and supportive of the motion . Thank you. Councilman Austin. Thank you. I just want to weigh in as well. I did have a little bit of concern early on listening to the public comment in terms of the the intent and need for this this item. But after I thank you, Councilmember Pearce, for for and price for for explaining it a little bit further. I will be supporting this. I do think to the the no kill advocates, your passion is is something that is very, very admirable. And we we very much appreciate you. Your advocacy is saving lives and raising the consciousness of of everybody in our city regarding animal care. Spent a lot of time at the dog park. I was there just this weekend and talking to two neighbors about and one guy I met who actually rescued about six little dogs. And he comes to the park every single day and he has just a great heart. And so what we're dealing with here is with advocates with with huge hearts. And so, again, I commend you all. I do think that our new director or bureau chief of the Animal Care Division or Ms.. Danes needs an opportunity. And from what I hear, there's a lot of confidence in her ability to turn this department and this program around. I think we need to give her that opportunity to do that, give the compassionate care, an opportunity to succeed. I heard from many of you. We're headed in the right direction. And let's let's keep that in mind. We're a lot better today than we were a month ago. Two months ago. And your advocacy, I think I think we are. I think we are. We're moving in the right direction. And at the end of the meeting, I'll I'll announce, but I'll announce as well. We will be having a Holstein Ms.. Dame in the eighth District at the Expo on Monday. If you want to come out and have a meet and greet, for those of you, particularly my constituents who haven't had an opportunity to weigh in or to meet her. We're inviting everybody to do that. But I will be supporting this motion. And again, I thank you for coming out and sharing your thoughts. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. And before we have Councilman Pearce kind of wrap up and then we'll go to a vote, I'm going to make a couple a couple comments. The first is I want to, again, thank everyone for coming out. That is has shown consistent passion and love for our animals and our family members of which they are a part of. I want to just again say something I said at the last time that this we discussed this issue. And I think we have hired an excellent manager for the department. And I want to make sure that she knows she's heard it from me both in private and in public, that she has my complete confidence and I believe is going to prove to the community that she is going to take our shelter to an even more progressive place and in a more progressive direction. Long Beach has a strong tradition of implementing progressive policies, and I think this is another step in that direction. I think that, Ms.. Daines, everything I've heard from her this in this process, I think has been admirable. And I think her ability to work with the community is is important. I also really appreciate what Councilwoman Pearce, Council, Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Mango, everyone has said as it relates to giving the manager an opportunity to actually manage and develop our programs. What we have in front of us today is a broad policy policy direction about supporting a model that the manager has asked and wants to implement at the shelter. So I think that that the the kind of broad strokes that are in this agenda item, I think, allow that flexibility for the manager and also allow the flexibility for the task force to engage on many of the items are within the policy. I want to say a few things because the task force has been brought up a few times. Number one, I want to thank them again. These folks are volunteers and every single one of them loves our animals and wants to save lives at the shelter. And so I want to thank them for their service. And I think that they are consistently at the table listening to comments and trying to navigate a very complex and passionate topic. And so I know some of them are here, and I just want to thank you guys for your work. I mean, it really means a lot to the city. And you guys have been doing this work for a long time. No one is are you guys, you know, our, you know, receiving a handshake and a pat on the back for all that you guys are going through. And so I want to thank you for that. I also want to remind folks why the task force was formed. There is a process that has happened. When the audit was called and the audit was completed. One of the key items in the audit. Was to ensure that the community was a community process to develop a shared vision for the shelter. In creating the task force that is part of that recommendation. In addition to that, the the audit speaks to the strategic plan, which is also being developed and being worked on by the task force. The City Council will always retain the broad policy direction to direct and provide overarching policy to our departments and to the city. That's part of the responsibility of of the body, and it always will be. I also want to say that I support completely the recommendations as they relate to what's being listed in in this motion. I think Councilman Councilwoman Price's questions and request of data is exactly right, because I've been saying I think the same thing, Stacey, to you. It's like we have to all be using the same. There is a we don't we haven't even agreed on what the facts are and what the and what the correct data is. And we have to get there for us to make the right decisions. And I think the I keep hearing that we're not going to have a robust adoption program. That is what if Stacy's top goals is to implement as strong, independent and robust adoptions program. And that is something that she has verbalized, I think, to probably all of us on this body and is working to develop. And we are supported and supportive and looking forward to that process. On on the other issues that are on here, I just the only one that I will mention and I'll mention this because Councilman Pearson, I've had some good conversations as part of looking at the adoptions programs. One of the things that I'm excited for the task force to look at, I think it might be even being brought to your ad at your next meeting is Long Beach. Unlike most cities of our size or even the county allow less adoptions per household than most jurisdictions. So if you look at, for example, most cities, whether it's the city of Los Angeles, the county of Los Angeles, San Francisco, San, you name the city. Almost all. Cities. Provide more opportunities for people to adopt per household than the city of Long Beach does. And to me, that isn't easy. We need to come up with what the right number is for Long Beach. And that's something that I hope the task force also helps give us, gives us direction in this it within the scope of looking at adoptions as it's listed in in this in this item. And there are there are small changes like that in many others that you have advocated for that are all going to lead to a better shelter and better program and better department. I know there's a lot of folks that are frustrated. I get that. But I'm actually optimistic. And I've been optimistic since this work started. And if you go back from the work of advocating from I mean, Joanne, from the early days of you coming and advocating and others to the audit, to people being frustrated because it wasn't being done fast enough to getting good recommendations. To my commitment to ensuring that we have a qualified, excellent leader at the head of our department to the task force. Work to the engagement. This entire council, everyone on this body cares about animals and is working very hard to ensure that the work is happening to the advocacy. All of this put a big pot together. Is going is going to come out a much better shelter. And I want to also not lose lose sight that while we have been developing this shelter, the overarching the overarching work of continuing to decrease euthanasia and continuing to increase adoptions and continue to reform the shelter has been ongoing through the staff work. And there are we have staff members at the shelter and volunteers at the shelter today that also need to feel supported. And so I want to again publicly thank every volunteer and member of the team that is currently at the shelter that is working hard to save animal lives every single day. So I want to give them a round of applause for their amazing work that they do. And I'm great and I'm very, very grateful for them. And so I think this is an important step forward. Thank you to Councilmember Pearce, Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Mongeau and Councilwoman Gonzalez, who presented this and everyone else who I know supports as well. I think this is an important step. And and we should pass the baton to our shelter manager and to the task force so that we can continue moving this forward. So with that, I'm going to turn this over to Council Member Pearce. Thank you, Mayor, and really thank you to this council. I think often we find ourselves where we repeat each other's moments or we have some debate. And I think what was great about this item tonight is that each of us lifted up an area that was important to us that reflects some of the concerns that everybody in the community has had. As much as I believe from meeting with the majority of the people here, that this council has done a great deal to reflect those concerns and to be strategic and organized and methodical about how we continue to move forward. I'm really at a. Very pleased to be at this point tonight to feel that momentum going forward, to pass the baton. And I look forward to the next several months of that work coming back. A couple or just closing closing thoughts? I support everything that the council members have asked for and said in the 60 day report. I just want to make sure that I call out the code number 6.04.070. I'm not sure that's the right code section, but we'll certainly look at the code. Section 007 is. The one around this. One business at two locations. I think you're asking us to look at two businesses at one location so. That that. Looks okay. So that's one of the codes. The other code that I took a photo of the actual code and I'll make sure you have it, but it's the one around the spay and neuter fund and making sure that adoption fees go into that fund. So just to clarify and I'll say anything that's worth doing is going to be difficult. It's going to be hard, and that means that it's worth doing. As a mother of a six year old having compassion for animals and working really hard to create a shelter where people want to come in side and volunteer and spend their time is really important. And so I do believe I don't often refer to things like God's work, but I believe this is God's work, making sure that we are caring for those that are the voiceless. And so I want to just read out loud the motion, the recommendation one more time for four staff. I also want to thank those that signed a letter today. So there's several members of the community that signed on that letter in support. So I want to verbalize my appreciation for them. I want to make sure that we're directing the city manager to work with the Parks, Recreation and Marine Departments to implement the Compassion Saves model as the operational approach for Long Beach Animal Care Services and ensure the direction is reflected in our strategic plan. Providing a report that the existing relationship and recommendations for improvements in policies and practices between the SPCA and Albuquerque maintain facilities and financial conditions which are most conductive to promoting increased adoptions at the box facility. Devin I'm sorry. I wrote on a different page I had. See what happens whenever you write too much. Yes. Thank you. Approve the recommendation to implement compassion, saves approach and have staff work with the task force to assist developing the policy in items listed. And so with that, thank you guys for continuing to make history and make sure that our city is moving forward to save as many lives as possible. Thank you. Please cast your votes. It was up there, just. Motion carries. Okay. Well, thank you very much. That concludes that item. And we will move on to the next item. Let me get back to we're actually going to take the fireworks item first. Next, please.

Adoption of Resolution Supporting House of Representatives Bill 2358 and Senate Bill 1050 the Chinese American World War II Veterans Congressional Gold Medal Act. (City Manager 2110)

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Second. All those in favor i. Passes unanimously. Thank you. We are now on five j. We have a speaker on this one. Lieutenant Colonel Roger s dong. You'd like to come and speak American Legion Post 384. Mayor Spencer, vice mayor of L.A., members of the council. I have been introduced to Roger Dole. I am a veteran and my father was a veteran in World War Two. Therefore, I am asking the board to support the Senate in Congress. Congress is built to remember and honor the Chinese Americans who served in World War Two. A little background in 1982 when the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed. Chinese were not allowed to have citizenship or bring their families here. And so by beginning of World War Two, our population has shrunk to about 80,000 people, about 120. And among that 80,000 people, 20,000 volunteered to serve in the military. And I think that most of us appreciate that. And I'd like to ask the council to strong to support the bill, to support the national governments movement to to honor those who served in World War Two. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion moved second. All right. I do want to add that is item five. For those of you that like to go back and read the resolution, as well as the staff report and the current list of endorsers, and feel free to reach out to your elected representatives to support this. All those in favor I motion carries unanimously. Thank you. I k Nancy Hurd. Good evening. I'm here representing. Sable. And sable. Meat is working waterfront. And we continue to continue to have a concern about the decline of the dry boat storage.

Consideration of Mayor’s Nomination for Appointment to the Planning Board and Social Service Human Relations Board.

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Thank you. Any other comments from councilmembers at this time? I've seen nine and ten a consideration of mayor's nomination for appointment to the planning board. And I will be nominating Rona Rothenberg. And I wanted to adjourn tonight's meeting in memory of Kent Rosenbloom and Karen Lucas. They're both two very well liked community members and can't Rosenbloom any of, you know, personally. He was a very successful veterinarian in our town and also an award winning vintner winemaker. Especially in regards to seven gels and. I really want to express our condolences to his family, his wife Kathy, his daughters, Shauna and Kristen, his granddaughter Skyler . And and in regards to Karen Lucas, many of you know her. She was a former council member who was also an activist in regards to advocating for LGBTQ rights many, many years ago. And she was also very active in Meals on Wheels. She recently attended the play was for the Meals on Wheels volunteers for a moment of silence. If you could all join. Me, Madam Mayor? Yes. Also, Karen Lucas served with distinction on the public utility board. She is a very, very talented woman. Thank you and good evening. Thank, you know.

Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty One Dollars ($425,881.00) in the form of a grant for the FY21 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant-Local Allocation, awarded by the United States Department of Justice to be administered by the Police Department. The grant will fund a Domestic Violence Management Analyst at the Family Justice Center, a Hub & Center of Responsibility Coordinator and a Technology Coordinator for multiple data collection, reporting and record management systems.

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Thank you. Docket 1067 shall be referred to the Committee on Government Operations. Madam Clerk, Docket 1068. Docket 1068 message in order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and extend an amount of $425,881 in the form of a grant for the FY 21 Burn Justice Assistant Grant Local allocation awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice to be administered by the police department. The grant will fund a domestic violence management analyst at the Family Justice Center, a hub and center responsibility coordinator and a technical technology coordinator for multiple data collection, reporting and recording management system. Thank you. Chair now recognizes the Chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice Councilor Campbell. The floor is yours. I thank you. Council President O'Malley seeking suspension of the rules and passage of docket 01068. Pretty self-explanatory. The department's received this in the past. It has to do with obviously solving issues and dealing with issues of domestic violence. It's an analyst position. We obviously want to get the resources to them relatively quickly. It's a relatively small amount when you think about how quickly they get these grants. And so I would love to suspend the rules and pass this today. Thank you. Thank you. Counsel for Campbell Gonzales. Andrea Campbell, chair of the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, seeks suspension of the roles and passage of Docket 1068. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose nay. The ayes have it. The docket has passed. Madam Clerk, would you now please read one docket 1069.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding, and any subsequent amendments, with Ring, LLC, for ongoing digital access and support to the Ring Neighbors Portal, at no cost to the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. 11, which we had called earlier. There was no public comment on 11. So go ahead and cast your vote. No, no, I'm going to speak. Oh. Yes. Go ahead. Mr. Andrews. Go ahead. I thank you for this, Amir. You know, I want to have a discussion on this because I think we can be doing more in the city and within our department to partner with Ring before we move forward. I would like to request our city attorney office and our police department to take a look at the possibilities of us implementing a rebate program funded by whichever council office want to partake in it. So with that, I wish that our residents have more assets to these ring doorbell systems. Ring already there's a rebate in other cities like Rancho Palos Verdes and Temple City. And I would like to argue that in the sixth District, and I am sure that other council districts have an interest to. If we are partnership with the ring system access to portal, I would as we offer this good start and should not be a problem. So I am hoping that I can get a second motion to postpone this item to the next council meeting to allow staff to bring back a recommendation. Thank you very. Much. Okay. So we're going to there's a motion to postpone. And let's go back 1/2. We can go back. Councilman, Vice Chair. I want to make the motion to postpone the item. Yes, please. Yeah. You made. Yes, at the moment, yes. Cosmo Richardson. Okay. So let me go to Councilman Mango. So, Councilmember Andrews, I'm. So glad that you brought this up. We recently talked with the promoter for Ring. And did a promotion in our council district. Where we just they have a general policy about it and they're willing to offer $50 rebates if they're purchased through the ring site. It is interesting to note, though, that. There are providers of ring that sell it for less than it is on the ring website with the $50 deduction. So if you buy it from ring, let's say I'm just going make up some numbers. It's $300. You get a $50 rebate, it's 250. But if you buy it at Costco, it's 250, let's say. And so that's kind of been why we didn't feel that the fifth District, that they had many takers to use the the rebate program. Also then the neighborhoods app is an. App that I met with the chief on and showed him how it was working and how it could be a value. How you can box around your neighborhood to specifically see what the police officers are interested in. So I would only ask if they could do it concurrently because I'd love to see a rebate program, but I'd like to see it to be more competitive. And I'd love for our staff to do that while going through this process of the agreement. Is that something you'd be open to? I could be open to that because the fact that I would just like to see that most of our neighbors would really take a look into it and see what it would do for your constituents also. And I'm going to send you an email. That's the contact that we worked with at the time. I would appreciate that. Thank you very much. Well, thank you. There's a motion and a second, a good call, public comment on that. And members, please cast your votes. Motion carries.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing regarding an economic subsidy in connection with a Community Service Agreement under the Capital Investment Incentive Program (CIIP) and with Weber Metals, Inc., pursuant to California Government Code Section 53083; Adopt resolution to establish a City Capital Investment Incentive Program (Citywide); and Approve and authorize the execution of a Community Services Agreement between the City and Weber Metals, Inc. (Weber), to provide for the terms and conditions for payment. (District 9)

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Recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to record conclude the public hearing regarding an economic subsidy in connection with a community service agreement under the Capital Investment Incentive Program and the Weber Metals, pursuant to California Government Code Section 53083 adopt resolution to establish a City Capital Investment Incentive Program citywide pursuant to California Government Code 51298 and approve and authorize the execution of a community service agreement between the City and Weber Metals to provide the terms and conditions for repayment. District nine. This is a report from the City Manager and requires. Those that want that they plan on testifying in this hearing. Please stand up and please raise your right hand. And Madam Clerk. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the cause now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you. Mr. West. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council, the staff report will be given by our. Economic and Property Development Director Mike Conway. Mayor Garcia, members of the City Council. Weber Metals, located at 6976 Cherry Avenue in Long Beach, had previously announced a significant expansion and includes the acquisition and installation of a 60,000 ton press forge which when installed, will be the largest press forge in the United States. Expansion costs have been estimated at $295 million, with potential growth and job generation up to 86 new jobs by 2020 at full operation of the Forge recently, Weber Metals parent company Otto Fuchs Aerospace Group is reconsidering the location of the press forge outside of California. This would not only eliminate the significant investment in the Long Beach, but eliminate the potential job generation as well. And unfortunately, without the significant capital reinvestment, Weber Metals may begin to lose market share and future growth, resulting in job losses. Representatives from the city. The county in the state met on a number of occasions to identify incentives to support Webber Metals in their effort to convince its parent company to keep its investment in Long Beach. The most significant incentive identified that evidence is the city's and state support of heavy metals was the state's capital investment incentive program . Under this program, cities and counties may share a portion of the property taxes assessed on real property in excess of a baseline assessment. This is very similar to the city sales tax incentive program, which shares sales tax revenues above an established baseline. The underlying concept is both the city and the company share in the increased revenues that are derived from the capital investment, without which there would be no benefits to share. The program requires an investment of more than $150 million before a property tax sharing can occur. The ad valorem value of this $150 million investment added to the existing property tax base establishes the new baseline assessment. The ad valorem value of capital investment above the new baseline assessment is available for property tax sharing. The program also requires that the involved parties enter a community services agreement, which has a term of 15 years, and this agreement provides the mechanism for the property tax sharing above the baseline assessment for a 15 year period under the proposed agreement. If Weber Metals invest $295 million over the 15 year term of the agreement, the city would receive the ad valorem property taxes related to the existing base and the ad valorem value of the first $150 million in capital investment. Above that amount, the city would share 75% of the incremental ad valorem property tax and retain 25% of the incremental ad valorem property tax. And based upon this investment, the city would receive 2 million $2,815,000 over 15 years. This includes 2.5 million from the established baseline and approximately 265,000 above the established baseline. Without this investment by Weber Metals, the city would receive the existing baseline, which is approximately $530,000 over the next 15 years. However, metals would receive approximately 790,000 over 15 years as an economic development incentive. The program provides an opportunity to support a business seeking to expand in Long Beach with an extensive capital investment program and works to preserve and grow the job base in our city with an important industrial sector. On August 18th, 2015, the County Board of Supervisors approved a similar agreement for the County of Los Angeles to participate in the same program. So staff recommends that City Council conclude the hearing, adopt the resolution and approve the execution of a community services agreement with Weber Metals. And I see Weber Metals has some representatives in the audience here this evening as well, and I'm available to answer your questions. Thank you. Thank you. Very thorough presentation, Mr. Conaway. There is a motion and a second. Anyone want to comment on the hearing? Seeing an account from a Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This represents an investment in our underutilized industrial space and investment in manufacturing and jobs here in Long Beach. I had the opportunity to tour this facility with my staff on two separate occasions, and it's quite an impressive operation. This 60,000 ton manufacturing hydraulic forged press, it will be the largest in in the United States and be a project of international significance. So I stand in complete support for this. Weber has also been a tremendous community ally, particularly not only to our community, but also our adjacent community of Paramount, in that they've been involved in their education, foundation and support for our North Long Beach students as well. So this is a no brainer for me. It's it's a really creative way to bring an economic impact, make an economic impact on the North Long Beach community. So I urge the city council to support this. Councilman Mongo. I echo the comments of my colleague. I think that this is a great economic driver for our city and we're very fortunate to have them as a partner. So thank you very much for continuing to grow your business here in Long Beach. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. Same. My chief of staff took a tour of the facility and gave me a very detailed report. She was incredibly impressed with the operations. I think that the the jobs that will be created are exactly what our city needs. Professional jobs in engineering, mechanical fabrication and support roles, accounting, finance, human relations, clerical, etc.. We're very supportive of this, and I think it's an innovative way to bring in some additional revenue. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember? Yes. I too, took a tour of the facility a few months ago. I think your chief of staff was actually with me. Councilmember Price. And it took me back some time because I saw the presses, I saw the fabrication work going on, and I saw processes that I myself did as an aerospace worker. And reminds me of the importance of this this particular motion and reminds me of the importance of keeping good jobs here in Long Beach and an opportunity actually to gain good manufacturing jobs here. And so I'm here for support. Thank you. And Councilman Andrew. Yes. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I also like the echo sentiments of my colleagues up here about this situation, because the fact that you guys always note in my famous model is that a job can stop a bullet. And when you talk about 80 or 90 some jobs being created in the city of Long Beach, I think that's a fantastic, you know, deal. So I will have a chance to go visit the complex and see what it's really all about. Thank you guys again for coming and sharing your business here in the city of Long Beach. Thank you. And with that, we're going to take a vote. There's a motion on the floor. Motion pass motion. Carries. Thank you and thank you all. Webber Medals. Congratulations. And thank you again for being such a great business partner. Hearing number three.

Amends a contract with Alcohol Monitoring Systems Inc. to provide better service locally and nationally by adding the use of Ethernet communication to monitor offenders under supervision with the Electronic Monitoring Program. No changes to the contract term or amount (2013-14545).

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369 A bill for an ordinance for any second mandatory a proposed mandatory grant setting calendar and B I incorporated finally 370 bill for an ordinance for universal mandatory granting City and County Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Council members, this is your last opportunity to call out an item. Good. Kelly Owens. I do them. All now because it wasn't letting a good. I am the. I don't happen to have one. You know, things that I think I can do it now. Okay. You'll have to. That doesn't do it now because she's not controlling Mary Beth. Okay. Okay. I will now do a recap. Under resolutions we have the one resolution has not been called out under bills for introduction. Council Bill 344 called out by Councilwoman Sussman. Under bills for final consideration. We have. Council Bill 254 called out by Councilman Ford's Council Bill three or three called out by Councilwoman Robb and Council Bill 356 called out by Councilwoman Ortega under pending. We have all of the following called out by Councilwoman Sussman. Council Bill 298 312 313 319 321 322, three, 23, three, 24 and 325. Councilwoman Sussman.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Legislative Department staff; increasing the number of Legislative Assistant positions; amending Ordinance 118851; and amending the Legislative Assistant Compensation Plan Administrative Guidelines.

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Bill passes and Cher was cited as an item number two. Please please read the report. Agenda item to cancel bill 118664 relating to legislate department staff increase in the number of legislative assistant positions and many audience 118851 and amended the legislative assisted compensation plan administrative guidelines. Thank you very much so. This bill amends a 1997 ordinance 118851 that was put in place that really capped the number of employees full time FTE positions for council member to three. And given the fact that we have shifted to a district set up and there or at least a higher level of expectation for I think constituent services and a present in the community. This 1997 cap, it will be lifted, at least it is suggestion in this ordinance. And I think all of you are aware of this. And again, it's more administrative in nature, but we'll list that cap on FTE for each council member there. Any questions or comments from any of my colleagues? Councilmember Burgess. Thank you. I think as I've talked with most of you, if not all of you, actually over the last several weeks, I will be opposing this change in the municipal code. Back when the voters of Seattle authorized shifting to a hybrid system where seven members are elected by district and two members elected at large, we asked the city auditor to look at other cities similar to Seattle to see how they handled their hybrid council system. And we did that in collaboration with the initiatives, sponsors and various city departments. We looked at Austin, Boston, Denver, Jacksonville, Oakland and San Francisco. None of these cities have more than three staff members for their council members, and none of these cities provide money for in district offices. I certainly understand my colleagues desire to have an increased level of service to constituents, but I question whether an additional staff member is needed to do that work. My other concern comes from my role as budget chair. This decision is not made in a financial vacuum. There are costs associated with this. The fiscal note attached to this piece of legislation does not include this number, but we will soon, in my committee be asked to act on legislation that authorizes these expenses. And on an annualized basis, we're talking about a half a million dollars. Is this the highest and best use of these funds? And I'm not at all confident that our constituents would answer that question with a yes. So I will be voting against this legislation, with all due respect to my colleagues who hold a different view. Thank you, Councilman Burgess. Are there any other comments from any of my colleagues? Councilmember Herbold. Oh, thank you. So thank you. Little Herbold And then Councilman Wirth. Sorry about that. I just want. To speak to this issue from my unique position as a staff. Member who last year took on the work of the At-Large council members. And I can now, as a council member. Really see. How under the district systems, the. One might think that there would be a reduced workload. But the fact of the matter is, is that the expectations. For constituent responses in particular has greatly increased. In the past, when a. Constituent would write to a. Council member about an issue that was not. In that particular council members committee bailiwick, the council member could refer that constituent inquiry on to the council member who was the chair of that committee. We can't do that now. So I my staff are now expected to be experts in parks. Issues when those parks issues are related. To. District one. A lot of work in transportation, as you might imagine, as. It relates to West Seattle. And South Park. Transportation issues. So we're really doing. Sort of triage to get. The public. Good answers on many, many more issues than we. Previously have. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Herbold, Councilmember Suarez, thank you. As you expected, I would have something to say. Thank you. Councilmember Herbold and Burgess, I want to fast forward to 2000. I'm sorry. Go back into time in 2013. This is a proposed charter amendment and it passed 65 to 35%. And there's a reason why over 45,000 people helped put this on the ballot. And why did they do that? Because they believe that the people that should represent you should live with you and should be responsible for you. And those are the people that should elect you because you are representing them as well as all of Seattle. That was the purpose and goal and I am familiar. Thank you, Councilmember Burgess, with the Austin Report. And I did read it. It was dated April 2014. But I'd like to point out that Seattle has well over 630,000 people, people with issues and needs. And now we're in districts we can no longer afford to ignore our communities and critical issues and still expect to get elected. And I think it's fair to point out that in 1975 and 1995, in 2003, it failed when we tried to pass the district system, and it finally passed on the fourth time. Why? Because the people of Seattle felt that they wanted representation, fair share of resources regarding parks, community centers, libraries, public safety, human services, pedestrian improvements and road maintenance. So you needed someone to advocate for the specific needs of your community, but you honor the greater good of the people of Seattle. And I'd like to also thank the people that are elected at large. That would be our mayor, Councilmember Gonzalez, and of major councilmember. For Burgess, they ensure regional and citywide voice. They educate us and I, for one, rely on them and their hard work and insight for the issues that they bring to my committee and helping me be a better councilwoman. I also want to point out that district representation closely what makes us more closely engage with our neighbors, our community, and that we learn to share that knowledge with fellow council members and our communities. I've learned from other council members. I've learned more about their districts. I work more efficiently and collectively with other council members. I can represent and honor the city and the people as a whole in this great city deserves no less. Now, before, I just want to add just a few odds. Being a new councilperson, I should add that 47 of the 50th largest cities in the United States already elect council members in geographic districts. And I think it's important to note that Seattle is a big city with big city problems, and we've also had major successes. The district system works. We just came up on our first 100 days less than two weeks ago. And I can say as a new councilwoman, these are some of the issues that I've been struggling with in dealing with and reading about and learning about and working in relying on my fellow council members. Homelessness. Affordable Housing. Street Vacations. Safe Injection Sites. Education. The Housing Levy. Hala MOU. Seattle Public Safety 83. Of course our transit spine. Mental health, food banks, the consent decree that we're operating under cannabis sale, regulation and licensing, wage theft, labor trafficking, sex trafficking, implementing the race and social justice initiative. Family Pay Leave, gender pay, equity, labor and business issues. Climate issues both local and regional. Those are just 20 issues that we've been dealing with for well over a hundred days. And you cannot tell me that three people can do all of that. You simply can't. And that isn't counting the committee that we're assigned to. So as a woman, as a mother, as a person that has lived in my district in the North End for 30 years, 25 years in my district where I raised my children, where I bought my home, where I rented my house. I didn't live in the North End because I was a Republican or a Democrat. I lived in the North End because I had good schools, had infrastructure and had transit, and I felt that it was time to have the North End represented. And that's why I decided to run. But more importantly, it's because I believe in this great city and I believe in how progressive we are and I believe how humane we are. Thank you. Thank you, councilmember her. Whereas those words than any of my colleagues else wanted to refute. Councilmember Burgess. Well, I will. Although you have one fan out there and Mr. Finish, I would say that it's very important realize a few things. Number one, if you look back at 2008, the city council members and their staff, we were at 36 employees in 2014. We full time employees in 2014. We're 39 in 2015 and 16, we're at 41. And I say that to look at the numbers, to suggest that many council members, through the use of temporary employees, through the use of work study employees, many, many council members have had three or four, sometimes five employees in their office. And what this change does, it's an administrative change to simply. Codify sort of a practice that has occurred even without this legislation. And I would remind my colleagues that you are not required to hire anyone. You are not required to use your budget. And so this gives the council members a choice, some flexibility. And those that choose not to use it certainly will have that choice. And so I, I applaud Councilmember Burgess for reminding us once again that we are stewards of the public public funds, the public tax based public moneys. But again, I think that while other cities there's some precedential value in what they do, it certainly is not controlling precedent. And that I think that we can continue to be a leader in this country for what we do in terms of delivering constituent services. So, again, this is designed to give us flexibility. And I think my colleagues make those points. And again, I will close debate. Unless anyone else has anything to say. No further comments. Please call the role on the passage of the Bill Bagshaw. Burgess No. Gonzalez, I Herbold Johnson. Suarez O'Brien. All right. So on President Harrell eight in favor one opposed thank you. The bill passes and the chair will assign it next report for the from the Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee.

Recommendation to approve the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 19) Action Plan, and Substantial Amendments to the FY 18, FY 17, FY 16, and FY 15 Action Plans for the expenditure of Community Development Block Grant, Home Investment Partnership Grant, and Emergency Solutions Grant Funds; and Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to receive these funds and execute agreements necessary to implement and comply with related federal regulations. (Citywide)

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All right. Let's have the next item, please. Number nine, I think it was that no number 14. From Development Services recommendation to approve the fiscal year 2019 Action Plan and substantial amendments for the expenditure of Community Development BLOCK Grant, Home Investment Partnership Grant and Emergency Solutions Grant Funds Citywide. Thank using public comment on number 14. Saying none. Their staff report. Yes. Have a. Quick staff report by Patrick. Murray, the manager of our housing department. Good evening, Vice Mayor and members of the City Council. The City receives Community Development BLOCK Grant, Home Investment Partnership Program and Emergency Solutions Grant Program funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In order to receive these funds, the City Council must adopt a five year consolidated plan and an annual action plan. Last year, the City Council adopted the five year plan for 2018 to 2023. That plan was developed with I'm sorry, I forgot the clicker again. Thank you, Linda. So that plan was developed with extensive public input and the five year plan. We're on slide five. The five year plan priority areas include addressing housing needs, addressing homeless needs, expanding economic development opportunities, eliminating blight and strengthening neighborhoods, and promoting fair housing choice. Today, we're asking the City Council to adopt the annual action plan for Fiscal Year 2019. The plan includes $6.1 million in CDBG program expenditures, which is a 10% increase over fiscal year. 18 expenditures. $4.5 million in Home Investment Partnership Program expenditures, which is a 40% increase over fiscal year 18 expenditures and 496,580 3000 in ESG program expenditures, which is the same as 2018. The proposed program activities include the following goal number one, which is to create and preserve affordable housing. Goal number two is to support activities to end homelessness. Goal number three is to eliminate blight and strengthen neighborhoods. Goal number four is to expand economic activities. And goal number five is to promote fair housing choice. Staff is also asking the City Council to approve amendments to the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 action plans in order to allocate unspent funds from various activities in each of those four action plan years. Based on community input, we're recommending that the funds be reallocated to the Home Improvement Rebate Program, the Business Corridor Revitalization Program, code enforcement and acquisition for affordable housing. And before I conclude, I would just like to thank Alem Goss and his staff for preparing this plan, as well as the community who came out to various meetings and provided their input and support. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Councilman Price members, please cast your vote. Public comment. Was. We call for public comment first. And I'm a yes. Motion carries. Item 11.

A bill for an ordinance amending the Denver Zoning Code to correct an error in the detached accessory dwelling unit building form standards in the Urban Edge Neighborhood Context. Amends the Denver Zoning Code to correct an error in the maximum building footprint for detached accessory dwelling units in E-SU- Zone Districts. The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 12-13-21. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-9-21.

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Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 12 US 12 Eyes Council Bill 21 Dash 1331 has passed. Thank you to the folks who presented this evening and the community members as well. Councilman Herndon, will you please put Council Bill 1332 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 21 desk 1330 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 1332 is open. May we have the staff report? Yes. Thank you. Members of City Council for hanging in there. Just one more public hearing of the night. And as Andrew had promised earlier, this is a very targeted text amendment proposed for the Denver zoning code. And before you kick off, do you want to introduce yourself? Apologies. I'm a barge with the Department of Community Planning and Development, and I'm here with a text amendment to the Denver Zoning Code to correct an error that was introduced into the zoning code with the 2021 bundle of Denver Zoning Code text amendments. That bundle was adopted by City Council in the summer, and the error inadvertently reduced the maximum building footprint that was allowed for detached accessory dwelling units on zone lots greater than 6000 square feet in basically all of the single unit districts in the urban edge neighborhood context. That includes the zone district that was justified earlier this evening to a couple of areas of East Colfax. We'd like to get this corrected. The proposed amendment would have no impact on any other zoned district or building form. We're using a process allowed by the zoning code to begin the adoption process with Council Committee. So Planning Board has not considered or made a recommendation on this proposed text amendment. The next few slides just quickly walk you through what happened here. We're looking at a portion of the detached accessory dwelling unit building form table in Article four of the Denver Zoning Code. That's the urban edge neighborhood context, specifically at the maximum building footprint on a couple of lot sizes for single unit zone districts, the maximum building footprint being the portion of the lot area that an accessory dwelling unit building form can cover, like looking at a lot fewer dimensionally. It has historically been 864 square feet for detached views on lot 6000 to 7000 square feet and 2000 square feet on lots greater than 7000 square feet. This is the public review draft for the bundle of text amendments and you see various proposed changes marked up there which circle those two maximum buildings. Footprints are not marked up as a change, and yet those numbers are different. So just going back to that previous slide, we had 864 square feet and 1000 square feet. Now we're seeing 650 square feet in 864 square feet with essentially a kind of unfortunate cut and paste error. And because that page was filed for adoption with the text amendment, that became part of the official code when that bundle was adopted. So if you look at the code as it's on the website right now, it will have those two maximums of 650 and 860 square, 64 square feet in this form table, which is different than all the other detached accessory building form tables across the code. So the proposed fix is quite simple. Change the numbers back to 864 and 1000 square feet to be consistent across the code. Looking at the review criteria, the comprehensive plan has a number of relevant goals. Probably the most relevant is the first one listed that proposed revisions should ensure that the zoning ordinance remains flexible and accommodating. And you kind of see that as being a keep the code up to date and relevant recommendation, which is also mentioned in Blueprint Denver that the code should continue to respond to the needs of the city by remaining modern and flexible. We'll also just note the blueprint recommendation that we've talked about more this evening that directs us to remove barriers to constructing accessory dwelling units while also creating context sensitive form standards. This is an inadvertent barrier we talked about that ideas in Denver project that we're kicking off now is really going to look at all of the other barriers. But this area is right now, there's actually plans and process in affected zone districts where the design was made thinking that the maximum building footprint was one thing accidentally changed. They can't get the approval until the zoning code is updated. So we're bringing this forward sooner. The looking at the blueprint equity concept staff believe that this text amendment will have a largely neutral impact on the three equity criteria that we look at. And that it'll further public safety, health and welfare by providing clarity and predictability in zoning regulations and by ensuring consistent application of adopted plans, and that it will result in uniformity of district regulations and restrictions. So staff based on a finding that these review criteria have been met. We recommend that City Council adopt this Denver Zoning Code Text Amendment. All right. Thank you very much for the staff report, Abe. And we have one speaker online this evening, Jessie Paris. Yesterday, the members of council, those watching at home the numbers just as we saw Paris Hilton represented for Blackstar a move to self defense positive as a command for social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and frontline black males. And I'll be the next member in 2023. And I live in just a councilman Herndon's district, and I'm in favor of the amendments in my 80 years or so so far of creating affordable affordability, affordable housing in the city, along with safe outdoor spaces and tiny home villages. So this amendment is much needed. Please pass this mine so we can get this error corrected. And that's all I have to say. And then I have a Happy New Year. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much, Jesse. And the same to you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 1332. Councilmember Ortega. I just wanted to ask you one question, Abe. So it looks like this does not apply to any of the mixed use districts, correct? That is correct. So the way our accessory dwelling unit standards are set up now, they only apply in residential zone districts and only apply as accessory to a single dwelling unit use. So in a mixed use district, you might see things that look like an Adu or like a carriage house, but they were permitted in a different path because in a district like that you can there's a lot more flexibility. You could have two primary building forms, for example, and one just might just look like an idea. So even though there are many of our mixed use, some districts that have residential structures, the lots are treated much differently than they are if they were residentially zoned. So the example that I've used before at 38th and Eliot and I think the last time I brought this up, somebody said those were two separate lots. But the house behind the house in the front that was built is so close to the first structure, the initial structure that I it's hard for me to believe that they're separate lots and it's significantly bigger than the house and the front. So if people wanted to do that all up and down 38th Avenue, where these residential structures are that may be zoned as mixed use, they could continue to do the domino effect that happened with that house on the corner. Is that correct? Yes, I am familiar with the project at 38th and Eliot. And so the house is facing 38. And then there was just that homeowner may have owned the other lot at one point, but it's. Separated. Sold off separately and a project permitted by the mixed use zoning happened on it. That's much bigger than the house. Of course, they could have sold both the house and the other property and then a big, bigger project would have covered both. So because it's. It's a mixed use or commercial, there is no setbacks that typically are required in residential zones. That's right. Although there are building code restrictions that would, you know, generally mean that buildings have to have at least some separation unless they have a really high fire rating. Okay. And I know we're not talking about mixed use zones in this particular application, but I just had to understand and wrap my brain around how we're allowing that to happen and could see that happen all up and down a commercial corridor where what maybe once was zoned as residential structures, maybe. I don't know if this goes back to the 2010 zoning changes that happened that turn some of our commercial corners into mixed use, zoned districts, and now allow something that could not only impact, you know, the the corridor and potential parking for some of the businesses, but it then has an impact on the properties across the alley as well. So I don't know that that's something that we're looking at to do a fix on or if we think that that is just okay to happen. And I don't know how many commercial corridors we zoned or up zoned from residential structures to commercial that this would apply to. But I think it'd be worth looking into to see, you know, where we would then create this domino effect that then has neighbors screaming at all of us for something that may be an unintended consequence. So I just wanted to raise that. Thank you. Great. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. Abe, did you have any response or. Yes, Councilwoman Ortega, I'll just mentioned that we we are looking at those kinds of concerns. We probably put it more in the bucket of the blueprint recommendations that talk about the design character of our commercial centers and corridors and how they transition to residential areas. And we actually have on our wish list a project to look at, look at those centers and corridors across the city and the zoning tools that apply there. We don't have it on the immediate schedule, so it's probably, you know, a couple of years away. But that's, I think, an important conversation to have. I don't know the specific history of 38, but a lot of those corridors, even before 2010, did have some kind of commercial zoning, even though in many cases they have some single unit houses still on them. Thanks. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Abe. Councilmember Sawyer. Thanks, Madam President. Abe just wanted to say thank you. We discovered this story in the rezoning in East Colfax, which is in the Southern District. And it's a real simple, straightforward, quick change that was fixing a clerical error and just wanted to say thank you for that. Thanks. All right. Thank you. Councilmember Sawyer, the public hearing this closed comments by members of Council on Council Bill 1332. It looks like we don't have any comments and so happy to support this correction this evening. Madam Secretary, I just want to make sure council members. Okay, you're you're not in the queue for comment. I'm not. It's just deleting me out for some reason. Okay. All right. Very good. Just wanted to make sure, Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 1332. Please see about the. Quite. I. Flynn. I. Herndon, i. I. Cashman. Ortega, i. Senator I. Sawyer, i. Torres, i. What i. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 11 811 Eyes Council Bill 21 Dash 1332 has passed. Thank you for being here and doing that presentation. On Tuesday, January 18th, 2022, Council will hold the required public hearing on Council Bill 21, Dash 1455 changing the zoning classification for 2000 Blake Street in five points

Petition for a special law regarding an Act to make certain changes in the law relative to the Historic Beacon Hill District.

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Mr. Clark, can you please read docket 063900. Sorry, I got to refer that to a committee. Docket 0638 will be referred to the Committee on Boston's COVID 19 recovery. Thank you, Ms.. Clark. Mr. Clark, can you please read Docket 0639.0639? Councilors Bach and Flynn offered the following the petition for a special law regarding an act to make certain changes in the law relative to the historic Beacon Hill District. Thank you, Mr. Clark. The chair now recognizes Councilor Bach. Councilor Bach, you have the floor. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. And thank you to Councilor Flynn for joining me in this. I'm going to speak on both of our behalf. Councilor Flynn and I have the benefit of sharing together the representation of Beacon Hill, and we'll have more working sessions under your remit, Mr. Chair, and opportunity to talk in greater detail. I'll be brief. Basically, when the Beacon Hill historic district extended down the North Slope in 1963, the city was poised to build our fire station on Cambridge Street, and people didn't want it to interfere. And so a very narrow strip of the last sort of 40 feet before Cambridge Street was excluded from the district in order to not have that complication. Now, there is the big project going on up on the other side of Cambridge Street and concern about some of the historic buildings, including the pepper building that's mentioned here from the 1890s that run on the Beacon Hill brick side of Cambridge Street. So the main thrust of this docket, and it's come to us from the Beacon, also the association and residents in the neighborhood is just to complete that last 40 feet of the district, which is something that I think most people assume is already in place, but actually technically isn't. So it's that and then a couple of other technical fixes to that. This is a home rule petition because the Beacon Hill historic district is in state statute. And so the first step would be amending it here at the council and then it would have to go up to the state. So just to say that this is something that has been discussed for a while and the Beacon Hill community and so folks have asked us to bring it forward. And I'm really pleased to be joining the council president and bring it forward today. So thank. You. Thank you. Councilor Bracken. Anyone else like to speak on this matter? What anyone else like to add their name would add their name. I would. Okay. Chair Now recognized Councilor Fernandes Anderson. I think you know what else can I say? There's nothing to say here except that this offer is a beacon of hope. And as long as we hope, we will never be over the hill. No, it's just. Come on, you guys are relying on me. So it's tough on. It's all right thing. The U.S. electorate heads when anyone else likes to speak on this matter. Seeing no one would anyone else like to add their name. Mr. Clarke, please add Councilor Braden, please add Councilor Coletta, please add Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Please add Councilor Flaherty, please that Councilor Lara please add Councilor Lui Jen please ad councilor me here please add Councilor Murphy and please add my name as well. Docket 0639 will be referred to the Committee on Government Operations. Thank you, Ms.. Clarke. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Royal. At this time, I'd also like to acknowledge a friend of the council, Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Clerk, please read dockets. 0640 in 0641 together please.

AN ORDINANCE relating to street and sidewalk use; addressing low impact development requirements in the City of Seattle’s Phase I Municipal Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System general permit issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology; correcting typographical errors and section references, clarifying regulations, and making minor amendments; and amending Sections 15.02.042, 15.02.044, 15.02.046, 15.04.010, 15.04.035, 15.06.050, 15.20.070, 15.22.060, 15.22.080, 15.22.100, 15.22.110, 15.32.160, 15.36.010, 15.44.030, 15.46.020, 15.70.030, 15.72.010, and 15.91.016 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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The Report of the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item 17 Council Bill 118525 Relating to street and sidewalk use. Addressing low impact development requirements in the City of Seattle's Phase one Municipal Stormwater National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit issued by the Washington State Department of Ecology. Thank you. That's sufficient there. Councilmember Meg shot this one. And the next item, which is 118523, are companion items. Earlier this year, this council approved changes in the city's stormwater code. And the stormwater code requires city departments to review all development related codes and rules that would encourage low impact development and remove any barriers to implementing these strategies. This bill amends the Seattle Municipal Code to integrate the low impact development into land development code standards and rules. Are you still excited and awake and not implementing the proposed legislation would be a violation of the city's permit. Such violation is subject to $37,500 fine per violation per day penalty. So we definitely want to pass this. This first one pertains to Seattle Department of Transportation and the next item. 118523. It's exactly the same. And it pertains to Seattle Public Utilities. And we recommend passage for both. Right. Any questions on item 17? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Picture by Gordon Gonzalez Harrell. I. Lucara. I. Rasmussen and President Burgess seven in favor and opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 18 through the first semicolon.

AN ORDINANCE vacating a portion of the alley in Block 6, A.A. Denny’s Second Addition, in the block bounded by University Street, 1st Avenue, Seneca Street, and 2nd Avenue, in Downtown, and accepting a Property Use and Development Agreement, on the petition of HS 2U Owner, LLC (Clerk File 314320).

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Agenda Item three Council Bill 120282 An ordinance vacating a portion of the alley and block six A.A. Denny Second Edition. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. As chair of that committee, I'll provide any report on this item. As with the previous item on our agenda. This project is at the second and final stage for approval. This item is an allegation conceptually approved back in 2016 with Council Bill 12032. We are essentially recognizing that statute and our own central staff have confirmed the applicant has met and will meet the public benefit and other conditions previously adopted by the city. Our committee unanimously recommended approval of this bill. Colleagues, are there any comments? Okay. Will the clerk please call a role on the passage of the bill? Now, remember Lewis? Yes. Councilmember Morales. Yes. Councilmember Mosquera. I. Councilmember Sawant. Yes. Council member Herbold. Yes. Council President Pro Tem Petersen. Yes. Six in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will a clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Look, clerk, please read item four into the records.

Presentation on the CASA Compact; and Recommendation to Direct the Interim City Manager to Incorporate State Legislation Introduced to Implement the CASA Compact into the City’s Legislative Agenda. (City Manager 2110)

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60 is a presentation on the COSA Compact and a recommendation to the interim city manager to incorporate state legislation introduced to implement the cost contract into the city's legislative agenda. Good evening, Mayor Council. I'm Debbie Potter, the city's community development director. At the January 2nd, 2019 City Council meeting, Council member Jim Odey provided a copy of the cost compact to the City Council and the community and requested that staff work with Bay Metro, the new Bag and MTC organization on a presentation of the cost of compact . We are fortunate to have Mr. Brad Paul, the deputy executive director of Bay Metro, with us this evening to provide that presentation. The Costa Compact was prepared by a blue ribbon task force of elected and civic leaders convened by a bag. And T.C., the task force, worked on the compact for over 18 months and published its results the compact in December of 2018. The compact is a 15 year emergency policy package intended to address the Bay Area's housing crisis. A key strategy for implementing the compacts recommendations is to introduce state legislation addressing the ten elements that Mr. Paul will present. Bills have now been introduced at the state level to address each of these elements, and staff is recommending that following Mr. Paul's presentation, council directed staff to incorporate that legislation into the city's legislative agenda and to track and comment on these bills as appropriate. And with that, I'd like to introduce Mr. Paul. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Thank you for that introduction. I am assuming this is the advance, sir, here. Yes. It's actually nice to be here and have this is the council, which is the committee to house the Bay Area. And it's not the only cost you heard about tonight. I thank all the people who worked on the other costs. It's probably a little less controversial than this one is. So what I wanted to talk about is where we are today in the process more than anything. Your staff has put together an excellent memo in your packets about how costly it was created, what it was meant to do, and the elements themselves. So I wanted to just go back one. This is interesting because this is one of these places where Alameda really stands out in a good way. As you probably know, one of the reasons that we have the crisis we do today is in the last few years, we've created 700,000 jobs in the Bay Area, but only 100,000 units of housing. And we refer to that as the job. Housing is the ratio of seven jobs to one unit of housing. This is county by county. How bad it has gotten. And in San Mateo, it's 17 jobs for one unit in Sonoma, 12 jobs, but in and 20 jobs per unit in Marin. But here in Alameda County, you're closest to the ideal, which is about one and a half jobs per unit of housing. You're at 4 to 1, so you actually get the best score. County going the. Wrong way. So we talk about often the three P's in Corsa, and that are the three things we're trying to do to make up for the fact that in the past we've failed to protect the current residents from displacement, failed to preserve some of the existing affordable housing, and failed to produce enough new housing to really meet the needs of the region. The way it was set up, we had a leadership team, three co-chairs, a developer, a nonprofit housing advocate, and someone from philanthropy Michael Korver, Ruby DMG, Leslie Consiglio from Silicon Valley at Home, an advocacy group, and Fred Blackwell from the San Francisco Foundation. And our up until recently executive director Steve Hemminger was our lead at MTC. A big yeah he has since retired at the end of February and again we had three co-chairs, a steering committee of 18 members, a technical committee of 32 members that broke down to three working groups around production, protection and preservation. The CASA Compact is made up of ten elements. It was finished in December of 2018. And as you all know, dealing with the press, the press loves short headlines. So the headline was that MTC approved CASA, that a sport gave it a thumbs up. And that's not what happened. What happened is each of those boards empty in December and a bag in January voted to allow their chair to sign it. They authorized the chairs to sign it with several caveats. First caveat was they didn't approve everything that was in the contract. The second caveat was they didn't approve any of the specific revenue ideas that are in there. And the reason they did this is they wanted to stay at the table and engage with the state legislature in the process we're in today, which is all these bills you've been reading about, some of which relate to causes some don't . Even before Costa started, the state was really going to work on housing. They did a lot of work on transportation in the last few sessions. They were going to focus on housing. So let me just go through the ten elements very quickly. The first one is just cause eviction policy. This would be to protect tenants from arbitrary evictions. It would set up a regional just cause eviction. It just says that landlords have to give an actual reason when they evict someone, both for cause, which is not paying your rent, destroying the unit or a fault, I mean, or no fault, which is that you had. The landlord wants to use the unit for a family member or for some other use. And I should say that if jurisdictions already have ordinances related to any of these elements in place, what's in the CASA Compact does not preempt what you do locally. Number two is establish a Bay Area emergency rent cap. This would be for 15 years, and where the cost to group landed was CPI plus 5%, which is about 8% in today's numbers. This was to have increases be a reasonable amount. Now what is reasonable people can disagree about that. And what they were striving for is a number that would protect tenants from what we're reading about where their rent goes up 30, 40% in a year, but also not make it so low that it made it impossible for developers to go out and build housing, get the financing they needed to do that. The state of Oregon just recently passed something like this rental assistance and access to legal counsel. This started off as a discussion about providing free legal assistance to low income tenants that were being given eviction notices. But the group came up with a better idea even, and that is that if there's some way for people that are facing an emergency, whether it's a loss of a job or a medical emergency, where they can't pay their rent for a couple of months rather than evict them and spend money on a lawyer to help them in that process, why not just give them emergency funding for a few months as well as other services they may need so they can stay where they are? So this is now about both remove regulatory barriers. Number four, to accessory dwelling units and number of cities in the Bay Area have done some excellent work around Adus and Junior Adus. The idea is to take the best practices from the region and have them apply to every community. One of the problems you probably heard about is cities may have fees, but some of the water districts were doing hookup fees that were the same as if you were building a new single family home. And this is when you were doing an Adu within the footprint of your building. So part of this would deal with impact fees being charged on a per square foot basis. Number five, minimum zoning, near transit. This is one of the most controversial. It talks about setting minimum height and zoning and density standards around high quality bus service and major transit stops. Your staff report has pointed out that the high quality bus service does not apply. It has to be busses that run on a 15 minute head away during the week and a half an hour headway on weekends. We did a map for this. It really only applies to San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, parts of Berkeley and San Leandro for the rest of the region, including your city. It would not apply. And it has. Has to do with making housing an eligible use on a large, commercially zoned parcels. What does that mean? You're probably all familiar with the Hilltop Mall in Richmond. It's not doing well and hasn't been doing well for a while. A developer I ran into out there when I was at a car event with my son on a weekend, told me that the city had just approved Richmond just approved about 8000 units of housing over a period of time there. And they're going to repurpose the mall for a safe way or some sort of shopping or grocery store in there for residents. And those are the kinds of things that make sense because of the land that's there and the fact that they're not being used as much anymore for mall use, good government reforms to the housing approval process. This is actually done in many communities throughout the Bay Area now, but not all. And it just requires that local jurisdictions create a publicly accessible format online where people can read about the rules, codes and standards that apply to residential applications. And when you decide now places deem complete, it also would strive to say that once you decide an application is complete, the rules, fees and historic designations are set in place. At that time, I'm sure all heard developers say that what they really don't like is when the rules change throughout the process. That's what the last thing is about for zoning compliant residential projects. No more than 310 oval public hearings. I didn't used to know what de novo meant, but I went to a lot of planning commission hearings and learned from the lawyers that it means how many you have before you start over again. So if you have a project and it doesn't change at all, there would be three public hearings. But if you're planning commission, the developer and the community got together and said, You know what, we should make some changes. That starts the clock again. And there's three more hearings after that. Number seven, expedite approvals and financial incentives for missing middle housing. Missing middle is usually referred to as housing. And the 82 either 120, 150% of AMI. In this case, it would accelerate approval for zoning compliant projects that provide on site affordability for a missing middle, where at least 20% of the units are between 50 and up between 80 and under 50% of EMI pays prevailing wage and uses apprentice labor. Now, you see here a list of incentives that were thrown out by the Castle group as examples. The first one, which is very controversial, is a 15 year property tax increment abatement modeled after New York City program. We learned recently that this is unconstitutional in California, so it's off the list. Others would be lowering impact fees, creating extra density bonuses and reducing parking minimums. Unlock public land for housing, promote increased utilization of both surplus and underutilized public land for affordable housing. Now, this is also a little bit controversial. I'm doing this now two, three or four times a week around the region doing presentations in order to get feedback. And what people say is in the East Bay, what we'd like to see is more jobs. Right now, one of the big imbalances is you get lots of jobs and not a lot of housing built over the last ten years in the West Bay, in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara in the East Bay, you've done a much better job of building housing, but haven't gotten the jobs. And so what we could do is sit with the number of things we do. But one is to set aside some of your surplus land for creating new job centers and new places where jobs could move to. But where it's it makes sense. We like to figure out ways to help you use surplus and underutilized public land for housing. Number nine, and this is again, one of the more controversial ones. This is how do you finance it? This chart just shows you how they came up with a $1.5 billion goal for how much they'd like to try to raise. And what you see in the upper left is if you were to average 24,000 households a year, that you would help with rental assistance and legal assistance that would cost $50 Million. Trying to fund 14,000 units of new housing a year affordable at 150,000 per unit would come to 2.1 billion and of subsidizing or preserving market rate and subsidize affordable housing at a little bit less, 100,000 a unit would cost 4750 units $376 million a year for a total of 2.5 billion. The cost groups came up with trying to figure out a way to raise 1.5. This is the chart that both MTC and the ABC board said they do not support. This is a menu of potential sources of funding. If every sector, property owners, housing developers, employers, etc. contributed something. There used to be twice as many on here. Then there were half as many. Now this is what is a menu of just potential ideas. A menu to to look at. To give you a couple of examples of what I hear when I go around is people hate on the left for property owners regional parcel tax. We just did this recently for the Bay Area and people say that parcel taxes are one of the only ways that local government has to raise more. Money to pay for housing, infrastructure, schools, parks. So to the extent that you go and take something that is one of the few sources local government has, that's a problem for a lot of local governments. On the far right, where you see half cent regional sales tax. Same response that I've gotten as we've gone along around here all but are worried about hitting up against the 10% sales tax. And so the closer we get to that, if we use it for this, it gives you less leeway going forward for schools, for open space, for all the things that you need to fund as a little community. Now, I will say there's a lot of support for the 1% vacant homes tax on the upper left, because we're seeing more and more homes in the Bay Area that are being kept vacant as investments not being used as housing. And this is being done now in Vancouver and in in Paris. There's also a lot of sentiment that we should have the people who are causing the problem during the most jobs help pay for that. That's what the developers variable commercial linkage fee does. And on the only employers side, the gross receipts tax, both of those are arranged again, if you do a range where you charge a higher amount in the West Bay, where there's lots of job development and charge a lower rent in the East Bay where you're trying to get the jobs to move to, it helps make that happen as a policy matter. Again, these are just rough numbers. But for whatever amount of money is raised, up to 10% would be for local jurisdiction incentives, up to 10% for 1010 and protection services for affordable housing preservation up to 20%. And for affordable housing production a minimum of 60% of the money raised. But we've heard from people that we should probably combine the last two so that in different times in the building cycle, in the economy, you might want to switch to preserving existing affordable housing and other times switch more resources to building new affordable housing. 75% of the money spent would be spent within the county of origin. Under what was proposed, 25% would go to a regional program for revenue sharing, and this would be subject to ongoing performance and policy outcomes. And again, number ten, regional housing enterprise is one of the more misunderstood ones. It would be to establish a regional leadership entity to fund affordable housing track and report progress in all of these and provide incentives, direct incentives and technical assistance to cities and counties. It would not have direct land use or zoning authority or play any regulatory or enforcement role. It would have an independent board made up of people from MTC and air bags, boards and some other key stakeholders and be staffed by the MTC, a big consolidated staff. There were several other calls to action in the report that they couldn't get to. One is redevelopment 2.0. Is there a way to bring back tax increment financing? Lower the voting threshold for housing fund measures to 55%. Address the fiscal ization of land use with which is what Prop 13 do with some Prop 13 reforms. If you preserve and build more affordable housing, it helps prevent homelessness. But you're all dealing with homelessness now. And so what can we do about that? And finally, grow and stabilize the construction of labor force on a on the schedule. The CASO was the document was signed by the participants, including a representative of AIRBAG and MTC in January. The legislative packets that are now being talked about in Sacramento have some or to do with parts of the cost ten elements. Others are totally different. And so what we're going to be doing now when we get to the last slide. There are over 200 bills in Sacramento. As I said, the two boards that empty and bag authorize the chair to sign it, but did not support everything in it. Didn't support those revenue numbers I should put up there. They are taking this action to stay at the table, engaging the legislature there. Each has a legislative committee and they will take every bill and every piece of this and debate it and decide whether they want to support it, oppose it, support it with amendments or oppose it until amended. They've instructed staff, myself and a number of the people to go out and talk to all of you, to city and county organizations, to tell you where things stand now and to get your input and a bag established. An ad hoc local government committee to directly advise both the air bag and MTC legislator legislative committees on these bills. And Madam Mayor, I understand you're a member of that committee, along with the mayor of Fremont for Alameda County. I am. And then finally, the cities and counties are already engaging with the California League of Cities, which is very involved in this. And the legislators are going to be making decisions about these bills as they come up. So that's the end of my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. And do we have any clarifying questions from the council? She'll get our public speakers come back to the council. Okay. So thank you and nice presentation. We have an increasing number of public speakers. Okay. Thank you. All right. I have three have. Speakers in this order. Catherine Pauling. Brian Maguire. William Smith. Ms.. Pauling. I gathered calling Dear Mayor, Vice Mayor and council members. Forgive me. I'm going to read this for my phone. On behalf of the Alameda Renters Coalition, I'm submitting this brief statement and response. Tonight's Agenda Item six B on the Classic Compact, our exposition on the classic compact alliance with the Regional Tenants Together position. We send you a letter. There is going to be an attachment so you can read it yourself. While we appreciate the attention paid to tenant protections. Like just cause eviction and rent control. We deeply disagree with CASA on the following points. One Their last minute change on just cause to omit relocation assistance for owner move in evictions and to leave out tenants in their first year of tenancy. Second point the recommendation of regional and perhaps statewide rent cap that far exceeds the Regional Consumer Price Index. We and Alameda know that 5% each and every year is unsustainable. This is even higher. Their lack of insistence on tenant protections and new revenues for affordable housing before applying zoning and streamlining changes and the relatively low amount of funding 30%. And actually I think it's even lower now for tenant protections and affordable housing preservation, while very low income and low income price points remain the furthest behind and housing availability. For these reasons and others outlined in the Tenants Together article ARC urges the City Council to do better than the CASA compacts and adequate recommendations and move to implement the twin pillars of an essential local rent stabilization policy. Basically rent control, at least an annual cap of 4% or less, and a three year cumulative cap of no more than 10% and have true just cause evictions protections without any emissions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Brian Maguire and Bill Smith. William Smith. Good evening. I think I generally agree with Catherine sentiments on the tenant protection side. I think Alameda can push for this compact to hopefully have the strongest, viable, you know, passable tenant protections in it for the region. I think Alameda hopefully soon will be enacting stronger protections than what this compact calls for. And on the production side, I think this also is an opportunity for us to hold our neighbors accountable. I think Alameda is doing a comparatively decent job on the production side, at least aspirationally trying to get housing built and supplied at all levels for the community. And this as the those numbers in the presentation show just how bad, you know, some of our peninsula neighbors and the incentives are all wrong, obviously, and they have been for a generations on how we fund cities and how we, you know, our tax structure and what we can do prefers job creation over housing production. And that's one reason is because one thing that's missing from this is so a lot of trying to capture fees from new things that happen. But the sort of the horse is already out of the barn, right? All the the land value the the value that this economy and this housing crisis has all are all that wealth has already been shifted to incumbent landowners. So this company should be looking as aggressively as possible at ways to capture some of that value back from from those who just happened to purchase property at the right time and then capitalize off the wealth that's been generated by the economy. And most most of that wealth has gone to, you know, something like 80% goes to incumbent landowners and not to the actual people in the economy that are doing the work that's creating that value and whether it's Silicon Valley or any other part of part of the economy. So I think we should definitely push for those items to be as strong as possible and support it, because we're trying to do our part. And I'm I'm optimistic that this council is doing its part. And this is where we can convince our community and that we are also pushing our neighbors to to do their part. Thank you, William Smith. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity, Madam Chair and members of the Council. I'm William Smith, a resident of Alameda, and I've been working on housing in this city for a number of decades now. I'd like to say that the two semis that go right to the point that presented by the speaker, the housing plan is going to make the problems much worse. And it needs major reforms in these major changes. Urban habitat did not sign off on it because of many of the same reasons and more that were cited by my Catherine Pauling. So it's a problem. The fundamental flaw in the whole problem is the and Brian McGuire hit on this, too, is the emphasis on jobs creation. Yes, the East Bay has done a better job than the peninsula in producing jobs, housing, but we're still producing more jobs on the East Bay than housing on our own. So it's not going to help to minimize our housing and bring the jobs over here. So we just absolutely have to find more funding for housing. There is no question about it. And you'll hear more from me later if I mean, if it doesn't go to late tonight on a couple of the other later items on the agenda on that topic. But a lot of people are getting very concerned about this. And when you read the headlines, more jobs created in Santa Clara County last week and then in many, many years, I just cringed because that means more homelessness is coming, more people are going to be moving out and so on. And so that's definitely going to be a turn around in the next decade to job creation is going to be seem a pariah and not a not a good thing. Thank you, Mr. Smith. Okay. That's my last speaker. So of closing public comment, do we have council comments before we entertain in motion? Vice Mayor Knox Quite right. I guess a quick question. I don't know who whether it's for Andrew or somebody on staff, but I was a little caught by surprise and I missed it in our our staff report. But the presentation says that we have no high quality bus service and yet the 51 AA meets all the criteria. Plus we have ferry terminals, both of which meet the criteria. Is there something that opts us out? Because the presentation said we don't actually meet that. Who's taking it, Ms.. Potter? So I will start and then maybe Mr. Paul will have more to add. But MTC produced a map based on the definition of a high quality bus transit route, and that's a separate category than the ferries. We recognize that we have the ferry service here and the high quality bus service was defined as 15 minute headways during the week and a 30 minute headways on the weekend. And MTC mapped it for the nine counties. And so I just relied on the map that and Tsay prepared. Okay, said. Mr.. Paul. And that's the reason I'm here, is to see if we made any mistakes. We had the same comment in Contra Costa County the other night, but I found out from one of their planning directors that they have 15 minute during the week, 30 minute on Saturday, but on Sunday they have 45 minutes. So that may be why or if there is a mistake, just let us know and we'll correct the maps. The 51 A is I looked 50 minutes Saturday and Sunday in 10 minutes. All all peak period. Then it should then that should count though. Just want to make sure. I say. Thank you. And did I see whose hands did I see? You can go talk to Councilmember Dave. You know I a at some east bay league a city meetings I hear a lot of concern about the cost of capac being raised, particularly by officials representing cities from contra costa county cities. And I see some merit in a lot of the concerns about the cost of compact. I would not want our city to make any decisions regarding the cost of compact tonight. For example, you know, the debate is still on about just cause eviction. You know, my my position on just cause eviction. I'm not supportive of just cause eviction. And if that's one of the arrows in the council quiver, I have to be very concerned about that. Strangely enough, Alameda Rental Coalition appears to be concerned about how just cause eviction is framed as well. So that's a concern. And this whole thing about what's a reasonable rent increase, you know, I like what we the city of Alameda had arrived at back in 2015, early 2016, as 5% as a trigger, a threshold trigger for dealing for implementing our local rent stabilization measures. You know, I if you're talking about the Bay Area CPI on top of 5%, I mean, we could be talking about 9% as being a reasonable rent increase or even 10% rate increase. So we're going to have to be clear as to what we mean by CPI. I mean Bay Area or Western regional CPI, very different from national CPI. So again, that's an area of concern. And frankly, you know, if 15 minute headways along Santa Clara Avenue as a result of the AC Transit 51, a bus line means that, you know, we would be subject to the cost of provision regarding minimum zoning, near transit line lines. I would be concerned about that. I would be concerned about that because of, you know, for a lot of the reasons stated by the Contra Costa County stakeholders, they're concerned about the loss of local prerogative. So for me, I think there still a lot of questions that are outstanding regarding the CASA this afternoon, the second CASA matter. So I'm not ready to to give any recommendations about this. You know, I would say this much, though. I think if we're going to do any recommendations, I think, you know, we need to know, you know, in what specific ways are we vulnerable as a city, vulnerable to, um, to the CASA Compact if, if it passes as presented, if, if the just cause evictions are there or if the 5%, 8%, I think, I think he need to go through I don't line by line analysis of of of of the regulatory effects to Alameda. And also, you know, maybe this isn't related to the COSA compact, but I understand that assembly member from San Francisco, I think his name is David Chiu, wants to create a regional housing body that has a taxing authority. And I understand, you know, why we pay taxes. But for many of the things that we put our money towards, our tax money towards our property, tax money towards you know, there is there's a connection between the service that we as taxpayers receive. We put our money and then, you know, we are potentially we can potentially take part. We pay we can pay taxes that goes to BART or we pay taxes that goes towards mosquito abatement. Well, you know, mosquito abatement people locally around town to help resolve I think if there's going to be a parcel tax on property, on homeowners for rental assistance, I think that has to be discussed a little bit more because I don't see the the the the nexus there. So I, I think I think there's a lot of people in positions of power who are running around like chickens with their head cut off, trying to come up with any solution and throwing it on the board and not really giving it the deliberation that it deserves. So at this point, I would suggest that we accept the presentation on CASA and do within our own City Hall, do our more of our own homework. So I'm actually going to take the next time to speak just because I want people to be clear on what we are being asked to do tonight and what we're not being asked to do. So this is simply we're being asked to direct the interim city manager to incorporate state legislation introduced to implement the CASA Compact into the city's legislative agenda. And I can tell you, incidentally, Councilmember Amelia Vella and I will sit on a statewide policy committee on Housing, Community and Economic Development for this League of California Cities. And next week, we're going to be in where are we going to be? Southern California, somewhere called Costa mesa, maybe. Anyway, we're going to be at our statewide policy committee and I'm sure we're going to be looking over a lot of the proposed legislation. It is proposed legislation. I think there's something like 2700 bills have come to the legislature. I was honored to be voted by the mayors of Alameda County to be one of two representatives on this legislative task force that will consider proposed legislation that would be needed to implement the CASA Compact, because right now it is just this collection of principles. I mean, some of them are fleshed out more than others. And one of the things and Councilmember Desai is right, this is not without controversy. Can anyone name any issue today? That is not without controversy, but it is. Housing in our state is such an important issue. And one thing we've learned from our housing policy committee is every city in the state has to do its part. But that's not to say that every city in the state has to do the same thing. And so one of the criticisms about the CASA Compact is it tended to be this collection of big city mayors who got together and they have big problems and they implemented solutions that address their big problems. But it is also true that we have cities that are housing rich. We have cities that are jobs rich, and yet we feel the impact. And I would call Alameda more housing rich than jobs rich. And yet every time you try to leave the island to get to work, unless you're on the ferry, you're going to run into traffic congestion. But the point is, we need to look at this. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away, doesn't make it go better. Has the final solution been reached? Is this going to be without controversy? No, but we're rolling up our sleeves. And I think all. The. Points that Councilmember de SAC raised are fair points that need to be in a discussion. But tonight, we are neither accepting or rejecting anything. We're just saying we want to have a say in the legislation. And I just saw our state senator, Nancy Skinner, on Sunday, and she just texted me this evening to say, I want to discuss my housing bill with you. I think it's more moderate. So I mean, there's lots of lots of work yet to do, but we got to get started. So with that, who's next? Councilmember Vella. Madam Mayor, to your point, I think that of the thousands of bills that are being considered by the legislators in this session, a fair percentage of them actually touch on housing, housing in various capacity. It is. And I think it behooves us to to really consider the legislation that is being tied to this and to to play a part and to to really have a say in terms of what ends up happening. And so I think that that's really what we're trying to do tonight with what's before us. And I think that it's important that we do have our say in it and that we keep track of it, because when the state does decide to implement different things, we want to be able to know what's coming down the pipeline and we want to be able to advocate for Alameda and for all means when the time comes. And I also think that it's a regional issue and this is part of having a regional conversation and trying to work together on these issues . We may not always agree, but I think part of what this is trying to do is to at least identify the issue areas in the concern areas, we may not agree on the solution or the pathway to get there, but it's part of having that important dialog that's going to get us where we need to go. So thank you, Councilman Brody. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll get to go next. I call. On you. Yes. I appreciate the presentation and the work, Ms.. Potter, you've done to to synthesize this for the council. And I was at the League of Cities meeting to where concept presented to the folks from the East Bay region. And, you know, I got a different take from it than my colleague. Respectfully, the controversy to me was a lot of the people that are not doing their share still are trying to fight this because this was a solution that would force them to do their share. So that to me tells me we're headed in the right direction. And I don't view this as the be all, end all. I don't view this as, you know, the ceiling on what we can do to help alleviate the housing crisis. I view it as a floor and then we can expand on it like and I think, for example, the fact that a regional body recognized that there is an issue with displacement and an issue with rents and an issue with evictions, enough to say that there needs to be a regional solution that includes just cause some type of rent cap for a temporary period, and this idea of rental assistance for tenants to help pay their rent so they're not displaced. I mean, that's something that, you know, I think is something that's worthwhile, that we shouldn't just shut out. I think it's something we really need to think about. You know, we've talked about here in Alameda the missing middle and how workforce we call it workforce housing, middle middle income, housing, whatever you want to call it. You know, it's nice to see that, you know, policy decision makers at a regional level and now at the state level understand that this this is a problem. And we've known it's a problem for quite some time. And the whole idea and I think this is, I think, instructive for us as a body and for our staff is, you know, public land for housing. I mean, we've seen one proposal to sell public land come to us that didn't include additional housing. I mean, we kind of had some restrictions because of historical the historical significance of the building. But we saw another one that was pulled off the agenda that didn't have any housing. So I think we need to think first. And I said this Saturday, you know, housing needs to be at the top of the list when when our staff evaluates potential projects, whether they're, you know, in Emacs or multifamily or in commercial zones . And, you know, we had to be part of the solution and transient aurion development. If we're serious about our transportation goals, about getting cars off the road and reducing greenhouse emissions, it's going to be with dense housing on transit lines or near places like BART stations and ferry stations. I mean, there's just no way around that. So I think to say that, you know, we shouldn't do that or we should like soft pedal, let her slow pedal it because that might be resistance. Well, I mean, the resistance to housing is why we're in this problem. And I'm really glad that somebody stepped up and kind of outlined the reasons. And I would be more than happy to make sure that we put this on our legislative agenda. We follow it and we make sure that we're part of the solution and that our neighbors are part of the solution. Because, you know, I think we've done a pretty good job, but a lot of our neighbors haven't. And we're not going to solve this problem on our own. We're going to need tools. And I think we need hammers for some of these cities like Lafayette and Walnut Creek and places like that to actually, you know, do the things that need to be done in order to meet this crisis. So I appreciate all the work done by. Our staff and buy a bag, an empty seat to bring this forward. Thank you, Mr. De Vice Mayor. Not quite. Well, first, I'm going to say Jim took everything I was going to say. So I got you back for the last time. No, I for for me, I'll be really short because I agree with the majority of the comments from from my colleagues. You know, we are in this problem because we have not tried to address it. Everybody has pointed at somebody else. And it's going to be uncomfortable when we get around to finally addressing this. And it's you know, it's a hard conversation and nobody wants there wants to see changes to their community. But at the same time, nobody wants to see their neighbors move out. And they are displaced through rents, displaced because of their commutes, etc.. And so, you know, former Vice Mayor Avella, Councilmember Vela, you know, said, you know, we we need a seat at the table. We need to be pushing on this. I said when Councilmember Odie brought this the cost fact sheet forward, our first member meeting in January. It may not be perfect, but it aligns very much with the work that we have been doing here. I think to say that 18 months worth of work on behalf of the cast of compact folks is just people throwing ideas at the wall to see if it'll stick. I think that's that's kind of unfair, quite honestly. And while I can see that some people don't agree with it or necessarily want to want to look at this more, I think also it's really important that folks here who have had to listen to us all talk so much also leave that they are these are these are very intelligent people who have worked really hard with in large groups to try to identify good ways forward. And hopefully what we can leave with is the idea that doing the same thing that we've been doing for 40 years is not going to solve the problem. So with that, I would like to make a motion that we direct our interim city manager to incorporate into the city's legislative legislation agenda, incorporate incorporate our incorporate the concept, compact into our legislative agenda. And I'll second that. Do you mind if I say a. Couple things, Madam Chair? Well, I don't know. Maybe I need to hear that. You know, was a brief. It is brief. I would just point out figure three on on page seven of the of the costs a compact or I think it's page 13 out of 40 and which shows the map of rent increases from 2010 to 2016. Or it kind of says two things 2010 to 2016 and 2011 to 2016. In either way, what's alarming is that increase greater than 30% is is a is a broad swath of Alameda. And I think that thematically that's what we've heard from our renters groups and things like that. And I do want to I do want to point out that that, you know, this is, you know, to Councilmember Otis point, this is about getting people to focus on on kind of problem definition and figuring out general solutions. It's not to say that we're planning to ignore that. And obviously different communities have been impacted differently by these issues. But I think some of these maps can be very visually helpful in terms of showing and reinforcing what we've heard from from some of our constituents here. Thank you. And so we had a motion second and we want to have some discussion. Councilmember So. Real quick. Point. I think what would help the city of Alameda get its ducks in a row as it deals with either of the regional CASA? And I want to say regional CASA to distinguish that from the local CASA or housing legislations coming from Sacramento. What would help the residents get our ducks in a row is if we, in a comprehensive manner update our general plan, because then that will really begin to have neighbors giving input as to what they see, what they want to have in their neighborhoods with regard to things like accessory dwelling units, etc.. So I think that's important. Thank you. All right. We have a motion. We have a second all in favor. I opposed one opposed to the motion passes with four eyes. And yes. All you have to do is ask for EIS in when? In opposition. All right, council, quick decision here. I am going to call a break before we hear the hotel item with 56 speaker subs today. And do you want to hear this next item? And then take a break you and take a break now. And let's not take too long to make that decision because the idea is to keep things moving quickly now. Quick break now. Okay. 5 minutes. No, it's 5 minutes. Don't go too. Far. Okay. Okay.

Summary Title: Approve Actions to Implement the Alameda Point Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plan Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the City of Alameda to Ratify the TDM Fee Amount for Existing Tenants in Alameda Point; Recommendation to Allow a Pass Through of the TDM Fees from Existing Tenants in Alameda Point to the Alameda Transportation Management Association (TMA); and Recommendation to Allow a Pass Through of the Special Taxes Generated for Transportation Purposes from Property Owners within Community Facilities District 17-1 (CFD 17-1) at Alameda Point to the Alameda TMA. (Base Reuse 819099)

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And this is to approve actions to implement the only two point transportation demand management plan, including adoption of a related resolution and a recommendation to allow pass through of fees and a recommendation to allow pass through of special taxes. Okay. And the public speaker. Okay. Yeah, the public speaker on this one is Michael McCarron. But the USS Hornet. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Members of the council. Good evening. I am Michael McCarron. I'm the executive director of the US's Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum. As you're aware, the Hornet is a 5.3 sea charity. We received no funding from the federal, state or local government to operate the museum. What you have before you is a proposal to pass on assessments to the Hornet for transportation plan. This year, the Hornet will be assessed $4,000. Next year, 8000. And in 2020. $12,000. I'll be brief and to the point. These assessments propose a serious financial challenge for us in spite of numerous new programs, a revamp marketing campaign and broadening different Grammy demographics. The number of our annual visitors, unfortunately, remains flat. We are now in the process of developing a capital improvement plan. So the thought of having to pass these costs of these assessments onto our existing visitors and our members would be self-defeating in our effort to raise capital funds to maintain the ship properly and safely. I respect the request you tables plan until a comprehensive demand analysis can be looked at to see what the visitor benefit would be for the Hornet. Because right now we see none and it would not benefit our employees as well, because none of our employees would use any of the proposed options. I thank you for your time. Thank you. I believe he's the only speaker on this item, not. A mere. Member. I would request a brief staff report. It doesn't have to be a full thing, but just maybe to give the public an overview of what is the issue at hand. Sure. I'll go ahead and start, Jennifer. Acting Assistant City Manager and Gayle Payne, senior transportation coordinator, is here to support us as well. The City Council and May of 2014 adopted a Alameda Point Transportation Demand Management Plan, which was that all employers and residents are property owners, developers, employers participate in helping to fund and participate in programs related to transportation demand management to minimize car trips from al to and from Alameda point. So a major part of in fact a mitigation as part of the environmental impact report for Alameda point something that we've been developing for for many years the city the first development is implementing and this is an attempt to take additional measures to implement that program, including bringing in our existing employers on board to this this process. We held three or four community workshops with all with the tenants went over numerous different over the course of a year, numerous different options, looked at different options and then ultimately decided on the program that's being proposed here that the primary source of is include essentially all employees of all the businesses there will be will have access to essentially free easy passes paid for by the employers. And then we're modifying the line 96 with AC transit help to expand and have a wider catchment of of Alameda point in that's looking to be implemented at the end of this year . So this is in line with the team plan for by the council the project area committee for Alameda Point that's part of the nonprofit that now that Alameda TMA or the transportation management association that oversees implementing team programs both at both Northern Waterfront and Point, they unanimously approved this program. So did the board of the Alameda TMA and really here to ratify this or the council. That's right. So I think are you going to do do does the clock work? Are you supposed to be keeping track of the clock on this part? Yeah. Okay. And I'm going to go to member Ashcraft. So thank you, miss. My questions are in the approval. The process of approving this program will mean that the Council adopted it. But was any consideration given for a special category 450133? And now we have the U.S. Hornet. Hornet, we have the Alameda Naval Air Station Museum. Was there any consideration given to special categories? And then were concerns like the one the gentleman just articulated, raised during the the process of of sharing this with the different entities at the point. You know, there was a lot of discussion about different uses and whether or not they fell into certain categories. And because of that input, we actually segregated the rates. We had one rate initially that we had proposed and we ended up putting the other different rates and even hybrid rates because of the different uses there to try to address the issues that folks raised about being having different types of uses, some more intense than others, potentially generating more traffic than others. And so we did look at that and I think in the case of the Hornet, even worked with the Hornet because of the square footage being very different, really trying to reduce that and minimize that. And did talk about that. We you had an important collaborative here you have the other they're all paying this fee because we we everyone I mean everyone we our hope is really everyone. And that if we start exempting people from the fee, that there's a lot of reasons other employers may want to be exempted as well. And then it really starts to open the door for, you know, not full participation in the team program. And we think that essentially undermines the overall program. Thank you. Any other questions? So in regards to the Hornet. Their rates are going to go from 4008, whatever he just said. Right. So does that mean what does that mean? We're not going to have the Hornet around. No, I don't. I mean, the question this was originally this rate and this amount was negotiated with the previous executive director. And this is the first I've heard that this would be a financial hardship. I hadn't heard that before was not appropriate before that today with regard. Okay, so now you've heard that financial hardship, you do like having the horn in town. So then the staff have a proposal of going back. What do you propose at this point? I think it's what the council would like to do. So there are other there are other tenants that also had questions about this. And they have essentially gotten on board with the idea that we tried to be very responsive by reducing the overall program to a very minimal program to start really wanting to start something small. That was one of their big concerns. So that's what we've done. We also bifurcated the rates to respond to that. And at the last meeting we had with a lot of with the tenants. There was general support for a much more limited program, which is what's before you today and try to minimize the impacts and the fees on the tenants, especially as this program starts to get up and running. And we've tried to be very responsive to all the comments we received from the different tenants. So do you have a list of the tenants that supported this and the list of the tenants that did not? And we did not take we didn't take a vote, but we had a final community workshop after four community workshops, and there was essential general support for proposing the financial plan that you have here. And then the project area committee that actually is made up of tenants at the base voted for this and recommended it. And then the table had a. List of who the tenants are that are on that committee that voted for it. Sure. Yeah. There's Representative Saint George Spirits Representative of the West Tower LLC. So SRM Ernst is on that. And then you have Joanna Hendrickson as well, representative in point developers and you have city staff myself on that. And then you have Doug Beggs, Executive Director of the A Point Collaborative, on that project. So you have two developers, one person from. A nonprofit. Developers, one nonprofit. And then one one business of spirituality. Four members comprising of to develop. In the city and my city. All right. So who came up with that composition? Because I think that's actually heavy in regards to that. 50% of the members are developers. It was in the bylaws and that was and so determined as part of the initial set up of the bylaws of the TMA and. Who said who set that up. So the said we we staff worked with the bylaws and with the community. And we asked we asked for nominations from the tenants. We did not receive any offers or nominations. We sent out emails to tenants asking for interests. And and those were the folks that ultimately agreed to serve. And we're representative of the interests in the bylaws and we need to have a representative of a largest property owner. We needed a representative of commercial interests and a residential interest city. And so those were so the largest. Property owner is. Well, the right now is the city because we own most of the property, but we as a proxy for that. We have Joe Ernst of SRM Ernst, who is part of the partners who now is the largest, who is now the largest property owner. So private property owner. So the city and developed Joe Ernst was in that position in the capacity as first a proxy for the city. Well know the city as the largest property owner essentially worked with the community and the tenants to determine who would be composed on that board because the city was the largest property owner, hadn't really transferred any property at the time that the bylaws and this nonprofit were formed, we went back out to the tenants and kind of sought out folks that represented the different interests. There's term is three years so at the and then the bylaws stipulate who essentially gets to serve. So at this point the largest developer will be element of point partners when the terms are up in three years. But the city sought out interests that represented the commercial interest, residential interests and then the largest property owner interests. And so it was SRM. Ernst Okay, so is it possible to have this go back with more input from community from community members in a more public process? Do you have a very public option today? It was a very public process. It's been no to all of the. So we've had three or four community workshops with the tenants. We then advertised the project area committee meeting. So just a matter that. Has to be voted on today or could we have more time to look at the sites? I think what if there's an interest in reviewing the Hornets amount and whether or not that seems fair? The council could kind of ask the TMA board to take another look in the project area committee, to take another look at that amount and determine whether or not they think that's an appropriate amount given the use. So that might be something that could be directed to staff to take back to. And were there any other tenants that voted no? Was there anyone else that voted no or expressed any concerns about this going forward? So initially there were a lot of concerns. We put something on the table, a lot of concerns. We met with the ASP, asked the tenants what they wanted, came up with a program that were questions, concerns. Then we worked with the tenants, held a couple of different meetings with them, and then ultimately came up with a number of options for them. And at the last meeting that we had, the options that are before you tonight is what they. Generally supported was that they were wanted to move forward with easy passes, with easy transit and a modification to the line 96. Yes, I would feel more comfortable if there were an actual vote with each of these tenants to get an input from each tenant. I'm going to go to a member. Oh, did you have question? No, I didn't remember. Matter. I see. It's my understanding that the Hornet gets a substantial lower cost for the birth than the merit. Is that correct? Mm hmm. And my I would say go forward with this and make that emotion that we go forward this. And if that transportation fee becomes a hardship, we can again look at the saving, the cost on another end. And I think it's also a misstatement to say that the city doesn't support the Hornet because that lower berth fee is a substantial savings that the city could be getting revenue from if it was leased to somebody else . So that's where I'd make that motion that we go forward with the proposal as listed here. And then if there is a true hardship, we can revisit saving some money on the berth fee. Remember Ashraf. Thank you, Amir. And I'll. Second Councilmember Maher Estes. Motion. I'm concerned with a couple of things. First of all, one of the things that is often said about new development is it brings all this traffic. And what are you going to do about it? And this is in part what we're doing about it. We're having all the employers, all the developers paying into this fund to add to the the baseline and free transit passes. I would think that the Hornet would generate a lot of traffic. I know there's often events that are held at the Hornet that bring hundreds of people out. And so, I mean, that is a responsibility to to help support the mitigation of traffic to the Hornet and to Alameda Point. And I also am concerned that the previous executive director was part of the negotiation and agreed to it. And so, I mean, I get that there was some changing of the guard, but I think Mithat and staff were well within their rights to rely on the agreements they had at the time. I also would say we can have this, you know, if there are indeed hardships, then something can be brought back to, you know, perhaps modify. But when I hear that Alameda Point Collaborative and others are going along and paying their assessment, I think it's time that we get behind, you know, putting our money where our mouth is that we we know that more traffic will be generated. And this is a way to get at least some people out of their cars and onto public transportation and to provide more public transportation. So I'm in support. Throughout the report, it did reference the lime bikes and that went out for an RFP. So I just wanted to make sure that this we're not committing to using line bikes in the future. No, no. But Bikeshare has always been a part of the 11 point plan. So I think that is one of the times this was part of the pilot point. Yeah, okay. You're right. So we have any other questions? Comments? We asked Molly if she had it. Oh, I'm sorry, Vice Mayor. No, I'm fine. All right, then. We have a motion in a second and it would be a roll call vote. Thank you, council members. The i. I. Ella. Odie. Sorry. Hi, Bella. I. Mayor Spencer. No. Thank you. Or I one. Yes. That's five ee. The next is five G. And we do have a speaker on this one also. Okay. Adoption resolution requesting and authorizing this county needed to levy a tax on all real and personal property in the city of Alameda as voter approved levy for the general obligation bonds issued pursuant to the general election held on November seven, 2000, for the Army Library.

Recommendation to adopt Budget Oversight Committee’s proposed funding recommendations, as amended, to the Proposed FY 22 Budget. (A-2)

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Motion is here. The second item is the budget oversight committees proposed recommendations. So this is a. Variety recommendations. And here I'm going to turn this over to Councilmember Austin, who chairs the Budget Oversight Committee, who will go through all the proposed funding recommendations as amended to the proposed 422 budget. And this will also need a motion any second to move forward. And with that, I'll turn this over to Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I'm going to actually have to the staff to read the budget oversight recommendations. But I do want to start off with a few comments. That's okay. I want to, first of all, thank everyone in the global community who participated in that Part 22 budget process in any way. And that includes community forums, city council meetings, surveys, emails, contacting your council representatives or staff in any way to express your opinions on just how this budget should be carried through. And we really appreciate your attention to the financial priorities and well-being of the city. This employee 22 budget process has been very different from the previous year, which was very dire and entailed cuts, many cuts to city employees and every department, including millions from our police department. The outlook was pretty terrifying a year ago. So I'll salute everyone who endured our entire city team and the community for enduring a very turbulent year. This year's budget is a little better thanks to our federal, state and county government partners. The give it up salute to President Biden and and Governor Newsome for recognizing Long Beach as a big city and allocating resources to help us recover and meet the needs of our city. On many levels especially, I want to thank our mayor for his work, to advocate for our city with those those at those levels, because it made a real difference. Therefore, 22 budget before us today is almost 180 degrees from a year ago. But we also know that we face huge budget challenges in the coming years. Therefore, 22 budget will promote. Ethics equity that will establish a new fund and will largely reflect the values of most residents in Long Beach. Balance in our budget is not just a financial goal, but this Council also has a responsibility to balance ideas and the needs of our vastly diverse city. The budget in front of us today accomplishes that. This budget will deliver services that improve health services, public safety and the overall livability of our city. So with that said, it is the Budget Oversight Committee recommendation to approve the city manager's budget, promote proposed budget with or will see recommendations that also address city needs and council priorities. I want to thank my colleagues, number one, for indulging and working with me on this this particular process. And I hope we all can support a responsible and measured approach to budgeting over the next fiscal year. And so with that, I would like to enter into the record the motions from the Budget Oversight Committee and on ask Budget Manager Griffith to read those motions, please. Certainly these were the motions approved by the Bloc earlier today. A motion to revise the proposed allocation of the measure. U.S. funding as follows Add $457,337 to the community based grants for youth development, bringing the total from the $216,134 allocated in the proposed budget to $673,471. The funding will come from defunding the Youth Ambassador Program funding of $337,337, which includes funding for eight FTE ees in the field work program, funding for youth workers and trainees of $120,000. Would this change? The total category of youth fund funding will be $1,037,636. Originally, $917,636 in the category of climate change will be $123,029. Originally $243,029. It is anticipated that the city will be receiving direct allocations from the state for youth, employment and workforce development that will be able to potentially restore the defunded programs. B motion to use. $1,340,116 of one time funds from potential improved projections for the general fund in FY 21, which will be confirmed by February 2022, or a draw down of reserves if the FY 21 improved projections do not materialize. For the following structural and one time investments in the general fund be one motion to appropriate $165,000 in the General Fund group in the city manager's department to structurally add one ethics officer position to support Ethics Commission work, this structural add will be offset with one time funding in FY 22, with ongoing structural funding that will need to be identified as part of the FY 23 budget process. B2. Motion to add one time funds of 35,000 in the General Fund group in the city manager's department to further support Ethics Commission needs in FY 22, such as outside professional services or materials offset by the carryover of projected FY 21 salary savings. B3. Motion to appropriate $100,116 in the general fund group and the police department to structurally support the incremental cost of the conversion of two civilian positions in the Air Support Unit to two police officers. This motion results in an air support unit comprised of a total of four sworn police officers, two certified pilots and two tactical flight officers. This structural add will be offset with one time funding and F1 22 with ongoing structural funding that will need to be identified as part of the FAA 23 budget process. Before a motion to add one time funds of $100,000 in the general fund group in the city manager's department to further support the fireworks enforcement team, piloted it and fly 21 to mitigate the illegal use of fireworks and explosives in Long Beach. Be five motion to add one time funds of 200,000 in the General Fund Group and the Economic Development Department to determine the future of Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association. Funds are required to be spent on securing the financial future of Bixby Knolls and pay for studies, outreach and implementation of a new permanent revenue source that can replace or enhance past RDA funding from the city. These funds are intended to provide a bridge in FY 22 to new funding sources and cover administrative costs. Funding for events and business support will come from other internal sources or Long Beach Recovery Act. Dollars. B6 Motion to add one time funds of 540,000 in the general fund group and the Citywide Activities Department to be divided equally between the City Council districts for district priorities and in conformance with the existing guidelines for the use of district priority funding B7 Motion to add one time funds of 100,000 in the General Fund Group and the Public Works Department for speed mitigation efforts on residential streets to be divided approximately equally between city council districts. The proposed mitigation efforts must comply with normal rules and regulations and accordingly must be approved by the city's traffic engineer and follow normal city processes. B eight motion to add one time funds of 100,000 in the general fund group and the Public Works Department to develop a vision and a plan for a Long Beach COVID 19 memorial. See. Motion to appropriate $127,633 in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group and the City Manager Department to structurally restore run programs. Specialist position in the communications program funded by a draw down on funds available in fy22 and with ongoing structural funding that will need to be identified as part of the FY 23 budget process. The motion to direct the city manager to include the following items as high priority projects to be considered for funding using any year end surplus resources from the General Fund. Measure a special advertising and promotions fund and or other sources as relevant. And if available, the city manager should include the status of funding these projects as part of the Fy21 Year and Performance Report and in the context of available surplus funds and other priority needs and projects. The following list is not in any priority order. One. The MLK Jr Statue Restoration and Park Area Improvements to North Long Beach Pool Feasibility Study. Three. All abilities playground design enhancement for Admiral Kid Playground and other potential playground projects for Duck Pond Gap funding as necessary. Five. Tree Trimming Enhancements six. Bluff Park. Historic Lamps seven. Bixby Bandshell and Park Improvements eight. Gateway Sign for four of five and 22. Implementation. Nine. Public Fireworks Show on July 4th. And ten. Beach Streets. That concludes the BRC recommendations. Councilmember Gringa, any comments? Just want to thank the work that. Councilmember Alston put into this. He came out with a budget that I think is balanced, which I think we should celebrate the loss of revenue there. What we need to do is to look into the future. This budget is is good for us today, but it might not be the budget that we're going to have to look at tomorrow. Tomorrow, we're going to have a very difficult, difficult time in building our budget. We're going to have a deficit that is going to be huge, and we really need to look at that. So I'm very glad to second this motion for this budget here this year, knowing that the challenges are yet to come. Thank you. First me, Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, let me take a moment. Just congratulate and thank the Budget Oversight Committee. I know this budget. There isn't a lot of it's not a surplus. And what they did, I see a lot of our needs reflected here. I want to I want to I have a couple questions. And there's one one thing I do want to raise for staff. What's the real difference between the B category and the D category? Because I see a lot of really important investments in B and A really, you know, a lot of investments in D, but I think this would be, you know, confusing for the public. So let's explain why the categories and B funded and in the category things in category B kind of funded or what's the difference between categories being D? Sure. Councilmember. So Category B is using a potential estimate of improve projections for the general fund in FY 21. We are not certain of that, but this is an amount that we feel it'd be a reasonable amount to actually appropriate right now. And so items under Category B are actually being appropriated in the actual dollar amounts. The items in Category D are identified as high priority projects and to allow us to close the year and actually see how the year turns out with actual dollars, and then we would be coming back. The city manager will coming back with his year end performance report for 21 and concluding and summarizing how all of these things would be potentially funded at the end of the year. Okay. So and how are we looking toward the end of the year that look like these things are on the path where you can fund some of these items or not? So that's a great question. I think there are some optimistic signs that we're seeing in terms of some revenue sources that are performing better, like sales tax and measure a. But given this year, with all of the uncertainties, the pandemic related expenses and some other factors, there are a lot of variables that could really swing the projection one way or the other. And so I would say, while we are seeing some optimistic news, it is too early to say one way or the other. Okay. Thank you. Can I add one thing, Mr. Reisman? Just to add to that, before you move on to the next piece, I do think it's important and I know Mr. Murdoch and I discussed this piece as well. And I just want to add that I. We have, obviously for the last few years have had the city manager come back with that with those surplus dollars and presented a variety of different projects. And so I'm very optimistic. I think looking at what's what's happening right now, that the projects that are listed are going to see those those investments. I mean, I think it's always good to be a little cautious and not be sure, but I think we can all. Recall, if you look at, you know, every almost every single year, I think maybe not every year has a measure. It has overperformed. I think every year that it's passed and it continues to do so even even this year in the pandemic. And so I think there's I'm hopeful that not only are we able to fund all these projects, but maybe even more projects that are there. And I don't know. And I'm also optimistic. So I think this is a reasonable list. I think these are in dollar amounts we've kind of talked about. These are achievable. We just need to figure out how much money we actually have and how to allocate them to these. And there may be other priorities that are urgent between now and February. So that's what I'll be bringing back to you, is for an investment and a plan with these as priorities. Okay. Well, it's good that's good to know, you know, that these are these are possible. I see a lot of important projects from, you know, Americo Playground, MLK Statue, North Long Beach Pool, Feasibility study. These are important things. And I wouldn't want to say each one is more important than, say, the Category B priorities. I think they're all important. The second thing I would say is, hey, you took from my time when the mayor put a question. The second thing I would say is you're going to come back with things with respect to the youth fund. First of all, I just want to say before I make this comment that I am and we made a request to take a request to take the 917,000 and make it a clean million. And the Budget Oversight Committee recommendation does that. So thank you to the Budget Oversight Committee for establishing a $1 million youth fund. That's important. We we you know, we talked about this. We advocated for this. The community was very clear. We had our own major U.S. youth townhall to talk about this. So we're really happy to see that. The second part of that request was the community won 80% of those funds to go out to community, and my request was 75%. It was just, you know, give a little more flexibility. What we have today is it's a significant improvement from only 216,000. It's up to 673,000, a significant improvement. I do want to see us do better. That's 67% and do want to see us do better. So my first question is I remember the initial list of items were all categories that are consistent with what we talked about in our U.S. resolution, but what is still remaining in those categories for the youth fund? So you mean what is still like what else could be allocated in there? No, I see that like the youth ambassador program. You found another way to fund that. What's remaining in the other 33% has gone to city staff. So generally and Grayson, get specifics here, we need dollar amount specific. So we have some staffing to be able to support the youth fund and the youth commission. I think that's really important if we want this to be successful. We then in the health fund, we have funding for Office of Equity, about 50,000, I believe. We also then have the older adult senior program to make that structural. And then what's really left is the ones that I think you would have kind of the most discretion over that. At least I would recommend you look at if you're looking at anything else, and that would be some additional program for our library. So there's about 120 roughly thousand dollars for first team programing, which is science, technology, those types of programs in our libraries and teen mental health programs in libraries. Okay. So, so, so in our support, all of those programs, the one thing I would say is what's with it was listed within the youth fund, that library fund, does that have to be conducted by city staff? I think it creates a a double standard. If everyone else has to apply to the youth fund or the libraries get directly funded, like the management of the fund, the youth summit, all that's after you develop that consistent, why wouldn't we just put library funding as a grant to the Library Foundation or some library supporting groups was consistent and we don't continue to whittle away at the 75% because we could be at a hard standard and a commitment to the public by doing that. Is that something that you have? Could that work? And so anything's possible. The way we created this was that city staff would be providing that rather than foundation. Sometimes money flows to the foundation when they raise it and then it gets sent back to city staff. We've not explored a model where the foundation have their own staff that provide this. We were going to provide it with city staff kind of funded through through the library. Okay, I see my time is up. I hear from my colleagues that. But I want to see if there's a way, either the end of the year fund savings are not fund savings projections or measure us like even if it performs better, that funding should still be going the way it was structured. So either that way or by just taking it because I agree with the library funding was structured as a grant because I don't think say the library is any more important than, you know, success and challenges Freedom School or I think they're equally important. I think we should be fair in how we begin to allocate this funding our paths there. I would love to just hear some feedback from colleagues. Give us your councilman, sir. Thank you. You know, I just want to follow with Vice Mayor Richardson's questioning around the youth fund and in the sense that I also want to thank the PBOC for supporting the increase in funding to make it $1,000,000 for the youth fund. I do want to explore, you know, I do agree that 75% is a good number as far as ensuring that it goes to the youth. I, I agree that, you know, we trusted young people to lead in developing in developing the strategic plan. And I think we need to be able to trust and be able to determine where the funding should go for their development and investing in them as far as just, you know, the process and to determine terminating exactly those points and, you know, like to explore further how we can ensure that it is about a 75% that that that that is allocated to young people to determine where that program goes. So that's kind of where where I'm at with this and that I think that we need to indicate to young people that we support their leadership and that they know what is best for them. The other question I have and I want to raise this because I want to make sure that we do at least address how the question about how do we also support our undocumented community members. You know, during the pandemic, there was a lot of funding that went into individuals that undocumented community members weren't eligible for. And I think we had some general discussion around basic income as a possible avenue. So I'm wondering now, you know, Tom or Mr. Modica or the state or maybe you can clarify what the process would be for our undocumented community member to be able to access the guaranteed income pilot program that will be coming in this fall . And so that we know we're also ensuring that we're supporting our and document committee members. Thank you for that question. Councilwoman Sorrell. That program is is in the early stages of development, and it is being developed by. The Economic Development Department. And as with all of the other. Elvira programs or Recovery Act funds, it will be very extensively promoted. And advertised, particularly among the community. Groups that are subject to or that may be eligible for it. So we. Will be developing those programs, and. Before any of them are rolled out, you will be. Getting some kind of notice in advance of the programs being rolled out so that if you have thoughts on it, you can certainly weigh in with the staff regarding that. But that is the ideas that are very heavily promoted, particularly. In the areas where that program, the areas of eligibility for that program. And if you recall, there was a memo from the from the staff to the city council. That very broadly outline what that program looks like. And it was based. Upon a. Lot of feedback and a very specific group that had come together to look at what some of the options for that program were. Great. Thank you. We'll look forward to having more discussion about it. Further comment or question. Thank you. Can I just add something? I think. Rosemary Richardson mentioned. One thing I think that is interesting, which I think is could be part of this custom in Austin, which is that if measure because obviously I think the ABC obviously has gone a lot further than the statue recommendation and you know, pretty close to where with some of the community input has been and certainly hit the over million dollars actually in request. But perhaps if we can take any overages that happen with measure us. I mean, there's certainly certain funds do perform better sometimes over time. And so if the funds are performing better this year or the next year, that those could go directly into the youth fund for that. For that piece that way, I think I think that's a an opportunity for that to grow even beyond the million that might satisfy, I think, some of the smears concerns. You know, I think. I'd be certainly amenable to doing that. I just I think it's very important that we we we show good faith to our library services as well, because those are that's a proven entity. We know we're going to see thousands and thousands of kids on it on a yearly basis. And when we were talking about providing steam education and opportunities as well as mental health services, I think I think that's it will be it'll be troublesome for me to see that it's being proposed. But then this council or BMC or council committee cut it. Right. And that's why I think that that's why I think the request is not to cut the library services piece. Absolutely. I so if we can keep that intact and meet the the voice matters or concerns, I think we'll be fine. Yeah, I think that keeps the library piece intact and just any overages would go would go there. So I think that's I think that's a slight a slight change to that. Next up is Council on Mango. Thank you. I want to thank the chair of the Budget Oversight Committee along with the committee members. I know it's a considerable amount of work to balance all the different requests. I'm excited to hear that the All Abilities Playground is getting some additional funding and there's been a lot of work on that and I'm excited to hear that. Councilmember. Councilmember Brenda's replacement field I'm sorry. Replacement Playground will also be considered an all abilities playground as I go to different playgrounds across the city and see the different apparatus that are available for kids of different needs. It makes me very proud of our city that we're making those kind of investments, and I'm proud to see us move in that direction. Also, I'm very strongly in support of maintaining the funding with the library and all of you know, I'm a big supporter of foundations, specifically foundations that support departments directly on the Library Foundation is going through a transition right now, and the library, as a department, has proven leadership through this pandemic to really be a rock along with our Parks and Rec program for our community and our youth. And I appreciate Councilmember Austin's comments surrounding that, though I do continue to support the Library Foundation and work with one of their board members very closely and see lots of opportunity for them in the years to come. Every time there's a transition, there's also a lot of opportunity. Everyone brings different resources to the table and I look forward to seeing where they go from here. So with all of that said, I just want to appreciate that a lot of these different add ons are a great need for our city. I know that I shared with Councilmember Austin that tree trimming is the number one request for service that we receive in our city, and it has gone from one that was for just convenience and support of the environment to one that's actually really safety related. As some of our older trees have passed away and dead branches have become a hazard in our communities at our park. So I really appreciate and wanted to highlight and lift that up in addition to some of the other really important projects that are listed here. So thank you very much for all of your hard work and I look forward to seeing where we go with this amazing investment. Bless me. RICHARDSON Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I want to just take a moment. Thank you for that recommendation. I think I think it certainly makes sense. It's it's you know, my concern would be if if we're not, you know, putting as much as we can toward that community grant portion. So I think, you know, if we have end of year projections are higher, putting those toward more community grants, I think that's a good thing. And I would say I don't think it's a library versus others. I think we just have to think of it all as youth and we all have value, whether you're in a park because your neighborhood doesn't have a library and my neighborhood didn't for a long time. I know what that's like. But we also do have the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library. We love programs within that library. So for me, I'm just thinking holistically. This is about youth, not about carving out our little piece for what we what we like. It's about our youth and empowering those youth to be a part of this process. And that's what's most important to me. So I certainly want to thank you. Thank you for that. And thank you, Councilman Austin, for being amenable to that. Conference in the House. Thank you, Mia. And thank you very much to the Oversight Committee for all the hard work that you have done on this budget. I know how how much you have worked on it. And I think that one of the things I'm very pleased to see is the motion that was made earlier by the Oversight Committee to recommend $1 million to to the youth fund. I think I after going to the form that we were at, where there was dozens and dozens of youth speaking out on what their needs were, it was really, really clear to me that they wanted us to really give the organizations that are youth serving the majority of the money. So I'm very, very supportive of the 75, 75% going directly to those organizations that are youth serving and the continued to help our youth and creating opportunities and paths to better, better life quality. So I'm really excited about that. I want to thank all of the youth who participated in our form and really made the their needs shown. So thank you again for that. And I'm again, I'm very, very, very supportive of the 75% at least that going to directly to our youth serving programs all across the city. Another thing that I, I know is that, you know, we continue to see language access in in every budget that we see. And I know that we're giving a lot to add to our language access, a lot of attention to our language access program. One of the things I'd like to see moving forward and and see as a priority is to be able to have language access interpreters in the House. And I think that that is going to be such a valuable such a valuable asset to our city. And I know we're working towards that. So I'm very, very much in support of that. And I really look forward to seeing how how every year we work together and work hard to provide as much as we can. And I know it's a difficult year and it's going to be even more difficult, but I think that when one of the things that this pandemic has shown us is that one language access is needed and and we really need to have that program in house. So thank you very much again for all the hard work on this budget. Thank you. There's a motion to second to approve the B or C recommendations with as written with the amendment that on the youth fund that any additional resources that would possibly could come in from measure us would go to supporting the youth fund as it relates to community community organization programing. Yes, I understand that would be then part of the motion. Yep. Great. Thank you. Please, Gordon, cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item A3, please.

A MOTION confirming the appointment of Vivian Phillips to the King County cultural development authority (4Culture) board.

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Thank you. The March 4th minutes would be for a C, no discussion. All those in favor, please say I opposed. Nay, the ayes have it. The minutes are approved. Takes takes us to items five and six, two appointments to the for culture board. Last year, the Council adopted an ordinance that made changes to the oversight for culture, the county's cultural development authority. One of those changes was to have the have Kane County Council members directly point nine of the 15 board members with the council confirming those appointments. Two of the council members nominated for culture board members are here today for consideration of their confirmations. The first is Vivian Phillips, who was nominated by Councilmember Larry Gossett. Leah Cockles, up from our central staff, provided a brief staff report on the appointment, and then I'll ask Councilmember Goss if he'd like to introduce the item. And I'm here from as Phillips. Good afternoon, Council members. The materials begin on page one of your packet and just a little background for culture is King County's Cultural Development Authority, created in 2002 to administer King County's arts and heritage programs. And the For Culture Board is governed for culture is governed by a 15 member board of directors. Directors, according to their culture charter, are to have a demonstrated commitment to and knowledge of cultural resources, be active and experienced in community and civic issues and concerns, and have the ability to evaluate the needs of the cultural constituent constituencies of the region as a whole, directors are to represent a range of talents, experiences, backgrounds and viewpoints related to cultural development. And directors must be residents of King County and are chosen to reflect the geographic and cultural diversity of the county. Last year, the Council made some changes to the board culture board appointment process, and nine of the 15 positions are now directly appointed by Council County Council members. Appointments must be confirmed by the Council by Motion Board members as four Culture Board members serve four terms of three years and may serve up to two consecutive full terms and now move on to board appointee Vivian Phillips. She lives in Seattle in Council District two and was appointed by Councilmember Larry Gossett. Mr. Phillips is a strategic advisor and consultant serving clients in arts, culture and communications fields. Additionally, she has served as director of marketing and communications for Seattle's largest performing arts organization, the Seattle Theater Group. She has co-founded an African-American theater lab, served as an adjunct professor for Seattle University's MFA Arts Leadership Program, independently produced theater productions and served on the Seattle Arts Commission. Mr. Phillips appointment appears to be consistent with the requirements of county code, the Fort Culture Charter and the bylaws. Thank you. Then invite Ms.. Phelps to join us. And Mr. Bryant. Carter and Mr. Carter, if you want to join us at the presentation table, welcome. I didn't realize Mr. Carter was coming to. I know Mr. Phillips well enough to know she could fend for herself. Yeah. But I can't remember. Gosset, would you like to introduce? Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. It gives me a great deal of pleasure and privilege to introduce to all of you who don't yet know her. Vivian Phillips has been more active in the cultural arena than just about anybody I know. She goes all the way back to the black arts west and central area where she was dynamic and a person who was involved as well as very supportive of black theater. I thought that our staff persons met in other big titles that she currently owns was good, but she is very rooted in the grassroots movement for our culture, involvement of African-Americans and other people of color, and just anybody who thinks they have the talents to be more active in a culture of various cultural arenas that are called to represent than just about anybody I know. And because of this training and experience, she's someone that will even challenge Councilmember Gossett when she thinks it's appropriate. So I kind of dig that. So what I want to do, what I want to do not turn to Brian, who I know knows Mr. Phillips. And he is currently the executive director of the for Culture Organization and its its board that I am recommending Vivian serve. So I'd like to give you an opportunity to mention briefly about the board and then what he thinks Vivian will bring to it. Thank you, Mr. Curry. Welcome. If you have any framing remarks for both the board in general and for culture, and Ms.. Phelps would welcome them. Just want to say hello to all the council members. Thank you for having me here today. And thank you specifically to Councilmember Gossett for nominating Vivian Phillips. I've known Vivian since it's been a while now. She was the emcee for the opening ceremony of the Northwest African-American Museum back in 2008, which is when I first became acquainted with her and was able to celebrate that momentous occasion together. And since then, I've seen her and her prolific career and, as you said, those large titles. But beyond that, I'm excited about her. Coming on the board for culture at this pivotal moment is we're an organization that's evolving, that's changing. It's really looking critically at where funds go and how they best support the culture and helping the entire county. And I think she has an experience across just myriad disciplines, different size organizations with such roots in community that it's somebody that I plan to rely on for their counsel, for their advice. And like you, I'm sure she'll call me out when need be as well. So I look forward to the talents, I think, and the experiences and perspectives that she brings to the Fore Culture Board. I think she'll be a valuable asset and I look forward to working with her. So thank you for that. Thank you. Good afternoon. Ms.. Phelps, some words in your own defense. Well, it. Seems everybody knows me. Pretty well. And I do. Want to say that the last time I was here, I. Think it was when I was working with Pete von Bauer back in the. Nineties to secure. Funding for the restoration of the Paramount Theater. So yeah. My career goes. Back quite a long. Ways. It is quite an. Exciting opportunity, I think, to be serving on the Fort Culture Board at this particular juncture, given the changes that are taking place across the region, both in the demographics of our region and in the arts and cultural complexion of our region and under the leadership of Brian. So I'm really excited. To have. An opportunity to be a part. Of. Not only uplifting the arts, but uplifting the arts as a part of our civic conversation, as it relates to the growth of the region, the changes of the region, and how arts and culture really is an important part, just like infrastructure and everything else. Without arts and culture, our region does not survive or succeed. So I'm excited and. Thank you very much. Thank you. Questions from his Films Council. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you very much. It's good to see you and thank you. Thank you. Glad to hear that. Your involvement with theater labs and that we definitely need some of those out in the unincorporated areas to further east. I just wanted to say that we had a listening center of succession with the entire board. So that last week the task. The ordinance task force. Right. Yeah. Last weekend. Yeah. So I was really, really impressed with the broad array of people on the board with their ability to listen and actually their excitement about being out in the area of my district. Some of them hadn't been there in a very long time. And one of them told me afterwards that they felt so warm and comfortable there that they may move there. So it was an interesting opportunity to talk about the idea that we are all united and that the unincorporated area also needs to have more art. And so I really appreciated that. And thank you for spending the time that night. Thank you. Can I just. In response to that, you say that for probably the last 13 years, I've had. The opportunity to work with or culture on bringing. Stories. About arts and culture throughout the region of King. County to a viewing public through KTTV. And it has been the best thing. That's happened to me to get out to Carnation, to get to Snoqualmie. To get to these other areas. And really see the kind of work that's going on there, as opposed to just being in a bubble here in Seattle. So it's really exciting to have another opportunity to get back out into the county. To Councilmember Yvonne Rick Bower. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank Casper Gossett for his leadership in appointing someone who has been truly a leader in this community. We had a chance to work long hours on a project that many thought would never get done. And thanks to her leadership, she not only talked about it, but she helped put together the mechanisms. And with some outside help, we were very successful and today is a credit to you and your leadership. I also want to thank her for her acknowledgment of the regional responsibility for culture, because when she and I were working together in the nineties, that county was a little different and they different and the county has changed dramatically. Yeah, populations have moved throughout this community and so important to make sure that we follow the people because the people are moving throughout this county now and make sure that the cultural opportunities that are not just limited to those lucky enough to live in Seattle, but are lucky enough to live in Federal Way and Bothell and Auburn and other parts of our region because they need to have that access. And she understands access. And I want to thank again Councilmember Gossett for having the foresight again to appoint someone who I think is a true leader in our region. Thank you. Appreciate it. Senior Council Member Coles. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and also like to thank Councilmember Gossett for his foresight and wisdom here. And Mr. Phillips, I think what's so wonderful about you two is your breadth of experience, breadth and depth of communications working, of course, in live theater. And I also really appreciate that in substantive areas you've brought to the public the keen awareness of of the transatlantic slave trade. And that's very important that we look to not just at the position, but what it is one is doing in one's position. So thank you. Thank you. So much. With that, Councilmember Goss added, Entertain a motion. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It gives me a great deal of pride to put forward the name of one of my own girls, Vivienne. I both grew up in the center area, so therefore I like to move that with the proposed motion. 2019 0067 Council member Garcia just moved. We give it due due passed recommendation to motion 20 1967. I second. Thank you. It has been moved and second to see no further discussion. Madam Clerk, would you call the roll? Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Bell Duchin. Councilmember DEMBOSKY, Councilmember Dunn. Councilmember Garcia. Hi. Councilmember Colwell Councilmember Lambert, Councilmember of the Grove. Councilmember one. Mr. Chair. Hi, Mr. Chair. The vote is nine eyes, no no's. Thank you. By your vote, we've given a unanimous recommendation. Do pass recommendation to approve Ms.. Phelps appointment to the Culture Board. We will advance that to our two full council and we'll put that on the consent agenda. So it will be taken up as part of the consent agenda. And you won't need to reappear unless you certainly want to. Great. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much. Our pleasure. And with that will move to proposed motion 2019 112 MESABI five. Crackles IP. Excuse me.

Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary documents including any necessary subsequent amendments, with the Conservation Corps of Long Beach, of Long Beach, CA, to provide public service conservation work for youth on City of Long Beach property, in a total annual amount not to exceed $4,000,000, for a period of five years, with the option to renew for one additional five-year period, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)

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The motion is carry nine zero. And that's the number 17. Item 17 report from Public Works recommendation to adopt a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a contract with the conservation corpse of Long Beach to public service conservation work for Youth on City of Long Beach property in a total annual amount not to exceed 4 million citywide. Company, Ranga. I want to push the motion forward. I think it's great job that a conservation does for. That's wonderful. Fantastic. Thank you, Councilman Saru. You just want to add to that? I think it's great that we continue to have a partnership with Conservation Corps with all the great work that they do for us throughout the city. Thank you. All right. I couldn't agree more. My my support for the Conservation Corps has been a tremendous partner along the Elk River. We're excited for the new headquarters to open this summer at the Environmental Education Center at the Forest Park and look forward to just deeper relationships and engagement in the years to come. Any other council comment notes? Any hands? Any public comment? If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on this item, please use the recent feature. They Chikhlia. Your time begins now. I'll give you a thank you. And let me first apologize to the charter commission appointed by both the general public comment period. But specifically this item, as I mentioned, when it was first proposed back in November. I would like to see this fit into the state's overall climate goals. I mean, I support the motion, obviously speak KING as the kid who would have been the guinea pig for AP Environmental Health Science for LAUSD in 1997, but chose to do physics and write poetry instead because, I mean, we were privatizing everything. Yeah, you know, you're either serious or not. Did you know that Aubrey Meyer solved at the theoretical level the problem of climate change globally in 1997? If that's something that we wanted to do, then it was capable without putting too fine a point on it. I have a hard time believing that the. Human activity and the outcomes thereof are somehow beyond the realm of even understanding. Thank you. Next speaker we have is Dan Knapp. Good evening, Vice Mayor and city council members is Dan Knapp, executive director of the Conservation Corps Long Beach. For over three decades, the Conservation Corps is part of with the city of Long Beach, bringing valuable resources to the communities we serve. Thousands of young people have come through our doors to garner critical job training, support services, all while serving our community and in the world we live in. Over the past five years, CCL has been able to match every dollar in the city with our contractual services, with the city at a rate of more than 10 to 1 . That means for every dollar of city contracted services such as park improvements, urban forestry, litter abatement, beautification, the permit, pandemic support that we provided and response to name a few. Cecil has contributed $10 to every dollar we contracted with the city via state funding and federal funding grants that we've been able to bring and incorporate into our our programing in the city. Again, our mission is to support young people in realizing the potential to work serious in conservation education. And we are extremely proud of our partnership with the City of Long Beach, and we are excited and look forward to doing even more together in the coming years. Thank you all. That concludes public comment. All right. Thank you for the speakers and thank you. Thank you as well there for I do in the city. Let's go ahead and have a roll call with. Councilwoman Cindy has. Hi. Councilwoman Allen. Hi. Councilwoman Price. I. Councilman subpoena. I. Councilman Mongo. I. Councilwoman Sarah. I. Councilmember Ranga. Hi, Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. I the motion is carried nine zero.

Recommendation to receive and file the application of DH Promenade, LLC, dba Dog Haus for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License, at 210 East 3rd Street, Suite D. (District 2)

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Report from police recommendation to receive and file the application of Dog House for an original application of an ABC license at 210 East Third Street Suite. The District to. Face Marie Lowenthal. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And for the record, I don't know that we're trying to be like any other city but our own. So I take that as a compliment. I just wanted to point to my colleagues that we have a couple of items that were handed out to you. One is for the dog house, and that's the requested conditions. That's okay. And that should be at the dais for everyone to see. So I'm just making the motion to move this with the requested conditions. Thank you. There is a motion in a second and we have requested conditions. Is there any public comment on this item? Nope. All right. Please cast your votes. And I would like to welcome them, Mr. Mayor, to the downtown and. Wish them great success. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please.

AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; providing that transitional encampments for homeless individuals are allowed on any property owned or controlled by a religious organization without approval of a permit under the Seattle Land Use Code, to permit transitional encampments for homeless individuals as an interim use on all publicly owned or private property within the City of Seattle, and providing for renewal of temporary use permits for transitional encampments as a Type I decision of the Director of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections; amending Sections 23.40.002, 23.42.054, 23.42.056, 23.76.004, 23.76.006, 23.76.032, and 23.84A.038 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and amending Ordinance 124747.

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So now we have a new item number two, which is a little bit different than what we have on the agenda that was published, the Select Committee on Homeless Strategies Investments, the report of the Committee on Homeless Strategies and Investments. Please read the short title. Agenda Item two Constable 119 656 Relating to land use and zoning provided that transitional encampments for homeless individuals are allowed on any property owned or controlled by religious organization without approval of a permit under the Shelter Land Use Code. The committee recommends the bill passes, amended with councilmembers Luis Herbert Morales once and Strauss in favor with an abstention from Councilmember Peterson. Okay. So before we begin, this is how we're going to do this. I'm going to allow Councilmember Lewis, since this came out of his committee and also council members who want to kick us off. And then I have a few comments to make about the nine amendments that we are going to have in front of us for discussion and vote. So with that, I'll hand it to you. Councilmember Lewis. Thank you so much, Madam President, pro tem. And I'll be brief on this so we can get into the meat of the matter and give council members who want the opportunity to talk more broadly about the bill. I'll just say I'm really grateful to my colleagues on the committee for the two great sessions that we had on this Council bill leading up to this. We had a really good presentation from folks in the community, as well as service providers and folks with learned experience about the need to protect and expand tiny house villages and the scope and scale of these changes. We had a really good session a week ago where we passed some essential amendments and moved it forward for the final council action today. And I just want to thank everyone for being diligent with those tight timelines and having very productive conversations during those meetings. I want to thank Councilmember Swan for bringing this ordinance forward. I think it's a testament to the strength of the ordinance that the changes that we did enact through amendment last week really did not go to changing the core of her ordinance, merely made a couple of cosmetic changes, cleaned a couple of things up and then clarified a few things that needed clarification. And we'll talk about the additional amendments in more depth after this. But I will at this point turn it over to council members who want. Thank you, Casper. Silent. Thank you. I wanted to start by thanking everybody who has advocated not only for this bill, but also has been fighting for our homeless neighbors and for housing justice as a whole all these years, many of them preceding my time in Seattle, a special thanks to Nichols Ville Community and to the Low Income Housing Institute for spearheading the work that eventually became tiny homes. As you all know, I hope you all know this bill expands options for and removes obstacles to establishing dining halls, villages and Seattle. But it also, as Jerome Lee from Lee, I pointed out, is relevant to safe parking spaces and other sanctioned homeless encampments. Daniels villages have been hands down one of the most successful homeless services that have been created in our city. They are decidedly the most humane, the most respectful and dignity offering to our homeless neighbors and have one of the best drag records in helping people find permanent housing. Their self-managed model helps homeless people form a community and really, you know, abandon the isolation and alienation of life on the streets. In the public hearing last fall. We are moving testimony after moving testimony of homeless people, courageously sharing personal stories about how Daniels villages helped them get safe, get clean and sober, get their dignity and begin to manage post-traumatic stress, help their neighbors in the village and ultimately find housing. This city council should be doing everything in our power to make it easier, not more difficult for people to set up tiny house villages. And this includes providing every assistance possible with this legislation to Danny House community providers who work on shoestring budgets and don't need any more obstacles in their path. They need it to be easier for them to do what they are doing. That means removing the red tape that has been associated, which this bill will do, minus some of the bad amendments that are being proposed and fight for funding to expand villages and provide them with services like case management. Just to be clear. This legislation does not provide the funding for additional dining villages. We will need to fight for that funding in the budget this fall. So we should not confuse the two things. And we know, we all know that a dining house is suddenly far better than having a tent. And we need to support every effort to replace tents with tiny homes. However, I do not agree with making that a condition to get a permit because it does not that, you know, putting that obstacle in the way does not help anyone from go to go from a tent or a tiny house. It only makes it harder because what homeless service providers, what homeless service provider will set up a tiny house in an unsanctioned encampment. You know, you need to make sure that we remove the obstacles. This bill addresses the land use laws that create the restrictions on dining halls, villages. They have proven beyond any doubt their effectiveness. And I don't think that any councilmember who adds more obstacles in the path of making sure that, you know, people are able to provide this service can claim to be serious about addressing the homelessness crisis. I urge council members to support this legislation and to oppose amendments that would constrain opportunities to establish tiny house villages first as a substitute bill. That is a technical amendment it corrects numbering of the amendments in committee, updates, the date on the signature line, and so on and so forth. The Second Amendment, though, that I'm bringing forward, would grandfathering the existing encampments, and I'll talk more about that. But there are also other amendments that would actually not help this bill and appreciate people speaking in public testimony about them. And I will reserve my comments for when the specific amendments come up. All right. Thank you, Councilor Sawant. So I believe we have nine proposed amendments on the agenda. And as chair, I will call on each council member in the proposed order, as outlined on the table at that time to sponsor will have the opportunity to move their amendment. And I'm hoping somebody will second their amendment or I will. So just let me just share this as follows. And then we have a we actually have it lined up online. So we'll start with I'm just going to list the council member and what amendment numbers they are. And then we'll start with the we'll just go down the way it's listed in the following order. But we'll start with this. Councilmember Peterson has amendment number one, number seven and number nine, councilperson has amendment number two and number four. Councilor Mesquita has amendment number three. And I understand that Councilmember Lewis will be presenting Councilor Mosquitoes amendment. And then Councilmember Lewis has amendment number five, six and eight. So with that, we're going to start with amendment number one for Councilmember Peterson. Mr. Peterson, you have the floor. Thank you. Council President Pro tem. So the purpose of this substitute would be to one of the reasons we're here is because the current ordinance is expiring. So this substitute would extend the ordinance for two more years. The idea is to honor the original homelessness authority that we just established, because that authority will be coming back to us with a five year plan. It will be informed by experts on this issue, including people with lived experience, and we set that up so that we can have a regional response to this regional crisis. So this substitute would extend the current law by two years. It would also allow greater flexibility with the one year extensions on interim use encampment permits. And then it would it would also increase the number of allowable interim use encampments from three, which is the current number under the current law to 15. As just a reminder to the public, there is no limit on the accessory permits, those that are accessory to a religious institution. This is just for the interim use, but again, it's increasing it from 3 to 15. Now, realistically, there are several that have a temporary use permit that would convert to an interim use. So it would be using up about, you know, we'd get to just under ten. So but this is still adding a greater number and I'm got feedback from that at our committee of the whole last week to look for a larger number. I'm I am fine going up to 15 again this is meant to extend the current law allow greater flexibility with the one year extensions and go from 3 to 15. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Peterson, did you move to amend the council bill? So this is a this is I would so my motion is to have this substitute my substitute bill with those three parameters. Tuition. I'm sorry. Is there a second? Okay. Seconded by counsel Herbold, is there any other comment? Okay. I'm sorry. It's been moved and seconded. Are there any comments on the substitution? Thank you. I just want to speak to appreciation to Councilmember Peterson in hearing, I think, some of the feedback that he heard last week about the fact that the sunsetting encampments are very likely to be roll rolling over to use this this this un sunset it authority. And the number of encampments that he proposed last week would essentially take up the new authority. I, I regret, though, that I think the number 15 is still too low and does not allow for enough growth because as we have learned, that safe parking projects also count as transitional encampments and they will count against this total. I we we received we all received a really welcome update from Human Services Department Director Johnson Acting Director Johnson about new safe parking lot locations that are in development. Some of them are hosted by by religious institutions, but some of them are not. And so I am concerned I would hate to just take this action today and not not realize any ability for significant growth to meet the need, particularly the need for moving people directly from the streets into safe shelter with a door, with a sense of community, the things with the key, the things that are making this intervention so successful in realizing outcomes to permanent housing. Thank you, Governor. All right. See no further. Oh, I'm sorry, Councilman. Of what? I apologize. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to be clear with members of the public that this is not really I don't consider this a substitute bill. I consider this is really a no vote disguised as a substitute. And since Councilmember Peterson obviously opposes expanding opportunities to build Chinese villages, I would have preferred if he was just honest about it and voted no on the bill rather than attempting to tell the public a story that is not actually accurate. I mean, just to give you an example, he just gave you an an impression that he's increasing the number of sanctioned Daniels villages or sanctioned governments to 15. But really, what what what his substitute would do is take away what is in my original bill, which is 40, and then reduce it to 15. So, you know, it's a sleight of hand that is is doing is engaging in. And. And in reality, this amendment remove would remove. If this if this passes, it would actually be really bad for the the whole the whole objective that we are trying to achieve here, which is that this is the tiny home project has been so successful know and it has been through so many evaluations of all kinds of metrics . I mean, compare it to the sweeps of homeless people that continue year after year. And the city spends over $8 million every year and it has not proven to be effective in any way whatsoever. In fact, it creates drama in people's lives. And yet it is a program that very hardworking nonprofit providers have worked on, which actually is providing service. And the best assessment of this is from homeless people themselves who will tell you that this is the only thing that will actually help them get their lives together. And if this amendment passes, so-called amendment passes would be really bad for the underlying bill because it would take away many progressive measures that are contained in this bill, such as streamlining the permitting process for religious and temporary encampments, making tiny houses available in different zones, significantly increasing the number of permitted tiny homes. And as I said before, and then it would create another sunset clause expiring in two months. Do your sorry in 2022, which would mean that we have to go through another seven month period to extending the permit. And in reality, if you look at the timing, it would mean we would have to start the process of the next bill to extend it again in the next couple of months. I'll just say in closing, when my office earlier this year put forward resolutions taking a stand against the war with Iran and against religious persecution in India, issues that matter very deeply to our constituents. Councilmember Peters and said that there was a waste of council's time and that the council should be focused on addressing the homelessness crisis. But I brought now I brought forward a bill that will actually address the homelessness crisis, and we have the council member opposing it and attempting to really undermine it. So I will oppose this amendment. I will urge the public to be aware of what is going on. Thank you, Councilman. So. Okay, let's. Let's go forward with the vote. Point of order. Sorry. Point of order. I just want to speak to r r comments as individual council members and as a body in impugning the motives of our colleagues. You know, there was another there was another proposal before the committee last week by Councilmember Lewis. That was for 20. And so I believe that Councilmember Peterson has brought forward this amendment in good faith. Nobody accused Councilmember Lewis last week of acting in bad faith. I believe that Councilmember Peterson heard my concerns and tried to bring forward a proposal. I'm not supporting that proposal, but I would just like us to show a little grace for one another up here on this dais. Okay. I'm going to let councilors respond briefly and then we're going to go to a vote. Go ahead, Councilor. Silent. Well, my colleague, council member, well, is free to have whatever opinion she has. But I also am an elected representative and I was elected by the voters of my district. And my loyalty is to ordinary people, not to any elected official. And I don't believe that this kind of substitute is directed with good intentions. But it is not a question of intention. It's a question of what effect this substitute would have. And I am primarily focused on the effect it would have, and that is on debatable. Okay. Thank you. So, listen, we have nine amendments in front of us. And so I'm going to ask that you withhold your clapping. This isn't a rally. I two will agree. And second, what Councilmember Herbal said about impugning other people's other people's intentions. I think we're all here trying to do the right thing in a good way. So with that, I'm going to move forward with our vote. Those in favor of the amendments. Last substitution vote I and raise your hand. I. Those opposed? Well, no, no, no. You know, at times like this, I would like to the public to know that most of the time, 90, 95%, we are in agreement. It's just how we get there. She's all right. So let's go on to the next one. The next two is have amendment number two, which is council members who want which is a substitution and councilor. So what do you want to go ahead and present it and move to amend or make a motion? Yes, this substitute bill is a technical amendment. It corrects numbering after the amendments that were made in the committee. It updates the date on the signature line to 2020 from 2019, and it corrects the language around the amendment that Councilmember Herbold, who just left the room bill passed in committee for geographic spread of villages. That connection with Councilmember Herbold agreement makes the language match how the amendment was verbally described at the committee table because the written language of the amendment was not the way she had intended. And so we we worked it out great, I think have to move this amendment. Yes. Move amendment to. Second. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, for providing a second to Councilmember Silence amendment slash substitution. Are there any other comments before we move to a vote? Okay so with that those in favor of councilmember members substitution vote I in raise your hand I suppose they know the ayes have it. It passes, the motion carries and the amended is adopted. All right. Let's go to amendment number three. This is Councilmember Mosquito, but I understand Councilmember Lewis will be presenting it. Councilman Lewis, please take the floor in the moment. Make the motion. Thank you, Madam President. Pro tem. That is correct. In councilmember skater's absence, I will be moving her amendment. Quite simply, this amendment modifies a recital in the ordinance proposed ordinance to reflect that the appropriation, subject to a council proviso in the 2020 budget for homelessness, could be expended on tiny house villages, enhanced shelters, or both. And then it references council budget actions home to dash deed one and H home dash three, dash b-3. So just a kind of technical change to the recital. All right. And I move that. We so amend the council bill. Okay. So we have the motion can have a second. Second. Great. And who said it? But somebody three people did. So we have a second as well. It's been moved and seconded to amend the bill. Are there any other comments? Okay, let's go to a vote. Those in favor of councilmember mosquito as presented by Councilmember Lewis's amendment. Those in favor vote I in raise your hand. I those opposed. No, the ayes have it and the motion carries and is adopted. So let's move on to amendment number four. Councilmember so want the floor because. No. Yes. The I don't expect this amendment to be controversial. It would be it would grandfathering the existing and government the setback requirements that were created in an amendment in the committee meeting, practically speaking. This would only impact one and campaign with your high heights in that in government the structures are three feet inside these new setback requirements . On one side, the neighbors are supportive of the incumbent. It would be inefficient and unnecessary to remove them to move a number of their structures by three feet when they renew their permit. There would be no other impact of this amendment, so I assume it should be. Okay, great. And I need to move amendment for the second. Second. Great, we have a second. Are there any other comments for Councilmember Silence? Kessler Lewis And. Just really briefly, Madam Chair, I just want to state that this is a particularly personal amendment to me, given that it does impact the inner bay, tiny house village in District seven, which I am particularly proud of. I think they're great neighbors in District seven. I live just up the hill in the uptown neighborhood. The idea that we would pass something and it would accidentally not incorporate them is something that would would really grievously affect me if I found out about it later. So I appreciate that this was caught in time to incorporate in here. You know, I had the opportunity earlier today at the State of the City address to talk to a few Port of Seattle commissioners again. And Commissioner Steinberg did come to the committee meeting last month to talk about the port's commitment to that village as well . It really is a great example of intergovernmental cooperation, and I really enthusiastically support this amendment and support the work that's being done at that inner bay village. Thank you. So with that, we it's been moved. It's been seconded. Are there any other comments before we move to a vote? Okay. Those in favor of the amendment vote I and raise your hand I those opposed vote no. The ayes have it and the motion carries and the amendment is adopted. Let's move on to amendment number five. Councilmember Lewis, you again? Sorry. Yes. Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. Pro tem. So this amendment this was part of our discussion as a committee last week where we were discussing the requirements for case management and security at the encampment sites. I had previously proposed an amendment. The language and wording of that amendment had perhaps in practice would have been too prescriptive and could have impacted the current practices of some of the encampments. That was something I was concerned about, so I pulled back that amendment to work on it. Over the course of the last week, having consulted with service providers and central staff, it's my belief that this amendment more appropriately fits the kind of current standards HST uses when they are talking to providers to provide case management and security in accordance with an approved encampment management plan that allows for the flexibility to accommodate unique circumstances . And so based on that, I move that we incorporate that amendment and that language into the Council bill. And. I just have a little sidebar here. So you may not actually second it. Oh, because remember, else I might. Be doing this too soon. It's okay. But I have a proposed amendment to this amendment. Oh, that's great. Is this. Is this the right time? Yeah. Okay, so I'll finish my statement. And it was not distributed before noon today, so I'm requesting that the rules be suspended to allow consideration of the amendment that did not meet the council rule. Okay. So I need to go back. I apologize. I didn't know that if you were going to come forward with that. Yes. So you did. That's okay. So this is actually your amendment to Council Member Lewis's amendment, correct? Yes. I have one right here and now. Yes. Are you passing it out? I can pass it out here. I don't know any different numbers. To suspend the council to allow consideration. So I move to suspend the Council rules to allow consideration of Council Member Morales's amendment to council Lewis's amendment number five. Now. Oh, there it is. I see it again. Second. Okay. So we haven't moved and we have it seconded and go ahead, Councilmember Morales. So I'm moving to amend Councilmember Lewis. I have it as Amendment one. So we should. That's what. We need to move to now. Suspend now we need to vote. So I need to now we need to vote on suspending to allow consideration of the amendment. Okay, all I think it's just a hearing. No objection, but okay. All those in favor of the Councilman Morales introducing an amendment to Mr. Lewis's amendment vote. I. I, i. I oppose. No, the ayes have it. Floor is yours. Thank you. And again, my apologies, especially after complaining last week about everybody bringing amendments at the last minutes. I appreciate your indulgence. I moved to amend Councilmember Lewis's amendment as presented on the distributed document. The amendment revises Section D .1.2 of the Municipal Code 23.4 2.056. By deleting and security after provide case management. And the reason that I'm doing this is because when I do think that the security requirement can can pose additional barriers and costs to beginning new communities. But also, I believe that. We shouldn't be. Codifying the security requirements when there are different circumstances for different kinds of encampments. And this the kind and whether security should be provided, can be determined based on the circumstance and really managed during the contracting process. So I so that is the rationale for removing it from for this amendment, removing that language from Councilmember Lewis's amendment. All right, Councilor Lewis, to go speak to this. Yes. Thank you, Madam President, pro tem. And I do appreciate Councilmember and Councilmember Morales bringing forward this amendment to the amendment, because I do think this is an important thing to to discuss and talk about. I appreciate the spirit in which this amendment has been introduced. I do think it's important first to mention that regardless of what we do here today as a council, that security requirement that is enumerated in my unamended amendment is in existence. So regardless of what our action is and Councilmember Morales did acknowledge that in her remarks just now, that requirement does exist. There does need to be an approved security plan. From my conversations over the last couple of weeks with service providers, you know, one of the things that I think has been the most inspiring is looking at a lot of the peer managed governance systems that exist in a lot of these camps, how effective they are at coming together as a community, at empowering folks to help manage and run the camps, including providing the security. And a lot of the security programs that have been approved by HST are significantly peer participated in or even peer run. And this amendment allows more flexibility for that in a way that the amendment last week might not have. The second consideration, and I think this is important, too, is I do think, you know, there has been a considerable amount of press and public scrutiny regarding the ordinance. You know, I think one of the criticisms that is often mistakenly levied in the public press against the tiny house villages is that there is no allotment for security or collaboration with neighborhood groups, which we all know is patently false. I think it helps to enhance this ordinance as a public facing law to be able to go to the public and say like, well, look, this is currently in the HST rule for good measure. We've also enumerated it, spelled it out and codified it in the final ordinance. I do think it's important that we acknowledge that that is a requirement. It is one that's enforced and that in many cases it is peer driven and cognizant of the specific needs of a specific camp. So I will be respectfully voting against Councilmember Morales amendment. Okay. So before we go, I need a second for Councilman Morales's amendment to council Lewis's amendment number five. Can I get a second? Thank you, counselor. So on. So we have a second. Is any more comments? Go ahead. Council members want I will I want to speak to both the amended version of the amendment and the original. Do it to me right here. Okay. I see how it is. Go ahead. I will be voting yes to the amendment. To the amendment, but I will be voting no on whatever the final result and resulting amendment. Is it whether it is an amended version or not? Sorry. But I would like my comment will explain both. So practically speaking, either version of the amendment, but it includes just case management or case management and security. I don't think it changes much because the requirements are already a condition of receiving funding from the Human Services Department. And because of that, if the if the if I'm abstaining were an option, then I would have abstained. But we have to vote yes or no. So given that I will be voting yes on Councilmember Morales's amended version of the amendment because it sort of mitigates it, but voting no on the final amendment, because if there was ever a scenario where the clauses could result in a tiny house village failing to receive a permit, then I think that would be a bad outcome, even though those conditions are already, you know, sort of contained in the requirements to receive a permit. But in the spirit of making, you know, the the whole spirit in which I brought this bill forward was to remove obstacles, not put them back in place. And so in that spirit, I would vote no on the final amendment, because it's largely even though it's largely academic in this case, because then government already have these requirements . Thank you. Okay. So what we're going to do is first we it's been moved and seconded and we're going to vote on Councilmember Morales's motion to amend Councilmember Lewis's amended number 5/1. So those all in favor of Councilmember Morales's motion. Vote I and raise your hand, I. Okay. Those opposed. No, no, no. If it fails, the motion fails. Thank you, Councilmember Morales, for providing that for us. So we will go on and now we will vote on the Bass legislation, which is Councilmember Lewis's, which is amendment number five, all those in favor of amendment number five as presented by Councilmember Lewis and seconded vote a vote. Those in favor of the amendment. Vote yes and raise your hand. Well, if you want to vote. Yes. Yes, yes. Okay. All those opposed? No. If it passes. All right. Let's go to Amendment number six, which is council member Lewis again. Councilor Lewis. And so this amendment and I spun this amendment off from amendment number five. They used to be combined. The reason for that is currently it is theoretically possible, though it has not happened yet, that a a service provider not receive HST funding but still open a village. So this amendment would require that encampment operators who are not funded by HST still provide case management and security in accordance with the all home standards. Those are standards established in the Seattle King County Continuum of Care Community Standards. So this just gives some guidance to providers who might want to go ahead and get a permit without HST funding, how they would get security in case management requirements met. But I separated it from the other amendment because it is sort of a distinct category of potential tiny house village operators. Do you want to move? And I do move that it be adopted. Second. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss. Any other discussion, Councilor Herbert. Thank you. I just want to honor the many, many years, maybe decades at this point of transitional encampments that have functioned without city funding and recognize that onerous obligations such as case management for a more do it yourself approach of taking shelter and providing companionship and safety in numbers that has, you know, been able to do so for years and has gotten us to this point that we're talking about expanding sanctioned encampments. I don't think it's fair to have onerous requirements on the sponsors of of traditional encampments that don't receive city funding. I do feel it is absolutely 100% responsible for requiring it of encampments that do receive city funding. And for that reason, I will not be supporting this amendment. Thank you. Okay, so we have a motion. We've had it seconded and let's move to a vote. Oh, I'm sorry. I guess. One. Thank you. I do agree with Councilmember Robles points as were just made. And just to clarify, unlike the previous amendment that was put forward in this case, this amendment, if passed, could really result in Daniels villages failing to get a permit, unlike in the previous case, where there's a potential, but not really, because there are those requirements already in place. We know many Daniels villages start as groups of self-organized homeless people forming a village like a community, and then they request a permit and start to put together services like replacing tents with tiny homes and getting case management services. I mean, if if we want to be connected to the real world, that has been the process through which this has happened and many, many people have worked on as hard as going to, Mirabel said for years, if not decades, on these issues. And so, you know, I think we have to make it clear that that we don't want to increase obstacles in their power. So I would be voting no against this. Thank you. Councilman Swan. Okay, let's move to a vote. Those in favor of the amendment. Vote I and raise your hand. I and. Those opposed. Vote No. No. It fails. Else let's move on to amendment number seven, which is Councilmember. Councilmember Peterson. Thank you. The purpose of this amendment would be to memorialize the benefits of tiny home villages in that they are providing a physical structure. They are providing a roof for walls, a door. And this legislation, when it originally came out, it was called a tiny home village bill. But it was really just expanding the number of in the tent encampments and not providing the structure what we know of as tiny home villages. We we know that tiny home villages had a shaky start in terms of getting the outcomes we were seeking, in terms of getting people to exit to permanent housing. Tiny home villages made substantial strides. One of the reasons is because of the case management. And so I appreciate my colleagues amendment to add the case management. This amendment would, in addition to providing that physical structure, would have required case management as well as security. So the second part of this amendment is consistent with what just passed the. What I what I'd like to do is there was some discussion during the committee about vehicles and making sure that we were including vehicles in this. So I am I am open to removing the last sense that talk or the part that talks about sleeping areas shall not include recreational vehicles, but may include other owner occupied vehicles. Happy to accept friendly amendments to that. But again, the purpose of this is to provide the structure, the case management and the security. Thankfully, we just amended it to provide the case management security. So that's really leaving us with providing that structure that we know of. When we see when we visit tiny home villages and we see the structure, that's the attraction to have the roof, the four walls and the door. So that's what this amendment would do. So, Councilmember Peterson, for clarification, are you are doing is anywhere are you is someone proposing a friendly amendment to strike the language you're suggesting? Are we just moving forward? Nope. Okay. Is there any other comment? Moved on second in. Getting ready to ask if you need to move the. Yes. So I'd like to move this amendment number seven. Sort of second. Okay. So the motion fails for lack of a second. Let's move to Amendment Number eight and that would be council member. LEWIS Thank you, Madam President. Pro tem. So amendment number eight. This is a pretty technical change. One, it occurred to central staff that there were some modular developments, more modular encampments that perhaps would not fit into the definition that we had previously established. Specifically, there is a modular development that I'm very excited about coming online and Sodo that Chief Seattle Club will be the operator for that uses these kind of modular structures that are secure and good spaces. This just closes that loophole to make sure structures like that are included and camps like that could get permitted under this ordinance . And so I move that. We incorporate that into the definition and move that this amendment be adopted. Thank you for any comments. Okay. So can I ask a question? Yes, go ahead. Um, so, um, the legislation would not preclude this kind of housing from being used in different contexts. Yeah. Good question, Councilmember Morales. So all this amendment would do is just add modular structures to our current definition of structures that can be included. It wouldn't it wouldn't preclude any of the other definitions that are in there now. And and it's strictly talking about this permitting authority, not talking about other buildings or other types of arrangements. Okay. Thank you. So it's been moved? Yes. Okay. And it's been seconded. Oh, commercial one. Oh, okay. Is there a second? Second? We have a second there. Okay. So with that, we have it moved and seconded. So let's go to a vote. Those in favor of the amendment. Vote I in. Raise your hand. I it was opposed. Vote no. Ayes have it. Amendment number eight passes. Is it. 7720? Let's go to amendment number nine, Councilmember Peterson. Thank you. This amendment would extend the sunset date by three years. So right now, the it's sunsetting unless we pass what we're aiming to pass today would sunset next month. This would extend it three years. The rationale here is that we've made some amendments to to strengthen the the proposal by adding case management, for example. I'm dismayed that we haven't actually created a tiny home village structure, that this is really a tent encampment expansion instead of tiny home villages as the as the bill was originally advertised. But because we passed the Regional Homelessness Authority, it's important that we allow those experts to come back to us with their five year plan and their evidence based strategies to reduce homelessness. And we we revisit this in three years. Three years is plenty of time for the regional homeless authority to get back to us with their recommendations and their five year plan. Thank you. Did you move to. And I'd like to move this this is Amendment nine. Is there a second? Second. Any other comments? Caspar Herbert I just want to say that I believe that the legislation before us is zoning and permitting legislation. It is not legislation that will be impacted by future decisions of the Regional Homelessness Authority. Decisions about how to support tiny home villages and transitional encampments with our budget might be impacted by those discussions in the future, but not zoning legislation that we had. Before us anyway. Councilor Strauss. Jones, Member Pro-Tem, thank. You for the opportunity to speak and thank you, Councilmember Peterson, for bringing all of these amendments forward. And to all my colleagues, speaking as the land use and Neighborhoods Chair, I do want to remind the body that this is a technical bill regarding our land use code. All of these tiny home villages have a two step process that they must go through to be stood up, and that includes funding and that includes a permitting process. So there is an additional regulatory process that every tiny home village will have or interim encampment or safe lot or any of these programs that we have discussed to go forward in that it is in the in our best interest in to align ourselves with the CPA analysis that has already occurred to not support this amendment and to use the maximum capacity that we have and to move the bill forward as the procedural. Bill that it is. So you're voting no? That's correct. Okay. And it's because you believe that it would be duplicative of what your committees are already doing. This is in accordance with the CPA analysis that was that was done even before the new. Council came to the came to the dais. Okay. Got it. Their response? Go ahead, Casperson. Thank you, Councilmember Strauss. I just want to go on the record to say when when there is a determination about CPA. That is that's very important for us to get that input. It's required to get that input. But that doesn't remove our policy decision as policymakers on on whether to proceed with a particular proposal. And again, this amendment would give us three years of runway to allow this ordinance to take root and to blossom, and then to take the input from the Regional Homelessness Authority, which will be coming to us with a five year plan that will include the entire menu of evidence based strategies. All right. All right. We have a motion in front of us and it's been seconded. And so now we're going to move to a vote. And this. I'm sorry. Oh, go ahead. Councilors one. Thank you. Presenter Adam. Whereas I will just add to the comments that have already been made by Councilmember Herbold and Strouse that. DANIELS Well, I just again, you know, just as a reminder of a proven track record of success and should not be forced to fight for their very existence every few years, that is the whole point of the what we're doing here, this exercise here. And I'd also say this is a thought exercise. Imagine if big business was treated that way. Imagine if corporate developers were told that they could get a master use permit only until 2023 if such a thing doesn't happen. But just think about it. Think about all the hoops they'd be forced nonprofit homeless service providers to jump through to provide the modicum of services for our most vulnerable neighbors. All right, we ready for a vote? Okay. So we have in front of us the amendment. And so those in favor of the amendment vote. And raise your hand. I think those opposed. No, no, no. That fails. All right. So we have gone through nine amendments. I want to thank all of my colleagues for all their conscientious comments, concerns. I know this has been a lot of work. I apologize for not being here the last two Mondays as president pro tem. I was out of town and particularly to Councilwoman Mosquito, who took my place for me. But I'm here today, so we're going to move forward on the final vote, vote on the bill as amended. So I believe before we go, that councilors who want wanted to make some comments before the final vote. Is that correct? All right. And then if there's anyone else. And then we will vote. Customers want you on the floor. Thank you. So I just want it to be harder to say. I start by saying there is no reason why a city like Seattle, it is one of the wealthiest cities in the history of humanity. Why a city like Seattle should be home to any homelessness, let alone the amount of homelessness that we see. This is a city that is home to so many millionaires and even billionaires, and still we have not succeeded in ending homelessness. In fact, the skyrocketing rents have created a pipeline into new homelessness. And to be sure, even after the passage of this bill, which I hope it passes in its current form, we will need to tax big business to fund a massive expansion in investments in publicly owned or controlled social housing. We will need rent control. We will need to shore up renters rights as a whole. We will need to make sure that middle class property owners, working people and small business owners are not facing the brunt of the funding, though addressing the crisis. But today, this will be an important victory for our movement to stand with our homeless neighbors and to make sure that we take steps toward making this a humane city. Reno dining houses are not a replacement for actual housing, but while homelessness exists, there is no reason why people should be left on the streets. There should be a tiny house available for anyone who has nowhere better to go to. While not an alternative to affordable housing. It is a powerful way to make homelessness less harmful and has been proven to help Hamlet homeless people get back on their feet. Passing this legislation will be a real triumph for homeless activists and advocates who have fought for years to establish their first encampments and then tiny house villages. It is really important to remember the history of this struggle because homeless people and their advocates and their house neighbors had to fight for it and they had to be united to fight for it. GAM second chance was first to be created when activists took bolt cutters to the chain lock blocking access to the unused mayor's red parcel. And set up an. Encampment. It's important to remember this history. They were threatened with a sweep and we had to organize to stop the then mayor from kicking them out at that early stage. Similarly, Sherrill and Nichols will have occupied city, county and state land to set up unpermitted encampments until they won permits. Over the last year, both the Georgetown and North Lake tiny house villages have been threatened with losing their permits, and North Lake is currently under threat. Our People's Budget Movement one the first funding for encampments in 2014. And I want to do again in terms of remembering ten councilmembers at that time, councilmembers Liccardo and O'Brien and also Councilmember Herbold, who worked and got some really good offers at that time to help win that funding and then when increases to that funding in subsequent years. Imagine what tiny house villages could accomplish if they were really supported by the by City Hall rather than having to fight constantly for their right to exist. Today we are passing this legislation to massively expand opportunities to build tiny house villages. But tomorrow we will have to fight for their funding in the budget. I don't mean literally tomorrow, but this year to make this expansion. To all. The homeless people who have fought for and won tiniest villages. Today's victory belongs to you because of your dedication and courage. And I also want to thank the churches and all the faith leaders of different faiths who have not only hosted dining halls, but they just are currently hosting. But I've spoken in favor of the dining halls, villages, the neighbors, the house, neighbors of the villagers who have shown that the majority of Seattle does not buy into the safe Seattle rhetoric, and that we care about our homeless neighbors deeply and that we care about ending homelessness. And I want to thank Chair Rachel Nichols. Well, Lee I Women in Black. Thank you for all your organizing. The history of the struggle of tiny houses in Seattle has shown that when we fight, we can win. And I thank members who voted against some of the worst amendments keeping this bill as it goes out strong. Thank you. I'm good. Oh, you good? Yeah. So before we go to a vote, I just briefly want to thank the public for coming here today and providing public comment. Believe it or not, we actually listen and appreciate we see some of the same faces and it means a lot. Some of us up here have experienced homelessness and we do know what that feels like, including myself. I think at the end of the day, though, all of us want to do one thing with you and all of us in this city is that we continue to make a commitment to be connected to each other's humanity, because at the end of the day, we do care about sheltering the unsheltered, and again, it's how we get there. So with that, I'm going to go and now that we've had in front of us, please call the roll on the passage of the bill as amended. Strauss, I. Herbold. Hi. Lewis Hi. Morales. I. Peterson No. So aren't. I. President Whereas. I. Six in favor one. Opposed this. Okay. So. Okay. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Hey. Right now. And with that, the bill passes as amended, and the chair will sign it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So moving along in our agenda, we're going to go to the Public Safety Human Services Committee. The report, please read those items, three and four, both appointments into the record.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the organization of the Office for Civil Rights; amending Section 3.14.910 of the Seattle Municipal Code to change the end of the Director’s term and remove an outdated subsection requiring a racial equity toolkit.

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The Report of the Community and Economic Development Committee Agenda Item one Council Bill 120000. An Ordinance relating to the Organization of the Office for Civil Rights amending Section 3.14.910 of the Seattle Municipal Code to change the end of the director's term and remove an outdated subsection requiring a racial equity toolkit. The committee recommends the bill pass. Like so much Councilman Morales, as chair of the committee, you are recognized in order to provide the committee report. Thank you, colleagues. So this is a bill that would, as the clerk mentioned, extend the term of the Office of Civil Rights Director from December 2021 to December 2022. And just by way of a little bit of background to try to give you some context here, in 2017, councilmembers heard a variety of concerns from stakeholders that the Office of Civil Rights Structure and authority within the executive branch could possibly limit its ability for the department to fulfill its mission. And so the council at that time passed an ordinance that provided that the next Office of Civil Rights Director would be confirmed by council with just cause removal protections and a limited term that would end in 2021. So the reason for this extension is kind of a twofold. The first, some of that work is still continuing, and so there is an interest in that transition that would be implemented by that legislation, having a consistent director, stable director leadership position for the next year until that work is complete. And the second reason is that extending the term is one of the measures that could provide greater independence. And by which I mean, it would allow for the directorship to have staggered terms with the appointing authority. So that's part of the two of the reasons why this extension for one year is being requested. The intent here is not to continue to extend the directorship, but to just extend for this one year. I also want to take a minute just to express my strong support for the implementation of Racial Equity Toolkit recommendations that came out of this work. As a former human rights commissioner, I participated in the extensive process that culminated in that report. And it did include input from community members, from workers, from other human rights commissioners at the time. So I'm eager for that work to get completed. And I do want to thank Councilmember Herbold for bringing forth the original slide in 2017 to examine how we can strengthen the Office of Civil Rights. And as I mentioned, this was passed out of committee with a recommendation that it do pass. Thank you. Councilmember Morales, are there any comments from council members on this bill? House members, what is your hand up? Oh, that might be a holdover. It looks like it was a holdover. So, yes. Councilman Morales, thank you for recognizing myself as the author of the slide that led to the work of recommendations from led by OCR and delivered to the Council. I think in late 2019 I was also the sponsor of the legislation that we are amending today and just mentioning that, just to let my colleagues know that as the sponsor of that legislation that created a term and created a requirement for a just cause reason for termination that I do in fact support this legislation. That there are no further comments. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? So why aren't? Yes. Strauss. Yes. LEWIS Yes. Morales As there are, I think. PETERSON Yes. Council president pro tempore vote yes. Seven in favor. Nine opposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Item number two. Will the clerk please read item number two into the record?

Recommendation to receive and file a report on the Hamilton Loop Vision Plan; and, accept Statutory Exemption SE-20-126. (District 9)

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All right. Wishing Karis. Thank you. Will have 21 please. Item 21 is a report from Parks Recreation Submarine recommendation to receive and file a report on the Hamilton Loop Vision Plan District nine. Thank you. Will have a brief staff report. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Brendan Dennis and Meredith Reynolds are we get the staff report for staff. Thank you, city manager Monica. Good evening, Vice Mayor Richard and members of Council. It's always an exciting moment in the life of a vibrant park system. When. We can bring together community through engagement. And and really for tonight's presentation show you, I think, a really exciting shared vision. So I'd like to introduce Meredith Reynolds, who's our bureau manager for Urban Planning and Partnerships. Meredith. Thank you, Brian. Good evening, ma'am. Mayor and members of city council. I'm here this evening to walk you through the Hamilton vision plan. And that will include. Sorry about that. That will include the overview of the vision plan. Existing conditions are include the process of community engagement, the vision plan concepts and next steps. The Hamilton loop is a greenbelt connector that includes the embankment on the north and south sides of the 91 Freeway and provide an opportunity for this area to be connected through this greenbelt on those two neighborhoods on the north and south. This community driven effort was really a creative way to attempt to use landscape to re-envision the very infrastructure that has long divided and isolated these communities. And in particular, this area of North Long Beach has approximately 8.9 acres of open space per 1000 residents, comparatively to the 5.6 average acres per thousand city wide. This is a project that was derived from the Uptown Open Space Vision Plan, which was previously presented to the City Council in 2018. It is a part of that project. The Hamilton Group was the top prioritized project that came out of that effort, and that effort was predominantly driven by the Coalition for Helping to Reform Beach, which we thank for their participation in prioritizing this project and was also the recipient of a Health Department Kaiser Healing Zone grant that funded this vision plan. So with the boundaries of the full project would take you on the West from Atlantic East all the way to cherry. And the first phase of this project is focused on Myrtle to Walnut on the north and south side of the 91 Freeway. A lot of existing conditions here that we're taking into consideration and a park assessment. Some include some of the demonstration projects that the neighborhood groups and the Coalition for Helping on Beach have installed. And so this concept is to further build out some of that open space that is walkable, that provides carbon sequestering plants and trees, and really provides that connection. The opportunities and constraints were identified through this community process and certainly this is able area to improve with open space. However, the property is owned by California Department of Transportation and has some limitations as to what you can do there. So as you will see as we get through the presentation, this vision planners is really focused on what neighborhoods serving moneys could be walked to from the adjacent neighborhood to get sort of free, healthy outdoor access. Here's the timeline from when we started the project in November of 2019 and went through a series of site analysis, multiple workshops producing the final the final vision plan, and having some discussions and negotiation with Caltrans and Metro. I related to access to the property and the project was all our vision plan was also presented to the Parks and Recreation Commission in November of 2020 as it was forwarded to you all this evening. I'm going to go through a lot of these slides very quickly, but just to demonstrate sort of the effort that the community went through on this and look at the existing conditions analysis from a variety of other plans, including L.A. County needs assessment and park score. And the park need map is directly from the Los Angeles County Parks Needs Assessment from 2016. We take a look at demographics when we do these mission plans as well from population age as a vehicle access, language, isolation and diversity. And we go through a series of co-created, community led, inclusive engagements. We had eight public workshops and stakeholder meetings. We received 62 community surveys, and the project generated 12 ideas for park elements, which we will show you here today. We prototyped this project with the Uptown Open Space Vision Plan, with the color block walk. For those who remember, this was sort of a mashup of a community planning charrette and a color run. So this is a very interesting way to get the community out and about. That is sort of more more creative than your typical park planning charrette. We had a community survey that we started off our process that asked about desired amenities and the look and feel of the space and the community. Survey results really helped guide the final vision plan from where the amenities should be distributed, what kind of walkway and pathway and landscaping. Folks wanted to see what the primary goals were for the freeway underpasses in terms of making them safe and welcoming, as well as rethinking the public right of way adjacent to the embankment, including bike lanes and traffic configurations. TV as well as smaller and larger amenities folks wanted to see. There's an open space activity which then allowed people to design their own kind of loop connector and use precedent images to display people's desires in terms of amenities and look and feel of the space. Here you will see the cross-section of what the community proposed for the roadway configuration to generate some additional space for amenities. So we took a look at the actual six feet of embankment, the four feet that would be dedicated for some form of ADA compliant sidewalk. The other additional square footage of or linear feet of the right of way resulted in the community wanting to see the roadway going one way with an adjacent bike lane that connected to the existing orange and proposed bike lanes in North Long Beach. They the community was able then to see everyone's proposal and refine those ideas. And those refined ideas were presented as part of one of the evening events at the Michelle Obama Library. We had 58 participants come out and share their information with us, and that really helped us to refine the final idea. We had a lot of participation from community members and we asked for some of their quotes. And you can even see one here from one of the leaders from the Hamilton Neighborhood Association. Here is the list of the community amenities as desired and located even by the community being very cognizant of adjacent neighbors and the age groups and abilities of the different community members. Even placing things like picnics, picnic areas in areas where families congregate. Playgrounds next to multifamily buildings where there's not a lot of open space for children. And being really cognizant about the connection, the North and South connection under Myrtle, Orange and Walnut in a way that is safe and welcoming and accessible and did include all of the design plans from public works for the Orange Avenue Bikeway. Here is a rendering of some of the baseline elements in the larger image on your right, and the smaller images on your left are precedent images from a similar space along the 91 freeway in other cities to the west of Long Beach and to the east of Long Beach. So there is a precedent for Caltrans and Metro allowing and even helping with these types of projects in those areas, which is helpful for us. Here's another rendering as well, which shows a different view of what could be possible. And so you see in the larger image on the left hand side of the drive aisle, a parking lane, a one way traffic aisle, a buffered bikeway, a bilingual parkway, as well as then trees, carbon sequestering trees, drought tolerant landscape, and a little neighborhood plaza. If you look at across all of the project elements, there are a variety of things here that can be phased in over time. And so we are estimating all in this project that over the years could cost upwards of $9 million, but certainly something that would be eligible for county state funding for parks and open space, as well as some potential opportunities from the Port of Long Beach Community Grants Program and other sources like Measure County, Measure W, local measure A or cultural philanthropy and foundation funding. Finally, for next steps. The first thing we need to do to get permission to access the property is to apply for a Caltrans permit as we work through design and seek funding for construction for the project. Project funding is going to be critical. We don't have any funding at the moment, but as I mentioned, this is likely eligible and competitive for a variety of grant grant dollars moving forward. And we have already begun those discussions with Caltrans and Metro related to what would be needed for that access permit to make the project successful in their engineering and design, would make the project shovel ready and be able to go out to bid with the associated project funding. And then finally constructing the Hamilton Loop project itself would be the final step. So with that, I conclude the presentation and myself and director Brant Dennis are available for any questions. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation, Meredith. I don't have any questions or some brief comments. First, thank you for acknowledging the community's work on this. You know, it started with the conversation about how in part that expanded to a larger conversation about the lack of open space in the north lobbies area. And then that turned into a vision plan. And from that vision plan, multiple efforts have spun off to the force vision plan we just brought to council the Hamilton Loop, and we'll look forward to continue with those. The plan sets the stage for the funding and to members of the council. I've seen, you know, different areas of town do the very same thing. Drake Park, the Drake Chavez expansion started with the vision plan still has to work out and he was there and that ultimately turned to that grand vision. And we need to continue to do these things. One note I know there's a I know there's a discussion about freeway modernization on 91. We know that that may create opportunities here, but that is separate and distinct from this. We're going to move forward and pursue funding for this project, whether there's a freeway modernization or not. That's an important point for me to for me to raise. And so I'm excited for this. I look forward to the future of this project, and I'm happy to make make the motion on this item. Is there a second? Second sorrow. Thank you. Second sorrow. Does any council comment on this? Councilwoman Sandy has. Yes. Thank you, madam. Madam, quick. I just wanted to say how excited I am for this. And thank you to Meredith for that great presentation and for Director Denis. I think that it's very important, like we said, vice mayor, to have these kind of visions and it's very important to bring this kind of open and green space to our communities. So I wholeheartedly support this item. Thank you. Any other any additional comment that Councilman Austin. Yeah, I'm. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the presentation. Because my phone. WebEx is. The app is acting up. But I did read the item and and this is good work by. Parks and Rec Department. Meredith Windsor is the best. She's going through park planning processes. With us in the North Long Beach area, Davenport Park, which was screen another seven acres, as well as our 51st Street greenbelt that is along the lower L.A. River. I had a question for. Parks regarding the. Point. Nine parks per 100,000 residents. Wasn't that that number? Part of a. Study in. 2005? Is that the most recent update in terms of acreage per resident? Councilmember Alston, this is Meredith. The point nine acres per thousand is the number that comes from the uptown open space vision plan. That number varies by the type of land area that we include, whether it's by a district or a census tract. So if there is a more specific neighborhood or census tract you would like to look into, we're happy to provide that. But the point nine acres is from the uptown open space mission. Okay. So I know that that was a number that was quoted quite, quite frequently recently. And so I'm just I want some clarity on that because I know we've added quite a bit of open space within the last few years. Well, actually, last ten years or so, since a lot of that, when was the uptown open space plan developed? Can remind me. Yes. The Uptown Open Space Vision Plan was presented to the Council in 2018, summer of 2018. And so the number that number is several years old, but likely wouldn't have increased significantly given the landmass and the amount of park acreage added. So for instance, that already included the forest wetlands. In that particular district. What if you if we wanted to do another number citywide, if we look to update that every year in the winter when we provide our updated numbers to the trust for public land for their park score study. Okay. And do we know our citywide number yet? Whereas our. City wide. Sure. Citywide average as of last last calendar year. Report for test for public lands which was 2019 was 5.6 acres on average per 1000 residents. That's a city wide number. And then just as a reminder, our open space element has a goal of eight acres per thousand. All right. Thank you. And in terms of this this project, this is great visioning. There's a plan in place, and. We know we've done it during a lot of planning. Is there any idea as to what this will cost, to what it's actually developed? And the reason I ask. Is because. I know that there there are a number of competing projects along the L.A. River. Right. Consistent with the lower L.A. River Task Force plan. And now we have the L.A. County River Master. Plan, and we have our own North Long Beach plan in place. What what what what does it what. Would it cost to to to. Develop a site like this? And where would we get the resources? Councilmember Alston. The proposed anticipated cost of the full project for the Hamilton loop at buildout is approximately $9.3 million in today's dollars. The multiple sources that could potentially be available for a project like this that would be eligible and competitive include a local measure, a county measure, a county measure W, which is a stormwater measure along with state parks funding under Prop 68. That includes a variety of parks and open space funding in addition to any other agency that receives funding for elements of the L.A. River Master Plan, such as the Rivers and Mountains Conservancy, California Coastal Conservancy, etc.. So this is one project on the list with many others that we prioritize and evaluate for what would be most eligible and competitive and what is timely and shovel ready as those opportunities come forward. Thank you so much, data that answers my questions for now. Appreciate it. Good work. In addition, any additional comments from the Council? No council comment. Thank you. How about public comment? Yes. We have Hilda Gaytan. Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Council member and TV staff. My name is Hubert, very bent. And Hamid, resident. And the chair of the Coalition for General on this. Five years ago, as a. Member of the coalition and as a president of the. Coming from Mubarak reconciliation. I presented for the first time the coming from Leucadia I the on of this idea. I want to think by. Reach out from serious stuff and to. Actually what I cannot be more pleased. With the defense. Document you are receiving today. My concern, our building was included in the third paragraph. On the second page. From the Civil Report. And the. Comments from previous staff. And a board member from the Hamilton. Neighborhood Association. During an interview with The Longest Path on January 15th. That is my understanding. Imply. That. The. Hamilton goal is tied to the 91. Freeway expansion project. I have seen a copy of a petition. Signed by many of the Huntington. Residents providing that Richardson City clear. And on their. Behalf. I'm here to ensure, you know, our position. On this item. There is no coming from neighborhood support. The homicidal passive acidification project. The project will provide a sense of happiness. And feel good about their environment. It will promote pride. And sense of love and sense of well-being. For the residents. Of the area. We oppose the 91 city rate expansion. Expanding the freeway will bring more health problems to a. Community that is already suffering for its high levels of obesity, asthma and heart problem. We are plus four. Because that's where they come from. Besides, so the Navy wants. To be where you spend here. We are asking the council to approve the Hamilton law. I sent along. Projects with. No ties to the Navy. One year. Suspension because no. Determination has been made about. The. Expansion and the. Alternate possibility of a no deal option. That concludes my comment, and thank you very much. Think your next speaker is Kirk Davis. Good evening, Vice Mayor Richardson. City Council, City Staff. My name's Kurt Davis. I'm a ninth District resident. I'm also a past co-chair of the Coalition for Healthy North Long Beach. I've been in conversations with Meredith today, and I'm very happy for the replies she sent back to me. But my concerns will always lean towards the health and welfare of the community. I've been in. Favor of the loop since it was proposed successfully at the L.A. County Parks Assessment over five years ago. But I'm also concerned with the second page, paragraph three, that's being set to be filed today, accepted and filed because of the language in it, talking about the freeway expansion. And also, as Hilda brought up the article in the Long Beach Post on the 16th where where we're net mesa from Hamilton Labor Association and Meredith Reynolds noted that Caltrans upcoming plan to expand the 91 freeway could benefit the development of the park. And Mesa also said that while there is some pushback from nearby residents against the freeway expansion, she believes the benefits are worth it. Although no one. Wants to see the freeway expansion, the tradeoff is worth it. Well, I don't agree that the tradeoff is worth it. And I know that Councilmember Richardson also brought up the fact that this park space will not be tied in to the expansion. But on a letter we received dated December 11th, 2020 from Caltrans, it's a notice of availability of a draft, initial study, environmental assessment, not some attempt to adopt a mitigated negative declaration, which I guess they want to seek exemption to do this project. On the 91 freeway. There are two alternatives under consideration, and I know that they have to have these two alternatives, but there is a no build alternative. And a one build alternative. And we're hoping when it comes down. To it that the city can support the Hamilton neighborhood for a no build alternative for this project and. Also the ability to get this part done in our neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. So just address a few of these things, then we'll go to the boat. So first, the 91 freeway modernization project has been in the works for for for over a decade. And this project was proposed as a part of the Uptown Open Space Plan. Two separate efforts. And the reason why there was an open space plan is because of the statistic that was just debated, whether it's 0.9% or 1.1% for 10,000 residents. The fact is there's no open space, particularly in that area, is bisected by freeways dividing the community. It's been the freeway has been there for four decades and the community has already. The Hamilton neighborhood has already began doing guerrilla sort of guerilla modernization and, you know, doing pocket parks themselves on this embankment. If we have to live with the freeway, we might as well take ownership over the landscaping and the walkability of there. And so this was presented there. Now, that outreach around the 91 freeway modernization is led by Caltrans. The city is not formed. A decision on where we stand on that, that's a separate project. What we're voting on today is simply on the city council received filing this presentation from the Parks and Rec Commission on the Vision Plan , and I think there will be more conversation about the 91 freeway modernization. The reference in the report is to early action. That is very different. There's funding set aside for early action. This project cannot be unlinked from the freeway. It is a part of the freeway embankment and therefore is eligible for lots of funding, including 91 modernization. That's important to say. The second thing I'll say is whether the park space is 0.9% or 1.1%. The last message I would want to send out to the public is to discourage conducting these visioning plans simply because of budgetary concerns. One of the reasons why we don't have very much open space in these areas is because budget is a barrier. But what we found is by conducting these vision plans and engaging the community in getting projects shovel ready, it makes us more competitive to change the name, change the narrative. And these approaches have been successful in North Long Beach. They've been successful downtown. And we will hope to see a more comprehensive plan that ties the West Side livability plan to the L.A. River, to the Uptown Open Space Plan, so we can think more comprehensively about the plan. And so that's it. We'll go ahead and go to a roll call vote on this. Councilwoman Zendaya's. Councilwoman Ellen. I. Councilwoman Price. I. Councilman Sabrina. I. Councilwoman Mongo. My. Councilwoman Sara. I. Councilmember Muranga. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. All right. Motion carries. Thank you. I think we have one more item, Madam Clerk. Um. We have two more items.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Seattle Department of Transportation; declaring certain real property rights to be surplus to the needs of City Light; authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Seattle City Light to execute an easement agreement with King County, allowing the temporary use of a portion of City Light property to resolve the encroachment of an existing structure located on the west side of Boeing Field within the Northeast Quarter of Section 29 Township 24 N Range 4 E and the Southeast Quarter of Section 29 Township 24 N Range 4 E, and increasing the temporary use area authorized by Ordinance 126328 by approximately 207 square feet; and transferring jurisdiction of certain properties located in the Georgetown neighborhood in Section 29 Township 24 N, Range 4 E, from the City Light Department to the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation and to the Seattle Department of Transportation.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk. The motion carries and the appointments are confirmed. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold. So next we have item number seven, and this will be Councilor Petersen coming out of the Transportation Utilities Committee. Will the clerk please read the short title of item number seven to the Record Report of the Transportation and Utilities Committee Agenda Item seven Council Bill 120230. An ordinance relating to the City Department in excuse me, the City Department, the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation and the Seattle Department of Transportation. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. Casper Peterson, it's all you. Thank you. Council president. Colleagues, this bill passed unanimously out of our Transportation Utilities Committee last month. This is the very last in a series of council actions to clean up access and ownership of parcels of land needed to facilitate the Georgetown of South Park Pedestrian and bike trail. This ambitious trail project, which will benefit both District one and two, is already funded by prior council budget actions. It's been gratifying to see Seattle City Lights, Public Utilities, Seattle Parks and Rec and the Seattle Department of Transportation work together collaboratively and seamlessly to shepherd this complex project through the council. The project includes vacating a dead end street nearby at City Lights Cell Service Center that will pave the way, literally and figuratively, for significant public benefits along the trails right of way, including a new future dog park. Again, the Transportation Utilities Committee voted unanimously for this council bill, and I'm hoping for a full support of the council today to move this project forward. I'm getting all choked up about it. Thank you. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Councilor Peterson, are there any comments from our colleagues? Yes, Councilor. I was scared. Of course. All right. Thank you very much. Council president. Councilmember Peterson, thanks for your work on this. I want to thank you, Seattle City Light and Department of Transportation for their joint efforts. As you all know, we worked really hard a few years ago to pass a resolution to make sure that every parcel of public land was being used for the public good and that we prioritize housing. I understand that this property is a public benefit as identified in its origination, and the use of the street vacation requested by City Light clearly identifies that there's going to be a public benefit. But the property did not go through the process outlined in resolution 31829 or Resolution 31424, which is the surplus lands legislation that passed in 2018. Again, my hope is that all pieces of property will explicitly go through the process so that we can continue to show to members of the community how parcels, including those owned by City Light, will be reviewed for potential affordable housing development, even as the first priority remains affordable housing. We know that efforts like the one that Councilmember Peterson just outlined are incredibly important as well to connect community. So I'm very supportive of this legislation. I just want to continue to call out for all of our departments, and this applies to City Light and all of the departments. The importance of us going through this process to show that every parcel is being scrutinized for that level of analysis of whether or not housing is able to be built on the site, and that when we have a parcel that's not suitable for affordable housing, that we make it available for efforts like this to connect communities to create more thriving and and vibrant neighborhoods. And that we want to make sure in doing so, we're leaving no stone unturned in our work to create affordable housing and appreciate that this legislation will go forward today. I support it and I would love to make sure that every department shows the work that they're doing to follow a31 8 to 9 resolution and resolution 31424. I appreciate you taking the moment to have me opine on the importance of those resolutions as it relates to public properties in general. And we'll be supporting this legislation today. Thank you, Councilor. Mosquito Councilmember Peterson, is there anything you want to add? Yeah. Okay, so let's see. Any other comments or concerns? Well, the clerk please call the role on the passage of the Bill Herbold. That's Lewis? Yes. Morales. Enthusiastic. Yes. Was I? Nelson, I. Peterson. All right. So why don't. Yes. Strauss. Yes. Council President Juarez high nine in favor and unopposed. Great. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation? Okay. So let's moving on. We have adoption of other resolutions and that would be me. I think I have items eight and nine. So will the clerk please read item eight into the record? Agenda item eight. Resolution 232036. A resolution designating the monthly President Pro-Tem of the City Council of the City of Seattle for 2022 2023. Superseding Resolution 31924 introduced today, January 4th.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to amend Contract No. 33926 with Architects McDonald, Soutar & Paz, Inc., of Long Beach, CA, Contract No. 33912 with Kardent, of Long Beach, CA, Contract No. 33913 with Mary McGrath Architects, of Oakland, CA, and Contract No. 33917 with Rania Alomar Architect, Inc. dba RA-DA, of West Hollywood, CA, for providing as-needed architectural services, to increase the aggregate contract amount by $5,000,000, for a revised aggregate contract amount not to exceed $16,500,000, and extend the contract terms to July 19, 2023. (Citywide)

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Thank you. That was Adam. 29 to 30, please. Item 32 Report from Public Works. Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute multiple contract amendments necessary for providing as needed architectural services to increase the aggregated contract amount by five 5,000,004 revised aggregate contract amount not to exceed 16.5 million and extend the contract term to July 19, 2023. Citywide. Taking a motion in a second place. Can I get a second? Thank you. Sure. Public comment on this item. If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item 30 in-person, please line up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the raise hand feature or dial store name in person. Good evening, Dave Chappelle, Third District. I'd like to reiterate my public comments in relation to item 19 on the Council agenda on June 21st of this year. With the extension of these contracts passed, there would be it'd be helpful, I think, for each council member to know which projects in their districts are currently behind this, as well as with item number 31. Also where these projects are located or are they located in kind of historic cores and centers of activity in their districts, or are they in areas of change especially? Also 13. It would be helpful to know what the order of priority is for completion, especially if some of these may be at risk for service interruption or the lack of continuity of deliverables. Thank you. Roll call, please. District one. I. Stick to my district three I, District five I, District six i. District seven. I. District eight. I. District nine. The motion is carried. Thank you. Item 32. Item 32. Do you want 31 or 32?

Recommendation to adopt the Budget Oversight Committee's proposed funding recommendations, as amended, to the FY 19 Proposed Budget. (A-12)

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Weight. Thank you very much. We're now going on to the next item, which is the the the larger of our discussions. But that's okay. And that's item 1.12. If we can please have the concreted. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to adopt the Budget Oversight Committees, propose funding recommendations as amended to the FY19 proposed budget. Thank you. I'm going to turn this over first to I know we're going to discuss this. So what I'd like is I think Councilman Mongo is going to go through her the narrative, right. That's different. You want to do it that way? We just go to the narrative. Yes, we read the motion in the record. She can say or make whatever amendments she'd like to the B or C recommendation. If it's accepted by the floor, then we can have a vote on that. Okay. I know that there's some conversation that folks want to have, so let me let Councilman Mongo bring that forward. Okay. So a couple of amendments. One is an amendment to the city manager fund to. In partnership with a recommendation from Council Member Austin to request a friendly amendment to supplement the 200,001 time funds for youth with 100,000 contingent appropriation for senior programing. I do want to make a comment on the totality, and while I appreciate Councilmember Richardson's comments about the community and their organized efforts, there is a lot to be said for the members of our community that are on the Youth and Children's Support Commission. And our commissions are another component of community input, along with for the Seniors Share the Senior Citizen Advisory Commission. The mayor asked me to kind of provide some context for where we received our ideas based on the information we had for getting the Parks and Recreation Director to make along with the work force director to make recommendations . But that does not limit what the commissions would be able to come out with. More for the point to acknowledge that one many afterschool programs had been cut and the Parks and Rec director had managed those and knows and understands where those were, what those attendances were, where the community need has been requested. I know that Councilwoman Gonzalez on many occasions has activated some of her parks through some funding. That was not in any budget this year. And he has the ability to bring that forward along with Councilmember Austin's requests. And when I say Councilmember Gonzalez or Councilmember Austin, I don't mean them as people. I mean them in their communities they serve who have had considerable input, along with the communities that used to be served by programing that has been cut, and for that as a whole to be in the context of programing proposed. But at the end of the day, the. Commissioners would make those recommendations back to the BRC for consideration. And the reason that is, is because we believe that as important as the very well-organized youth participation is, there is also another arm of our city government, which is a formalized process for citizen engagement and community engagement and resident engagement and visitor engagement. And it is important to continue to provide opportunities for those individuals to use the information they've learned over several years on these commissions to bring recommendations forward. It does not mean they would be adopted any more or less than any other recommendation. So that's one. The next one, I believe, would be. Sorry to interrupt. Yes, sir. On this recommendation, this is an amendment to your motion to expand the purpose of the 200,000. One time in, you're adding the $100,000 contingent appropriation. Is that. Correct? Correct. The the sentence then continues. That said, the funds are proposed and managed by Parks and Recreation and Marine Department within workforce and receiving input to the citywide programing. Is it still correct? Is that still in motion? Yes. So what we foresee again and this is through a lot of community input and again, I'm open to still having a discussion, but acknowledging it comes with that. I understand that. I'm fine with that. My question is the use to indicate that the Senior Advisory Commission to be forwarded for approval by the B or C, as you know, the B or C wouldn't approve anything they could hear and make a recommendation to the city council for approval so it could come to the B or C first their recommendations, but it wouldn't in there will be approved there. It would be something would be approved or recommended out of the council. Right. It would have to come to the full council back to allocate that funding or to approve that funding. Understood. Okay. Next would be in light of the projected shortfall and the fiscal policies proposed by the B or C, have staff bring back a list of positions that were general fund enhancement recommended recommended for structural funding within the last five years. This mirrors a request of the Budget Oversight Committee last year that didn't materialize, and so we will again request it. And this time I would actually add in that it should be brought back to the BRC by March, because last year I know we asked for a list of the positions that were structurally funded out of grants and it just never materialized. And I recognize we're very busy and we've also had staff changes, so we're understanding of that. And Councilmember, I believe this was also already added to 1.10, which had to do with financial policy. So I don't have to say it again, that one is perfect and I remove that and then use the remaining. 185 of year end estimate, along with a fiscal year 19 contingent appropriation to fund the following in priority order, the 215 for the elimination of the St Trump tree stump from the removal backlog. 70,000 for the Parks and Recreation Strategic Plan and 50,000 of one time funding to be used to support efforts around affordable housing and homelessness. So. So these are all things that were either discussed at the full council or the Bossi or the CHP discussions over the last several weeks. And so those were. Does a have any others that I'm missing? Because I'm trying to make sure that everything was the one. I believe that you had started to read into the record before, had to do with the Reserve Police Officer program. And if we could also get some clarity on that motion, if that's. Still part of it. It was just that in our discussions with PD, there were lots of mandatory order ins on police officers. We recognized that we're recruiting as quickly as we can and that we are doing our best to fill our positions on a full time basis, but as available to us to put a little effort behind allowing our full time police officers to to retire and come in as a reserve so that they could fill some of that special event and other overtime, which we're having such a hard time filling. And we kind of talked a little bit about how it's not good for anyone, for a police officer to to roll an 18 hour shift and to be on orders. And so we just hope that though it has come up in several previous budget discussions this year that it would. Get some attention. So as we understand it, is using existing internal resources rather than creating a new program or using existing internal resources to promote reserves, to try to get it more people interested in the program and to help them where we can to lower some of our costs. And we recognize that we kind of talked about this and it was in one of the memos back to the council that the Reserve program already has 20 something officers in it and that training new officers can be expensive. However, accepting reserves as a retiree requires is an option that could could possibly help with that. And we're open to all things. We're just hoping that it materializes this year. That's helpful to clarify that, that it's not a new program but rather expanding our our recruit. And thank you. Expanding the program as reported by the chief. Did I miss anything else? Just one point of clarification. Hundred thousand contingent appropriation for senior programing? Yes, ma'am. Later, you also have some other additional contingent appropriation. Yes, ma'am. You said in the following order. Yep. Should that 100,000 for? It's at the top of the list. It's at the top of the list. Okay. After the tree stump. Before. Before the tree stump removal. Correct. Okay. Thank you. It's pretty much after that in cascading order of cost. Thank you. Remember Price, did you have a comment on the recommendations? I do. Is the friendly amendment a yes or no? I'm a seconder. Right. And so I'm friendly in myself. Are you accepting of my friendly? Yes. Yes. To myself? Yes, absolutely. I do have some questions, though, regarding some clarifications. So for staff, I know staff had talked about the $50,000 as being kind of seed money to start the discussion on affordable housing. Is that affordable housing and homelessness? Is it affordable housing or homelessness? And what's the plan for that 50,000 and what approvals will be sought before that's spent? So for $50,000, we would expect to bring on kind of a consulting firm that will help us do some of the research and some of the outreach dealing with additional resources for both homelessness and affordable housing. So the presentation that we made, we'd be looking at at both, we'd be engaging a number of stakeholders within the $50,000 limit that we could. Some of these efforts, if you look at other cities, have gone much larger. You can go up to 200, 300, $400,000. It depends on how active you want to engage, but we would take the $50,000. That would be our initial funding amount and we would do what we could within those dollars. So that would be under the city manager's threshold. So that would be something that would come, you know, that would be go through the normal procurement process under the city manager, the authority and. Okay. So do we not have any state one time dollars available to do outreach on homelessness? So we looked at first and foremost the weather, the heat funding, the 1.3 money could. 2.3 funding from the state could do this. There's a prohibition on that funding for anything dealing with planning. So anything that has to do with with planning, administration, future, allocate your future allocation of resources, we are prohibited from using it. Okay. So thank you for that clarification. That's very helpful. And then the consultant we're going to hire, do we expect that consultant to cost $50,000 or do we expect that a portion of that $50,000 would be used for the consultant? And then the remaining portion of it would be to implement an outreach process like community meetings. Yeah. So I think that primarily we would be asking for community meetings and a facilitator for a process. So staff don't have a lot of resources right now. Given everything we're doing, we would need someone to help us facilitate those. So with 50,000, I think in this case we would say this is our budget. And how how many interactions can we get for that amount of dollars? And then if we needed to go beyond that, we'd come back to the council and say, Here's where we are. Do we need to go further and are there additional dollars? And I think I know the answer to this question, but I'm assuming this is going to be a citywide outreach. So even if we're combining multiple districts kind of like what we've done with short term rentals where we have multiple districts that can attend a single meeting, is that what you're envisioning? Correct. Probably for this amount, we wouldn't have one in every district, but we would look at geographic balance. We'll make sure everyone had the ability to get to a meeting. They wouldn't be district centric. They would be you know, we're trying to reach a number of different populations with the dollars that we can, like short term rentals. Might I venture to say also like the bluey meetings where they're a never mind. Sorry, sorry. I'm not going to comment on that. The other question that I had was, once we we. So will there. Will we come back? I'm assuming will come you'll come back to council and talk about what the plan, the outreach plan is before that money. It we're setting it aside, but we'll have a specific plan. And yeah, we'd like to communicate to the council what the plan is. We'd like you all to be a part of that. This is going to be something that is a community wide engagement. So we're going to be engaging number of stakeholders and the Council would be helpful in identifying who we should be talking to. Okay. And I'm just and I think I know the answer to this question as well, but none of that $50,000 should be. Used for. Literature advocating in favor of, against or educating anyone on what a future policy could look like. We would use it for education on, you know, what the various options would be, but nothing will be decided until the council decides to put something on the ballot, and then that would be a separate discussion. So we would go through a process and education process. Talk a little bit about the various measures that are out there, what the need is. So some of that but not, you know, here is what we're doing and and making any advocacy on that. That would not happen at all until the council decides what what you would want to do. So if I'm understanding you correctly, this $50,000 would be for us to figure out what our options are and how we want to move forward. Yeah, but I think it's also education on what the current need is and what we believe the issues are and and getting some of that informational material out. So I don't want to I don't want to get anyone astray. There will be in dollars for educational and from educational information, but not specifically leading towards one conclusion or the other. Okay. So what I would like to request is a friendly is that any. Educational materials that are printed in connection with this $50,000 come to council for approval before they're distributed. Open to it? Sure. Great. I mean, we can talk about it, but that's my friendly because I would I don't want anything going out since this is just an exploratory dialog process. I completely understand and recognize that the amount of information and communication and understanding of this has been a little bit confusing for the community, at least in the comments I've received back. So I can completely understand. And I think it's funny that as the second day you're also friendly and ourselves. Let me move on to Councilman Austin and let's clarify, I think. Are we clear on where the motion is right now, Mr. City Attorney. Yes, sir. I believe that the there's two amendments to the Velshi recommendation. One is to request a friendly amendment to supplement $100,000 contingent appropriation for the senior programing. And the second was to the program, 185,000 a year. And to create fiscal year 19 contingent appropriation in the following order, the $100,000 for the senior programing first 215,000 for the elimination of the tree stump removal backlog, 70,000 for Parks and Rec strategic plan, and 50,000 for the one time funding to support homeless and housing. And that had a friendly that any fliers or mailers have to be presented to the City Council for approval. And can I ask for some clarification on the friendly? Are we talking about meeting invite fliers or are we talking about like because there's going to be a lot of things that staff will have to produce to have this effort. So if you can provide some clarity on what you'd like to see. I'll try my best to do that. No, I'm not referencing meeting invitations or meeting notices. I'm referencing information because we may not all have agreement on what we think the need is. We may not have all have agreement on what we think the options are. So I want to make sure that the community has an opportunity to weigh in. Before. We establish any sort of consistent messaging on behalf of the city, especially since we're talking about affordable housing and homelessness. So we're talking about two very broad categories. And if we're going to be doing any informational materials outlining a situation, I may think the biggest issue facing us with homelessness is one thing and a colleague may think it's another. So I think it's just a very broad category. I would say $50,000 isn't a lot of money. And if staff felt comfortable saying, we're going to use this money to reach out to as many people as we can in the city, we're going to use this money to hire a consultant to help us do that . And we're not going to use this money to advocate any particular position. We're just trying to get feedback and have dialog. I think to me that seems like a very reasonable place if we're starting a discussion. And that's where we're starting. So we don't imagine doing any informational advocacy. This would just be reaching out and holding meetings and doing the discussion and basically showing some of the presentation that we had shown you to begin with. So that's kind of where that was our approach. Sure, that sounds fine. I'm okay with that. I just thought that there was going to be some informational materials that were going to go out. So I think I think I understand where you're going. You're talking about doing mailers to houses and, you know, no, that is not what we're talking about. That's part of that $50,000. Right. Perfect. Then I'll withdraw the friendly. Thank you. Let me go. And and to that point, too, I think it's it's good for clarification. I know that for the $50,000, I mean, that's an initial amount to get started and to actually if we were actually going to move forward beyond that, there'd be some there would need to be some significant conversations at the council about funding anything beyond that, because that's really just going to get us started. Is that correct? Yes, that's. Correct. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Marker. Thank you. To come to In Price, Councilmember Austin. Okay. Thank you very much. And thank you, Councilmember Price for for clarifying and withdraw in a friendly I had a little bit of concerns about the friendly amendment in terms of just process, but I think we're going to be just fine. I do appreciate the the amendments brought forth by by the B or C chair Miss Mango specific to you know, leaving you find it 200,000 but also funding senior programing at $100,000. And I strongly support the engagement of our youth newly structured youth commission, commission on Youth as well as our Seniors Commission, because I think they can give us some, some some great direction. And this is why we we have the mayor has appointed and the city council has approved the appointments of those commissions. We we seek to engage those those commissioners in the process. And it would be, I think, really shortsighted of us to to to bypass them on on these particular items. I know. And our conversations and the intent of both of these funds, at least, yes. Was to engage our commissioners more. And those who are advocating on how those funds be, be be allocated and spent can, can, can go and present before those commissioners. And so we can have a more more engaged, appropriate, biased process. And I'm thrilled that we are we're putting together some some seed money to to study our, I think, most pressing issue of homelessness and affordable housing. Both are extremely important. We've heard from residents, I think, in every all nine districts that those issues are priority issues. And so for us to put forth resources this evening and this fy19 budget, I think is very responsible moving forward. And so I'd like to at this point offered a friendly amendment that I that I tried to get in in the last item, and that is taking this back to funding this African-American cultural and art center. And I don't think it will cost that much for us to to get some some initial study money for, like I mentioned earlier, outreach, civic engagement and establishing establishing a stakeholder taskforce with the city manager's office to to get that done. And I like the motion or amend your motion to have that fund come from the SAP. One. I think that is the most appropriate fund for it to come from. And if there's. And I think there's room in there to do that. I think that some of the things that you'd mentioned in some previous community forums might have aligned with the ACP funds more directly than what you just stated. So perhaps we could get an overview from John GROSS really quickly in a sentence or two on what SAP funds can be used for. I know you and I discussed this when we heard some things in the community earlier. We we recommend based on the. The vote of the people and with regard to ACP that the ACP funds, they can be used for advertising and promotion directly for advertising and promotion. We do not recommend that they be used for capital items, not directly related, very directly related to promotion, so that Wayfaring Signs, for example, would be a capital item that would be appropriate for ACP. We do not recommend that capital items that are indirect be used for ACP so that we do not have potential audit issues or compliance issues. Okay. So does it sound like ACP is the best option? Thank you. Mr.. There are some ways where ACP might be viable. I think that it just depends on the context of which the cultural center you're requesting. Would. Gather that information and support. And so I just think that the way it was phrased tonight was a little bit different than the way I'd heard it phrased maybe two weeks ago in the community. And so if it's promoting and supporting the advancement of African-American culture in the community and that as a citywide effort, that would qualify . Was that what your intent was? Well, that's the ten year ago. That was Mr. Market. That in. Wording. I want to make sure because I think I think we all support this effort, but I want to make sure we're pulling it from the appropriate place so that we have the ability to be flexible and how we this is an important process. So we want to be sure that we're not overly stubborn. Yeah. And hampered by, by where we're getting the money funds. So is SFP a possibility for us to do this? And if not, what would be? So can I ask another just a another description of what the effort would be? Is this for, you know, for planning, for, you know, funding, you know, site location? Is it for the ongoing operation? Is it giving it to an entity? If you can just describe I. Know this would be this would be planning and outreach efforts to to to envisioning for for and site selection. All of the all of the above. All right, Mr.. Mr. Jackson has been working on this with with with me, and maybe he can provide a little bit more clarity. But specifically, this this this will go toward, I think, more of a planning vision process, community engagement. Councilmember did it was I didn't hear a dollar amount that you were discussing. We wanted initial seed money of $25,000 would be a drop in the bucket. Mr. Modica, can we respond to that? Yeah, that's given us a little a little hard time to find that as a as a direct connection to SRP. So just historically, what we've spent SRP for really is for promotion and marketing in the city and its natural assets. That's really the definition that was voted on by voters over the years. We've extended that to some of the very public art kind of institutions as part of the promotion of our natural efforts at Ford for $25,000. We'd like to try to find another funding source rather than ACP and and we'll try to find something, you know , that we could come up with. And make a recommendation. Yes, please. For the outreach and promotional efforts of the African-American culture, up to $25,000 should the need be in the outreach and promotional category. If it is not an additional 25,000 for planning at the list of contingencies. They would go. I think that would make us much more comfortable for making more marketing. I know the way to canning it was a new word for me. And so and the planning effort needs to be a general fund. Thank you for that. Okay. No problem. It's I've it's taken me four years to finally get to where John GROSS says yes to when I say SRP. And so it's a very technical area with Mr. GROSS. And I appreciate his prudence. Thank you. I'll move it back to Councilman Austin. And for the contingent, is that where does that fall on the list of the order? Well, I. Don't have my list in front of me, but can we just. Add it? We will just add it to the way that. We were added to the list. Thank you. So let me go back to Councilman Austin. I mean, that that that I think would complete my my interest and I would just encourage my my colleagues to support these amendments as proposed. It's been a long night. Looking forward to getting home. Could I put it right after the strategic plan? That would be great. After the strategic plan. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. A great item to add to the budget cuts and repairs. Okay. I was going to say that the African-American community is part of our natural things, that we should be celebrating people, that we should be celebrating in the city. So it seems to make sense for SJP, for me. That's just my $0.02. Just to put that out there. Just putting it in there. So I'm going to start with Health and Human Services, because I had to organize my thoughts a little bit. I know that some of the conversation that we already had previously was around language access. It was my understanding from the report that we heard from staff is that it's about 3334 K. To make that a full time position. What was that like? And so that would be my my request. And I know that other council members were likely speak to that. I wanted to talk about development services and be clear on this. I know that we need to have a time line to hear back on the code enforcement technology piece. And I know that that's a difficult time line to put our hands around. So just knowing that this motion moving forward with the mayor's recommendations does support us getting to the place where we need to be with Prep. And so I feel like we are at that solid place there with Parks and Rec. I know that we brought up Bixby Park in Parcel One and I know, Mayor, you and I have had conversations around this. For my community members that were so excited about this. I don't know if it's with Tom or with our new parks director. If we could talk through kind of the plan for getting parts of one to be funded, at least in the phase one. And so I Pursell one of of what. Makes me part of. This makes me part. Yeah I think that's something that we'd have to have her out to come down and address. We talked about it during the budget conversation before and I know that we had toyed around with Measure A, but just give us a timeline on on when we think we can present that to the next Funding Options Council. I believe we have a meeting scheduled with your office, yourself and the friends of Bixby Park in order to walk parcel one of Bixby Park into space to conceptualize a phased in program or approach for for improving that parcel. There was a cost estimate already that we had shared with your office that was a little over half a million dollars. And so the idea was to see if we can find a plan that would phase it in perhaps phase one being 100,000. If there's something that is that makes sense with regards to like an 88. I mean, a path that is ADA accessible and other possible elements for improvement of parcel, one that would be in potentially phase one. That's what I would call was the great location. Great. And for folks, I just I know that I have my friends at Bixby Park that care deeply about this. It's a project that's been under work since I was in office and that just wanted to make sure that those folks that watch diligently at home on Tuesday nights know that this is still a priority of ours . So thank you for that. The other part that I wanted to talk about is Health and Human Services. I guess this is sorry I mixed up all my notes and things just got so easy afterwards. I want to ask our staff if we could, as Kelly Colby does. She is I know that in the last budget presentation, we talked a lot about our STDs, the rates going up, but our funding decreasing. I wanted to to hear if we've had any changes in the proposed budget that's in front of us as it relates to as kids and funding those positions that we needed to see and believe. There was a 15 K for community outreach and a 15 K for our mobile unit that no longer was being funded. So if we could get a report from you so we can understand what we might need to add. See how I talked all the way till you get down there. I just did. That for you. Good evening. So the funding that we currently have is about 120,000 total. Most of that funding will go away, will be the 47,000 total. Starting in the middle of this next year. That funding is for HIV testing and treatment. So as we have looked at what we could use additionally to try to start to address needs in the community. We have not had a lot of funding for our mobile clinics. So to be able to do testing and treatment or at least testing on the mobile clinic and then to provide it for treatment, 15,000 would be a start. And then also just doing outreach and really engaging communities and working with folks so that they're willing to come in for testing also takes quite a bit of time. So I and at approximately $30,000 that's a starting space and moves us. Sort of takes it sort of enhances from the 47,000 that we'll have but. Won't take us back to the full amount. And that 30 cases for that outreach. I know that when you and I had some some back and forth, there was a number that was around two staff. Right. So that is. The disease investigation specialist. So they actually go out and work to track down folks and to help bring them in for treatments. What we really find with folks who have syphilis. And gonorrhea, that is there's a lot of. Partner services needed. So those folks are out really trying to engage people and working closely. Once someone has been. Identified to be positive, to be able to. Work with their partners, to bring them in as well, so that we start to slow the. Trends. Great. Thank you for that. And then since you're here, just to be clear on the language access, it's a 35 number to fully fund that position. Yeah, I believe the exact number is 30, 32,007 something. It's just below 35,000. Yes. And that would take us to a full time full time employee. Great. Okay. So my I guess the only comments I have now is to make a hopefully a friendly motion, I guess to include the $30,000 needed for our STD outreach. And that we if there's contingency funds, I guess is where we're going with we add this to the list for the staffing for STDs. We know that in Long Beach, this is a number that's going up dramatically and might not be the funnest item to to bring up in Champion. But it is one that is really critical to our community. So and that third we fully fund our language access with the 35 K. Whereas the two items are three items. Or. Three items. So one is the 30,000 for outreach and mobile services for our city. The second one is she had two staff members to do this the first work, and that it would cost about 160, which is not a number that I'm comfortable with asking for tonight because I haven't had the conversations with all the council members or with the boss. So it's 164 contingency funds for those two staff positions. And then the third one is to move forward with the 35,000 to make the language access staff person full time. And I do want to point out that those would be all three of those appear to be structural funding, and the contingency appropriation is a one time amount that we would have available to us. Yeah. Thank you. I just I just need clarification so that I understand the motion as well. I'm sorry. I got the 30,000 for some of the city work and the health department outreach. Is that right? Yeah. There's 35,000 language access policy from fully paid to fully funded staff position. And and was there there wasn't an additional 160,000 or. There was. So it's 160,000 is what Kelly has said that they need for for two people to specifically work on some of the syphilis outreach and and case management that they are missing. But that's different than the 30 K. Yes. So you're so you're it's so it's 160. You're asking for 162 staff, two people in the health department. Four. Okay. 30 K for additional to the outreach. Right. It's like, you know, outreach. Material 30 and then 35 for language access. Yes, sir. And the 35 is on top of the current was currently funded or is that or you're taking money from that. It's on. Top of. Yeah. I think you. If we're going to keep it. Let me let me keep going through that, I guess. Pierce. Okay. So Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. Thanks, Mr. Mayors. Late. I'm going to apologize right now if I'm a little all over the place, but I'm trying to keep up, so on. So the first thing when talk about the Beach Street's recommendation for the ride from one beach streets to two. Councilwoman Mongo, did you have locations in mind for those two or what? Where did you get the idea for two? So I read your recommendation to go two more and then I made some outreach to the Special Events Department and talked with them about what opportunities they had. And they felt like activations were most effective with multiple council officers and using and relying on prior data. So I wrote that into the motion that they use those things in consideration and then they thought that it would be very, very difficult to do too much less more. And so I tried to adopt as much of that as possible. I also received some input from the community and other constituency groups that they thought perhaps beach streets had. Exhausted its time frame that the most recent beach streets actually didn't have a councilmember attendant in attendance and had some particularly low attendance overall, and that there's some very high communities that really have great participation and others that don't . And so there was some discussion on how that could be done. And so I was hoping that a soft landing point would be to activations. That would be stretching special events, though, and they wanted us to know that. Let's elaborate on the stretching a little bit. So the initial idea for me was that I kind of agree that Beach Street's great idea, but it's not something we want to do one or two times a year. I think it's a great program, but I think for a lot less money and a lot less logistics on special event side. We can do smaller activations. When I say smaller activations. You may not cross into another district, right? We're talking a quarter mile, half mile where you can give more attention to those small businesses and the models. I think the two models I think of activate uptown. You know, Robert Earl still says today that was the best day he's ever had in business. A lot of those storefronts on our Teachable Boulevard, that was the best day that they had in business. And it was small enough to where, frankly, most of my staff did a lot of the logistics. Right. In terms of like booking vendors, things like that. We would need half of a beach street to put that on. We wouldn't need 120 K and we probably wouldn't take up as much special events time. So I would say and then the second piece, so I'm a little landlocked, right? So Border Bellflower, Lakewood, Compton, Paramount, Rancho Dominguez, you and me. I got gardens like quickly. So those opportunities to partner with other districts, I guess you only allow Atlantic Avenue for me, right? But Artesia Boulevard's been an important stretch. But I border six cities. No other council districts. And to be very clear, I envision I mean, we did activate uptown on Artesia was successful. I want to continue to do that. So I'm going to ask you I'm going to make a friendly that we change it from to we don't go all the way to five, like I said, but we take it up, kind of meet in the middle, we go to three. And so if we do three, we break it three ways and we and we remove the contingency that one contingency about cooperation, we can encourage it. Right. I love it. I ask council members that co-sponsoring partner with things all the time, but it may be limited in certain cases with certain corridor. So I say we don't do that. And and finally, I was unclear. Is there a matching component on this? Because I would support that people putting skin in the game to go after this funding. So the original intent was that there would have been. However, there's not a lot of. Programing funding available this year. As everyone is very aware, we're going into a deficit year with very, very little availability. Private, private fundraising. Or private fundraising and things. Okay. I mean, I think. I was just worried about a restriction for that. When we talk about divide by nine, that gets really crazy. Yeah, I'm not saying divide by nines. If there support in the community for the event, there's active mobility grants, things like that. Skaggs partnered on different things. Mobile Source Reduction Committee is in most of our cities, funded the city multiple times for these things. So and then we get sponsorships. So there's an opportunity for that. So you're you're okay with that. So I'm happy to add in giving that also some weight in their decision making process. Good. And going from 2 to 3. So that means that each one would be under 100,000. That's fine. Okay. You're not talking about spending a bunch of tax dollars. I'm just saying that in discussions with some of the community and stuff we recognize, I mean. Our are you saying that we did streets. Like that? There's just a lot of consideration given certainly in terms of last year, a lot of city wide events got structural a.S.A.P on an ongoing basis and not all council officers can prioritize that allocating the amount of stuff. And I know that when we did beat Streets, that went from the third all the way through the fourth and into the fifth. I mean, it was considerable stuff, resources for my team. I completely understand and agree and many of you have all commented, we're literally down to three staff each. Yeah, we all started with four. And so our council officers have also all taken cuts. Certainly I only say council. That's why I think the event scope of the event should go down some and not closing the door to a beat street got beat street started off grant funding. I think we need to do it. Well, I also agree with that and I know that part of our report back from our original budget was when grants come to us in the future, they should say, and when this money evaporates, we will discontinue them, or we will plan to look for general fund backfill. And I think those are very important decisions that we as a council make. Okay. So, yeah. So we're good, I understand. Accepted friendlies on those. Yes. If we can clarify, we're going from 2 to 3. We're removing the part that says collaboration of multiple districts. I think it's just we're we're still encouraging it. So we're just adding another component. None of these are mandatory. These are all components that are encouraged. And then we're adding to Metro grants and funding and or other funding. Correct. Okay. Understood. Other matching funding and that's them is accepted. Great. Thank you. Can I ask a quick just clarifying question on this one issue before we leave it? I support the efforts happening. I think that's fine. I just want to also make sure that this is inclusive, obviously, because I'm through through metro will be able to really supplement a lot of these dollars, which we're working on already . So that's already in the works. I just wanted this. This isn't essentially eliminating beach streets. No, I mean, beach streets there. We're still going to have beach streets. It's just that we're changing the way the funding works and the event. So that gives us more flexibility to have smaller events. But we could also it does not eliminate the possibility of us having a larger beach street if we wanted to as well. And we'll work with Metro to get additional funding as well, because. It also doesn't. Mean that the money would be shaved proportionately. And I get that. Absolutely. So I do want to clarify, I know there's a lot of beach rights fans out there. So a lot of this is not an elimination of beach rates. Off Beach Street. Absolutely. And that was one of the best events we ever had. And so it's just looking at funding differently and we'll continue to get more grants. So I appreciate that conversation. Thank you. Thank you. So so next so I want to talk about and and I'll put this up a certain way. So I want to talk about the youth development stuff. I think there's a lot of conversation there, and I know that everybody's not on the same page. I'm going to try to get folks on the same page. But if not, I want to hear from the council. You guys want to divide the question on this and do this separately? Because because what I don't want to do is get in a situation where people you know, where people are threatening to not support the whole thing or not in a position to support the whole thing, because this is a difficult, difficult issue. Is there any interest in like let. Me help with a little bit of context. So the intent is at this point that that. Is just great. I know the city attorney's saying that Councilmember Richardson has the floor. So I want to make sure that. Are you are do you want to continue? Yeah, I want to talk about the in the question if it's necessary or not. Well, I think I mean. It's or maybe to determine that what motion to divide the question is it has a support will divide the question. If not, then we'll just continue discussion. So I want to at this moment move to the divide, the question on the Youth Development Fund and handle that separately. Okay. So there's a motion divide. The question this is just to divide the question, not to actually vote yes on that. Okay. Give a little more flexibility, I. Think, because this is something that is something new related to the budget that we have the public comment on that or we've done public comment all of the budget. I think we're fine, right? Yeah. Okay, then members, please go ahead and. Get in here a second and I get a second question. If there's a second thing, I'd like to speak against it. Okay. Is there good. I see a few seconds. Okay. I think there's a second. Okay. Okay. There's the motion in a second. Divide the question. I think you've already spoken to your first councilor. The two divide in the question. Divide the question. Again, this is just a divide. The question of Councilman Andrew's. Any comment or vice mayor, any comments? Okay, Councilman Mongo. So I would just say that the block does a significant amount of work in trying to create a package that is representative of the whole city. And I appreciate that. Dividing the question on items can be helpful for individuals getting more or less support for their items. But I just don't feel that it's very respectful of the processes that we've already set up. And so I would ask that. I would ask that we hear your options of what you want to make a recommendation on and colleagues can comment on whether or not they support it. And then the maker of the motion can choose to accept or not. But what I hope we don't do is take 35 items and start separating out the question, because if we're going to vote on every item, I think that the total package becomes very different. And so that would be my proposal. I already feel like. The process that has gone on today has been very it won't happen again next year because this has not been what has standardly happened. And I give a lot of credit to the condensed timeline that we've encountered, but I just don't feel like the way that it's gone about has been equitable. So there's a motion to divide the question on the floor by Councilman Richardson and Vice Mayor Andrews. Can we can we get it up on the screen? Madam Clerk. So just a divide, this. Divide the question. It's my understanding the divide the question would take out on the box recommendation under a subsection E on the funding for the child and youth support. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Members, just go and cast your votes. Motion carries question is divided. So control Richardson continue. All right. So on the Youth Development Fund conversation so I don't think we're that far away. I just think we have different understandings on sort of the intent here. So number one. Just real quick, should we should we have that conversation? We discuss it next. When we actually discuss the discuss. Discussion next, that's fine. So. City Attorney, are we fighting question? Yes, we've divided the question in the I think the motion was to divide the question and handled this separately at this time and then go back. Okay. I thought it was I thought. It was to handle it after this. So I was doing it. This is knock it out. Okay. So okay, so on this fund, so to say that after the community has advocated and organized, to say that the official channel is a commission, a commission that hasn't you know, that is just being restructured to say that that's the official process went through the through that entire process. We know that that commission hasn't had quorum that issues and is just being presenting that actually says it's entirely vacant on city on the city website right now to say that and then to imply that today after not having provided that opportunity through the budget process, after we've presented that, hey, we acknowledge the concern of the community and we want to hear from the communities, the proponents of this about how to spend it when they organize and present it. We should on principle respect that. Now to say we want to include include the commission. I think that absolutely makes sense to me. We have a commission. We should include the commission, but a lot of commissions do engage in strategic planning work. For example, the Veterans Affairs Commission at this point is no strategic plan work. The Sustainability Commission has a strategic plan. There's money in the budget tonight for Parks and Recreation, the Marine strategic plan that their commission will engage in. And so the proposal from the community is that if we're going to establish a youth development fund, this is not a lot of money. So it rather be used as a strategic planning process. Now that strategic planning process, if driven by the Youth Commission, if driven by the Health Department, could be and I would envision that that process should be inclusive of all youth across the city. I don't think anyone has said it's going to be exclusive, any particular, particular subset of youth. And so that said, I'm not comfortable tonight moving forward and sort of not acknowledging the really sort of dynamic engagement that we've received. If you notice the people's budget and the Invest in Youth Commission, Invest in Youth Coalition, they ask to be in the process on all of those items were large and they've paid attention to every one of our meetings. They've met with this and they've tailored, tailored to what they think is feasible and and would be accommodated by this council. And I think we should acknowledge that. So so I would like to see and I would like to see that that $200,000 be allocated to a strategic planning process anyway, inclusive of everyone, including the new commission , inclusive of everyone. But with our proponents that proposed it at the table, a strategic planning process over a two year period, it may come back that you may not need all $200,000 to conduct the strategic planning. It may be $100,000. It may be less. Who knows? But that's the intent of this. Secondly, the proposal on seniors, I support that. I just think we need to be very clear that that's very distinct and different. So I wouldn't want to see those two linked up together. A youth commission and a senior youth development fund and a senior fund merged together may be a bit unclear. It may be hard to target that fund. So I support the 100 K for seniors and looping in the senior citizen commission. That makes sense, but that should be separate that in my opinion, that should be separate from the youth fund. So you got. Well, it was unclear to me if if is that is that the case? I believe it is present. Believe get it together. I believe they're separate. I'm good with that. I'm good with that. So that's my friendly councilwoman to the youth fund. I'd like to hear your response, though. Friendly. So it would be a separate motion. You two. Separate motion. Okay, I'm doing I move that we allocate the 200 K, we allocate the 200 K for a strategic youth development strategic planning process in concert with our Youth Commission as well as youth citywide and in partnership with the Investing Youth Coalition. Right. And that and I just want to clarify, and that doesn't preclude any other youth from the city or it doesn't, including in any book that just allows us to get started. And that's what clarify what he heard from you. Absolutely. And and there is I don't mind any particular department engaging in this. I think Parks and Rec should be at the table for talking talking those things. But almost every one of our strategic plans we mentioned the health department's engaged in, not necessarily off the equity has been different, you know, different bureaus within the health department . And so that's built up a lot of community respect and credibility, I think some that we count on. So I think that department should play some lead role in this. Other departments could totally be at the table, engage, but I think that is respective of what the communities proposed, I think is consistent with and correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Mayor, but, you know, it's consistent with how you presented it. And that's my motion. That that that's consistent with what I'm hearing. Just to clarify, I'm hearing that the money essentially would go to a strategic planning process. Strategic Points has been. Discussed at the council and by the community. The youth commission would be involved. Absolutely. The youth groups that have been that brought it to the table would be involved. And of course, a citywide, citywide input and process from youth. From across all nine across. The city. And that staff has the flexibility to guide that process through our departments. We have multi departments that we're I. Think it's you're also city manager, but. You're also you're also asking of course that in that process there consider all departments, including our health department. Our you're not saying specifically is going somewhere but staff's going to guide. Yeah, the funding itself is going to go to a consultant. I know departments. I get that through. You're not directing it to, but we. Want to specifically call out help. I get that. But we're not. Excluding anyone else. I get it. And you also call that Parks and Rec and others. Okay. I'm good with that. All right. That is that is the that is a motion that's on the floor. There's the motion. And a second to that. I'm assuming those that are cued up are on the other. That was for the other debate. No. Okay. So any why don't you raise your hand really quick if you want to speak to the current motion as it as it's presented? Let me go to Mr.. Go down this way. Okay, so let's turn this and go down. Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I think I understand the motion. I just want to just just I've been doing a little bit of research here and I've found some some interesting, interesting information that, you know, we're not actually re-inventing, reinventing the wheel this evening. The youth fun it was was created or existed many, many years ago, many years ago, and was probably cut. And, you know, I think our efforts tonight are restored. But, you know, looking at the old website, this was a National Gold Medal Award winner program through our Parks Recreation and Marine Department. The Youth Fund was created to provide funding for local, local youth to create and develop projects that address this community. Issues and challenges. The fund would offer grants led by and projects led to be planned out and led by the Youth and the Commission on Youth and Children currently oversee. Sees the Long Beach Youth Fund Youth Commissioners selected by an adult commissioners will review the projects that are submitted. So the point is I don't think we're reinventing the wheel this evening. And the idea that came to us through the people's budget was was something that was already in place. And so I think everybody here supports funding youth programs and funding our youth to be more engaged, you know, in our city. I mentioned earlier that we do commit a lot of resources already to our youth through our libraries, to our parks and recreation departments, developing improving new parks, developing new parks and improving existing parks through our workforce development. There's a lot of a lot of efforts and a lot of focus on youth. And this is this this fund will increase that or just add to what we are already doing. And but I wanted to to point that out. I feel pretty, pretty strongly that that the commission needs to be continued to be involved in this process. And I'm glad that that you're finding some flexibility to to to engage other departments. And so. I'll support. Thank you, Councilman. Vice Mayor Andrews? Yes. Also, not to be repetitive, I just want to follow through with our councilman Rex, you know, friendly. I definitely think that we should make sure that our youth continue to receive whatever. But the mayor's put into his budget and and I'm looking forward to really supporting this 100%. Thank you. Vice Mayor, let me just get going down the road. If people want to speak, just raise your hand. Councilman Pierce. Oh, there you said it. Well, Cosmo Pierce, you're up next. Anyway, so. Yes, thank you. I just want to echo my support for this, and I think I know that we tend to have a group of of community members that come out and speak from one part of the neighborhood. But I do think putting it with with the full city process, with the multiple departments and using the commission is a great way to ensure that everybody and it is true that every part of our city, the youth in the West Side, need something different than youth on the East Side, but that this fund is geared towards youth and our entire city. I think that that's. No one has said otherwise. So I fully support this, and I hope that all the colleagues here can support this. And I also want to I know that we're doing the youth here, but we also have the part about 100 K, which I think is a separate motion. But I like where we're going as well. I'm saying I like that that we are looking holistically at our city. So thank you and thank you for all the youth that are still here and for all those watching at home. Thank you. Thank you. Let me let me add anything we got to Councilman Price also. I think it's it's and it's certainly my intention as a as a new youth commission reforms the youth and children that it's reflective of the entire city. And so you're going to have everyone at the table, I think, as well, to work. We'll work really hard at that. Councilman Price. Okay, so thank you. So just so I'm supporting what I'm hearing, I'm just don't have a lot of clarity on. A lot of words have been spoken. So is there are a request that it be housed in a particular department or is everyone just kind of going to work together on it? Is that a question for me? Yes, I guess. Okay. The city manager's office. So. So the money's not going to be housed anywhere if I guess it's multiple departments. City manager I'm hearing over here can run point. The community is requested that a health lens health equity lens whatever it is is applied to it and that the health department being a lead role. I think that's naturally going to happen if we sort of give that direction that that's the way you want it to happen. I think other departments will obviously play a role. Parks and Recreation obviously needs play a role. I think workforce will play a role if it's a really holistic, comprehensive, strategic plan. There's a number of departments that touch our PD can play a role. Know and a staff would suggest you just assign this to the city manager and we'll figure out who needs to be at the table. So we definitely here the health should be at the table, Parks and Rec, all the partners that were mentioned. So we'll make sure with that happens. Good. I'm good with that. Great. And if I could request from staff and I'm assuming this is included, it's implied, but I want to explicitly stated that every council district will be engaged with the process so that we can make sure to advertise and involve our youth because they may not be as organized as in some of the other districts and may not be an advocacy group associated with them. So we want to make sure we get them to the table. So as long as we're all engaged, I think that would be great. And in terms of a strategic plan, and I guess I will ask this for clarity from Councilman Richardson, what do you envision that. The strategic plan would do? Like what? What would it have recommendations for what? So the strategic planning processes that I've seen happen in the city, they come and help articulate a vision and a strategy to get there. And a lot of cities that have doubled down on youth development, they've established youth development strategies like how do you take the status quo, address the issues related to our youth, the current issues , the programs, and have a strategy to drive it proactively. We've done a lot of work around youth from youth violence prevention my brother's keeper, my sister's keeper, all that thing. I believe this just allows us an opportunity to have a more holistic look at youth development. I personally, I love this proposal because the youth, you know, have talked about it. They've engaged in it, they've bought into it. There's operated they're willing to work with others. They're optimistic about the future. They can go off to college or whatever they're doing and look back at the implementation of this. When our council, the next council, does it and say, I helped shape the future of these youth. So I think this is as I'll still quote from Pat, I think this is as apples, motherhood, apple pie as we can as we can make it. But ultimately, that that could create a roadmap to be more intentional about youth development. We could envision youth development departments. We could envision, you know, taking another look at teen centers. How does this work with the. Parks and Rec strategic plan. I think now is just the perfect time to do it. Mm hmm. No, and I agree with you on the vision. I couldn't agree with you more on what the potential of it is. I just wanted to kind of get an idea of. So I would hope that the strategic plan, although. Yes, absolutely. We want to get a holistic view. We also want to get a plan that's very targeted to the diverse needs of the population throughout the city, because there may be different stressors in one part of the city as others, that we might need to augment support for our youth on. Mm hmm. And so I would hope that that engagement and this is really for for our city manager's office in terms of developing a strategic plan that I would hope that the focus would be on having recommendations that are targeted towards specific needs in different areas, whatever those limiting factors are for for the youth to strive in that particular area. But I think it's a great program. I love that the youth are involved and that they brought it forward. I couldn't agree with you on all of that, gives them a real sense of pride in their city. So I think it's great and I'm I'm glad that the city manager's office is going to be overseeing it, because I think it does touch upon multiple departments. So thank you for that recommendation. Sure. And we'd like to request that it be up to 200,000 for a strategic plan. If we're able to do the strategic planning for less than we'd like to reserve some of that funding for implementation of that plan. Sure. I'm good with that. Thank you. Next up is Councilman Mongo. So I appreciate the dialog, but I would also say that while I appreciate the one recommendation in requests that came from one group, there were also dialogs with both that group and other council officers, including, but not limited to another motion which was already approved, I think, which talks a lot about the teen centers and the opportunities and the funding and the derivative of giving the strategic planning money to Parks and Rec. Was that part of knowing and understanding what Parks and Rec has is that those student fighters, 25, 15 years old and so. I'll I'll just say that I appreciate the opportunity to continue to put that into. The city manager's office. But that, I think, also needs to be a bit of respect for the dialog that actual council members have had with the community group that you're stating their position. Because I've actually sat with and had those conversations and at no time did they request a strategic plan. And when I met with them and listened and talked through some of the the youth opportunities across multiple departments, just like we're talking about now, whether it's libraries, parks and Rec, afterschool programs, teen center, all of that. I also then went into those communities including but not limited to McBride and MacArthur and some of the other areas . And we kind of talked through where could a pilot program be? I then researched and talked with department heads who were open to housing those pilot programs, and then went back to specific council members who are willing to use the their community centers as a pilot program. And that's kind of where the recommendation for Vice Mayor Andrews Teen Center to be a pilot program in that process. And so I appreciate and respect all the work that you've done on this. And I only wish that you would have given me that same respect to keep it as a part of the original motion coming out of the BSA. Thank you. I think back to Councilmember Tauranga. Actually first time coming on this. But we're saying. Sorry. It's getting it's getting late. My wife would just text me. She's going to bed. So I guess she stopped seeing, which I guess a good thing for me is stop texting me in this conversation. I got lost in terms of I thought this was about not only youth programs but also senior services. And it got sort of bifurcated. And we start talking about the youth programs or whatever to senior seniors, a component. That's a separate motion. So it's going to be a vibrant motion. Okay, then I can support this back. Get back to Katherine Richardson. Okay. Just quickly, just two things. So, one, the Invest and Youth Coalition gave us a flier today with the position has evolved over time. Initially they're asking for half a million dollars. Right. Obviously, through the conversation, it was infeasible. But today it says include the proposed 200 K in seed funding for the Long Beach Children Youth Fund to develop a community driven, youth led strategic plan. So just so we're clear, this is the same coalition, the same original proponent. So I'm not speaking for them. I'm literally lifting this from the request that is developed. So that's one. And then secondly, that the goal wasn't to pull this aside, but I heard that there was contention in the the first time we touched on it. So we wanted to just have a pure conversation here. But, you know, I have seen it since has come up. I've seen that I think there's some misunderstanding about the role of the Budget Oversight Committee. Frankly, the Budget Oversight Committee is not the dog and the councilors tails the other way around. The council is the dog and the Budget Oversight Committee is the tail. So we're not at the kiddy table because we're not on the Budget Oversight Committee. This is the big table and this is where we have an opportunity to weigh in on things. So I just want to be crystal clear. I respect your role as the Budget Committee, but I have a job to do as a member of the full body of the city council. Thanks, and I appreciate that. At the end here, Councilwoman Mongo got to me, Margo. I appreciate that. And I also hope that. But there's a part of recognizing that a conversation evolves over time. And at a council there's an EP or an up or down vote on a lot of things, and that there's a considerable amount of time that goes into reading a 500 page report, meeting with each constituency group, each of those things. And so I appreciate that the people's budget has evolved because I think that part of the reason it has evolved is through discussions with council members and recognizing that there is just point in time options of what can be done in a six week budget process, and that typically they're not a six week budget process, but that. But I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you. There's a there's a motion and a second. Members, please cast your votes on the motion. Councilwoman Pryce. Emotion carries. With. Emotion carries. That's the that's his care of the question that was that was split up so that we're going back to the rest of the BFC recommended. That's correct. And if I could get a point of clarification on the there was a motion by Councilmember Pearce for to add three items. I didn't have a so that. That hasn't been that that's not an official motion yet. It was not a friendly but it was never came to light. So what's on the table now? So I think now we're back. Now we're back. And so I for. And councilor and so let me so let me go back so we're back to the original conversation of the PSC recommendations. I think Councilman Richardson, who's put the question, we're back to Councilman Richardson on the PSC recommendations. Correct. And so what I if the friendly was accepted by CD two or not, there would be part of the conversation that I. Think it's part of the conversation. But there was not an official, a friendly that was asked. I think they recognize that this list is about to get long and so I'm going to put them all down. We've accepted some well, with all my friends, I know all of them have been accepted except for the member Councilmember Pearce's. So I need to know whether it's accepted or not so that that's what's on the floor. I don't know what's on the floor. So I would only say that the only thing that's been accepted from General Fund at this time would be the African American Fund. There was the beach streets. There was beach streets. But there wasn't any funding changes. No, no funding things without cause. I'm not sure I'm going to pull the funding from or put it from yet based on all the requests, if that makes sense. Mango Because there wasn't a revenue source associated with the request, right? And he has three items for the $222,000 that the councilmember from the second District has on there. And so that's the question. You've accepted one and on another. Yeah, I. Mean, listen, it's my impression that that hasn't been accepted yet. I can't accept any recommendation that doesn't come with the funding that. Has not been accepted. Right. And but it's still part of the conversation. It is still available for potential funding should one be proposed? Okay. Let me go back to let me go back to Governor Richardson. I have I don't have much more. So just want to touch on the the 50,000 dedicated for the revenue outreach conversation related to homelessness and housing. So just to be clear, this was the this was the same 50 K that was outlined in staff presentation two weeks ago on housing revenue options. Is that everybody's understanding? This is city attorney Mr. Modica Yes. Okay. Just wanted to be clear, that's that funding to conduct this process, that's all it is. And then and I just wanted to say that I do support of Councilwoman Pearce's a few things. The one that I'm familiar with is the 35 K, but it sounded like you said you wanted to make it structural. I thought the proposal was to take one times to add it to that structural part time and make it full time. But on a one time basis, right, you still have that permanent structural part time. So just to be clear, that's what that's what you're proposing one time. Okay. All right. That piece I support I support that. Not familiar with the other stuff. And I support that. Thanks. Taking a turn. This now comes from Birmingham. Thank you, Mayor. Obviously, there's a lot of moving parts. We talk about a lot of different parts of this of this budget, as we discussed earlier. Couple of things that, you know, are related to my district that I think I need to to address. One of them is the Beat Street, and I'm glad the mayor brought it up because it wasn't funded at one time, totally and completely by Metro. And it came in as a part of a of a grant that they offered to have these streets in Long Beach based on another program that they had somewhere else going in Los Angeles. If I'm not if I'm not mistaken, on the history of a B streets here in Long Beach, I don't think the intent was to institutionalize it within a long we can have. Allow me to pick it up as a as a as a as an ongoing budget expense for Beach Street. And the only reason I say that is because certain districts in the city are able to have, because of their corridors, are able to have a beach street event that goes multi districts. I don't have that. In fact, the last district that the last beaches we had that covered eight, nine and seven, I only had like two blocks. I mean, and there was it was two blocks. It had very little impact in terms of business opportunities for those vendors to have any kind of significant financial impact for them. So I'm I'm liking the discussion that we might break it down to, to break it down, downsize it a little bit and go from 2 to 3. But I also want to make sure that at least I have a corridor in my district that would be able to sustain a beach street like event. I have two major corridors. I have actually three but two major corridors in the seventh District that I would like to see having a beach street like event. I have Wardlow and I have Santa Fe as two business corridors in my district, not as developed or as as expansive as maybe Atlantic or Anaheim or those kinds of street are covered multi, multi district. But I would like to have at some time an opportunity to sponsor a, b streets like that in the seventh District that would be beneficial to my communities in those areas. So I'm throwing that out there as a as a as a friendly amendment that we include corridors that that our business corridors in districts that may not be able to in corridors and may not be as extensive or lengthy that covered multi multidistrict areas. So I want to make sure that the seventh District is included in that discussion and we have that that type of and we believe that language about corridors is in there already. Okay, wonderful. The other other issue they're talking about, Councilmember Pearce has already brought these up. As a former member of the health department, I saw the the the the detriments that the the defunding of the vehicle license fees did on a lot of programs in the health department, mainly that were talking about STDs testing and community outreach. And I want to support and second Councilmember Pierce's motion or friendly to include those in in this budget because it's important I mean we lost a major funding source when it came to the bike to the vehicle license fees that funded these at a very high level. At one time, we had full time staff providing those kinds of services and that went away. So and obviously the disease hasn't gone away or the need for it to address STDs has not gone away. So I certainly can support that that friendly for that as well. And also, you beat me to the gun and the 35,000 for the language access program and make it a full time. I certainly support that because it's been a it's been an ongoing discussion now for a number of years, and it's time that we address it and get it fully funded. And those are my only comments at this point. Thank you. Thank you, Constable Pearce. I yes. Thank you. So it is late. So I'm going to clarify what my comments were earlier and hopefully we can have that conversation. So one is the 3541 time funding for language access, as Councilmember Gallagher just mentioned, to make that a full time position to after having some conversations, I think what would be a great way . In for our health of our community is $30,000 one time funding. For the. Mobile center and the community outreach, and that our health department can work with the county to try to leverage some other funds to get those other two positions that the Kelley and I have been talking about. So that those are my that is my family, I guess, that I am asking for support on. What leads into the structural is that. Yeah, it's exactly what I said earlier with the the funding to be able to make it a full time position but that the 35 K adds on to what is already there to make it a full time position. So just to to clarify. There is only so much contingency, and it would be disingenuous for me to just say yes and put it at the bottom of the list without any likelihood that it would be funded. So what I would ask of you is that we are already beyond stretched of what is available, and so of your requests, what I would propose is to place the 30,000 of STD outreach and testing. You would only say that outreach, he said outreach and testing. Outreach, testing, mobile center. I mean, it's okay. There's a description that I think there is a little bit of room. There's not 240. I mean, we're already the city staff's current recommendation is that there's 500,000 available. We've already programed over 775,000. And so what I would ask is if we're if we're really trying to fit in, what's realistic that we have some consensus behind the city outreach and mobile testing unit? I do understand the significant VLF funding that it used to be and where we are today and the. Specific need to address Long Beach's unique position on this, unfortunately unique position in the growth versus the reduction over regions, and I would probably place it somewhere on either side of the African-American fund. Okay. So, I mean, I'll make my last pitch on. It's been a couple of weeks since we've heard, you know, the stats on where we are with STDs. We know that it's not only the LGBT community, but the African-American community, and that the numbers are increasing and that this is one of those times where you can actually put money somewhere and see an automatic decrease. And it's not necessarily on a values piece. And so I fully support the African-American Cultural Center, don't want to pit us against other items. But in a situation where we have our health department saying that we are at a crisis mode with STDs going up and $30,000 can help make a difference. You know, and I'm not sure if that's 15. Okay. Now that we can do. I know that shows that they have equal priority as the funding comes at the beginning. So if it came in at ten, they'd get five, each of it comes in at 60, they get 30 each or whatever. Is that fair? Does that work? I mean, it does work viably in terms of, well, I understand and you're giving out the budget. But I mean, does that work in terms of reaching the goal that it's intending to work? So are you saying that the funding has to be in step levels? Like if it was 10,000, it wouldn't work at all? It has to be. My question for for like two. And eight to do with that, I get it here. So. So each increment, I mean, it's not incremental base. It's it's just the ability to have increased access and testing out in the community. So when we the original conversation was 15,000 for testing and. 15,000. For outreach. So the testing is very important. As is the outreach. So we could combine that in whatever, whatever that is possible. 30 would be a. Good start and of course we need a lot more than that. 30 would be a starting place. But if were 20, we take 20. And then for a language access plan that's a non-career position and we would just be adding hours so it wouldn't be a. Know that the. Language text, the language access program, the language access. Program is currently non. Career. But it you can't go past they're already topped out at 1600 hours so we'd have to make a full time. And there at. The one because then. That one would have to be $35,000. It has to be 35,000. It can't be less. And so so my thought was that we are already funding it at 160 this year and that any other incremental would have to be supported by potentially an additional staff member so that it's not at a rate that's so much higher, if that makes sense. And so at this time, what I would ask is for us to wait for the report to come back, because one of the things that we talked about with the community and their budget priorities was there's currently over $800,000 of language programing in the city that's really not accounted for. And so before we talk through what those priorities are, to get that report back from the H.R. staff and then kind of walk through it again when we have that and that should be coming back in the next few weeks. So that's I would just say that we'll actually no closer to what year end we are in. Money will look like we'll know a bunch more things. And so at this time what I'd like to do is accept the friendly for the $30,000 contingency STD outreach. And testing to be prioritized at the same level as the African-American cultural support. And then for the 30. The hours. You don't in doing the specific request of Councilmember Austin with the 35,000 request of LAPD to come back as a part of the full picture that we've already motion. For comment until 8 p.m.. Sure. Thank you. Look, let me add something, because I understand what what we're trying to get to. So I think first, I do appreciate I think that that's a good addition to the budget. So thank you, Councilmember. I think that those those needs are really important. I think what what I have heard from Councilmember Pearce and others on the council is that as we as we're looking at the language access program, the real need might not just be adding a bunch of money to translate documents, but the need is actually to to ensure that there's a person actually doing the work that's consistent within a language access policy and that's actually doing work, going out and actually implementing some of this work, not just money from translation services. Now, that's what I've heard of from, you know, from, from folks. And so I think and Mr. Modica, correct me if I'm wrong, but with this new money coming in, I think you guys are going to be reviewing the dollars that are coming in from language access and looking at if this is actually a possibility and what that could look like in the future and kind of assessing how we expand now that we have more dollars, how we expand what we're actually doing. And I know that you're going to come back to the council to give an update on that. So hopefully, if that's what we're going tonight, that those we can have that conversation about where we're going when this comes back to the councils. Is that a correct assessment? Yes. So we were we were asked to come back with some information on a current bilingual pay and how we're currently allocating that money. Then and then Bossi was recommending that the LPI money first be used to kind of make that do that review and then come back. That is, as we understand Bossi motion. And. From considerable community meetings and community outreach and input related to some of the frustration we're hearing in the community with not seeing the results that they had hoped for with the amount of money that's been allocated to date. So, yes, absolutely. Okay. So I think I think I know where we're at with the conversation. So I think that's where we're going. But we're still doing some some research on on the issue as well. So let me let me go back to the. And then Councilmember. I'm sorry, Mary, can we get some clarification on where this falls in the priority order having it equal with the African-American Museum? Well, we haven't. We have that. We haven't. Made it. We just need some direction. Where does it. Go? There is we're still having the conversation, but there is not yet any additional funding that's been set aside on language access besides the 160. That's I believe it's one 6180. I'm sorry. I was referring to the mobile phone or the mobile that is. Being that is right where the African-American museum is. So then it is said, okay, so it is seniors then, right? We try to trace them right below. It is right below. I think it needs to be above or below. It's right below. Thank you. Okay. Just yes. Okay. So let's go back now to. Yeah, nothing is nothing the above. Another thing, they're all important. They're all going to get funded. So, Councilor Pierce. I'm like, I don't even know. No, I'm I don't want to be right out. And I and I know that Councilmember Austin has been working for a long time on his project. So I want to respectfully, for the group, say that I am happy to go after the African-American Cultural Center knowing that we were all going to get to where we we need to get, and that I know that this is a priority for the whole community. So I just want to put that out there. Thank you. Well, we have a motion and a second for these recommendations, so please go ahead and cast your votes. Motion case.

Recommendation to respectfully request City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of a fair collective bargaining contract at Long Beach Community Hospital.

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We'll go to 19 category. I'm 19 is communication from the office of Patrick. Council member Patrick O'Donnell. Councilwoman Geri Chavkin. Council Member Stephen Neal with the recommendation to respectfully request the city attorney to draft a resolution in support of the Fair Collective bargaining contract at Long Beach Community Hospital. Scroll down. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I just want to say how much I appreciate nurses. I spent a great deal of time recently. Memorial Hospital, not too far away, as you're aware. And I could never do the job that you do. I mean, honestly, I'm a teacher and people say, I have patients for you. You guys are remarkable how much care you put into your profession and your patients. I see it truly. So the only before us this evening was brought forward out of concern and support for our nurses at community hospital. We want community hospital to continue to be a happy and successful place to work and be cared for. Thus, we urge a quick resolution on this matter. The City Council. This City Council cares for those. Who care for us. And I know councilmember ships. He had some comments as well. Mr. NEIL. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I would like to thank my colleague for bringing this forward stand in support and would urge the community hospital to bargain in good faith. EU Council memberships. Everything my colleague said about registered nurses is correct because I'm a registered nurse and I've been trying to tell him for years. So we really this council has had a consistent policy of standing up for working people in our community, and we could do no less for the nurses that are struggling at community hospital to get a fair, equitable and timely contract. So I appreciate my colleagues bringing this forward. And for the purpose of the public so that they know one of the particular interests this council should have in this issue is the city of Long Beach owns the land of community hospital. It was funded by city dollars and for a very small fund was given over to Memorial for operation. We are grateful for the operations that memorial is doing because there's a number of improvements that have been made, but more need to be made. But knowing that and knowing our connection with community hospital, it is imperative that this council stand up for the rights of the the nurses who are again trying to get a fair, equitable and timely contract. So I salute your bravery for being out here tonight and urging a vote to approve this. Okay. Thank you. We do have a motion, correct? Who seconded any. Any member of the public with suggested counts on item 11 maps item 19. Major. Okay. You're all going to be on the clock. If there's a lot of people. I will have the limited, but try to stay within your time, please. Thank you, Mayor. Again, my name is Sonny Zia. I am a resident of Long Beach Second Council District. And I'm here to urge you to support a fair contract for nurses that includes patient safety ratios at all times, benefits and retirement, which has been taken off the table. Respect, including as it pertains to nurses rights to advocate for their patients without fear of retribution, fair wages and other contractual language that limited memorial care are ends have and community hospital. Hospital has refused to honor their sticking with their take away of 6% in wage reduction, which exacerbates current problem of recruitment and retention of experienced staff . As a daughter of a nurse and an active member of this community, I respectfully ask you to please take action in support of a fair contract for nurses at our community hospital. They are the selfless individuals who take care of our patients and need to be treated in an equitable and fair manner and be given the opportunity to provide for the same standard of care as Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I'd like to thank all of you for allowing me this time to express my concerns to you. I know I'm not a very eloquent speaker, but I ask that all of you will not let that take away from the importance of the message I'm here to convey to you guys. My name is Nathan Holtzman. I am a registered nurse in the Behavioral Health Department at Community Hospital of Long Beach. And recently there was an occurrence there due to a decision made by the hospital which resulted in, you know, a severe injury. And because of that injury, you know, some of my colleagues, other staff members have had some serious emotional distress. And as you know, being on our own, there's a duty that we have to these patients. And, you know, when something happens, we feel it's. I know I presented a very vague description of their occurrence, and I did. And I did that deliberately. I did that because the problem is beyond this incident. The problem is hospital wide. We are currently fighting for a contract, a fair contract that will let us do what we as nurses have a duty to do, which is advocate for the safety of our patients. I'm here because your community, which receive care from the hospital, which you guys are lending to them. They need your assistance. The community here. And thank you for this opportunity. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Mary Keenan, and I've worked at Long Beach Memorial for 40 years. So to say that I have seen the good, the bad and the ugly is an understatement. What is happening now at Long Beach community is a disgrace and an insult to the nurses and the community they serve. These dedicated professionals should be respected for their skill in caring. Instead, they are being treated like they are not worthy of the same standards that other Long Beach area nurses receive. I can't help but think this is more about union busting than it is about money or finance. This system always has money to support their latest strategy and project. They have shown by their current actions that the nurses and the community they serve are not a priority for memorial care. And I believe you and all of us have a vested interest and responsibility in seeing that our community hospital survives and thrives with a stable , professional nursing staff. So we ask for your support and. Anything you can do to pressure this corporation that. Doesn't really seem to. Value the people that work for it. Thank you. That makes people. Please. Hi. My name is Sharon Cooper. I've been a nurse for five years, all of which at Community Hospital of Long Beach. I'm also a member of the excuse me, chl b bargaining team. Across the table we have been told by memorial the following that our ICU or intensive care unit is not a real ICU. Safe staffing and ratios slow down production and that saving lives has a monetary value based on what people are willing to pay for it. I would like to address these comments by saying that our ICU is indeed a very real ICU, that safe staffing and ratios do slow down production, but they also allow us to provide the best, safest and quality care to you and your family. Keep in mind that since the implementation of ratios in California, outcomes have been better for nurses and patients. Patients are more satisfied in hospitals that meet California nursing nurse staffing mandates whether or not those hospitals are in California. If hospitals are staffed with California ratios, fewer patients would die due to failure to rescue. We've already seen the negative outcomes of the hospital not following the ratios by having nurses cover each other during meals and breaks, leaving them twice the legal, leaving them over twice the legal limit. The very least being the patients and families complaining that during those times there was a delay in care and the most being that being declining patient conditions with a nurse less able to assess and intervene. Despite what memorial care has expressed to us about the value they place on human life. In my humble opinion, even just one life saved is more valuable than any corporate profit. We're fighting for a fair contract that allows us to advocate for our patients, ensure their safety and be respected in the workplace. Thank you. Thank you. Next week, a place like speaker. Good evening. My name is Jackie McCabe. I'm Aunt CHB for 29 years. And like you then to on the marketing team for the last year, our hopes with memorial care was to develop one standard for community. If the patients in Long Beach, the language for memorial care that they're proposing violates our basic rights. One of their proposals is to eliminate our freedom of speech. They don't want us to say disparaging things out loud by coming in. If we accepted that proposal coming here tonight, I could lose my job, which, you know, we find sort of unacceptable. They have proposed that layoff language that allows them to select individuals for layoffs and not do it by seniority, but a more penalizing way. They propose wage reductions and we're already below standard. They initiated a benefit package without bargaining with us to do that. So because of that, today we filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board. I just wanted to share that with you. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker, please. Hello. My name is Premiere Reyes. I'm staff are in at Community Hospital Long Beach and it's been over a year and a half since I last before you. Talking to you about our plight. A community hospital of Long Beach. And today, I would like to talk to you a little bit about the recruitment and retention community hospital. The one thing I do have to say is that memorial is actually getting better in their recruitment because as I sit there and talk to our unit managers, they tell us that there might be five new staff members coming on to staff and unfortunately, only two of them actually end up actually coming to orientation and actually starting in the emergency department. And a lot of the newer staff that's coming there that some of their comments that are that there's no real room for growth. There's no there's no real education department. And so, in turn, some of the employees leave to go go somewhere else, leaving us short staffed. And when we're in short when we're short staffed, it throws off our skills mix. And in turn, they expect to still to take care of the same amount of patients, even though we're don't have enough staff for it. And that contributes to unsafe environment, which in turn doesn't really allow us to deliver the high quality care that our patients deserve in the emergency department when they come for help. So I just want to let you know what's going on. Thank you. Mike Speaker, please. Good evening, council members. My name is Roberta Ranga. I'm a member of the Board of Trustees at Lobby City College. But I'm also the son in law of a patient who has benefited very highly from her, from the nursing and quality industry that is receiving at home. For the last 13 years, I've seen graduating classes of nurses along with City College, and I know that the quality of care that they provide is top notch. I'm sure that when they graduate and are ready to go into the workforce, that they want to be respected with good salary, wages and benefits. I'm looking forward to your unanimous endorsement of this resolution. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Rex Pritchard, president of Long. Beach Firefighters Association. I ask that you support this motion before you. The nurses are vital partners with firefighters in the city in delivering 911 services. We could not do our jobs without them. When we arrive at the hospitals with patient and community hospitals, a vital, vital resource that we use every day and there are definitely needs to stay open and is a much needed resource on the east side of town. Thank you. You're seeing. See, there's no other public speakers. I'm going to go out and turn this back over to the city council. Starting over with Councilmember DeLong. Thank you. I'm curious that the makers of the motion, do you know how much money from WellCare makes at this hospital every year? Do they generate a profit or loss or do we know what their performances? Do you? I think there was a question that comes with the long made to any of the jury. Do you, Mr. DeLong? Yeah. Well, at least in the research that I did, it showed that they lost $9 million last year, and they're on track to lose $8 million this year. So I just think, you know, I do want people to feel that the hospital is is rolling in cash. I think that, you know, they do have some challenges, but they're having a great level of service level and which community what I would offer as a substitute motion, because I think it's important rather than pick one side or the other to encourage both. So what I'd like to offer is to mutually encourage both parties to bargain in good faith for an agreement that will be good for the patients, the employees, the hospitals and the community. Okay. I don't I don't hear a second on that. Okay. There's no second. Can you comment on the motion from many council members? There's a motion on the floor. Kate, there's a message on offer. Please cast your votes. Yeah. I mean. Yes, but I can't think you're going to. Motion carry seven votes. Yes. One vote no. Okay. Moving on now to the rest of the agenda. We're going to go back to the regular agenda. So we're back to Mr. Clark, I believe, to number 11.

AN ORDINANCE related to COVID-19; making a supplemental appropriation of $19,637,000 to several general fund agencies; making a supplemental appropriation of $21,215,000 to several non-general fund agencies; making a supplemental appropriation of $5,840,000 to a capital improvement fund; amending the 2019-2020 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18835, Sections 18, 19, 19, 20, 24, 31, 32, 33, 40, 62, 65, 65, 84, 84, 85, 85, 95, 97, 101, 101, 102, 112, 118 and 126, as amended, and Attachment A, as amended; and declaring an emergency.

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That takes us item nine, an item for discussion and possible action. It's the fifth COVID supplemental ordinance. Andrew Kim of our central staff is here to provide the self-report. Mr. Kim, the camera is yours. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Am I coming out okay? Yes, you are. Great to share. Andrew Kim with Council Essential Staff. The staff report for this item begins on page 46 of your agenda packet, but I will actually begin my briefing starting on page 47, on page 47. In table one, you can see a summary of the Cobas supplemental omnibus that has been adopted thus far, and also the COVID five, which is before you today. So if you include all the proposed appropriations in COVID five, then all the COVID supplementals that have been adopted would amount to about 360 million, of which 42 were for operating purposes and 73 million for capital. With regards to COVID five, I've provided a table to categorize some of the expenditures. Details of the COVID five elements are actually in Attachment four to the staff report before effort for the purpose of the staff report. I thought it would be more valuable to provide some categories. So the only real policy decision for the for the members is an increase of $500,000 to the digital equity program for vulnerable populations. That was established by the council during the third COVID omnibus with the initial appropriation of $500,000, and then in call before council increased that appropriation by another 195,000. So the Executive is proposing to increase that even further by another half billion as there is more of a demand for that for that program. The other items in COVID five, as you see in table two, about 4 million is related specifically to various departments for their operational expense related to COVID. 27 million is directly to counties the public health response to COVID. So that's all for public health. And it is five $5.6 million grant acceptance for the CARES Act, a HUD CDBG grant. And lastly, there's about $4 million of technical corrections from errors in in COVID four. Moving on to page the next page, page 48, page 48 through page 50, top of page 50 is is a summary, as I mentioned, of the COVID 19 grant programs administered by Gillespie, DHS, DLS and Public Health. This is just a summary of the details that that I've emailed to all the members on on Monday. It just provides some key figures of some of the programs, along with how much was appropriated for each program, how much spending has been done for each program, and and the project expenditures for some of the programs. This is, again, kind of a status update for now. Executive staffs state that the contracts are still ongoing or and there are some committed dollars. But but as as they move through the process, we'll make sure to follow up with executive staff to get some additional updates for the members. Now on to page 51. There is a table on page 51, table seven. And through this proposed ordinance, the executive is making some assumptions, some new assumptions. Since the Ford COVID omnibus adoption on table seven, you'll see two columns, one column titled After Adoption of Ford Code Omnibus and Come to the Right says as proposed via Fifth Omnibus. After the adoption of the Ford Code Omnibus, there was about $194 million of the 262 Kroner relief fund adopted in in the course of the supplemental appropriations. And then 68 million of that you see in the sheet it rose were reserved for those four items. COVID 19, you point out costs that caused for those taking leave due to COVID 19, FEMA match and risk reserves. Now, there wasn't much of a breakdown at the time, but since then, the executive is taking a new approach on the $262 million of the Corona Relief Fund. So as you see, the adopted appropriation to date is still 194 from COVID one to COVID four. And then the assumptions for the the middle of the COVID 19 redeploy staff costs is about 70 million. Staff costs for taking those taking leave due to COVID is 2 million. And they're not utilizing any of the Corona Relief Fund for the FEMA max and risk reserves. The executive is asked to assuming some under expenditures and and some removal of funding for ineligible expenditures of about $24 million. There's also some additional there's an additional $1 million from the interest earned for for the 262 million. And with the fiscal the omnibus proposed appropriations of 19 million, that leaves 3 million of the 263 million unallocated. The reason for this new approach, one of the reasons for this new approach is because because we're still so uncertain about the counties FEMA match obligations for for those for the FEMA grants. And and because we have to extend the current relief fund monies by December 30th to provide some more flexibility. But what the executive is proposing is to utilize some of the Corona Relief Fund to pay for general fund staff costs related to COVID and free up some general fund reserves so that that can be utilized through the FEMA match. And if FEMA matches up the necessary, then then it can be used for other flexible general fund expenditures. And then on the on page 52, there is a timeline for the budget shares proposal on actions regarding this code five. Just notably that on November 5th there is a new and the budget is requesting deadline for a striking amendment request. And then on Sunday evening, the finalized the amendment will be released and then any amendments to that striker is due on Monday, November 9th, at noon. That concludes my remarks. Mr. Chair. Mr. Kim. Thank you very much. I'm scrolling back. It was unfortunately, a. I'm sorry. I'm not going to find it. Here it is. Page 50. The table at the top. Can you speak? Can you clarify for me how much funding is in just care? The Pioneer Square City program as this budget arrives and how much is in the program? If we were to adopt the budget as the executive transmitted it to us for the Chest Cares program program. Yeah. So the Just Cares program was so the council appropriated 4 million for that program and covered three, and there was no additional appropriation for this proposed ordinance. So it remains at 4 million for the end of the year. Right. Thank you for their quote and other questions of Mr. Kim. Councilmember Wells. Thanks you this chair. I am turning this discussion over to. The Bench of Fiscal Management. Committee member Dombroski is in the lead on this and is covered by the budget. How would you like to have them make the motion at this time? Catherine Dombrowski. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Chair. And Madam Chair and Andrew, thank you very much for the overview. Just for I think, Mr. Chair, you want to have a little discussion if members are interested, right, about what we might like to see in getting this the rather than you saying yes. Okay. So just again, top line, it's about a $41.6 million appropriation ordinance covered five we're calling it five or 6 million. Of that, I think is that is a capital and the rest is in operating funds. And Dwight David tells us we've got and Dwight, correct me if I'm wrong here, but maybe $4 million or so of additional opportunities to add on to this with with members priorities and suggestions, am I to do for Dwight or where what's our number. Yeah, I think you're safe at four. Okay. That's kind of been our language with Dwight. Where are we say fall on this year. And we've been working very closely with his shop and PSB and his deputy, Erin, to make sure we get this done. As you all know, the original plan, because of all of the budgets was to try and do this in December. But given the December 30th spending deadline required by federal law and to give better guidance to the department and to comply with kind of budget transparency and open means act and get members interest in it, we thought we'd take a run at speeding it, speeding up our consideration. So the plan, I think Andrew highlighted there would be if it would be to hopefully pass this out today without recommendation, with the understanding we put together a Stryker on that schedule that's outlined for adoption a week from today. Just a couple of guideposts to remind us all what we're trying to do, and that is, one, be consistent with the motion adopted early in the year which prioritizes I'm going to go from memory here, but number one, our public health needs and response to COVID two, housing three, security or behavioral health needs and economic recovery. Those are kind of the big buckets. And maybe I missed something there, but I'm going for memory. And then maybe even more importantly, we are not we are going to try not to and maybe we just can't. In any event, drop on a new program to our executive branch folks. We're trying to get money out the door. I think we all know that now. But we're looking for folks in your priorities, looking for for contracts that exist, providers that exist, kind of channels that we can get the dollars out, because that's the that's the whole point here. So those are my those are our requests from the budget chair and myself. And we thought we would have just a little bit of dialog here for members to express interest. I won't speak for members, but I will share mine and then turn it over. I'm interested in we put two and a half million dollars into the behavioral health bucket last time. We have a contract provider network of about 40 organ entities around the county and that money was well received and worked pretty quickly. We've worked with the department to gauge potential additional need in that space, and they think that they could use another 2 million or so in the behavioral health space. So that is one request that is kind of on the table and I know there are others, but from a numbers, I'll let folks speak to them. And Mr. Chair, do you want to call on colleagues or how do you want to proceed? Yes, I'd be happy to. Thank you. Then brought the growth. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And. And, Mr. Vice Chair. I was going to mention one of my interests as we work through this in the week ahead. I think everyone may have seen the headline in the Seattle Times. I think it was like five or six days ago that said South King County has been disproportionately affected by coronavirus . And I think the reason largely has to do with poverty also has to do. You know, we're continuing to see higher rates among communities of color. You know, the I understand, if my notes are correct, are the age adjusted rate for infections in King County's about 1200 cases per 100,000. It is an almost twice that for native Hawaiian Pacific Islanders and for Hispanic population. It's about 50% higher for African-Americans. And so as we think about crafting what we do, where we have a kind of a focus or an emphasis down the stretch, I'd like us to think about the public health response side, as well as the community services side. And the department is doing some really good work with some targeted, qualified disaster relief for low income individuals. It's basically the strategy the department has developed to address some of this disproportionality, recognizing that there's folks who are on who are essential public workers or people who work in the service industry and don't have the option to work from home. There's some evidence that suggests those kinds of economic situations can exacerbate the spread in a community because of the challenge of being able to isolate when you're exposed to because you need to continue to work. And so I had some initial conversations with the public health department as to whether or not that existing program could benefit from some additional dollars to target, wouldn't be specifically targeted geographically, but would be targeted generally at folks who are low income and where we're seeing the greatest spikes. So it would be a general suggestion that we we. We continue to look at the public health side as well as the community service side, and look forward to hopefully bringing some ideas and options forward. Thank you. Corals Council. Councilmember Caldwell's Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure. Councilmember DEMBOSKY when he was speaking what that we can certainly look at making reimbursements to already. Chance. Do I? If you want to comment on that. I did mention that. Yeah. So it's easy to amend existing contracts to increase amounts and it's particularly easy if it's for reimbursements of expenses that have already been incurred. So where we have contracts where I'll make up a number, I'd organization got $25,000, send us their receipts, we paid those $25,000 out if we know they have another 10,000, they didn't send us, but they've already spent. Amending the contract is very easy and then providing that additional $10,000 is pretty easy. So those are things that even on, you know, we're going to be looking at six weeks notice or pretty doable. Thank you. Cast member Belushi. Thank you. They're going to echo a little bit what has already been said, but I thank you. I really appreciate the reminder of the framework that we adopted for how to put out CARES Act funding, because I think it still really holds up that our first our first priority is to fully fund our COVID response efforts. And that is very much at risk right now without additional funding from the federal government. But assuming that we get to that part, we do have a letter which I think I think everyone will have received. It comes from the YMCA and they're talking about and this is a nonprofit childcare provider, one of our larger ones. And they ask into us for over $2 million to support their their provision of service and keep them afloat. Really. And I, I don't I don't raise that because I think it's something we ought to try to earmark in our budget, but because I think it is possibly indicative of real catastrophic red ink throughout the child care provider sector. And I want to also pick up on something that Councilmember Coble said, which is if there's a way to push, if there are resources and a way to push more resources into that sector, I do believe that it's just kind of a foundational thing. If we don't have child care resources and we're coming out of COVID, it is going to be a devastating impact on employment for parents and especially for women, because we know that women have a lot of child care responsibilities, and we know that this COVID induced recession has had a much harsher economic impact on women than men . And so just as it sort of fits all our equity principles and the things we ought to be doing is to make sure that parents are able to have a place to go with their children so that we can, you know, maintain our workforce. So I really hope we can find a way to do something affordably in this probably in this last 2020 COVID budget. Also, it would help us make sure we've expended all the money that we have so that we don't end up with extra. I know, I understand the femur Nash approach and that makes good sense, but if not in this budget, then certainly next year, if we have more resources, that can mean we need to really get back to taking a hard look at this issue. There are so many ways, I mean, hearing the stories from the restaurants and that was something that was done in one of our letter budgets. And, you know, there's many, many ways that people need help. But I just really hope that we can continue to focus some of our resources on supporting childcare. Thank you. I would I want to affirm all the comments my colleagues have made already and also add to that and to the conversation, the supportive housing work that some of our nonprofit partners are doing in the community. And I believe they reached out to more than just me. Some of the housing providers who support people in supportive housing with the goal of moving them into permanent housing have been stalled because of the pandemic and finding work and helping people find employment and move at the same pace out of what might be a temporary housing situation into a more long term housing situation. And therefore the nonprofit partners find themselves strapped and that might be a worthwhile place to make an investment as well. Particularly since some of those from those friends have been extended. You. I believe it is a reimbursement and contract amendment situation. Okay. Mr. Chair, I've taken copious notes. Very good. Not seen anyone else. I'd entertain a motion council member to Baffsky. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I had said without recommendation, under the kind of assumption that we would be amending this. But is that your preference or how would you like it to proceed? I. I would think without recommendation, since we know a significant striker or formative striker would be coming. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Then I'm pleased to move adoption of proposed ordinance 2020 DASH 0383 of what we are calling the fifth COVID 19 omnibus and would be expedited for action on Tuesday's council meeting with the striking amendment expected. Thank you. We have ordinance 20, 23, 83 before us. Is there further discussion? Seeing none. I'd ask the clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Bell Duchin, I. Councilmember Dombrowski. I. Councilmember Gunn. I. Councilmember Coleman. I. And remember Councilmember after girl I. Councilmember Brown, my father. I council members online. Hi. Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. The vote is 880 noes council member Lambert. Excused. Thank you. By your vote we have advanced ordinance 2020 383 to full council on the consent agenda for next week. All right, your mikes are off. But you all knew it wasn't really unconcerned that there would be a full council next week. Thank you, Councilmember Dombrowski. Thank you, Mr. Kim, for leading us in that discussion. That takes us to item ten on today's agenda. That is a briefing from Jack Nicholson, the council's director of government relations on the council's state legislative agenda.

Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7190 and award a contract to Select Electric, Inc., of Vista, CA, for ten Signalized Intersections on Los Coyotes Diagonal, in the amount of $1,197,500, with a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $119,750, for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,317,250, and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter the contract, including subsequent amendments; Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $807,200, offset by Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funds from Caltrans (HSIPL-5108(190)); and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $807,200, offset by transfer of HSIP funds from the Capital Grant Fund. (Districts 4,5)

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Because one mango. Councilman has. The motion is carried. Item 57. Item 57. Report from Public Works Recommendation to Award a contract to select electric 410 Signalized intersections on Los Coyote Diagonal for a total contract amount not to exceed 1.3 million District four and five. Thank you. The item. This one does not have a presentation of the motion in a second. There is no public comment on this. 57 But. COOPER Did you have any comments? True. And I apologize for holding up this process, but if Public Works is here. So this involves ten intersections. One that is not included is the southbound 4052 southbound Bellflower exit and that dumb shop on Moscow's diagonal, just west of Bellflower. Our office has requested of Caltrans signage at that intersection, indicating there's a pedestrian crosswalk there. And so I would like to request public works if we can parlay this project into petitioning Caltrans to please get that sign installed. We've waited four months for it and it's a serious public safety issue. Thank you. Thank you. But I'm not going to comment. I'm just really excited to work through and improve. Lookout is diagonal. For those of you who don't know, this is not the first project on this kind of diagonal during my term. But continued improvement is necessary for the safety of our community. And as traffic flow changes and as the safety measures go into place, we're always looking for a continued improvement. And I really appreciate the public works staff on their partnership for this. Thank you. Thank you. Next step is item 58. We need a vote. Oh, I apologize for this cash vote on this item. I'm so excited about 58 that I.

Recommendation to receive and file an update on the Justice Lab progress and accomplishments. (Citywide)

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Next item, I believe is 35. We can we can hold that item until she comes back. Let's move to item number 36. Item 36 is a report from police. Recommendation to receive and file an update on the just our progress and accomplishments citywide. It's been moved by Councilmember Price and seconded by Pierce. Would you like to speak to the motion? Part. Great staff report, please. Yes. This tricycle uncle will give us a quick intro and I think there's. A brief PowerPoint or slideshow. Great honorable mayor and city council. Good evening. Just a quick recap. In January 2017, the mayor and city manager asked the Long Beach Innovation Team to work with the police department on the public safety priority. From that yearlong research process in January 2018, the city launched a first of its kind justice lab to provide new tools to city staff to deliver individuals out of the criminal justice system and toward treatment care and other resources. We've developed a justice lab video that we're premiering tonight. We're encouraging the community to share this at community events, community meetings, committees, commissions, and on social media. How can data be used to improve public safety and help residents stay out of prison? This was the question that launched a new collaboration between the city's innovation team and the Long Beach public safety continuum, which consists of police, fire, health and other organizations throughout the county. The Justice Lab is a strategy that the city of Long Beach, too, developed to focus on the top 5% of repeat offenders. When we cite or arrest them and we pull their criminal histories. They've been arrested ten, 12, sometimes 17 or 18 times. So these are the same people that are being arrested and cited, are also being transported to the hospital. And we're having interactions with the fire department. They're not the ones committing the violent crimes. They're not the ones that are committing the high level property thefts. They're really the folks who often in fact, half of them are homeless. They're intersecting with our various city departments. But historically, those departments hadn't connected the dots that we're all seeing that same person in our different outreach efforts, if you will. This is the first time a robust and comprehensive data sharing platform has been created where all the involved partners and departments can input and access information. So the more that we can connect them to service, the less likely they are to end up back in jail and about on our streets. Currently, the justice lab has launched three key initiatives. Each is designed to intervene at points where low level offenders interact with city services. First, the jail, where a clinician first offers help. I have had the opportunity to meet with approximately 400. People who are open to getting help and so really is planting that seed of hope. And letting them know. That once they're out there, we have a plan. Another key point of intervention is the actual courtroom where, again, individuals who committed low level crimes are offered alternatives to time in jail. Instead of seeing that case come out with jail or incarceration. It's not solving the problem. So we need to look at what approach will keep that person off the street and in some kind of treatment. You're going to have better results for the individual and you're going to have safer streets where those people are not on the streets. So committing crimes again. Lastly, both the police and fire departments have active outreach teams who are often the first to connect with low level offenders. This data driven approach allows us to focus on specific people who are committing crime over and over and are impacting different systems within the city. I think that's where we're going to see the benefit from this team is we're not going to just keep on recycling people back through the system, back to the hospital, back to the street, back to jail, back to the hospital, back to the street. It's going to be we're going to get a solution. I'm so proud to say that the city of Long Beach is a frontrunner in the nation. We have other cities and counties across the country that are looking at us. They want to understand how do we analyze our data and where what they're watching us as we launch the justice lab in hopes that when it is successful , that they can replicate something similar. In their own cities. For more information visit Long Beach talk of. Wonderful. We really want to thank our partners who are here, most of them sitting in the front row who really helped us develop the justice lab. Special thank you to the police department, health department, fire, city prosecutor, city attorney, the guidance center, several other nonprofits, many county partners and departments, Cal State University. We actually have rising Cal State University Rising scholars here with us this evening, UCLA and our valued city residents. Now, I would like to turn it over to Alma Castro, our justice lab project manager and data scientist, Nichelle Chaudhry. Thank you, Tracy. Originated in the city manager's Office of Civic Innovation, formerly known as the A-Team. The team conducted a people focus and data driven analysis in 2017 to understand the experience of individuals who frequently interact with law enforcement for low level offenses. After analyzing over 100,000 offenses in Long Beach during a five year period, that determined that 85% of repeat offenses are not serious crimes but rather low level misdemeanor offenses. The Justice Lab has several initiatives aimed at disrupting a cycle of incarceration that currently includes. The Minister of Regulation on interdepartmental data sharing. Multidisciplinary Team. MDT Clinician and gel program. Priority Access Diversion Program. Pad 2.0 PM. Long Beach Guides. Government User Integrated Diversion Enhancement System. Cal State. Long Beach Rising Scholars Education Lab here today and the Data Warehouse. The City Administrative Regulation on enter department data sharing changed the way we discuss information within our city institution. The agreement develop policies and procedures regarding data sharing among city departments that enables providers to access information to better serve residents who frequently interact with the justice system and our service providers. Due to this added regulation as city departments, we can now see that many of the same individuals are coming into contact with PD via health and other departments. The MDT multidisciplinary team is a prominent initiative among the justice lab framework that MDT convenes city and county departments monthly to better coordinate and reduce the burden on individuals accessing and navigating services such as mental health, substance abuse and homeless services. In addition to government entities, the entity also includes nonprofit and university based partners. As you can see here, the MDT framework encompasses a variety of touchpoints from the street, jail and pretrial intercept. The goal is to have a team based approach in our efforts to coordinate services that engages with individuals who are frequently coming into contact with law enforcement and city departments who can benefit from treatment and care. Our university based partners will be rigorously evaluating and testing the MDT effectiveness and reducing law enforcement citations and jail bookings. The clinician, the 18, funded a six month pilot from April through September 2018 for the Clinician and Jail Program, a partnership between the police department and the Guidance Center that provides a full time mental health professional in the jail who assesses, connects and diverse individuals into care. In the six month period period, the clinician saw a total of 297 individuals from those interactions. 106 were identified as individuals who frequent the criminal justice system. In total, the clinician provided 214 direct referrals that mostly involved mental health, substance abuse and homeless services. We wanted to share an example of what a success stories looks like. The clinician met with a young man, let's say, named John, who had previously been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. It was noncompliant with medication. John was receptive to services and authorized a clinician to contact his father to be part of his support system. The clinician, the father and the father produced a recovery plan for John that linked him into inpatient into an inpatient program. Not only did John receive the services he needed, his father also was referred to a parent support group within the same agency. The Priority Access Diversion Program paid to point ARM as a pretrial program through the City Prosecutor's Office. This initiative offers a unique opportunity for residential, mental health and substance abuse treatment in lieu of county jail time. The program focuses on individuals in custody that have mental health or substance abuse challenges. As of now, a total of 42 individuals have been referred through the clinician and jail pilot. Currently under final development, the city prosecutor's office and the police department are working together to to develop guides government user integrated diversion enhancement system. This application will equip first responders with needed information to quickly identify clients and their service connections. The rising scholars here today, thank you so much for being here tonight. The Rising Scholars Education Lab is a program launched by the form by formerly incarcerated students at Cal State Long Beach to mentor and provide peer support to other formerly incarcerated students. The rising scholars firmly believe that higher education is key to reducing recidivism. We are excited. We are excited to work and be part of this student led program now transitioning for the data warehouse. I will let my half of my colleague here, Nicole, give that update. Thank you all. So the justice lab is part of the Nationwide Data-Driven Justice Initiative. And as part of that initiative, we gather data from different departments police, fire, health services, ingests them and integrate them so that our clients can be provided with comprehensive wraparound services. Thank you. In summary, together these initiatives make up the justice lab. Each initiative works towards common goals to connect individuals in need to services and to reduce recidivism for individuals who frequently interact with law enforcement for low level misdemeanor offenses. Currently, the justice lab is funded by multiple streams of funds. That includes $1,000,000 in grant funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to implement the MDT and Data Warehouse. This funding source also provides dollars to evaluate the effectiveness of the MDT through our UCLA and Cal State Long Beach Partners, who will conduct a feasibility study and asked to evaluate the MDT team based method of service coordination due to the success of the condition. And Jill Pilot PD is funding an additional year of the clinician and jail program. Recently we were notified that the Health Department received 50 K of grant funds from the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge. Together, Health and PD are developing innovative ways to connect individuals to services through a warm hand-off process upon city jail release. Thank you. And this concludes our report. Okay. Thank you very much. Councilmember Price, that you want to speak to this. Yes. Just briefly, I wanted to thank the I-Team and everyone who has partnered on this video. First of all, I think the video is a really great way to showcase the efforts and the multiple departments working together. Is the video going to be available for us to share on social media? Yes, it will look good if we can get a copy of that. And I'd love to see it come to Public Safety Committee meeting as well. So Jacko will connect with you guys on that. I like the data driven portion of this, and I know our city prosecutor had a lot to do with making it such that different departments can communicate and share information. I know that's always a major area of concern, given all the different privacy issues that are concerned with when we're talking about individuals health and welfare. But I think being able to do that and share that information is really going to help us be effective. I'm wondering some of these programs that we tried or that we're trying that are part of this presentation are is there a plan to make any of these permanent programs for the city like the jail clinician program? That pilot has ended, correct? Yes, that's correct. And due to the success of the six month pilot, PD is funding the clinician and jail program for an additional year for fiscal year 19. That's fine. Okay. So you should have started the presentation with that because that's a really, really good news. And so I, I want to thank the police department for doing that because, you know, when you try a pilot and it works, figuring out how to incorporate it and making a permanent program is really important. And I think the jail clinician program is is one of their step that, you know, it's from the presentation that you guys said of the 800 and something folks that you interviewed of, over 50% were homeless. And many of them indicated that going to jail was not something they viewed as a deterrent, but rather they view jail as a place of respite. And I've repeated that many times. So I think being able to capture that moment and some of the vulnerabilities and sensitivities that come at that moment through the use of a jail clinician is really powerful. So thank you to the police department for making that happen and to everybody. There's just a lot of great work here. I'm I'm I wish this was a little bit earlier in the night because this program and the efforts deserve a lot of recognition and certainly something that we will share with our community. I mean, as I'm sitting here, I'm getting emails from residents about this encampment here, this homeless individual here, and what are you why aren't you doing anything about this there? And so if we can convey kind of some of the work that you're doing on behalf of the city, in this regard, in a in a way like a video like this, I think that will go a long way, not for everyone. It won't appeal to everyone, but it will appeal to some. So thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. Yes, I want to echo those comments. I think that this is definitely great work. I know you guys have been doing a lot of work over the last several years and it's great to see it finally come to fruition and this holistic view and implementation. I, you know, this weekend I was fortunate enough to be at the women's shelter event in Councilmember Price's district. And, you know, we got to hear everybody speak. And I think one person that spoken, Dave Halbert, got mentioned it. Then your comments about the changing times and how we engage with those that come through the system and whenever we're dealing with so many different crimes and some of them, you know, crimes where mental health is a big player in that, it's really important that Long Beach really is leading that way. And I think we don't celebrate the work that you guys are doing enough as council officers are. I don't. And so I do want to ask for the the video to be shared with us and any information that you can share directly with my council office so that we can include that in our emails that go out . And also want to thank Petey for funding that for another year. I hope that this is a model and that if we need an additional one as years come forward, that we can have that conversation then. But just congratulations team for really taking technology, taking the the equity lens that you guys have been talking about and partnering with with all the key players in this. So really proud of you guys. Proud of the city. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Tracy Alma, the entire team. This was fantastic. This was an amazing presentation. I think, you know, considering all the work that's happened over the years in terms of violence prevention. I felt like a lot of that conversation had had sort of diminished. And this was evidence that, no, this pivot to, you know, data driven justice and, you know, integrating sort of this this focus on data. I think it was smart to take it, take some time, refocus, rebrand. And I think this is if anything, this is a lot cooler. And it's going to it may build broader support because the concept of violence prevention in general is still a difficult concept, concept to explain to the public. This has a lens on on on the actual whole person. It's data driven. It makes a lot of sense. And so I support this and I think this presentation has sparked a lot of questions for me. And one in particular, what are the what are the opportunities by what what will this data what is the potential for this data to tell us about our city? Or what tactics what tactics are most successful in terms of saving saves and saving resources into the system, not only the system, but our our direct budget? Is this going to show us or give us some opportunities to see which tactics actually save money and save lives? If so, how soon will we start to see evidence from some of those tactics? So as Alma mentioned, we we are doing a rigorous evaluation in collaboration with our research partners from UCLA and Cal State, Long Beach, and identifying what are the outcomes beyond just the immediate individuals and looking at the cost effectiveness, looking at the amount of time law enforcement spends with a given individual or fire department spends on a given individual is part of that evaluation. So the evaluation period right now is. It's between 18 months to 24 months. So at around that time, we should start. Well, at that time we will have conclusive numbers, but as we proceed forward with the evaluation periodically, we will start generating those numbers as well. Okay. So between 18 to 24 months from the beginning of the pilot. From the beginning of the program. Getting into the programs and going for how long? So I think we started out. How long do you want? Yes, thank you. Council member. The justice plan was officially launched in January 2018, but clinician and jail pilot was from April, April through September 2018. So that's a six month period. And with our other initiatives like the MDT, we're refining and deploying a feasibility study. So through that process, we probably will start looking at outcomes. Six months from now on that what we were able to gain from the feasibility study of the MDT, the multidisciplinary team. And councilmember, if I can add, one of the neat things about this is this was funded by team resources, this effort which then led to an implementation plan. We got grant money to actually build the implementation and then we got grant money to monitor about what implementations we do are actually the most effective. So all of this brought additional money and we can do exactly what you're talking about, which is seeing which are the most effective ways to intervene. Absolutely. And so I'll close with this. I think this is a step in the right direction. It has my complete full support. I want to make sure we stay on top of the evaluation. And I want to I want to begin now, if we haven't already thinking about how we continue to support this funding through that two year period, we should continue this pilot. And even if it requires us being creative about our general fund, we should support this pilot all the way through with with the idea that we're going to make a case for to structurally fund this because it long term saves not just the system, but it saves our budget. And so and so I'm going to be I love that you made this presentation to the station tonight, and I'm going to make sure that we I'm going to be engaging on this issue to make sure you have the resources you need. Thanks. Councilmember Jurado. Thank you, Councilmember Orson, for recognizing me. I totally support this item. I think this is one of those programs and pilot programs that we have to look at with the idea of full implementation and full resources to continue this program all the way through. I think we need to find a way other than grants and temporary funding to continue this. I think that already it's having some positive effects and we need to continue that and with a sustainable budget that will that will keep it going into the future. So I could support this and with the expectation that we can get more data in terms of outcomes as where how we can really acknowledge our successes with this program so that we can for further sustain it as part of our implementation plan for addressing our crime. Thank you. Councilmember Gonzalez. I thought you were next. That's okay. I just want to say thanks again so much. And, you know, I think this is wonderful and it's a really good example. I hear it working for Microsoft. I hear it up in the Silicon Valley about the justice lab in Long Beach. And I think that that's a really I'm excited. People don't even know who I am on the city world. They know who I am with Microsoft. And when I hear great things happening about our city, that really makes me very proud. And I'm glad that we were able to to do this and get this running. And we have really great numbers, too, to prove that this could be a long lasting, sustainable program. Just one thing I'll just and I'm sure you already know, but the Obama Foundation has tons of money they do for these specific projects. We actually have an Obama fellow in L.A. who's working on similar projects, and he's looking to work specifically in Long Beach. So I'll make sure to put you in contact. But I think that that would be a great one. But I just think overall, congratulations. Thanks so much for all your work. Thank you, Councilmember. And I'll add that, you know, I believe that this this what this report was great and that it was clearly paying dividends and producing deliverables early. This is shows that, you know, we can be smart with data and smarter with how we use our resources. And this this video and the report here demonstrates that that our city is really taking a team approach to to justice. And I salute the everybody who has been involved in this. I got to give hats off to the to the council for for taking the the leap and helping to create this this team, but also our city manager and the entire city team. This is a very encouraging report. And, you know, I will support this and look forward to more data and in the months and years to come. Thank you. So members, please cast your votes. Public comment. CNN cast your votes. Motion carries eight to. I did. So I said. They're waiting to see somebody. Want to make comment on this? Please come forward. Oh, no. You said there's. No. No, no. Hi. My name's Irene Sotelo. I'm a student at Cal State, Long Beach Rising Scholars Lab. I'm one of the co-founders of Rising Scholars, Vice President. I'm also formerly incarcerated. We started education lab for the city Long Beach for Cal State, Long Beach. And now we're we're all up and down through California. We go representing different states, trying to make it nationwide. What we do is we help those who are getting out of prison work with like probation or parole department, and we help them. Get those who are just getting out of jail or prison into the education, either GEDs, community college, wherever they need to go into. And we help them step by step into them getting enrolled. And I believe education is a great step to help those to not return back to prison or to jail. And I've been in and out of the system since I was 12 years old. And now I'm already graduating with my masters to help those that are getting out of prison and. Can I can I ask you a quick question? Back in the day when I was at Cal State Long Beach, there had a program called the Pinto Program. Is there something very similar to that? It is. It is a somewhat a similar similar to pinto beans ex-con. Going to one on Thursday. There is no Pinto Club no more. Okay. Very Long Beach when the funding left. All the programing that we're at, any university or any any educational system. Those were the first programs that were cut, was the education for those that were coming home from incarceration or for those that were currently incarcerated. Currently, what we do. My name is John Lewis Hernandez, and I'm the president for Rising Scholars. And so what we have done is firmly believed in how education can change lives. Similarly to her, I started very young with my and my criminal record. Tino's incarcerated for the first time at 21 is back in Joe. And it wasn't that I went to school, but what ended up happening is that I went to go menial labor where I felt that there was nothing for me to do. And it wasn't until I was in school and I made a decision kind of looking at the continuum that you guys were doing it and the referrals and that and the substance abuse and the mental health. But then I started thinking for myself when I wanted to be a drug and alcohol counselor, I was like, Well, what are they going to do once they have their life together? And I thought about education, and education had set me straight. Currently, I'm earning my master's degree in counseling with an emphasis in student development, higher education, looking to work at community colleges, starting a program like Minto programs, which is right. We have 114 community colleges in the state of California, and only about two thirds of them have something for formerly incarcerated students. All the schools have, have or are beginning the process for a project rebound, which is what the new iteration of the Pinto Club is, and not all the community colleges around them will support it. We're uniquely in in a city like Long Beach that has a community college and a CSU located within the same city where you can have a warm hand-off. So that's why we kind of do the work that we do here in the city of Long Beach to just believe in those that that want a different life but don't feel that they can have something different. Because maybe like me, there are two time high school dropout. They didn't complete high school with the regular way and they don't feel they tested in remedial English or math and they don't feel they're going to make it. So we show them where we're at in Masters Programs Awards that we get this year. Almost like a doctoral scholar. I'm a graduate research fellow for the for Long Beach State, two very prestigious awards for our schools. And I'm happy to represent us in that arena as people that have been impacted by incarceration, who usually when you think about someone that has been to jail, you don't think about someone that is going to have these type of awards. You think, so we want to change that narrative, and that's why we do the work that we do. Thank you very much and I salute you both. I'm glad we had the opportunity to hear from you. Public comment. Thank you. Some members have cast their votes on this. We're going to move on to item number 35, back to 35.

A resolution approving a proposed Purchase and Sale Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Morrison Center LLC for the purchase of real property located at 4320 Morrison Road. Approves a purchase and sale agreement with Morrison Center, LLC for $4,080,000 to acquire property located at 4320 Morrison Road for the buildout of the Westwood Recreation Center as part of the Elevate Denver Bond Program, in Council District 3 (201948958-00). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 7-22-19. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 6-18-19.

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Comments? All right. Madam Secretary, would you please put the first item up on our screens? And this is 540. Councilman Lopez, what would you like us to do with this one? I wanted to put it on the floor for a vote. All right. All right. Councilman Gilmore, you please put Resolution 540 on the floor for adoption. I move the resolution 540 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by members of council. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I brought this out not because. I'm going to vote against it, but I wanted to vote for it and I wanted to actually bring this out so it stands on its own. So this council resolution. 540 is the sale agreement between the city and county of Denver and the purchaser for the and Marston Road Center, LLC, for the purchase of property located at 4320. Morrison Road. Now, why would this be anything special? Because. On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, 12 years ago. Have the minutes and hours to turn this into the library sometime soon. But this was our Infrastructure Attack Priorities Task Force. This was the 2008 bond. And those of you who are in this room 12 years ago know that I put up quite a fight. This is my second day in office, and I put up a fight for one reason, because that bond that we were all footing the bill for. Right. Right before the the recession hit was missing something, and it was missing almost an entire council district. And it missed, especially the need for our rec center and Westwood High cardiovascular disease rates with high diabetes rates with no access to rec center facilities. This was our top priority. And we fought for it. I got out, did my plea to try to amend the 28 bond and didn't move forward. Didn't catch the vote at this Finance Committee meeting to move forward on the council and didn't go to the ballot for voters to vote on. So that put us 12 years, 12 years with community working and working every single one of those years to make sure that this happens. Now, I was ready in the last I think it was at the last go round in the bond. We put it in there and it was accepted. It was approved. I knew, however, there was a good chance that because it was in this bond, I wouldn't I wouldn't be the person to see it through. However. What we have in front of us on my last day in office is the first thing I ever fought for . And this is our rec center. And that's $4,080,000. To acquire a property. On the corner of Raleigh and Morrison Road to build our rec center. And I. I know Adriana had. To go because her mother was in town from. Green River. But they worked so hard. We work so hard to get this rec center done. And I'm very glad that at the last day on this dais, I'm going to be able to vote. A Yes on five for you of 2017 and finally put these notes into archives where they belong. So for those of you didn't see. I got the exact same picture of this for my aide, and I just gave it to her in the hallway. Because on the back of this little girl's shirt. Says Love. And that's the one thing that's guided all of us in this office and this neighborhood. And I think on this council, that's our first park with the promise that one day. We'll have a rec center. So, Mr. President. I am more than happy to ask my colleagues for one more time as a city councilman to vote yes on Resolution 540 of 2019. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Let's vote. Madam Secretary. Raquel. Lopez I. Black. Brooks. I. Espinosa, i. Flynn. I. Gilmore, I. Herndon, I. Cashman I. Commit I. Knew I. Ortega I. Susman I. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please close voting. Announce the results. 1313 ays Resolution 540 has been adopted. Congratulations, Councilman. Councilman Cashman. Under resolutions, you called out 586. Madam Secretary, if you can put that on our screens, and what would you like to do with this one?

Recommendation to request City Manager to provide an update on the City's emergency and environmental preparedness for the anticipated upcoming EI Nino weather conditions.

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Communication from Councilmember Supernova Vice Mayor Lowenthal, Councilwoman Price Council Member Richardson. Recommendation to request the city manager to provide an update on the city's emergency and environmental preparedness for the anticipated upcoming El Nino weather conditions. Councilmember Soprano. Okay. Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor. Um. We had a president today, and I start off by saying this is how government is supposed to work. It's kind of a civics lesson. It starts with residents contacting their councilman with concerns over El Nino or predictions of an El Nino season coming forward. And these concerns were legit. Many fourth District residents remember the flooding of 1995, and nearly all of them remember the flooding of January 19th, 2010 along the Atherton, Carter and Termino corridor. And they really. Didn't put it together that. We did $25 million worth of infrastructure improvements since that time. But, you know, the average resident doesn't remember the context. So what we did is we held a community meeting and I invited Reggie Harrison to come out and speak to our community group. And that went so well that I decided to agenda is that for a committee meeting, I happened to chair the Environmental Committee, and since El Nino is an environmental issue, we brought it forward to the Environmental Committee and Mr. Harrison enhanced his presentation and ended it there. That brings us to where we are here tonight. And this is a presentation of our El Nino preparedness for the entire city council. So with that, I'd like to introduce Mr. Reggie Harrison, our Director of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications. Thank you, Councilmember. Thank you, Mayor and Council members, for this opportunity to provide an update on the city's response and recovery plans for preparations for the El Nino winter storms. The city of Long Beach has staff and all of US departments take seriously the predictions of El Nino induced heavy rains, high tides and rip currents. This winter, we urge all residents to also take these predictions seriously. Typically, Long Beach receives about 12 to 15 inches of rain annually. Predictions for this winter are that we will receive 20 to 30 inches almost double the amount of rainfall that we receive in an average year. Flooding is predicted as storms are expected to occur in succession, causing the grounds to saturate. However, even as we receive this amount of rain, it is not expected to impact the four year drought that we are experiencing. This. So the El Nino refers to a warming of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America. The warm waters release heat, changing the wind and jet stream, which often brings more and wetter storms. And so we don't typically see this kind of wetter weather pattern in southern California and hence the El Nino and hence the expectations are predictions of extreme weather conditions this winter. From a citywide perspective, all three departments are actively engaged in Winter Stones preparations. Earlier this year, we formed a winter storm response team tasked with reviewing storm response and recovery procedures. Training staff on emergency protocols and developing new tools for communicating with the public and the media. Departments have updated contracts for emergency equipment and material procurement. All departments are in the final stages of inspecting critical systems and infrastructure and making repairs where needed. We are documenting current building conditions to provide a comparison basis for insurance or FEMA claims for reimbursement. Preparation from a regional perspective include collaborating with Avalon, Signal Hill and Los Angeles County on response and recovery plans. We are coordinating and sharing our response and recovery plans with our community partner organizations, including the American Red Cross, local hospitals , school districts, lobbies, transit and utility companies. In fact, we meet tomorrow with this group over our emergency operations center to share our updated plans and to hear their plans so that we can analyze any gaps and ensure that there is a seamless response. We've also upgraded the monitoring capabilities of the Emergency Operations Center to ensure we are in the best position possible to respond to support first responders and the public. Today, we are extremely happy to launch the city's new emergency notification system alert. Long Beach Alert Long Beach as a free emergency notification system designed to keep those who live or work in Long Beach informed of important information before, during and after a major disaster or emergency alert, Long Beach provides an opportunity for red for residents to register their cell phone, email address, text message information to ensure that they receive emergency alerts. We currently have the ability to provide alerts via landline through 911 carriers. However, we recognize that most people do not work at home and others no longer have a landline. So this so this produces additional opportunities for our residents, for our businesses, for our hospitals, for our school districts to be able to receive alerts from us during emergencies. Alerts will be sent to registrants to inform them of what has happened, what first responders are doing, and what action should be taken to protect themselves and put and protect property. And I cannot emphasize enough the importance of residents signing up or opting in for this service. Otherwise it will not be available and residents will not have received this benefit. The next few slides. Council members is a summary, including this slide is a summary of an incredible amount of work that all departments have put into place over this over the numerous months leading up to this point. This is a high level summary. Earlier this year, you got a more in-depth report from the city manager on all of the activities. So I just want to stress that this is just this is just the top of a huge iceberg in terms of the amount of work that is going in by all city departments here before use a slide representing just a highlights from the public works department to inspect 50 and clean 5300 catch basins and and test 28 pump stations throughout the city. They have arranged for sand and sandbags to be made available at various fire stations across the city. And they manage the seawall plugs, as you have noticed, during the numerous high tides that we have been expecting, that we have been experiencing recently. And they are, of course, inspecting and repairing city facilities as necessary. Same can be said for power, for parks, recreation and Marines. They maintain the berms along the peninsula. These berms are built to specific specification engineering specifications to ensure protection of the peninsula area. They will deploy the debris, broom booms. They're inspecting and removing dead trees and structures. And they have also put into place information protocols to alert level boards, the Marine and commercial operators there in the marinas . Fire. Marine safety staff are training and preparing for swift water rescues. They're also training urban search and rescue teams and preparing our search teams for activation. The police department are generally the first to know of an incident as it occurs that in our streets their helicopters are made available to provide valuable information and visuals of dangerous situations . They also work with search and rescue teams to provide support and response activities or resources. My Health and Human Services Department plays a critical role role, rather, in providing outreach to the homeless populations. And this year, we open our homeless winter shelter earlier in anticipation of this rainy season. And they play a critical role in operating that facility, as well as providing and issuing water quality advisories as rain falls impacting our beaches and waterfront. So in closing, we residents have urged to prepare now for the rains. We recommend that residents follow weather forecasts and local media and social media that they clean out rain gutters and drains their residents, remove items from their property that could prevent water runoff. That they repair leaks in roofs and windows. We urge residents not to drive or walk through flowing waters and to call 9114 downed power lines. And that's just a few of the many tips that residents can find on our on our websites and through printed materials that we have provided for residents. And you have a copy of the PowerPoint there, along with some informational materials, both on El Nino preparations and recommendations, as well as information on the alert Long Beach system. And so in conclusion, staff is working collectively with our community partners to be ready for the heavy rains that we're expecting this winter. Thank you for this opportunity. And I, along with other staff members here, are prepared to answer any questions you might have. Make any public comment on this item. Seeing none. Let me turn this over to Vice Mayor Lowenthal. No. Go ahead. Surely you saw it. I'm speaking right now as senior consultant of Swarm Group and Associates particularly. My interest is with the homeless population, many of whom. May not be able to get to that shelter if it's open in North Long Beach. Similarly, they may not be able to get from behind the buildings where they are sleeping. The restaurants, the banks. I mentioned earlier that I observed one entity that was servicing the nonprofit, picking up donuts at one of their vendors while passing by a homeless person and leaving them sitting in the same place where they found them while picking up donuts, taking donuts to their facility. Now, with respect to what you just said, and I don't know your name, so I'm address this to counsel. Who are representative of each homeless person in your district. You are their councilperson. You are their mayor. You are their city attorney. You are their city manager. Must more must be done in order to service the people who are homeless, who cannot get to the facilities that are open now. That opened up in November and will close in March. But they're going to be homeless eight months later because the permanent housing to facilitate the growing number of homeless people have not been facilitated has not been added. It may seem redundant. But if I am the only one consistently coming, arguing and complaining before council and your numbers are growing, then that may infer that enough is not being done yet. And still. And while we would like to say that the villages up Cabrillo have helped the veterans this year. So you've helped a smaller segment of those who are homeless. The thousands of homeless in this city who are not veterans are not being service yet still. So somebody God has to provide some opportunity for those who need it here. He has to provide a voice for them. Hence I said yes to that assignment and not knowing when I left my position with the federal government that I would be doing this assignment next. But I am here. I will be submitting a proposal not I'm not looking for a job in the city. I'm just submitting a proposal to you. And I will make sure that each of you have a copy, along with the city manager of what what needs to be done to augment the services. It's not that you're not doing anything, but we're now discussing tonight raising a protocol for for the airport. We've discussed the multi million dollar structure of development over on busy. All I'm saying is we need to augment those services for the homeless. Thank you very much. Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to appreciate Councilmember Supernova's attention to this important issue, especially as it impacts coastal communities in Long Beach. I know that it came out of his environmental committee, but he is aware of its impacts to all nine districts. And I want to appreciate staff's presentation as well and attention to it. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. I want to take a moment to thank the firefighters. Several weeks ago, I chose not knowing that we would be able to afford to give out sandbags to personally with my neighbors and friends bag 500 sandbags purchased from some of them from Home Depot at $0.34 each with sand and the back laboring, no technology available. There's no stands to hold sandbags. You literally are bent over for hours on end, shoveling sand into a tiny opening. And I just want to appreciate the hundreds of bags you're about to bag for the residents of Long Beach. I want to thank the neighbors who lined up around the block to come to my house. Personally, from neighbor to neighbor and all the community getting together and bagging those first 500 sandbags. So many of us have sliding glass doors and other flood risks. I just want to remind everyone of the opportunity to get flood insurance. It takes 30 days to get it enacted. So if you're thinking about it, the major gust of the storm is late January and early February. So you'd need to do that right now. But just a big thank you to the neighbors who pitched in. Hours and hours. It took us three weekends to bag that many sandbags. And to the firefighters who are about to bag those sand through those bags of sand for you, please say thank you. It's hard work. Councilman Andrews? Yes, thank you. Also, I'd like to thank Councilman Supernova for bringing this item forward because, you know, I want to thank the city director, you know, disaster and preparedness, emergency communication. Mr. HARRIS Well, you know, being on top of this situation and continuing the effort to prepare in my city for El Nino, it's coming. When? I don't know. Councilwoman Gonzales. I just want to say thank you to Councilmember Supernova for bringing this forward. It's certainly very important, especially as our one of our speakers had mentioned, about the homeless. I know especially along the river, I now see them, the encampments now moving almost as if they're getting prepared themselves to pay for this. But maybe I missed this. But, Reggie, do is is there some sort of notice that they'll be given as well? I mean, I see a lot of individuals camped out along the freeway, but it's not on the top side as there usually are. It's along the freeway. But I, I don't know what the differences, but are they being noticed and how is that working out? Yeah, I'm going to start this and I see Kelly is here. She can jump in, but on a regular basis, we have an outreach team that goes out into those areas where we have homeless encampments, the non homeless encampments, as well as going out to to look for other areas where we suspect homeless might be in on a regular basis. They provide them with information in terms of what's happening with the winter season, the weather, as well as the opportunity to take advantage of the winter shelter. Okay, great. Thank you very much and great report. Councilman Turanga. Take you there. And I also want to help excuse me to take control of Superman for bringing this to the council. Attention being a coastal city, we are faced with a lot of other different types of challenges that other cities don't face. Basically, we have looking at sea level rise and we're looking at the need for our coastal communities to protect themselves. But I also want to point out that we do have CERT teams out there, community, community emergency response teams that are out there, there. They're I'm sure that the fire department's on top of it, getting these teams together, getting them trained, getting them. And this is area equipment to be able to respond to any emergency that may arise in any of the neighborhoods where these or these teams are in place. So looking forward to, again, working with the fire department, the police department, to ensure that our communities remain safe. And also what well, thank you. To. You've got a frog of a to to congratulate the staff. I'm bringing up this alert Long Beach application. It's I hope it's going to be a great tool not only for this event, but for future events as well. We go on to Council on Supernova. Thank you, Eric. You know, I just want to address one of the public comments here tonight. I'm particularly proud and thankful of all the homeless resources in our fourth district. We've made tremendous strides, I think, of the public meetings we've had with health department personnel. Susan Price spoke at our community meetings. Theresa Chandler. Shannon Parker. We formed a fourth District Task Force on Homelessness. We've made and I should mention, our police partners to Claudia. Officer Claudia Lopez. Now, Detective Lopez, what a tremendous job she did with us. So I'd just like to say thank you to all the entities that have helped us, and we just made incredible progress on homeless issues. Also, Elsa Ramos from the Multi-Service Center spoke at our press event this morning, and I think she mentioned L.A. County does sweeps of the river areas, too, so they assist us there. So we have a lot of features here to assist the homeless during the El Nino season. And the other thing I just want to put out there to the public, look at the debris, look at the trash, that type of thing that we might ignore on a normal basis. And again, at this morning's event, Mayor Garcia reminded us of a of a storm event where there was a clog. And, Mayor, if you'd like to carry on that story, I didn't recall it till you said it. Is that because we're not you know, some folks will leave a mattress in their alley or trash and debris that they shouldn't be leaving. What happened is the mattress flew in in the water, went right into the storm drain, clogged the drain and flooded the entire neighborhood. And so those are the kind of things we have to avoid during the storm, is please make sure that we clear debris and alleys and that folks, well, they shouldn't be leaving mattresses in the alley anyways. But we got to be more vigilant about those kinds of issues. Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember. Super now for leading the effort on behalf of the Council on educating the community on this effort. And thank you to Mr. Harrison and City, all the departments who have contributed to this this preparedness strategy. My only question is, what are we doing? Have we figured? I know that we're under construction on the North Neighborhood Library. I don't know what else. We're in the construction on another the forest wetlands and those things. How have we factored in El Nino into those construction timelines? That's something that we definitely look at. I don't think we know for sure exactly how many days it's going to be rain, but we definitely look at the during the weather months and try to calculate that. But if if you'd like a more specific answer for a specific project, we can certainly look into that. Thank you. Thank you. With that, I'm going to wrap this up. I just want to re remind everyone. Councilman Supernanny, I had did an event earlier with with Mr. Harrison and the emergency preparedness team. And just to remind people to sign up for alert Long Beach you can access alert Long Beach from Long Beach dot gov, which is the homepage of the website. I signed up for it today. It just takes a couple of minutes. It's very easy and that will alert you in case of an emergency right to your cell phone or email. We already have a capacity to call landlines directly, but we don't have a capacity to text you if you want to receive an emergency tax in case of a power outage, a flood, all these issues that could happen. And so I would encourage everyone to please go on to lobby sa gov. Sign up for alert Long Beach and you will. It only will be used for emergency scenarios. So you know, you ain't going to be receiving a, you know, there's a fare this weekend or anything like that. It's, it's strictly emergency issues because that would be really annoying. They're not that either. So so please sign up. And again, thanks to Councilman Super now for leading efforts on this. With that, there's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. We already did public comment. Councilman Austin. Motion carries. Okay. So like I mentioned before, we're going to take a quick just recess so people can go take a restroom break. And then when we come back from the recess, we'll go into our rest of the agenda. There's a lot of. Next. I. Okay. We're going to get started. So if I can have the council back here. Martin. Martin. And you know. So you guys. Good. Okay. Can I get the council back here? If I can. Everyone else, quiet down. We're going to get started. Okay. Okay. We can gather all copies. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Councilwoman Price Council member Superman. Councilwoman. Mango. Councilman Andrews. Councilmember Muranga. Councilman Austin. Councilmember Richardson. Mayor Garcia. Thank you. If we can just plead with read the item, which I believe is a. What's that. I don't know the number, but it's the.

Recommendation to receive and file a report and presentation on Measure H, a ballot measure that will be considered by all Los Angeles County voters on March 7, 2017. (Citywide)

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We're going to have the presentation on the county homelessness initiative. And then right after that, we will have the presentation. Councilman Gonzalez's presentation on the Senate on the Senate bills moving forward. And then after that, we will have the conversation around 19, which is around the turfs and the turf field project. So those are the next couple items. I think most people here are for though here for those items. And so we'll get try to get through those pretty quickly. So let me begin by going over the next item, please, which is going to be about the county homeless initiative. I know we have folks here from the county. So, Madam Cook, if you can read that item. Report from City Manager recommendation to receive and file a report and presentation on Measure H citywide. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to turn this over to staff who's to has a report for us some presentation. And then I know we have some some folks here from the county that are going to also be a part of that presentation. Mayor councilmembers. I'm going to turn this over to our manager of government relations, Diana Tang, as well as our Health and Human Services Director Kelly Colby. So, Diana. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Just waiting for the PowerPoint to be loaded up here. But. Well, while we're waiting, I'll just go ahead and provide a brief summary of the expenditure plan and the ballot measure that will be before voters March 7th. That is coming up on March 7th. And generally speaking, it is a quarter cent sales tax for ten years. It is assessed county wide. There it is. Okay, here we go. Mrs. Measure H. A L.A. County ballot measure countywide again. And the vote is on March 7th. And we'll do a quick overview with the purpose, the revenue mechanism, the election date, which is March 7th, as well as revenue collection methods. So the purpose of the present, the purpose of the ballot measure is to combat the homeless crisis in Los Angeles County. And the revenue mechanism, as we had very briefly discussed, is a quarter percent special sales tax beginning July one, 2017. Short Measure H path. The county is estimating that this revenue mechanism will generate about 355 million annually and it will be for ten years. Again. The election is on March 7th. And because this is a revenue measure, a dedicated sales tax to combat homeless, the homeless crisis in L.A. County, it does require a two thirds vote. So the ballot language is pretty simple. The snapshot there is what voters will see in their ballot when they go to the ballot box on March 7th. And the revenue collection is county wide. So this is a sales tax that is least county wide. So whether you shop in Long Beach or elsewhere in the county, you will be assessed the sales tax at some points. I would like to note that Measure H respects the local sales tax that has been passed in several cities, including Long Beach. So Long Beach, La mirada, Linwood, Pico Rivera, Santa monica, Southgate and Compton. All of these cities are at our local sales tax cup at the moment. And so Measure H is written in a way that does not require us to give up any of the sales tax that we have are collecting as a part of measure A until measure A decreases in six years to a half percent sales tax, at which point in time in Long Beach we will be paying the quarter cent sales tax towards Measure H. So the baseline working information that we have. Is saying, let me I just want to just go back one slide just cause I think it's important for the public. The election's 30 days from now, just so they understand this part. So I think it's really important to note that the cities and listed that Mr. Tang listed behind us or have all essentially reached their sales tax limit. And so the top that's set essentially by state statute, the way the sales tax so taxes go. And so in in essence, if Measure H, which is put on by the county supervisors, were to pass the county in the election, then Long Beach residents would not pay into the tax until year six, which is when the measure a tax goes down. And then the the the the quarter cent would then go into the the tax. In addition to that that the tax would total is a total of ten years. Is that correct. Me saying that is correct. Okay. Okay. Excellent. So let me go ahead and continue. So moving on, we are going to go over a couple of baseline working information that we have countywide need. The county has identified about 450 million in need per year and this is their unmet need. So in addition to what they are currently investing in homeless and housing services, they recently did a study that was published last year that demonstrates this amount. The county also did. A recent homeless population counts as a count of persons experiencing homelessness, and they're seeing a growing population as well as a growing population of unsheltered individuals who are experiencing homelessness. So the ballot measure has a plan to to use a collaborative approach to develop an expenditure plan for the allocation of these new revenues. If Measure H does pass and the expenditure plan is one that the County Board of Supervisors will adopt as part of their their their budget for the next fiscal year. And if Measure H does pass in March, then a working group of approximately 50 individuals from across the county representing Council of Governments. The service providers will will come together and work on the recommended plan to present to the Board of Supervisors. There's a unique opportunity in in Long Beach, Glendale and Pasadena. We are unique because these three cities, which included our own continuum of care. And so the county recognizes that we are unique in this aspect and has opened a line of dialog with us to see how best to allocate revenues in Long Beach to address the homeless issues that we are experiencing here as well as throughout the county. I'll really quickly go through the six investment areas that are stipulated in the framework that is in the ballot language resolution. The first one is to prevent homelessness. Second is to subsidize housing. Third is to provide case management and services. Fourth, increase income for those who are experiencing homelessness so that they can sustain housing on their own. The fifth investment area is to create a coordinated, county wide system to address homelessness. And the SEC filings to see if there are opportunities to invest in affordable housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. So the timeline. March 7th is Election Day. We hope everyone goes out to vote in mid-March. If the ballot measure does pass, a working group will be convened and in April there will be a formulation of the expenditure plan. April. May We're hoping that that expenditure plan will start to come together and then in early May, take that expenditure plan out to the community and reach a consensus. Late May, the county homeless policy deputies will meet to review and discuss the recommendations that the working group has developed in order to present to the Board of Supervisors. And then in June, when the Board of Supervisors adopts their annual budget, they will also include in it and then expenditure plan for Measure H if the ballot measure does pass. So I'll at this time, turn it over to Kelly Culpepper, director of Health and Human Services, to go over homelessness and Long Beach. So within the city of Long Beach, July 5th, 2016, the city council declared a state of emergency to combat homelessness within the city of Long Beach. When we conducted the 2015 count, we had 2345 individuals are experiencing homeless in the city. 94% or 3094 were unsheltered veterans, and 731 were what we consider chronic, unsheltered individuals. We just completed the point in time count two weeks ago. And so we are calculating those numbers now. So we'll have more current numbers available to us coming up in the next couple of months. We provide services on average to 1100 individuals and families each month through the Multi-Service Center and through the continuum of care for a total of over 13,000 client contacts over the course of a year. Right now with our service providers, we get about 90 to 100 requests for outreach and engagement every month at the Multi-Service Center for Homeless. Our existing investments right now, we we spent about $10.9 million a year on our services for individuals and families who are homeless. That is from the Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care Hour. We received when we were just announced a $7.6 million funding for this next year from the Continuum of Care. We also receive it. We also receive additional resources from private foundations and from the city as we move forward. So about $10.9 million a year specific to homeless services. We have the multi-service one stop shop where we folks who are homeless can come in, be assessed and connected to services and move toward permanent housing as well as we do a lot of street outreach. So we are out on the streets every day reaching out to individuals and families who are homeless to connect them to service. We have a lot of different housing and shelter opportunities within the city, so I'm not going to go through each of them. But you'll see that we have quite a continuum of housing with 1452 permanent supportive housing beds. We also run the winter shelter that's opened for three months and it looks like it may be extended this year for an additional few weeks. We also have emergency shelter opportunities. The Housing Authority provides 70 vouchers annually to individuals who are experiencing homelessness. And also we have over 700 vouchers for for veterans. So if they're coming through the VA, we are we are able to house them through the housing authority for veterans. And we also have supportive services. The heart team within the city is the fire department. They were here in front of the council in the last couple of weeks, really being able that are moving forward sort of street medicine and education to be able to connect with individuals who are homeless and then the quality of life teams through the police department. As we've looked at what our funding needs are moving forward and that we'd be looking to address through the Middle Ages a year round shelter permanent supportive, additional permanent supportive housing, transitional housing, additional rapid rehousing. Preventative supportive services and mental health and substance abuse programs. And with that turn it of questions. Okay. Let's go ahead and go. We're going to take questions first just because this is a measure item. So let me go through questions. I might turn it over to to Vice Mayor Richardson, and then I'll take it I'll take public comment as well. But let me let me just make one clarification point that I think is important. Councilman Mongo also just clarified which is which is correct. Just to clarify the position that Mr. Heng and I said, of course, sales tax, as you all know, doesn't follow you. So I just want to make sure that's clear so that the sales tax is not increased in Long Beach for Long Beach residents. But of course, someone who went to another city, that sales tax rate is depending on what the sales tax rate is over there. So. Well, that's you know, I know it's obvious to most. I just want to make sure we all know that sales tax doesn't follow us around. So. Right. Unless it's an automobile. Okay. So going on to Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you. And before I get my my comments. So in terms of process, you want to go through a discussion before making any motions? I think it'd be I think if there's questions first, it'd be great to go through any questions on the measure. And then if there is going to be a motion, I also want to hear from the public if there's any public comment. I also know that there's one of the supervisors deputies is here who wants to comment, since I know that she put it on the agenda. So if we want to do some of those things, first, we can get back. To you because I want to make a motion here. So I think if everybody respects that, we'll just have that discussion. Let me let me do that first. Let me let me ask. I can Supervisor Janice Hahn was one of the two supervisors that put this on the ballot. So I know that Mr. Linda Chico is here representing the county supervisor. And so I know she wanted to say a few words about the motion she made for at the county level. So I'll start we'll start there. Thank you, Mary Garcia, for giving me the opportunity. Thank you, city council, for considering this item. As you know, Long Beach is the second largest city in L.A. County, and the supervisor is committed to working with the mayor, city council and staff on facing this crisis. We've actually met quite a few times already addressing some of the issues. On any given night, there are 47,000 people living on the streets in L.A. County. 3000 of them are veterans, 4000 are children. So just over a week ago, the body of a homeless man was found in the fourth stoop of his aureole district in Wilmington . He had been living in homeless camp. He had been living in a homeless encampment in Harbor City. And despite the best efforts of law enforcement, he was swept away and killed during a heavy storm. This is just one of the many heartbreaking tragedies caused by homelessness and a reminder that this problem has reached crisis level. I participated in the homeless count here in Long Beach, and I got to tell you, the stories that we heard out there were heartbreaking. So that's why we're here today, to educate voters on Measure H using Measure H. We will work to break the cycle of homelessness and connect people in need with proven solutions like mental health services, addiction programs, rapid rehousing and job training. With Measure H, we will work to move 45,000 people into permanent housing in five years and help another 30,000 people avoid homelessness. Voters know that this is no longer a problem isolated to Skid Row or even the city of L.A.. Encampments are in communities, including Long Beach. I know there are some who have reservations about adding to the sales tax, but know that homelessness is already costing taxpayers in ways that are less productive and more painful. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department spends $41 million annually on arrests, jail stays and probation supervision for homeless individuals. And we know that Long Beach PD is feeling the same impacts. Our health care system spends millions of dollars a year caring for sick individuals who would be healthier if they had a warm, dry place to sleep. We are asking for this small sacrifice that will allow us to attack the causes of homelessness and provide real solutions. A quarter cent sales tax would amount to an extra dime on the price of a $40 sweater. A dollar on the cost of a $400 TV. So both the South Bay COG and Gateway City's cog have voted to support Measure H. The election is on March 7th. And with this comprehensive plan, we're confident voters will say yes. Thank you. Thank you, thank you on behalf of the supervisor. And I'm going to what I'm going to do on that. Take it back to Vice Mayor Richardson. If you want to make a motion, that's fine. But I'm going to go through the the council comments and then go to any public comment. So. Vice Mayor Richardson. So my thoughts on here. Well, first of all, thank you to Supervisor Hahn and to her, Linda, for coming down in and giving us those comments. And we do want to acknowledge and thank city staff for the presentation. And this is something that we've we've all sort of paid attention to from different different points of view. But to have a presentation here in a solid action plan, I think makes a lot of sense. Something that stood out in that presentation was the number a half billion dollar a year problem. And that's the gap that's not inclusive of the funding that's already allocated across the county. So it can be safe to say this is $1,000,000,000 a year problem with a half a billion dollar a year gap. And and we see this personally here in Long Beach and North Long Beach has been home to the winter shelter for the last five years or so. And we know that, you know, every year it's a rush for us to get it open. And and we know that we have a number of rights of ways flood channels, freeway on and off ramps that are very complex from an agency standpoint to get a handle on in terms of really counting and servicing the homeless in our community. It really requires a county wide coordinated solution. Just just here in Long Beach, along our river, you have the 17 freeway on ramp, the 91 freeway on ramp, Southern California Edison right away and county flood. That means four different law enforcement agencies and multiple health agencies, just the direct service to one encampment. And it's it's completely challenging. So I'm really glad to see the county step up and really lead this this effort because we can't handle it alone as Long Beach. I think it's really interesting to note not only that, Long Beach residents wouldn't pay initially because I believe that they would, but the fact that we do maintain a seat at the table through the continuum of care says a lot about our health department and our city city team. The fact that they've sort of carried on this fight and have built that respect countywide to make that happen. And I think that puts us in a really strong, unique position that we should, as a city, take a position in support of this. And tonight, you know, the thought was this would be a receiving file presentation, but multiple councilmembers have expressed interest here and taken a position. And I didn't agree. So so I want to make a motion that the city council tonight takes a position in support of this measure and and communicate that position publicly. Okay. Thank you. There's a motion. Is there a second, Councilman Ringo? I want to thank Councilmember Richardson for making that motion, because as a member of the Gateway City Council government, I made a motion at that meeting to support this measure, and I'm glad that we're going to be moving that forward here today as well. There's no question that homelessness is an issue in Long Beach, and I think Councilmember Richardson. Oh, sorry. Excuse me. Vice Mayor Richardson brought brought the motion forward and basically described adequately as to what the issues are. And, you know, I have a major issue with homelessness in my district as well. Just recently we had to vacate the Willow Springs Park from a major encampment that cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars to vacate because of the level of encampment that was there. So with a measure like this would be able to address that with less of a cost to the city. And as has been described, there's no cost to us, not for at least six years. And that that would be the most significant part of this measure that we can live with. So as far as I could see, it's a win win situation for the for the city, for us to support this and to move forward with it. And it's a win win for the county as well. So I would wish to have the support of my colleagues as well in this on this motion. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. Yes. I think that one of the things that's remarkable about this opportunity is it really answers to questions. One of the things that came up with the increase in the sales taxes that neighboring cities would be less than ours now we would be closer to an even playing field, if not on an even playing field, determining depending on which city is discussed. And because of the way that the allocation structure is, the county supervisors were very mindful of knowing that just because homeless populations are residing in a particular city or the sales tax comes from a particular city, it doesn't necessarily mean that's how the distribution is. We soon will have a mental health center that will service the region and therefore we would be a part of that. And so I would be very supportive of this motion. I think that on multiple levels this is really great for Long Beach and really great for the communities that have homeless individuals and the homeless individuals themselves . So I really strongly support this. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Pierce. Thank you so much for the great presentation and to Janice Hahn's office for coming down and putting this on our agenda and in our attention and our minds. I know that homelessness is something that impacts our entire city, but in downtown we definitely feel the impacts in a very strong way. From Pine Avenue. Then branching out to retro are different business corridors, and each one of those people has a story that is unique to them that we in Long Beach for the last ten years have really changed the way that we think and talk about homelessness. And so really thankful that we've gotten to a point where we can have a measure like this, be something that so many people on our council want to take on and really thankful to have people like Kelly Colby and our staff that have worked really hard to say homelessness isn't just about moving out of our sidewalks, but homelessness is about moving into shelter. Homelessness is about finding a detox bed with love and care that we can help support people, change their lives. And it just really want to recognize this moment in history that ten years ago it wasn't like this in Long Beach. The conversation was very different. And so I definitely support the motion made by the vice mayor. I wanted to ask one question of staff if someone could let us know if the residents of Long Beach decided to renew, measure or bring in another tax, would that affect this tax in Long Beach? Mayor's member of council. I'll try and answer that. I think the answer is yes. It would impacted by the quarter percent. So in year six, when the city's tax is reduced by a half a percent, you create, if you will, a little room in the tax bucket. It'll only go down in year six by a quarter percent because it'll be replaced by Measure H. So in theory, you have a quarter percent area that you could renew Measure eight, but you could not renew it for the full one half. Let me also add just one other thing. I think it's important to note that I believe Measure H is a ten year. That is correct. Okay. Or in ten years, the. Measure a measure expires in, I believe in ten years as well. So. Okay. Thank you. And then one other question. The work groups. I'm sorry if I missed it. Who compiles those work groups? Are we? What's the decision process for who's involved in that meeting? The County Board of Supervisors is compiling that working group. There are two representatives from each of the Council of Governments that will be requested to participate, as well as the service providers in the region, both those in Long Beach and countywide. I believe the County Board of Supervisors, their deputies on the homeless issues will also be involved. So it will be a fairly large working group. Great. Thank you so much. And thank you, everybody, for your hard work on this. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Baer. And I do appreciate the motion and I will be supportive. Measure H provides this critical issue of homelessness, the attention that it really deserves. I want to thank Supervisor Hahn and the Board of Supervisors for being bold in addressing this issue. It's all it's it is, actually. Well, the issue of homelessness has actually grown and transformed before our eyes in a very, very short period of time. The numbers have gone up significantly in the last just five years. As the president of the Gateway Cities Council of Governments. I must mention that we do have a great continuum of care. This is not just a Long Beach problem. It's a regional problem. And the Gateway Cities also, as Councilmember Urunga mentioned just last week, voted to support this issue. And this was 27 cities in the southeast counties coming together in support of this measure. I see this as a small sacrifice that we all can afford. This is a moral and humane commitment as citizens that we have to commit ourselves to to to really address this problem. Nearly 50,000 homeless, homeless individuals in L.A. County is not acceptable. Of nearly 3000 in the city of Long Beach is clearly not acceptable. And this measure measure will help us address that. And so I will be supportive of the motion. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes, thank you. I also want to extend my support. I think this is great that we are talking about this again. I also think the supervisor's office for bringing this forward. I'm excited about the different investment areas that especially creating a coordinated system where we can all be on the same page and discussing each of our respective cities issues and how we can work together in conjunction with the county, which I know we're already doing for the most part. But I also want to thank Kelly Colby for all your work. You've done a great job. I personally participated in the homeless count two weeks ago. It was eye opening. I will continue encouraging residents. If you are not a part of that, please be a part of that. Even tour. Some of our facilities get to know what the city is doing and the county resources that are being expended already. This will just enhance that. So thanks again. Thank you. Council member, supra. Thank you. And I'd like to thank Kelly Coffey also for all our hard work. And I do have a question for you with the count that was conducted two weeks ago. Now, historically, that number doesn't come back to us till around April, which would be after the ballot measure. Is that is that what you anticipate this year? That is that is what we anticipate. But we're trying to will be working our best to try and get it a little bit earlier. I don't know that we'll have it before the. Ballot, but that's that's kind of the nature of my question. And I don't want you to speculate, but it has been speculated by my constituents that we have more people experiencing homelessness today. And I put that in perspective. I participated in the count in 2009. In fact, Long Beach, Small World, Miles Evans was part of the team I was on. I mean, Miles Nevin, who we just approved tonight for a commission position in the area on the eastern fourth district. That is from Clark to Studebaker. The four or five freeway is the northern border to Atherton. We counted one person experiencing homelessness in 2009, and I think my constituents would speculate that the we'd have more people today. So can you put a number on it or a percentage, or would you not want to speculate where we are . And we're not ready to put a percentage one way or the other. Moving forward, the numbers are being analyzed right now and we'll be moving forward. But at this time, with the different data and things coming out, we're not ready to speculate. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilwoman Price. So I just wanted to thank staff for the presentation. The questions that I had have been answered and of course, thanks to Supervisor Hahn and her Linda Chico for being here. This certainly is probably the issue that has resulted in the most inquiries from our residents in terms of long term planning. And I'm happy that we are having these discussions and very mindful that we need additional resources to provide long term solutions. So I think staff for the presentation and for the education tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Andrew. Yes, thank. You, Mayor. And also, I'd like to thank Council Vice Mayor Richardson and Mr. Rangel for bringing this item forward, because the fact that I think all of us can remember when we took that big dove back about nine years ago, and a lot of those individuals have not, you know, recuperated from that situation. A lot of those individuals, some of those individuals out there that are homeless today and no, I don't think any of us thought that it would be at this, you know, count of individuals as being this homeless. So I think we are going to have to take a deep look in and really seriously think that it's not about money, it's about compassion. And we know that those individuals could be as individuals. You know, we're just very fortunate. So really, you guys are going to have to take some time and really seriously know that we're in a crisis here and we'll have to do something about it. And don't look at the tax about $1 one cents or whatever it is. Let's be compassionate and try to help these people out there who are homeless. Thank you. Thank you. Let me thank you. We're going to take public comment in just a minute. I just want to add to our supervisor, thank you for being one of the two supervisors to bring this forward to the county board for adoption. I'm also incredibly proud of every member of the city council for their words and support for this measure. This will bring resources that we currently do not have in the city of Long Beach. We currently do not have these resources to be able to do this really important work in the years ahead. And so to be able to have this additional source of support of revenue, to be able to go and do the programs that we need in this community, like a year round shelter, like permanent supportive housing, like rapid rehousing, like the mental health connections that we need to make in the community. This is really, really important, I think, for the community, and so I'm also happy to support it. I look forward to working with the supervisor, Long Beach, which is the supervisors largest city, and also probably the city with some of the largest need in her in her community. And so we look forward to working together on ensuring that these funds come down to the city and that we're able to address some of these large challenges that we have as a community. And to close, I just want to remind us and I try to do this whenever I can, is that every single person that is experiencing homelessness has a name. They have parents. They have people that they've loved in their life. They are individuals, and they deserve our respect and our support. And so with that, any public comment on the item? Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And Distinguished Council members Gerard Wright with Move L.A. and I just have various all been already said about this wonderful measure and the importance of providing the services that will get people up off their feet and be able to stand for themselves again. And that's the importance of what of what will provide the ability to bring them back into the society, bring them back into being Americans that can stand here and do the things that we that we need to be in a compassionate society. So this is an important piece. Thank you, all councilmembers for your support. I'm just going to pass this around. This is almost a fait accompli because there's over 150 organizations that are in support of age right now. And it's growing because this is such a vital need for L.A. County, for L.A. County, and can be a vision for the rest of the nation, as we desperately need right now. So thank you all very much. Thank you. Can just pass it to the clerk over here and we'll go pass those out. Next speaker, please. Good evening, in control. And I'm glad you're talking about this tonight. I just got my mail in ballot, and I didn't even know this was going to be on the agenda on the. Be on the ballot in March. This is a very short time for you to educate the public about this. And I'm sure one of the things that Long Beach is going to say is we're already paying the highest tax. And I'm glad to hear you say you're trying to even this out. I see there's a number of other cities that are also going to be exempt from paying this one fourth tax. My question is. Are the cities that are paying this tax going to object to the fact that there's many cities that aren't paying the tax and they're going to have to bear the burden of the cost of this. How is this going to work out if we're not paying into the county? All all of our extra tax is staying in the city. Is any of our tax a money going to the county to. Help pay for this major. I hope some of you can answer that question. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to just make a comment. I think this is an important issue for for for everyone so that this was discussed as part of the deliberations of the county supervisors. And they realize that in their deliberations of putting this on the ballot, that there were a handful of of cities in the county that were essentially at the cap of the sales tax. And so they anticipated that it was part of their deliberative process. They understand that most folks in the county shop all across the county. And so their part of the determination was that folks, whether they live in Long Beach but might work in Burbank or might work in West Los Angeles, and so that they they understood that that would move around and essentially even itself out. In addition, they've been very clear that the the payment back into communities is going to be based solely on where the need is. So they're not interested in, you know, what, what city might be at 10% versus a 9%. They're interested in solving the the the crisis that's happening across the county. And so that's where the resources are going to go, regardless of that. And so but they I do I do know that the county had extensive conversations about this question, as did our staff with them as well. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. Josh Butler, executive director for Housing, Long Beach. And as rents continue to rise in Long Beach and vacancy rates continue to fall, their need for housing measures and measures to support homelessness are greater than ever. Housing Long Beach is in full support of this measure and has been in full support of this measure since the days Supervisor Hahn was sworn into office and put this item forward. We encourage the city council to do the same. Voters in L.A. County have shown support for addressing homelessness by putting skin in the game. The city of Los Angeles did so last fall, and they'll raise, I believe, $1.2 billion over the next decade to support housing measures. The county has recognized the vast shortage of housing and the need to support and stabilize our communities as we build housing to meet need in the future. These early, these county, these countywide resources are designed not only to help stabilize communities, but also to stabilize lives. We hope that this measure will support the efforts of Mayor Garcia as he works to address affordable housing here in Long Beach. We need your support tonight. We need it more than ever. Ultimately, this money will come back to Long Beach and come back right away. As Mary mentioned, it will go based on need. The need here is great. And we also have to remember all the folks that aren't currently out that we see on the streets, that we're not able to count in the mornings. The folks that are living in hotels, that are sleeping on couches, that the hidden homeless population. And also remember that our homeless count only represents the homeless count for that one particular day. It's not a static number. It's constantly moving. We need this more than ever as we can expect the safety net at the federal level to get even smaller and smaller. And Californians know that tonight, not only with issues like sanctuary cities, but also issues like this, that we need to know that our local leaders will have our back as we know that our safety net is going to get yanked out from under us. We have a shortage. These funds are needed. And we thank you for your support tonight. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. My name is Andy Kerr. I live in the eighth District and I represent Councilman Austin on the Homeless Services Advisory Committee. I, too, was able to participate in the point in time count a couple weeks ago. I'd just like to commend Ailsa Ramos and the staff, Theresa Chandler, the staff at the Multi-Service Center for just doing a phenomenal job of organizing that event. It went very smoothly and I was really impressed by everything that happened that day. I was on Mr. West team. I think we had the best team. We were with the the new heart team in the fire department, which is a really impressive team, and thank the city for supporting their efforts. During the count on Third Street, we encountered a gentleman by the name of Richard, and Richard really had a hard time understanding what was going on with the information we were trying to get from him. It was very clear to me and in doing this work for for quite a while, that Richard was suffering from severe mental illness and. It's it's very frustrating for me just to know that if Richard were suffering from cancer or if he was suffering from a lot of other similar acute illnesses that wasn't related to mental illness, it wouldn't be okay for him to be sleeping on Third Street. And it's a breakdown of public policy and governance at all level, from the federal level to the state to the county that for for 40 years this has been going on. And it really warms my heart today here the council and you, Mr. Mayor, for the support for this measure h i to support it. I think this is a tremendous opportunity to correct all those decades of bad policy on this issue, issues related to substance abuse. That also contributes to the level of homelessness that we've seen throughout the county in the city. And I'd like to echo Councilman Richardson and Councilman Austin the words that that that really this really is a regional issue. And I'd also like to commend Kelly Collopy and Theresa Chandler and the city's team for the level of collaboration I've been seeing lately with the county. And I think it's a level available at the collaboration that's there really is unprecedented since I've been involved in this work. So thanks again for your support for this measure. I know it's going to be a really big push to get the two thirds threshold of the voters. And I'd like to offer anything I can do personally to to help and inform the public to encourage people to get behind it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Maria Lopez. I'm an organizer for housing lobby and first district resident. I'd like to commend you all today for having. This difficult conversation. Right. Homelessness and housing has become the issue of our generation with rapid gentrification that has impacted rents, which has led to the displacement of vulnerable communities, which has an an overall affected and increase the amount of homelessness. Which continues to take a lot of our resources. So for me, as an individual having to. See and help these families. I see Measure H as. A light at the end of the tunnel. Right. Personally, I have experienced the restraints and services. Right. To get in a shelter. You need your ID, your birth certificate, your Social Security, even in some cases. Right. How many homeless individuals carry that around? Not necessarily. Right. So there is restraints. And getting. These services to get a family of four to get a TB test done, they only take the first five. I had to drop off a family in the middle of a storm at 7 a.m. and the Multi-Service Center offered a ride, offered. To pick them up to get them there on time so that they can take. Their nine year old. Boy who at eight who had. ADHD into a shelter. Right. So there is barriers that these individuals face and that we as individuals cannot help with as well. Right. So I do see the deep need for case management, affordable housing and also protections against displacement. Supporting those in need has always been the heart. Of our Long. Beach residents. Right. That's what we do. That's why we live here. And so today. I am glad to live in this city, because once again, we're standing up for the little guy. And once again, we are seeing a great. Need and we're solving it. So a huge thank you to all of you. And I look forward to to March 7th. Thank you. Thank you. And please, sir, so be our last speaker, this gentleman here in line, and then we're moving. We're going to go ahead and take a vote. So please. Mayors. Council members. First of all. Jesus. My, my, my. I wasn't going to say anything on this, but I heard Mr. Butler, Joshua Butler, speak, and he mentioned about the high prices and all this Long Beach and everything. And I was at a meeting a few weeks ago with him and he was telling that he was telling the meeting how some of the highest in the nation, when I just read is some of the lowest cost in the nation. Everybody who for what, 1100 dollars living right off ocean one bedroom. You can't do that anywhere. Anybody knows that. Not in Hermosa, not in Redondo. And so and then I called him up on that and he yelled at me. So my thing is this. And court, if you say something and it's not right, they usually impeach your testimony. So that's the reason why I'm up here, because I heard all the bleeding heart stuff, he said. But what I'm thinking about this whole situation, I hope this goes. We're supposed to go because we have other issues like the fact that this sanctuary city may not get the federal funding. We just voted down expanding the airport, so we just lost about a billion something there or whatever is money lost. So these taxes are going to the citizens and there's some rich citizens in Long Beach. But as far as the people who are just barely making it like me, that's hit me hard. And, you know, we paint rainbows in the streets charging $30,000. I'm not for that, but my taxes have to pay for it. And there's a lot of stuff going on and I have to say it. So by another tax, is it going to help? I mean, right outside, since you step out, shoot. As soon as I walked in here, I saw homeless setting up right at the library. Library wearing clothes. They put their stuff up, stinking and everything. So is it really going to help it along? Third Street, all that stuff we need to really do. So we're going to do something, do it. I mean, I've been here stuff for years. I want to see to be done. I'm from neighborhoods all over. They know, I know control going to help is going to drive everything up. It's going to make it just like Santa monica frisk on New York, the highest in the nation. We need we don't need any just cause eviction because then you got the dope dealers that you can't get out. And anybody black here, who knows you didn't have to go with your gun or something to go to Big Momma's house because them because next door they keep on selling dope. And they disrespecting the women and anybody who's from the eighties and nineties really knows the new jack city, you know. So we don't need nothing where you can't get where you can't get the molesters out. Well, you know all this. I don't want to be hostage. I'm a black man saying so. All that stuff and all the falsehoods. No. And I'm here to say my last 7 seconds. Josh, they don't believe Josh Butler. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion in a second on the motion, which is to support county measure H. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes on that. Motion carries nine zero. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. To the county supervisor and that that election. Madam Clerk, I know the election is is March 7th, is that correct? Is there any information that we need to give the voters on the election? I believe that ballots are being dropped around. You vote. By mail. Ballots are now being accepted in the city clerk's office. Okay. Or they can just make them incorrect. They can just mail them in. But we are one of the drop off sites. The city clerk and the lobby. Level of city hall right here. Okay, great. And so on. I believe if you are a vote by mail voter, I believe the counties probably sent those ballots out, as someone had said earlier. So thank you very much. Okay. Thank you all for that.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB FS-14-061 and authorize City Manager to execute a contract with NAIAD Inflatables of Newport, Inc., of Portsmouth, RI, for the purchase of one 38-40 foot, multi-use Port Police boat, in a total amount not to exceed $777,076, inclusive of tax and fees. (Citywide)

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Item 21 report from Police, Financial Management and Harbor Recommendation to adopt Adobe specifications and authorize the city manager to execute a contract with an air inflatable of an airport for the purchase of 130 foot down 3840 foot multi-use port police boat. So moved back in. I want to know whose boat. Will be bigger places or find. Out if movements moved. In, seconded anywhere the public officer does to council an item with a head going on. 21. Any council discussion members cast your votes in over 21. Motion carries. 22. Item 22 Report from Public Works Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute MRU with the Los Angeles Gateway Regional Integrated Regional Water Management Joint Powers Authority two for administration and Cost Sharing of Preparing and Implementation of Coordinated Compliance, Monitoring and reporting plan. Select moving seconded. Any member of the public is just outside of 22. Any council discussion CNN members cast your votes and I 922.

A bill for an ordinance pursuant to section 15-51 of the D.R.M.C. that suspends the amount of the annual Fair Elections Fund appropriation effective for no more than one year. Suspends the appropriation to the Fair Elections Fund for one year. Councilmember Flynn approved filing this item on 10-22-20.

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A move that canceled the 20 dash, 1194 be ordered published. It has been moved and seconded questions or comments by members of council. Council member say the Barker. Thank you, Madam Chair. Just. I mean, Madam President, just wanted to call to attention. We've heard from many people over the last few weeks about the potential of gutting the Fair Elections Fund this year to fund our proposed council amendments. We've heard a lot of opposition to that idea. I stated it in our operating operations meeting last week, but I'll say it again for those tuning in for the first time, the way that this source fund for our amendments was unilaterally slipped into the letter by the mayor or letter to the mayor by Councilman Flynn was disrespectful to those of us who did our homework and proposed our own identified appropriate sources for each of the amendments that we proposed. The choice to defund fair elections instead of defunding the police or the militarized occupation of our communities by DPD and other private and partner local law enforcement entities was tone deaf to the hundreds of people who've devoted their time to us through emails, calls, testimony. As someone who's been chastised for direct filing and allegedly not engaging community. I find it ironic that we're voting on a direct file defunding the clerk in recorder's office without having that office's support to get this fund. In fact, I reached out to them about the proposed idea when it happened and they knew nothing about what was going on. And so I hope that my colleagues will recognize the self-serving nature of defunding the Fair Elections Fund, a fund that could potentially actually help pay for a challenger to take anyone and all of our seats . I hope that with that recognition, recognition that you will not give the public a reason to come for your seats. Colleagues, please vote no tonight and show the public that we respect them enough not to undermine fair elections and this fund in its very first year of implementation. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Hines, I had to call you out as well. You had asked to call this bill out. And so out of respect, do you want to go ahead and say your comments? And then I've got Councilmember Flynn up. I can defer to Councilmember Flynn and go after him. Thank you. Okay, great. Just wanted to make sure I know that both you and Councilmember CdeBaca had called it out. Councilmember Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. First off, I didn't slip anything into the letter. I didn't write the letter. I brought this up in our budget meetings as a potential source because after my study of the issue, I thought it would it was something we should consider. First of all, this does not gut the fund at all. Not even close. The voters literally, literally gave us the authority to consider suspending or reducing the general fund transfer in a year of a fiscal crisis. The group that wrote this ordinance included this provision in their initiative. Why was it put in there if they don't want us to consider it? This does not override the will of the people. It literally uses a provision in the bill that the citizens wrote and and gave to us. If the sponsors didn't want us to consider this, they shouldn't have included it in the law. Secondly, this bill does not do away with the fund, and it leaves the fund with more than adequate resources to meet the demands of candidates in the next election. I would not have pursued this without first doing my homework on it. I take great pride in doing my homework on on bills and coming prepared. It is effectively a $500,000 reduction over the four year period. The 2019 election were the most expensive we've ever had with a very competitive mayor's race. Three open seats, three incumbents defeated. I would have used only $4 million of the $8 million fund. Even the sponsor of the original initiative, with whom I worked to rewrite this into a more workable system with the clerk's office and refer it to the ballot. In 2018, they ran a simulation of the 2019 city elections, assuming that the Fair Elections Fund would have been in place then and published it on the website, on their website, showing that up to two and a half weeks before the May election, only $2.7 million would have been distributed among the 51 candidates. I would not have submitted this recommendation if I had any doubt that it would leave the Fund without sufficient resources. The recent memo that we got from the clerk's office significantly overestimates the amount that will be needed. I shared my analysis with you all over the weekend. I demonstrated that by backtracking some of its assumptions and the scenarios, and I found multiple areas where it was just overinflated. There was so much cushion in these figures. It could have been written by the Mypillow guy. But I do understand and I respect my colleagues who are persuaded otherwise and will vote differently. I realize that the votes aren't there, here, aren't here now to move this forward. But the optics that I was concerned with is that with city workers forced to take between three and four weeks without pay through furloughs this year and next, because of our budget crisis that we wouldn't consider a half million dollar reduction in the tax subsidies to our own campaigns. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Flynn, Councilmember Hines. Thank you, Madam President. I know we have a lot going on tonight, so I want to be as brief as possible. I would say the clerk has performed his own analysis. And according to their analysis, the the fund needs the money that the people voted to provide it. I trust Denver elections know about elections. That's what they do, after all. And and when I have to decide between the validity of an elections analysis or a colleague analysis about elections, I'm going to trust elections. Also, I believe that the idea is to provide funding for everyone, not just incumbents. And I'm concerned that if we run out of funds, this could turn into an incumbent defense fund, not a fair elections fund. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Hines. Councilman, cashier. A Thank you, Madam President. I'll just start by saying that I totally reject the notion that anybody is considering this issue on either side in some attempt to gain advantage in any future election. When this topic was first brought up, I thought, well, if we wanted to borrow, say, a half million bucks and get it replenished the next year, that might be something I'd consider. But after receiving the mayor's response to our list. Of amendments. I felt he got a little bit carried away with diving into that fund. I have great respect for Councilman Flint, tremendous respect for Clarke Lopez and his staff. I would tend to lean towards. The clerk's. Assessment of the landscape, but mainly we have no idea what this is, how much money we're going to need. And even more. Concerning than that is we have no idea where our country is going budget wise. So I'm going to take the conservative approach to protect the fund that our voters passed. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I won't repeat what my colleague, Councilman Flynn. Already shared, but two things that I want to mention. Is that. We basically have said that we're going to engage in a re-imagining policing effort. That is. Underway, and we were awaiting recommendations from that process to then determine. What kinds of changes we might want to see to the police budget. Now, even. Aside from that, you know, we identified as a priority to add more funding to the STAR program, which. The mayor agreed to do. We in. The letter offered basically of the items $371,800. To come out of. That fund or two. To take it away from the police recruit class. Secondly, I don't know how many of you are aware of a recent poll that has been done that looks at where the public is. In regard. To, you know. Support of policing in our city. You know, we hear a lot from people who come to our meetings on a on a regular basis. And I don't discount their input, but there are a lot of other people. That are in this city who have weighed in via this poll. And I'm trying to pull it up right as we speak. But the bottom. Line is that when you look at and I'm happy to share with you all that it's saying that 60%. Of the responders the question, one of the questions was asked, do you want the police to spend more or less or the same amount of. Time in our neighborhoods? The answer was 60%. The same more was 24%. And less than. 16%. Was to on less. And so that's that's just. One of the questions. There are a couple of others on there. I think. It's important. To just kind of know and understand the sentiment of. Where the public is on that. And then the. Last thing is. Today's economic times and the challenges we're dealing with with our city budget. Have never been. Worse. Than they are today. And the folks who drafted this particular bill gave. City council, gave city leaders. The option to look at that fund, not not funding it fully. In these kinds of. Conditions. And and so to see the full court press that. Was put out by the. Very, you know, leader who spearheaded bringing that forward to try to, you know, dictate to us that we should not be using this. And, you know, again, I don't want to repeat what Councilman Flynn just said. About how much money. Would be needed for the 2023 elections. I think, you know, the conditions and the provision. Absolutely give us the authority to do that. And so given the fact that our letter suggested that as one of the funding sources and now we're saying, you know. We we don't want to use it. I think is disingenuous to the process that we're we're going through right now. So just want to share that. I think this is absolutely an item that. Should. We should be considering to address some of the priorities. That council has identified. In a time that we're asking for money for for a number of things when, you know, everybody else was taking cuts. And, you know, some of those are really good and important items. But at the same time, everybody's cutting. We've been adding. To this budget. So I just wanted. To share my thoughts about where I'm at tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Madam President. You know, I think that it's good that we disagree and that we all have different opinions. That's democracy at work. What I struggle with is the attempt to portray this as something that it's not. Rather than having a debate and all of us advocating that there may be a better source of funding than what's proposed. Arguments that I think have real merit. And I think we should. But I think we should be able to have this debate without resorting to dressing this as something that is not. And I completely agree with Councilman Cashman. I don't believe that anyone is trying to do this as an attempt to thwart what the voters had in mind or to keep their job. I think this has to do with the fact that we have a huge financial crisis and we were in that and we have a bunch of amendments that we as council asked to be included and want to change to the budget. So I just want to be clear, this does not gut the fair election fund. I believe looking over the analysis that there will still be plenty of money in this fund to fully fund the 2023 municipal elections. Even if we were to choose to do this as the voters envisioned, even with this amendment and voters approved this specifically with the provision that this is an appropriate thing to consider and debate in the midst of a fiscal crisis. This is the biggest fiscal crisis we've ever seen. So this is not the time to at least look at this then. Then when is that was built in to the bill? I believe that this is a responsible way to look at funding these things. And again, not that there aren't merit to other arguments about, hey, there is a different way to fund it, but I think that this is a reasonable option. I appreciate that. Councilman Flynn, you know, brought this forward for our consideration. And I do think that it's an avenue to fund these amendments without taking away from other critical city services that have already been cut during this crisis and and to retain plenty of money for the intended use in 2023. So I will be supporting it today. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Councilwoman Black. Thanks, Madam President. I'm going to say a lot of the same things that have already been said. I would never support an effort to override the will of the voters. Just as Councilman Clark just pointed out, this doesn't do this. In fact, the fair elections bill that voters approved allowed for this very scenario in the city might be in a budget crisis. Following up on what Councilwoman Ortega said about our financial crisis and Councilman Flynn's comments about the sacrifices our city workers have to make when they are taking three or four weeks of unpaid furlough days, I think there is no other better indication of the crisis that we are in right now. I do believe this bill ensures that the Fair Election Fund will be replenished so that adequate funds will be available for the 2023 election. I, for one, will not be using any taxpayer dollars for my next campaign. I am going to vote yes tonight because in our letter that we all agreed to, we put the Fair Election Fund as a possible funding source. I don't know why we would have put that in the letter if we didn't think it was a realistic option. So I agree that we don't have the votes here tonight, but just because of the fact that we put it in the letter, I will be voting yes tonight. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Torres. Thank you, Madam Sident I just a commentary that we sent six key recommendations to the mayor for budget changes with a number of suggestions for sources. It was the mayor who sent back preliminary approval for all those recommendations to come from the Fair Elections Fund. There were other sources identified, and I think we put thought into those. And I would like to make sure that that we go back to those next week. While I believe the clerk made a good faith effort to support what the council might be going through right now in not necessarily opposing this move as long as the fund was made whole again. But I don't think we need to dip into the fund to get these things funded. I think there are other sources within the city. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman, can each. Excuse me. Thank you, Madam President. So I have been following this discussion really closely, and I think that it concerns me that there is a narrative in our country right now that it's all or nothing and that, you know, two very subtle things that seem opposing can't be true, that it's all black and white. And I guess that, you know, I will just say that I feel like the letter was the function of a very crunch time line. People did their best. Some people apparently had time to review it. Some people didn't. But there were not bad intentions there. Right. But it was also true that it was rushed and it is hard for human beings with the workload that this council has to meet very compressed timelines. So, you know, in terms of the analysis, I think it's both true that fewer dollars would be needed under a scenario in the past. But I also I don't know what explains the Clarke's difference in analysis, but I think people will behave differently in future elections where they know matching is possible. And so I think it is reasonable to say that we should go the conservative route and fully fund just in case to be prepared for this first cycle. And that that's a prudent thing to assume that behavior would be different based on this law. It doesn't mean that someone you know, I don't know. I don't know if that's why their analysis came out differently. But but I think I just I think that it if I were in a different timeline, you know, we I'm not interested in sacrificing some of the items on our amendment list. Right. So I guess what I would say is, if this were closer to PAC thing, what I'd want to do is amend it and have it continue to second reading so that we can more thoroughly get a chance to evaluate whether or not things can pass with the sources that were proposed. Right. So, for example, I had none. You know, this was listed as an option for one of the amendments that I worked on, which was the staff contribution. But the staff contribution exceeds the value of this entire contribution. So it does not these dollars are not enough to fund our entire list, even if we were to approve this tonight. But they may be a source that could help a few items get over the finish line that might struggle. So I will just say that I gave several conditions to Councilman Flynn on my support for this measure. One was that we didn't reduce the funding completely in 2020 because I thought it was important that the community see the ongoing commitment to the fund. And the second was that it be restored to the full amount in the next year so that we would be made whole for this cycle. And I acknowledge we may be over funding it for this cycle. We don't know and I think it's fair for the community to see the full amount funded for one cycle and then we can evaluate if it really is only two and a half million, maybe we slow it down for the next cycle. Things will also get more expensive in four years. So you can see that taking a conservative route might continue to keep a balance. But you you don't want the taxpayers dollars sitting there unused. So I guess that, you know, if this were, you know, a seven, six type situation or six seven, I might say, let's continue the conversation for another week so that we can see if indeed this might be the source needed to get some of these items over the finish line. But I would amend it to change the restraint restored amount. I'm not going to do that on first reading because I think that it's it's likely not going to pass. But I just want to describe the the fact that it could be a situation where we find some items from the sources that were suggested because there were very important reasons for those sources and they're reasonable sources. I think, for example, an $80 million parks budget can afford a $360,000 restroom expense, for example. I wouldn't suggest this or any other source for that. You know, there's a there's a reason why that budget should be carrying this, but it may be that other items do need these dollars. So so I guess that I just want to reiterate things that I've heard from people on both sides, which is that it's important for the community to have trust and for them to have trust. I think consistency of funding, even at a reduced level in accordance because we do have a fiscal crisis. And I do believe I just want to be clear that if I vote no on this tonight, I am in no way, shape or form saying that it is inappropriate to reduce the payment to this fund in the future. It may be necessary and it may be appropriate. And the goal then is to catch it back up. And frankly, if this city were to ever have a situation in. Where we had more qualified candidates than this fund could support. We would have a moral obligation to run a supplemental. So frankly, I don't even feel like the fund balance is the determining factor. The determining factor should be how many dollars are needed, and it is our moral obligation to fund that. And that is what we have a contingency fund every year. We have a 2% contingency fund. Even in a recession, we have a 2% contingency fund for unexpected items. And these dollars could be if we have five recalls or retirements that were before the end of the cycle in 2022, for example. And we were not fully funded yet. We could then use a supplemental that is what that contingency fund is for. So I just want to be clear. The value of fair elections is not under attack today. Even the funding for fair elections is not under attack. We have a balance in the fund today, but I do think we have not given the right details in this proposal to fully support the trust of the community by fully that funding it for at least one full cycle. So. So I am likely to know tonight unless it looks like this is going to pass, in which case then I will be moving to amend it on final reading. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Herndon thinking I'm president. I want to thank my colleagues who have articulated quite nicely how what this doesn't do. So I won't reiterate that nor repeat it. I think that in this particular case, we're doing just what the voters allowed us to do. And during the worst fiscal crisis most people can ever, certainly in their recent history, to not even consider this source of funds, I think, would be irresponsible, because most other sources and we could certainly have conversations about our reserves, but the percentage that we had going lower than that would make me uncomfortable. Taking from other sources what we require more cuts to our city. And I, I believe that our city has had enough cuts, particularly for 2021. So considering utilizing some of these funds so that our city agencies wouldn't have to take even more of a deeper cut, I felt fiscally was the prudent way to go and that's why I am supporting this moving and I would certainly hope this would be something that we would consider to do. But I certainly appreciate the dialog and reasons why we should. And I don't I don't have any ill will towards the court because if I was elected recorder, I would have concerns as well. But I think we should acknowledge no matter which analysis was done, click on Recorder's Office, Councilman Flynn's office. There are assumptions in that and you have to make those assumptions. So I would certainly I support this moving forward and I hope that my colleagues would consider it. But if not, we're going to have to make some hard choices about where else we're going to make cuts even more painful. Painful, deeper cuts. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. Councilman Hines, I have you back up in the in the queue. Thank you, Madam President. Just two quick points. I do want to thank all my colleagues for the reason conversation that we're having, and I respect everyone here. Second is, I would disagree that the Fair Elections Fund is that just because the Fair Elections Fund was in the letter that we all agreed to it in the day we had to provide or the day we had to provide edits to the letter. I did share my reservations about adding the Fair Elections Fund and encouraged its removal. It remained in the letter that. So I just wanted to point that out. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Haines. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. So I have a question. For the mayor's office. Is anyone on the line who could answer a question? We have Skye Stewart perfect on the line from the mayor's office. Okay. All right, Councilman, can you repeat the question I just was asking? Who was on the line? I didn't ask the question yet. Okay, thanks. I thought I missed it. I just wanted to make sure you were a panelist. Thank you. So. Hey, Skye. Have in recent. Times, in recent memory. Do you ever remember there being a budget amendment that came forward that promised to pay back a fund? So I've been racking my brain. I've been going through all my. Notes since working for Councilman Monteiro starting in 2012. And I can never write. And I called a. Couple people. Who served as electeds during the Great Recession. No one can remember a proposal. Where we. Take money from a fund but didn't promise to fund it again. How would that work? So thanks for the question. In some ways, that's probably more of a legal question than it is one for me. You are correct. I don't remember a time when we have made that kind of commitment. I think, you know, typically everything has to be subject to a council approval of appropriation. And so it would have to be considered on a year by year basis based on our financial condition. So I don't remember ever being in a in a bill before. Certainly, I think there have been conversations in the past about a number of different things where there might be a priority identified, that there have been commitments to figuring out ways to get to that funding. But I think you're correct. I don't remember seeing it in a in a bill per se before. Thank you. And then one other question. Remind me just of the process. So do did. City council always. Propose to the mayor here where we should get funding for our amendments from? What funds. Does is. That historically what happens? So another good question and I would separate out the two processes, the informal process that comes with requests that come in the letter to the mayor and then the formal budget amendment process, which which starts now as part of the budget being in front of Council for Public Hearing and action. In the case of the request letter, it has been it's been something that's been talked about every year. I think we have always encouraged council members to think about what sources it might come from, but it has not been provided every year. It's it has depended on the council, I think probably depended on the economic condition. But many times it has been that requests come in and sort of say, use your judgment where these dollars would come from. Certainly when you were in the formal budget amendment process, you would have to identify that source, which means that you are addressing both the the new funding you want to create and what you think should be reduced. As part of trying to have a collaborative process. It is always helpful to have those discussions and those suggestions put forward, but it's not a requirement in that budget request letter. So it has varied over the years. Sometimes we have had sources identified or suggested and sometimes we have not. And in that same way, sometimes the mayor has taken those suggestions and sometimes he has not. Okay. Thank you, guys. For those. Questions. So I just want to say. This one, is it? It's challenging to have a discussion. I know, Councilman Quinn, that you didn't have the opportunity to. Push this through. Committee. It's challenging to have direct files come. And I don't think that you did this to hide anything. It just was the time crunch that we always find ourselves in right now. Some public comment was made that we you were attempted to do this to hide something. And I don't think that and I think your intent was to be fiscally responsible. And you saw this as a fund. So with that, I'll just continue listening to my colleagues. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Sandoval. Councilman Flynn, we've got you back up. And then I don't think we have heard from Councilwoman Sawyer yet tonight. In this conversation. So I wanted to ask Councilwoman Flynn if it's okay if I bounce over to Councilman Sawyer. All right. Thank you. Go ahead, Councilwoman. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Sorry. I was, like, shouting to my family to turn on the TV in the background, working and working from home. Sorry about that. Thanks, Madam President. I really appreciate this conversation. With all of my council members and very much appreciate Councilman Flynn's position. I think it was thoughtful and I certainly think it came from the right place. I have said many times I did not support this. I did not support the Fair Elections Fund because I have a lot of concerns about Citizens United. And I don't I don't know that a fair elections fund without the federal government addressing Citizens United. And that decision makes sense because, frankly, until soft side spending in elections is addressed, it doesn't necessarily do any good to fix this side, to fix the hard side. That said, the voters have spoken. And I think, you know, when 71% of people in Denver say that they want something, it is not fair for us to necessarily, you know, change that, particularly in its first year. And, you know, maybe if we had more information, maybe if we had historical data to pull from, then I would be willing to support it. Maybe if it were only one or two priorities that the mayor's response letter had pulled from, then that would be different. But the letter that came, I guess, when I when I agreed to can, you know, sending this in consideration, I didn't expect the letter to come back to us from the mayor's office with almost every single one of our priorities being funded out of the Fair Elections Fund, because in a billion and a half dollar budget, every single one of council's priorities shouldn't have been funded out of the Fair Elections Fund. I think that that put on council an unfair expectation. And and. And put us in a situation where we're having to have this conversation in in the first place at all. And that is not something in a billion and a half dollars and a billion and a half dollar budget that ever should have happened in the first place. So that alone is why I won't be supporting this tonight, because I think we have a billion and a half dollars. We could shake some couch cushions and find money for council's priorities without defunding the Fair Elections Fund that 71% of Denver voters approved in 2018. And I think that it doesn't make sense for us to tap this fund to this extent without further historical data and information to pull from. So I just wanted to put that out there. And thanks so much, Madam President. And. Q Councilman Sawyer. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. I wasn't going to speak again, but I raised my hand only after Councilwoman Kennedy made her remarks. And I want to thank her for for that. It was because of her remarks that I approached the finance office and the mayor's office to see could we figure out a way to replenish the fund after this next budget, which is the worst year we expect? And could we possibly get up to the $2 million that I think Councilman Cashman had asked me to look at? And Councilwoman Kennish also and the 1.5 million replenishment was about the maximum that I could get a commitment from finance to do. They have actually asked for more flexibility and were and if Brendan is listening, there were a little upset when I actually put in the bill that it had to be a half a million in 2022 and 1 million in additional in 2023. And that was the most I could get. So I'm sorry to say, Councilwoman, can you. I don't think it would be possible to get to the commitment for the full 2 million. It might be possible if we have a better recovery than we are currently anticipating. But I do want to thank Madam President, all of all of my colleagues who spoke. It's a really difficult task, and I understand all of your reasons for doing it. None of our votes is is always is clearly black and white. It always requires a lot of thought and nuance. And so I appreciate the reasons everybody stated for whether they're voting yes or no. And that's all I have. Madam President, thank you. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. And I'll go ahead and weigh in here before we do roll call. And so I appreciate how intentional all of you are. We had these same sort of conversations during our televised budget hearings as well into our four days of deliberation. It was transparent. The public knew what we were talking about. And as being the president of council, if I failed on the side of trying to get us to compromise, I'm okay with that because I represent all of you. And that letter was a combination of everybody's ideas, all the work we put together. And far be it from me as the president of council saying to one of my colleagues, Councilman Flynn, I don't think that's going to fly. I'm not for it. I don't think we should put it in the letter. We discussed it at one of our meetings. You know, there were opportunities for folks to edit it and look at it. I think the the greatest disappointment is that. We tried to be partners in this process with the administration. And unfortunately, through sitting through and listening to all of our budget hearings, there was great. Just just. Great allowances taken with utilizing the Fair Election Fund for all of our asks. I mean, we asked for 3 million for the Star Expansion Citizen Oversight Board. That should have been over 91,000. And so, you know, unfortunately, with it being such a difficult budget year, I figured we were going to be in some sort of conversation like this. I just didn't anticipate that there wasn't going to be that back and forth, especially on the items that we intentionally did not list, the Fair Elections Fund, and there was no discussion or other options given to that. We could have put no funding source in our letter, and it still could have come back with utilize the Fair Elections Fund or you're just not going to get any of these assets. And so I wanted to note kind of the history as I saw it and what we did. And and honestly, there was no nothing nefarious around us putting something in Last-Minute or Councilman Flynn trying to slide something by. I mean, we need to look at every single option out there to address what we have been hearing from our constituents since March. And that is the true intent. And for. No conversation to be had. To clarify, are you saying 3 million total for 2021 or is your ask 3 million? There was no back and forth and to be tone deaf to the public around wanting to have more investment in the community from a safety and quite frankly, from an anti-racist anti oppression lens. How we're looking at safety. We've got to look at where we're going to pull those funds and be responsive to what our constituents and community have been telling us. And I look forward to working with you all during this week to figure out how we can make that happen when we get back together at Council on the seconds to look at finalizing the 2021 proposed budget. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. See the bucket? No. Clark. I. When I. Herndon. I. Huh? No. Cashman? No. Kenny. Ask Ortega? Yes. In? Never, no. So we're. Now. Tory. No. Black. Yes. Can we? Now. Madam President? No, Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. Five eyes, eight made. Five Eyes, Eight Nays Council Bill 1194 has failed. That concludes the items to be called out. All other bills for introduction are or published. Council members. Remember, this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote I. Otherwise, this is your last chance to call out an item for a separate vote. Councilmember Torres, would you please put the resolutions for adoption and bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? A move that resolutions be adopted and bills on final consideration be placed upon final consideration and do pass in the Bloc for the following items. 20 Dash 1108 20 Dash 1109 20 Dash ten 8520 Dash 1107 20. Dash 11 6320. Dash 905 20. Dash 1113. 20 209 3120 Dash ten 8020 Dash 11 1122 Dash 1058 2010 5420. Dash ten 7320. Dash 1050 and 20. Dash 1051. It has been moved and second to. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. I see the bouquet. By. The car. My friend. I. Herndon. I. Hi. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Can each. I like. Ortega. I see all. I. Sawyer. I. Correct. I. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 3913 Eyes. The resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass the pre recess announcement. 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Recommendation to receive and file a report from Public Works providing an update on street sweeping; and, provide input and policy direction to staff on next-step strategies on street sweeping as it relates to the Safer-at-Home Public Health Order. (Citywide)

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Thank you. We now have our last item, which is item number 23. I think we got all the rest. Item 23, please. Report from Public Works recommendation to receive and file a report from Public Works providing an update on street sweeping and provide input on policy direction to staff on next steps strategies on street sweeping as it relates to the safer at home public health order citywide. Thank you. I know that there's a I have a couple of requests for to get a staff report. Mr. Murdoch, can you give a short report? Yes. Public works to give a short report. You may, may remember city council. We wanted to come back before you and provide a brief update on where we're at with our Clean Streets program. And more specifically, talk about numbers related to the amount of fines and request for. Dismissal of those. Citations with those numbers. Deacon Oconee And we'll go through the data. Thank you, Mr. Beck. On May 19, the City Council approved the staff to begin issuing street sweeping citations as part of our Clean Streets program come May 18th. On May 19th, the City Council provided discretion to the city manager to offer one time dismissals for those people who are experiencing COVID hardship. And I'd like to go over a little bit of the data prior to writing citations. During the weeks of May four and May 11th, staff issued over 84,000 warning fliers to people who had parked in violation of the street. Sweeping restrictions. Posted street sweeping restrictions. The first two weeks we issued citations, we issued about 14,700 citations the week of May 4th and May 11th. There was an ongoing decrease. So in the first week there was about 8500 and the next week was about 6000. So we saw a decrease. The first week of June, we saw a further decrease to somewhere around the 4000 number. And so we continue to see that the education that's been put out there seems to be taking effect. So far, we've as of this morning, we've had 994 requests for dismissal of the site due to COVID 19 hardship. It's probably important to note we have noticed an increase in the amount of debris that we typically collect. Also, we want to mention that in addition to the two, the dismissals for the one time dismissals for hardship, we still offer a couple of different payment plans to assist those who continue to have difficulty paying for these sites. We have gone from from a very difficult sweeping operation in that some routes were only 10 to 15%, availability to sweep to around 90%. So we're getting good compliance and we will continue to provide education on this issue. Thanks. Thank you. Uh, I got some more supernova. Oh, thank you, Mayor. I think the first order of business might be to congratulate Craig back on his retirement. I think that was announced publicly today. So, Craig, I know you'll miss these meetings, but have agree. Um, and our last meeting with us came up. I was prepared to ask for an extension of the moratorium and we went a little different direction and that was non notification of the DMV. Um, for collection on, on fines. What I learned subsequent to that meeting was that that never happened and that's why we were not able to suspend that policy. So tonight I am prepared to make a motion to ask for. Either an extension of the moratorium. That would be for the next three and a half weeks. It would go till July 5th, and that would actually put us in alignment with the city of L.A.. That's how long the moratorium is lasting. Um, in lieu of that, I guess it would be an extension of the forgiveness policy that is extend. Um, you know, the what we have 994 requests. Something of this nature just to alleviate the pain here. So if that can be, uh, my motion, if that's understood, and I'd like to make that much. Councilmember. I'm going to ask Craig back to talk a little bit about I think you provided two different options there, and we'd like to give a couple comments on those. Councilmember, if I understand kind of your goal here, it is to try to align what beach practices with what L.A. City might be doing. And I know L.A. is looking at providing some forgiveness opportunity through the month of June. Since this year, we have a holiday on the 4th of July, I think, aligning it with maybe July 6th. So we would start we would give you a notice through the end of this month and initiate on a monday, which I believe is July six. And what your what I believe you're requesting is that we would extend the opportunity to dismiss tickets and potentially expand that over the course of this time beyond one forgiveness per request. Is that what we are understanding? Yes. And it wasn't the goal wasn't to align with L.A. I'm just saying that that that's a practice that's happening out there. So we would it wouldn't be something out of the ordinary we were doing. And the way the way I'm understanding it also and I have a I have a second tier motion counts and were super not covered by councilmembers and they asked. But I want to clarify also, I think that the the staff suggestion would be that we would take the second requested council member supernova, which is to extend the opportunity for residents to get their tickets dismissed through that 4th of July weekend that there's more opportunity for residents. I think that was that would be staff's suggestion. From what I understand it, that's another reason. It's one of the two options, Councilmember, that's amenable to you and and amenable to the second year of your motion. Yes, it is. So let's just be very clear on the date. So it would start back up on I have the date, the six. But if the parents of the given. Or it would end on Sunday the fifth. It would start back up on a monday, the sixth. Right. The forgiveness would end on. The forgiveness would end on Monday the sixth. Is that right, Mr. Beck? Mayor. That's correct. That would take. Us through the July 4th. Holiday. We don't sweep streets on Saturday or Sunday. So we would we would begin again Monday morning, which is July six. So all dismissals would be over. Basically the July 4th holiday. And councilman and they asked, do you second that motion? I do. Okay, great. Well, thank you for that, Councilmember. I think that's a good relief for the community. Let's go. Have to go. May, I just wanted to say one quick thing. Sure. Oh, we move on. I just wanted to say thank you to Craig Beck, who was an enormous help on on Monday morning and just getting everything together. Thank you so much. Thank you. Craig Beck for your 34 years of service for this city. And we're going to miss you greatly. But you've left some great, great big shoes to fill. And you've also left the city in much, much better conditions than it was when you first came in. So I absolutely want to thank you for all your service. And we'll still all get harassed. So you're back for, I think, a few more weeks on the council. So you have more reports to give as well. So you ain't leaving yet. Craig We still got you for a little bit. So let's go to the street. Councilman Richardson, I'm sorry. Did you have something? I know. We'll have an opportunity. My kids are beaten down the door. I know, I know. We'll have an opportunity to address Craig more formally, but I just have to say, man. We got the Highland Park Community Center done before you go. I appreciate you, man. We got to get that thing open. It's beautiful. It's incredible. I really want to just just cap off your career with the city with this really tangible. You know, we got it done before the building turns 100. So so thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And look forward to recognizing. Great. Thank you. Councilmember with that will do a roll call vote. District one. I am. District two. I. District three. I. District four. I District five. I want. District six. Oh. District seven. I. District eight. I. District nine. I know she cares. Great. Thank you. That concludes where I was two weeks worth of of agenda in one week. So I just want to thank the entire city council for, I know, a long night and a very important one and the community as well. And so with that, I don't see anyone keyed up for any new business. So with that, we will conclude the council meeting and we will adjourn. Thank you.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into a Reimbursement Agreement, and any subsequent amendments, with the Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), to reimburse the Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) $30,870, to provide a Junior Lifeguard Preparatory Course at Cabrillo and Jordan High Schools for LBUSD students, from February 3, 2020 through June 30, 2020; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into a Reimbursement Agreement, and any subsequent amendments, with the LBUSD to reimburse LBFD $26,750 for tuition for LBUSD students to participate in the summer Long Beach Junior Lifeguard Program, from July 6 through August 14, 2020; and Increase appropriations in the Tidelands Operating Fund Group in the Fire Department by $57,620, offset by reimbursement revenue. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Now for item nine and 17, councilman. Awesome. Can you please chair the council meeting? I will be accusing myself of both of these items, asking that school district is my employee. And after those, thank you very much. Okay, Counsel, we will take item number nine, hoping to read the item. Work from fire recommendation to enter into a reimbursement agreement with LBE USD to reimburse the Long Beach Fire Department $30,870 to provide a junior lifeguard preparatory course citywide. Is there a motion to have a motion from Councilmember Craig? Do you have the can you read the who? Who was the motion? Who made the motion? And the second on the timer. Councilmember Austin. I made the request all the way through. You can comment on it as well. No, no, I will. Councilmember, did you make the motion? No concern replaced in that time. Councilmember Orson, let's have Councilmember Rank as the maker of the motion, all seconded. I just wanted to comment on it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Price. And thank you all, Councilmember, also for allowing me this opportunity to speak on the title. As you know, our youth is very important to us, and this program has one of those benefits that we always look for in a community program. It's been a great partnership that the city has had with Longmont Unified School District in regards to its Junior Lifeguard program and especially the program as it has grown in the last couple of years. It has grown to the extent that many of the kids that are being recruited and who participate in the program come from our most communities and need our disenfranchizes and are just going to the communities in West Langley and Moorestown as well. So many of the kids come from Cabrillo High School, which is in my district and Silverado Park, and understand that there's also a bus goes around. It picks up kids from other schools who are interested in participating in junior lifeguards, specifically during high school walk in the water. So I want to thank the school district for its partnership with the city of Long Beach and working together and getting this program going. It's a great opportunity for kids to learn about lifesaving. It provides an opportunity for them to look at a career path that will eventually lead not only to a great paying job as a as a lifeguard, but to other life, other great benefits that it has for people as you grow up and become a community members. So with that, I want to thank the city and leadership for working together. I hope that this program continues to grow. It's my understanding that there is the Marine safety officer that manages this program, and I hope that that position will stay active from here on out. Not only this year, but a years is very important that we keep this program going for not only the future of our kids, but the future of our beaches as well. And, of course, the commissioner, I really see this as an opportunity as well for people to really get to enjoy the beach or to feel safe. With that, I pass it to Councilmember Price. Thank you. Councilman Austin, thank you very much. I want to echo Councilmember Romney's comments this. My children have participated in this program for a number of years. I think we've been a junior guard family for a decade now and still going. The program is phenomenal and I did not think the program could get better. But when Chief Medina Deputy Chief Medina took over as deputy chief, he instituted some changes into the program that I think have actually made it so much more representative of our city and the diversity of our city. The program with Long Beach Unified allows kids who maybe didn't grow up swimming, maybe didn't learn that skill early enough in life to qualify for the junior guard's program, to now have a path forward. It gives everybody an opportunity to have a path forward to get into the program. And the qualifying test is no longer such a huge burden that kids shy away from the program because they don't think they're going to pass the qualifying test. And Chief Medina has created a mechanism to get all kids in the city if they're interested in this program, like he was when he was a youth in the city . The opportunity to do so and I very much value the program. I love that we have a partnership with Long Beach Unified School District. And I think throughout these budget discussions, I'm going to be highlighting the work of our lifeguards and the work of this program, because I think they are a group who are you know, they're very subtle in their approach and in terms of advocacy. But the work that they do to save lives every day and the rescues that they do every single day and the work that they do to teach the youth that are in the program, including my own children, skills about respect, skills about life saving, skills, about being members of the community and following rules. Those are life lessons that I think our children are going to have with them forever. And I'm so grateful because this is one of the few programs that are available for youth in the third district. And I'm so grateful for this program because it's it's really a fantastic program. And I, I cannot say anything more than Councilmember Wrongheaded about the benefits of it because it's bringing in youth from all over the city. So I wanted to highlight this program, as did Councilman Ranga, and just share with everyone that this is a tremendous program. We should be looking at every which way we can to support the growth of this program, not stifle it or make it idle because. Thank you. Any other comments from the council? Councilmember Richardson here. Yes, go ahead. Thank you. I don't want to chime in. I've been following in this pilot program for some time now. I want to acknowledge the fire department. School board member Megan Carr, who have really worked with us to make sure that the North, Long Beach, Jordan high school kids get access to this. I got to say, this is you know, we've talked for a very long time about it is to connect our coastline to our communities and uptown. And it's really been a promise that we haven't been able to figure out how to meet in our city. But this is a good program and a great career pathways and additional opportunities in an area and a zip code that more youth than any other zip code in the city by proportion and by round number. So I'm supportive of this program. I think it's a strategy toward helping diversify our police, our fire department, and and I look forward to supporting this program moving forward. So I'm happy to add my voice, my support to this this program. Thanks. And thank you for those comments. Any other comments from the council? Council members. This is Mary. Just wondering, are we using the Q in system? Because I was there, but I'm not sure if you are able to see it. But I want you to say thank you to both of these. Both. Long Beach Unified School District and and our department. Fire Department. This is a great things come out of programs like this that found in the opportunity for our youth to be able to have such a valuable experience is is very mended. So I to support this and this item going forward. Thank you. And thank you. And I will just say that. No, I don't have a Q. Beyond that. So at this point, I'll just add my words to this. I think this is I agree with everything that has been said by my colleagues, but I also think this is an amazing example of joint use agreements and partnerships with the school district. And I see this, this opportunity expanding work and so great work by everybody involved in this. I'm going to let the public comment on this. I'm. No public comment on this item. Harry. None quite complete, although. Well. From District one. All right. District two, I, District three, I, district four. I. District five. I. District six. I'll put it over to District seven. I District eight. District nine. I. Ocean carries.

A RESOLUTION approving a Memorandum of Agreement with Seattle Pacific University regarding the establishment, composition, and rules for a Citizens Advisory Committee for preparation of a Major Institution Master Plan for Seattle Pacific University.

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Agenda item for resolution 31958 Approving Memorandum of Agreement with Seattle Pacific University regarding the establishment of Composition and Roles for Citizens Advisory Committee for Preparation of a Master Institution. Master Plan for Seattle Pacific University. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I will move to adopt resolution 381958. Is there a second? Okay. Thank you so much. It's been moved and seconded by Councilmember Strauss, a sponsor of the resolution. You're recognized in order to address the item. Thank you. Council President. Agenda item number four, which is Resolution 3198, approving a memorandum of understanding subsequent to the resolution. This resolution is an early step in this process for applying for new media institutions back to the city. Once a major institution informs the city of its intent to complete a new master plan. They're required to form Citizens Advisory Board or Advisory Committee in consultation with the Department of Neighborhoods. This resolution approves the new memorandum of Understanding with South Pacific University to establish its Citizens Advisory Committee and its membership. The membership of the committee has been recommended for approval by Department of Neighborhoods and has already been done informally because these masterplans are quasi judicial in nature. We should not be discussing the merits or demerits of the masterplans themselves. Rather instead, keep conversation limited to the memorandum of understanding or agreement up before us. Read this again on the subject of the judicial process. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss, are there any comments on the resolution? Hearing. Man Will the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the resolution? Morales. Yes. Mosquera. Yes. Peterson. Yes. Silent. Yes. Strauss. Yes. LEWIS Yes. HERBOLD Yes. Council President Gonzalez? Yes. Eight in favor, nine oppose. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it and ask that the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation. Agenda Item four. Will the clerk please read item? I'm sorry. Five. Well, the clerk please read item five into the record.

Adoption of Resolutions Appointing Laura Giuntini as a Member of the Public Utilities Board; and Appointing Daniel Davenport and Reappointing Mark Sorensen as Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board.

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Do we have a motion? So moved. Second. In the comments. Welcome aboard. All the favor. My motion passes unanimously. Yes. Thank you very much for stepping up on this. You have to. All right. Mark said he was right. They should be. Are they? They're meeting actually down the hall. So can someone go get a beer? We'll be swearing in three. And I'll just take a moment to get the other two here who are meeting down the hall. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We're going to take a short recess. Thank you. We are. Renmark. And. Now let's take a short recess till we get everyone here. Oh. Look at that. If we get ahead of the curve. Thank you. So we're now going to resume. Okay. That was our short, brief recess. If you all again, do solemnly swear to uphold the of. But enter. Okay. And then. You'll find that that's. Your. Yeah, I think. Yeah. Okay. I think. Okay. We're going to resume now. Congratulations. Appreciate you all coming out and watching to take it back. Now we're going to be doing six c. Update and follow up on Harbor SEAL haul out. Memorandum of Understanding between the city of Alameda and the water emergency transportation authority at alameda point.

Order for a hearing regarding allocating ARPA funds to a homeownership voucher program. On motion of Councilors Worrell and Flaherty, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilor Bok as a co-sponsor.

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05120512. Councilors were all in clarity after the following order for a hearing regarding allocating ARPA funds to a homeownership voucher program. The chair recognizes counsel. Earl. Counsel. Earl. You have the floor. Thank you. President Flint. Can I suspend Route 12 and add. Councilor Bach as. A original co-sponsor? Yes. Having heard no objections, please add counsel advocate as an original co-sponsor. You have the full council rule. Thank you. And thank you to my co-sponsors, Councilor Flaherty and Council. BLOCK As the African thought leader once said, people are not fighting for ideas. The things that anyone said they are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. We have watched thousands of longtime residents leave Boston because of the rising cost of housing. Our neighbors, who have called Boston home for decades, cannot afford to purchase a home in their hometown and struggle to keep up with the rising costs of rent through the federal Section eight voucher program. We are able to subsidize rent and voucher holders are able to use their vouchers to purchase a home. In addition to expanding Section eight vouchers. We as a city can create our own voucher program. I'm a B, a little bit creative, and I came up with a name for it, but it's called the Boston Priority Housing Voucher , where we have the. Flexibility to define who. Is eligible for the assistance and would be able to create equity applicants like we have done in other programs. This is an opportunity to bring much needed housing assistance to long term Boston residents who are stuck in the middle. I've come across many of our neighbors who make too much to qualify for housing assistance but do not earn enough to purchase a home by layering relief. We will provide our neighbors with a clear path to the middle class as interest rates go up. Borrowing requirements will become more strict to increase homebuyers buying power. It would take more than just down payment assistance. If we are serious about homeownership, let's put Bostonians in the best positions to purchase and make Boston their permanent home and to continue on with Councilor Baker's analogy. Imagine, imagine going to Vegas, rolling the dice, being able to buy everyone in the city of Boston the home. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. All the chair recognizes counsel. Clarity. Counsel, clarity. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. That sounds like a chicken in every pot. So. But I want to obviously want to thank the the the lead sponsor for his leadership and partnership. We've been back and forth on this over the last couple of weeks, just trying to pull things together. And I just think it's important to note that our rental and homeownership markets are extremely competitive and are among the most expensive in the United States. And parallel to that is the cost of living in Boston has increased steeply over the last decade. Everybody in this room has heard from a constituent, a friend and neighbor on this issue. And all of us know long term residents and families that are being forced out of the city, a city that they know they love, a neighborhood they love, and to grow up with because they can't meet that. That's that financial crunch. And so I know it's a serious problem. We're quickly becoming the city of the very rich and the very poor. And interesting to note, at a hearing last night, my team and I heard from a landlord that rents to folks in his neighborhood at a well below market rate. And I know he's not alone. It's not an overabundance of it. But there are a lot of small landlords that rent to to their neighbors. And and that happens across the city. However, these landlords are starting now to express their own distress at rising costs in our city, whether it's property tax, maintenance and repair of those properties , and then now having to make decisions as to whether they can continue to do that and and continue to provide below market rents in light of the increasing cost. And and now they're starting to grapple with having to increase those rents so that they don't find themselves going into a hole. This dynamic, it's separate from sort of the focus of this hearing. But I raise it because I think it's important because we do have to stop bullying the small lenders. If they stop doing that, that's only going to sort of further exacerbate the crunch for affordable rental opportunities that give renters a chance to to stay in their communities. And so home homeownership is is the best way to build equity and generational wealth in Boston. That goal is becoming further and further out of reach. And I want to note that the the one plus Boston mortgage program, it works and it's making a difference. Not enough of our lending institutions are participating, and that's a whole other issue that we can address. But I think it's important to note that that program is an incredible program that helps income eligible first time buyers gain buying power in the market. And I think that this is sort of what we were getting at and obviously leaning into this with the lead sponsor and obviously in council box experience here providing direct cash for assistance to fund this to 2 to 4 income eligible first time homebuyers, whether that's cash for down payments, whether that's a cash for it to help with the closing cost, that could be cash to bridge a loan will make the difference between someone getting in a home and or not getting an A home. And so I think that's sort of the spirit of what we're looking to do here. I look forward to a robust discussion about this. Welcome. Any additional ideas and feedback. But we talked at length about the Section eight voucher. And is there another opportunity? Is there another voucher out there that can again, sort of close those those gaps when it comes to homeownership? And and I think that this may be the answer to that. So look forward to working with the lead sponsor and the co-sponsor and all my colleagues to try to make this a reality. No, no different game changer. Nothing will do a better job of creating generational wealth than a person owning their own home. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, counsel. Clarity. The Chair recognizes counsel for counsel. You have the floor. Thank you so much, Mr. President. And this is another thing that I'm excited to have come to the Code Recovery Committee and be part of our conversation there, because I think it's exciting that the administration is proposing in their proposal to have the most money going to affordable homeownership than that we've ever done in the city. But I think that when I talk to colleagues on the council and there are so many advocates of homeownership that I'm hesitant to start naming them, but Councilor Louis Jen, Councilor Fernandes, Anderson, Councilor Brady, I mean, we talk about these all the time. And I think part of what I've heard coming from Councilor Warrell is whatever we do for affordable homeownership, we've got to make sure that it's actually hitting the right people, that programs are actually that the folks who we all talk to, who we know need them, that especially they are first time homebuyers of color and first generation Omar, that these are actually the programs that serve that group and fit that middle. And so I think there's been a bunch of interesting suggestions proposed on the affordable homeownership. Run by councilors. Councilor Royle's proposal is that it's the one that's before us today. I think the idea of really putting those side by side with what the Mayor's Office of Housing is thinking and really drilling down and making sure that homeownership money is well targeted to hit that missing middle and keep folks in the city is a really important role for this council. So I'm looking forward to being able to have this conversation side by side about that funding allocation. So thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Councilor Borg. The Chair recognizes Councilor Braden. And Councilor Braden, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to also thank the world for taking this initiative and bringing this forward. Homeownership, someone mentioned recently, is the most reliable way to control your rent because you have a if you have a 30 year mortgage, you can predict your housing costs for the city in the way out. And it's it's a way to build generational wealth. Sadly, we are seeing our neighborhoods been impacted by folks who've grown up in the neighborhoods. Even folks who've had their families have owned a home in the neighborhoods. The next generation cannot see a future in which they will be homeowners in our city and in many of our immigrant community are leaving the city because their rents are just sort of unaffordable in relation to their earning capacity, that they're relocating to other other cities and are further out like Brockton and Framingham, etc.. So one of the big issues that we're faced with, a lot of potential folks who want to buy a home are competing with investors who come into our neighborhoods with $1,000,000 in cash and put the money down before the house. Can even the two family home that come even come onto the market and then they rent out those homes, those two family and three family homes, $1,000 a bedroom, that's those. And that's generating $55,000 a month from a from a unit in a two family home. Working families can't afford that housing. Folks work together. Young professionals or students can group together and pay up. But this is a totally unsustainable way to go for housing going forward. So not only do we need to think about this type of a voucher program to help homeowners folks get into the homeownership and and have a home have a home to build generational wealth. But I also think we need to really seriously look at the mechanisms to try and disincentivize this speculative investment that is driving families out of our city. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Braeden, the chair, recognizes Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Councilor Fernandez Anderson, do you have the floor? I think this is an amazing idea, right. Especially since I file something extremely similar to it. So I'm wondering in how we can work together to merge the two so that we can make it work. I think there's room for us to do work together. And so if I file something and this looks super similar, then we should work together. And I'm wondering then if how how we create the space to do that same points using using alternative ways to create home ownership, especially with low aims, qualifying them through different vouchers assistance programs. Same point. So I just I just think that great minds think alike. I appreciate you, Brian, and I respect you. I think we have we want to fight on the same side. And I want to work with you and see how we can merge the two ideas. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter or add their name? If you please, Regi. Raise your hand, Mr. Carr. Squeeze out Council of Royal Councilor Baker, Councilor Braden, Councilor Fernandez, Innocent Council Ora Councilors and Council on the Here Council. Council and the Chair. Dark 0511 will be referred to the Committee on Boston's COVID 19 recovery. Mr. Clerk, please. Re Docket. 05130513. Counsel is me here, and Laura offered the following resolution in support of the Out of Hospital Birth Access and Safe Act. 2341 The Senate 1519 in recognizing Black Maternal Health Week in the city of Boston.

A proclamation honoring Wallace M. "Wally" Ginn for his public service and declaring October 1 as Wally Ginn Day.

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Whereas the City Council of Denver wishes to recognize Wallace and Wally again for his service to the citizens of the city and county of Denver, Denver's North High School, and the citizens of North Denver. And. Whereas, Wally's first Wally, first citizen of North Denver, died at age 90 on August 21st, 2016. And. WHEREAS, Wally, a Denver native, graduated from Denver's North High School and after graduating from the University of Denver, taught in the Denver public school system. And. Whereas, Wally had a lifelong dedication to education, and in particular, a commitment to furthering the education and literacy of students in the Denver Public School system and his alma mater. And. Whereas, Wally was a crucial founder of the Northside High School Alumni Association and its superb North Side High School Alumni Center, which contains an outstanding collection of records and memorabilia of alumni, faculty and staff of North High School, as well as that of its citizens, businesses and organizations of North Denver. And. Whereas, Wally was intimately involved in and advocated for renovation of the 1911 Northside High School, calling attention to its architectural treasures. And. Whereas, Wally was a moving force in preserving the Golden Lion House. And. WHEREAS, Wally was an instrument was instrumental in establishing the Northside High School Alumni Scholarship Fund, which currently awards 26 scholarships annually to graduates of North High School. And whereas, Wally was involved involved in and numerous civic activities benefiting the citizens of North Denver and in doing so displayed the ability to be an advocate while remaining friends with one and all. And. Whereas, Wally was affectionately known as Mr. North High School to the citizens of North Denver. Now, therefore, it be proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver that Wallace City and Council County of Denver are sorry that the Council of the City. Actually, I need to read the section one to make it official. Section one that the Council of the City and County of Denver to acknowledge Wallace and Wally Guinn for his public service, declares Saturday, October 1st, as Wally again day in Section two that the city, the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall test, in effect, the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to the Northside High School Alumni Association. Thank you. Your motion to adopt Councilman Espinoza. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation. 859859 be adopted. All right. It has been moved and seconded. Comments from members of council. Espinosa. Yeah, I'm a. I just wanted to know. I mean, let people know. I have some comments, but I don't know. I don't want to overlap with the people that will be receiving the comment, I mean, the proclamation. So I'd like to follow up, but I do want to say that this Saturday, October 1st at 930 to 1130 at North High, the North High Alumni Association will be holding a celebration of all Higgins life at North High School. That's 2960 North Speer Boulevard. And there's a wonderful ride up in the North Denver Tribune and some other stuff available on Facebook that really if you if you don't if you don't know all, you really should find out about it. The library is named after his family at North High School, and I am one of those guys. I'm an import to North Denver, but I had the pleasure of campaigning. And Wally is a figure that you you without a doubt have to meet. And in the short my short experience with him, I can see by members of this that are in the audience today and other people that I have met through Wally, that he has had a tremendous and profound effect and position in our community, and it's been a real pleasure. In the short time that I got to be quite envious of you all for having it had been for having known him for for far longer than I did. It's a real loss for North Denver. Thank. Thank you, Councilman Espinosa. Seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary. Raquel Espinosa. I Flynn. I Gilmore. I. Herndon. I caution. I can eat. I Lopez II Ortega. I Susman. I black. I Clark. I Mr. President. I Please close the voting or announce results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes. Proclamation. 859 passes. Councilman Espinosa, do you have anybody you would like to bring up? Yes. To receive the proclamation, I'd like to call up members of the Northside High School Alumni Association. And not all are here, but Joe DeRose, Dan Scribner, Gail Marcus, Donna Lucero, Dave Parks, Mary Reynolds, Larry Tanenbaum and Isaac Solano and as well as the the principal at North Scott to receive the proclamation. Good evening. As we accept this with such gratitude and. Are just so thankful on behalf of the entire North High School. Community, my name is Scott Wolf. I'm the principal. I also live in the community. And when I started at the school four years ago, the first person I was told. I needed to talk to was Wally. Wally lives within the walls of North High School. He breathes North High School. He is the reason why North High School is what it is today, why we have. Made such tremendous growth and progress. As many of you know. North High School couldn't be what it is without our alumni. And he helped to be the father and the champion of all of that work with the scholarships that our students receive. They would not have the opportunities in college that they have without. That. To the instruction that our teachers are able to provide. With the involvement of the alumni. He was the one that really was the catalyst for. All of that energy. And enthusiasm and brought everyone together. There is there's nobody else who has moved north. High schools are the place that it is. The legacy that is north of over 100 years old. Has been carried. Forward by. Wally. And now, you know, his. Legacy will live on within all of us. But just want. To thank you all so, so much. This means a tremendous amount to North High School, but also to the. Entire North Denver community. Hi. Good afternoon. Good evening. Members of the City Council. I'll be very brief. My name is Isaac Solano, resident of City Council, District Number nine. Proud North High alum. I just wanted to thank Councilperson Espinosa and all of his staff for the work that he did in making this proclamation happen. So on behalf of North High School, thank you. I also my name is Jodie Rose. I'd also like to thank. Counsel for. Actually taking the time to do this for Mr.. Again, this is broader than just North High School. He is a graduate of the Class of 1944. That's the D Day class. Within two weeks of graduation. He was drafted and. Sent to the South Pacific, where he served for two years. He taught at Moree. When he got back he came, came back, went to do you. Taught at Maury and then he went back. Overseas, he taught in England for 15 years and in Germany for ten. So then he came back to Denver to retire and he was going to go to Oregon and he fell back in love with the city. And his high school. And it's because of him that we are all here because he started an alumni. Association that actually did exist from 1910 to 1919 and then was gone. His father was a class. Member. Of the. Class of 1919 and remembered. That the alumni did some good for them. And he thought that we ought to repeat that service. And so he enlisted his son, who enlisted the rest of us. And he is really. To be known for one. Thing, intentional acts of kindness. He was the most intentional, kind person I. Have ever had the privilege of knowing. And so it is with great honor that we are up. Here accepting this proclamation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. We have another proclamation this evening and it is proclamation 860. Matt Madam Councilman, Councilman Clark, will you please read proclamation 860?

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; declaring the vacant property located at 8646 45th Ave S. as surplus to the City’s needs; authorizing the sale of said property; authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services to execute all documents for the sale and transfer of the property; reserving a permanent utility easement; placing the property rights and interests conveyed by the utility easement under the jurisdiction of Seattle Public Utilities; and directing how proceeds from the sale shall be distributed.

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Thanks for the clarification. Like anyone else like. I'm just saying, we have to go back. Thank you for that clarification. Okay. Please read. We've held agenda item number one. So please read the report of the Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee. Report the Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee agenda item to cancel all 118 967 relating to the Department of Finance Administrative Services declaring the vacant property located 8646 45th Avenue South, a surplus the city's needs authorizing instead sale of said property authorizing Director of Finance and administrative services to execute all documents for the sale and transfer of the property. Reserving permanent utilities, marketplace and property rights and interest conveyed by the utility has been under the jurisdiction of Seattle Public Utilities and directing lo how the proceeds from the sale shall be distributed. Recommends that the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Burgess. Thank you. This ordinance declares a property a very small piece of property. At 86, 46, 45th Avenue South to be. Surplus to the city's needs and authorizes its sale to the property owner of the adjacent property. This is a small. Strip of land, about. 596 square feet in size. It was part of a large property that the city acquired in 1936 to establish fourth Fifth Avenue South and to install a public sewer line. The adjacent property. Has legal access via an alley in the rear of the property, although they currently use. Daily access across the front of the city owned property. The city evaluated the property for possible city uses recommends that it be declared as surplus to the city. SPU The public utility, will hold an easement to gain access to the property for access to utilities. Committee recommends the adoption of the ordinance. Thank you very much, Councilmember. Any further comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Whereas. O'Brien so want I beg Sharna Burgess. High. Herbold Johnson President Harrell right. Eight in favor not opposed. Thank you. The bill passed and show Senate. Please read items three through seven into the record agenda.

Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution in support of women, LGBTQIA+ and other employees who have filed complaints of harassment by various employees of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and supports the calls for a Joint Legislative Audit Committee.

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Thank you. Item 16, please. Communication from Councilwoman Price. Councilwoman Mango. Councilwoman Sauro. Councilman Austin. Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare a resolution in support of MWD employees filing harassment complaints. Thank you. This is who is the lead author on this. He went second this councilwoman Price. Yes. Councilwoman Price. Yes, please. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, and I'd like to urge my colleagues to support this item. But before I make any of my own comments, I want to say first, is there any public comment on this item? I believe we have some. Madam Clerk. Yes. Our first speaker is Greg O'Shea. In the first District. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Honorable council members. But in this regard, see, I'm the president of the Water Management District Local to that city, and I want to express support for this measure. It goes without saying, given the reason that how difficult the difficulties that public employees face in the areas of sexual harassment and workplace. Discrimination. And I think it would be an expression of respect for the employees of the Metropolitan Water District and for your own employees, for you to take a stand against this sort of behavior and to let them know loud and clear that this will not work. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Daniel De La Cruz. Good evening. Please begin. Yes. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and the city council. My name is Daniel Dela Cruz. I'm a resident of our district for formal ABC Local 3620 President and Current AC 3634 member. I'm here because of the situation that an article came out three weeks ago. An investigation by the L.A. Times revealed a pattern of rampant sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and retaliation at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. This appalling abuse in the workplace must be thoroughly investigated, while the review initiated by the MWD board. OPI and committee is a positive start. M MWD workers need a full comprehensive investigation into any and all misconduct taking place at the MWD. Not a process that is limited in scope and may be inadequate. We cannot allow these severe problems to be quickly swept under the rug. Every worker deserves a fair, safe and equitable workplace. And if incidents of misconduct take place, their stories must be taken seriously. That's why today I'm joining MWD workers in calling for California state auditor to complete their own ideas into the abusive workplace culture at the MWD. Workers need the full comprehensive review into these matters that was promised and is so desperately needed. Abusers and their enablers must be held accountable for their actions. And the MWD must institute structural reforms that increase oversight to ensure reports of misconduct aren't ignored. A state audit is the only way to provide justice for these workers and to ensure this type of abuse never happens again. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Gina Chavez. Believe me, Mayor Garcia. Oh, I'm sorry. Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Okay. Good evening, Mayor Christian Council members. My name is Gina Chavez and I'm a plant mechanic at Metropolitan Water District. I'm also the first woman and first Native American Hispanic graduate from the Apprenticeship Mechanical Program, one of two women still working in their field at MWD. And more recently, I'm one of the women who have come forward in the two 1221 LA Times article to speak about the corrosive work environment under MWD Executive Management. I'm speaking to item number 16 and continuing from Ellen Mackey's written comments. MWD cannot continue to waste ratepayers money on abusive management. Further background In November 2020, the Women's Caucus, together with three board members Sylvia Belen, Charles Trevino and Don Ortega, strongly requested an independent outside investigation of a culture of abuse at MWD. Not only the desert, but all the facilities. We specifically stipulated a thorough, full investigation that ranged freely to include every witness and issue raised since then. Not only were Trevino and Ortega removed, it seems this investigation itself has been compromised through interference from MWD board chair and MWD executive management. We are requesting this Council send a message to the MWD board that you, number one, support an independent outside investigation that is uncompromised and without interference. Two, to support the request for a state audit which complements the independent investigation. And three, support the SB 331 that nullifies nondisclosure agreements which silences MWD victims. As MWD faces the selection of a new general manager and increased legislative scrutiny due to the workplace abuses, it is critical that Long Beach is informed regarding these issues. Abusers and their enablers must be held accountable for their actions, and MWD must insist to structural reform that increases oversight to ensure reports of this context are not ignored. A state audit is the only way to provide justice for workers workers like me to ensure this type of abuse never happens again. We thank Council member Suzy Price and the rest of the Long Beach Council, city or City Council members to move and support Resolution 20 10167. In addition, I invite you to listen to an interview with Claudia Stamper on the KUCI Assa Leader from two 2321, and you'll hear more about her experiences firsthand. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. Let me go ahead and go back to the council. I have council member Austin. Actually, Mr. Mayor. Can I say I wanted to reserve my comments till after public comment? Can I say a few words as a start? Thank you. Thank you. So much. I think we'll go to Councilman Price and we've go to Councilman. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. So as many well, most of the council members know now and members of the public who may not know, there have been recent reports, substantiated allegations by female and LGBTQ plus employees who are working in nontraditional female jobs of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California regarding allegations of workplace harassment and bullying. The incidents have been highlighted in recent L.A. Times news articles, as well as discussed by Assembly members and state senators in our capital. Unfortunately, sexual harassment in the workplace and especially in the construction and building trade environments is well known and often reported reality. There are numerous white papers that have surveyed women in nontraditional roles and the experiences that they have that prohibit them from thriving in those environments. The reason this issue is important to me and why I've brought it forward is because what these women are requesting and again, several of the allegations have been substantiated. So this isn't at this point an issue of he said she said, but rather substantiated allegations that these employees really want to have a fair process in adjudicating. And that's really what I support. I very much support and ask my council colleagues to support a resolution that offers these workers, as we would want for any workers in any environment that's public serving, to provide a fair process that's objective and not designed to reach a particular conclusion. I know that the state legislatures who have weighed in on this issue have recommended that the Joint Legislative Audit Committee provide an oversight or a review of this particular issue in order to provide a fair process to the people who have been harassed and bullied and have raised those concerns. Now, I just want to make one thing very clear, and I know those who read the agenda items read this. I don't want to really repeat it to them. But just to be clear, this agenda item does not seek to interfere in any manner with the operations of MWD. It's not the role of the Long Beach City Council to tell another entity or another operation how to run its practices. But and nor does this resolution seek to prejudge the veracity of the allegations of bullying or sexual harassment or workplace discrimination. It doesn't even serve to render an opinion on whether any wrongdoing occurred. The purpose of the resolution is simply to demonstrate that the Long Beach City Council stands in support of and with the women and LGBTQIA plus employees who worked in these nontraditional roles and serve the public through their service, in their desire to receive a fair process and a thorough consideration of their allegations and concerns. We stand in support of their ask and their passion for having a fair process in which to voice their story and be able to have some spotlight on what they experience and that hope that that objective overview will result in a positive impact for these individuals as well as for the organization. So I ask my colleagues to please support this item. Thank you, Councilman Austin. I thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to thank Councilmember Price for bringing forward this item and it really articulating why it's so important for us to support this. This request requesting a resolution in support of an intimate pendant audit at MWD, I think as Meredith. I am very disturbed and concerned by the recent press reports regarding complaints being really not fully investigated or that the feeling of that employees, that these complaints are not being fully investigated. These are are women who work in nontraditional work environments. When you say nontraditional work environments to understand where the Metropolitan Water District work environments are, the work sites are, they are in some of the most obscure places in our state. And that should be taken into consideration in places that are not easily accessible or or at all. And at this this city council has a strong history of supporting workers, women workers in distress and experienced in abusive work environments. These are very serious allegations based in the Metropolitan Water District that our city should take very seriously as well. And so I am happy to support this, I think. Thank you. Next up is on the kill list. Sorry about that. We have councilwoman in the house. Thank you, Mayor. And I am so very grateful to Councilwoman Price for bringing this item today. And these reports of harassment will be far from shocking to most, if not all, of the women listening tonight. And it's important that we voice our commitment as a city to changing that. It is my hope as a unified council and government and city government that we can demonstrate with our words and our actions that we have an obligation to end harassment against women and the LGBTQ community and everyone who has been a victim of mistreatment in the workplace. I have never been a big fan of women in nontraditional roles. And but these are some of the consequences that unintended consequences that happen in these roles, and that shouldn't be. So I'm very, very proud of Councilwoman Price for bringing this item forward. And I hope that the whole council is able to support this item going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. As far as I'm concerned, any job for anybody is intolerable. It should not be tolerated anywhere. Employee. Supporter wouldn't say thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Allen. Thank you, Mayor. And thank you, Councilwoman Pryce and the Cosigners, Austin, Mongo and Ciro for bringing this forward. You know, items like this are just long overdue. And everyone should have, you know, should be working in a safe working environment. And what this resolution does, it sends a clear message that harassment of any kind is unacceptable and it will be investigated and it will not be tolerated. And I completely support this president and this resolution. Thank you, Councilwoman Ciro. You, Mayor. I want to thank Councilmember Price for bringing the item forward and having me join her and as well as the cosigner. You know, I'm just disheartened that even after we've had such strong vocal movement towards against harassment, that not only females but also LGBTQ, I feel class workers face. And so I I've appreciated that, you know, we are taking a stance. And I hope that all of my councilmember colleagues will support the item as well, that we continue to take a stance against sexual harassment in all workplaces and all industries, regardless of where they work. And I also just want to speak that at some point I hope that these roles within as we encourage women to work more in these STEM industries is that they become less of what is described for people as nontraditional roles and that they become traditional as somebody who went on the STEM pathway. I hope that we make it more inviting and that it may make it more inclusive for all genders to be able to work in a way where it doesn't distinguish them from what is traditional or not. So. So I am supportive of this item and thank you very much. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, you know, we're a large city and the region pays attention to the statements that we make. And, you know, this water district, it's a large regional water district. And we again, we're engaged in a number of different regional boards. And I think this makes sense to pass this resolution to state that, you know, this is something that certainly deserves a statewide audit. And, you know, the things accused the things accused are very serious. And we should be on the right side of this and encourage this agency and the state to take appropriate action. So I certainly think this is an appropriate move for us to make, given our significance in the region, second largest city in the region. So I think it's important for us to do and I'm happy to support this. Thanks, Councilmember Price, another great item. Thanks a lot. Thank you. That concludes the Council comments. We have done public comment and we will do a roll call vote. District one. I. District two. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. By District eight. District nine. High motion carries. Thank you. We're going to quickly do item 20, please, and then we'll go back up to the last two items.

Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the acceptance of a Sustainable Communities Planning Grant from the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans), in the amount of $733,610; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents with CalTrans relating to the Grant awarded to the Department of Development Services for professional planning services to study land use and mobility regulations for North Long Beach in the context of the City’s proposed updated General Plan; and Increase appropriations in the Development Services Fund (EF 337) in the Development Services Department (DV) by 733,610, offset by grant revenue. (Districts 8,9)

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Great. Thank you. Moving on to item 17. Item 17 is a from development services. The recommendation to adopt a resolution approving the acceptance of sustainable communities planning grant from Caltrans in the amount of seven on 33,000 and execute all necessary documents with Caltrans relating to relating to the grant awarded to the Development Department of Development Services by Professional Planning Services to study land use and mobility regulations for North Palm Beach districts eight and nine. There's the motion in a second. Any public comment on this item. To request the staff. Report? Staff report. Linda Tatum. Good afternoon, Mayor. Members of the City Council. I did have. A brief slide or PowerPoint presentation, but if they could pull that up. But I will go ahead and get started. Given the lateness of the hour just a little bit in the way of background on this project. Here we go. In the fall of 2017, our department development services applied for and was awarded this grant, and we actually started the work on it in March 2018. The purpose of it really is to do some planning to promote sustainability in the uptown area, which is covered by both in the zip code of 90805, which is in districts, both districts eight and nine. The work here really is to prepare in phase one, an overall vision for some of the land use changes along the commercial quarters in this district. And in the we actually at that time had a very extensive work program that was pretty substantial. However, we only got funding for $250,000 at that time. So in February of 2018, the city we actually applied for a phase two of that grant for an amount of $733,610. And we were actually awarded the phase two component of that. So we will be working on both continuing phase one and ramping up for phase two of this grant, which is really going to be looking at some tailored neighborhood projects and updates to the zoning ordinance. I do have another slide that gives you a little bit of a comparison between what we've done in Phase one and what we're proposing to do in Phase two in this program. And just in summary, that initial Phase one grant essentially covered our staff time. The the grant was for 250,000, and that covered planning efforts. We did bring on board a consultant and it also covered staff time. And one of the. Primary things we did in phase one and are continuing to do is to to start to work on a vision for the area. But one of the other focuses was to really try to look at some of the commercial land use and development and design regulations for those major corridors I mentioned. Those are Artesia Boulevard as well as Atlantic Boulevard. And one of the other focuses of this effort is to try to start creating some of the zoning templates to implement the city's updated land use element. When that gets considered by council, next year will be in place to not only put in place some of those. New. Zoning codes on these corridors, but to use those in other parts of the city as well. Another couple of key components of this project for phase one was doing some kind of parking inventory. We're looking at how we can better utilize the parking in the area for shared parking. We are also considering some economic development components and it really does have a very strong community outreach component that includes a strong youth engagement component as well as empowerment. And then moving on to phase two, again, it will build on the vision in a lot of the community outreach that was done in phase and phase one. But this time in phase two will be looking at some of the industrial and the residential land uses to supplement the work that we've done on the commercial corridors. We'll also be looking at expanding some of the community engagement opportunities in really is a really high level of interaction and an engagement and not just input from the community. The whole focus of this effort really is creating livability or addressing some of the livability, quality of life and sustainability issues. We will also be looking at some very focused implementation efforts, such as activating some of the vacant lots in the area. We're going to be looking at some demonstration projects. We'll also be looking at efforts we talked about. It's a little bit earlier, but the hotel and motel re-use demand study. That's a component of this grant. And we'll also be looking at neighborhood housing issues, neighborhood enhancement, but also looking at increasing the mobility and also some street improvements and enhancements within the area. So that can increase kind of the major components of the presentation. But I think it's important to note that we will be using this grant to leverage some of the other or to supplement some of the other initiatives that are ongoing in the uptown area. And this is just a list of some of those. The next presentation on your agenda will be the Uptown Open Space Vision plan that Parks and Recreation is currently working on, and you'll be getting that presentation. But other efforts again that are ongoing in other departments, the Heal Healthy Eating and Active Living that's done by the Health Department. The City Council also funded the Artesia Boulevard Master Plan that will be considered and be an integrated component of this project as well. And a couple of other projects by the successor agency Parcels Development, which is ongoing at Artesia and Atlantic, as well as a couple of other projects along the Atlantic Boulevard Quarter and of course , the city's bicycle master plan. Because of that, what we call the mobility component, the bicycle implementation is a key component of that. So that concludes the presentation and I would just ask council support to take the action to receive this grant and to modify the development services budget to accept this grant as a part of the Department's budget. Thank you. There's a motion and a second as your public comment. Mr. Mayor. I'm coming back. It's a is a public comment saying non Councilor Richardson. Thank you. Just wanted to say a few things so so one, this is incredibly important to North Palm Beach. We've talked about sort of the issues, the blight, the outdated land use on the corridors, overconcentration of liquor stores, nuisance motels. And you've heard it because we've talked about it for the last eight years and we've done a lot to address short term. But we've always said we need to talk about the long term vision of North Long Beach, how we improve our standards, our design standards, how we create a strategy to reuse the motels and the liquor stores and all that. And, you know, it's just astounding to me that Sky came in a year ago, maybe less than a year ago, acknowledged it gave us the $250,000 grant city staff. And I have to recognize Linda and Christopher Koontz and that whole team who have gone forward and identified the second piece of funding within less than a year. And this at tables around SCAD and planning tables. This is one of the most exciting projects that's ever happened in North Long Beach, but the region is paying attention to it, and I love that it connects a lot of the other efforts from our open space plan, the Artesia Boulevard study that we're really driving across six cities. So it really places a real focus for the first time that anybody that I know can remember. This is the most significant planning focus North Long Beach has ever had. So thank you all for staying out late tonight. Thank you, Linda, for actually going through the presentation because this is incredibly important and I encourage and encourage the city council to support now and Councilman Austin as a good, strong partner on this effort as well. Thanks. Thanks, Councilman Austin. I did hear everything that has been said, you know, not only Skaggs, but the the Gateway Cities Council of Governments. This is a regional project that that that has eyes of as he mentioned, planning professionals throughout the region are watching not Long Beach. I think that says a lot about the recent leadership in the area as well as the strong support of the council and and great work on our behalf of staff going after the grants. This is us. This item is about us accepting $733,000 for for a planning grant. And I'm fully in support. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. I just want to say how impressed I am with this 180 page plan. It's beautiful. You guys have done a great job. What was. That? That's the next item. Dang it. Well, I'm super impressed with this next item here. That's what happens. And you guys make me recuse myself. See you still. Congratulations for a time, which I think you guys have done a great job. I will not speak on the next item, but I will just say it again. It's not the next item. It's item after next, you know. Yes, sorry, but it's beautiful. It's beautiful. Okay. Please cast your votes. The motion carries. Out in 20. I'm sorry. I'm 19, 19. 18. That was it, wasn't it? I'm sorry. That was. 17. 19.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2812, 2814, 2816, 2821, 2828, 2830, 2836, 2840 and 2842 West 25th Avenue in Jefferson Park. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 2812, 2814, 2816, 2821, 2828, 2830, 2836, 2840 and 2842 West 25th Avenue from G-MU-3 UO-3 to G-MS-3 (general urban, multi-unit to general urban, main street) with waivers in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 10-31-17.

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This should be just 112 voice. All right, 12 eyes can spell. 1076 has passed. Congratulations. All right, on to the last public hearing of the evening. Councilman Black, will you please put Council Bill 1143 on the floor? Yes, I move that council bill 1143 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. Looking for a second. Great. It's been moved and seconded. Public hearing for council and for three is open. We have the staff report. Sarah FuckUp. So tonight I am here to present 28, 12, 28, 14, 2016, 28, 21, 28, 28, 28, 30, 28, 36, 28, 40 and 28, 42 West 25th Avenue. The proposal is to reason from GMU three, Euro three to James three with waivers. This application is sponsored by Councilman Espinosa. Again. We are in District one, this time in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. You can see the map here. We are just east of the 25th and intersection and commercial node and we're about two blocks east of federal. And just some context here on the north side of the block, immediately to the west of that one parcel was a recent rezoning, which was very similar. And we'll see that on the zoning map as well. So the property in total is a little over 30,000 square feet, has single family and duplex structures and associated accessory structures , and the request is to rezone to allow neighborhood mixed use. So again, rezoning from GMU through with you three overlay, two gyms, three with waivers. A reminder that the Gems three zone district is the general urban context Main Street with a three storey maximum height, and there are several waivers that are part of this request. So one, the request is to wave out the drive thru forms which generally would be allowed in the GMC Zone districts and also to waive in the urban house and duplex forms with the appropriate residential use restrictions. And the reasoning for this being some of the street level active use waivers are waiving out residential we'll still talk about in a second. And waiving in the urban house and duplex forms would mean that the existing houses and duplex would not become non-conforming. So that's the purpose for waiving in those use forms. So the rest of the waivers are all applicable to the street level active use requirement. So this is generally the front of the building for 75% of the width of the lot and then for a minimum depth of 15 feet. So these following waivers are only going to apply to that 75% of the width, 15 foot depth. So to waive out certain incompatible primary uses from our street level active use requirements. So right now, those are those are pretty broad. All that you can't do is a carwash parking and mini storage. So the request is to waive out residential and then some other kind of higher intensity uses like utilities, automobile services and others, and also waiving out some incompatible accessory uses. So the zoning in the area, the subject site and surrounding to the northeast and south is all GMU you three and directly to the west along the the whole kind of grouping is G three and again those two properties immediately to the west on the north side were recently rezoned from GMU three to GM's three. Earlier this year. So the site is currently a mix of single family and two family residential generally, as is with Jefferson Park, the surrounding is a mix of single family two unit low skill multifamily, and then to the west is the commercial node at 25th and Elliott. So you can see here the top picture is an example of one of the houses on the subject property. The bottom picture is an example of the character that you see at 25th and Elliott. The top picture is an example of some of the multi-family that is being built in the neighborhood. That example is further north on 26th. And again, another example, excuse me, of the 25th and Elliott commercial note. So the process so far, planning board heard this matter on October 4th and voted unanimously, unanimously to recommend approval. We also had several speakers in favor. The committee moved this forward on October 31st. All of the appropriate notification has been done and a letter of support from the Jefferson Park United Neighbors. R.A. was submitted with the application. And then onto our five review criteria. So we have three plans to consider consistency with your comprehensive plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Plan. The request is consistent with several strategies and comp plan related to quality infill development. Focal points in neighborhoods promoting mixed use development. Blueprint. Denver calls this out as a single family residential area of stability. But we are proximate to the neighborhood center that is surrounding Elliot and 25th. Additionally, Blueprint Denver has language in it that says the boundaries of our land use. Building blocks are not fixed and some areas are in a strict state of transition. So in areas where you're on a border, there may be some wiggle room. And in this case, we do find it appropriate to evaluate the request under the neighborhood center area of change recommendation. For our waivers that are requested here. You may be familiar with CPD's waiver policy of only supporting waivers of conditions when they are a bridge to a future text amendment. And that policy comes out of this language from Blueprint Denver, which was before our current code and had kind of called for the abolishment of waivers and conditions in general, or to gradually reduce how much we use them. So that policy came out of Blueprint Denver here. And usually when we have waivers and waivers that CPD is supporting, again, it's a bridge to a future text moment and we like to get as close to the future solution as possible. And a reminder, when we say bridge to future text amendment, it means that we have acknowledged that there's a problem. There will be a text amendment in the future to solve that problem. But in the meantime, before we get to that, we can add waivers or conditions to rezoning to kind of take care of that in the meantime. And so what we're talking about here is kind of it's a conversation that's happening in the city at a lot of different levels and that's related to street level, active uses and mixed use buildings. Currently, even in our mixed use zone districts where we have street level active uses, you can have a 100% residential building and the thought is that maybe there is a need to have some sort of zoned district or overlay or something to account for these neighborhood skilled areas that probably were the planned direction calls for mixed use. And we want to have a way to at least require some of that ground floor residential to provide that character that the plans are calling for. Now, this case is a little unique because we know it's a really big question. It's a city wide question, and it's not ideal to evaluate these waivers on a case by case basis, because we know it affects different areas in the city differently. But in this case, the we've figure that the waivers do a good job to tackle the issue now and knowing that this will be a much larger conversation as we move forward with NPI, with Blueprint Denver and the kind of policies that might come out of those planning process to help us guide how we might solve this problem in the future. So at this time, we do think that the waivers proposed are appropriate to address this issue and it is consistent with the blueprint. Denver Plain Language regarding waivers and conditions. Looking to the Jefferson Park neighborhood plan. The plan has some overall framework, goals and recommendations about maintaining enhancing the character of Jefferson Park, creating focal points within the neighborhood, calling out West 25th and Elliott as a focal point and also calling out West 25th Avenue, generally as a principal neighborhood corridor. So acknowledging that properties along 25th are special, they should maybe should have a different character. And then we do have sub areas in the Jefferson Park plan. Again, we have language here that specifically says that boundaries between the sub areas are not absolute and that characteristics overlap subquery boundaries. So we do have the properties on the boundary between the 25th and Elliott Sub area and the core residential sub areas. And given this language and the support that we've received from the neighborhood, we do find it appropriate to evaluate the request under the 25th and Elliott Sub Area recommendations. Which include recommendations that neighborhood commercial Siberia should include older buildings that will be carefully restored and vacant lots developed in a manner that reinforces the historic character of the neighborhood commercial district. Strengthen the neighborhood retail center to support the neighborhood, encourage new construction to be mixed use with residential and retail. So again, we have plain language here specifically calling for mixed use and that new buildings in this area should be compatible in scale and character with the existing buildings. So the proposed GM's three zone district does have transparency build to requirements that do help to maintain the character of the existing 25th Elliot commercial node and again, the three storey height limit. So given all of that, we do find that the request is consistent with adopted plans. It will result in the uniform application of the GMC three zone district with the exception of the proposed waivers. But given that the waivers are consistent with CPD's waivers policy, we do find it meets this criteria. It furthers the public health, safety and welfare by allowing additional mixed use development that is pedestrian in nature. Encourage people in the neighborhood to have more neighborhoods serving retail. So we do find that it is consistent with the furthering public health, safety and welfare criteria. The identified justifying circumstances is that the land or its surrounding environs has changed or is changing to such a degree that redevelopment should be encouraged. We know that there's been a significant amount of redevelopment in Jefferson Park and a lot of new residential units. And so that means there are more residents, which means that there is a strain on the existing neighborhood serving commercial. So allowing some more area to redevelop into neighborhoods serving commercial would be in the benefit of the neighborhood. So we do find that this criteria has been met. And the request would be consistent with the purpose and intent of the GMES three zone district. So given that we find all five criteria have been met, would you recommend approval of the proposal? All right. Thank you, Sarah. We have five speakers this evening. I'm going to ask all the speakers to come on that front row there. Justin Potter, Jay Edwards, chairman, say COO. I'm sorry all of you guys still come up, but unless Nathan Johnson, you're first. Actually, Mr. Johnson and then Sean Booker is last. All right, Mr. Johnson, Nathan Johnson's first. Thank you. I am the owner of the piece of property. That's the slice of land on the north side of West 25th Avenue. I'm in support of the new zoning. For the simple reason that the balance of the block is basically being transformed in this process. And I'm also in support of the concept of live, work and play. We are looking for environments where we can combine those uses, have a holistic neighborhood that allows for both residential uses, commercial uses and recreational or retail type uses. And I think the zoning will provide that enhancement to the neighborhood. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Justin Potter. I thank you for taking this under consideration. I'm speaking on behalf of Jefferson Park, United Neighbors, the R.A. for the neighborhood. We started this process probably about a year ago. The developers came to us and expressed interest of potential rezoning going to commercial. Similarly to what happened on the north side and the neighborhood at the time was open to it. We definitely feel that there's a need for expand and commercial in the neighborhood. And we've we're seeing a lot of the slot homes go in. And we kind of felt that we would rather work with a developer to get something that we wanted instead of having additional slot homes built that could have been built there. As I mentioned, we we worked on this for about a year. We've had multiple meetings in the community outreach, the newsletter and whatever else, and solicited a lot of feedback from from the neighbors and ultimately decided to take a vote to have Councilman Espinosa file for the his own request on our behalf. So thank you, Mr. Potter. Jay Edwards. Thank you, counsel. My name is Jay Edwards with Dublin Development. We have contracted an assemblage within the proposed new block here. And originally, you know, at the JMU three zoning, we were planning on 12 to 14 townhomes and then the discussions with the neighborhood. We've been very active in Jefferson Park. We've office in Jefferson Park and love the neighborhood and talking with John and other members of the neighborhood. We all felt it would be better to go with a mixed use type project where we can bring more affordable, more attainable condos. So we're looking at, you know, right now 28 to 30 condos with approximately 5000 square feet of retail on the ground floor to bring, you know, strengthen the retail presence in the neighborhood. Obviously, with the added density in the last few years in Jefferson Park, there's not enough retail to support the neighborhood. So we're in support of the zoning change. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Mr. Edwards. All right, Chairman Sekou. But to say chairman looks different. Okay. Terrorist who likes our action movement. Self-defense. Poor, working, poor, homeless people starting to talk like Kelly. We support this for same reason as we support the last one key component include the police in this in terms of manpower. What they're going to do is security's there. This one's bigger than the last one. And this, this. What she was talking about with all these layers of stuff that folks got to do in order to get this thing done. That last person I just talked to my son before he could put a shovel in the ground. This thing started in February and it took him $25,000 before he even got started. Hear me now in terms of development, that's crazy. All right. When it takes 5 minutes to approve this stuff. A rezoning thing. $25,000. Eight months later. Are you kidding me? Now, of course, I'm not a very patient guy. I'm a revolutionary. I believe in this. Doing things immediately. Get it done, be finished with it, and be efficient. And do the things we need to do to protect the community interests. So we have to learn and find some process. Think outside the box, because I don't know how long it took you to get this. You said you start a year. I don't know how much money is spent do this, but it's going to take five, 10 minutes to prove this. That's crazy. They don't make the system. All right. So somewhere along the line, we've got to tweak this process, all right. To make it more effective and cost less so that even a small developer can get involved in this kind of process. A mom and pops kind of develop, you know what I'm talking about doing. You know what I'm saying on the construction thing. So I understand Paul and folks of his doing the social development and then the combination with the commercial economic development and we combine the two into socio economic development, then we make this thing work in a better way so that we can move this thing on down the road and have a community that's moving effectively so that we can provide the housing that's necessary not only for the middle class, but also for poor, working poor people, because we need a hurry up kind of process to tell for our needs because we are under bridges. We in cardboard boxes. So if you can't do this for middle class people, you know it's going to take us forever. So this top down thing, bottom up thing, trickle down whoop to do what they know. That's got to stop. That's got to stop because it's not working for the people. And that means everybody, regardless of what station you in, with you on the top to bottom. Low to middle. Cut the red tape. Cut the layers. Not deregulate, but cut the unnecessary stuff that she's talking about. Because this is crazy. I mean, for real. Well, maybe not. Maybe I'm just crazy. That's all I got. Thank you, Miss. Miss Siku. All right, Shun. Book. Book out. Did I say that right? Yes, sir. All right. I don't know how. I follow that, Mr. Sekou. Thank you, counsel. Thank you for. Let me speak. My name is Shawn. Book out on the co-owner of Double in Development with Jay Edwards. We're here in support. Of the reason we're very active in Jumpstart. We've built 36 townhomes. We have a condo project at Pershing right now, and we'd like to. Do this project as well. It's going to bring smaller, more affordable units in Jefferson Park, as well as retail, which is which is much needed. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Berger. All right. This concludes our speakers questions by members of council. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, sir. Sir, could you talk me through again when Blueprint says that we ought to eliminate waivers and conditions? What are the criteria under which CPD would nevertheless find this in conformance with something that seems to be directly opposed to using waivers and conditions? And how do you evaluate that against any other situation? So we get requests from from you guys, from the public, from our internal departments for things that did to amend the zoning code, as you all know. And when we get a request, we we talk about it internally. We talk through it with the requesting party to understand it. And then as long as everyone agrees that it's a worthwhile endeavor in the future, it gets put on our list of future text amendments. That is a long list. And so we have we're always constantly trying to evaluate our work program to decide how to tackle those. And it is because of that long list that that we get to this recommendation on waivers. So even though Blueprint said eliminate them, we know realistically right now that that probably isn't isn't going to happen. But we do have this policy to to have a better, more strategic way to approach them, because in the past, when we've done waivers and conditions, they're they're very, very specific. They they vary widely across the city. They're very difficult and time consuming for our development services to administer, especially over time as things change. Then you have more rezonings just to get out of very restrictive waivers that were maybe applicable 20 years ago but aren't now. So it's kind of this whole world. And with this one, like I said, it's a little tougher to evaluate the specifics of this waiver because we know it's a really big question, but it's a question that keeps coming up again and again. It keeps coming up in 30th. And Blake, it comes up in Berkeley, it comes up in Jefferson Park, all in slightly different context, with slightly different requests. But we know it's going to be something that we're going to have to address. And like I said, we don't know how that may be. We don't know if it maybe new zone districts overlays, combination amending or current zone districts. So all of that is TBD. And so the waivers that are proposed by Councilman Espinosa, we think, are a really rational way to approach it right now for a site specific neighborhood serving retail. Mm hmm. Does that answer your question? Yeah, it does. And I'm very happy to hear that, because, frankly, I, I, I favor more use of waivers and conditions. I know it makes more work. It's harder to enforce, but. But that's your job. And a city is a messy place. A city is a place that needs flexibility. And and sometimes I cringe at the need for uniformity when specificity and flexibility and site specific conditions are are required. So I'm very happy to hear that explanation. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilman Flint, councilman as well. You have a question on your own, Bill? Not really. I should I was just going to offer myself I should probably gone out there and just signed up to offer myself up to answer any questions because I did author of the waivers that you're considering today. Great. Thank you. Thanks for that clarification. All right. Seeing no other speakers, the public hearing for Council Bill 1143 is now closed and now we'll open up with that comes from the council sponsor himself, Councilman Espinosa. I don't know where to start. It was it was a long process. It started with three properties. It's now seven properties and completes the totality of of of properties between our central business district at 25th and Eliot and the remaining properties on the blocks that haven't been developed. This is an area that has undergone radical sort of deviation from the plan recommendation. And, you know, in Sarah's presentation she had a mapped so sub area that was white that was supposed to be single unit to unit scale development. And that's where you see the lion's share of slot home flavors that we're coming up with in Denver. And so when you're faced with that, which is more of the same, which is getting a wholesale different I mean, getting an address citywide through the slot home task force because the nature of the outcomes that you're getting, you know, is there a way to, you know, the community basically asked, is there any way to to to to get an improved outcome? And this is a situation where, fortunately, the developer and the community and the business district basically put their heads together, having seen what was previously zoned across the street and said, that's something we can we can adapt to. And getting getting all those people and the additional property owners sort of to the same place took some heavy lifting. But I think everybody that was involved to the patients, the conversations you had, the patients you had and sort of the the community sort of emphasis and, you know, pushing me in the direction with you. And so my hope is that, you know, you know but and that I should acknowledge Sarah was was this is this is this was tough sledding. You know, she talked about the whole landscape of the nature of these sorts of the nature of this sort of these sort of waivers that we're putting on the the . For active use requirements. You know, that was you know, that was not you know, I went in there just like any other developer making this request and trying to to to make make it very clear how consistent this was in all the parameters that they that were required to, to, to consider. And I think that she she did a very, very professional job when maybe I wasn't the most professional individual in in maintaining the city's position. And because of that, the waivers that that that we finally authored and put I finally authored and put forward, I was really pleasantly surprised at how well-received that was by the planning board and the comments that were made there. You know, that sort of made it very clear the need for the city to to carry on that conversation about appropriate uses and appropriate restrictions and limitations on ground floor. So yeah, so long, long story short, I'll wrap it up. The real impetus for these waivers was when the prior rezoning across the street occurred that one had an M.O. you in covenant, much like the prior rezoning tonight, which put these similar limitations on on redevelopment of those properties. And it put it gets you in a weird gray area, which is if the community is is in support of the recognizing the change of conditions in the development pressures that exist, and they're trying to get different outcomes in their central business district through a zoning change. But the zoning change actually allows the exact same form that they're trying to, to, to, to address the only way to, to, to reconcile the two, which is that the change is appropriate because it can capture these other things. But the change also allows the one thing that they're trying to avoid is to actually put constraints. And I don't think it's appropriate necessarily in that situation to put it on a developer agreement, especially when we're talking about a significant area. And waivers were in fact the right way to address the growth and redevelopment of that area. To that point, though, I did share with my colleagues a couple of images and and one of them is a slot home in Jay. It is one of your projects. So I'm not a I'm only sharing it with you because it's a recent slide home. But it is my concern. It touches on it's the the one on Eliot Street. And. And then a project at the corner of 44th and Tennyson, which is a is a mixed use zone district. I don't know if it's Main Street or not, is it? The good news about the one at 44th and Tennyson is that you're not allowed to do that kind of development. That ground floor activation rules have changed substantially, and now this one goes one step further. So my point is, is that throughout this conversation with the community, is that they or they have high expectations that that the nature of your development, your redevelopment of this area not only has the sort of mixed use components and the in the affordability that you're trying, you know, the units that you're the project that you're you're proposing in, you're working on the architecturally that it resonates with the human scale. And these are things that zoning can't, can't do, but it is sort of beholden to mean it is your responsibility as developer and architect and your team. And so it's fine to do projects that that net profit. But please, this neighborhood has been good. Very good for your bottom line. Maybe this project has been a little bit challenging in that regard. But but you know, my to the degree that you can please continue to have that dialog that you've already had with the neighborhood on the design side and voluntarily commit yourself to sort of getting the best sort of outcome that you can physically. And and it's not just to you, it will apply to anybody that develops in that area as well if it goes through. But so my comments my my the whole point of my commentary, though, is that this was this was wrought by the community. I'm happy to be in a position to have used my prior background as an architect to sort of articulate how we might shape that and bring it forward, because this is a community derived solution where it's a win win win between developer bid and neighborhood. And once again, just like the prior rezoning, the reason we're not here with sort of massive opposition at the scale of this re rezoning and they noting the close proximity to even single family residential is because everyone's rowing in the same direction and let's just keep up that momentum. With that, I'm going to support this rezoning because I have faith in everybody involved. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Councilman. And, you know, I just want to just let the public know we do have legislative rezonings where council members will support a rezoning for the larger community that is a not a quasi judicial matter. So a councilmember supporting the rezoning can actually vote on it and obviously comment it. We've received a couple of comments about that. So I just wanted to let folks know that. All right. So see, no other comments has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary, roll call. Espinosa. I Flynn. I. Gilmore, i. Herndon, Cashman. I can eat new Ortega. Sussman Clark. Clark All right, Mr. President. I please cause very nice results. I see. Sorry. There's a. Couple. One missing, one hanging fire. Oh, we got it. 12. There it is. 12 eyes. Council Bill 1143 has passed. Congratulations, everyone. Thanks for the hard work and seeing no other business before this incredible body that we have here extended your.

Recommendation to adopt resolution in support of President Obama's Executive Actions to reduce gun violence.

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Next item. Item 20. Communication from City Attorney. Recommendation to adopt resolution in support of President Obama's Executive Actions to reduce gun violence. There's a motion in a second attorney public comment on this. Seeing none of Mr. Good here. I obviously support that. I don't care who is supporting it, who's putting it forward. I think it makes absolute sense and I would suggest some amendments here locally to something. And I realize they don't have the authority that I would suggest to you make the recommendations to the OR both to the county and to the state. Let's begin with, as I mentioned last week. Increasing the penalty for car theft by ten years in prison and a $10,000 by a bicycle theft. Ten years in prison. Ten years in. And then ten years. Revoking of a license. Of. And then wearing a T-shirt for ten years saying they are a loser. I'm a firm believer in prisons, period. And given the trajectory that we're on, which, as I mentioned before, within 40 years will have US City of Long Beach will be like a third rate city that one would find today in Guatemala or Honduras. I mean, that's the that's the trajectory we are on now. And no power on earth is going to stop that. And all you have to do is check the pop out rates of kids, period, unless we want to adopt something that is now being adopted in Africa. And a lot of people didn't realize and I did not realize until I started getting inside of it and read the scientific articles why the African elephant population is being dramatically reduced and has nothing to do with poachers. The female elephant. Can only give birth the hormonal dynamics within that animal every four years. So unless we want to attack it like we're attacking cancer. And I would suggest maybe what we might want to do is develop a paradigm. Or develop a hormone that we can provide to people where instead of popping out a kid every 24 months. It will be every 48 months and you'll be able to control better the crime. And this is what we're talking about here in terms of gun violence and gun violence. You just can't ignore it and hope it will go away because it's not going to go away. But I will begin also, as I said, with stiffer penalties for two of our biggest problems theft of bicycles and theft of automobiles $10,000 fine, ten years in prison. It's great employment and it's great construction opportunities. Thank you. Any other public comment on this item? Councilwoman Gonzalez Oh, I just wanted to say thank you. I know the last meeting, it kind of was at the end of the meeting. So I just want to send my appreciation to the council for staying committed to this. I know this is a symbolic measure, but it's definitely something that we need to take a stand on here in Long Beach. We have a lot of gun violence going on in our streets and our PD. They do an amazing job. Our fire department does an amazing job. But we just need to stay committed to this. So thank you. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, actually, that that. Concludes. That is the last item. Okay. Where we have our second public comment period, if there's anyone that wants to speak that hasn't spoken from the council. Please come forward.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3133 North Raleigh Street in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-A to U-SU-A1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3133 North Raleigh Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-13-21.

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Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member Sawyer Will you please put Council Bill 405 on the floor for final passage. And move that Council Bill 21 deaths 0405 be placed upon final consideration and duties. Back. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 405 is open. May we please have the staff report? I see. It's in. You've already got it up and going. Please go ahead. Perfect. Can you hear me? Yes. Good evening, counsel. My name is Ed Senate Finance and I am an associate city planner here and representing family planning and development. Before you today, we have 3133 North Browns Street. It's currently zoning U.S.A. and the request says to three zone to us one, which is it's currently a single unit zone district and it's requesting for a single, single unit zoned district with an ADU. So right now the site itself is currently in Council District one, understandable in the West Highland neighborhood. And the site itself is just pretty close to the corner of Wylie and 32nd Avenue. It's just over 6000 square feet. And it's a single unit residential. So this so the zoning that is requesting is a single unit zone district, us ua1. But as you can see, U.S.A. one is directly to the north. That was reason for Nadir, but it's in an area of U.S., A-1 as well. As you get us, you see a SUV, which are all a single unit zone districts based on lot sizes. And the existing land use for this site is single unit residential. But as you can see, there are some two unit residential uses nearby as well. So as you can see, the subject property is on the upper left corner. And it's a one story structure. And then on the. On the picture on the on the top right is the property directly to the north, which is a single unit property with an ADU on the top of the garage, as you can see. And then across the street on the bottom left, you see just a two unit property there. So this went before the planning board in April and it was passed unanimously. It was our consent and it's before you today. And as a present we've received two comments of opposition and six letters of support have been received for this case. A lot of the concerns were regarding multiple aid use on a single block and being in close proximity to one another. The potential for parking concerns and noise issues. And the applicant has reached out to these individuals that had concerns to try to answer any questions you might have. And also the applicant is here to answer those questions as well. So whenever we're looking at a rezoning, we have specific review criteria that we analyzed based off the Denver zoning code. And I will dove into it right now. So the first one is concisely what Dr. Ponder really focused on the Conference Comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint, Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan. There are several strategies found in a comprehensive plan for 2040 that are specified in the staff report. And so I will jump into the blueprint Denver Blueprint. Denver classifies this area as urban, which is predominantly residential. And then within the feature place type, it's classified as low residential, which is predominantly single integrated uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate here. As well. Blueprint does have specific policy that mentions accessory dwelling units such as the land use and built form housing policy for which is a diversity of housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. And this specific rezoning is consistent with the other criteria specified in the staff report. Therefore, CPD recommends approval based on all findings and all review criteria have been met. And I am open and available to any questions that you may have. And the applicant is here presenting answering questions as well. All right. Thank you for the presentation, Edson. This evening, council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 21, Dash 0405 and we do not have any speakers signed up to speak this evening. And so questions from members of Council on Council Bill 405. All right. Scene one, the public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 405 Council member Sandoval. Madam President. And this reasoning fits all of the criteria, and I hope you all would support it. I've met my office has met with the West Highland Neighborhood Association that represents these areas where there are no and they are looking and going to start doing outreach about rezoning that entire neighborhood. Stay tuned so that we don't have to continue to do these one offs. So when we do some community outreach and go out to see if there's support, maybe the whole entire rezoning application will be coming forward. Thanking them. President. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And I'm happy to support this this evening, saying that it needs all of the rezoning criteria and seeing other hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 405, please. Sandoval. Hi. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. What I. Clark. All right. Twin. Herndon. I. Hines. I. Cashman. I can. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 11 nights.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, accept Categorical Exemption CE-16-267, and consider appeals from Douglas Otto, Rick Ivey, Naphar Isley, Troy Carmon, and Allan Stevens; Uphold the Planning Commission's decision to deny a request for a continuance by a third party at the Planning Commission hearing of March 30, 2017; and Uphold the Planning Commission's decision to approve a Conditional Use Permit for a behavioral health urgent care center located at 3200-3220 Long Beach Boulevard (Application No. 1611-08). (District 7)

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Because Ben Andrews. Bush and Kerry's. Okay. We're going to now go back to hearing item number one. Is there Mr. Motorcars or anyone else out for the hearing that's still outside? We believe we may have some that are finally just coming through the door and or in the lobby, but we can go ahead and get started and they can hear it in the lobby. Okay. And there is there is there are empty seats here. So folks who can as long as staff is letting people know that they're still out there still are empty seats. Okay. All right. So if I can just get we're going to go ahead and begin with our first hearing on the agenda, which is hearing item number one. If I can please ask the court to open the item. And an oath is required. Hearing item one is a report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record conclude the public hearing except categorical exemption and consider appeals. Uphold the Planning Commission's decisions to deny it request for continuance by a third party at the Planning Commission hearing of March 30th, 2017, and uphold the Planning Commission's decisions to approve a copy for a Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center located at 3200 through 30 220 Long Beach Boulevard District seven and offers to require. Okay. We're going to go and do the both. Anyone wishing to speak on this item, please stand and raise your right hand. My. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you begin in the court now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God. Okay. Thank you very much. With that, we're going to go ahead and I'm going to start off with Mr. West, who will then staff to staff report. The staff report is going to be given by our planning bureau manager Linda Tatum, assisted with planner Scott Kinsey. And we also have our city prosecutor up, Doug Halbert. Linda. Good evening, Mayor and city council. We're here this evening to consider a public hearing. For a an appeal of an action that was of. For approval of a star's behavioral health urgent care center at 3200 Long Beach Boulevard. Just a brief history on the project. The Planning Commission on March 30th approved the operation of this facility at the address, and at the time of the public hearing, we had a request to the Planning Commission to continue the item. However, Planning Commission determined to not continue the item. And there was an appeal filed not only on several of the other substance of the approval, but. Also on the. The the Planning Commission's decision to not continue the item. So there were a total of four appeals filed on this case. I'd like to just briefly go over the location of the project here in point of the location. This is just north of the 45 Freeway on Long Beach Boulevard. The street to the south is 32nd Street and access to the site is from 32nd Street. Next is the zoning map that gives you a better idea of the location there. The arrow is pointing to the red Kia and that is the community commercial, auto oriented zoning of the property, which in the Midtown specific plan, which in which the property is located, requires a conditional use permit in order to operate. An urgent. Care facility such as the one that's being proposed. The Behavioral Health Urgent Center is proposed to be operated by the star's behavioral health group, and they are under contract to the Los Angeles County Health Department of Mental Health. They proposed that we use an existing 14,400, approximately 14,400 square foot medical office building that is currently vacant. And their operation consists of two secure units. One unit is for adults and there would be space for 12 adults and there is a second unit for six adolescents maximum. And it is proposed to be a 24 hour operation seven days a week. It is an outpatient only facility and the maximum stay for any potential client is 23 hours and 59 minutes. So we call it a 24 hour facility or a 24 hour, a limited duration of 24 hours for any patient. But the average patient, according to the history of the operation of this facility, is approximately 4 to 6 hours. The way the project operation has been described to staff, the patients arrived on their own by transportation, by ambulance or by police. But they can also walk into the facility. The patient does not, except what they call code three, which is lights and sirens by the police department. Those are not the type of patients that are accepted at this facility. It is not a homeless service facility and it is not a shelter. It is a mental health crisis center. And it currently it fills a current gap in the existing mental health care system by providing an alternative to a hospital or an emergency room or jail for a person who is experiencing acute mental health crisis. And these other facilities are not appropriately designed to accommodate the kind of crisis that this facility proposes to provide for its clients. I'd like to share a brief rendering of the project with you. This is the this photo shows some of the improvements that are proposed for the facility. They will be enhancing the facade of the building with nice wood siding and new entry features on the building. And the next slide shows you a site plan of the property. It does meet all of the city's codes for parking and access. And as I mentioned earlier, the access to the site is not from Long Beach. The building sits up adjacent to Long Beach Boulevard and access to the parking lot is from 32nd Street. I talked earlier briefly about the project staff has worked really closely. Scott Kinsey was the project planner and he worked really closely with the applicant to establish appropriate conditions of approval for the project. We've added some very strict operations and security features to the plan in addition to those that were already proposed or initially proposed by the operator. Those includes security guards at the site at all time during this facility operation, which is 24 hours. Patients will not be discharged to the street, meaning that they will have rides to to take them away from the facility. There we also included conditions of approval that will document and memorialize some of those security and operations plan. Rather than going into detail on these operations. The applicant will be speaking after the staff presentation and they can elaborate more fully describe some of the operations of the facility. Again, just on the site, I'd like to just briefly talk about some of the improvements that will be made to the site to upgrade the building before this this particular client goes into the that address. There are going to be doing parking lot repaving and re striping. They're also proposing additional security lighting they'd be providing on site security cameras. They would construct a new block wall. Along Elm Avenue and. 36/2 Street on the site. And they're also proposing to upgrade the landscaping that's already on the site, and that would include new street trees in the parkway. They're also proposing right away improvements to the site, including new sidewalk, curb and gutter as appropriate. And they would be upgrading the ADA or the accessibility improvements around the site perimeter. With that, I would just like to to close the staff presentation. And staff recommends and finds that with the inclusion of the recommended conditions of approval that I just discussed earlier, in summary that this facility will not generate negative impacts upon the neighborhood or the surrounding community. This facility will also fill a critical, a crucial care gap in the local health care system for mental health services. Staff recommends that the City Council uphold the Planning Commission's decision to accept a categorical exemption for this project in compliance with sequel. It also recommends that the City Council approve the conditional use permit for this behavioral health care center and deny the four appeals that were submitted for the project. I'd like to also, before closing and before hearing from the applicant, I'd like to introduce the city's the city prosecutor, Doug Harper, to make Hulbert to make a few comments on this project. And that concludes the Planning Department's presentation. Thank you, Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. The Seventh District Council Office asked me to expand on some comments in the record with the letter from my office on some of the potential benefits of a UCC to public safety. And I know they'll be represented. Representatives of the police department here to answer other questions if you have them. In July, July eight, 2014, Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey held a mental health summit to discuss the intersection between mental health and the criminal justice system. A number of representatives from various stakeholder groups were present. Also present were members of law enforcement, including LAPD, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles, L.A. County Probation Department. The Superior Court was represented other legal entities such as the Public Defender's Office, other first responders, L.A. City Fire Department, L.A. County Health Department, L.A. County Department of Mental Health , also Long Beach City Prosecutor's Office, as I mentioned, Long Beach PD, Long Beach Health Department were there. We talked about a number of things, including best practices that have been deployed in other cities such as Miami-Dade and San Antonio, to see what works in other jurisdictions and what might be introduced here in L.A. County to help the intersection, again, between mental illness and the criminal justice system. The result of that meeting was several other smaller workshops that which culminated in an August 4th report, 2015, from the District Attorney, Jackie Lacey. It was published by the Criminal Justice Mental Health Advisory Board. It's called A Blueprint for Change, and it's a very large document that has a number of recommendations. One of those recommendations was to use mental health, urgent care centers to assist law enforcement, but also to make connections between law enforcement and community services that might assist people who are suffering from mental illnesses. The report specifically talks about the difficulty that a police officer in the discharge of their duties has when they come across someone who may have a mental condition that makes it difficult for them. They can take the person to jail if they are in violation of the law and be returned back to the streets. Or they could try to transport the person to a hospital where they may wait five, six, seven, 8 hours to get services are more likely. Police officers will move someone along if they can at least reduce the problem and and move on with their shift. What we lacked here in L.A. County and what we've seen work in other jurisdictions is an urgent care crisis center, which is kind of an intermediate step. It's part of a larger strategy that's been deployed throughout the county. Police departments are doing training for their officers. CIT training, crisis intervention training is being introduced to many departments. In fact, I think just about everyone in Long Beach will have that training within the next year or two. The expansion of met teams, mental evaluation teams will help police officers better deal with problems associated with mental illness. There's long term and short term supportive housing pre-booking pre filing diversion programs and a number of other things. We were excited when about a year ago we heard that there was funding for urgent care centers. And when we heard that a center would be located in Long Beach, it gave us in law enforcement, police and prosecutors at least the hope that we will have additional tools to help our law enforcement officers deal with what appears to be an expanding problem. My final comments are that this is also consistent the locating of a UCC in Long Beach. It is consistent with what the city has been doing for quite some time now, which is looking to transform the role of public safety. The expectations on our public safety officers is greater now than it ever has been before. They're not just expected to be versed in the law and know how to arrest and perform their law enforcement duties. But they're also being expected to identify the root source of problems. They are now expected to become problem solvers in a wide range of areas, including mental health, by giving them the tools they need. I believe that they can do their job better, more effectively. This is not just for the goal of assisting persons with mental illness. This is also for the goal of improving public safety in our neighborhoods. And I think if done properly, a UCC such as this with the conditions that I've heard and read in the in the record with an applicant who has the resources to do it right, I think it will also leave our city better prepared to deal with the mental health problems that our law enforcement and first responders encounter on a daily basis. That concludes a city. Prosecutor's office report. Thank you, Mr. Halbert. We're going to go ahead and like all hearings, first hear from the applicants. I'm sorry. We heard from the we're going to hear a plea from the appellants first. Right. Mr.. Mr.. City attorney. Yes, that's correct. Okay. So not we're not going we're actually not going to hear from the applicant's case. The applicant can make a brief statement or if the applicant is here to speak, does the applicant and the. Appellant Yeah. If the applicant wants to make just a few a statement, you're more than welcome to and then we'll go to the appellants who get a certain amount of time. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And city council members. I'm Kent Dunlap. I'm president, CEO of Stars Behavioral Health Group. We are the agency that is going to be contracted to open this program. You know, this is something that is not just here in L.A. County, but it is actually sweeping the nation, this movement, to develop crisis services as a alternative to incarceration, to use of hospitals. We have talked throughout the community here, see broad support from city leaders, from the business community and especially from law enforcement, where we were told that on average there's about 6000 of these met team responses per year and the city is to be commended. The city was the first in L.A. County to develop the the Met program. That's about 500 per month. 50 of those are hospitalizations. And when that occurs, as the city prosecutor said, it takes about a half a shift for a police officer. It converts into a hospitalization at a psychiatric hospital. It's a loss of entire ship when that officer brings that individual to the behavioral health urgent care center, we're calling it the buck for short. They would wait for an assessment to be done, and that would take about 15 minutes and then they'd be on their way. So a big improvement in freeing up police time throughout the community. I want to address the issues and concerns that we heard from the neighbors that are the source of the appellant. The pills. Would you like me to do that now or wait till you hear from them? Well, you have you have the opportunity to have a time to speak. After they speak, there's a rebuttal opportunity. So it's up to you if you want to bring up some of those issues now you're welcome to. If you want to do it after the appellants speak, you're welcome to do that. I do have some slides that would give you some more information. I'll try not to be redundant to what you've already heard. You've already heard that it is a 24 hour service crisis. Stabilization is the name of the actual medical service that's provided. The average stay is 4 to 6 hours. Even though they can stay 24 hours. The average client we will have is somebody who's living with a mental health condition, a chronic health condition. And just like anybody else with a physical health condition, a heart disease, a neuromuscular disease, they have times when their symptoms flare up and they need emergent treatment. That's what this is for, for individuals with the mental health program. They often come in, they know what's going wrong, they've received some trauma. Additionally, that's exacerbated their problem. Their medications are no longer working. So that's why the length of stay can be short. Again, you've heard that it's about 12 to 6 adolescents. The volume is about 30 clients per day, most of whom will come in during the daytime hours. So you're talking about two or three admissions or people coming and going per hour. It's both voluntary and most of the clients will be voluntary. The involuntary clients will be in the minority. It is a medical program, doctors, therapists. They also use peer counselors, individuals with lived experience. They're very effective in working with. Our clients will employ about 50 people. And if it wasn't clear there's no city funding involved with this program. It's all county funding as well as the initial grant funds from the state to start the program. We really like the site. We looked at 17 locations across the county, I mean, across the city. This location is central between the Orange County border and harbor, UCLA, where there's another one of these urgent care centers being developed. It's also very proximate to college and memorial hospitals. Freeway close to the other hospitals. Convenient. And that way you've seen the location with the other map we we like the location has ample parking for police vehicles to come in and drop off clients. It is now kind of an eyesore of a building. It has been sparsely occupied graffiti at times. And we'll convert that, as you saw, into a beautiful new facility that will operate 24 seven. We're the right agency to do this for this city. We have we're one of the largest organizations providing county contracted mental health programs throughout the state. We operate these programs in San Bernardino County. We actually operate higher levels of care, psychiatric hospitals, including one in Torrance. And we're a Long Beach company. Our headquarters are right next to the Long Beach School District. We've been in the community for over 20 years. We are on 46 school campuses providing school based services. We provide a variety of other services throughout the community. We operate other urgent care centers. And you can see this that it is a inviting home like non stigmatizing environment for the clients to come into. On this floor plan, you can see that the buck is actually just two thirds of the building. We're actually going. To be releasing the bottom third of the building on the corner there for a regular community services office. Those green things around the building are cameras. This is something that we did and proposed. And now as part of the conditions of the the permit to provide security in the community. We don't need these cameras to protect our patients or our staff. We don't have these that our other programs that we operate. They don't have them at the other L.A. County urgent care centers. But we did this expressly to show our commitment to community safety. These cameras will be available to police enforcement, to the police via the Internet. We also are going to have a security service I'll talk about in a second. There's the the three units of the top unit, the adult unit. Yellow is the adolescent center. Green is the crisis walk in center. So most of the clients will come there again. Most will be voluntary, but we'll only operate that 8 to 8 is the current time period that we're looking at. After that time, anybody can still come in voluntarily, but they'll go to the rear entrances off the parking lot, to the secured areas. So you've heard about the impact on law enforcement. It's an equal impact on emergency rooms. That's where individuals now go. If you talk to the hospitals in the area, it means it takes the emergency room staff many hours to work with these individuals. The police are asked to stay there because the hospitals don't have the resources and so it'll be a big savings for them as well. We have all these other benefits. It's not as it was, had a program specifically to deal with homeless issue individuals. In our experience in San Diego County and the experience in L.A. County, about 90% of the individuals coming to these programs have a home and we'll return to them. It's only about 10% that are homeless for them. I'm part of the the program will be to link them to services will work with the homeless coalition here in Long Beach to do that to give priority to these individuals. It's a better looking building. In addition to the cameras, we're going from a building that's closed and vacant and dark to a building with a light, a parking lot operating 24 seven. We are having security staff on all shifts. And another condition that the city asked of us that we've agreed to is that one of the security staff will be outside the building in the parking lot at all times, will have two on the inside, one on the outside. We'll also want to make ourselves available to the community. They'll always have an ability to call our manager who again will be there. We'll have somebody there on a 24 hour basis as well as we will take any invite to come and meet with the community groups down the road and talk to them about any issues and concerns. The important thing about the program is that individuals don't stabilize and then walk out the door. Part of the goal of the program is lasting stabilization, and the way we do that is to transition them into services so they have supports as they return to the community. We do that through what's called a warm handoff. It's not just giving a phone number, but we make that linkage, maybe have that agency that's going to work with them, come and pick them up, for example. The other thing is that that 24 hour clock is ticking for everybody who gets admitted. But if that is ending in the evening time, they don't have to leave. They can stay there until the next morning. We prefer that they do that and then they can leave during hours. So the concerns we heard from the community are really three fold. One is that there are homeless individuals in the area and that this is going to exacerbate the problem. We heard from local neighbors and we talked to 200 going door to door. We went to 200 neighborhood homes to their door, talked about 60 people there, about another 80 people in neighborhood meetings and heard this is one concern . A, they expressed that there was an increase in homeless individuals that they attributed to the food bank that's done by the Salvation Army down at spring. So first and foremost, again, you can't get access to the program just because you're homeless. You have to have a mental health diagnosis symptoms at a level determined to be in a crisis situation. And our experience is that individuals don't repeat through the program we're failing at that happens so you're talking about a high utilize or may come three or four times per year. Again, our approach is to stabilize them so they don't need to come back to the service. Those individuals again that are homeless, about 10%. We will work to transition them into into housing as they leave. The effect of the deterrence of their facility with the 24 hour operation, with the cameras, with the security guards outside, with occasional police patrol cars dropping off individuals we think will be a major deterrents to homeless people being in the community addressing that concern that we heard. The second concern is that individuals after receiving treatment can just leave and walk out into the community. That's not our experience or said. It's a planned transition where transportation is provided typically that through. Friend or family member. If there's no other resource, we will provide the transition in transportation back home. If an individual does not complete treatment, if they want to leave before our clinicians determine that they've completed treatment, including have that transition plan in place, then we do an assessment, we do a risk assessment, and our staff will have the ability to invoke an involuntary status at 5150, if there's any risk, determine for that individual leaving, and then they will have to remain in the facility on an involuntary status. The last concern that we heard from the community is that this is a great program. It's absolutely needed. But why here? Why in this community? Because there's other programs. Again, they equated it with a homeless program, which it's not. They also communicated that there are sober living or other group homes in the community. Again, this is not a residential program. Our clients will come to the building, go into the building, remain in the facility, and then go back into a car or other vehicle and leave the facility. They won't be in the community. So there's that as well. A lot more to say, but I know you're sensitive to time, so I'm happy to answer any questions now or after the appellants. Thank you very much. You'll have a chance, if you'd like, after the appellants for a couple minutes. For three or 5 minutes. Okay. Thank you very much. Now we have. We have the appellants, and I want to make sure that the different appellants are here. I don't think one of the appellants is here, but I'm going to read their names. If you're an appellant, please come forward. I believe it's Rick Ivey. Nefariously. Choi Carmen Allan Stevens. Did I miss anyone? Official. Doug, are you here for Doug? Otto. Okay. Please come forward. Let me just first get all the appellants here for a second. Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure I have. Who's your first set of appellants? I'm Topher Isley. I'm here for Troy. Carmen. Okay, so why don't we begin? We're going to give each appellant 10 minutes. If you need to go past 10 minutes that we'll give you a few more minutes after that. A reasonable amount of time. Okay. And so why don't we go ahead and start with the Nephi Eisley? We'll go first. Okay. And the rest of the passage. As long as you just take a seat somewhere closer to the front, if there are any. Thank you. I don't know. I've got 10 minutes, Robert. You can. You don't have to take 10 minutes. That's. That's more. I would have taken longer. No, it's up to you. However you. However you know, anything shorter than that is appreciated. Okay. Good evening. My name is before I leave. My husband and I are homeowners at 375 East 36th Street and also 2500 Cedar Avenue in the sixth and the seventh District of Long Beach. I want to say that I agree that mental health services should be available to all that need them. However, I disagree with the location of the proposed mental health urgent care facility. According to the Long Beach Health and Human Services website, we currently have 14 mental health facilities in Long Beach offering services. The proposed site of the new facility is located in District seven, which already has three facilities to treat mental illness. District six to the immediate south has one facility and District eight to the immediate north has two facilities. In addition, in District nine, there is Telecare La Casa Mental Health Urgent Care Facility, which is located at 66 Paramount Boulevard. They already provide outpatient services for those in crisis and provide crisis stabilization. During the Planning Commission meeting on March 30th. The Staff Behavioral Health Group stated these types of services were non-existent in Long Beach, which is not true. They are. They exist and have for some time now with the Telecare locus, a mental health urgent care facility. I'm not sure why Long Beach needs yet another mental health care facility, especially a facility, according to the CEO of the Stars company that was service all of South Bay in Orange County. Long Beach has enough facilities for people in crisis that we don't need to burden the residents in this one neighborhood with yet another facility. I don't know if you guys have been to the Albertson's supermarket shopping center on the corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Willow lately. I don't think it's a coincidence that the College Medical Center, which offers inpatient and outpatient mental health care services, is located just behind the shopping center and has an increase in the numerous mentally ill people loitering in the parking lot while people are trying to patronize the businesses. In addition, the Salvation Army load located across the street from the proposed site also offers social services. Why are we impacting one residential neighborhood? It can't be for the greater good of the community. We have close to 500 signatures that say otherwise, and I'm almost positive less than a quarter of the people that will be speaking today that say we need this facility live anywhere close to the proposed site. We are allowing others to come and tell us what our neighborhood needs instead of the residents speaking up for what we want. And this is not at this location. We'd be better off putting a pediatric urgent care facility to help the growing number of families in the area with small children needing care instead of going to emergency rooms in our critical care hospitals. And one last point. Of the 14 mental health facilities in Long Beach, none of them are located in districts three or five. Maybe we should look into a facility in those districts where today's services do not exist but are probably needed as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next up, we're going to have Rick Ivey. Mayor and city council. We are a compassionate, caring and concerned community as residents involved in the welfare of the community. We have a vested interest in all issues affecting Long Beach citizens. We care and we want to help. We recognize the need for such an air mental health facility within the county. I would like to bring your attention to the L.A. County Department of Mental Health response to a motion made by Don Carnaby and Ridley-Thomas. And it talks about. Urgent health care facilities to be used as a pre-booking diversion as appropriate. The exploration of psychiatric, urgent care facility, urgent care centers. So they may serve as a site for pre-booking diversion of individuals with mental illness and substance abuse disorders. This is a document from 2013 to be to Pre-Booking jail diversion programs, initially as pilot projects serving the Long Beach and Antelope Valley areas are proposed. The proposed projects would be housed in new CCS urgent care centers to be located in the Antelope Valley and Long Beach areas. The use CCS would serve as an entry point for the Long Beach Police Department to link individuals to mental health services in lieu of them being charged with low level offenses. Now I fully understand and I'm concerned. But we're talking about a facility for the county. We're also talking about bringing people from Orange County. In the Mental Health Advisory Board, A Blueprint for Change. The document by Jackie Lacey from the District Attorney's Office, dated August 4th, 2015, describes diversion in the criminal justice system. Is the term often used as a legal term of art to describe alternative programs which prevent someone suffering from suffering a criminal conviction? This report uses the term diversion more broadly, as used in this report. Diversion includes all circumstances ranging from pre-arrest to post-conviction in which mentally ill persons can be prevented from entering jail at all, can be redirected from jail into treatment, or can receive linkage to services to help prevent them from returning to custody. What concerns me is that we're dealing with a residential neighborhood and we're talking about some. Individuals that are we're dealing with as a criminal element. This is a little bit different from the walk in facility. 80% of mentally ill of offenders also suffer from cold occurring substance abuse disorders. As a practical matter, someone who is actively high on drugs alcohol may be violent or competitive and will not immediately be amenable to mental health treatment, may not be able to be received by an urgent care facility. The report goes on to talk about the need for sober living centers and residential detoxification centers. The parking lot for this emergency urgent care facility is in the front yards of people's houses. Even a bar has hours of operation. 24 hours a day is a little bit much for a residential area. The Los Angeles City Council centralized its homeless services in the 1970s as a destination for homeless resources for over and over the decades. The area now marks a huge area where homeless people are choosing to reside. Store is a privately owned for profit business that is currently taking funding from the county under the guise that they are the solution. Unfortunately, Starr is oversimplifying complex issues, making overly optimistic policy promises of instant medical health care solutions and resolutions to grave social problem. Problems in which the majority of care will be provided for patients in the community are just a Band-Aid to bigger issues. Los Angeles County, as cited in the report, does not fund the next level of mental care health hospitals that treat 5150 patients or seriously addicted individuals with habits costing hundreds of dollars a day are already full to capacity and overflowing. Obtaining treatment consists of a prolonged process of calling every hour for days until a bed becomes available. I believe there's 36 beds and they every day they have 60 to 90 more patients than they have occupancy for. The major concern here is that patients will have no facility to be referred to, will be under no obligation to stay at this facility, will not be bound by state law and are free to leave the facility dreadfully in need of more extensive treatment and further care. No one will be waiting to take them back to their location of origin, though Starr claims they will arrange transportation, deserving people will be unwillingly relocated to our community with no money and no place to go. We are compassionate Long Beach. Other cities are not as kindhearted and benevolent. The Irvine Police Department and others have been cited for dumping homeless individuals on Skid Row in downtown L.A.. This is a privately funded county facility. They said they're going to accept drop offs from Orange County when it's funded by L.A. County. Outside jurisdictions are going to be able to legally go back to their carefree, unfeeling practice of extracting and transporting and banishing their responsibility to us in the form of disoriented, confused, traumatized and now displaced individuals. Even though our acts of kindness will result in the escalation of an issue that is not a promised resolution. It was not long ago when there were 96 vacancies on Long Beach and Atlantic Avenues. Currently, retail is getting hit hard by the Internet. Our business district contains stores that are forced to lock their doors now, a practice that a few years ago was unheard of. Jewelry stores lock their doors as customers, employees and merchants. Begin to feel unsafe. They will first lock their doors. It will be a major change for our industrial or retail area. In Bixby Knolls, industrial businesses are fortified with fences and obstructive security measures additions, additions that a retail district's fragile atmospheric sensing experience can rarely accommodate. This property is surrounded by four residential neighborhoods due to proximity of so many residents. I would ask first of all that you would find a more industrial and better location for this facility, but that you would limit the hours of operation like a normal business or any, I think steel craft and the other bars. From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.. We would ask that a licensed psychiatrist be present at all hours of operation that they chose to be open. It's not fair to bring people from outside the area to a facility that does not have somebody to treat them. Likewise, that all staff persons would be appropriately licensed individuals with the minimum licensing for their position. We'd ask that the Long Beach Police would double the patrols of the premises and the vicinity to include at least patrol 12. Patrols that day. That would be one every 2 hours. We would ask that when wait times exceed one and a half hours, or when wait times exceed two and a half hours, that the facility would stop accepting patients from outside of the area until the wait time went down. I thank you for your understanding. We want to make Long Beach a great place. We just think that we need to think this thing through a little bit better. They went out. They got 17 locations. If we're going to cooperate with the county, if we're going to cooperate with other counties, it seems like we could put a little bit more effort into doing a little bit better job for all parties involved. Thank you. We'll hear from the next. We're going to go ahead and hear from the next opponent, please. The next opponent up will be Troy Carman. I think someone's here on Troy's behalf. Yes. Mr. Carmen says. Dear Council members, I am an appellant regarding the proposed five year Behavioral Mental Health Crisis facility located at 3200 Long Beach Boulevard. Unfortunately, I had a previously planned trip out of town and will not be present at the May 23rd hearing. I am respectfully requesting to allow Desiree Keys to speak in my absence. Thank you. Carmen. I am a resident homeowner of 3201 Pine Avenue, and my immediate concern is the safety and security in the neighborhood, as well as the culture and the climate change that I am anticipate happening. Although this is an issue that is sensitive to others and we are not insensitive. We also agree that this location is not the best location for us in the neighborhood. I do have a statement that I'd like to read from to one homeowner and one resident that reside at 33, 64, 33, 66 Pine Avenue. And this is from Miss Linda Shelton. The duplex is adjacent to the star facility on Wardlow Avenue. The facility has an open patio with picnic benches, lights and a camera outside the entrance door. I rent the bottom duplex to my son and his family, so I frequently visit the property at times, all times of the day and night. I would like to share concerns about the facility after hours, for instance, on May 20th. At 9:15 p.m., I witnessed a man and lady leaving the picnic benches after having sex. There are many times when people are smoking pot blasting music for my renter to hear or just hanging out. The staff facility should surely recognize this loitering problem because they have cameras. The problem could easily be solved with a fence gate around the property. As Star Corporation grows, so does the number of employees, which means they take street parking during working hours. It is very inconvenient for the many duplex residents on pine. For the past years I've watched the area surrounding the star facility on Wardlow and proposed star urgent care grow in crime. I speak from firsthand experience. Long Beach needs to be needs to help the residents in this focused area and make every effort effort to make the neighborhood more resident friendly. The new businesses should be resident friendly and responsible 24 hours, seven days a week. The staff facility on Wardlow is not resident friendly to their immediate neighbors. I am deeply, deeply concerned about the proposed urgent care and their responsibility to the neighborhood. I am I am opposed to the proposed mental health urgent care at 3200 3230 Long Beach Boulevard. Linda Shelton. Scott Shelton lives at 33, 64, 33, 66 Pine Avenue. The duplex is adjacent to the star facility on Wardlow Avenue. I rent the bottom duplex with my wife and four year old son. We have lived here for just under five years. The staff facility on Wardlow is taking a lot of the parking on Pine. There are many duplexes on pine and parking is scarce. They have a good sized parking lot on Wardlow. But as their clients and employees grow, so does their need for parking after hours. The building, the building's patio welcomes homeless people and pot smokers. Homeless people have access to an exterior electrical socket. The property is not adequately lit at night and weekends. The building alarm goes off and there is no follow up. I will look out to see what triggered the alarm for my family's safety. But no one from the Star Corporation nor the police ever follow up. The Star Corporation does not take responsibility for what goes on outside the building and neighborhood. Within the past nine months, my family and I have experienced an increase in in crime to break ins at night with the family inside the house. One home invasion last week. Intruder in the house when I came home. Why? Wife robbed on Pacific World before cell phone. Car battery stolen. Car vandalized with graffiti. Mailbox theft repeatedly caught on camera. Car break in. Gas siphoned from car twice in April, three different neighbors, car windows bashed in, small things stolen. I just just want to interject. I know that the appellant is Mr. Karman, right? Yes. Okay. So are these the testimony from other neighbors? Are they part of Mr. Carmen's testimony? Yes. Okay. I just want to confirm because I want to make sure it's Mr. Carmen's words. Yes. Okay. I speak from firsthand experience. I oppose the proposed mental health, urgent care at 3200 3230 Long Beach Boulevard because their facility on Wardlow is not responsible for the local residents. The area proposes a high crime area, a growing homeless community, and already has numerous social service facilities. This Wrigley neighborhood needs more resident friendly businesses. The city of Long Beach needs to help the residents in this focused area and make every effort to make the neighborhood more resident friendly. Thank you. Thank you very much. Although Stevens saw an Olive Stevens. Allen. Okay. Mayor Garcia, members of the City Council, thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. I live at 3193 Long Beach Boulevard. That address is significant because it is directly across the street from the site where staff behavioral health group wants to open their behavioral health urgent care center. I am here this evening to ask that you uphold their conditional use permit but require staffers to select a location for it in a non non residential neighborhood, not at 3200 Long Beach Boulevard. Proponents of the location say those of us who oppose it don't understand what we're opposing. Since being first being notified in January. Star's intention to open the book across the street from my house. I have learned quite a bit about this proposed mental crisis center. I've attended neighborhood meetings, two hosted by staff representatives and many others organized by people like me who live in the area and are concerned about what the book will mean for our community. There's a false narrative being put out that we oppose mental health that could not be farther from the truth. Speaking for myself and several hundred of my neighbors whom I've talked with about the book, we are persuaded of the need for urgent care services for people experiencing mental health breakdowns. We support mental health. We support the book. My late mother would be upset with me for telling her story, but I think it's apropos here and she's not here to stop me. In February 2010, my mother experienced a mental breakdown aboard a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico. My brother and I had to fly her back to California because she was kicked off the cruise for assaulting the ship's doctor and nurse, as well as my sister in law. That whole experience, especially the flight from Cozumel, Mexico to LAX, was one of the most horrific experiences of her life or mind, made even worse by the fact that we didn't know what to do with her upon our return. My brother and I took our mother to an emergency room in Burbank. Once she was checked in, we went back to her house to catch some sleep. All night long, she kept calling us on the phone to ask whether we were playing tricks on her. She thought we were sneaking up behind her, then running to hide behind the wall so she wouldn't see us. The whole time she believed my brother was really himself. But I was an imposter. She was completely delusional. The hospital staff refused to take the phone away from her because they said patients are allowed to make phone calls. They didn't know how to treat her, and the next day they transferred her to a mental care facility where she remained for several days. If there had been a mental health crisis center like the duck for us to take her to, we would happily have done so. The staff there would have known what to do for my mother. It would have been wonderful for her and also for us. I tell the story because when I spoke at the Planning Commission meeting on March 20, sorry, March 30th, asking for the buck to be located somewhere other than across the street from my house. Supporters of the buck told me, I don't understand. They said if I knew what benefit this facility would provide the community, I would be in favor of it. The fact is, I do understand. I am persuaded of the need. I'm in favor of the facility, but I'm also realistic. My mother, one of the kindest, mildest, most well-mannered people I've ever known, was kicked off the ship because she violently attacked three people. People in the throes of a mental breakdown are not responsible for their actions. They're not bad people. They're not criminals. They're people who need help. And they need a place to get help. But to say that they represent no threat is disingenuous. Most mentally ill people don't attack people, but some do. Most mentally ill people aren't dangerous, but some are. Most mentally ill people won't cause harm to people or property, but some will. And my house is right across the street. Driving down Long Beach Boulevard gives the impression that Memorial Heights is a business district. But appearances are deceiving. An aerial view reveals houses and apartments lining the west side of Long Beach Boulevard from just below the four or five overpass down to 31st Street. Be tucked behind 3200 Long Beach Boulevard houses fill the entire span to Atlantic Avenue behind my house. They stretch all the way back to the L.A. River. There are literally hundreds of homes within a two mile radius of the building where stars wants to open the buck. Hundreds, maybe thousands of residents live there with their families. Yet when those of us who attended the neighborhood meetings went door to door and set up at first Friday to speak with our neighbors, we found that most of them had no idea that stars wanted to move in. They, like us, are concerned. And nearly 500 of us have signed a petition to express our concern. We are concerned because a mental health crisis center will have a detrimental effect on our property values. We are concerned that the city of Long Beach, the seventh largest city in California, seems to be concentrating the full spectrum of social services in our small neighborhood in rather than distributing them equitably throughout the city. We are concerned because our neighborhood is already experiencing an influx of homeless and transient people, a significant proportion of whom are mentally ill, drawn by services like the Salvation Army Food Bank just down the street, according to an article in the Long Beach Press Telegram dated November 21st, 2013. Long Beach already has the fourth highest rate of unsheltered homeless people in the United States. We're seeing them camping under the freeway overpasses, panhandling in the medians at intersections, and wandering around the parking lot, shopping centers and blue line stations. And now stars proposals to bring more mentally ill people into our neighborhood from all over Long Beach, as well as from Orange County. We don't object to people in need seeking services. We object to the likelihood that unharmed people with mental illnesses will remain or returned to the area once they receive those services. Mentally ill people are not criminals, but they sometimes do cause damage to property and persons. Even as we sympathize, we recognize them as potential threats to our families and our homes. We are concerned because the best staff will have neither the ability nor the authority to prevent mentally ill people from walking out of the facility and staying in our neighborhood, Star says. This is not their preference. It's not ours either. Star's representatives promised 24 hour security, but that security is for their facility, not for our homes. They address the members of the City Council. Please uphold the conditional use permit, but please require stores Behavioral Health Group to move their urgent care center to a nonresidential part of Long Beach. Let the buck stops here. Okay. Thank you. Next up, I have on behalf of Delgado. Right. And was there someone else? I just couldn't find a place to sit. I'm just. I do want to speak, but I'm not. Okay, then just grab a crab. Go ahead and just grab another seat. Ma'am, I don't want to have you. There's. There's a few seats right over here. Thank you very much. Every time I find you. Okay, great. Go ahead, sir. Thank you, honorable mayor, members of the City Council. My name is Ben Jasper. I'm speaking on behalf of the law offices of Douglas Otto, who represents third party appellant. Khalid Tansey. Dr. Tansey is an actual and equitable owner of this property since 2012. We're here as an appeal, of course, from the March 30 decision of the Planning Commission. You have each received honorable mayor or members of the city council, and the city attorney received a may 18 letter from the law offices of Delgado. I would ask that that be part of the record here today. There are. It's a lengthy letter with number of exhibits. I don't need to repeat the entire letter here. I would like to hit on a few highlights if I could. One is that there is currently litigation over who actually owns this property. This litigation is pending right now in the superior court in the city of Long Beach. You'll not find that anywhere in the application. Isn't that funny, that the litigation already existed at the time the application was filed? But it was not declared openly to you. One must wonder why. The next thing is that the application refers to the property as vacant. Dr. Swansea has continuously operated a medical practice at that facility. Why was that not openly declared? Well, some will say, oh, no, he's not there. But two H Properties 3060 LLC. The claimed title holder to the property at present actually entered into a stipulation in the Long Beach Superior Court in early 2017 that acknowledges that Dr. Tanzi has a medical practice, yet at that location has a lease for that facility that he's using and that he's welcome to stay there as long as he continually pays rent. Has that ever been disclosed to the city or the city council members? I don't think so. One must wonder why. We next need to look at what is the impact of this of the conditional use permit. Once it's granted, it forever changes the complexity or excuse me, the the actual uses of that piece of property. Well, you're being asked to change the declared use of that property by someone whose title is put at issue in a legal process. If Dr. Tansey is successful in the lawsuit. Dr. TANSEY if the cup is granted, tonight will be handed a piece of property different from the piece of property he owned in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. All we're asking. We're not against medical mental health. We're not for mental health. We're not taking a position at all in that regard. All we're asking of this city council is that it delay this proceeding until after the court system has determined who is the true owner of the property to determine whether or not Star's has a valid lease to the property, which will permit their development of this facility. If they don't have a proper lease, they have no right to develop the property. I'll be happy to answer any questions anyone might have. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you. Okay. And just so I know that this was an issue that was brought up as well as the planning commission. And so I know our city attorney is going to comment on this in just a minute. But I do believe that the property owners attorney is also here. And so Mr. Parkin has asked that he be allowed to do a short comment on this or a rebuttal to this. And then we're going to turn this over to our city attorney, and that'll close the appellant's portion. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and members of the Council. My name is Larry Cagney of the law firm of Kreeger and Kreeger. And we represent the property owner to Property 36. Earlier today, I submitted a letter, along with several exhibits to the city clerk. And I hope you've had an opportunity to review those. I'll draw your attention to two documents. They are really the key documents that should concern the Council with respect to this issue of ownership of the property. Exhibit one is the deed that Dr. Tansey executed in 2014 in which he transferred. All right. Title and interest to the property at 3200 Long Beach Boulevard to PUR and goes to an LLC. The second document that is critical to the Council's consideration is Exhibit two, which is a deed from J. K Perron Guster, LLC to to which property 3060, which was executed in October of 2016 last year when two H paid $2.65 million for the property and in an arm's length transaction. Now, Mr. Otto's appeal was voluminous and he raises countless points in it, and there are answers to all of those points and which contests all of it. And we could respond to each of those points, but we don't have that time here and we don't have the procedures here to examine all of these disputes and and all of the evidence. But the good news is that's happening somewhere else. That's happening at 275 Magnolia Avenue in the Superior Court. Those proceedings are underway. They are on track for orderly resolution. And there is no reason for this body to delve beneath and behind the record title to this property, to weigh in on what we believe to be farfetched claims by Dr. Tanzi that that he owns the property . Mr. Jasper commented that the fact of the stipulation that was entered between two agent and Dr. Tansey, by which he is remaining in possession of a portion of the building, was not disclosed to the city. And I have to take issue with that because I personally delivered that document to the Planning Commission on March 30th when we addressed this issue the last time around. And with respect to Dr. Torrance's claim of operating A and ongoing practice, I don't know how many of you have been by that property, but two inches there regularly and I go by there regularly. Dr. Tansey is not active there. No one has seen him there for six months. What we have here is an attempt to delay and frustrate a very much needed project in this city. And we would urge the city not to jump into this issue of of the claims of ownership and to instead defer those decisions to the superior court at to 75 Magnolia. Thank you. I'll take any. Questions you have. Thank you very much. So I'm going to I'm going to allow our city attorney to comment to me. I know that our attorney office addressed this at the planning commission level as well. So, Mr. Park. I'm sorry. I'm not real. Good, actually. I'm sorry. It's it's not it's not comment yet. It's okay. That was for the appellants Mr. City. Mr. Park in thanking. Them it was the city council matters. As you indicated, this matter that was brought up by Mr. Otto's office and the over the ownership issue is currently pending in the Superior Court. That's the only thing that I think everyone can agree on. The the issue of of the applicant and the owner. Of the property did submit an application under penalty of perjury that they're the owner. They did provide a valid title. The staff had done a title search and title insurance. And under the Streamlining Act, we don't believe it's appropriate that the Council will have to wait this matter, although it is scheduled for trial in September. And unlawful detainer, I believe. In the end of this month could be appealed, could be continued, and it could be two or three years before the legal issues are over. And so we felt that it was appropriate and within the Planning Commission's jurisdiction to deny the appeal, to continue this, to allow the resolution. And we do not have any basis to change that opinion. Thank you. So with that, we have concluded the appellant's portion. The applicant does get an opportunity to rebuttal any of the appellant's comments just for 2 minutes, if there's anything that you want to add. Thank you. Just for clarification on a couple of items that were mentioned by the other appellants, the couple mentioned that we are going to be serving individuals from Orange County. I don't know where that came from, except perhaps my statement about the location being equidistant from the Orange County border. It will not serve Orange County. This is a L.A. County program. Orange County actually already has one of these urgent care centers, and they're in the process of opening a second one. Secondly, that there was a discussion about the need. And well, let me first talk about the discussion about our office at 100 Wardlow. Just for clarification, that is not an urgent care center. It is a counseling office that operates during daytime hours. This is the first I've heard that individuals are smoking pot and having sex on our picnic bench. We will certainly address that. But actually we had positive feedback when we had our meeting with the Del Mar Association that's most proximate to that location. People didn't even know that that site was there. There was talk about drug dealing going on, on the street, in front. And as a result of that, we actually added cameras and lights to the front of our building in response. That was the first we heard that. We're happy to work with the community. We'll certainly address this issue that we've discovered this evening. I'll leave it at that. Thanks. Thank you. So. Before we go to the counsel conversation, deliberation will go to public comment to start off public comment. We do have a member of the school board that's here that's going to make comments on behalf of herself and the school board. And I know the county supervisor has a deputy that also makes some comments and everyone else please public comment, come forward. Good evening, Honorable Mayor, City Council members. My name is Megan Curr. I'm the vice president of the Board of Education for Long. Beach Unified School District. And a proud eighth District resident actually reside just a little over a mile from the proposed facility where I raised my three children. I want to thank the Planning Commission. For their very thorough work and their very fair decision to move this forward. As a member of the school board, we fully support this facility. Fully support. On record with STAR is a letter. From our assistant superintendent, Dr. Tiffany. Brown of Student. Support Services, talking about the great need that this will fill for our families and our students. As a native. And lifelong resident of the area. And having a personal stake in this as well as being a school board member. We need this facility. And we need this facility as soon as possible to serve our students and their families. There's a lot of other izing happening here about the others who will come and be served by this facility. This facility will serve us. This facility will serve my family. This city. This facility will serve my friends, family, my friends, children, our communities, families and children. So I stand before you today and strongly urge you to support the Planning Commission in supporting our families and our children in a very. Accessible. And close proximity center where they can get the help that they need in the moment that they need it. Thank you for your consideration tonight. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am her Linda Chico. I'm a representative from Supervisor Janice Hahn's office. The new county supervisor, the fourth supervisor supervisory district has a letter of support that I'd like to read into record. Dear Mayor Garcia and City Council. I am writing in support of the permit for a proposed Long Beach Outpatient Behavioral Urgent Care Center, which will be operated by the star's behavioral health group. Too often, individuals who suffer from mental health crisis are not given the adequate care and services they need to make a positive shift in their lives. Instead, they may end up cycling in and out of hospitals and jails. The Urgent Care center would provide a safe, effective alternative for these individuals. This will reduce the impact on hospital emergency rooms. The Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. I am committed to working in partnership with you, city council and the residents of Long Beach to ensure that the operator is able to provide care in a way that is acceptable to the community in which it operates. Thank you for your consideration in advance. Sincerely, Janice Hahn, Supervisor, Fourth District. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. I hate public speaking. I get really nervous. I'm Michelle Gray. I live at 3616 Pacific Avenue. My husband and I have been there for 30 years. We have seen a big change. In the neighborhood and in the area. We are tired of feeling like the city crams down our throats what they want to do. I do believe this is a necessary thing that we need, but it's not needed in this neighborhood. They need to find a different place to locate this. From what I. Heard, it sounds like it's not even. A legal matter that this guy doesn't even have the deeds, the rights to do this. I'm confused about why we were even considering it in the first place. And secondly, I just wanted to make a clarification. I believe. This is on the south. Side of the four or five, not the north side. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, I'm Lisa Jacob. I'm a Long Beach resident of the third district and I work at Community Hospital Long Beach. I think that's in the fourth district. I am in support of this mental health care. I'd actually suggest changing the name to mental health instead of behavioral health, but that's okay. I do also agree that the burden would be lessened. The local Long Beach emergency departments, mental health patients have very special needs and so often people seeking mental health services, they don't know where to go. So this this urgent care would be have staff to triage these patients appropriately, as opposed to the emergency department where we're dealing with gunshot wounds and medical crises and all kinds of things. Someone mentioned that the there might be dangerous people coming, that the police would be bringing dangerous people, I believe, by Long Beach police departments. They are police officers are very well trained and they know if they have someone who's 51, 50 violent, that they'll take them straight to community hospital where they will be properly handled and hospitalized. So I think we need to give credit to our Long Beach police officers who they know they can do a lot of triage in the in the field. So those types of patients wouldn't be brought to this urgent care center. I also want to verbalize that as we would be welcoming to partner with this urgent care. So we're just a phone call away if somebody does need to be hospitalized. There are several hospitals in the area that do take 5150. So thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Thank you very much. My name is Dr. Maria Chandler. I'm the chief medical officer of the children's clinic. Dr. Lisa Nicholas is our CEO and has submitted a letter of support. I've been the chief medical officer for 25 years. The children's clinic, despite its name, sees patients of all ages. We have 11 sites in a mobile unit, all located in Long Beach. We are a community health center where a patient center and medical home, and we have integrated behavioral health with primary care. We see 40,000 of the most vulnerable patients in Long Beach every year. We we do 125,000. Visits in a year. We have over 60 physicians and ten behavioral health therapists. Who see many with acute illness. We do about 400 internal behavioral health. Referrals per. Month in our clinic system. We have partnered with stars for many years. We don't believe that the ERs and the hospitals are the answer. To most of the mental health patients that we serve. We are helping. To train Long Beach and trauma informed care. Dr. Nicholas and I have gone around and trained thousands of staff to. Respond appropriately to. Those in crisis. We fully support the urgent care. It would. Do. An incredible service to both our. Providers by relieving them on having a place to send our patients and to our patients. In crisis. And this location. Happens to be very convenient to those that we serve, especially our largest site, which. Is located on Atlantic and 28th, just a few blocks away. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Roman on it. I'm from the fifth District. This is a little bit difficult for me to to talk about this. I have a relative that has a mental illness, and I'm not going to get into that. But I've had some friends that I grew up in high school that are not all that they had schizophrenia. That's a very difficult thing to to work with and. One of the most difficult things for me is I understand the the issues that that the Wrigley area is talking about. And I don't know how to address some of the parking issues or anything of that nature. But I do support having some kind of a psychological facility. In in this the city, it's so valuable to have. I don't know all of the details and I don't want to try to guess it. Let's do this or let's do that. As it relates to parking or the location, I hope that the City Council will be able to use their best judgment with the information that they have to to do what's right. One of the things that I did notice is that there's a lot of security issues that that people are concerned about and ordering as a suggestion. One of the things that I think would be good and that's been suggested to me, I guess, from others as well, is perhaps having some busses that would take the people back to where they came from. This might help relieve some of the, you know, the congestion that we have. In addition, I was doing my best to listen to the. The other folks. I do agree that having a licensed psychiatrist on staff 24 seven is certainly more than recommended, is probably required. I would definitely say that. There's a lot of things that I've grown to understand as I've gotten older in seeing a lot of these people with the psychological problems that we have. And I've also seen my own councilperson struggle with this type of. You know, issues with her district. And this is a difficult problem. I know. And I just. I don't know what to say about the Wrigley District. There's a density issue. I know. And. It's just a tough one. I don't know how to say it, but other otherwise, I'm in agreement with the facility that you guys deal with the rest soon. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Is evening. Honorable Mayor, members of the council. My name is Rene Castro. I'm a proud resident of the third district. And here tonight, on behalf of century villages at Cabrillo, we are a permanent supportive housing community located in the seventh District. Thank you, Roberto, for your support. We're here tonight to support this facility and request that the council move forward with the application. This is obviously a huge need within our community. It serves a very vital gap. It's cost efficient, supports our police officers or fire, provides a safe place for residents to find a place where they can have a safe space to heal themselves. And speaking personally, being it at century villages to be exposed to. We have 1300 people that are all formally homeless. And at some point I'm sure we're in crisis like this. And now we have a vibrant community. Today we had a wonderful fair and to see those those residents who at one point were in crisis now thriving is a wonderful thing. So we hope that you do the right thing. I know you will. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Thank you very much. My name is Debbie Freeman. I'm the director of clinical services at Jewish Family and Children's Service of Long Beach in West Orange County. And I'm here to speak on behalf of our facility in support of the Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center. JFK provides much needed mental health counseling and other social services to over 1600 people every year. We assist people of all religions, ethnicities, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation who are struggling with issues like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, and a multitude of life's other challenges. We're here to support the individuals and families of Long Beach who need your help. I have prepared a long example for you. I'm not going to give it because you've had multiple examples of the need for this. So all I really want to say is that the people that we would refer to this type of a facility are not homeless. They are not a danger to others. They are community members who are in need of help. And we urge you to support this. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, City Council. My name is Manolo Montoya and I may be 12, but I totally go for this project idea because one not only is it helpful, but two, it's just like convenient for everybody because Long Beach, we have all seen the herd that is on this place. And what if we can shift this around, be using this facility? And that would be great because that would be actually be a ticket to getting rid of homelessness. And I've been told that it takes a village to raise a child. And today, I want to talk to you about the child from the village that needs your support. Albie USD has been serving our special needs students for over 40 years and all students graduate annually on average about the age of 18. So our graduating, where I have those special needs students gone. They've stayed right here in Long Beach, L.A. County, eight. That's where when they need urgent behavioral assistance. Where do you want them to go? Harbor UCLA. Harbor UCLA is scarier than prison and filthier than anything you've ever seen. I'm sorry. It's. That's true. Yeah. Okay. Do we want our special needs students to be heard and helped? Of course we do. They're our. Children, and everybody deserves a chance to learn. Equally, special students, regular grades. Why would Long Beach benefit to have a. Behavioral urgent care clinic? If you visit Harbor UCLA, like I said, then you would truly know why our special needs children and adults need their care to be a lot more special. It's honestly a title giveaway because it's because we're not educating them to fit ourselves. We're educating them to fit them. And about some facts about the U.S. which really dedicates and why we need this building is that did you know that approximately over 5% of the US residents have a serious mental illness? We're talking savage nurse. World Health Organization reports that substance use and mental illness are the prime cause. A disability, mental health and suicide are connected. In their prayers. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for ages 10 to 24. More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease combined. Each day in our nation there there's an average of over 5000 to 140 suicide attempts by young people, grades 7 to 12. Four out of five teens who attempt suicide have given clear warning to this. Ladies and gentlemen, see the need and be the village that helps read this, the child and approve this proposal to help our local citizens right here in Long Beach together. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. How do you follow that? So my name is Joanna. Archangel and I'm. Here to represent. Project Return Peer Support Network. And we'd like to show our support for a star of Youth Mental. Health, Urgent Care. And I want to speak to you too. As a peer myself, I represent the mentally ill as well. When you see that, when you hear those words, you don't see your face. But here I am before you. And I've experienced homelessness and hospitalization, and now I'm working as the program coordinator at Hacienda of Hope, the peer run respite care center. And we'd also like to offer our services in support of this behavioral health care urgent center. And we would be honored to do so at what we do here at Hacienda of Hope. We're actually located at Century Village. Is that Cabrillo as well? And we have ten bedrooms staffed with peers only, and we don't have any clinical or medical staff. And we service about, I'd say, 3 to 400 individuals. With mental illness within the past four years, less than four years that we've been open. And I can tell you that much that we've only had to call the police that maybe. Five times within those four years. And it wasn't a threat to them, our neighborhood, but more to themselves. And so the program we would provide also immediate access to treatment for people experiencing a mental health crisis. Having immediate access to treatment drastically reduces the spiraling effect of. Going untreated or mistreated in other environments where maybe the individuals there are not as trained in mental health. It will be a police hospital, emergency rooms. Family members, professionals, quick access to those in need due to lower wait times for the treatment. It also adds an unmet need in Long Beach by offering another treatment option in our service system, where those in need can be seen in a more timely manner, which actually increases the chance of follow up care. And again, I urge you to look at mentally ill is a different definition. I stand before you as the mother of a toddler child who is three without the services that were provided to me. I wouldn't be here in front of you today. And we would really love to support this urgent care. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Stephanie Dawson, CEO Council District two. In 2016, my best friend in the world, the man who was the best man at my wedding, was living downstairs from us at the time and had a bit of a relapse from a serious alcohol problem that he's been dealing with over the last couple of years . For the next three days, he walked himself inside of his room and was continuing to drink himself. Frankly, to death with no access to food or any other services. Myself, as an attorney who has been trained in legal service and. Helping people access legal services. My sister, who is a. Waste and social worker and works in a mental health facility in Riverside County, all in myself with experience. Working for the city of Long Beach and knowing all the services that we have available to them, we're unable to to. Assist them at that time. I called every single resource I could possibly think of and for getting a and this may be going to shorten the people were saying that we have enough services in the city for an acute alcoholic suffering from a acute mental health crisis at this point and a corresponding relapse. It would take him a month in the city of Long Beach to get a bed for detox, something that should be happening immediately and corresponding with. Mental health treatment. Frankly, we by the grace of God and by the really good support of the folks that they will be, PD were able. To get him a 5150 status and a bed inside of community hospital where he received. The treatment. That he had that he needed and is now working a great job in the state of New York. I'm telling the story, frankly, because this is I mean, I just can't believe the people who are coming up today. And saying that this is something that is redundant care or. Unnecessary. This is an extreme need, you know, regardless of the status of the income of the people who are going to be coming into it. This is a human right. Access to mental health facility to mental health is something that. God forbid, we as individuals don't need. But at the same time, it is something that we're all one loss of a job, one substance abuse problem, one traumatic event in your family from having. To access it. Any one of us, regardless of what background we're coming from, regardless of our educational levels, regardless of the amount of money in our pocket, we will need this. There's a good possibility that at some point in your life, so many in this room is going to need this facility. And if we don't have it, I don't even want to think about the consequences. So please vote in favor. Of this today. Thank you. Thank you. Where just because of the length of the public comment as well as the one other large item we have today, we're going to go down to 2 minutes without objection. And the council's there's no objection from the council to that. So most of you've been going actually 2 minutes already, which is which has been great. So 2 minutes. Hi. Good evening, Mayor and council people. My name is Colleen Trish. I grew up in the Wrigley area. I now live about a half a mile north of the facility. And I feel that if that facility had been there when my brother needed help, he would be here today. He was arrested over on Willow and Main Avenue many years ago. I don't think the police knew how to take care of it at the time. And he is not with us because of not having a facility, as we've been told, is so needed. So I would highly recommend that you vote in favor of this facility no matter where it is. I think we need it in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next Speaker Good evening, Mr. Mayor. When I was not just Ricardo Pulido, a long time mental health advocate here in the community for NAMI, Long Beach, which is National Alliance for Mental Illness. I have two children, adult children who live here in Long Beach, Ricardo and Graciela. Ricky's graduating, by the way, tomorrow from Long Beach State. He's driving. He's a he's on his meds. He's doing excellent. Is a I'm so proud of that young man. And thank you to NAMI and thank you to the stars and to all of our mental health community that we have working together. Like the young man said so clearly for for all of our loved ones, Gracie also is thriving and doing well. But now I like to say that on behalf of not only NAMI, but the Long Beach community in general, I believe that I support the CLP. And what the prosecutor prosecutors said tonight was right on target. I concur with what he said for law enforcement especially. You know, we need to help our city and our IMET teams to be able to have another facility here in Long Beach. You have almost a half a million residents and you could probably use a couple more in the northwest, east and south side of the city. So with that said, I would say that this is long overdue. It's the trend for the for the county you'll be seen as overall you get we are setting the trend setters here in Long Beach for the West Coast and for all of the United States, by the way, because UCS will be the way the wave of the future. This is the way to help our loved ones when they're in crisis. As you heard, I won't be redundant, but Stars has an excellent, impeccable record regarding this. And I would say as a father, grandfather, that if we do this now for residents here in Long Beach, we will see law enforcement a lot of time so they can be out in the streets doing their job, taking care of the safety and the public. And most importantly, for all of our community residents here. We want to be friends. You heard we're going to do all we can to make sure we serve those folks that live in the perimeter of the 1000 feet area. So God bless you. I know you pray and make the right decision tonight. And thank you for supporting the UCC here in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. Mike Speaker, please. Good evening, Kim. Thank you. If my name at the local manager of the L.A. County Department of Mental Health, I oversee mental health programs here in Long Beach and behalf of our provider thin clients we work with. I'm here to express our support for staff development of the urgent care center. While we may have some good mental health programs, but we do not have urgent care program needed in our city. And if proposed, program will provide much needed services allowing mental health clients to be stabilized when in crisis, especially in the evenings and weekends when the clinics are not open by offering immediate intervention support for them to be able to resume their ongoing services in the community. Regarding some of the concerns expressed earlier in regards to increase the homeless in the neighborhood once the urgent care center is up. I would like to share what was written in that Long Beach press release last month, dated April 25th. It pointed out for the past two years the number of the homeless counts was reduced significantly in Long Beach. Unlike other cities, I might add, it's due to some of the excellent work of the city's homeless services and housing programs that have done the good work. While citywide homelessness is down. However, the result also showed a spread of homelessness across the city since 2013. This population shift explains why some of the residents may be seeing more homeless in the neighborhood, and this may be continuing regardless of urgent care than their location. In my opinion, real solutions for preventing homelessness in residential areas is through expanding our collaborative partnership effort and person overseeing a homeless outreach team I oversee called SB 82. So I'm happy to be a partner in the city to join in the efforts of addressing homelessness, along with other existing programs such as Long Beach PD, Quality of Life Team. We also would like to work with the U.S. to take homeless referral, linked them to receive ongoing services and provide a housing support needed in regards to providing housing support while we'll be coming to our community soon. Additional Housing Resources from Measure H. So hopefully it's our department played a significant part in the town planning and implementation of more than a billion of the funding available through Major H. Hopefully that we are able to partner together with the city and provide Long Beach getting its fair share of allocation to prevent homelessness, create more transitional and permanent housing, support the city needed. So with that end, we encourage your support. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello. My name is Michael Anthony Harp. And I think that this world has become very hard and extremely hard and everybody walking around mad at each other. For what? I don't understand how homelessness is one thing mental. Disturbances and other thing. Okay. I had a roommate. That was mentally disturbed and I didn't understand. Where she was coming from, where she was going or where. She was flying to. But all I knew was that she was mentally disturbed and I know what to do with her. I cared about her. I had a heart. So therefore, I stayed there with her and I reached out to her. She finally got the help. That she needed. I'm in for the hospital. All of I'm for it. I'm all the way for it. I mean, I'm that understanding these people that are not for it. I understand where they come coming from to a certain extent, but I don't understand it at all. Half of these people here are mentally disturbed and not even know it and. Have no clue. They have no clue at all. They are. But they're still you know, they're still. But I think what happened to open up. Your heart and given people a chance? Giving people a chance to go do what they have to do. Like opening up the hospital, Long Beach Boulevard. I'm a resident right there on Long Beach Boulevard. What's the problem? I don't know. I have no clue. But anyway. Bye. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. My name is Susan Redfield. I live at 2510 Maine Avenue, which is one mile from this facility. 11 blocks. I've lived there for 13 years with my husband. I'm an attorney and have a master's in social work and I am in support of this. Instead of going into the detail of my father's experience after World War Two as a hero with the China India Burma campaign, with the Flying Tigers, and his return from service with what they called shellshock. Instead of dealing with that, I just want to say, obviously I am in support of this. I think it's really important and I feel that the concerns that have been identified by the residents that live nearby the facility have been addressed with regard to reaching out and other other services in collaboration. I think that when the police and the other agencies that have come up and said that they would like to work with them with stars and this center, I think that that collaboration and as long as well as the cop can alleviate some of the concerns that they have, I live in this neighborhood. I feel it's important to have this facility. I strongly urge you to vote in favor and support this program. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Ross Parsons. I live in the seventh District, also about a mile from the from the facility. And I have a member of my family who lives with with mental illness, as do many of my friends, many of our neighbors. I think there's you know, there's a tendency to look at this as the other. This happens. This is something that happens to to the other, not to us. But it's something that happens to all of our part of our our Long Beach family. There are people who suffer from a treatable illness. And it's a it's an illness that's best treated, not in jails, not in hospital emergency rooms, but in the appropriate facilities. As someone who lives in the neighborhood. I'm sympathetic to the concerns about how about some of the impacts of the neighborhood. But we, you know, eventually hopefully every district will have one of these facilities in it. But this is something that's needed right now. It's something that can be built now. It's something that is funded now. The building's been vacant on Long Beach Boulevard for years. The renovation of it will be a benefit to the community. It will help extend that long, though the rebuilding of Long Beach Boulevard. And I I'm confident that that the operator has addressed the security issues and the will that will make this a good neighbor. Thank you. Thanks, Russ. Thanks, Speaker, please. Hi. My name is Ted Kane. I live at Willow and Main, actually right by word. The previous speaker was mentioning the seventh District, and I'm strongly in favor of this facility. One of the things that someone that some of these we've heard from the neighbors are the concern about the people in the neighborhood who already are marginal and and may be in need of help. And I think that's exactly why we need the facility. It's not a reason to fear the facility. It's a reason to bring it in. One of the things that concerns me a lot of times is we have people in the neighborhood that they don't need the police, they don't need to go to jail, but they do need some help and they need the sort of help that the mental health urgent care said it would be providing. I know I would feel much better knowing that it's there rather than have to wrestle with it with the dilemma of, well, who I call when someone who I don't think needs to go to jail. But but is is cause me concern in my community knowing this facility is there and if they can get appropriate help would be great for the community and I'm strongly in favor of it. I again, I do live in the seventh District. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is Tony Cadmus. I live in the seventh district approximately about a mile from the proposed facility. And I'm speaking in favor of it. I, I think it's it's certainly needed. A lot of comments have already been made. I'll try to be brief. I am sympathetic as the speaker before me, Rose said. I'm somewhat sympathetic to the residents in the surrounding community. I feel that the comprehensive conditional use permit is actually a strong safeguard for the surrounding community, and I think it's a very important component to this project as it goes forward. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker, please. Good evening. I'm John Long. I live in the seventh district within walking distance of the proposed site. I am also a board member. For Mental Health America, Los Angeles. And I'm a mental health clinician. I want to speak to the types of people that I know will be served at this facility. They are people of all ages, all ethnicities, and who live in all neighborhoods of our city. They are devoted parents, dedicated employees and youth with bright futures. In fact, they are probably people, you know, and they're us, since one in five adults will have a mental health condition in a given year. Since they are us, I'm going to start talking about us since we are the potential patients of this facility. We need educated and caring mental health providers to assess our conditions and help us manage a mental health crisis. A proper and thorough assessment like those that Star View will provide will enable us to be connected to supportive services so that we can live healthy and productive lives. I'd also like to point out that the potential benefits of staff you do not end with those of us who arrive as patients, but extend out to all of those who love us. Because when we are healthy, our families are healthy as a community. It is our responsibility to ensure that appropriate care is available. And I will be proud to have star view behavioral health urgent care center in my neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name. Is Karen Weinstein and. I live a little less than a mile, I think, from the proposed facility. And I also work close to the facility. And I kind of want to just say ditto what she said. She said it so well. I completely understand the apprehension that my neighbors have. Listening to some of them speak so eloquently, there's a a picture that's painted of a clientele that really is concerning, perhaps, and scary. But I think I go back to what the representative from the school district said, that we are talking about us, our community, and we need to shift the picture a bit when we're picturing who it is, who's going to be served by this facility. And it's us, our community. And if we shift that picture and think about it that way, I think we understand how important it is that we have this available to our family and friends and others who need this kind of help. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. I'm Frank Mannix on the clinical supervisor with the Long Beach Mental Evaluation Team. And I live in seventh District. I live on Walnut near Ward. One is two points. I think they've already been made, so I'll be one. This will help decompress the problems in the emergency rooms with therapy usage for people who need to be on hold and they're being taken to the emergency rooms where there are there isn't psychiatric treatment. It will also help the teams be in the city more because right now, if we have to take somebody to a hospital, say , harbor and wait three or 6 hours to get in, we're not in the city. We're not patrolling. We're not doing our job well. We're doing our job. But we could be doing more if it was a 15 minute drop off, as has been said here. The other part about the neighborhood, yes, I've got my cards fixed at the garage next door to this facility. I sometimes drop my car off and have to walk home, go up, the bombardment down, ward down. And sometimes there are some characters there. But I'm thinking, you know, if you're going to have 30 people a day, that's three police cars driving by and then driving back out on patrol. So I'm favorable for those reasons. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker police. An evening of air and councilmembers. My name is Steven Burkhart, the community outreach manager for the downtown Long Beach Alliance and also for autistic residents. I represented the to express our support for the proposed Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center along Beach Boulevard. Several months ago, Ken Dunlop made an appointment with myself to discuss the plans for the park. He was very detailed about everything, including security, public and restricted access, the scope of services to be provided to the community. And I thought that the plans were very well thought out and that our show is extensive for a medical office . Our city is blessed with a diversity of people, unique neighborhoods and culture. We have incredible service organizations, great hospitals, great universities, garbage and our own health department. But one element that is missing is an outpatient care center for people who experience a mental health crisis. I think it is very appropriate that this discussion is happening in May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month. One of the pillars of Mental Health Awareness Month is reducing the stigma surrounding mental illness. It is completely acceptable in our society to talk openly about cancer or autoimmune diseases. But too often mental health issues are kept private. One in four persons or one in five, one in four persons in their lifetime will experience a mental health issue, and this much needed facility will allow people to quickly access services similar to a traditional urgent care facility. It is time we treat mental health as important and openly as physical health. This facility will benefit all of the residents of Long Beach, and I hope the Council will make a decision based on facts and not unfounded fears. I would also like to give to the Kirk, please, a signed letter by Craig Hodgson, President, CEO of the DVA, and have copies distributed to the Council. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Patty Laplace, and I used to be your former mental health coordinator for the city of Long Beach. I worked as a mental health coordinator from 2008 to 2015. I can tell you that I used to field calls every day from people looking for help and with the loved one with a mental health crisis and not sure where to take individuals. Many times has been testimonial testimony. Here they talked about going to emergency room and other places where oftentimes waits for very long, oftentimes were not be seen or were referred out to agencies that couldn't handle the problem at the time because of too much of an impact of other individuals waiting to get help. I guess I need to also kind of sort of satisfy some myths that I've heard here earlier. Someone mentioned that Long Beach already has an urgent care facility, which is not true. The current Telecare facility that operates in North Long Beach does not operate as an urgent care center. The other thing I'd like to dispel a myth is I'm not sure where the 14 mental health agencies exist in the city of Long Beach, especially to handle this kind of emergency. Many of our emergency rooms has been testified before, have suffered from overcrowding and would love to be able to have a facility like this. And I want to and my presentation by saying that if this was a medical care, urgent care, I don't think that we would hear some of the protests that we're hearing now, because as anybody who's concerned with anybody with it, with a medical condition, we want our loved ones and significant others have the best care possible and the best availability of care. And I believe that the mental health urgent care facility would supply both for that for that in our community and our citizens in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank inexplicably. I thank you, Mayor and councilwoman and councilman. My name is Alison Crisp. I am a District seven resident mother and mother of two children that live over there and go to school. Small business in our downtown lobby. I support the buck. I'm supporting the buck because not only do I have friends and family that have expired stars and understandably love their experiences with them. But I think our director of the Met team had said that there's a decompress. I think that. This facility will help not only decompress for those that are struggling with a mental. Illness, but those organizations that are out there are organizations that include. MH A are quality of life. Our Heart Team. Many of the churches are nonprofits that are dealing with the homeless outreach on a regular basis. That will help take a lot of pressure off them, including our hospitals and ERs, obviously, and the guys in the room who think you'll know the other ones that help. Paramedic That's what I'm looking for. But most importantly, thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Price They did that to the mom. But most importantly, I wanted to address and a lot of people already talked about this, is that this facility is needed for not only the seat, I mean, for the safety of those that are diagnosed are not even diagnosed with a mental illness yet. Many of those we see. On the streets. I know this facility is not. Geared for those that are homeless. But we none of us want to see those that are not being able to get any help from this awesome clinic without having been be on the street, without having this urgent care facility available. Last night, real quickly, I also want to say that myself and my family. My kids especially, have been over to the. Village on many, many, many, many, many occasions. Down in downtown Long Beach. And I have never felt so safe or can in a facility in my entire life. I feel that their support and again, I support this. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next week, a police. All right. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and members of the city council. My name's Tony Leggett. I'm a homeowner here in downtown Long Beach. And and I'm fully in support of this new, urgent care center. And I applaud your desire to move Long Beach into the 21st century. On this issue, as well as many others, I must say that, you know, 25 years ago, I was a homeless person. I didn't. I lived on the streets in Long Beach. And the with my. And I was, you know, full of mental health issues. And the way my situation got resolved is I ended up in men's central jail in downtown Los Angeles. And that's the most hideous and brutal place that anybody can go to receive mental health services. So I believe this new, urgent care center will be able to respond to people like, you know, with issues like I had 25 years ago. And but another thing I want to mention is it seems like most of the folks that are protesting this are they're afraid of what's going on. And the way to get through that fear is to stand up in, you know, volunteer in a place like this because 20% of 20% of you guys that are protesting are going to need this. And you're going to be much happier to have this resource than the kind of resource I found 25 years ago. So thank you very much and I look forward to your passing this agenda item. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, council members and vice mayor. I'm Robert Fox speaking on behalf of Kono as executive director. Frankly, we could not come up with a vote on this issue that's too complex and we need more review so we don't have any opinion to give to you. So I would like to speak to you privately as myself, Robert Fox, living in the second District. This facility is obviously very needed and I encourage the City of Livy's to continue to reach out for mental health facilities. I do have one concern and it's a historic perspective. I've lived in the city for a really long period of time and sometimes we need to have a historian tell us what we did and what we didn't do in the East Village. Many, many years ago, we had 26 service agencies for the homeless congregated in the very few blocks. And so we did something called a PD 30 moratorium on that particular neighborhood in order to bring a better quality of life to its residents. We were not refusing services for anybody, but by attrition we would make sure that the distribution of services will be more fairly and evenly distributed through the city of Long Beach. What I've heard this evening is there was a concern about density of these kinds of services in this particular district. If that is a concern for us, maybe we should take a look at in the future when we're looking at planning commission zoning to distribute facilities more even handedly throughout the districts so that one neighborhood is not impacted above the other. My other concern, of course, would be as wonderful as our desire is for this facility to to be a success is we do need to have an oversight in terms of assuring the neighborhood, which has a concern that they will not be negatively impacted by the great intentions that we have here. Thank you so much. Make up next, be good, please. Thank you so much. My name is Bishop Barney Redden. I pastor at 1115 North Market Street and have pastored in this city for 20 years. And I'm proud to say that particularly I'd like to address you from three points a parent, a pastor and a mental health professional. Because I am also a psychologist. First, as a parent, I was asked by the Health. Department a number of years ago around the work that I do in HIV to start a faith based support group with HIV, I met a young lady who was HIV at that time, who was about 12 years old, and I made a choice to adopt her. She was HIV positive because she had been severely sexually abused by her stepfather. Unfortunately, we dealt with many mental health issues, as one could only imagine. I can't even tell you how many times I ended up at Harbor-UCLa. On hours upon hours upon hours and turned into days. To get help. From my daughter. I remember in January of 2010, the last year of her life, I told the social worker at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, somebody help me. If there was a facility. Where I could take my. Daughter for three or 4 hours. Where she could diffuse herself. She might not have stepped in front of a car on the 110 freeway. January 31st, 2010. First thing. The second thing is, I've been passionate about mental health for many, many years. I was granted a $100,000 grant from L.A. County Department of Mental Health in 2015 and 2016 to do mental health work in the church. Many pastors don't know what to do. I had a crisis on Sunday where I. Helped some officers defuze a young. Lady, and if I would have had a facility where we could have gone and taken them like what stars is attempting to put up, it would have been fabulous. And then thirdly, the pastors. We need this in this community. Thank you so. Much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good evening, Debbie. Ines Gomberg with the L.A. County Department of Mental Health. I'm a deputy deputy director and a psychologist as well. And I just want to let you know, the department is very supportive of mental health, urgent care centers. And one of the reasons for that is over the last seven years or so, we've implemented a number of them. And what we found is that they're a key continuum in our mental health system of care. Very, very important. And basically what they do is they they provide a mental health service when a client needs it. And our outpatient clinics obviously don't do that. They're open from eight, usually 8 a.m. to about five or 6 p.m.. So it's very important. The other thing I can tell you is that as we look at our mental health, urgent care centers and their performance, only 6 to 8% of the clients that come in for a visit, an urgent care center, are psychiatrically hospitalized within 30 days of that visit. And that's a key metric for us. The other thing I wanted to let you know about is that this is becoming a best practice across the state. And I think I think you've heard that tonight. Many counties have implemented urgent care centers as a as a viable alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. So thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I am Belinda Watson and I live in. Seventh District and I don't have my words together, but I am one to voice it. I am not for the center being on Long Beach Boulevard and I represent a number of the residents that are in that area where we had meetings where we had a meeting and was done at the Vaguely Association meeting. Which story is good? That is bringing a lot of people to say, you know, mental health is need, mental health is needed. And what we did in the community is say, yes, we are, we agree with that, but we just don't need another facility in our area. And so I just wanted you to hear that even though they are good at bringing people from outside the district and in the Long Beach area and people in mental health, but there are actual residents. And I want you to remember those 500 people who sign that thing saying that they do not want that on Long Beach Boulevard. There are a abundance of areas where a facility of that type can be placed and it would not be in a residential area. I went as to want the council to reconsider that particular location. What we need. There are more community oriented businesses that draw our community, the community that lives there to come to there. We don't have an abundance of that. We have it over in Bixby. No. We don't have it in Wrigley. We need more of those and not more behavior services. And even though, you know, I know that there is a big need for it, we need some other things in our community other than social services. So remember those other 500 people that may not be here? I'm representing them. They have. I was astounded when I went to the two of the meetings and most of the people who said that they were in the district were really not in the district when they left the meeting. I have never seen some of these people, so. Thank you for your testimony. We have said. I want you to think about that and those 500 people that are not. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Oh, hello. I am Jonathan Dunn. I may be 17 years old, but please allow me to speak. I am against the mental care mental health hospital at Long Beach Boulevard because there are plenty of mental care facilities, plenty. Of hospitals here in Long Beach. But if you are in Casey, do the hospital in Casey do the hospital over there? Please consider this. If there's if the idea is about security and staff taking care of people. Um. I would say. Dual dual life license psychiatrist. More than one because once not doing enough for a lot of people. So if. You truly care. About the people. Because Long Beach. Is a city which has. A lot of care and. Passion for people. If that's the idea. Or Mitch needs to step up its game. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next for you, please. Mr. Vice Mayor. City Council members and staff. I agree with everyone who has spoken before me. This urgent care facility is needed. However. If if there's a question of ownership to this facility, can you proceed with with putting it there right now? Can you vote on that? Is our city attorney saying that Doug Auto is representing a frivolous lawsuit on on this? What's been presented here? Does it make sense? We have two sides here positioning for ownership on this. And if if our if everybody knows Doug Doug's Doug Auto here and everybody knows his reputation in our community. And if Doug Otto's. Client wins, how is that going to affect that building? How is it going to affect. This facility, which we all need, which we all agree is needed? I don't think you can vote on it tonight without letting the superior court determine that. I say we need this facility. We need it. Somewhere in Long Beach. And I say do it quickly. But I don't see how you can do that. You're not being told. Everything about this legally. Thank you. Thank you. Next week, at least. Good evening. Recap of rich eighth district. You know, I came here tonight to support the need but oppose the location. But I listened to this young man come up here and speak, and he talked about our special education children. I have a special education, son. Most of you know my son. And he has had a couple of bouts. He's he's been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and he's had a couple of needs for some serious behavior intervention. So this facility, as opposed to my having to find it, find the help up at UCLA, would have been incredible. But what I do want to remind you and this is something that you can actually fix the problem. I believe that the problem is if you look at that intersection, look at Wardlow and Long Beach Boulevard. It is panhandlers on every corner. They've taken over the equality storage center and they have a meeting area that they sit at every day with all their belongings. You have the overpass, the underpass that is now home to homeless. You have weeds that are that tall with trash on the sidewalk. It's not a good entryway into our city. And it certainly doesn't doesn't make the people that live there feel protected. So if you worked on not only increasing the police presence, which means we have to grow our police department, but you also worked on having more than one quality of life team in the city. We had to reduce it from 2 to 1 because of patrol needs. If this corridor had a more cared for appearance, if the residents were seeing that it was being better taken care of, they might not be so afraid of the homeless population that has imploded in our districts. And those districts are seven and eight. We are seriously impacted. I know we're going to talk about that later. So thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Larry Tricia. I live about a. Mile up the street from the proposed facility. I live up in Linden. And I just want you to know that I'm in favor of the facility. Just a little anecdote. A young man lives next door, had a had an episode, and his parents. Had to call the police. He went into a catatonic state. They had to drag him down the stairs, but eventually bumped, got him in an ambulance and he was at the emergency room for quite some time, as I understand it. It would have been so much nicer if he had just gone to a decent facility and then then taken to the treatment center. Long story short. He's fine. He's married, he's doing great. And that's good. I want you to know I support the facility. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And while we're at it. I think the gentleman in black jacket is the last speaker. If anyone else is the final call, there's anyone that would like to speak on this issue. Please line up now, because as I see it, the gentleman in the black jacket is the final speaker. So. Okay. So we've got one additional person. Okay. So the speaker's list is now closed. Thank you. Proceed. Thank you. My name is Georgia Case, and I've been in the seventh and eighth districts for 32 years. And having served on the Public Health Re Accreditation Committee, we certainly have heard about the needs. I'm not sure if I can say anything new. Wonderful comments tonight on in support of this very needed program. But I think after 32 years, having really survived the riots and, you know, a robbery in my home dealing with the trials and tribulations over the past 30 years in the city, certainly wonderful experiences, but nothing prepared me for having to deal firsthand with our mental health care system in Long Beach. It is a it was a nightmare. And to put families through these crises of humiliation and truly horrific experiences, dealing with the police department, trying to do the job, the best job that they can, but also emergency rooms and dirty. Private hospitals. So I think this suffering, pain and suffering does need to be documented. It's it's atrocious. And it's really time that we step up and join the 21st century in mental health care for our citizens. Thank you. Hi. My name is Monica Lopez and. I lived for many years in the seventh District. My mom and sister and nephews live there now. I am in. Full support of the program, but I'm also an employee of Started Community Services. I have worked there for 15 years so I can kind of opera more like global with greater perspective as to the services and being also a member of the community. I now own. A home in the sixth district and I am full and support. I cannot offer any more than what's already been said other than I don't fear for my safety. I don't fear for the safety of my mom. Or my sisters or my nephews who will live down the street from the. Park. I can only offer. The perspective that as a mental health professional, I have seen the great work that Star View has provided because I am. One of the people that provide that care and there's nothing more rewarding than when. We meet with clients and we see the tremendous growth that can be done when we as clinicians are given the adequate tools to do our work. And the park will be another of those resources that will be available to us for our community, our community that is in need. And it couldn't have been. Said better than the young man who. Spoke today, especially about our special education program. You know, we are a big city, but we're a small town and we're all intertwined. And we know each other and we know. People who will be greatly benefit if we proceed with this by approving it. And also we will know people who would be faced the consequences if we go the way of not approving it. So as an employee, as a family member and as a homeowner at Long Beach, I fully support this program. Thank you. Thank you. Thank speaker, please. Hi. My name is Cecilia McGill. I live in in the district I have here living here in Long Beach like 29 years. And I support this project because we need it. And now I remember the enemy and I give my time to to other people with mental, mental problems and they see how important it is, this program for our people who is living with severe depression. And we they're not looking to prevent suicides, too. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Jane Case and kind of baby. I'm bummed that Robert and Pat work aren't here, but I have. I've been involved in a long beach for a long time and through the bike station and met many people with social and different economic situations. To me, it's not mental illness. To me it's being confused, depressed, abused, lonely. And you really need people that can help you, give you perspective on your situations. You don't take it to the next level and make really stupid decisions. And I think that sort of thing where people in crisis. Can come and talk to somebody straight up, given their options, and they might even want to go home and think about it and show that to me. Forget the mental illness. It's talking straight up with somebody that needs some help. And talking on a third party. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Blake, and I'm a resident and homeowner in the seventh District live about ten blocks from the proposed facility site. And I wanted to come out here tonight and voice my support for the proposed facility. So I also want to say that the living room neighborhood now for about six years and has seen a lot of positive change, seeing a lot of good things happening in the neighborhood. I know if you read certain Facebook posts and so forth, you would think that things are, you know, going crazy. But I really feel that things are going really in the positive direction for the neighborhood. And like I said, I only have about ten blocks from it, so I'm in full support for it. I really feel that this would be a. A step in the right direction, still on the neighborhoods progressing and changing for the better. And I think this is just a a welcome benefit to and I'll be proud to have in my neighborhood. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. My name is Jacqueline Glass and I am in the ninth District. It's unfortunate that we're going through this over and over again. Regardless of what your people's belief is, the Bible says the poor will never cease. So therefore, we must lean out our hand. We're talking about a critical care unit. For critical. Crucial problems. Mental illness is serious. I'm a mental illness survivor. My grandchildren, my oldest grandson, who's 18, attempted suicide, and my ten year old sweetie pie, Savannah Juana also had issues, whether it's from the home or wherever it's from, wherever it came from, we must address it. And in saying that the reason why we need this is because you can look around and see. I talked to so many care providers. I talked to so many people. As I'm commuting every day, people are hurting. Their families are hurting. They don't know where to go. They sit in hospitals all day. And you have to understand, if it was your family, if was you, if you needed help, as they stated, if this was a medical hospital, be no problem is in a community the zoning laws provides that to be there as the perfect place for a disruptive freeway is you can't we can't you guys can't blame us when I say us. The support of this for the homeless in your neighborhood we have get your community together. You go out and you. Engage staff. You we have we we engage with people. We have the ability to engage. And when we have that engagement, our relationship with people, then you bring hope, wellness and recovery. And that's what we're trying to do here and that's what we're going to do here. And I'm going to make it my business as a recruit and all San Antonio buyers come in. I didn't told the families, we have to deliver on this. I've already put the bullhorn out to say, We got help for you and we're here for you. We have the city with us. We have more people for us than against us. So I beseech you, I beg you, please, we will help you in your neighborhood. We need. This is mandated. Please, by the grace of God. Love you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. And we're going to close the speakers list. So we've had a long speakers lists, so. All right. Speakers list is closed. Yes. Thank you, ma'am. My name is Kevin. I was in high school, and as a youth, despite the issues that come along with the multi facility at allocation location, I think as a community and citizens allowances, you have to accept that there there's nothing really much we could do besides help these people. It's not it's not the the criminal, the sickness. We have to understand the background and the issues. Me personally, I struggle with depression and I see a psychiatrist for three years and I understand how difficult it could be to reach out and actually speak with people. So I think that as with this mental health facility, it's going to be one step closer to minimizing the mental health crisis and that I'm in for support and allowing my peers, along with my peers, that it will be a great it'll be it'll be a great resource to, um, to the to city to have this facility . If, despite the issues, we as a community have to understand that we have to help these people and there's nothing much we can really do. Thank you. Thank you, nick. Speaker. Mayor garcia and city council. My name is sandy villano. I'm an employee of stars and I'm also the mother. Of two adult children with mental health disorders. My family has a very long history here in Long Beach. My mother ran the. Elevator at the Breakers during the war. Where she met. My father and my family would want me to say, this is not about a building. This is not about a neighborhood. It's about providing desperately needed mental health services to very sick people. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Please. Good evening, Council Mayor. I'm Cathy Parsons and I live in the seventh district again, just a mile or so away from the center. I am the face of mental illness. I've suffered from mental illness for 40 years through therapy, psychiatry, medication. Thank God for insurance. I'm blessed. Many people aren't. And those people often can become homeless if you don't have the support you need to move through this devastating illness. It's it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. I've been very lucky because I have a family who supported me. I have a great job with the city for 17 years, and I loved every minute of it. I think if you ask any professional who I worked with, they would have no idea what I was going through internally during all those years. And I would suggest to you that with one out of five people suffering from mental illness, that some of you on the council have family members. And I will tell you, your employees do. I hope it. Changes the way you think about the people you work with every day. Mental disease. Mental disease is like cancer. It's blind. It affects the poor. It affects the wealthy. It affects people with PhDs. And it affects people who are illiterate. It knows no color, no race, no ethnicity. It doesn't care about your gender or your age. And it affects, as we've said, one out of five people, one out of four, depending on what statistics you have. I will tell you that this project has been the best thing ever for me because I have never spoken in public about my mental illness. It was my deep, dark, nasty little secret. So at that point, I want to tell you, I'm here and I'm kicking and I'm wanting to give congratulations to Councilmember De Andrews, who recently, through his hard work and his willingness to stand up for those in need, which other district members, I'm going to have to say, aren't so keen to do approved the center on Long Beach Avenue. Thank you very much. And I would like to. Not knowing the outcome tonight, it doesn't matter. The bravery it takes for a council member to get up and be here and hear people yelling and screaming and whining, both sides. I've been on this side a lot in my in my career. I know what you go through. And for those of you who are brave enough to take on a situation like this in your council district in a coming election year. Bravo for you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Kathy. Next speaker, please. Very good. You do not live in that district. But I thought they had referenced earlier something about mobile services and I would have no problem as a taxpayer to fund every Tuesday night if one of the facilities wanted to send somebody down and set up their shop in the council chamber over coffee room in the back and offer any advice and guidance to those council members that. May need that. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Jill Shannon. I'm director of communications for Stratus Behavioral Health Group. And part of my job in the last month or two has been sending materials to Scott and Plant at the Planning Commission. And so I just wanted to address something real quickly. So a couple of people talked about a petition with 500 names opposing the buck. And I wanted to note that there is also a petition and it's in favor of the program and there's 618 signatures. And of those 339 live in Long Beach and others live in Bellflower, Carson, Lakewood, South Bay, other nearby cities, we are also I think these are in your materials that they've given you, but these are all the petitions with signatures here. Also in the materials I sent Scott with 31 support letters and most of those people were not here tonight. So there are a lot of people on the support side that aren't here as well. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Laura Diaz, Winterset, and I am a District seven resident just a few blocks from the proposed site. A lot of people have talked about the reactive strategies of this facility. But I also want to talk about the proactive. We have a lot of. Families that are in services now that where there is a shortage of psychiatrists that can actually prescribed medication, sometimes people are having to wait four and six weeks to get appointments and this facility will be able to provide those mental health services immediately and also after hours when the surrounding clinics are already closed. I've had the opportunity to live in a neighborhood where they. Had an urgent care center. And never did I imagine that my mom would actually need those services. And when we called around to get services, they weren't able to get her in for about two months to see a psychiatrist. We were able to take her just down the street and she was immediately tended, tended to, and she was able to come home . And there's been other times where they've had to send people to our home to just assessor, and then she was willing to go with them to go kind of take a time out and take a break from her everyday stress. So I just wanted to point that out and I definitely in support of the facility. I think inexplicably. Hi. My name's Heather Morrison. I'm an eighth district resident and I just wanted to come and speak in support of this facility. This is something. I'm sorry. It's really close to home for me. I have family members who are suffering from mental illness. And this would be it truly would be a godsend to have something like this on which there isn't anything like this. I know there's not. I know that when you have a family member who is suffering from some kind of mental breakdown and the police have to come and the police have to help you with your family member, it really, truly does take them four or 5 hours out of their shift to go and take that family member somewhere far away like Harbor-UCLa, like the young gentleman said, it is terrifying, it is traumatic. And we need so many more mental health resources in this city and everywhere. And I just, I. I plead with you to please support this program. We are the face of mental health and it is so stigmatized. If it were cancer or if it were heart disease, it would be a completely different thing. But it's it's a really hard thing to deal with. And we really need this. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Paul Barry. I worked in mental health for about 30, 35 years. And Long Beach, honorable mayor, members of the city council. Finally, I think I'm it you know, I try to read the paper every day and and I often go straight to the obituaries. And the reason why is I just find the stories of people's lives interesting. But I also notice that if you read down those obituaries, you'll see that there's usually a request for a donation, usually to a place that provided desperately needed services to the family or to the lost loved one. I'll tell you honestly, I don't necessarily donate. Because I've read these. Obituaries, but I realize how familiar. I am with the organizations that talk about the American Heart Association, the Cancer Society, the Alzheimer's Association. I know the importance of these organizations because I recognize the possibility that anyone with any of them at any time might be providing, though desperately needed services to me, my family, my 15 year old daughter. The urgent care facility is just like these organizations in one key way. At any time, it might just be providing that desperately needed services to people we know and love. Our own deputy chief of police, Michael Beckman, has said from his own personal experience, no family is immune from mental illness. Now, I know staff has. Made it clear over and over again that this is not a homeless program. And I think we can only conclude that the primary objection then to having this facility in the neighborhood is because these people have mental illness and we don't necessarily want them in the neighborhood. This is a really good night to end that kind of discrimination. Thank you. Okay. We are going to go ahead and close the public comment portion of the hearing and let me go ahead and go into public deliberation. So I'm going to start with Councilmember Marengo and we'll go from there. Thank you, Mayor. You know, this is one of those agenda items that really puts a face to an issue that's not discussed a lot and not discussed openly. And it's one of those agenda items, too, that puts us as our as your elected officials in a quandary. At the same time that we want to do the right thing, we also have the political thing to do and to look at. So before I go on any further, I would like to ask staff if they could put Slide eight up on the screen again. Yes. So that we could have a constant view of what it is we're talking about, because I'm going to be bringing up some people that I want to ask questions about the facility, including our our applicant. But right now, if we could have representatives from the police department and the health department to please come to the back . I have a couple of questions that I would like to ask. Let me know when you're ready. Okay. What about this for the police department first? When a police officer picks up an individual with a mental health crisis. What are the steps that a police officer goes through to to help that that individual? Meaning Honorable Member Members of the Council. Councilmember Yang, if you could just repeat the very first part of that. I missed it when I was sitting down. I apologize. When a police officer picks up a person obviously within in a mental crisis. What does a police officer go through to help the individual? Very good. Thank you for the question. When a police officer encounters somebody that's in a mental crisis, they have a number of well, a couple of different options. Number one. The one that some people might be familiar with is. What is called a hold. And that is when the. Person who is exhibiting signs of mental illness and meets one of three categories. Number one being they're a threat or a danger to themselves. Number two is a danger to others. And the third would be gravely disabled if they meet those criteria. The officer has the authority to place a hold on them and take them even against their wishes for psychiatric care. The second part would be if a person who is exhibiting mental illness but does not meet those criteria as an officer is able to try and coax the person into voluntarily seeking services and transporting them to an available place for for such care. And oftentimes. In Long Beach, the Met team or mental evaluation team is utilized to help facilitate. That. The another option would be if the person was exhibiting mental illness. And that was, you know, maybe a reason for our dispatch out there does not meet the criteria for a hold and does not wish to seek voluntary services. If that person has committed a crime, the officer can take that person to jail for that crime. And that may be a fix for the situation at hand. However. Depending on what the nature of the crime was, likely won't have a long term solution. Lastly, absent any crime being committed, meeting the criteria for a 5150 hold voluntary service or a voluntary are self admit. A lot of times the officers just have to walk away because there's nothing that they can legally do. Thank you. Okay. So on a call like that, what would be the typical amount of time that an officer spends with an individual like that? Or let me rephrase it another way, being that this facility is not here, where do officers take individuals with this kind of of a sickness in terms of being able to drop them off somewhere to get some get some help? Typically, we we can take them to a number of different places. Generally, we take them to Harbor Harbor-UCLa medical center. We can also take them to. As was referenced. Earlier tonight by one of the speakers, a community hospital. Places like that, oftentimes places like that have. They're busy and they have difficulty finding a bed and they take up air. Space. Having a place like Harbor-UCLa with the size of care that they have for psycho psychiatric services is good, although they're overwhelmed as well. For people that have insurance. On the voluntary stuff, we can we can seek out those different places a lot of times that are outside. Of the city and will actually drive quite, quite a ways to. Get them the help that they need, even if it's. Outside the city. So regardless, it takes up a considerable amount of time. So what officer is in this type of a call? Are they are they on serve the currently on duty serving as individuals even though they have to drive, say, 20 miles to go to a to another facility? Yeah. They're, uh, they're out of service for the duration of time that it takes to transport that person, to care for their belongings, to fill out the appropriate paperwork. And to turn them over to staff at the facility that they've taken them to when they're ready to receive them. And it could range from a minimum as a couple of hours from one October and could be as long as six. Okay. Now, in terms of training police, are police officers or do you have a special unit of police officers who are specially trained in this area? Or or do all and or do all officers receive training in recognizing a mental health issue? Our police officers get trained in dealing with individuals. Some police officers have a higher level of training. Recently, there was some legislation passed that required field training officers to undergo higher amount of training in dealing with the mentally ill. And in Long Beach, we had the mental evaluation. Team, as mentioned, where we have six officers that are paired up with clinicians. From L.A. County. And just that is that is all they do. They don't respond to they're not dispatched to calls for service, but they respond in the field to. Calls or assist other officers on calls where. Mental illness is an issue. And just by virtue of their assignment, they have a tremendous amount of experience and are also put through additional training as well. Thank you, Chief, for the health department. When there are people who are experiencing a mental breakdown or think that they are, what's where do they go normally? Is there a place for them to go? And if they do come to see the health department through regular hours, what's what's your process, whether you do. So in excuse me, in terms of the in terms of our facility, we don't provide direct mental health treatment and mental health services for the city of Long Beach, comes through L.A. County mental health. So if you are coming in and lower income and are looking for different services, otherwise people could go to their own private providers . But we as a city do not provide direct mental health service. The Department of Mental Health, the rate is approximately 2 to 3 weeks if you have not already participated in their service previously. So if you have a crisis, you're probably going to go to the emergency room because you don't know where else to go. And then you would work with the Department of Mental Health to get an appointment, an assessment and move through their process. Okay. There's been a little bit of discussion and some, I guess, discussion about the number of mental health facilities in Long Beach. Can you clarify that in regards to how many do exists or not exist in Long Beach? You know, we heard the number tonight is 14. We've been racking our brains as to where a number 14 comes from and we're not really sure. So we we will look. But I think what that may be, the Department of Mental Health hosts, they do have outpatient sites within the city of Long Beach, and there are some other nonprofit providers and for profit providers. But the number 14 seems high to us. But we will look and will further fact check. That. There has been some discussion about the connection between mental health issues and homelessness. Can you address that issue? That that that question? Yeah. So many, many of those who are homeless have mental health have mental health needs. So between substance use and mental health, there are concerns for those who are homeless. However, many of those who have mental health are not homeless. So it goes both directions. So I think that, you know, as we talk about those who are homeless and the service and the set of services that are available, the Department of Mental Health co-locate with us at at the Multi-Service Center. So they are directly there. And when someone comes into the front door of the multi-service center, we're absolutely sure ability we have the ability to connect them. As you know, the multi-service center is closed at 5:00 during that on weekdays and not available for on weekends. So as a when someone is in crisis, then this behavioral health center would be the the urgent crisis center. It would be the space that they could go to be sort of de-escalate the crisis and then be able to attach to Department of Mental Health Services from there. Okay. Thank you very much. If I could have the applicant, please come to the podium. They have a couple of questions I'd like to ask. Okay. There's a lot of discussion, as you know, a lot of concerns about individuals who are coming in to the facility and how they exit. The amount of time we spend there. Can you walk us through a typical, maybe even an atypical situation where a person walks into a facility and take it from A to Z, from entry to release for a patient? Certainly. So they walk in there voluntarily coming to the facility. Just so that we can be clear that the facility map is upstairs. I mean, upstairs on screen. Yes. Could you like say they're coming through the switchboard where they come in? Through our home. They come in through 30 seconds. What's what's the process? Okay. So the the walk in component of the facility is on Long Beach Boulevard. And if individuals come by their own accord, there's a bus line there. There's a place, obviously, to park. Typically, though, they're brought there. They're brought by a friend or relative. And they would come in, wait to have an appointment, to be assessed, to be assessed by our clinical staff. And again, we have a nurse, we have a mental health clinician and we have a psychiatrist. And there's an initial determination made of the level of acuity. So the severity of the symptoms that individual is experiencing first, the assessment is, are they in a crisis? Do they have a mental health condition? Assuming they do, then there's a look to see how severe it is, and that informs the clinical team as to how long it's going to take to resolve that issue. So the decision is made whether that can be done quickly. They remain in that voluntary section, the quiet crisis walk in section that's there. That's again, off of Long Beach Boulevard. So that front entrance there, if it's determined that they are higher acuity, that they're going to need more intensive treatment over a longer period than they would likely go on to the adolescent, the child unit or the adult unit. And they can do that on a voluntary basis as well. They receive the services and again, it is a service to reduce the crisis. So they're stabilized, but it's also to facilitate their transition back into the community, to alignment with resources when they go back home or back into the community so that that stabilization is lasting. It's not just at the point where they're able to leave, but it's lasting. So they don't come back the next day, the next week, the next month. And there was some discussion as well in terms of some individuals making regular visits or going on a regular basis to this to this facility. And the concern, obviously, is, is that whether people are looking at this as a as a drug rehab facility or a substance abuse facility. So can you describe pretty much what what you do provide in this facility when somebody comes in and you dispense meds or anything like that? So thank. You. It's a great question that was brought up by several individuals. So to be clear, this is not a substance abuse treatment program. That's part of that initial assessment. And we'll work with law enforcement who all the other agencies that will utilize the program to know that we don't do medical detox. So that's one of the initial looks with just somebody that's going to go into withdrawal or they're going to need that kind of medical treatment. The program is really not designed for that. As has been said, there's obviously a lot of prevalence of substance abuse disorders among people that also live with a mental health condition. So we do what's called co-occurring disorders. We make sure there's a referral into substance abuse treatment if that's needed. But we don't deal with somebody who's on a high level that they'd be going into withdrawals and needing detox. I don't know if that answers your question completely, but that's a good differentiation. The the police chief sister chief mentioned that when an officer is dealing with such a case, they're usually off line. If they have to go travel far distances to go into to take this individual to a treatment center at your facility, what's the regular time that a an officer or any other person would spend with this individual once he or she is taken into the facility? So what would occur if they're bringing an individual and it's typically on an involuntary basis and that's where off the parking lot we have a separate secured entrance to the shuttle that. Would be entering through Elm. Yes. And coming into the lot there. There is a separate security entrance into the adolescent unit and into the adult unit. Our clinicians would do a an immediate assessment, again, ruling out this is somebody that has a physical injury where they really need to go get medical treatment in an emergency room. Are they at a level of intoxication? That's an issue. We rule out whether they are inappropriate for the program. If they're accepted, that usually is decision made in ten or 15 minutes. We actually have a location within the facility that the officers can go and work out. So there's actually a station. They can come into the facility, wait for that determination and, you know, use a computer, use the phone. So we have that set up for them as well. Okay. So in that area off of Elm, is is it gated? Is it fenced off? Is there a automatic gate that would be opening and closing? What's the what's see what's the likelihood of of someone going in through that backdoor to that parking lot late at night or anything like that? Well, part of the conditions is a increase in the elevation of the walls around the perimeter of the the parking area. So that's to decrease the ability to view into the facility in respect for the neighbors. But it is open access to the parking lot. We don't have a plan to out a gate, but one of the conditions that is being asked of us is to have 24 hour security in the parking lot. So we will have a security staff position in the parking lot at all times. Okay. Now, we talked about also they walk ins so people take themselves in and then we have after hours accepting of of patients, what would you described to be your peaks, your your your highest point of getting patients in there? Now, you mentioned 30 per day. What times what day would be your peaks? Well, I can only speak to our experience in other programs in other areas, and there is some difference between them. So part of the process of opening this program will to be to learn what those peak times are. But it is typical that most come in during the day and it's infrequent that somebody comes in after hours. Those are usually individuals that are on a 51, 50 after hours. It's infrequent that a voluntary individual come in, but we'll see that as well. And the peak time, the peak days are usually more on the weekends than there are during the week, more in the afternoon and early evening than in the morning or earlier part of the day. So there's those kind of trends. Okay. Now, there was also mentioned I think you mentioned it earlier during your presentation, that the average stays 4 to 6 hours and then they're allowed to leave and get in voluntarily if they wish to leave. But if they want to stay more, they can. It's up to them or I was that determined. Thank you. So it's a clinical decision made as to when the individual has resolved their crisis, where they're safe to return to the community. And again, that's with supports and linkage to other services to the extent they need them so that that stabilization can be ongoing. You asked earlier about, you know, the the outliers and those are the individuals that stayed the full 24 hours. That's somebody who's having a tough time resolving. And out of those groups, those are the ones that may end up having to go to a psychiatric hospital. They're not able to stabilize at that point. In that situation, we would arrange for the bed. They would be transported by ambulance. As the representative from the Department Mental Health spoke earlier, that's only about 6 to 8% of the individuals that come through the program. These programs are highly effective at stabilizing, which is what they are, of course, they're designed to do to avoid individuals having to be hospitalized. And I guess there's a definition that that I need at this point in terms of stabilize stabilization of a of a patient. What point determines whether an individual is stabilized or not when I guess when someone comes in highly agitated or in crisis and you provide the service, at what point in that process do you determine a person has been stabilized? What are the indicators to you that a person's ready to be released? Well, it's basically the reduction in the symptoms that they were experiencing that put them into crisis or whether that's depression, anxiety, thought disorders. You know, mental health takes many different forms. And for an individual to come into treatment, they have to be experiencing a heightened level of those symptoms. So whether it's through medication, whether it's just time they're working with our counseling staff, whether it's talking to a peer counselor, somebody that had that lived experience that can identify and communicate effectively. With them. We bring all of those resources to support the individual. So that basically is it. It's a reduction in those symptoms where the individual is saying, I feel better, I feel safe to go home again. Now, when they're released, is there a plan for release? Is there a what they call it the soft and to soft? And I forget the term that was. Us, the warm handoff. Warm hand. There, but it's off to feel. Yeah, and I can't emphasize that enough. And that certainly is a part of addressing the concerns of the community, that getting them home, getting them back to a safe place is is part of what we do. It is not just just charging them out the front door. And that would start with transportation, getting them there. And again, typically, there's family members that will come and provide that. If there's no other resources, we will have a vehicle. We will take them where they need to go. Now, one of the conditions, as I read through it, is that the that the Planning Commission put in, there was an 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. open hours for walk ins, and then it's closed down until the following morning, except for those that are brought in by public safety personnel. I would guess. Actually it will accept voluntary clients all the time so they can still come. It's just that front entrance off of Long Beach Boulevard that would be closed outside those hours. And they didn't the planning commission didn't determine those hours we just defined. That's how we would expect to operate. We didn't know it was actually going to become part of the conditions. We're fine with it. As you asked earlier, we'll actually discover, well, what are the peak times that may be that we say, well, nobody's coming in, you know, from eight in the morning till nine. Let's start there walking cetera at nine. The advantage of the walking center is that it has a waiting room. And so when individuals come in there, if we're at capacity, they can wait to be seen. And so it gives us that flexibility to manage the capacity of the 18 that we have that we can't exceed at any point in time. So when you stop the the walking center, you lose that that waiting room and you're limited just to the 18 clients at that point. So the doors that are Long Beach will arc will always be open for somebody to walk in. You know, that's what will only be open during it. And so if there's that after eight. So they would have to come in through Elm if they wanted to. If somebody wants to walk in. That's correct. Okay. I have an issue with that, but we'll discuss that later. When it comes to releases as well, there's, I guess, a rule or a law that says a person can only be held in their facility for up to 24 hours or 23.5 night. If an individual comes in at, let's say, 9:00, right after we checked him or herself in after 4 hours, says, you know, I'm good to go or or the assessment is made that that person's in is free to go and it's past midnight with that person leave, walk out. What's what's a release process for that for that individual after midnight? Again, it's that same process of making sure they're safe and have a place to go. If that individual has their parent coming and picking them up and the parent wants to come and pick them up at two in the morning, we'll release them to their parent, to a family member. Would it be a warm handoff? It would be to say there's a door go. No, we will escort them to the car in the parking lot. They have to show up before they would leave and we would make. Sure you have security. There. Absolutely. But to also answer your question, we give them the I thought you were going to ask is if somebody came in at 9:00 and it's 9:00 the next night and we determine they're safe to go, but it's 9:00 at night, they can stay. So think of it as you've gone to the doctor, you've completed treatment. You go back and wait in the waiting room. You're no longer getting treatment, but you're waiting for somebody to pick you up. They can stay that night and wait for somebody to come in the morning. Let's go to the other scenario. A person comes in at midnight and the 24 hours is midnight. It's the same thing. They can wait till the next morning if they work. In the morning so that they can see an additional 8 hours. So they'll be there 8 hours? Yeah, they're technically not. They've completed treatment. So the 24 hours limits the amount, the duration of when they can complete treatment. But if at that point we've determined, hey, you're ready to go home, but why not you? You have the option of staying until the next morning, until transportation can be more convenient. They have that ability. The state allows that. Okay, stay there for just a bit, obviously. I want to thank everybody who came up and speak tonight because I know you took a lot of time from your from your home, from your families. You probably skipped dinner. You probably missed happy hour. I know I did. But yeah, that's that's that's something else to be told. But I really want to commend everybody who came out here to speak because it's very important that the city council gets all the information that we possibly can on both sides of the issue, because we need to know to to address what the concerns are. And we can then make a determination as to which way the city council wants to go. So I want to I want to thank everybody who showed up today to talk about this, including the the person from the village, the the child in the village. I want to thank you for for being here. And I know there was another young man who was here as well that shows commitment and it shows a passion for being here and and passion for the issue at hand that we're dealing with now. I also want to to say that I had many a meeting with our department, services department and staff, Amy Borek, and we hash things out. We knew she I brought many concerns up and she addressed that and she put some conditions on there with the with 30, 35, 35 special and standard conditions that I think you've agreed to, if you don't mind. Right now, I'm going to mention a few more because I really would like to see if you if they workable for you at the present time. Condition 11 says well under condition 11. I would also like to add the condition that this deal with security that there be two security guards, especially from dusk to two to the morning, only because if we are going to be accepting individuals during those hours, I would like to assure the community that there's that there's security out there to ensure that these individuals get help, that they come into the facility and and they get the help. But there's someone out there vigilant for these individuals who are requesting to come in. Thank you. So just so I'm clear, you know, the condition that was added was for security guard to be outside the facility on the grounds that was in addition to the two security guards we already have. So we will be having three security guards total, 24 seven. That that's a good that it's good to hear. I really like that. Also, I'm concerned about the openness of the parking lot and the ability for someone to or even kids, let's say, gives like open spaces like parking lot, rollerblading gate. Anybody rollerblade. Anymore? I haven't seen a rollerblading in a long time anyway. Or yoga board, skating or whatever, jumping up and down doing the tricks. So I'm concerned about the openness of that, especially into the neighborhood in Elm. Would you consider or adding a being a fenced off area or the wall you say you're going to raise it and perhaps a sliding gate that would provide more security to that facility to to have the neighbors feel safe, safer. It's more secure that the individuals are not going to be wandering off the grounds and into the neighborhood. Well, my first reaction to that is if that's the concern that there's people in the parking lot and coming in because there's not a fence, then I need to get a different security guard because they're not doing their job. Okay. It's not a big area and somebody should be able to to manage that. And I'm also I don't know how a gate would work for that all. I would answer that. Thank you. I don't know how you know, with the patrol cars coming with the gate, I don't know how that would work, but it doesn't seem like it would be convenient for people coming and going. Okay. Is there also an assurance that that parking lot is not going to. Be used for special events such as a buy me a fundraiser or say a taco truck, moon bounce, that type of thing. I mean, I'm not I'm not saying that you can't. But I would say that if if there's if you're going to have one, I would like for you to apply for an occasional event permit on a sweep through the city so that we can look at it and determine whether it's it's a permissible event that you can have. We'd be happy to do that. We only have one event planned, and that's when I hope you come to. That's our grand opening. We'll get an all AP for that. Also, it's. It's it's a new facility and it's going to be something that that is obviously an unknown event right now that we don't know until it opens. So I would also like to add a condition in there that we will review the the the the facility in one year that we look at it and evaluate it in terms of the conditions that are put in there, that the you are biting through the cup and that they're all there. And we will review this at the end. When you go into planning commission, they review it and then they they determine whether we can continue with the with the process or not. Is that good? Is that okay with you? Well, I would respond kind of asking why that's needed. I mean, the my understanding of is there's 35. Conditions and added a couple more so. Well, but we have to abide by those not a year from now all the time. And, you know, we are going to have to answer to the city and to the neighbors if there's a feeling like we've not adhere to any of them. Our commitment is to do that. We're certainly happy to come and meet and talk about it again. What I just want to be sure of is that this is not a one year cup and then we have to reapply for it, if it is my understanding. But we have to come back and talk about this in a year. We're more than happy to do that. We're happy to do that at any time. And you brought up the neighbors. Maybe one last point. Would you be willing to add a hotline for it, for the neighbors, for anybody who's out there, a direct line that goes into a a comment line, let's say, where they might a neighbor may a resident might say, I'm seeing something out here. It's coming from your facility. I want to lodge a a concern or a complaint. Would you be willing to add a line like that? Absolutely. Actually, we want them to call the facility. We will have a manager 24 seven and we will have the the that person take those calls so that hopefully we can address things right away. Okay. Now, the reason the reason I asked about the the review in one year is that if there's one thing I can't stand and it's already been proven is when I have a bad operator or a bad neighbor, I'm not afraid to go after that operator and kick them out. We did that a couple of weeks ago with a bad operator who needed to who needed to go away, where we revoke their cup and we revoke their license to operate. And hopefully this is not going to happen with you. But I, I just need to say that because it's important that the residents and constituents know that we got their back, that they're going to be their concerns are going to be addressed, and that we are very concerned for their self safety and their welfare. So I want to assure that when it comes to the to this facility, as I said, as I said from the outset, you know, there's the political thing to do and there's a right thing to do. And with these conditions with these conditions, I want to go ahead and make the motion to approve the facility. But under the conditions of the CLP, with additional conditions that I added there, and I would hope my colleagues will also join me in that. There's a motion to to deny the appeals and to move forward with the with the facility is. And there's a second on that motion. Councilman Austin. Before before we go, because I want to make sure that I did it right to the city attorney. Well, one more. Question and is to the city attorney. What's the possibility of us at this point approving the copy but not approving the location? Is that possible? No, that would not be possible tonight. Right. So can you clarify I know I said a lot of things here. In my words with Blair. I misspoke. Clarify the motion. Okay. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, Councilmember Ewing, I just wanted to confirm a couple of things. You had asked for a dedicated 24 hour telephone hotline. Yes. That would be responded to that the neighbors could call in. Is that is that correct? Yes. You had asked for a within 12 months of the occupancy of the facility to have a hearing in front of the planning commission to review compliance with those conditions. Correct? Correct. And I just want to state we don't give one year copies, copies run with the land. So this would be a an opportunity for us to make. Sure that those conditions are compliant. And if we do need to modify the hours of operation because of high points or low points, that would be an opportunity for us to consider that. Is that accurate, sir? Councilmember, help me. Yes. So many serves. And then you had asked about a special events permit and whether a special event permit would be necessary. Is that a condition you would like us to craft? Yes. Where they would be required to have a special event permit if they were to hold an event over a certain size. Yes. We just had staff count and I think there's about 67 or 70 parking spaces already at the facility. So we would propose a condition that they would be required to to get a special event permit through the Office of Special Events. If they were doing a special event activity at the facility, that would involve more than 75 people. Is that acceptable? That works for me. My last question for you is that we have an existing condition, number 11, that requires the operator to maintain at least one outdoor security guard at all times when the facility is open to receive patients. I understand to the applicant, that means 24 hours a day. Is that correct? Correct. Council member Did you want one security guard on the exterior or two security guards on the exterior? Well, at this point, I think one would be sufficient. But again, if there's an uptick in complaints, that that would be revisited. Understood. So there is. Mr. Applicant. There are two inside, is that correct? There are two inside. They're not restricted from going outside. If there's a need. For people outside. They can. They can help outside. Like an indoor cat and an outdoor cat. Indoor dog, outdoor dining. Okay, so as I understand it, there are three security guards, but one is clearly defined as being responsible for the exterior 24 hours a day. And then the other ones can certainly aid that security guard as needed. Okay. Then I can withdraw that that comment. Okay. All right. So I believe, Mr. City, Attorney, we have three conditions that we would add to the motion. Thank you. So that's correct. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Austin. Thank you very much. And I want to probably second this motion. I want to thank all of the residents. Will come down in in speaking, in favor or in opposition. It is always healthy to get feedback. Believe it or not, a public comment is my favorite part of the evening coming to city council meetings because I learn so much from our public. I think this urgent care center dealing with mental health will help expand our capacity for health care. Our network in our city. And the impact will be positive on our neighborhoods and not negative. I want to belabor what has already been said about many mental health professionals before. Us that have. Extolled the merits of why this is necessary. And I certainly will agree with that. I speak from experience dealing with family members who have had a mental health crisis. I think it would have been very, very beneficial to to us to have this facility when that both those episodes have occurred in the past. If I think it was mentioned that 10% of the the those participating or who will be benefiting for the services of this this facility are homeless. And that's unfortunate. But I think the other number that we need to pay attention to is the 90% that do have homes. Right. And where are they going? They're your neighbors. They're your family members in and into that. With that point, I think, again, this facility is desperately needed and I think it will go a long way to improving the quality of life for for for residents throughout the city will improve our ability to deliver public safety resources and improve our capacity for for health care overall. And and I would just say that if this was a dialysis center, I don't think we'd have this conversation. If this was a medical marijuana facility, we wouldn't be having this kind of conversation. So, again, I'm happy to support it. And I want to just take my colleague, Roberto Durango for for standing up and being courageous in making this motion. Obviously, this is not going to be something that's going to be met with joy from everybody. But I think the greater good of the city will benefit for having this. So thank you very much and I'll be supportive. Thank you. Councilman Pearce. Thank you. I definitely want to say how proud I am of our council and our staff. Kelly Colby, Doug Halbert, so many people that have really pushed this conversation. They deserve a round of applause because they do. This conversation, sir, I believe you can sit down. I don't think there'll be. Unless somebody asks you to stand back and have a seat in this conversation on how we handle mental health is a conversation that for so many people, we look at people that might be homeless and say, Gosh, why are they homeless if they only could have gotten help somewhere? So this is not about how many people we're serving that are homeless. It's about how many people were saving from becoming homeless. This is about being able today to take a vote on something that could save somebody's life tomorrow. I want to say thank you to everybody that shared their personal stories of personally struggling through mental illness. Kathy, I really appreciated hearing from you. It's hard for people to share that. Mental health is something that we don't talk about, like we talk about cancer or anything else. And because of that, it is that much harder for ourselves, for our coworkers, for our family members to find a resource because we're not talking about it. We all want to say, well, I know somebody five or move that struggled with that. You know, I grew up in a household where my I had mental health issues all around. My biological mom was murdered. So they struggled with mental illness and her relationship. My adopted mom passed away in 2009 because she committed suicide. And so I've struggled with my own challenges in dealing with that. So I'm really proud of our team today for doing this because it's a good step in the right direction and it makes us talk about it. And I know. Thank you. Thank you. And I know it's not supposed to be the cool thing to do to cry behind the dais, but I want you guys today after this vote to talk about mental health. Right. And if there's a tough conversation and someone seems like they're not connecting some dots, that it's really important that you talk about it and find out how you can get them some help to continue to talk about it so that we can be healthy all the way around. So thank you, everybody. And I. Of course, support this. We're going to go and go to to a video here. I just want to just try to wrap up a conversation. I want to thank everyone that came out and spoke today. I also want to echo the comments that Councilmember Pearce said, particularly people that shared their their own stories around mental illness. And it is an illness just like so many other illnesses that are physical and that we all deal with every single day. And certainly I also I do appreciate I think it's important for us to all understand that all folks, even those folks that had concerns, I mean, there are that people have legitimate concerns. People have sometimes issues around their neighborhood and want to ensure that their families are safe. And I think we should all appreciate everyone's concerns. And to them, I think I know it's our commitment as a city is to ensure that we have safe spaces and we're going to do everything we can to ensure this facility, as is as intended by the upwards, is a is a safe, welcoming and healthy place for everyone. And I do also just want to note that one thing that makes me incredibly proud of of this this council in the last few months especially, is that everyone has taken an opportunity to lead and try to address the challenges around mental illness and around homelessness. Remind our room, remind us that Councilman Andrews is working on building what will be a fairly comprehensive and large mental health facility on Long Beach Boulevard in the six district that he welcomed with open arms and work with me. John, I think it's important to note that that councilor, Vice Mayor, Vice Mayor Richardson saw a need for a permanent year round shelter opportunity as well as transitional housing. And in North Long Beach, we are now going to have that have that facility as well. It was only a few years ago where Community Hospital, which is currently in the fourth District, also changed its model to ensure that they were able to do more of this work. And it was a difficult decision at the time as well to allow that work to happen at community hospital. But the council also did the right thing then as well. And so this isn't a challenge for any one part of the city. I think it's it's incumbent if we're going to help our families and our neighbors, because these are our neighbors and our family members. And if we're going to help them, that it has to be the whole city that lifts up people. And I think at the end of it, at the end of the day, I think we all know in our hearts that it's the right thing to do. And so I just I want to I want to I want to thank I want to thank all of you for office, for your hard work. And we will continue to do this work. And one last project that didn't get a lot of mention, but I want to also thank both Councilman Austin and Councilmember Gringa. Just last week, we opened up an affordable housing complex, a unit on the border of the seventh and sixth District for people for a young adults that have developmental disabilities. And and the reason I bring this up is it's the kind of it's the kind of project that sometimes a lot of cities fight and don't want to have folks that are that have their own struggles in different ways in their community. And that was a project that was that was welcomed and supported by both councilmembers. Councilmember Austin, in your district, I believe, and in Councilmember Durango, right across the street, I believe, from your district as well. And so I want to thank everyone for being a part of the solution. And councilmembers, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Great. Thank you. But. Thank you very much. So we're I know there was a long hearing. We're moving on to our second item, but I know most people are here for which is item 22. And so if I can have everyone else that's not here for that item, I can go ahead and exit from this last item.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2154 South Lafayette Street in University. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 2154 South Lafayette Street in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-1-22.

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I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced results. 1313 Ies Council Bill 20 2-2 49 has passed. Thank you to the members of the public on that one. We're going to our last hearing this evening. Councilmember Flynn, will you please put council bill 22, dash 250 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Madam President. Yes, Madam President. I move the council bill 22 dash to 50, be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 22, Dash 250 is open. May we please tell the staff report? Yeah. Thank you. My name is Libby Adams with Community Planning and Development. And I'll be presenting the MAP Amendment at 2154 South Lafayette Street. And I will warn you, this will be a bit repetitive from the first reasoning that we heard tonight. So this is located in Council District six in the university neighborhood, and the applicant is requesting to rezone from Urban Single Unit C to Urban Single Unit C one to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. As stated previously, the property is currently zoned UCC, which allows the Urban House primary building form on a minimum zone size of 5500 square feet. The current land use single unit residential, you can see there's more commercial retail uses along Evans and then the Safe Way, which is directly to the west of this site. This slide shows the existing building form and scale with the subject property on the upper right hand side. A postcard. Neighbors are notifying neighboring property owners within 200 feet of the site was sent out on December 2nd and then on February 16th. Planning board unanimously recommended approval of the rezoning. And then to date, staffers received two public comments one email and one phone call, both in opposition to the request, citing concerns with increased density and then as well as rental properties in the area. And then the applicant also, along with their application, submitted support from three neighboring property owners. The Denver zoning code has five review criteria that must be met in order for a rezoning to be approved. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. The proposed rezoning meets several of the strategies and comprehensive plan 2040. It will create a greater mix of housing options in the university neighborhood and promote infill development where those already infrastructure and services. And they're moving to Blueprint Denver. The future neighborhood context is urban. And then Blue Blueprint identifies the future place type as low residential. These are mostly single unit and two unit uses and adus are appropriate. And then South Lafayette Street is a local street which are mostly characterized by residential uses. Then the growth area strategy is all other areas of the city. This is where we anticipate to see 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing by 2040, consistent with the request to allow a slight increase in the housing density on the site. And then lastly, blueprint includes specific policy guidance, land use and built form housing policy for discusses diversifying housing choice through the expansion of Adus throughout all of Denver's residential neighborhoods. Staff also finds the rezoning meets the next two criteria and that it will result in uniformity of district regulations and it will further the public health, safety and welfare by implementing adopted citywide plans and providing a new housing unit that has easy access to healthy, healthy food options with the Safeway close by and educational opportunities. Since Daegu is located very close as well. There's also a justifying circumstance for this rezoning and that the guidance for blueprint and Blueprint Denver, calling for use in all of our residential neighborhoods, warrants a change in zoning. And then lastly, the zone. The proposed rezoning is consistent with the urban neighborhood context, the residential districts and the specific intent of the U.S. one zone district. So finding all five criteria have been met. Staff recommends approval of the proposed rezoning. And that concludes my presentation. All right. Thank you, Libby, for the presentation. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening. Jesse Paris. Yes. Good evening, members of Council. Ah. Yes. Yes. My name is Cecil disappearance. And I'm represented for Black Star for self defense positive. That encompasses positive change as far as the Unity Party apart is the Residence Council. For a long time. Blood moves and I'll be the next remembered for a group. Day is walking in the streets of the city and. Has clearly got this. I don't know if you can go on and say, well, this was on. It's my people. All right. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 250. Council Member Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Libby a similar question to the other of the first hearing tonight, the structure that's on the back of that property. I wasn't able to visit it myself, but I saw on on Google. Photo view. I hate to call it satellite view. It's not a satellite, but it looks like there's a. What looks like a residential portion on the front of the garage. I'm just curious, is that already an ad to you that's non-conforming or is that strictly just a garage at this point? Not to my knowledge, but I believe the applicant is on the line for Jennings if he's able to comment on that. Thank you. Is the applicant available? Yes. Or get them moved over. Thank you. I let me know if you can hear me. Ty. I don't know if you heard the question. I'm just wondering. I only saw the aerial view, but it looked like there was possibly a living space already at the E at the west end of that garage. Is that already an aid to you or are you going to rebuild and and just construct a brand new way ? Do you. So the previous owner had built a greenhouse. It looks it looks like a residence, but it's just like a greenhouse attached to the garage. Thank you. That's the idea. And our original intention was just to be able to do something with the garage and do on top of it. Excellent. Thank you so much. I appreciate your being here. Yeah. All right. Thank you. And thank you, Councilmember Flynn. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 250. Council Member Cashman. Yeah. Thank you very much, Madam President. I think Libby probably could have saved us about 8 minutes by just pointing at Fran and saying what she said. This does, I believe, meet all the criteria for the rezoning requested and I'll be in support, urge my colleagues to do the same. Thank you, Councilmember Cashman. And I agree it has met all of the criteria and we'll be supporting it this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 250, please. Cashman. Hi, Kenny Ortega. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Black. I see the i. Clark. Right. Flynn. I. Herndon, i. Okay. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes.

Recommendation to receive and file a report on a proposed Transient Occupancy Tax Incentive Program. (Citywide)

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Okay. Next item, please. Report from economic and Property Development recommendation to receive and file a report on a proposed transient transient occupancy tax incentive program citywide. Mr. West. Mr. Mayor, council members, this is something we've been working on. For some time and we can bounce it off the city council. It has to. Do with the the. Distribution of some of our successor. Agency properties to potential hotels. Our assistant city manager, Tom Morgan. Is going to walk us through the proposal. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. As the city manager, city manager mentioned, we are looking to give you an update on a proposed transit occupancy tax incentive program. For a long time, the city has had a very successful program for our retail sales tax, where we partner with our local businesses to grow business and also to grow city tax revenue through that program. That typically is a program where we agree to share a certain amount of sales tax over about a 15 year period in order to help grow the business and grow our sales tax at the same time. And it's been very successful with auto dealerships and a number of others. What we'd like to do is we'd like to, after looking at the market and seeing where hotel development is and looking at what a lot of our neighbors are doing in order to incentivize additional hotel development in our city, we are proposing to do a total incentive program, very similar to the sales tax rebate program in general. This program would utilize future TOT from a hotel project and contribute to the project cash flows, increasing the project's return on investment and making the project financially feasible with the goal of increasing this industry and also receiving additional total money for the city. This program would be available to new hotels with desired locations, design and operational characteristics. We would look at a minimum of 100 hotel rooms, a minimum total generation of $500,000, and we'd have to have an identified financial gap. The amount of the total to be shared would be would not exceed 50% of the net incremental growth, and it would expire upon reaching the agreed upon limit of city participation. So tonight, we're not asking for any action. We're essentially asking, you know, for you to receive and file an update. We are also going to be coming back. We're going to be certainly doing a pretty complex study to really look at the hotel market need and the gap and the general type and characteristics of those gaps. We'll be coming back with an analysis that identifies the location, design and operational characteristics of hotels that are more likely that are the likely ones to meet our city goals and encourages economic development. And we'll also be looking at other cities and their approaches to this market. With that, we expect to be back in in a couple of months and we stand by to answer any questions. Great. Thank you. I know that obviously any any sort of changes or any big policy decision will be made by the council once all the information is presented in a few months from now. Is that correct? Correct. We'd be looking for you to come back and actually establish the program similar to what we've done with the sales tax. Great. Thank you. Council. I'm sorry. Actually, we have a motion in a second. Let me first go through any public comment. No public comment. Councilman Richardson, any comments? Sure. I think this is it's smart and I think it puts us on par with other, larger cities. And I love that where, you know, we're potentially going to consider, you know, labor, peace and all those things with hotels over a hundred rooms. I look forward to seeing more. But at first glance, I think this is the good. This is good work on behalf of our city staff. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman Andrews, anything on your second note, Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I appreciate that. The city's gonna look at this from a very study based approach. I know that we've had some properties that have come up where people ask if it would be a good site for a hotel. We've had new hotels join the fifth District. And so with that, it's usually a call to other hotel owners or managers and or Steve Gooding at the CVB to kind of talk through those things. So I will appreciate the empirical data. I'll also appreciate that we continue to appreciate the hotels that are bringing in the total tax and make sure that they're on level playing field with any new competitor in the market to make sure that we all stand united, to bring the biggest conferences here and to bring the best. Opportunities for all of those. Organizations to the city. So thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Super not. Just a follow up on Councilwoman Mungo's statement, and it may be part of the study. Mr. MODICA You can address this. It may be in there already, but just the that we're going to analyze the existing hotels. And I'd say this about any industry, even auto dealerships that we don't create incentives that are favor the new folks more than the existing discounts. Remember, we're very much aware of that. And that's something we do want to look at. We are at this point looking at new construction, but we are very cognizant of what that type of incentive program does to other businesses. And we'll definitely be looking at that. Okay. See no other public I see no other council comment on this. Again, this is just to receive and file members. Please cast your vote. I did public comment. Councilwoman Pryce. Motion carries.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, consider a third-party appeal (APL18-002) from James Richardson; accept Categorical Exemption (CE18-079); and, uphold the Planning Commission’s decision to approve a Conditional Use Permit (CUP18-006) for childcare services, health and wellness programming, and a 1,760 square-foot outdoor play area at an existing church at 2325 East 3rd Street, in the Single-Family Residential District (R-1-N) Zone. (District 2)

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Okay. We have two hearings, hearing item number one. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. To conclude a public hearing, consider a third party appeal from James Richardson. Accept categorical exemption. And uphold the Planning Commission's decision to approve the conditional use permit for child care services, health and wellness programing, and a. 1760 square foot outdoor play area at an existing church at 2325 East Third Street in a single. Family residential district zoned. District. Two. Thank you. We have a motion and a second counsel appears. Yes. I'd like to hear a staff report on this first and then go to public comment and then I'll have a couple of questions. Thank you. And for the clerk, I believe an oath is required on this one. Yes. Those. Those of you. Wishing to testify. Please stand and raise your right hand. You and each. Of you to solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the course now in pending before you, this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you. God. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council. We will have a staff report from Carrie Tai, our current planning officer. Good evening. Mayor Garcia and members of the city council. Before you tonight is a public hearing for the appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of a conditional use permit to allow for the YMCA to host childcare services and a health and wellness center at the existing Grace Methodist Church, located at 2325 East Third Street. Just for clarification, the applicant has stated that the appeal solely relates to the health and wellness component of the conditional use permit. The project site is located at the northeast corner of Junipero Avenue and Third Street and the R-1 and Single Family District there. The church does have an off site parking lot across the street and it's also zoned residential. The area is characterized as a well-established residential neighborhood. There are residential, multi and single families surrounding the property. At the site is in the Carroll Park Historic District. There are some well, there's an aerial area. There are some photographs on the screen. But just to show you the building, the round portion on the upper left hand corner is the rotunda, and that is the primary assembly area of the church. This church was rebuilt in 1965 after some fire damage, but really the building depicted on the right dates back to 1921. And it's actually the lower level of that building shown on the right, which is where the health and wellness component will be, will be hosted. And then the photograph on the bottom shows the parking lot that I referred to that is across the street. So the child care services would be provided Monday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and the health and wellness program would be offered 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.. And it's important to note that neither of these would be offered during church assembly purposes in order to render the parking to be available. And just to talk a little bit about the health and wellness programing, so on the screen, the arrow shows the room at the back that was depicted in the photograph, but it's a 1470 square foot room that where the health and wellness program would be hosted and it's sports clinics, fitness equipment, certain group classes. I liken the size of that room to some of you have stayed in hotels that have a fitness center that's fairly small that's for the guests use and it's roughly about that size. Just to also inform the council, there are some play areas that would be provided as part of the child care. Those are not in the health and wellness room. They would be partly inside, inside, as well as partly outside. And then lastly, to talk about the parking a little bit, there are 58 parking stalls between the on and the offsite lots. The church does own both lots. The child care and wellness programing combined only requires 22 parking spaces, but nonetheless they would not be offering those services during church use. So the Planning Commission did conduct a public hearing on this on June 21st and voted to approve the item. The appellant filed the appeal. Within the ten day appeal period, appeals are conducted as public hearings and require noticing in response to the noticing for this City Council public hearing item staff received a four emails and and which of which three were in opposition, one in support, and also one phone call in opposition with that staff recommends that the City Council deny the appeal and uphold the Planning Commission's decision to approve this conditional use permit as the proposal meets the city's requirements for parking as well as land use. And in accordance with the findings that the Planning Commission met for the conditional use permit, the appellant and the applicant are here in the chambers tonight at this concludes staff's presentation, and we are here to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you very much. So we have mixed up the applicant and then the appellant, and then the applicant gets a rebuttal. So if the applicant can please come forward. And while you certainly don't have to use all 10 minutes, you get 10 minutes. And Mr.. Mr. Mason, the applicant in this case is actually. Los Altos YMCA. Yeah. Okay. So please come forward. The YMCA is the applicant. They come first. Okay. So the applicant is the YMCA. Oh, sorry. Okay. Thank you. On Ramallah city council and city staff. Thank you for having us this evening. I'm Brandy Claudio. I'm the executive director of the Los Altos Family, YMCA co applicant with Grace United Methodist Church. I am also a local resident living two blocks from Grace, so have a personal understanding of any concerns about this conditional use permit that have been raised by neighbors. Thank you for your time reviewing our project. Our Los Altos Y is very excited about this partnership with Grace, which brings together two community serving organizations in order to provide needed programs and services. Additionally, we have worked in partnership with Councilwoman Janine Pearce's office in developing this plan to address voids in the neighborhood. And I would like to point out nearly 30 letters of support included in your packet. Note that this conditional use permit was approved by the Planning Commission with a40 vote, as well as acknowledge the supporters we have present this evening from the Y and grace. If you want to work with their scattered around, we are really excited about this. Over a year ago, Grace identified some community needs that they had the building infrastructure but not the human infrastructure to address. And a partnership with our Y enables us to most effectively address these community needs. This project addresses both the need for affordable child care and youth recreation programing, as well as health and wellness fitness programing for all ages. Because this appeal is only challenging the health and wellness fitness portion of this project. I will focus my comments on that. The CDC tells us that chronic diseases are responsible for seven of ten deaths each year and that physical activity helps prevent chronic disease. According to the American Heart Association, children with increased physical activity are more alert, confident and focused in school. Rates of severe childhood obesity have tripled in the last 25 years. This is a critical social issue. That is why this Council adopted the Healthy Communities Policy in 2014. Approval of this conditional use permit will help us to address chronic disease in the Long Beach community with minimal fitness facilities and none that serve the entire family. If you went to our Y this evening, you would see an eight year old running on the treadmill next to his parent and you would see a family taking a group exercise class together. Our goal is to build and strengthen families in spirit, mind and body by providing opportunities to be healthy and spend quality time together. I would like to make special note that this project requires zero construction. We are simply reactivating a building to the original intent. It was built to serve the community. We have made numerous considerations in respect to neighboring residents, primarily related to noise and parking. The fitness portion of this proposal is 1500 square feet of space intended to target residents within a mile radius who can walk and bike to our health and wellness center. Although Grace meets exceeds actually city parking requirements for these uses included in this copy, we have also taken additional steps to encourage biking and walking through the approval of a new bike rack and bike share hub. We are just waiting for installation. I thank you in advance for your support of this collaboration, which addresses well known and well documented community needs, and I will be available to answer questions. Thank you so much. Now about that, Mr. Richardson, who is the appellant? Well. He's again. My friend. I have no objection to the daycare center. The problem we face a problem I face. I live on Lumina Drive, which is a little L-shaped narrow street that runs right off of the church entrance and around the church does have a huge parking lot, but you have to cross two streets to get to it. Louis The drive is right at the church entrance. You just walk across one street or parking is already a critical problem. It has been for for a long, long time. Just last week, I had to have a car ticketed who parked across my driveway. And a few months ago, one of the women who lived in our neighborhood had to park several blocks away in order to well, she had to park several blocks away and she was assaulted. This is the problem's not bad during the day because people go to work. Most of the people on the street work. So the parking is fine. But from about 5:00 on. The problem we have is there are five restaurants right around the corner. There's hard drive. A star of Siam Chan's Park Pantry and fat tomato pizza chains is the only one that has parking off street parking. Also on our street there, ten units, you see. We talk about when the church was built. It was built in the twenties. In the twenties. There was a trolley that ran along Third Street. I've lived here since the forties and I can tell you my mother and I took busses and trolleys places, so it was built at a time when there was nothing like the kind of traffic or parking problems that we have today. No. Yes. People, they have adequate parking. But what is to prevent them if they see a spot on the way to drive it? It's public. On street parking. What's to prevent them from parking on our street to go to their fitness center? And it's perfectly legal. Anyone can take the parking first. Come, first serve. We already have a major problem, a huge problem on the way in to drive. And this fitness center will just exacerbate that. I think it was due consideration given to this major problem when these permits were allowed. That's really all I have to say. Thank you very much. The applicant gets 3 minutes if you want to have a rebuttal. If not. Nope. Actually, there's only one you can speak to in public comment if you'd like, sir. But Mr. Richardson is actually the appellant. Thank you. Does the does the applicant want a rebuttal or. No? Okay. You get 3 minutes if you'd like one. Just 3 seconds that I would just encourage everyone to refer to the conditions in regards to the conditions that were made regarding parking and the accommodations that we would made and that we have more than sufficient parking on church grounds. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And with that, there is public comments. Sir, if you wanted to speak, you can you can do it now. Mayor Garcia, members of the City Council. My name is Elliott Boone. I've lived in Carroll Park since 1972. My only concern with the fitness center is its applica its the ability. Of it to exist in accordance with the city code for. Zoning. I have looked extensively through the city code and find no permission for a fitness center to exist in an R one end zone. To do so without a public hearing would violate the essence of. The. Long Beach. City Code. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other public comment on this hearing there is please come down. And if you if you have a comment for this hearing, you need to please be in line. Thank you, counsel. Mayor. My name is Thomas Daniel. I live in three, three, two, one, two. Pair right up the street from the church and now our neighborhood. Welcome the child care center. We were real happy about that. But the fitness center is a commercial endeavor and that endeavor belongs into a commercial zone because of the parking issues and everything else. And there's plenty of fitness around Bixby Parks down the street. There's a bike path, there's a pedestrian path, there's a gym on seventh and one apparel. There's numerous gyms in town. And I know the person that brought this up said there there's somebody on a bicycle in their gym now and a child next to them, but they're in a commercial zone. They're probably on Bellflower Boulevard. There's a lot of. Gyms in town, so I just appeal to you. This does not belong in a residential zone. It belongs in a commercial zone. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, city leaders. My name is Pastor Christopher Wiles and I am the pastor at Grace United Methodist Church. I am also happy to say that last month I was sworn in as Long Beach's new police chaplain. So I'm here to serve the community and our churches here for the community itself. This trophy is from 1927, as far back as our records that I can tell, in 1918, the YMCA was in partnership with Grace United Methodist Church. Now, I may not look like I was around then, but I have really good doctors who keep me up well. This is a partnership that has been there for a long time. Grace United Methodist Church is in the business of saving lives and taking care of the community, as is the YMCA. And actually listening to your budget proposal this evening, I find that I'm very impressed that it seems like the budget has a lot of items for that too as well. I would like to say that this is going to go forward as you guys seem fit. That's not the issue now. The issue for me today becomes what can we do to support the city with that budget, to make sure that we take care of our community? One thing I would like to hear from the council is how we're going to take care of prevention. The YMCA is here for prevention, for wellness, so that they don't end up in the hospital. We have so many families in our community that are one paycheck away from homelessness. I'd like to see us focus on prevention like we at Grace and the YMCA does as well, preventing people from becoming homeless before they get to that place. And as you go back and you think about your budgets and you pray about your community, please make sure that we put some of those dollars into prevention. And you can call me at Grace United Methodist Church. You can call the YMCA, you can call any of these people standing here in line. And we will be there for you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Makes me complete. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Cole McDaniel. I'm the childcare. Get this thing of child care camp director at the last. Thank you. Whoever is doing this. Thank you. I'm the child care camp director at the Los Altos Family YMCA. I'm reading this on behalf of one of our board members. His name is John Rockmore, due to the delay and fortunately had to go home. So this is these are John's words. My name is John Rockmore. Long Beach has been my home for more than 30 years, and I currently live in the neighborhood of Grace United Methodist Church. As a father of a seven year old boy, I've always been involved in our wonderful community, especially as it relates to programs and services for youth. I'm a member of the Los Altos YMCA Board of Managers and an active member of the Belmont Heights United Methodist Church, which is a sister church to grace and located at 317 terminal here in Long Beach. In fact, I'm a chair of the Board of Trustees, which oversees the health and well-being of our preschool and daycare programs at Belmont Heights UMC. So I have firsthand knowledge and experience with how needed these programs and services are in this area. I also coached high school football at Millikan High. In fact, we had a great group of my players this past Saturday at Grace United Methodist for a work project, and it will be back this Saturday. And in addition, as a neighborhood resident, the portion of this project that includes health and wellness fitness options is exciting and needed in this community. While there are many where while there are some small gyms around, nothing serves the entire family. I'm looking forward to utilizing these facilities with my wife and son, so together we can focus on our health and wellness. The conditions of approval for this permit are more than fair to our neighbors. This will be an incredible asset to the community. And I ask for your approval of this project tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Next, bigger. I have to lower this because he's a lot taller than I am. Hello, Mayor. Hello, City Council. City staff. My name is Damon Cole Lucca, and my family and I have lived in Long Beach since 1987. And I'd like you to know that I'm one of the people. That's excited about having some wellness programs in my neighborhood. I live about a mile away on Roswell Avenue and look forward to walking. Over and taking advantage of the wellness programs the YMCA strives to. To strengthen communities by nurturing children. Improving the health of families and seniors, and connecting neighbors. I think this is something that we could use more of. This partnership with Christ Church will bring badly needed chronic disease prevention programs that will combat the rise of Type two diabetes, support people living with cancer, help seniors achieve longer, more independent lives, and partner with families to help keep them healthy and active. This partnership will help. This will help neighborhood families connect, thrive and grow. And I implore you to approve. This or uphold the council's or what's the Planning Commission? There you go. Thank you. The Planning Commission's decision. Thank you. Thank you. Next week, you. Hello. My name is Alan Rivera. I'm going into my senior year of high school and I actually live on Junior Bro in the neighborhood of Grace Church and I am also a participant in the YMCA Y Team Leader Program and Youth and Government Program. And I also utilize the health and wellness facilities at the Los Altos YMCA and actually serve my youth in government. Delegates and advisors are here in support of the conditional use permit. I used to attend an elementary school that the YMCA will be servicing through this partnership. And while I was a student at Horace Mann, I used to be in rap, an after school program and by the school, while I had the privilege of attending rap after school. MANN Now and other schools in the neighborhood are now in need of additional providers, and the Y is here to serve. As I mentioned, I have firsthand experience of how the way I provide services towards youth and families. As a current program participant myself, the youth of today is the future of tomorrow. I believe this is how the staff at the Los Altos YMCA teach the youth there, which includes opportunities for health and wellness and activity for youth and families, are designed to better and strengthen the community. I couldn't be more excited about the opportunity of a YMCA fitness facility close enough to my home that I can walk to thank you for your time and careful consideration of this exciting partnership. Thank you. Thank you. Next Speaker. Good evening. My name is Marquis Richardson. I'm also. A resident in the. Neighborhood for the proposal for the YMCA. I just wanted to say a couple of things. I know the focus is on the health and wellness side of it, but being of course a mother, the childcare portion, as you just mentioned, my daughter does attend Burbank Elementary, which is right down the road. They do offer the rep program. But again, additional after and before care programs are needed. In addition to the health and wellness, I am one of those mothers that will have the eight year old. She's sitting up there on the treadmill with me being an expectant parent. It is expected that we do exercise. A lot of times being outside in the heat is not conducive to, you know, the condition that we're in. So having something that's in the neighborhood that we can get to easily, that's accessible, that does also cater to the community, which is my whole family that will offer programs that are needed for the youth. I just want to also mention the parking portion of it. Obviously living in the area, I know there can be an issue with the parking, but also, you know, there are like I said, as you can see, that there are options for parking for those who are going to be attending the the YMCA program. So I just want to implore you guys that we will need this program for you guys to upload up, uphold the approval so that we can have those things that are needed in the community, because the YMCA is about that. The city needs those things in order for us to be able to progress into the future. Thank you very much. To our next speaker. Now lead me. Good evening, council members. My name is Rocky Howard. My address is 2325 East Third Street. I want to talk about that health and wellness part of this as my my family, we are a very active family. We like to ride bikes. We like to walk. We like to stay fit. My 14 year old son is a basketball player. He works out currently at the YMCA in Los Altos. That's about maybe a ten minute drive for us right now. So if we can walk and get our workout on as a family staying fit, that will be a great thing for our family and it will make our bond even greater. Also, I am a P.E. instructor at Patrick Henry Elementary School, and seeing that these kids only have P.E. classes once a week and the Long Beach Unified School District is a problem and an issue, I think that the YMCA. YMCA is tackling a very big issue in our community. So if your kid is only going to PE once a week, you can always come to the YMCA and get your workout on. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. And these will be our last two speakers. And then we're taking a vote. My name is Francis Burns. I live at 301. Barrow. If anybody's going to be impacted by this, it's going to be me and my wife. She's around or somewhere. When they showed you the picture of the parking lot, those two cars, that white truck and that little versa were ours. I've lived in Long Beach for 20 years. I lived on third and orange for a long time. So I understand what they're talking about when they talk about these parking problems. But the fact of the matter is, just like going to the gym the first time you go to the gym, there's going to be a few growing pains. But it's something that needs to happen. This community needs what Grace United Methodist and the YMCA are going to provide. And like I said, my wife and I are going to be the ones that are most impacted by this. And it's a small inconvenience to see a place grow where families can be together and be healthy and enjoy a greater community. And I think that the issues that were addressed, I think as the community comes together more, some of those issues are going to go away because as more people become involved in the community, as we see more walking, as we see more bicycling, it's going to become safer. Those people who want to pray in our community are not going to want to be around anymore because there are going to be too many people to make that fit for them to have that happen. So like I said, I understand the parking situation, but I think that that this is bigger than that. And I think after a while we're going to be able to work it out to where it's not going to be an issue. And we have grace and said that they've provided parking for the service and it's a big parking lot and there's going to be room for people. And I understand that people might not want to walk across the street initially, but again, as the community. It grows as they understand and become part of the community. I think that's going to change as well. I'd also like to say that since we live right there. Speak to the mike. Thank you so much. No problem. My name is Benny and I live with this guy. And our apartment is right above the proposed project area, the outdoor project area. So I just want to let people know that so many people in the community come up our stairs and ask us about the programs that the church offers. And when they find out that the YMCA is there, they're very excited. You know, I can't tell them anything yet, but I would like to tell them that because a lot of people want to do things with people in their community, safe things, healthy things. And also we're working on the yard. I'm sure everybody in the community appreciates that and the YMCA is helping us do that. We couldn't do that without their help. And I just want to say that while I'm working in the yard, a lot of people stop me in the yard and ask about services the church offers and the YMCA, YMCA offers. So I really hope that the council goes forward with this project. Thank you. Thank you so much. That concludes the public hearing and we will take some council action and deliberation. Let me begin with Councilmember Pearce. Great. Thank you so much. I want to thank all the staff to work on this. I want to thank the appellants and the YMCA for all of your efforts. I know that this conversation was a lengthy one when it came to planning, and my hope was that when it came today, that we would have some some clarity on some issues. So I'm going to ask, even though we have the presentation in front of us, I'm going to ask a couple of questions and then I'm going to ask for some for some support and direction. So the first question for city staff or possibly for the city attorney is the question that was raised by the appellant about not allowing a fitness center in the r-1 zone. Can you clarify where that where that is stated and what gives us the ability to do that. Mistake and probably give you more details? But basically it is considered. To be an accessory use. Type use to a church, and churches are allowed to engage in all types of community. Based accessory type activities. That's pretty much it. She's shaking her. Head. Yes, great. So because it's a church, we're allowed to have the accessory activities. So we are check there. So I know that that was one concern. I do want to highlight that this church I cannot say enough about this church. I live in the neighborhood as well, right down the street. And for a decade, this church has been opened up to the community. And if you've ever been in it, the space inside is massive. It's very large. I know a lot of people in this room have been there for the state of the city several years ago , and it is a space that really is deserving of some TLC and allowing the community to come in and not only have a child care center, but a fitness center in an area that we do have a desert. Right. I have a six year old daughter. I know how hard it is to find child care after school programs are still really difficult. And so I'm happy today that the conversation was more around the fitness center and understanding that it is allowed. But the other question is around parking. And so I do see that it is parked to code. I did have an opportunity to meet with the two gentlemen here that live in Carroll Park. So I did want to ask city staff, probably Mr. Beck, if he could walk through with us now that we know that it's parked accordingly, if he could walk through for us the process to do a residential parking permit, just so we can understand as we move forward after today, what that would look like for Carroll Park, which is largely parking impacted as well as Alameda Street. Yes. Councilmember Pearce. Thank you for the question. Mm hmm. Basically, the city does provide preferential parking districts where residents within that district can apply for that designation and receive basically a parking permit to park within that restricted zone. And there is a formal process that we go through ultimately that would come to council for approval and and designation for that zone. And it would it would go into effect that way. What we look at when we review applications are how many vehicles are parking in the area from outside that neighborhood. We work with the residents to define exactly what that area would be, what streets would be included, and then we would move forward with the analysis and the formal adoption. And can you give us a typical timeline, like if you guys started working with them? I know we're in budget right now, but if if you started next month, what a timeline might look like. Well, again, if we have support from the community and active participation, we would go through that initial screening that would take anywhere from 30 to 60 days. That would conclude if we met those requirements with a survey that would be distributed to all those homes impacted. And we would have to get that information back, prepare the staff report and then bring it to council. So you're looking at some on 120 plus day range to get something like that done. And that's that's on the fast side. Great. Thank you so much. So I'm really excited about this. We've been working with the YMCA for a while. I think the fact that we have our question around, is it allowed answered? Yes, it's allowed to. Is it adequately park? Yes, it's adequately parked. Does that not still mean that there are people that could park in the neighborhood and that that might be an impact? Yes, but today is not today to make action on that. So I'm going to ask staff to begin working with Carroll Park right away, to start going through that process of having a residential preferential parking. And we know that it's not a guarantee it's going to happen because we've got to survey the neighborhood, but that we are going to do our very best to make that happen for that community, because I know how how difficult it is. So with that, I urge my colleagues just to deny the appeal and to move forward with bringing YMCA, childcare services, programing and fitness center to the heart of Alamitos Beach. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. I support Councilmember Pearce's motion and appreciate the great work that the YMCA does locally, regionally, and especially in districts two, three and four. And I hope that there is some opportunities to resolve some of the concerns and impacts through some sort of mitigated option. So thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman Mingo. I wanted to thank our youth in government, young adults for coming out and being a part of the process. I think that's really important. Many know that in addition to the Pastors Alliance citywide, we have a fifth District pastors group and the consistent thing that comes up year after year is the concern and need for additional child care in our city. And so any organizations that are willing to work with the community to find options for those things are strongly encouraged. And as long as they can adopt to and be in alignment with the neighbors, which it sounds like a lot of the neighbors are very supportive. It sounds like the city is moving in the right direction because child care is a really important need. So I appreciate everyone who spoke on both sides of the issue tonight. And thank you for all of those who compromised to come up with solutions. Thank you. Thank you. And with that, we will take a vote on the hearing. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Those that came out for this, I also I think I missed a presentation. So there actually there is a presentation tonight. And I want to turn this over to Councilwoman Gonzales for that.

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Communication from Council Member Richardson Council woman Mango Vice Mayor Andrew's recommendation to request city manager to direct all city of Long Beach employees to participate in the USC. So Price School of Public Policy, State of the Service Public Employee Survey to be completed within the next 45 days. Thank you. That's. There's a motion. Can I get a second, please, before I turn this over? Most of the second counselor, Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So tonight, I want to take a moment to highlight and focus on our public employees. I've worked with public employees my entire adult life, from my time, you know, student body president, my time working with California faculty, association with professors. And then my time as a worksite organizer for SEIU Local 721, which represented public employees in the county and in the city city of Los Angeles, here in the city of Long Beach. We employ nearly 6000 individuals from all different backgrounds and ages and races. And I personally believe that our public employees, they're our city's greatest asset. They are the the voices of our city. They're the faces of our city, the working hands of our city. And they're constantly our public employees across the country are constantly delayed, deal with attacks and pressing issues about maintaining quality of their service. And while, you know, a lot of times they don't necessarily feel that the receive the respect or the recognition from the public that they should. And so before so over the last decade, we've dealt with a lot of diminished resources. We've dealt with constrained budgets. Now we're finally in a place where we can do restorations and things like that. At the same time, our local governments now have new state mandates and unfunded liabilities and things like that. And so a lot of these challenges consistently contribute to low morale. And so the idea here is, you know, after a conversation at Southern California Association of Government Governments, I became aware that USC's Sol Price of Public Policy has designed a survey entitled State of Service. The the point is to measure key success indicators in the workplace and municipalities across Southern California cost the state of California and it helps to determine what motivates employees to do their job, evaluates levels of satisfaction, learning of the pressures and stresses and challenges of the workforce that they face on a daily basis. It'll help to inform policy changes that will not necessarily within our city, but across the region. It helps us to sort of take really get a snapshot across the region. And so at this point, I want to introduce I want to light up Dr. Bill Rasch, who is associate professor at UC. So price for public policy to share a little bit more about the survey. Thank you very much. Council Member Richardson Members of the Council. Mr. Mayor. Thank you for having me. Mr. West. Mr. PARK. And thank you. So for over two decades, governments at all levels of the US, Australia, several countries in Europe and elsewhere have used large surveys of public sector employees to gauge those employee perceptions and attitudes about their jobs, working conditions, organizational policies, their coworkers, leaders, etc. And these surveys have been designed and implemented to enhance our understanding of how to improve managerial capacity and performance and increase recruitment and retention of talented managers and employees in government. The US Office of Personnel Management for over 15 years has conducted the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey to produce survey results that are representative of the entire federal executive branch as well as of employers within individual agencies. Responses to those items concerned. Job satisfaction. Satisfaction with pay. So on and so forth. And agencies regularly use these particular items to identify internal weaknesses and areas for improvement. Now, as you and I have heard this evening, we know that your employees and their skills are and their knowledge are some of the city's most important assets, sometimes more important than other forms of capital, such as physical and financial assets. So the survey that we've designed is to make assessments of the human capital capacity that exists in Long Beach to help you identify areas of particular strength, which I know you have, as well as potential weaknesses both within your own workforce and compared to workforces in neighboring municipalities. So we come to you from the University of Southern California's School of Public Policy. Thank you. With a charge to serve our communities and to provide the resources that we have to you for the purposes of advancing and uplifting the lives of our citizens together. And as a resident of the second District, this is important to me as well. For the purposes of this project sponsored by. The Hands Foundation of Southern California. Our intent is to provide a well-designed instrument that's based on the best survey practices established by research and by various governments who have done something similar to this. And in the past, I myself have consulted the United States Office of Personnel Management on the implementation design of their annual employee census that surveys well over 700,000 survey civilian employees of the U.S. federal government. So in that tradition, we've designed for you a survey that offers unbiased, accurate and informative responses on issues that are critical to effective performance here in the city of Long Beach, but in local governments everywhere. We have worked hard on identifying practically every position, unit and department across your city government, such that anyone taking the survey can find their position in a quick drop down menu. Through countless test runs, we've estimated the survey to take approximately 20 minutes for any respondent. It is mobile optimized. The survey instrument can be done on desktop, laptop or on any subject subject, meaning an employee's cell phone. It is completely anonymous and we work very hard with the standards of our internal review board to maintain the confidentiality of any responded. The City of Long Beach has stated that it seeks a research partner for their Everyone in Economic Inclusion initiative. The research, overseen by this newly established Office of Equity, requires the development of new evaluation frameworks that identify opportunities for social and economic innovation while identifying barriers to economic inclusion for disenfranchized communities. The results of this survey and subsequent interviews that our team will provide should provide some support to the development and implementation of policy interventions and inform the strategic objectives for a longitudinal, longitudinal analysis of equity profiles across the city of Long Beach, especially as they concern employee perceptions of the issue. Community benefits will include programs designed to support minority owned businesses through more equitable policies and human and financial capital investments. Just as importantly, and maybe more importantly, the initial survey, as well as the follow up interviews our team will conduct ask questions about. Your workforce that are widely. Acknowledged as key indicators of success and allow for comparison across departments and with other municipalities in L.A. County. In all, we have had so far over 15 municipalities, including L.A. City, that have already taken the survey. We have agreement from L.A. County Sheriff's Department to proceed soon. And using these results as baseline comparisons, you will be able to make assessments by department, managerial level or other demographics on all key indicators. For instance, we have several job related assessments of employers on all managerial ranks about their level of satisfaction in their jobs, their pay, and their sense of well-being. Among other valuable indicators of morale and work environment. And crucial to this understanding is the level of empowerment employees perceive as they carry out their jobs. Of course, the level of discretion will vary across job responsibilities, but public agencies and private firms increasingly have been relying on participative management techniques and employee empowerment practices aimed at sharing authority , information and resources with frontline employees. Something that I witnessed just tonight in what's happening here in Long Beach. So I do expect positive results from the survey, by the way. But this includes identifying. Limiting unnecessary or burdensome procedures that may be imposed on frontline workers that can many times be imperceptible to management. I give you an example. I will keep. The municipality anonymous at this point. But this is a mid-sized city in Los Angeles County of over 100,000 residents. And when we asked frontline workers and managers how burdensome, burdensome their policies or procedures were within their respective departments, you see quite a difference between those that have less than five reports, to those that have over five reports , those that have over five reports don't perceive the procedures as burdensome, where the frontline workers indeed do. Studies consistently have shown as well that an employee's satisfaction with his or her relationships with other employees and the supervisors that they have is negatively associated with intention to turn over. That is to leave their job. Sorry about the little run on with the text there. It reduces the uncertainty and equivocal ity when you have a good relationship with your supervisor and your peers and it reinforces the workers feelings of identification with the organized. Zation. The trust in the supervisor is also negatively related with that intention to leave. And so having a systematic assessment of this in your own workforce should be critical to building existing capacities as well as identifying ways to strengthen those bonds. As you see again, another example, when trust in leadership is high, this can vary among particular demographics in this particular city. Hispanic employers had far less faith in their performance being judged fairly than non-Hispanic employees. This is something that should be identified by your management and I believe is to an effective stance, except to have systematic evidence of your successes should be something that you should strive for. In my own opinion, management relations, of course, are important as well in terms of gender. And sometimes we have some inequities within our departments or within our organizations. Indirect encounters with the members of the public employees are tasked with producing desired emotions in a member. I mean, with a member of the public, which requires this emotional management and at times performance by the employee that can quite quickly learn lead to emotional burnout. And so in order to conform to the appropriate display that is necessary in emotional management, employees who do not experience the required emotions naturally have to engage in strategies of emotional repression or expression. And these types of emotional labor from repeated customer service encounters have been linked to burnout, which of course can lead to turnover intentions. Here again is a sample of some of the questions in a larger emotional burnout scale that we include asking workers whether they feel emotionally drained, so on and so forth. Finally, and probably most important to your interest, both both from a human capital stance, but also from a fiscal stance. Job turnover is a pressing issue in the public sector, in part because of the serious consequences that it creates for managers and also the cost it carries to taxpayers. In addition to creating turmoil and causing disruptions in service delivery, turnover imposes considerable costs on organizations separation costs such as severance pay, as well as replacement costs, including the cost of hiring, screening and training new employees. The average turnover costs for a full time professional employee have been estimated to be as high as 150% of the employee's annual compensation package. Here again, as this example shows you, the threat is quite real. 31% within this mid-sized city within Los Angeles County and indicated some intent of turnover. Sometimes it's from one department within the city to another, but many times it's to leave the city as a whole. Also, most importantly or not most importantly, but also importantly, we we gauge citizen engagement practices and outcomes from your individual workers, your individual employees to see if we can collect systematic best practices across your city. And of course, the survey has all areas of analysis being broken down by key employee characteristics, such as department, gender, minority status, managerial status, so on and so forth. But we do protect the data to the effect that if there is, let's say, a minority, a single minority within a given unit or department. Of course, we would aggregate the numbers large enough so that no single person could be identified within a given department by their age, whatever characteristic there might be. So of the gender differences, the role differences and the various differences among your diverse employee population, it's, I think, critical for you to make an assessment of where these employees stand in terms of their devotion to the mission of their organizations and the city itself. And so our draft project timeline is a 90 day top line research initiative. We expect to administer the survey over September and October with data analysis coming in November and initial findings and a report coming out sometime in December, followed by a qualitative listening tour that includes conversations with your management to make sure that we are providing the data that they need to make actionable changes if necessary, and others to make sure that they have the information necessary to tout their various achievements. And so with that, as I said, 15 municipalities across L.A. County. Including L.A. City and soon L.A. County Sheriff's Department have already taken this survey. And it's our hope for the continued success of Long Beach that you will join these cities. So thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Resch. And I'll and I'll just say the conversation is going on for a while. And remember, the survey was a lot longer. But in conversations that we want to bring it down, you've done a good job bringing it down to a 20 minute survey. So my knowledge that. But thank you for your presentation. Thank you. Good. And so that said, members, I think this makes sense based on a lot of the conversations we've had at the Council about data and retention and and all those things. And I think a city, you know, the second largest city in the county should participate in this survey that's across Southern California. And, you know, I would love to go back to the gang and say, hey, we brought home the second largest city in the sky region for the survey. But that said, I encourage your support. Thank you. That's me. My interest. I might. I think this is a great partnership. And so I'm really Dr.. Thank you. It's such a rush. Correct. So, Dr. Asha's, thank you for doing this project. I think obviously as a as a graduate of, of C and I, I taught at a price for a couple of years, a couple of courses for that price. I think that the level of work that you're doing with the faculty there is really amazing. And so to have this partnership with the Price School, I think is great. And I think this kind of survey work and and this kind of data and the level of analysis that you're going to do, I think, is really impressive. And so I'm very supportive of this. I want to thank Councilman Richardson and the councilmembers are bringing this forward. And I hope that this will be one of a variety of other projects we could partner in the future. I know that the Price School has some exciting projects with many municipalities. We do have some projects here in Long Beach as well that the preschool partners with and I think this is a the survey work is really great. So thank you for bringing that forward, Councilman Mungo. Thank you. Also, I've served as an adjunct at price and I'm taking some time off to have our our first child. So I'm not there this spring. But I do love the work done at price. As a member who signed on to this item, I think it important that any additional questions that were added that are not part of the standard SKOG survey, that that this body would at least have the opportunity to at least see them. It sounded as though you made some customizations, but I'd hope that they would not be at the request of only one council member. And so I'm happy to arrange a time at your convenience to look at what those look like. And I'm not sure what other city staff have haven't. Had any questions. He mentioned he added additional questions on our part of Skog. I am happy to share with all the council, the mayor's office as well as the city manager. I'm just interested in what adjustments were made, especially having co-taught with city managers and others across the region and actually serving and taking your survey through the L.A. County Sheriff's Department as a deputy sheriff that I serve as, I think it'd be interesting at least to know what customizations you brought forward and where they came from. So the customizations were rather minimal and they were done through a little bit of conversation with Rex Richardson and the staff mostly focused on economic inclusion initiative, but with with an eye on being a Long Beach resident, making sure that it was appropriate to the city itself. But all questions that we use are validated, questions used in previous surveys, and I provide references for any of the given questions as they've been used previously. Well, I look forward to looking at those with you in terms of talking through them, because while Councilmember Richardson's priorities are important to all nine of us, and we want to be sure that we didn't want city staff to be influenced by one councilmember where a policy had not been specifically prioritized over any other policy. So just interested to see that, especially in light of my signed on to such a big supporter of price. I look forward to working with you and thank you. Had we known you were here, we would have tried to move your item up. I didn't see you in the audience tonight, so we apologize for that. Thank you for being a part of our robust budget conversation and many other robust conversations, and thank you for being a long. Time, a professor of governance, management and policy processes. So this is edifying and thank you for the time, so. Thanks for. Being here. We're proud to have you here in. Long Beach, so. Absolutely love that. Councilor Pearce. Yes, I'd like to just say thank you so much for the presentation. Thank you for working with Rex Richardson on this. I did not teach at price, but I did work at Lane for a decade and we work very closely with USC in many of our development projects. And so I don't want to make any changes. Of course, I feel like you guys have a handle on what kind of. Shouldn't you have? I do look forward to seeing the results and then seeing if there's a next phase. I know that I personally am invested in looking at making sure that, especially through our H.R. practices, that people feel like they have a safe space to report any workplace, whether it's violence or abuse or bullying and things, issues like that. And so hopefully we can work together down the road on some projects around that with our H.R. department as well. But really happy to have you here and thanks for staying. Q Councilman Price, thank you. This is a really I didn't know anything about this. I think this is really great. I thank my colleagues for bringing forward and of course, Councilman Richardson for for leading it. I think it's great. I did my master's. I got my masters in public policy. And I did my thesis on citizen satisfaction surveys. And if governments issued those to their residents and I thought it was just so interesting to, you know, really use that survey data to implement it into, you know, practical application. I thought it was great. So I think this is great. And, you know, I'm I'm assuming it's going to be general enough that they all the employees can relate to it and answer it like you've done in other cities, which is great. And I in my other hat, I'm a public employee in Orange County, I'm at the district attorney's office. And I actually think this would I don't know if my boss would agree, but I think this would be a really great idea to do there as well. So maybe we can talk later and I can at least throw the idea out there and see if they'd be interested. But I mean, it's just additional data that you can use to guide your management. And in a world where law enforcement is changing, I think prosecution officers could really benefit from that. So this is great. I really like this agenda item. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. And Councilman Austin wants to go before I. Speak to in Austin. Hey, thank you very much for the presentation on. I've been kind of multitasking and taking the survey while while you were talking, you said it was going to take 20 minutes. So I figured, you know, it's a good use of my time. And I found that some of the questions to be be very interesting and straightforward. You mentioned earlier and and I read on the the website that that you're going to share the data with organizations like the League of Cities and in other public sector type organizations. Were you there any plan to work with any of the the the the employee organizations that that are out there to just get some real feedback from from from employees that maybe not associated directly with the employer, but because I think there's a real opportunity to to work with some of the public sector labor organizations like Ask Me and SEIU, folks who are public employee specific. So in some of the cities that we've worked with, they we had also consulted Public City, I mean, public employee unions prior to implementing. They were very supportive. We've really had no pushback on this survey from any given city. Good has participated at any rate, and we've had a pretty successful rate so far of those that want to buy in. And so in terms of the data and when you're done and it's all culminate, it will not be shared publicly as well. So it depends what you mean by so in the aggregate, yes. On an individual basis, no. As I said, we're very serious about maintaining the confidentiality and the anonymity of each one of our subjects, to the point that neither a manager nor anyone from the public would be able to identify a single responded by their placement in a department, by any given demographic characteristics such as gender or race or so on and so forth. We take that quite seriously. And we had this study reviewed by our internal review board at USC, which abides by the standards by the national standards of Arabs. That being said, we work with each individual city as to how they would like the data constructed for their own purposes and own internal purposes. And then as well, we are not in the I'm not in the business to try to expose one city compared to another. So when I'm giving you comparative analysis between yourself and neighboring municipalities, as you saw in the slides that I was presenting for some of the examples of the data that we have used, I will not name that given city and to every extent possible obscure, you know, the characteristics of that city to the point that all you'll have, all you'll have is basic demographics. That is, you know, is it over under 100,000 people, so on and so forth. Yeah. To the knowledge. Thank you. Thank you. Just two final things. A one in our motion, we say, requires the city manager to direct all city employees. I want to make sure we're good on on the on any sort of. What is it? We can flourish. You go. Any meat conversions, we're going to say encourage strong participation instead of direct so that we're encouraging this, we're encouraging full participation. But there would be no penalty if someone does not participate in the survey. Yeah, that's one of the things that should be made clear. Also to be clear, the only way that we can provide you good analysis is for it and for us to have robust participation. Thank you. I think we're good at this point. Mr. Roche, you can go ahead and take your seat. But I want to just in my motion to, you know, to make that one change. And the second thing is, I think I just want to sort of explain, when we rolled out the everyone in initiative, one of the first motions was to go out and see if someone could help us with an economic equity study. And that's when sort of the opportunities presented to us that USC has so sold price as some some competitive grants, some innovation grants and things like that. And that sort of led to the conversation of if we don't find the funding for that study, could some of this help contribute to that? That's what the connection was. And so since then, we've identified the funding and policy link, and Chase has contributed $75,000 to conduct this study. But what we got out of the through the process of just exploring our options is an amazing opportunity to participate in this larger, broader survey. So I felt like maybe that helps helps us understand the context and connection that everyone in economic inclusion work. That said, I encourage oh not Chase I'm sorry city community development. So that said I encourage vote. Thank you. Any public comment? Please cast your votes. Pearce motion carries. Item 20, please.

Order for a hearing to utilize American Rescue Plan Act federal and state COVID recovery funds to buy-back Hackney Carriage Medallions. On motion of Councilors Lara and Baker, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilor Flaherty as a co-sponsor. Councilor Lara moved for substitution of the language. Motion prevailed.

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Thank you, counsel. While. Dr. zero 25 will remain in committee. Motions, orders and resolutions. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 0767 Police. Duck Enema 0767. Councilors Lara and Baker offer the following order for a hearing to utilize the American Rescue Plan Act, Federal and State COVID Recovery Funds to buy back Hackney Carriage Medallions. Thank you. Thank you. The chair recognizes counsel. Our counsel. Laura. You have the floor. Thank you, President Flynn. I would like to move to replace Doug in number 0767 with the amended version, which I read into everybody's desk. This amended version reflects just small changes and updated updates on data. And I think the statement also has. Let me just confirm, everybody have the updated Dr.. You may continue, counsel. Thank you, President Flynn. I would also like to suspend the rules and add Councilor Flaherty as one of the original co-sponsors. Hearing no objection, council clarity is awarded. Thank you. I am really excited to put this on the floor with both Councilor Baker and Councilor Flaherty. Just a few weeks ago. This body voted unanimously to support a resolution that would. Ultimately strike down or asking the state house to strike down Uber and Lyft's overreach in their ballot question, which has now been voted down and been identified as not moving forward by the Supreme Court justice. And I think that in conversations about big tech's overreach and the impact of Uber and Lyft on our on our city and the possible future impact that they could have. My office has done a lot of reflection in terms of the impact that big tech has already had on the constituents here in the city of Boston. And so in ultimately the introduction of Uber and Lyft and these kind of rideshare companies for. Lack of a better word has decimated our local taxi industry. And I think that I'm one to explore what it would look like to use ARPA funds to really give some relief to these families. Most of the folks, actually more than half of the people who own taxi medallions here in the city of Boston own 1 to 4 of them. So we're talking about families who run their small businesses, who use this as their source of income and have ultimately, because of Uber and Lyft or these rideshare companies are underwater and in debt. And with COVID 19, you know, just kind of turning our economy upside down, it's really added more pressure, financial pressure for these families. The ARPA funds have really been identified for us to also be able to give one time support to small business owners. And Councilor Baker oftentimes talks about how are we going to make sure that we use ARPA funds to have a lasting impact? And I think that creating a grant program that would help these families get into get out of the red and into the black and really give them the financial support that they need is going to have a huge impact economically on our city. We didn't do enough for the taxi industry when Uber and Lyft was coming into the city of Boston. And I think that with ARPA funds, we really have an opportunity to make some corrective legislation here in the city to support these families. Councilor Baker has been a leader and incredibly vocal about his support for the taxi companies. I found out that Councilor Farrow's father was a taxi driver, and so I'm really excited to work on this issue with the both of them. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Ira. The chair recognizes Counselor Baker. Counselor Baker. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. First, I'd really like to thank Counsel Larry for including me in on this. This is an issue that I worked a lot on. We watched the whole industry slip away in front of us. Classic, classic. You know, get rid of a get rid of a service that is provided. And then once that service is gone, you come in, you see, you saw with over and Lyft, the prices go up, all those all those sorts of things. But even more than further than just going after off of dollars dollars, this is a good time to talk about the taxi industry possibility to maybe rebuild that that industry with more more of a local focus. You know, in in in whatever it is that taxi industry needs to do to to come back, you know, we should be able to talk about it. I know there was money available. The state had had you know, we got we got to I think it was a dollar per ride. We added that money go. That's maybe a good place to start the discussion also. So thank you, Cancellara, for including me. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Counsel. Baker, the chair recognizes. Counsel. Clarity. Counsel, clarity. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. And take the lead sponsor for including me. As I mentioned, my grandfather actually owned and drove a cab, as did my father. And his older brother is just helping out the family, raising ten kids. So taxi medallions have helped folks raise families, educate their children and also been able to borrow on them and upgrade their fleet. So the taxi medallion industry, the values have been decimated in obviously large part to the ride shares, but also because of the onerous requirements of the Hackney division. So while we're talking about this, we may want to bring the Hackney Division in just to see what, if anything, they can do to kind of make things easier for those that are still trying to compete in the taxi industry. And maybe we could sort of have a rebirth, if you will, of the taxi industry, which at one point flourished here in Boston, taking advantage of close proximity to Logan, as well as all of our tourist attractions, our hotels, our convention center. There is no reason why our taxi industry cannot flourish in the city, and unfortunately, it's off the rails right now. But I think that this hearing will be very timely and bring in the appropriate parties to try to one assist in that, whether it's the buy back medallion provision law, finding ways that the division could be less onerous and more cooperative and helpful with existing current cab drivers and owners to try to help them in their business to survive. Thank, Mr. President. Thank you, counsel. Fire to the chair. Recognizes counsel and cholera. Counsel Cholera. You have the floor. Thank you, Chair. I just rise to commend the makers. We are in a humanitarian crisis with this. We are seeing it across the country. Folks have lost their. Life savings and the. Suicide. Rate in New York City alone is just appalling. So I love the fact that we're we're looking into this. So thank you. Again, this doctor reminds me of a proposal. That we put forth in 2020 during the height of the pandemic to buy back liquor. Licenses from restaurants as a as a means of relief. And back then, the administration was not open to it. Hopefully they will be open to it this time around. And I just want to flag that in New York City, they went. After predatory lenders and they also wrote. Legislation that. Forgave debt and provided additional relief. So I would just respectfully, through the chair, encourage the makers to review New York City's model. And I just look forward. To the conversation ahead on this. So thank you. Then. Thank you, counsel. I also wanted to ask a question to the to the to the chair to the to the author of this the the taxi industry now is under the and is being supervised under the Hackney. Division of the Boston Police Department. I don't think that under Hoover unless that's that's the case. There's console firing reference. Would we be able to have a discussion on the differences between supervision under the Boston police with the taxes and what supervision, if any, Boston police has under under a over and left? But just wanted to ask Councilor Lara her thoughts on that. Thank you, President Flynn. First, I wanted to add two things. One of them is that we're researching New York City's model, and New York City's model inspired a lot of the writing and the thought behind looking at this hearing order specifically, because we've seen a lot of creative approaches. I think that we have to have a specific conversation about what works in the city of Boston, how our program works, and how we can be inspired by some of the work that other cities have done. I also want to say that we cannot solve this problem alone. My hope is that having this hearing order, creating a city program is going to signal to the state that they also have to kind of pitch in and help us and help the people in the state. So I think that those are two, two responses that I wanted to give to, um, to what I heard from my colleagues this question and the lack of liability from Uber and Lyft and specifically these big tech companies are part of what we've been fighting with this ballot initiative is that Uber and Lyft wants to continue to consider their employees independent contractors so that they also don't have any liability for things that happen in the Uber and during the rides. And so I think that this is part of this bigger statewide fight to make sure that we are considering these drivers as employees of these companies so that we can ensure that these companies have liability. And so similarly, the Boston Police Department has oversight of the hacking program. There is no oversight with Uber and Lyft. And not only is there not any oversight, they are currently because they consider their drivers independent contractors. There is no liability, so there's no level of consumer protection. And as part of my fight against big tech here in the state and in the city of Boston, I definitely want to look more about how we make sure that Uber and Lyft are liable for the well-being, and we're really increasing consumer protections for these big tech companies. So, yes, I would love to have a conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Consul Lara. Is anyone else looking to speak on this matter? Would anyone else like to add their name? Please raise your hand. Mr. Clarke, please. Please put down council Royal Baker Mark Braden matter. Counsel, Fernandez Anderson. Console and console me here, console Murphy in the chair as well. And talk of 0767 will be assigned to the committee in Boston's COVID 19 recovery. Mr. Clarke please read 0768, please.

Recommendation to receive and file the application of Monterey Enterprise, Incorporated, dba The Big Catch Seafood Restaurant, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License, at 150 East Broadway, with conditions. (District 2)

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Thank you all. Great job. I was going to bring up McCain's driving record. But until Mike can go to sleep now. But I know seven political re. I'm seven is reporting the police department with recommendation to receive and file the application of the Big Catch Seafood Restaurant for an original ABC license at 150 East Broadway in District two with conditions. Mr. West We recommend approval, but we have commander far from here, if there's any questions. All right, Mr. Mayor. Councilmember Lowenthal. I'd like to move and receive the file and file the application of Big Cat Seafood Restaurant for an ABC license with conditions. And the city clerk has provided the conditions to each member. Second, moving seconded any member of the public which just counts. Item seven. Any council discussion between the members cast your vote tonight. Seven. Councilmember de la Rochelle Kerry is able to make. The agreed. To recommendation regime for the application of Gypsy's Mediterranean Grill for an original ABC license sum of 21 1213.

Summary: Review of 100-Room Hotel Development at the Harbor Bay Business Park. Public Hearing to Consider (1) an Appeal by UNITEHERE! Local 280 Challenging the Planning Board’s Approval of Final Development Plan and Design Review for Construction of a 100-Room Hotel at 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway, (2) Mayor Spencer’s Call for Review of the Planning Board Action, and (3) Adoption of Resolution Documenting the Council Action. (Community Development 481001)

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Review of 100 room hotel development at the Harvard Business Park. This is a public hearing considered appeal by Unite here of the Planning Boards Final Development Planning Design Review for construction of 100 room hotel at 2350 Harbor Bay Parkway and Mayor Spencer's call for review of the Planning Board Action and adoption of a resolution documenting the Council Action. Vice Mayor. Madame Mayor and Council. I will have to recuse myself due to a conflict of interest or potential conflict of interests. Yes. Which means for those of you that don't know, it means that here you will not. He can't sit here during the discussion at all and also cannot vote. You explain why he. He he said that he was recusing himself. He has a conflict of interest. Because he owns a business. For that. Well, that's the first thing. I don't. Sure. They don't. I think it's the public's right to know. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. You may continue. Reading, Madam Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Andrew Thomas. I'm the city planner for the city of Alameda. And I am here tonight to run through. I'm going to just go through five slides quickly to give you an overview of the situation before you tonight and our recommendation, I'm then available to answer questions. The applicant on this project is also here with her representatives. They don't have a presentation, but they're available to answer any questions that you might have as well. The Appellant Unite here is also available here tonight. I'm sure we'll be speaking. So what we have the issue before you tonight is the planning board's approval and final decision to approve a the Marriot Fairfield in here in alameda. It's located on harbor bay parkway. And the two issues that are really being brought to you tonight are the appellant is arguing that the parking there was approved by the planning board is not consistent with the zoning and they are arguing that the city did not use the right a process under the California Environmental Quality Act or as we like to call it, um, Mayor Spencer and I won't speak for the mayor called it for review. And I believe based on my conversations that her concern also overlapped with, you know, I here and it was really about not the square piece but the parking. So I'm just going to focus on parking and CEQA in this presentation where. You proceed, could you just explain a little procedurally that the planning board approved the project? Yes. And and then there were two appeals filed, one by myself and one by Unite. Is that. There? Unite here. You're not here. And in which case, the Planning Board's decision to approve the project the way it was at the Planning Board level would stand unless there were three votes. My understanding to support an appeal, to support one of the appeals. Men in council. That is correct. The charter requires that the Council act by three votes. So three of you will have to take an action. If you fail to take any kind of an action for whatever reason, then the planning board decisions would remain. The people that are for the project. You may want to clarify your for the way it was when it was at the planning board level. I can tell by looking at these slips that some of you may be confused on what's in favor of versus as opposed. And let me just say just right off the bat here, so you have a planning board approval. I'm going to just quickly describe what they did. The the council has a few options. You can just a what are the staff recommendation is to just uphold the decision. We think they made the right decision. You can also amend that decision tonight right here on the floor. So if you want to change something about what they did, you can basically re approve the project with a slight change. Your third option, if three of you agree, is to remand it back to the planning board for some specific change if you want them to consider a change. So let me just quickly make sure that everybody in the room understands what the actual project is. It's, as I said, a new a brand new hotel Harbor Bay Business Park on Harbor Bay Parkway. It's a 100 rooms. The reason that the staff supported this project and recommended approval to the planning board and the reason the planning board approved it, I think there's a number of reasons. But just very quickly, this is an important piece we believe, to support the continued evolution of the business Park Harbor Bay. Business Park. It will be one of our top five commercial tax generators once it's built and occupied. It is finishing the Shoreline Park and Bay Trail, which is between it and the water. It is designed to be basically a building in a park because it is surrounded on its waterfront side by an urban park. It is surrounded on two sides by urban park. And then, of course, there's the office buildings that are across the street from it. We designed this project to really minimize parking lots because it's close to the Bay Trail and because it's close to the Shoreline Park. We wanted to reduce the amount of exposed asphalt. So there was a big emphasis on trying to minimize car large spaces paved over for cars on this particular site. So we started this conversation with the planning board and the applicant about how to really minimize the need for cars. This project is going to be served by the Harbor Bay shuttle, which runs right past its front door, which provides access between the ferry terminal and BART. It was a business park. It also will be providing its own free customer shuttle. That means anybody who stays at this hotel can just ask for it to be taken or picked up from the Oakland Airport. It can be be taken to anywhere in the business park. It can be the the customer can be taken to the ferry terminal. And this free customer shuttle will be shuttling people who would like to go to Park Street for dinner, for the movies, the hotel shuttle be providing that. So the whole idea was to minimize the need for cars for the business traveler. They are also providing a customer bikeshare program. So if you stay at this hotel, you can use one of their bikes for recreation or if you're there. And many of our hotels here in the business park I mean, excuse me, the customers in our existing hotels are actually coming to the business park and staying in these hotels because they're doing business in the business park. So they really are supporting the business park. So we're hoping they'll use the bikes to move around. Of course, they've also doing valet parking and as part of their plan, they have a and a planning board approved plan, a shot, a shared parking agreement, so that in the event that they have a big event at the hotel or an abnormal amount of cars, they'll have overflow parking essentially across the street. And the concept of the shared parking, it works very well when you have a use like a hotel which is immediately adjacent to an office park in during the weekends and at nights. The office park parking is is generally empty. Weekends and nights is when a hotel has its largest demand for parking. So it's a very nice shared arrangement. Couple just baseline zoning issues. What governs the Planning Board's decision on this is the Harbor Bay Business, Park Zoning and a development agreement between the city and the developers of the business park. So that provides the property owners in the business park with certain rights. Just so everybody in the room knows, hotels are permitted by that zoning and by that contract. So there was no debate about whether this should be this site should be a hotel or not. It is essentially pre-approved for a hotel. The height limit, this is a tall building. It's 63 feet. But the height limit on this site is 100 feet. So it's well within the height limit. What but so what is the city's discretion? What was the planning board's discretion? Their discretion was over the design of the project, the site plan for the project, which includes the parking and of course, the the determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. So I said two issues. Let's just I'm going to deal with one on each side parking. When we tackled this project right off the bat, we did a parking study, the parking analysis, and which was done by a third party outside of the city and analyzing the project said with the shuttles that already exist, with the shuttles that are being provided, this hotel needs 60 parking spaces. The zoning code requires 125. So what we did is what the planning board is. They said we will want to because of the park location, build 82 on the site, which will be more than enough to accommodate your 60 that we reject, that you will need, and then have the shared parking off site for another 43. So you add those two numbers together, you get the full zoning requirement of 125 between the shared and the onsite. Under our zoning code, the planning board even has the ability to reduce the total amount of parking. But in this case, what they did is they said, no, give us the full amount, but give it between the existing site and a shared facility. So the planning board action is absolutely consistent with the zoning. They used their discretion to decide what percentage should be on site and what percentage should be shared. That discretion and that decision was based on experience in the business park. So this is not the first hotel. It's not the first hotel that has been required to have some of their parking on site and some shared. The ratio was specifically set to match the ratio for the other hotel that has a shared parking arrangement in the Harbor Bays Business Park. So this this ratio of on site versus off site was not just a hypothetical that was sort of dreamed up by staff. It was based on experience with with the existing hotels in this business park. Your options on the parking, of course, are to uphold the planning board approval. You also have another option that's been discussed since the call for review, which is and the basic question became, well, what if she what if the property owner and operator loses their lease for the shared parking? The city's requirement and the planning board's resolution. It's a requirement of the project. So she might lose the lease, but she's going to have to get another lease from somebody else in the business park. And because it's valet parking, you know, it's there's lots of parking in the business park. We were very confident that they will be able to get a lease for shared parking. But the question became, well, what maybe would be better to have the property owner purchase a piece of property? So the applicant is here tonight. She has gone out since the Planning Board's decision and acquired an option to purchase a piece of property which would allow her to build the 43 spaces on a piece of property she owns. If this council wants her to do that, that is not part of the planning board approval. Member Odie. Thank you, Madam Mayor. So is your presentation show where that piece of property is? No, but I can tell you it's 1500 feet away. It's on North Loop Road. 1500 feet from this site. Once again, this is it wouldn't be a situation where the customer comes into the hotel and says, hey, don't rent a room. And they say, oh, we go park your car. 15 feet. What they would say is, okay, yes, that's great. Your room is number 302. Leave your keys with us. We are going to park your car in our parking area. So they would then valet park at that space. So my understanding is that the lot she has the option on, it's next to the Gardiner preschool. Yes. At the end of the Cantu Mar Association. Exactly. Three houses or four houses? Exactly. One of them used to be mine. But no longer. Yes. So I can vote. I'm not accused. So it's that that that small piece of property between the Gardiner and where the. That's right. Where the there's some new construction. V.F. South Campus is under construction right now, next to it. Close to Mr. Hager's house. And can you explain the 43 that would be leased? How many feet away is that? Well, she doesn't have that lease yet. The way the planning board condition of approval is written is you cannot occupy this hotel till we see your executed lease. Her hope is to have it as close as possible because it will be as as convenient as possible. Is there a radius within which the leased spaces need to be? They should be within. We like to have them within a thousand feet. Toby. You so the owner can't occupy if she doesn't have that leash. So, I mean, worst case scenario, the attorneys are supposed to think worst case. We have this brand new building that can't be occupied sitting on the waterfront. The owner cannot get this lease from anywhere. And then we're stuck with an empty building. I mean, is that that theoretically possible? Theoretically. It's a good question. And what you could I think an easy fix to that problem would it would be for the council to say, you could do this tonight, change that condition so the trigger is not occupancy, but building permit. So before we even give you approval to start construction, show us a lease. So that way at least we know we have it. We see a lease. It's for ten years. It's like, okay, go ahead, start building your building. You know, you're good for the first ten years. I mean, the owner is not going to expend all that money, you know, without having a lease. But. But practically speaking. But, you know, theoretically. Okay, thanks. Okay. I'll just let me just last word on if you decide as a council to require the offsite parking spaces, what what we would what I would advise that you do is you make it a condition of approval that she acquire it and get the design review approval for the improvements. I mean, it's a vacant lot so as to be paved, needs to be landscaped, trim lighting. And the reason the design review is important, not just so we make sure it looks nice, but also that's the opportunity to to notify the neighbors adjacent to it. So if she fails to be able to get approval of design review because all of a sudden we have a huge problem with the neighbors don't want it, then it would cause the project to be reassessed. And what is the zoning of that property? It's the same as this. It's a commercial zoning, it's a sqm, commercial manufacturing, zoning. So I have a question. Mr. Thomson, maybe you're getting to this. You seem to be talking a lot about the owner having an option to purchase, a lot to use solely as surface parking. But my reading of the staff report and the staff reports for the planning board that were attached as exhibits all talk about the disadvantages of having a dedicated asphalt lot in a in a business park that friends the water. So I hope you're going to talk about that because if you don't, I will. Well, let me let me explain just a little bit. Background this, you know, the issue of parking obviously came up that the planning book or since we're talking a lot about the planning board tonight they took six months on this. So you know this plant your planning board works very, very hard and they make sure that we have the best project. So during this series, I think we had 3 to 4 public hearings on this. The issue of shared parking and permanent parking came up and the applicant early in the process said, Look, if you want me to go by a lot, I'll go by a lot. City staff, me and the rest of the staff. Our recommendation to the planning board and to the applicant was like, No, don't go and buy a piece of the business park to pave over for a parking lot for two reasons. One, we think you have plenty of parking on your site, just even on your site. Forget about the shared on your site to accommodate your need if you need overflow. We think it's going to be occasionally. And we've got tons of asphalt all around your site for the for the office buildings and they're not using their asphalt . So let's have you share their asphalt rather than paving over more. And that site that she has the option on, it's small, but it's the opposite. It has it's a lost opportunity. I mean, we want businesses and jobs in the business park, not parking lots. So it's we were our reaction, our recommendation was, no, let's not require this. We are comfortable. We have experience in this city with other hotels in the business park and on Park Street with shared parking. It it works. So it was not our recommendation. But at the end of the day, you know, if it's something the council wants to do, we think this the benefits to the community of the entire project are big. For all the reasons I stated. Was it our recommendation to do it now? It wasn't, but we only make recommendations. We need you to make the tough decisions. And. Brody Thank you, Madam Mayor. So just to be clear, though, the neighbors that would have a parking lot outside their master bedroom, windows with lights and nonsense that goes on at night and no security or yes, security. I mean, they don't know any this is the first time they've heard that they may have a parking lot outside their window. Unless they're listening on TV right now, they don't know yet. And they might have the same. And they'll come to us with light pollution concerns like like Mr. Hager has come to us with. So that's why. So I mean, what if the community and the council decide they want to go, not with the shared parking, they want to go with the permanent parking. I mean, what's the path forward? I mean, what what are our options? This is what I would recommend. I would recommend that you direct staff to and basically use the way you would. What you would do is you would say, all right, we want to move forward this hotel. We want to change the planning board's parking plan. So you would condition you say we would like to change this condition. We would like that permanent parking lot as a condition on this project. So the condition would read the following before getting a building permit. The current condition before occupying the building, you need a lease. And we want might want to change that to we want to get you released before building permit. Take the exact same approach. Before you can get a building permit, you need to do two things. You need to get the the property purchased. You need to design your parking lot and your lighting. You need to get design review approval from the city of Alameda. What that means is city staff, planning staff sends a notice to the neighbors and says, hey, we have a proposal to put a parking lot here and here's where the lights are going to be. Here's where the landscaping is going to be. We would obviously design it to buffer, but there's going to be concerns, you know, all sorts of concerns about parking lots from those neighbors, as they should. They should be involved. We should notify them and talk about that. If she gets her design review approval, everybody's like, okay, we're comfortable. She gets it. Then she can walk in the next day and we can issue her a building permit. If she cannot, now the project is stuck. She has to then come back to this council. We have to have another hearing here and go, okay, project is stopped in its tracks. What do we want to do? That parking lot that we thought was a good idea on September 1st. Turns out it's not such a good idea. So we could send it back to the planning board or I mean, is there some other in a way to keep this project moving and still have some change in the parking or. Yes. I mean, that's that's what I just described, is you just change the parking plan to. You know, the other approach you could say is remand it back to the planning board to have them reexamine the entire parking program with a. Looking more seriously at the permanent space we can pursue through that. Then they could approve the entire project again, and then we could wait to see if there was another appeal. Okay. So there's that approach. Member Ashcraft. Thank you. So, Mr. Thomas, I'm just looking now at Exhibit one to your staff report. This is the at the April 13th, 2015 Planning Board Staff Report. And specifically on page four, there is a section that says staff does not think that purchasing a development opportunity site in the business park for a satellite parking lot for this hotel is necessary or in the best interests of the city or the business park for the following reasons. One development of the North Loop site for business purposes instead of for a parking lot would increase job opportunities in Alameda and increase property taxes generated by the property. Number two, the business park already has large areas paved for parking which are not fully utilized, and that could be better utilized through shared parking agreements. Number three, the planning board requested a shared parking agreement. The planning board did not request development of a satellite parking lot. And then there's also the environmental consideration that paving a lot in the business park gives you yet another impervious surface, that when you know, if we get that El Nino winter that's being predicted just helps that runoff go all the more quickly into the bay. And as you noted and in my years in the planning board, we did a number of shared parking arrangements because what a city really doesn't need is more asphalt parking lots. And as you also noted, the businesses for the most part tend to have their parking lots busy during the day, vacant during the evening, and yet this is the reverse usage of a hotel. So I just I can't tell whether there's an advocacy going on here. I mean. It flies in the face of everything I know about good planning. The staff is not changing its recommendation. We don't think building another parking lot is in the best interests from our perspective, for the reasons you said, if this board is if the city council is concerned that the shared parking will not work in this case, then I'm just here to tell you, you have this option. You don't have to follow staff's recommendation. As I know you guys know, our recommendation tonight is to uphold the planning board's decision. That is the last sentence in the staff report. Uphold the Planning Board's decision. My board's decision has these shared parking. It does not have this. But I want you to know what your options are. And the applicant who wants to build a hotel with 100 rooms is basically through me saying to you, she will do what you on this issue. She will do what you ask her to do. What the three of you, you know, at least three of you ask her to do. I mean, if there's consensus, I don't not I don't know if there is, but I just want you to know what your options are. But remember, Audie. English to bring in our colleague for that vote. Right. I guess my question is. You know, my colleague just pointed out, you know, the parking is more heavy at night in a hotel. But, you know, there's two one there's two meeting rooms. Right. You know, we need more meeting rooms in Alameda. And I can imagine meeting rooms, conference facilities right there on the water can be very attractive, you know, and if we approve this project, you know, I hope they're wildly successful. And if they're wildly successful, you know, they'll be used by folks in Alameda, you know, driving there. So, I mean, I guess. I mean, that's what my kind of my concern is that, you know, even though we're going to have people come during the day. You know, we want people to come there during the day. And most people in Alameda, like when I go to Grandview for Rotary or whatever it is, you know, I drive out there and there's not a lot of parking there, you know, and when there's no event there, it's great, it's empty and you can carpool and do all that good stuff. But now I'm hoping that this is wildly successful if we approve it. And, you know, I just worry that there's not enough parking with really good meeting conference facilities. And I want to clarify that the lease spaces are available in the evening only they're not for the day. When you're talking about shared parking for the audience and for all those that don't understand, we're talking about. Isn't that correct? You have she doesn't have the lease yet. So that's another option available to you, is to amend that condition of approval so that it specifies that the shared parking lease needs to be 24 hours so that she has the ability to she has a an event. All of a sudden we have extra 20 cars that she has the ability to spread them around. Member Ashcroft. So, Mr. Thomas, going back to your April 13, 2015, planning board staff report on page five, it says the meeting rooms on the first floor are provided as an amenity for guests of the hotel. A condition of approval has been added to restrict the use of these spaces to guests to avoid the Planning Board's concerns that the use of rooms by non guests could create an overflow parking problem. Is that conditions still. I the April I would have to check if that condition is still in the final approval that went to the council. And while you're doing that, you need to have a motion. Well, it's almost 1030. Okay. Why don't you take. That and then let me look quickly. Thank you. And then we're going to have member vice mayor return to the dais at 1030. We need to have a motion to consider additional items and that requires four votes on item six. We have seven speakers and then we also have items nine A through 90 the right. Now, we weren't. Going to we're doing we're. Interrupting this because 1030 the motion to consider additional items and the additional items are 60 and the nine A through nine D. Do we do we add. So. Now this is a case of 60 is the. Clement development. And then on here it says nine A through 990. Are additional items that are on the agenda. Moves that we consider additional items. After 1030, it would be unfair to all these good people who are in the audience waiting to hear the 2100 comment. So I. Be I'll second. That. So 60 is the amount development and then nine is the council referrals. The whole rest of the agenda. 9839 Dear Counsel Referrals. We have a second. Okay. All right. Any discussion? All those in favor. I oppose a motion passed as 4 to 1. Thank you. See you, Frank. To answer your question. This whole during the. It's not in the planning board's resolution anymore. And it's not in the resolution upholding the Planning Board's decision. During the course of the many hearings we had. The. The issue of the need. Your point. The need for more meeting rooms. Many of the planning board members also knew about that and people talked about that. So I think I had forgotten about that. It. Staff remove that from the final planning board thing because everybody said, yeah, we actually need these rooms or others to use. They're not huge. So this is not a conference center. It's two meeting rooms that can probably hold maybe 50 each. Maybe so. But five. Zero. Then the five. I mean, they show 50 chairs all lined up. If you acted in auditorium style, if you were actually having more of a you know, then presumably you might be able to get that many people crammed in there. Okay, that's. Did you have any other questions? Not at this moment, but I. Mean, why don't I just I have one more real slide so we move to secure, and then I can then then you can call speakers or ask more questions. But you covered the meat of the business here on parking. Okay. Last the second issue, California Environmental Quality Act. The staff recommended and the planning board approved the use of what's called the urban infill exemption. Remember, everybody should know state law, California Environmental Quality Act to look at the effect of projects on the environment. A The state legislature passed a number of amendments and guidelines over the years to try to encourage urban infill because obviously the best thing to do for the environment is focus development in the inner urban areas and not let it sprawl out into the natural areas of the state of California. So in this case, why did we recommend the urban infill exemption? Well, first of all, we are right smack in the middle of a major metropolitan area. We are a city. This is in city boundaries. The land that we are building this project on is manmade land. I mean, this has never been natural habitat. This was not you know, Indians did not live on this land 30 generations ago. This was made by us for a business park, and it is surrounded by a business park. There is no work in the water or the bay. It is separated from the bay by an urban park. There is no we had biological we have biology experts, third party experts who deal with biological impacts out on this site twice to make sure there were no burrowing owls, no no habitat on this site. I mean, this site is surrounded, as you can see, by a major road and a major chunk of Bay Trail. So it's not super and it's pretty small. So it's not surprising that endangered species haven't found it to be a great home. And this project is completely consistent of the zoning and general plan. So we absolutely believe that this is an appropriate exemption to be used as it is used throughout the city of Alameda for these kinds of projects that are consistent with the zoning on small sites in our urban area. This is the definition of urban infill. The appellant is arguing, Well, you're next, you're right next to the San Francisco Bay. So it can't be surrounded. So it's not surrounded by urban uses. There is a court case, it's which deals with this very issue in San Diego where the project is surrounded by an urban park. And the appellant said it's not surround, you know, that's not a urban use. And the court said, yes, it is. It's an urban park. We are surrounded by an urban park and a business park. So we are very comfortable and confident that this is the right use of Sequoia. And frankly, you know, this is the problem with Sequoia in California and why there's so many calls for reform of sequence, because it's being abused for reasons that have nothing to do with the environment. So we do not think this is an issue to do with the environment. We think this is an issue about this is a design issue, a parking issue, but this is not a sequel issue. And we fully support the Planning Board's decision on the sequel exemption. Member authority critique. Oh, I'm. Sorry. And that's a recommendation. Uphold planning board action. I'm available to answer any questions and. Brody Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just. It was in the staff report, but maybe for the benefit of those that didn't read it, if the city attorney can kind of describe that that case and. You know how she thinks it's analogous to the situation we have here. And typically I want to ask in regards to when I look at this hotel, it looks to me like it's on the water. And I appreciate it's being referred to by staff, an urban park right there. But my guess is it's I don't know how many feet away from the water and the case that you have, I'd like to know, is it on the water or how far is it away from the water? Well, the case. That that Andrew referred to is very much applicable. Because. The person, the entity challenging the decision. The second decision was saying that this is not a proper use. It's not an urban and the surrounding area is not an urban use. So the court ultimately held that even though the the park, which was about a over a thousand acres of open space and some water and also museums and theaters. And it's Balboa Park. It's Balboa Park in San Diego, if you guys are familiar with it. So it's not directly on the water like this? No, it's not directly on the water, although I would I would also suggest this is not directly on the water. There is a a pathway that separates it from water. Which is part of the urban park that Andrew's describing. And, you know, the distance of that park from the water to the hotel. I believe it's about 20 feet. And the main park is more precisely. But so to me, I think that could very well be. Mean. If I may. I think just from a sequel perspective, The Seagull exemption says you're surrounded by urban uses. The so the question is, is it surrounded by urban uses, not how far is it from water? The question is, is it surrounded? The Balboa case is important because the appellants said, well, it's surrounded on by a park that's not an urban use. And the court said, no, an urban park is an urban use. And in this case, we are surrounded by urban uses on one side of business offices and on the other side an urban park. Now, the fact that there is a bay on the other side of the urban park is interesting, but not relevant to the question of what the Sequoia exemption says. So we're bounded by urban uses. And we're being asked to make a specific finding. That secret does not apply because this advice. Correct? Right. We're being asked to make a specific finding. Exemption under Sequoia. And just for clarification, with this same CEQA exemption have applied to the other hotel in Harbor Bay, the Hampton Inn. I believe that. Is what we used. Yes. Yes. And can you tell me how many floors is the Hampton Inn? For. For. I actually don't know. So I. Andrew. We could find out how many? Four and a half. And how many. Floors do I hear. For? How many floors is this? This has. Oui, oui, oui, oui. Now, let me just. This is a five story. 63 feet. And no one knows the height of the Hampton. One thing when I look at these illustrations, I think it's nice to end this. I'm glad you have this one here, because I think you can tell by looking at this appears to dwarf everything else in the area. Is there anything else in the area that is of this height? There is no other building in this neighborhood that is 63 feet. The the Palladium is 60 feet. It's not anywhere near in the neighborhood. But just to give you a sense, I mean, the the top of the historic theater thingy, you know, the big sign, I mean, I don't know what that is on top of my head , but it's it's up there in that neighborhood. And can you explain why this falls under the code of our city to have a building of this height along the water? The height limit is 100 feet on this site. That height limit is in the zoning for the Harbor Bay Business Park. It was adopted in the early eighties. The original vision for the Harbor Bay Business Park was, you know, multi-story office buildings. And it has ultimately built out with more one and two story buildings that you see out there today more trucking, more warehousing and less office building. But that was the original vision upon which the zoning was created. That zoning was then consummated through what I mentioned earlier, which is called the development agreement. So that's where the property owners get those rights guaranteed over the long term. So for a 20 to 30 years in this case until 2019. And the reason they do that and the reason the city enters into a development agreement in this case is it was 25 years ago where the developers of Harbor Bay built us an entire waterfront Shoreline Park and all of the roads and all of the infrastructure for Harbor Bay, because we guarantee that we not any of us, but the council and in this eighties said, yeah, we want all of that stuff upfront. You built all of it for us and we promise not to change the rules on you later. You will be able to build your business park even if it takes you 20 years to do it. So that's why the height limit of 100 feet and the why I keep mentioning the developer agreement at the planning board and the council is, you know, they have certain rights and they they they paid money and invested in this property for us and all of our enjoyment 20 years ago on the assurance that we wouldn't change those rights. Their vision at that time, the council's vision at that time was this entire business park would be filled with up to ten storey office buildings. As it turns out, that's not what they did. But that's why 63 foot building is 40 feet less than what's actually permitted by the zoning on this site. So is there a way for council to revisit that height issue, if not on this piece of property on any other pieces of property out there in 2019? Yes. Not until the Belmont Agreement is expired. I believe it's 2019. And that's for all. Recollections of 2019. It's been 20 years since. Well, it's 20 years ago. We signed that agreement. Bill. Thank you. Any other questions? Counsel. Any other questions? Member. Thank you. I just have one request of the speakers and I'm really interested in hearing the opinions on the shared parking versus the permanent lot. I don't know. Could you say that a little louder so they can hear? If the audience has the public comments, have opinions on the shared parking versus the permanent lot, I'd be really interested in hearing those thoughts. And then I would clarify the shared parking at night versus shared parking 24 hours. All right. And I'm going to call the names of the speakers now, Gary Thompson and then Kerry Thompson and then Robert Sanger. Hello. My name is Gary Thompson. Thank you for hearing me tonight. I live at 88 Red Oak Road and in the Kent Moore Association. And I'm on the board of directors also, although I'm here tonight as an individual, the homeowner, the homeowners behind, behind V.F. have been in an ongoing run with them over this light cast onto the back of our houses by headlights from cars day and night and their development. And I'm happy to see that most of it's been mitigated. They've done various things that have helped out, but the traffic and that is a big issue, especially these parking lots you're talking about. And I happen to believe that what you have here is this. This is just a poor spot for a hotel. That lot is not big enough. I think that they're kidding themselves if they think that the traffic, all these people are going to take shuttles and the shuttles are going to run people around, I don't think it's going to happen. They're going to have a bar and a restaurant. They're going to have weddings, they're going to have meetings. If it becomes a very popular place, people are going to drive over there. And I just think that we're not against the development of the properties over there. We just think this was a poor choice, that five storey height, there's nothing like it. From the back of our homes, we will be receiving direct broadcast light onto the back of our homes. And I don't see any way to mitigate that from the hotel. The businesses at the park right now, they come to work in the morning about six and they go home at six. That hotel is going to be over there running 724 with a bar, a restaurant, meetings, shuttles, running back and forth. And I just think it is just a unless a parking situation and traffic situation is addressed. And also, I'm very concerned about the direct lighting. At at five storeys, it will direct light over the office buildings that are they are now directly broadcast right into the back of our homes. When we first moved in there, the light was so bright in my back yard I could read a newspaper at midnight. And I just think that the the light mitigation, the the cars, the parking, all of the extra activity, it just doesn't fit out there. Those are beautiful places. The Stacey Whitbeck property, a beautiful place, V.F.. The work they have done there are two storeys high. They're very tastefully done. And this is just not a place for that hotel. And I just don't see how you're going to make it work. Thank you very much. Carey Thompson. Thank you very much. Good evening. I'm Kerry Thompson. I am the past president of the Chamber of Commerce and the current Chairperson of the Government Relations and Economic Development Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. I am also a resident on Bay Farm Island. I live at 3016, Linda Vista, and I urge you to reject this appeal. Number one, I just think that it's we're taking steps back. We've really made progress in showing businesses that we are ready to move forward in Alameda, that we're making progress, you know, by approving site A, by approving the Del Monte Project. We've been making great strides and this is a step backwards later on in the agenda. Councilmember de Sade has a referral on the agenda to increase the transit occupancy tax, which 100% goes to the city. This hotel would generate quite a bit of tax. So would the future hotel on site. So these are also things to consider. I think as a resident, my family sometimes comes to visit. If we don't have room. When there's a lot of us coming together, we try to find another place to be. The Hampton is usually full. We do need another place. And that is not an unattractive building. You know, this is planning board. The planning board has put a lot of work into making sure that designs fit well into Alameda and in actually it looks iconic. I don't think that it is unattractive. I think I can actually imagine coming on the ferry home from a long day's work or if you were visiting in the city, what a nice thing actually to look at is it's not bland, boring office buildings. It is something different and it's kind of nice. I think it enhances it. Are the hotel that is being proposed there, the people that are wanting to put it there have been working. And I think you guys are wasting their time. And I don't think that that's very fair if the planning board is doing their job, which they did. And I think to now revisit a height thing, after all, you know, that's not the reason that you put it on the appeal. So I think that's gone and done. So I just you know, they are providing shuttles. This is not a pie in the sky thing. They are providing them. Whether or not people utilize them, that's up to them. But they are providing them to the airport, to the various business districts, to South Shore, to wherever it is they're wanting to go. They're providing it. They're doing everything they can. So I don't think that it's right that you reject this project. Thank you. I have a question that was raised by the last speaker. When when I file an appeal is my understanding. I do not have to specify any grounds so that I would not be precluded from can. Is that correct? I'll address that. So in terms of best practices. What you just said is exactly right, because you don't really want to take a position on something that's going to come before you. It goes to the whole bias. You are not taking a position until you hear the evidence. There's a little bit of a cleanup job that we have to do in our current municipal code. The section that deals with appeals seems to suggest that you have to say, have a. Reason. For. That's something that staff will. Bring back and clean up. But what we've been telling you guys is, no, you don't have to specify your reasons, because it could be construed. As you having. Taken a position on why you're against or for the project. So we've been advising council members and the mayor, too, to keep a more general. So when I read here in this staff report for this meeting on page two that on July 23, 2015, Mayor Spencer formally called the Planning Board decision for review, citing concerns about whether the project met the city's parking requirements. What what does that tell me? I believe in private conversations with Andrew. She expressed some concerns about the parking, but when she filed her call for review, she didn't say she didn't take a position about parking or anything else about the project. She just called it for review, saying, I want it to come back or come before before the council to to revisit the issues and say. And it was just an oral request. There was nothing. No, it was an email. No, it was it went through the right channels of one to its original request. But during the appeal. I didn't see it. Was it? It wasn't. I believe it was an email. So it was in writing and it went to either the planning staff or the or possibly Laura as well. So maybe this is a housekeeping issue, but how then would one prepare to address an appeal if one doesn't know what the grounds are for the appeal? Well, in terms of an appeal, it's a little it's a little different from calling something. Out for review. So when Unite Here filed their appeal, they had a very kind of detailed letter that laid out various grounds, three grounds for their appeal. But in terms of. Calling something for for review which council members and planning board members do from time to time its in terms of best practices. And I've consulted with other cities and and in fact the city of Berkeley has something very specific in their code that says do not say why. If you're going to call something. Up for review, just. Call it up for review. If I can jump in here as well, it is a de novo review on a call for on a call for review. So it is open at to have anything addressed. Thank you. The unfortunate part about it is if we don't if staff doesn't have an idea of what it is, then the . Staff report, as you can see, was. Addressing the parking issue and of course, the appeal that was done, which was sequence and parking. So that was all put in the staff report. But the. Mayor, by. Calling it. Does have a de novo. You can. You can you put that in English so that the ordinance that. Is talking about it means that you start again. I mean, you had the whole thing in. Front of you for this this. Board to be able to look at all of the facts. Thank you, Mayor Brody. I think that was my question. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I mean, can we address other things that weren't brought up in the appeal besides sequent parking, like, for example, the light in the reflection and, you know, the issues? The only thing. I would say is let's take care. There are two things that are happening here. There's an appeal by United Local, which is on specific made here. And then there is the call for review from the mayor, which is kind of. Open. Ended, opens the door. Okay. Looking at the project and. Okay. Should we at some point here are the speakers. I guess the rest of the speakers were then they're. There any other. Oh, we'll. Call you Robert Sanger. Chris and then Chris Clark and then Joy Bose. Good evening. My name is Robert Sanger. I'm regional vice president of Lodging Development for Marriott International. I'd like to take this opportunity just to really convey how we are very supportive and very excited about this waterfront development project. As you see before you, it'll be a five story iconic building, as the previous speaker mentioned. This will be a beacon on the bay coming from San Francisco on the ferry. We're very excited about this project. To address your concern regarding parking, we we feel that 82 spaces are more than sufficient to service this hotel operation of this size, particularly given the location being proximate to Auckland Airport. I'm a frequent business traveler. I travel on a weekly basis. I try to stay at hotels near the airport and if I don't have to rent a car, I'll take the shuttle to the hotel. And I see a lot of business travelers staying at the airport hotels, near airport hotels, so they don't have to pay the high taxes that go along with the rental. Not to mention the time they take to fill up the gas tank and check in and check out. It's it's not an efficient time use of my time when traveling for business. The other thing, too, is that at at the young age of 82, Mr. Marriott visits over 200 hotels worldwide. And I'm confident that this will be on his world tour when this hotel opens up. It's a project that I think the city and the community will be very proud to have. Beyond the bricks and mortar, I think we need to look at the developer as well. I mean, a Patel is a proven developer and operator with Marriott. She's a valued partner. She's built beautiful hotels in Texas. This is her first project in California. And we hope to build more with Mena Marriott. It's very involved in the communities that we serve, where we operate hotels, we have our spirit to serve program. And our other mantra is take care of our employees. Our employees will take care of our guests and our guests will continue to come back. If you look at me as a hotel operator, she embraces and practices that philosophy. At the end of the day, it's all about making money and keeping the tax dollars here in Alameda as opposed to going to Auckland airport. I think the guests will find that this is an attractive destination. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Chris Clark. I think we all need coffee in this place. Thank you for having me. My name's Chris Clark. I'm from Amarillo, Texas. Mayor Thank you for having me. Council members The reason I'm here and the reason I left my wife and kids at home. This morning. Is because this family not only. Has built several. Properties in the Texas area that were amazing. But they're an amazing employer. I worked for him. For many. Years. And I'd still be working for him if they would still have the hotel that I worked at. But they ended up selling that hotel and I am doing something different. So when Mina called. Me and gave me the opportunity to come speak on her behalf, of. Course I did in a heartbeat. Not only were. Oh four out of my five kids born when I was working for her. But every time my wife needed me during those pregnancies, I was home. Every time I. Was short of money, she took care of me. I didn't have to ask anytime I needed anything. These people were here for me. They're amazing people to work for. But not only that, they're amazing people to have in your city. Anything you ask her to do, she'll probably do for you. She's an amazing person. So is her husband. So is her family. That's the most I could say now listening to the parking thing in the meeting space. I was a. Sales guy at a hotel for 18 years. I've seen a lot of these projects. I've never actually seen the parking lot full, even when the meeting space is mainly. Because those conference rooms in these types of hotels, they're built for smaller conferences, smaller board meetings, things like that. And a. Lot of times you're using it for corporate entities that are probably. Offices across the street, but they want to have a small. Meeting in their hotel. So I don't see that being an issue, and I haven't seen that in an issue in the past. Even with the other Fairfield that she did build. It's pretty much identical to this one. That's it. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you. Get coffee. Joy. Both those Daniel Brady and then Sophie Dromi. Yes. Hi. Good evening. About Amir and members of the City Council. I work at Penumbra Inc. I'm head of marketing operations there. And I'm here just to speak about my personal experience and my team's personal experience. We moved into the business park in 2007 and we've been a regular client of the Hamptons. We love working with them. And as you some of you may know, our business has expanded. We have about 1000 employees now, but our sales force has expanded, our customer base expanded. Everything was okay till about when VF moved in, which is about three or four years ago, if I'm not mistaken. And now repeatedly, about 10 to 15 times a year, I don't have any rooms to hold any meetings. Now, most 99% of our meetings are guests, so it's our sales reps who come for a meeting. At our corporate headquarters or it's. Physicians. We're a medical device company. It's physicians who come to attend a meeting. We use busses. We right now, when they stay in San Francisco, I hire borrow a limo to shuttle a bus full of people over to Alameda. No one wants to rent cars. We as a company actually tell our employees to use the shuttles because it's not ideal for them to go rent cars. Also, when we have the ability to hold groups staying at the business park, it adds to a community feeling because in the evening we can hold events in the in the city of alameda, trabuco ever since they opened and the South Shore Mall, we have had about ten events there because it's easy for us to do that when we have our people staying offsite in either Oakland or San Francisco. It's hard to do that because then after dinner, you have to then. Take them back to the hotel off site in January. I have a 100 room block and I had to go to GW because there's absolutely no way I can do an event like that in Alameda. So I just wanted to share my experience. Thank you. Thank you. We need a motion that requires three votes to continue the meeting past 11. So moved. Do you have a second? We need. Frank. Oh. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we need. Right. Now. We need a. Motion to continue past 11. And how did you move? I moved in to Tony. I mean, Councilmember de. So did you. Second? No. Okay. So, yeah. Member de SAC seconded. All those in favor, I suppose. Motion passes 4 to 1. Thank you. All right, Frank. Thank you. Lina would be proud. Had a mayor, members of the council, Dan Reedy here for the Harbor Bay Business Park Association. I did distribute to the members of the council a a copy of a resolution and also a letter. So their part of the record, I don't think we have to restate it, but I would like to summarize a couple of points in the resolution and then make some other comments from from my longer letter that the business park asked me to write. We did have a meeting of the Members General membership of the Bay Business Park Association, and just ten days ago or so on the 19th of September and there was a briefing about the new hotel. A year ago it was talked about as a dream. Then everyone said, you know where it is now, and also about the appeal. And so the members who were there were the property owners and the major companies are the members of the at large. They were very interested and showed appreciation about the hotel, similar to what you heard here about that would support some of their business activities. And also that they heard about the, you know, the income because looking they're hoping that some of that income that the city would have would come back for infrastructure improvements of the roads in the business park, which are on hold because of lack of funding. So there was interest and this would help jumpstart the business park. But then when they heard about the appeal. Like a lightning rod. This sequel issue really came up. And so let me just paraphrase part of what's in the resolution. When they hurt, they became concerned as if the planning board had not followed sequence properly and that there would have to be more sequel analysis, more environmental analysis going forward. And they were concerned that if the if the here if the appeal were approved, that would become like a precedent for subsequent activity, because there are still a number of larger parcels left in the business park. Many of the bigger firms bought more property than they needed. So there are other parcels around that, as well as the land going out toward the ferry terminal in the Esplanade development. And so people were concerned that they'd say, Well, do we have to have more sequel? When in 1989, when they did the business park, we did in a big addendum to the air. And so the rest of the of the build out of Harbor Bay is now a cluster of little projects, each of which gets a sequel analysis. There was a sequel analysis looking at as a whole because you could look at it the traffic, the storm drainage, the infrastructure, the nature of the land. It were all the same. So it wasn't like different parts of things so that each of them have to get a new sequel. You already had a big sequel. And so in the development agreement it says there will be no more sequel analysis required to finish the build out of Harbor Bay, which would have been the homes that weren't built yet, and the still at that point, empty parcels in the business park. So a number of the members became concerned. They said, let's get a resolution, get speakers here to talk to you, because some of them were concerned that that would perhaps stymie or delay or confuse their their hoped development as they would finish out their projects in the business park. So in our resolution at the at the end, there's a strong the association unanimously the members, you know, voted they would recommend that the city council uphold the planning board's resolution approving the final development plan and design review. And and they deny the appeal. Also our Business Park Association has an architecture review committee. And so we worked with the planning staff and the planning board through the different iterations because they kept improving the plan and that the Architecture Review Committee of the Business Park has approved it and recommends that it go forward. So if you have any questions, but I definitely want to give you the sense that our our membership is on board. We knew about the parking either the if at lot of 29 is in contract so it can be purchased if it's subject to whether you want it approved or that our manager was would facilitate connecting the ownership with the property owner. So we gave information to our manager, to the developers, how to connect with the people at the venture condos across the street or Zephyr or others nearby about their parking. So we will work with the city to try to make this happen. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question for staff. If you've raised the issue of the secret being approved, believe was it how many years ago. We used a there's been as Dan was saying, there's there was a huge cordon for the entire business park development of Harbor Bay. That was done and it was updated, as he said, in 89. What we used for this so that that's right. And that document is important. I don't want to discount it. It's very important because it was the it was designed to be the final secure for everything on this site. It was also important because it helped us size it back in the eighties, the side streets, the sewer. That's what we did. We did not rely on that document for this decision. We used the secure exemption that I described to you earlier. So this is a new exemption on top of that air. And we backed it up with environmental studies done this year. Okay. So does this secret normally address traffic? Is that part of a secure. Yes. The impact on the community? Yes. Cars. Okay. When was the last time that there was a secret that addressed traffic? We looked at traffic for this project this year. And staff determined that there's not traffic getting on at the Harbor Bay? No, we determined that the traffic that would be generated by this by this hotel would be much less than what was originally assumed to be on this site and in this business park. Under the original development, we also determined that we will need a stoplight at the intersection of Harbor Bay Parkway and North Loop Road. And we determined that the original development agreement that was approved by the city 20 years ago actually created a funding source, too. And they envisioned they knew this was going to happen, that we were going to need these additional lights. So there's money to put those lights. I appreciate that. A concern I have is and this is this is why I want to know. Yeah. Are we making a fine do it. Does this have anything to do then with traffic? Because when you try to get on and off of Harbor Bay, there's there's traffic. There is absolutely traffic. This what we found is this project. It will not impact that already bad situation. It will not. All right. So the finding is that building a hotel with 100 rooms employs two conference rooms. 50 that can accommodate 50 each will not impact the traffic on Harper Bay. So we're making that specific finding. Were you saying over there. Is over the bridge yet? Let's be clear. You have a significant impact in the mornings, during the school year, leaving from people, dropping your kids off and trying to get on and off. At that point. That's not the trips that are made for a hotel, an airport hotel. You are making a finding that there is no significant impacts being generated by this hotel that were not already identified in the original air. And when was the original air? In 1989. And that's when you designed the entire roadway system for into all of Harbor Bay in the seventies and then the 89 addendum. All right. Thank you. Okay, now I'm going to call the next speaker. Sofie. Jamie. Thank you, Ty Hudson. And then Robert Sanger. And then Pat Lambourne. Hi. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. My name is Ty Hudson. I'm with Unite Here Local 2850, the appellant. You're going to hear from a couple of members. Of ours about why, you know, this this this hotel has very little to recommend it in terms of the sorts of jobs that it will provide. In case it's you know, in case folks are wondering why the union is against it. And you'll hear a little bit from our members about why that matters so much. But I just before I get into that, the real grounds for our appeal, I want to. I just want to say that I met with the the developer a number of weeks ago and we were talking about these sorts of issues. And she told me. And when we were talking about job. Quality that you wouldn't want to pay house employees like housekeepers too much because then they might not want to move. Up. In the world. You wouldn't want to pay employees like housekeepers too much. So since that issue has been brought up, the quality of the you know, that their character as an employer, I wanted to address that. Is that the kind of employer that that the that we want in Alameda? But let me get to the grounds for our appeal, because those aren't the the the quality of the jobs and so forth are not the issues before you tonight. And I. Have a letter from from an. Attorney that written on our behalf that was sent just, you know, earlier today. I have copies of it for the for the council. That addresses the the seeker issues and spells out better than I can in from from the podium here what why this project does not qualify for the exemption from secure that. That it's claiming or that the staff is claiming for it. First of all. As the as the the gentleman from from Marriott mentioned, this is a waterfront project. Whether it has a strip of dirt and rip wrap around. The front of it that separates it from the from the bay by 15 or 20 feet. It's a waterfront project. That is relevant. And one of the. Reasons it's relevant is that apart from the issue of whether it's surrounded by urban uses or not, which I'll get to, there is also an exception. There are exceptions to the exemptions. One of the exceptions to the exemptions, and this is spelled out in the letter, is that. When there are unusual circumstances that create the possibility for impacts such as impacts on water quality among others. A project cannot be cannot use these exemptions. Having a waterfront project like this, that's an unusual situation for a project that would call itself a infill project. Furthermore, to talk about the strip of dirt, the undeveloped future bay trail. In front of the hotel as an urban park is. Kind of absurd. And the court case that was cited about Balboa Park. I mean, come on. Is that Balboa Park? Balboa Park has museums in it. This is a this is a project that is directly up against the San Francisco Bay, which is not Balboa Park. Furthermore, the study that was done. About endangered about the protected species, that burrowing owl. Notes that further observation, both studies, there were two of them. They both note that further observations should be done and that this is a. Potential site for burrowing owls. And the Sequoia exemption requires no value for habitat for burrowing owls. Does all of this mean that you can't build anything there? No, it doesn't mean you can't build anything there. What it means is you have to do an analysis under Sequoia to find out what the impacts are. So we. Hope and expect. That the council. Will. Recognize this as this is a place where as a situation where squat should be applied and that the spirit and the letter of the law should be should be followed, and that development projects should be truly studied and analyzed and approved on their merits. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Not Lamborn and then Michael McDonough. Dana, sorry. And then Maria Aguilar. It's. Good evening, Ms.. Spencer. I was going to say good evening to Vice Mayor, who's not here and to all of the city council members. And thank you for your service. I come here when I'm passionate about something and you're here all the time. I don't know exactly how to put this. Let me see. I'm going to speak from three perspectives. One is I'm a 24 year resident of Alameda. I live right over the bridge at install and high. Secondly, I'm a business traveler. But what kind of business traveler I am? I am the training director for Unite Here International Union. Travel all over the country. And I absolutely think there is a legal basis. This is not an appropriate exemption to the urban infill exemption. This is a really incomplete picture of this entire waterfront area. I went out there today and photographed it. Unfortunately, it's on my phone. But listen, this isn't. This is the San Francisco Bay. This is on a tiny, tiny piece of land. The reason it's five stories tall is because it can barely accommodate this kind of an establishment. There isn't enough parking there. I went looking for 2183 North Loop Road. It's already in use. And then I went and I found a 2.88 acre parcel of land. That would be a better place for this hotel. There's a huge as you know, the Esplanade project is is potentially huge. It's a vast piece of land right next to the ferry terminal. Who's buying it? What's it going to be? Yes, this could definitely challenge whatever urban exemption they're looking for. Are they planning any parking for the ferry terminal? That place was jam packed. So is this really going. Is there going to be available parking? Potentially unlikely. So, yes, you could end up building this. I'll describe what this is in a minute and not really have parking available. Councilman Odie. What is this? I travel Houston. You know, San Antonio, Dallas, Florida. This is a business travelers, low and moderately priced, downscaled hotel upscaled motel. Just like the Hampton Inn. Just like the extended stay. It's not. There aren't going to be weddings and events there. There aren't going to be people there on the weekends. I stay in places like this where you usually put something like this is right near the freeway, right near easy access on to the freeway, close to an Applebee's. And if you're in Texas, Hooters, it's not the kind of development that belongs on our waterfront. And I don't think it'll stand up to the legal appeal that we're talking about, much less the unavailability of the parking. Hampton Inn isn't going to help you out. They're worried about the competition. So I ask you to do anything in your power as our council, to stop this development. The fact that it's zoned for a hotel doesn't mean it has to be. Doesn't the fact that it's zoned for 100 feet doesn't have to be? And you should be doing the kind of examination of development of Harbor Bay that you did for Alameda Point. Thank you. And then you would know how tall Hampton Inn is. Thank you. Michael McDonough. Maria Aguilar. And then Melody Lie. Early. Welcome back, Madam Mayor and the rest of the Council. It's been a long month without you. I'm Michael McDonough, president of the Alameda Chamber of Commerce. And I'm really glad that you're letting the speaker speak over the over their time limit, because there is not enough time for me to tell you everything I want to tell you . So I'm going to take as much time as the union people did if if you agree. You know, the LME, the Chamber of Commerce is pro-business. That's what Chamber of Commerce is all over the world do. And this is a good project for business. We've heard about the shuttles that'll take people to Park Street. I'm surprised the Park Street people aren't here because this is good for Park Street when we've heard about the businesses there that need places to stay. I know that's true. There's a lot of businesses there that need this hotel. We've heard from a couple of people how the Hampton Inn is always crowded and full. But, you know, this square issue is a red herring. There is studies done about sexual abuse. And this is a classic example. This is associations that are not. And you would expect if this was a secret issue, we'd have environmentalist here. We haven't heard from an environmentalist. We are hearing from associations that have another agenda using Sequoia as an excuse to get up here and try to hold this project up. And that I think we're all smart enough not to let that be pulled over our eyes, because this is this is not a secret issue. We've got a couple of issues where the original plan says that this whole park was approved through Sequoia. There should be no question at all. We've done other sequence studies where, well, there's an exemption. I believe it's probably a fair exemption. We have attorneys I haven't heard from any attorneys from the unions. And I'm not against unions, by the way. I used to be a member of one. This just doesn't seem like a union issue to me. This is a red herring when it comes to sequel, trying to get another agenda passed, using an environmental issue by someone who is not an environmental association. Interesting. I would have I would expect that some environmentalists here, if it was on the parking issue, it looks like the the people are the developers are willing to work with us on the parking, whether it's the shared parking. And we have the option of saying you can't get a building permit until you have the lease. I mean, that would be an and an amendment you could make if that's a concern of yours. They're saying occupancy without. I'm sure, like Mr. Odey said, they're not going to spend the money until they know they have the shared agreement. But if you wanted to, you could say you can't get a permit until you get the shared agreement. So I think whether it's the other parking lot that they could purchase or whether it's the shared agreement, they're willing to work with you to make sure there's plenty of parking. And I think so that doesn't really seem like an issue either. So if sex was not an issue and parking is not an issue and we're not within the law to challenge the height until 2019. And the other thing I was thinking about the light issue. I don't think there are going to be spotlights going out from the fifth floor of that building so that it should project light into the neighborhood. There might be lights projected on to the building to show, you know, that there's a hotel there. But I can't imagine it going, you know, half a mile or so away to to be a really problem with the light either. There's so many business reasons for doing this. Revenues alone with the occupancy tax as it is, even if we don't raise it at 10%, which is low for the for the surrounding areas, this the performance for this hotel will show that one the first year we'll get the city will get $400,000. In the 10th year, it'll get $1,000,000. And probably upwards from that from there. And if we raise it with Tony's recommendation, it's even more so. This is a real win for the city. And if the square is not an issue, it's a red herring. If the parking is not an issue, because they got solutions for that. And if we can't challenge, then this comes down to numbers. And it's good for business. It's good for the businesses on Harbor Bay. It's good for businesses on Park Street. It's great for the city because we want to keep the revenues here and not in Oakland or San Francisco. This is a really good project for the city. I don't think we're going to destroy the bay. This is something that I think is I would like to recommend from the chamber standpoint not to challenge this, to let the planning board do its job, to let the city attorneys do their job and let this stand the way it is without appeal or review. Thank you. Thank you. Maria Aguilar. The Melody Lee. And then wailing Huber. Not just. What? I don't just. Mean. I'm Rosemary. I love. Me. Good evening. My name is Maria Aguilar. Yesterday, I kept our whole global housekeeper thing. It made. Me think. I'm here because I work as a housekeeper in Emeryville. A little higher even. I hope our won't support opportunity that is that. Trabaja boys are larger. More more people when America in sympathy and thought. I work in the Hyatt Hotel in Emeryville. I have very good opportunities at work. I have good, good wages, good benefits, good health insurance. That's 100% paid. Even your pocket, Miss Companero, some men don't care. Representative Hacking is the thing. It's not Central. Perk. No Zoroastrian war movie one of Beneficios You know not gonna be any gay, Barry me thank you I don't know Bill can of resigning homeboy boyfriend if he's your pal Austria-Hungary's yes or be any are we not? No. It's a condition the trabajo cancerous tenemos. I'm here because my coworkers nominated me to come represent them here tonight. We have good benefits and good wages and benefits where we work, but it would really hurt us if you approve a hotel that doesn't offer good wages and benefits. MARQUEZ Yeah. I'll tell you. What else I can offer them. One over two features by La la la housekeeper. And Thatcher's paternal biographer. Oprah said No longer is the hotel hero princess. Because if if this hotel is built, that doesn't offer any benefits for the housekeepers. Our bosses are going to want to offer us whatever this this hotel offers. In Las who they met. Will not. Hang up or yellow a housekeeper get the hammer when US opportunities move. Weintraub Our whole NOI says, I throw our whole you Carol Ekeremor jealousy that they allow me to say are you while Gabriela housekeeper. In the city of Emeryville. They've supported us a lot to make sure that we housekeepers they deported housekeepers a lot to make sure that we have good opportunities, job opportunities, that we don't have an excessive workload and and good benefits. And we we hope that the city of Alameda will do the same. Yet what I say this today that we were I'm. Not just. And thank you for this opportunity. Good evening. I'll also be translating if necessary. And then. Melody. Good evening. Uh, well, hang on. I made you something. I've lived in Alameda for 20 years. Utilize the mo suck to do yoga phase and structure. There used to be not as many problems with traffic. Now it's extremely there's a lot of traffic problems. Uh. I, I own dojo right now. I work in oakland, the corridor. Hey. So this could l.a. Mogollon, we got lala. You can go out the more benefit moa you saw. Oh, my. Ah, vacation. Banga. Uh. And my holiday career. So if there's a hotel here billed with no union, it's likely to have no benefits, no sick days. Vacation. Health care. How much. And my pay a minimum wage and. Pay minimum wage. More guy and go. No raises. Howdy. I'm doing some clinical patents are proposing a medical. Take the Hill Hampton end. The workers there pay 50% of the cost. The full cost of medical insurance. How to keep, I hope my night watchman. Tong Ghazi. The housekeeper and the houseman don't get the same rate of pay. Q What an idea is something you don't take over. That hotel is only three stories. This hotel is five stories. It's just too tall. Well, the Hemel Mole pie. We hope that you won't approve this project. Thank you. Thank you. I think I'm the next speaker. When. You hear her name. Melody Lee. I think you. So my name is Wiley Humor and I'm the president of Unite Here Local 2850 thank you very much, Mayor Spencer and council members for allowing us to speak today. So as you've heard from some of our members, one of our concerns is the quality of jobs. You know, I believe that that's a concern for the city. We've heard that expressed by the city manager that, you know, using a space for parking when it could be a job generator would not be a good use of Blandin in Alameda. So I think that that is a priority, but it's not something that is before you today for your consideration. Right. We are concerned because of the conversations that we regularly have with nonunion workers here in Alameda and on Helgenberger in the limited service hotel industry, where first there are very few jobs. I mean, a hotel like this might have ten housekeepers, four front desk agents and, you know, a couple of drivers. We're not we're talking about a hotel that small enough to be exempt from many of the provisions of the ACA, exempt from the family medical leave. Right. Not a giant job generator and then quality of jobs we're very concerned about. We speak to Hampton Inn workers here in Alameda about the quality of their jobs. You know, as they some of them work also in union hotels or recently moved from a nonunion to a union hotel. So. So that's a concern for us. We wish it could be a concern for you, but of course, it's not before you. Today, the parking is the issue that is is before you today. And the question that I have is, given that it's not going to be a huge job generator or a quality job generator, the employer has made no commitments about the level of benefits or wages. Right. Why would the city then bend over backwards to go out of its way to give it exemptions to the code on the issues of parking and secure? So we're talking about possibly having them purchase land, which for all the reasons that have already been said by the city staff, by the Planning Commission is not a good idea. It's furthermore pretty far from the hotel or leasing land. Now the issue and the idea of leasing shared parking from the business park across the street has been out there since April. So my question is, why has the developer not secured such a lease since April? And they came before the board again in July and said, no, we still have not secured such a lease. And then they came before you today in September, said, no, we still have not secured such a lease, but we're looking at some purchased parking instead. Now, I should point out that the code requires it's not just a suggestion, but it's a requirement that any shared parking be less than a thousand feet or less away from the hotel. So the only option is the Harbor Bay Park. Across the street is the office park across the street. We had one speaker come to the July planning board meeting who said, interestingly, I am a part owner in the parking lot across the street and we don't have enough parking. We certainly do not have an agreement with this hotel that we're going to provide shared parking. And we are already concerned that the people who are coming to this hotel are going to UN illegally or without our permission park in our lot, which we don't have space for. We've already established that every meeting space in the city is full. So this these meeting spaces are going to be full all the time during the day, not when the shared parking is available. Right. And I should note that only 50 of the spaces are actually at ground level. 32 of the spaces at this hotel are being proposed are on lifts. So you're going to need staff who are going to have to valet people, shuttle people, operate the lifts. Only 50 people are going to be able to park by just driving their cars into a space that is going to create a massive traffic problem. There's going to be people walking the quarter mile to get across the street by going around to the next crosswalk if they do secure that space that furthermore, the code requires that they have a seven year lease in place and and and so far they haven't been able to produce anything. So thank you for your time. Thank you. Next. I have a slip that doesn't have a name on it. Someone that lives on Otis. Anyone turn in a slip without a name? Oh. All right. Anyway. Is it all right to identify you? It is 2811 notice. All right. Mike had a very. My name is Mike had a very present planning board. I apologize for that lapse there. So my testimony in front with the planning board on this project is on the website, so you could just refer to that. But I feel obligated to give you guys a thumbnail sketch of what my reservations were on this project. And the project was not a unanimous vote at the planning board. I was the one dissenting vote on it. And basically my feelings on this project are I feel like I've been here before. We've done this before in Alameda. We've been sold projects that look wonderful and they're going to be fantastic. And the planning board spent six months on this. So I am pretty conversant with this. And I saw the designs come. I saw them get sent back. I saw them come back again and really appreciably in the massing and design and just the overall appeal of the project didn't change much. And the drawback with the project in my mind's eye is that you've got a site that is too small to accommodate this hotel, and that point has been made by several previous speakers. So I won't belabor the issue, but this reminds me of the wonderful, beautiful, unique Alameda Target store we're going to have, which is going to be unlike any other Target store you've ever seen. Well, that Target stores exactly like every other Target store that you've ever seen, you could be in Dublin or Kansas City, for that matter . So this building, this is probably the best looking drawing I've seen of it yet, but I've also seen a lot of Fairfield Inns. I'm a business traveler also. There's a Fairfield Inn over by the Coliseum. And, you know, this is not what Alameda should be aiming for. I think that, you know, the Patels, it puts a lot of time and effort into this. But I don't think this is the right spot and I don't think it's the right project. On the sequel issue, Andrew Thomas has a famous quote. Now, Harbor Bay was built by the hand of Man. Well, I agree with you, Andrew, but so is the Naval Air Station. And we're not exempting projects down there from secret consideration. The infill thing I am familiar with what happened in the legislature a couple of years ago on the infill development stuff as under Jerry Brown. I think we're all pretty sure why that happened. All we got to do is walk out and look at this. This is not an infill project. I'm not an attorney. I'm not a secure attorney, but I tend to believe what my eyes tell me and not unfounded type of things. So I said I was going to be brief, but I see the yellow lights on. I think that's at the parking was an issue, obviously, but out of those three issues, I think parking would have been the third. So thanks for your time. You have to extend the meeting past 1130 now. We do at the. End of it now, we can just go all night. Joe Ernst. If I if I may, Madam Mayor, just quickly, I just want to make it clear that the planning board supported this project, approved. The sequel. So, Mr. Hanbury, I mean, he is not speaking for the planning board. I believe the vote was 4 to 1. Yeah, but the. Planning board. With four votes made a recommendation and actually decided this this matter. Thank you, Joe Ernst. And he's our last speaker. If you'd like to speak on this item, please turn on your slip. Good evening, Madam Chair. Members of the. Council. My name is Joe Ernst, and I'm here tonight as president of the Harbor Bay Business Park Association. I was asked to come to this meeting on behalf of owners and also as a landowner and developer at the business park. As Dan Reedy mentioned, we did have a recent annual meeting of the owners, and there was a lot of significant concern expressed by the ownership over the appeals and the reasons for these appeals and what what impact it will have on the existing approvals and development agreements. And what rights do these owners have if these approvals these rights are impacted? You know, so therefore, on behalf of the business park and the owners, you know, we do oppose this appeal based on Sequoia, which, you know, in this case is for non environmental purposes. And we do oppose the appeal of a project that does comply completely with the planned development that is in place. The development agreement and plan development are very important documents. In addition, you know, bccdc, we do have bccdc documents in place for the business park and Bccdc had to render an opinion on this project and found that , you know, there is adequate public access and distance from the waterfront, that there are not negative impacts on the water. So, you know, this, you know, by definition is appropriate for the waterfront and does not impact, you know, on the measures of Sequoia. You know, we've approved you know, my firm has developed, approved, recruited companies to over 1.3 million square feet of property of buildings in the park in the last 12 to 15 years, using these same documents, these same processes. Nothing's been challenged on this basis. You know, we're very familiar with the environmental issues, the wildlife issues. So and furthermore, you know, the business park, the original secret documents approved five over 5 million square feet of development. To date, there's less than three square, 3 million square feet of development in the business park. It approved building structures up to 100 feet with a conditional use to go to 156 feet. You know, so, you know, these this project does comply with the with every aspect of the planned development in the development agreement. You know, limits then says that, you know, if it complies, therefore, you know, that's on the basis which you have to approve. You know, there's still about 60,000 square feet or excuse me, 60 acres of land in the business park yet to be developed. That's about 22%. Most of that is held by significant owners who have plans in place to develop, are very concerned. You know what? Upholding an appeal on these basis would mean and would like to know what their rights are. You know, the business park does need hotels. You know, Penumbra was very accurate. You know, Hampton is always full. V.F. is having to send employee visitors on a daily basis to San Francisco. That's just. A lost. Opportunity for Alameda. You know, I think it's a well-designed project. I think it brings nice variety to the business park. And, you know, we spent a lot of time over the last several months talking about what it takes to recruit businesses to Alameda, that we want jobs and we need to send the right message. And I think. By upholding or by opposing the appeal here, we're sending that right message and honoring the agreements that are in place. Thank you. Thank you. He was our last speaker on the item council member. Comments, questions and Brody. Comments have come in. Question So Andrew is still here. Sorry. No, it's all right. So this this issue with this parking thing is still I didn't nobody said whether they liked one or the other. But Miss Huber said something about. You know, the different appearances before the planning board. Yes. We'll get a lease. Yes, we'll get a lease. And then the conversation with the owner of the property. I mean, where are we on that? I mean. Well. Is that accurate that there there's no parking there now and there's no there's been no approach. Many of them, you know, about a lease or we. The discussion with the applicant has been very clear. We're not going to let you open this without at least now, of course, they also. But the planning board never said, oh, let's see the lease, let's see the lease. We want to see an executed lease. The assumption was and the way it's always handled in every project is it's going to be a condition of this project that you get a lease and that you prove you have a lease. I mean, you think about it. She doesn't even know if she has a project yet. Why wouldn't she signed a lease for parking? She needs to know that she can build a project. Then that way we structure. It is you. But we're not going to let you occupy unless you have the lease. And then based on our prior conversation, if you want to change that and move that trigger further up. So it's like, no, you show us a lease before you build a building permit. I guess the thing I'm concerned about is it has to be within a certain number of feet. If we have the shared parking and looking at this map on exhibit three, page three, I think it is, you know, there's not a lot of spaces around there and within that that limit. And if, you know, there's not availability there and there's no desire on behalf of the owners of that one property to even enter in such a lease because the parking lot is full. I mean, realistically, where is that going to go. If she can't get a lease? I like your proposal to change the condition to a building permit. She can't get a lease and she can't do shared parking. And then obviously then the assumption behind the planning board's approval is was faulty. We have been assured throughout this process that we can get a lease now if she can't actually come up with one, well, then you're right. We shouldn't build a hotel. I mean, through no fault of our own, I'm sure, you know, they're making very good efforts at it, but. Nobody in the past has had a problem getting a lease. So if she has a problem, then she should not build this hotel. And we should I should not be standing up here telling you she's going to get a lease if she, in fact, can't. But we have never required somebody to show us and executed lease before we give them the very first land use entitlement. It's always been okay, we have agreement. Your conditions. Here's what our entitlement is and we proceed. And then what about the lighting? I mean. The lighting of the hotel. It's you. Know, if you look on I think it's page. Oh. What was it, Paige? It's still page three. So all of those homes along Lagoon on Ratto. All of their master bedrooms at night. You know, I'm going to look out onto this hotel. You know, they wanted, I heard iconic. And, you know, the picture this picture here that's up on the screen, you know, shows a building that's. From the waterfront looks iconic. But you know, what about from the other side? I mean, are there things we can do to mitigate? There's a couple of lights, the reflection, the colors, the windows. I mean. There's a couple of things we can do. We have a condition of approval that requires a lighting plan. Well, first of all, let me start. The planning board already started this conversation. They said, look, no signage up there. So the signage on this building is actually for a building of this size, very sedate. There's a there's a building on the signage on the side, not in the front or back, and then a low one on the front, which is basically a monument type sign. And so they're not going to see any lit up signs at all. They are going to see a building. There's a condition of approval about a lighting plan to be submitted with the with the building permits, which is typically reviewed at the staff level. The types of things we look for is downward facing lights, not shedding on neighboring properties there. Certainly, there's something any particular things you want to add? You can certainly do that, like make sure that we communicate with the neighbors. The other thing I will point out, though, there is prop. I mean, you're right. Maybe this gets built very quickly. Those neighbors to their living room windows will be seeing this. That is a temporary situation because what they're going to be seeing is the expansion of the V.F. campus. There is a vacant parcel between the lagoon and this property. So and everything out there is very, very flat. So they're not going to see this hotel five years from now. They're going to be looking at the back of the next expansion of the VRF campus, which is going to block their view. You mean? I guess my concern is if you look at this picture, I mean. And sorry. Oh, go ahead. This is the view from the master bedrooms of the rental road. People, you know, it's it's white. So, I mean, I'm a layperson, but white reflects light, right. So moonlight, car, cars and whatever spotlights they put on it. You know, I'm not that concerned about the view from the from the bayside. You know, right. From the I understand. Is I don't I don't want Mr. Hager to come back and say, you saw the the VFR problem, but then you built this other thing that's giving me even more light. So give me what we hope it will be. But so, I mean, that's kind of my my issue. And we do have the right under de novo review to kind of that's ask a planning board to go back and look at the light issue. Well right. Or you can tell us how you want the light issue. You can either refer back for further discussion about lighting. You can also give us and we have the project architect here as well tonight. I mean, if you want specific kinds of lighting. I'd like to hear from the project architect because I was ready to ask for that condition to slide steady. But Councilmember. My name is. Will you pull the microphone down? I'm a little. Short. I have. One more thing left for. This. All right. Mayor. Nice. Mayor, Councilmember, thank you for the opportunity in addressing your question. The latest title 24 California Energy Code strictly restricts the amount of lighting you can have on the building. And also, we can definitely, as a responsible architect, we definitely will shield the lighting from what shooting projecting into the neighbors windows. In terms of what your comments about the white reflecting light, that's a simple color palette. Color is very hard to depict in renderings and also in real life and daylighting it bounces light differently and everybody has different perception of it depends on the weather and sun angle. So what we can do is actually putting in a condition to have a planner or staff going out there and do a final approval of the colored palette on site, which we have done in other jurisdictions successfully. Okay. And then I guess my other and I'm still kind of debating this in my head, you know, I wonder if my colleagues would be interested in, you know, having one vote on the secure. Because that may be a different we may have different findings on the sequel and then having a second vote on whether we're going to upheld based on the mayor's de novo review of the project that, you know, may include things like the parking. Well, can we hear from the city attorney on that? Yes. There's no reason why you can't do that. You have two separate actions before you. One is the appeal from the from the union, which is the Sequoia appeal. And you could vote on that to to deny the appeal and uphold the Sequoia. And then you can also address then the mayor's call for review on de novo and make decisions on that. Is that what you're making? I mean. Well. Well, I think I've made a decision on the sequel, but, you know, I haven't really on the other because I. Think I hear appropriate. So it's very clear in regards to any appeal that may be brought on this we what findings we made, what our decision was. So I would recommend that we bifurcate the two points. Then I would like to move to move at least on the sequel that we we deny the appeal based on sequel grounds. And uphold the Planning Board decision on those grounds only. If we have a second. Our second. Any discussion. I believe that there were significant. Issues raised in regards to the secret issue that at least warrants more than an exemption. And I and I don't support of the city waiving something that I think is very critical of the project I believe is on the water could very well have impact and not only in regards to being on the water, but also in regards to its impact on our community to suggest that traffic. To me, it's not a minor issue. It is a significant issue. We are talking about two conference rooms to accommodate 50 each as well as 100 spaces of the hotel and employes. So I think that that could very well result in traffic that at least warrants a review of a current review as opposed to something that was done in 1989. So for. So those are issues that I have with the project. Any other comments in a second? My comment is that. Member days. I just see. Yes. Madam Mayor, just a point of clarification. The traffic analysis was done in 2014. Thank you. On the matter of Sequoia as it relates to traffic and the cities that are serving users in the meeting spaces. When I look at the people who are gathered here and count the people, I mean, it's practically 50 or so people who are in the audience. Maybe we're south of 50, but you get. So that tells me right off the bat that I'm not convinced that what we're seeing here rises to the level of not following through on planning, board and staff and city attorney's recommendation. So. I'm okay with. Brexit. That you're voting for the motion, is that correct? We haven't called the question yet. We're just. Yeah, we're just trying to see. Okay. Did you. Still have. Issues? Yeah, I have a number of. You have to. Do you want to make them? I'm ready to vote. All right. All those in favor. I oppose to the motion passes 3 to 1. All right. Thank you. And then I want to hear what my colleagues have to say about the others. I'll be happy to start unless. Mr. Brash. Councilmember de do you want to start? Because I think I often do. Oh, jump. Ready? Not really. No. I'll. I'll. I'll listen to what others have to say. Okay. So I am going to move that. We uphold the planning board's action. And I spend a lot of time on this and talked to a lot of people. A number of you here in the in the room. Anybody who contacted me about this, I talked to and this is what it comes down to for me. I appreciate hearing from the homeowners because we always need to balance adjacent uses. And you are homeowners who live next to a business park. But I appreciate hearing from the project architect, because I also know from my six years on the planning board that this is the sort of thing you do all the time. And I think lighting and a ways to address these problems have become even more sophisticated. So it is my desire and I think we will find a way to add a condition to make sure that the neighbors are not impacted. But we also need to think about the message we're sending to the business park. And not only that, to businesses who might be thinking of locating here in Alameda because we still have vacancies in that business park. We'd like to fill up our Alameda point development. And we you know, we celebrate the fact that Penumbra is adding employees. They've acquired more buildings and they're looking to acquire even more VF outdoors in North Face and we just heard earlier about our sales tax revenue reported for the last quarter. Two of the top producing sales tax generators are Penumbra and V.F. Outdoors. This is this is good for our city. We want to do more. We have heard that the hotels that we currently have are filled up. This is good. I want our hotels to be filled up and I don't want to see our business park visitors having to go to San Francisco or over to Oakland to stay because I'd rather have them stay and spend their money and generate revenue here in Alameda. We also know that this project, the Tier, which stands for Transient Occupancy Tax, which is a significant contributor, contributor to our general fund, is going to contribute between 400 and $500,000 annually starting the first year of business and increasing after that. And the so the need is there. I think we can make it a project that serves the community well. I think it's attractive. I like the fact that the waterfront trail is being extended, a crosswalk is being put in across the street. A lot of improvements are coming along with the developer's money. I'm also concerned with fairness. We want to have applicants feel that they come before our bodies and are treated fairly. So the same requirements we required of the Hampton Inn in terms of following what the Alameda Municipal Code its the law says for parking we're doing here . I am adamant though because I feel it's good planning principles that we do shared parking, not just paving over a waterfront space to be an asphalt parking lot when I know there's plenty of potential for shared parking out there. And we again, we need to be aware of. The benefits to the tourist city were always looking for ways to generate revenue. We are really fortunate that we have these great companies. I mean, they're doing Penumbra is doing a wonderful life saving kinds of work. Let's, you know, let's make it easier on them to have their visit business clients come to visit them and not add to the traffic with them having to have their busses and limos ferrying people to San Francisco to stay. So I think we can add a few conditions to make sure that the needs that were addressed are addressed as far as the union issues. Nobody from the union met with me. I did ask Mina Patel when I met. She mentioned Alameda is rather low minimum wage. And I said, well, why don't you match what Oakland is paying? And I think hopefully people have seen the letter that was sent that they are starting to pay, starting with a wage of $12 and I think $0.32, $0.35 an hour, because that's what Oakland does. And and I want to see more employers doing that. But the issues before us right now are the appeal of the well, we've we've dealt with the Unite Here Appeal. And now I know this is a more open ended call for review, but I am prepared to follow the Planning Board's recommendation with a couple of tweaks to make sure that this is the most sound project we can put together. Thank you. I have a question. Could you clarify, are the shared parking, is it within 1000 feet or less of the development? Is there a code section? There is a perimeter. There is a distance in the muni code, I believe it's a. Microphone. And they're there. My recollection of the municipal code for me, my recollection is there is a standard for the distance. It's designed for retail projects, but that is the standard and I believe it is a thousand feet. And this proposed lot that could be purchased as 1500 feet. Yeah. But it's not a shared parking lot, right? It's so it's a different animal. Is there any code section that goes? No. I mean, let's be clear. Just for the record, since we've got folks here who are threatening us for not following the code, the code says the planning board. And upon appeal at this hearing, you can set the parking at exactly what you want. You could today say no parking at all. You're fine. But so you have the ability to to structure this parking exactly the way you want it. But under your zoning ordinance. And the only code section that pertains to the distance of the parking speaks to 1000 feet or. Relates. To 1000 feet for a shared parking arrangement. You know, it's designed for Park Street and it's designed for customers. That's why the 1000 feet, it's, you know, but if you want to hold them to that standard for this thing, then, you know, it's just just a different application. In this case, it's valet parking. It's not customers walking to a store, but that's what that standard is designed for. And the code is for more of a Park Street or Webster Street, where a retailer is sharing parking with another retailer. Thank you. Ben Brody, I'm. Sorry to have a question. So, I mean, is it feasible that the developer could enter in a contingent lease saying, you know, you'll give me this shared parking, but I'm not going to start paying rent, you know, either, A, until the the project is open and B I cannot get out of the lease. Yes. If for some reason I don't get approval on the project. So, I mean, I'm wondering if that would be something that. You know, should be pursued because I'm still not feeling well. Council member doesn't talk, but. Member, De Saag. Well, thank you very much. You know, these are the type of tough issues that we as council members get elected to make. Oftentimes when there are situations where residential land users bump up against business land uses. You know it. Sometimes we shy away from making these kind of decisions. But but here we are. And it's imperative that we continue to move forward with strengthening the local economy here in Alameda. And we talk about Penumbra, for example. You know, when we went out to their annual employee celebration several weeks ago, now we got a chance to talk with the with the CEO of the company. And, you know, he himself a lot he's uprooting his family, moving from San Francisco to move to Alameda. So we need to continue to move that kind of progress along. You know, this this project that we have before us. You know, it's not the silver bullet that's going to answer everything with regard to our economic development, but it is a key part of it. You know, the businesses that we have now at Harvard Vale, to the credit of all the people who have put together that business park throughout the decades. You know, you've got some great corporations there. Peet's Coffee, V.F., Outdoors, Penumbra, the Oakland Raiders. All these companies bringing in clients, people from throughout the world. And we need to keep moving that momentum. And so I hear what the residents have to say. I know that they're concerned, particularly in light of the concerns about the light coming from V.F.. I hear that. But but this is one of those tough decisions, though, that I think we have to move this project along. So I'm supportive of it. And Brody. Thank you, Madam Mayor. So. I mean, if I had my druthers, I would refer this back to the planning board to resolve this parking issue, either with some contingent lease that that we can be safe and secure knowing that there's going to be one or there's some permanent solution that's been approved and gone through a design review that it doesn't also shine light into into neighbors windows. But. And also the lighting. But based on, you know, there's four of us up here and we need three to to pass something. And I'm not sure that I'm going to get a remand. So I'm hopeful that those that are supportive of this project, you know, would consider, you know, some type of of, you know. Contingency on on this this parking being resolved one way or the other and and some way to mitigate the light. Well or agreeing to remand it back to the planning board until those those two issues are resolved. What if we don't get the one? Then it'd be good to get the other. Well, my recommendation then, on that, what you just said right now is for us to just figure out what's the language here. Because if we can move the project along without having it remanded and, and that meets, that satisfies the project proponents and that satisfies you then. No. Yeah. Why not? I don't think I have the votes to remand, so. I think you're right. And also I'm with Councilmember De. So he said it more than once. We need to move this project along. If we bounce it back to the planning board, we just stretch this process out and it's already been stretched out quite a bit. I think we can give Andrew Thomas adequate instruction as to what we want. And I think the the architect put it very well in terms of the lighting, and I think the condition regarding shared parking is already. But, you know, I think the difference was you want the issuance of a building permit rather than an occupancy permit to be the triggering event. I mean, I'd be more I think that's probably more fair to everyone now. I think you. Just know. That. But that can be done, you know, like right here. Right now. Right. But. You know, also that there be some concrete solution. You know, not I might get a lease or I might go off and buy because I don't think building a parking lot behind people's bedrooms is the best idea. And if that's the alternative and it doesn't sound like leasing, it seems there's problems with the possible of getting a lease. So. That's why I'm leaning towards remanding. But again, without the votes, I select the solved. And I'm just going to jump in. Sorry, Andrew, to talk of you with your permission, Madame Mayor, that I actually had a conversation with Joe Ernst, president of the Harvard Business Association. And he indicated to me that because this is such an important project to the business park and the leasing agent is working on finding shared parking , they're going to find a solution. I mean, it's it's a mutually beneficial situation. So I think by upholding what the planning board did, but just tweaking it to require that they won't be able to get their building permit until that lease is in hand. We solved the problem, the parking problem. I would. Certainly. Agree that their next step to moving forward on this is getting a building permit. And what if you amend the condition to say you don't get a building permit until this city sees the signed lease for the additional spaces, then that basically ensures that you get that lease. I would also suggest that given the conversation, I think there's a relationship between the valet parking and the distance, the thousand foot. Is its design for Park Street, Webster Street. And it's not designed for a valet situation. So I. The other thing I will put forward for you to consider in that exact same same condition is we want to see a lease for a thousand feet. This project is require to have valet service, but we're not going to limit you to the 1000 feet. So that's something for you to consider. And with the lease, be just for the evening parking spaces, not during the day spaces. I mean, I think we have the example of the other hotel and that the parking I mean, that's what I was told that the parking lot tends to be just about empty during the day because that's when business travelers are out doing business. The need is in the evening, the. Need is in the evening so. That. It's not a case of first impression, in other words. And that takes into consideration the conference rooms. I think we have to let's not overplay. I mean, I know we want conference rooms and we've been saying it's got conference rooms. These are two, you know, reasonably small rooms. So it helps. But this is not a conference center by any means. I don't plan to support it. I think it requires I think it has insufficient parking. I think when you're talking about 101 hundred rooms to conference rooms employs, I think that 82 spaces on site is insufficient. I think that the suggestion of the 1000 feet or less in regards to valet when I've done valet parking, that means that you have people running to get your cars. I think 1000 I don't think it should be any more than a thousand feet for valet. I actually think that's a long, you know, to suggest that it's appropriate for valet parking to be farther than a thousand feet. That's a good runner going back and forth. And I haven't seen that in valet parking that I've used. So. And there was a comment in regards from the president kind of worried my Canterbury sites are too small to accommodate a hotel this size. I actually would agree with him because I don't think the that it is sufficient in regards to parking. I do think long term we could very well have a problem with parking. I appreciate that. It may not be a problem right now. I think you have examples all over the city, including at the ferry on Harbor Bay, that we our projects have been approved in the past with insufficient parking. So I think that that is critical that that be addressed at the beginning of the project. I also have concerns about the light and whatnot, but I don't think. I don't think it's appropriate to proceed. MEMBER Audie. And you know, I agree with the mayor's points, but if we don't cast an affirmative vote to add these additional conditions, then the project gets approved. As it is. Right. So. So I'm faced with the choice if I want something reminded. I agree with what the mayor says and all of her concerns. You know, do I vote for it so I can get something out of it that I think makes it better? Or do I not vote for it? And then I don't get anything that I think makes it better and it still goes forward in a way that I don't really like it. So. I would much rather have a vote for something that at least we can get some of these conditions in. As much as I really want to remain this, since we don't have the votes, it's it's I have to be I have to be for it with these extra conditions. It's really this is not a pleasant vote to do, but I'd like to have some say in how this works rather than let the the. The decision of the planning board to go forward as it has it's written today. Right. Well, with that, then I will move adoption of the resolution documenting the council action on this property. Do I have an address? 2350 Harvard Bay Parkway. With the with the conditions or the additional tasks that we've given staff to address. It's some clarification. I think I want those to ask you. Just get those on the record. So I think that that that the parking is resolved there either with a. The sign contingent lease or some other executable contract. Executed lease prior to building permit. Write for 24 hour lease. Parking. And or an approved, you know, parking lot that's gone through the design review process because if that doesn't work. She doesn't know. If it doesn't work, there's no project. But I'm not I'm my motion does not include paving over something to just be a parking lot. So then I think we should be clear that. We don't want any paid parking lot. I guess that's my fear. That felt like I said it six ways to say. Okay, I'm willing to say it again. I am talking about least shared parking. And then if it doesn't get through, there's no project. Exactly. So. And then the ball's in the applicant's court. And I think that's fair. You know, sides have to bear a risk and. Okay. And then that the lighting issue is mitigated. Absolutely. Well, let's play that out, though. Okay. So if for some reason they can't get the shared parking. Is the project die as is, or can the applicant come back to the council planning board and say, for whatever reason we could not get the we could not get at least. But as we had expressed from the beginning, we were always all too happy to purchase land to build. Is that a. Yes? They can definitely come back at that point and say, we want you to reconsider the motion from September 1st. Okay. But they would still need three votes. It would still need two votes. Okay. So is that enough clarification, Steph? I think so, yeah. But the lighting. The lighting. We have to review the lighting plan. I've been talking to the architect. There's no plans to light this building. You know, there's going to be laying on the ground floor. There's going to be a red light on the roof. That's the lighting plan. So what we want addressed is to avoid the impact on the neighbors like this. I think when somebody on the fifth floor turns on the light in their room, you're going to see that the light is on in the room. But there's no this is not about there's no need to light this building. We don't have to update it. We don't need to it doesn't need to glow at night. It's going to be a building. When the when you turn the lights in the rooms, you'll see that. Because it'll also be energy efficient, I believe. Yeah. Well, there's ways to mitigate. Okay. All right. So. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. All those in favor. I. I oppose motion passes. 3 to. 1. It's. Fish. And we're going to take a short break before we continue the next agenda item. Oh. My goodness. Oh. Could we take our seats? Let's proceed. If everyone could take their seats, please. We have more agenda items. All right, it's 1220 and let's go. All right. 60. Public hearing to consider the Planning Board recommendation to approve a vesting, tentative map and density bonus application to permit construction of 52 units on a 2.78 acre parcel located at 2100 Clement Avenue. An adoption of related resolution.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the rates, terms, and conditions for the use and sale of electricity supplied by the City Light Department for 2020; amending Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) Sections 21.49.030, 21.49.052, 21.49.055, 21.49.057, and 21.49.081; adding a new Section 21.49.070 to the SMC; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Bill passenger assignment. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda item ten Council Bill 119 633. Relating to the rates, terms and conditions for the use and sells resupplied by the satellite department for 2020. The committee recommends the bill pass. Because remember mosquito. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a technical ordinance that includes three elements related to Seattle City, like rates and fees. The first is the franchise agreement between the between Seattle and bureau in the city of Seattle and Berrien. The second is how City Light handles cost adjustments triggered by the Bonneville Power Administration. The entity we pay for power and the transmission of power. And the third technical aspect here is adding a new code section related to electric vehicle charging stations, outlining that the facilities are available to any member of the public and authorizing city light to design fees to reflect the cost of the service and recoup the capital and operating costs of the charging equipment plus the costs of the energy used. Get any questions or comments now, please call the role on the passage of the bill. Mosquito I O'Brien Pacheco. I so want I make sure I. Herbold i. Whereas I. President Harrell. Eight In favor and unopposed. Bill passenger side please read Agenda Number 11.

AN ORDINANCE relating to termination of residential rental tenancies; requiring compliance with the Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance before issuing notices to terminate a tenancy; and amending Sections 22.206.160 and 22.214.075 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Bill Pass and Sherwood Senate. Please read the next agenda item. Agenda Item six Council Vote 119 621 Relating to termination of Residential Rental Tenancies Committee recommends the bill. Task Force Member Herbold. Thank you. This bill is intended to proactively prevent conflict between tenants and landlords around about habitability issues that result in eviction proceedings. The Rental Registration and Inspection Ordinance is the city's main tool to ensure that housing is safe and up to basic maintenance standards, and landlords are required to be registered with the rental registration and inspection program before evicting a tenant per hour just cause eviction ordinance. The Seattle Department of Construction Inspections identified that some landlords were who, as you say, some landlords who had not registered their units under the rental registration inspection ordinance were doing the registration. In those instances, when they were planning on evicting somebody, they were doing that registration actually during the eviction hearing. And the the intent of our of our law was was to make it so that landlords could not evict tenants who were not registered with with the rental agreement registration program. And so this. Was actually a loophole in our ability to ensure that landlords were fulfilling their obligation to to be registered with SDC. So this law would instead require registration in advance of issuing a notice to terminate. Rio is a key tool to shift the Seattle Department of Construction Inspections Enforcement from complaint driven to proactive. Frequent violations are missing or nonfunctional smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, safe handrails and exposed wires. The the focus of the registration program are life safety violations. So, again, this would require in an instance where a landlord failed to have their unit registered with the REO program, it would require the landlord to basically start the eviction process all over again from from step one, rather than giving them the opportunity to register in the middle of the process. Thank you. Councilman Herbold, any other questions or comments? Just a quick. Question, Councilmember. Mosquito. Quick comment. I just want to say thanks to Councilmember Herbold for your work on these four pieces of legislation, and I know you've been working diligently on these and under the weather today. And I think it just shows that your commitment to getting these over the finish line before budget. So it's a lot of work and thanks for your championing of the. As I'm saying, so. I'll drink to that. Any other questions or comments? The Seltzer Cold medicine. Cold medicine. Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Macheda I. O'BRIEN All right. PACHECO So aren't I. Begala Sure. Herbold I was President Herrell high eight in favor and unopposed. Bill passed. Sure. Sign it. Please read the next agenda item the short title.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Subsection 21.27.130, Table 32-1, Table 32-2, and Table 32-2A of Chapter 21.32, Subsection 21.33.130.E, and Table 51.276-1 of Chapter 21.51, relating to the zoning regulations of the City of Long Beach, read and adopt as read. (Citywide)

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Okay, great. So then there's no more public comment. So members, please go ahead. We'll go to the next item. And we're going to go ahead and do let's actually do the item 17 and then 18 to the two other hearings and then we'll go to 16. So let's start with item 17. Please report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and find the project exempt from sequel to the ordinance approving a zoning code amendment to implement suggested modifications by the California Coastal Commission. Read the first time and later or the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. Adopt a resolution adopting amendments to the local coastal program of the General Plan and adopt a resolution authorizing Director of Development Services to submit the local Coastal Program Amendment to the California Coastal Commission citywide. This is a public hearing. And the planning manager, Patricia Defender. Here will make the presentation for this item. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor. Vice Mayor, City Council members. This item is similar to a number of items you have seen recently. This item is a local coastal program amendment for zoning code amendments that were previously approved by the City Council on October 2019. As you've seen with those other recent local coastal program amendments, the council has to act on, the Coastal Commission's suggested changes in order for the zoned zoning code amendments to be effective in the coastal zone. This action would allow these amendments to be in effect in the coastal zone. These which are these amendments are already a fact in effect in the rest of the city. Just by way of some very quick background. The Development Services Department has undertaken a program to periodically update the zoning zoning code, a program known as the Omnibus Zoning Code Amendments. The goal of the program is to modernize the zoning code and ensure that the regulations are up to date updated, to be responsive to changes in development trends and best zoning practices. These periodic amendments are necessary since the zoning code has not been comprehensively updated in more than 20 years, and there are conflicts and outdated provisions throughout the code. As previously mentioned, these particular amendments were adopted by the City Council in October 2019. At that time. At the time of the adoption, the City Council also adopted a resolution directing the Director of Development Services to submit submit these ordinances to the Coastal Commission for a finding of conformance with the Certified Local Council program. The city did submit the amendments to the Coastal Commission and the Coastal Commission is requiring some modifications to those amendments. And that's what's before the Council this evening. The customary procedure the city council must take an action on these coastal commission modifications suggested modifications within six months of the date of the Coastal Commission's approval, which for this item was in March of this year. If the Council approves these modifications this evening, the coastal the local coastal program amendments will be resubmitted to the Coastal Commission before the deadline for final certification by the Coastal Commission. Just very quickly, I won't go over the detail or substance of these code amendments, but they were code amendments that involved establishing land use regulations for several new uses, including escape rooms, tutoring centers, animal related uses if established and revised or clarified development standards related to the distance between structures on residential properties. Parking requirements in historic landmark districts, measuring fence height in flood zones, gross floor area definitions and floor floor area ratio calculations, rooftop solar height exemptions , and some other development standards. It also made some modifications to administrative procedures, exempting hearing items continued to a date certain from re noticing. The these are the description of the modifications that the Coastal Commission was requesting and generally that require clarifying the exemption from additional parking requirements for historic properties undergoing residential expansion. Is precluded from use in certain parts of the coastal zone. If this if such an improvement would increase the size or degree of non-conformity with coastal resource protection and shoreline policies. He clarifies that the new uses that are introduced in the code by these amendments are allowed by right and are consistent with the allowable uses in the adopted land use plan. It adds a requirement for properties within the certified local coastal program to prevent rooftop solar collectors from adversely impacting public views of the beach, bay or ocean that are preserved in the Certified Local Coastal Program. It makes a as a footnote to development standards related to accessory dwelling units in the coastal zone. Notice of public hearing for this hearing was published in the Long Beach Press Telegram on July 19, 2021. Written notices were sent to the Coastal Commission. Other notification was provided as required by the code, including posting at City Hall and select libraries. On this slide is a summary of the actions that shows that the City Council is being recommended to approve, which involves concluding the public hearing and finding the project is statutorily exempt from secure, declaring and approving the Zoning Code amendments to implement the suggested modifications of the Coastal Commission to adopt the resolution. Adopting the amendments to the local coastal program and incorporating the modifications suggested by the Coastal Commission. And certifying the compliance with the coastal, adopting a resolution certifying compliance with the Coastal Commission March 2021 Action that concludes the staff presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. There's any public comment on this hearing? I believe so. Mr. Mayor, this requires three votes, one for the audience and one for each of the two resolutions. Yes. Thank you. And there's no public comment. Correct. Okay. We have a motion on the second councilmember ringer. No real comment other than that. Thank you to staff for updating our LCP for lovely. First May Richardson. Okay. Can I have somebody else second that. It's it's I think it's I think we're fine. Go ahead and let's take the first vote. Members cast your vote. Councilwoman Mongo. For smokers. Thank you. I'll take a motion for the second vote. Please cast your votes. Second vote. Karis Thank you. And we'll take the third vote.

A bill for an ordinance designating 2288 South Milwaukee Street as a structure for preservation. Approves an individual landmark designation for property located at 2288 South Milwaukee Street in Council District 6. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-24-19.

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Council is reconvened. We have three public hearings this evening. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling the council their names and cities of residents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, please come to the podium, state your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time on the presentation monitor. On the wall you will see your time counting down. Speakers must say on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilwoman Wall, will you please put Council Bill 954 on the floor? I move that council bill 19 0954 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for council bill 954 is open. May we have the staff report it? Evening Council. My name is Jenny Button Bergen with Community Planning and Development and I'm going to go through 2288 South Milwaukee Street, a landmark designation application. The ability to designate individual landmarks and historic districts in the city and county of Denver is set forth in the 1967 Preservation Order and Landmark Preservation Ordinance. The purpose of the ordinance is to designate, preserve and protect historic structures, foster civic pride, stabilize and improve esthetic and economic vitality, and promote good urban design. We currently have 344 individual landmarks, which you can see on the screen indicated by the red dots in 55 historic districts which are indicated in the colored blocks by year of designation. This equals about 7000 buildings or 4% of the city, one and 25 structures that are designated landmarks in the city and county of Denver. Designation applications can be accepted by a variety of people. It is a community driven process, and those who can designate through applications are the owner or owners of the property, manager of a community planning and development, a member or members of City Council, and three people who are either residents, property owners, or have a place of business in Denver. Four 2288 South Milwaukee Street. The owner is the applicant, Francis Taylor, who is here with us this evening. This is in the University Park Neighborhood Council, District Number six, Councilman Paul Cashman and Blueprint Denver. This is the urban neighborhood context and low residential area future place. The current zoning is you as you see for a property or properties to be designated. They have to meet a set of criteria. They need to meet a designation criterion and at least two categories of history, architecture or geography. They must maintain a historic and physical integrity, and they need to be considered by the Landmark Preservation Commission for relation to historic context or theme for this property. It meets History C, which is to have direct and substantial association with the person or group of persons who had influence on society in architecture. B Which is to be the significant work of a recognized architect or master builder. And I'll go both of these and go, Excuse me, go through both of these in detail. Now, the property is directly associated with Dr. Edward Jackson, a well-known and highly celebrated ophthalmologist who commissioned the design and construction of 2288 South Milwaukee Street in resided in the home with his family from 1902 to 1920. Dr. Jackson was a major figure in advancing modern American ophthalmology. Excuse me? I lost my cursor on the screen. He developed new techniques for examining the eyes, such as Jackson's cross cylinders seen in the top right of the screen, used for the final fine tuning of the access and strength of astigmatism. He's also credited with popularizing the use of the retina scope seen in the lower right of the screen, a handheld instrument that objectively determines the refractive error of the eye. Indeed, for glasses, Jackson was a founding director of the American Board about the malady in the Colorado Optimal Logical Society. He was appointed Professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colorado Medical School and established the country's first postgraduate course in ophthalmology. Many of his career achievements occurred while he resided at 2288 South Milwaukee Street. The House at 2288 South Milwaukee Street, built in 1902, is a significant example of an upscale version of the four square form designed by Denver architect Glenwood. Huntington. Huntington ran a Denver practice between 1897 and 1938 and built a prolific career, mainly focused on residential designs. Many of his Denver projects are still extensive and contribute to local historic districts like East Seventh Avenue, Humboldt Street, Alamo, Casita, Wyman and Country Club. Few residential examples of Huntington's work have been recorded or documented in the University Park neighborhood. Like 2288 South Milwaukee Street. This Huntington house is unique given its substantial size footprint and a wraparound, uncovered front porch, facilitated in part due to its large corner lot setting. It demonstrates the character defining features of the four square form, such as a two story hipped roof structure with minimal decoration, broad overhanging eaves, classical frieze with holes and porch. It is unique given the absence of a full covered front porch and large dormer with a palladian window. Common design elements that Huntington included in other Foursquare designs. Yet it illustrates other Huntington trademarks like the use of brick and rough cut stone at the foundation, lintels and sills. It is an excellent, intact example of an early Foursquare form in Huntington design. The primary structure retains integrity of location, design, setting materials and workmanship, feeling and association. Early alterations that gain significance include a 1930 concrete floor replacement on the front porch and a 1934 partial two story brick addition on the rear elevation that you can see in the photo on the top of the screen. A late 1960s roof addition to the rear patio is compatible with the character of the house. That's the bottom photo. The openings have not been modified. Most of the windows are original and most of the original materials remain. Huntington's design is easily recognizable in terms of a historic context or theme. The property relates to the development of the University Park neighborhood, built in 1902 and a prominent corner location across from Observatory Park. The house was the first residence built on the block and is one of the earliest in the University Park neighborhood. As such, it also relates to the establishment and growth of the University of Denver. The land upon which the property sits was transferred to the Colorado Seminary in 1886 and platted for residential development under a vision named the University Park Colony to provide revenue through land sales to support the University of Denver, which opened in 1890. The proposed designation is consistent with comprehensive plan 2040 Blueprint, Denver and the 28 University Park Neighborhood Plan. It meets several comprehensive plan vision elements, including the goal to preserve the authenticity of Denver's neighborhoods and celebrate our history, architecture and culture. It is consistent with Blueprint Denver's vision to improve quality of design that preserves and creates authentic places using historic designation as a tool. And lastly, it meets a primary goal of the University Park Neighborhood Plan by maintaining the historic character's neighborhood while accommodating change. In summary, the property meets the criteria for landmark designation. It meets one designation criterion in two categories history and architecture. It maintains its historic and physical integrity, and it relates to historic context or theme. Two members of the public have provided comment and supported the designation application not in opposition, and the Landmark Preservation Commission unanimously recommended approval . Therefore, staff recommends approval and forwarding. Excuse me of my old notes on here. Recommends your approval as City Council for Landmark Designation of 2288 South Milwaukee Street. Thank you. Thank you very much. We have nine individuals signed up to speak this evening, so I'm going to call the first five up if you can come up to the front bench so that we can get everybody going. Barbara Paul Chairman Sekou Frannie Taylor, Candace Christiansen and Rosemary Stoffel. And Barbara Paul, you are up first. Thank you and good evening. My name is Barbara Paul. I'm the senior vice president for Field Services at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. But I'm really here tonight because I also live in the University Park neighborhood. The National Trust happens to own the historic Emerson School in in your district, Councilman Hines, which is also landmarked. But I'm here tonight principally to support Fran Taylor, who is a good friend and colleague and been a long supporter of historic preservation at the National Trust and Historic Denver and really all that Fran and her late husband Eric did to be such a good steward of this of this property. And I also want to draw awareness to the unique history of University Park. I know that you are aware that the Denver land, the survey of historic properties in Denver is woefully incomplete and never did get south far enough to our wonderful neighborhood in a store in the University Park neighborhood. And so that's a strong association with the development of the University of Denver is just starting to become known as we start bringing these properties forward to you. But I think it's also important to remember that preservation of historic buildings takes commitment, it takes resources, it takes patience. And and we really the opportunity here to sort of honor that legacy of people like Fran and Eric and what they've done with this property through landmark designation is really the right thing to do because the decision to tear something down only happens once. Demolition is forever. There's no do overs, there's no mulligans. But the decision to save something is something that has to be made over and over again. And I think the opportunity to landmark this special property in my neighborhood is important. That said, there are many other properties in our neighborhood that are being lost because they are not protected. So what I want you to consider is what Fran's doing tonight and which we hope you'll support, is just the beginning. My husband's here tonight. We have a property home that was built in 1892, and if we're lucky, we hope to be able to bring that house in front of you after the first of the year and ask your support for designating it. And we hope others in our neighborhood will want to do the same. So I urge you to support designation of this property. Thank you. Thank you, Chairman Sekou. Yes. My name is German Sekou. I am the founder of the Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense. And. We'll also be the. United States senator, 2020 in Colorado. This historical designation process. And. The criteria which we choose. To decide who gets it and who don't. Has to do with. Two things. One, the integrity of the. Structure. And also. The contribution that. The particular original owner represents. And we have to qualify for one out of the two. What we need to start looking at is. How in the context. Did this structure get created at the time that it was created? What was the social consequences that allowed sort of structure and person to be there? If we that the background of Dr. Jackson. It was a couple of surprises there. And I don't know if anyone has taken the opportunity to look at him and his social associations at that time. We know for sure in 1902. It was not a very good year for black people in this town. And just as we have chosen to glorify the designations of Ku Klux Klan members like Mayor Stapleton. We have to look at this day and look at what are we really preserving and what type of legacy we promote. So I'm neither for nor against this thing. Well, I am seeking counsel. I'm sorry, but your time is out the gate. How? We thank you very much. And who we choose next is in terms of the role for any tailor in society and not cover over. Things that people have. Good evening. I'm Francis Keller. I'm the owner of 2288 South Milwaukee Street. My husband, my late husband, Eric and I purchased the house in 1967. We have raised three children there about house and its side. Lot have been the scene of many lovely, fun parties, wedding reception meetings, all kinds of things fierce croquet matches, badminton contests and kids soccer games on the sideline. In addition to that, we have the entire observatory park in front of us as a playground. We loved the Observatory Park neighborhood with its tree lined streets and leafy, friendly family ambiance. But then the Scrapers came, and first it was older properties such as ours. Then it was starter bungalows and now sixties ranch houses. There are. It was an epidemic of scraping their entire blocks where there is nothing but recent construction. As my brother aptly said a couple of years ago when I was driving him around. He said, you know, if I wanted to live in a Tuscan villa, I would move to Tuscany. So this is what is happening, and the fabric of the neighborhood has been altered mostly inappropriately. So I ask your indulgence in landmarking this house. It deserves to stay. It's reflective of a period of history in Denver which should not be left alone. And I hope that some other family with three children will move in and enjoy it just as much as we did. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up, Candace Christiansen. Good evening. Thanks for letting me speak tonight. And thank you for. Any for your application. To. This. The designate sorry this historic property. As some of you are aware. The University Park Community Council has a tradition of actively working with city agencies, nonprofits, elected officials for issues with neighborhood and with the city at large. University Park Community Council worked with the landmark staff and historic Denver on restaurant restoration and designation of other historic landmarks in our neighborhood, including the Chamberlain Observatory, which is part of the Observatory Park, Fitzroy Place Mansion, the Hollin House. And recently AUM Lee Upsc continues to work with current action funds projects. And we have worked with recently Councilman Cashman on the long House rezoning and I've been actively engaged in the 2010 zoning update process and we work closely with CPD and the University's Park Small Area plan. One of the reasons we chose you park as a family. When my family moved, there was access to a reasonably sized home, a walkable neighborhood near major transit. Since moving here in 2012, we have seen the loss of many homes for giant. Inefficient carbon sacking single family homes. The preservation and thoughtful renovations of the stately homes adds to the historic context. Of the neighborhood. And we like you to support that tonight. Thank you. Could you state your name for the record? I did not. Sorry. I'm Candice Christianson, the PCC president. Thank you very much. Rosemarie Stoffel. My name is Rosemary Stoffel and I live a 2275 South Monroe Street in University Park. I'm the chair of the Community Preservation Committee, which was formed after residents were becoming more vocal about the loss of so many of our older homes. University Park is one of Denver's oldest neighborhoods and our earliest home state to the late 1800s. The goals of our committee are to help our residents become more aware of our history and our historic buildings and to continue to preserve as many of the most important ones as we can. We are so grateful to Franny for initiating this designation and ensuring that one of the earliest homes in our neighborhood isn't lost in the future. Her home anchors the southeast corner of Observatory Park and is the book bookend to what was another historic home on the northeast corner of the park. That house was not designated and was demolished several years ago. Shortly after that, we lost two more important houses posted as being potentially eligible for landmark designation. Franny has watched these and other homes disappear since moving here in 1967 and wanted to designate her home for the neighborhood as well as for herself and her children. She and her husband, Eric Notices, have been wonderful stewards of this home, which Franny continues now. I look at this designation as not only a gift to our neighborhood, but to the entire city. The recently adopted blueprint, Denver, includes preservation of our historic buildings as a priority, and I hope all of you keep that in mind when other, more contentious issues come before you. These historic homes tell the story of our city and its neighborhoods. They are as worthy of recognition as the blockbuster buildings, which most of us are familiar with. We're doing what we can in our niche of Denver, but we need your help as decision makers, too. I appreciate you taking the time to pay attention to all of us here tonight from University Park. Knowing that you will have a huge budget discussion ahead. Please vote yes on this designation and save another piece of Denver's history. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next four, if you want to come up to the front bench, if you're not close by, Carolyn Eder, Jean Queen Shannon Stage and Jesse Paris and Carolyn Eder, you are a first. Thank you. I'm Carolyn Etter. I reside at. 2278 South Milwaukee. Which is next door to the house that's being designated. It's a pleasure to be before you tonight. There are some familiar faces and. Folks that I work with for many, many years. When my husband and I manage the Department of Parks and Recreation. For the city of Denver. And to those of you who are new, it's nice to have you on board and we'll get acquainted as we move through. Various processes, I'm sure. My husband and I have lived next. Door to this house for 58. Years and the Taylors have been our neighbors for almost all of that time. We have watched our kids grow up. We've watched them bicycle over to the park for spend the day down at Harvard Gulch. And we have found that it is. A neighborhood that respects. Families and respects people who come to us as newcomers and who want to be part of the Denver. Community. One of. The many things that is important about Denver. Is. Those neighborhoods. Many of which have a. Charming mix of schools, businesses, places of worship. University Park is one of those neighborhoods, a neighborhood. That cherishes. A variety of. Homes of many ages and many styles. This park has 18 residences. Two were built. On 37 and a half site lots. One is what used to be. Referred to as an alley house. The other is a new build. Our house was actually built on the north of the 2288. Property and was part of the garden. Until 1962. Franny, this house faces Observatory Park. The name of the two block park that includes the University of Denver's two observatories. Some have unfortunately taken to calling the entire Neighborhood Observatory Park, but its real name is. University Park and it continues to have significant relationships with the University of Denver. Thank you. All so much for this. Opportunity to speak with you. I urge. You to finalize the designation. Of 2288 South Milwaukee. As a Denver landmark. Thank you. Next up, Jane Quinn. My name is Jane Quinn. I'm the director of Accelerated Schools. At Fitzroy. Place. Fitzroy Place was built in 1893 and it's a beautiful old grand lady that tells a story. Yet currently. As a school. We educate 100 to 200 kids a year at accelerated schools. And it is because and I acknowledge the work of the neighborhood in historic Denver on the landmark designation of Fitzroy Place in 2007, due to the designation as a historic landmark. We were also eligible for state historic funds funds to repair the side of our building. The designation also made us eligible for funding much needed restoration work. I appreciate the help of the neighborhood residents and historic Denver to obtain state historic funds for restoration. I am pleased to see continue efforts on behalf of preservation in University Park with this application for designation and thanks particular to Frannie Taylor. Thank you for any. Thank you. Next up, Shannon Stage. Good evening, council members. I am Shannon Stage. I am the preservation coordinator at historic Denver. I here tonight to talk to you a little bit about this designation. As many of you know, Historic D'Amour is a preservation nonprofit here in our city that advocates for Denver's unique character and historic fabric. One of our major roles is to be a resource to community members like Fran Taylor. Fran has been a wonderful steward to her home for over 50 years and we were happy to be able to help her in seeing her wishes come true over about over a year ago. Fran reached out to the head of University Park who you heard from Rosemary as well as us historic Denver to help her in landmarking her house. I worked with her to hire a consultant, Kristi minnillo, who was not able to be with us tonight. But I can answer any questions that you may have. She research and wrote the designation that you have before you. We are here tonight to support Franny and to speak in support of her wishes to designate her house as the next Denver landmark. The Jackson Willa Taylor house is significant because it is directly associated with Dr. Jackson, a well known and highly celebrated ophthalmologist who built and lived in the house until 1920. He is credited with popularizing the use of the retina scope to examine the eye. As you heard from Jenny's presentation. He Jackson hired Denver architect Glenn Wood Huntington to build his University Park residence in 1902. The house is also very significant because it's an example of Huntington's work being a substantial brick four square and the first home built on the block of Observatory Park and one of the few remaining examples of his work in the neighborhood. Not only is this House an important landmark in the development of University Park, it is also important to preserve because so many significant homes have been demolished in this neighborhood since 2000. As you have heard from many comments tonight, historic Denver is also excited to be working with the neighborhood in multiple ways , such as helping Fitzroy Place as well as an action fund, working on a historic context of the neighborhood, but also this individual designation at 2288 South Milwaukee Franz House Historic Denver so strongly supports this unique landmark that tells the story of Dr. Jackson and his worldwide contributions to ophthalmology, but also the contributions this House has had to the University Park neighborhood. We strongly urge you to support this designation. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. Next up, Jesse Pierce. Good evening, members of council. My name is Jesse Perez. I'm representing for Denver Homicide Law. Black Star Action Woman for Self-defense. Positive Action Coming for Social Change, Universal Africa People's Organization, Denver Chapter and several other organizations. We are in favor of this rezoning. We need to preserve our historical landmarks such as this. I come from a neighborhood that was historic. It's historic on paper, but the demographics and the surroundings are matching that. So we need to really do a better job of looking into that, the historical context of what these properties are representing in terms of American history, Colorado State history, the like. But yeah, like I said, we're of approval of this. So good job, Fran. Congratulations and good job, Cashman. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers for this item. Are there questions from members of council? Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. I just have a couple of questions. Jenny, can you. The assessor's records show that the not that this is, you know, would sway my vote or anything, but the assessor's records show the building was built in 1898. And you were saying 1902. Was there did you see 1898 somewhere. Also or. Some of our assessor's records aren't the most accurate in terms of construction dates? I hope they were accurate as far as taxes. Yeah, me too. But sometimes we find some discrepancies in construction dates with Assessor's records. So you were supplied in 1902. By what method? So the applicant was the one who put in the application and did the research. Oftentimes to determine construction dates. You can find building permits that will confirm. You can often look at maps like Sanborn maps to confirm construction dates. So there are a variety of different ways to confirm those dates versus just what you can find in the assessor's records. Thank you. And then the second question, as a layperson, I'm curious why LPC and staff recommended only two criteria here. When I look at the structure, what I can see of it from the presentation and from the online availability. It looks like a group to qualify under several other criteria. Were did you have in mind. Contain elements of an architectural design representing significant innovation? Your presentation pointed out some of the differences from a traditional Denver Square model, such as the entire wraparound porch, not all of which was roofed, etc. and under geography being right on an observatory park and on a prominent corner. I was just curious, was there any discussion about why just these two? Yeah, I think for geography especially, it's some you're right, it's on a corner right across from Observatory Park, but it's fairly set back and there's a lot of tree coverage, there's a lot of foliage. So certainly you see the corner a lot. But I don't know that the house stands out, particularly in terms of prominence. So that would have led to not selecting that criteria. The innovation oftentimes is reserved for structural engineering. Pretty unique architectural design features. The better memorial, for example, adds the Botanic Gardens has that criteria, I believe, for its designation. So if that gives you an idea of the type of innovation. And innovation that might have been replicated and became a something that was copied then perhaps. Could have been usually it is more of a unique innovation. Yeah. All right. The one that we could have picked, Councilman, was it could have been it could have met another architecture criteria for being a representation of a good four square. But we found that the most solid criteria for this property was our history. C In architecture. B Okay, that's why I have a special thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, seeing no other questions. The public hearing for Collinsville 954 is closed. Comments by members of council at Councilman Cashman. This one's in your district. Did you wanna go first? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. It's obvious to everyone who's spent any amount of time in Denver that change is inevitable. And changes here and change will continue while we find cities around the country beginning discussions about new ways in which we zone our inner city neighborhoods. I think it's particularly important that we take the opportunity to preserve noteworthy examples of important elements of Denver's architectural, cultural and historical evolution. I want to thank Mrs. Taylor very much for presenting this gift to the people of Denver and In Memoriam to your late husband as well. I also want to thank the entire group from University Park. There's a very active contingent of preservationists, and they've made tremendous contributions already, and it's kind of catching on in some other neighborhoods close by. We just had a couple of great properties in which Park East and I do truly view it as a gift. You know, especially in today's world, you can take about any piece of ground in Denver and regardless of what happens to be sitting on it, whether it has value or to whom it might have value , you could probably tear that down, build something else and make more money. Just seems to be the reality of our world. And that doesn't seem to be something that's serving us all. Well. So once again, Mr. Taylor, thank you very much. I appreciate your bringing this forward. And it's it's an honor to support it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. Councilman Hines. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to echo Councilman Cashman's comments. I has a new councilperson who immediately after taking office, had the wonderful opportunity to discuss Tom's Diner and share that conversation with the nation. I am really excited to see a non-controversial, historic preservation application come forward and thank you for your gift. Thank you, Councilman Hines. Seeing nobody else in the queue, I will just add my thanks. And I love how Councilman Cashman has started referring to this as a gift given to our community and to our city. I think it's so important, having grown up here and seeing Denver changed so much. I'm so filled with gratitude for you bringing this forward and for doing all the hard work, which I didn't realize was as much hard work until recently. I sat down with a constituent of mine in Platt Park who really would like to give this gift to the city of preserving a structure that anyone in that neighborhood would walk by. I would say, Oh, yeah, absolutely. That house should absolutely be preserved. And after sitting down with Annie Lipinski and this constituent and seeing how hard it is to meet these criteria, when even when we have a willing owner, it is it's not easy. And that is that was something that was eye opening for me because, you know, usually when we get to this point with an owner applicant that, oh yeah, everybody's happy and what a great thing. I didn't realize just how hard it was to do and the work that the work that goes into it and just how hard it is to meet these criteria. And so it makes it for me all the more special that we have people like you who are willing to go through this process and to do the hard work, to give this gift to our community. So thank you for that. I will be excited to support this this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call. Cashman Right. Clark I sit about that. I. Flynn All right. Gilmore I turned in my hands. All right. Mitch, I. Ortega I seen the ball by. Sawyer, I. Torres, I. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close voting. Announce the results. 13 eyes. 13 eyes count to go. 954 has passed. So, Madam Secretary, we don't need a motion on the budget. We just. I just. I just go straight in. Yes, sir. All right. The public hearing for the mayor's proposed 2020 budget is open.

Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft the following resolutions: 1. Resolution consenting to Inclusion of Properties within the City's Incorporated Area in California Home Finance Authority (CHF) Community Facilities District No. 2014-1 (Clean Energy) to Finance Renewable Energy Generation, Energy Efficiency, Water Conservation and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Improvements and approving associate membership in CHF; and 2. Resolution consenting to Inclusion of Properties within the City's Incorporated Area in the CHF Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program to Finance Renewable Energy Generation, Energy and Water Efficiency Improvements and Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and approving associate membership in CHF.

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Motion carries. Item 11. Communication from Councilman Andrew's recommendation to request the city attorney to draft resolutions consenting to inclusion of City of Long Beach properties in the California Home Finance Authority, PACE programs and Associate membership in California Home Finance Authority. May I have a second, please? On item 11. Members. Oh, it wasn't working. Thank you. Councilmember Andrews. I swear. I have to recuse myself. I have a conflict of interest. Thank you. Councilman Andrews. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay, before I start this, I'd like to make a motion to amend my agenda item to include only commercial and industrial properties at this time. Properties Assessment Clean energy financing programs for commercial, industrial and agricultural properties to address high upfront costs of property owners who wish to improve their properties through installation of measures that will generate renewable energy or reduce their energy and water use by offering low cost financing. The base program allows constitution of these projects to proceed and I and process stimulate building activities and overall local economy. Reduce peak energy demands. Install electric curb plug ins, increase property value, and generate savings on utility bills for property owners. There are currently two state legislative items that have passed in the favor of PACE programs. That's SB 555 page community facility district and AB 811 PACE Construction, Construction Asset Assessment Program. I support these items. I'm asking the city attorney to create two resolutions that will approve the following actions. One, The first resolution authorizes the city to join the JPA as associate members and permit commercial property owners within the incorporated areas of the city to participate in this CHF SB 555 Community Facility District. Second. Resolution authorize the city to join in the JPA as an associate member and promote commercial properties and owner within incorporated areas of the city to participate in the CHF AB F-111 authorized purpose program. Not like the Modal Amendment. Does a secondary accept? Thank you. So there's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that wish to address council on this item? Councilman Austin. Yes. I'm just just I'd like to give a little bit of clarification regarding the program and specifically the JPA associate member. What would role and responsibilities and who represents the city on the JPA? And then I have a follow up question after that. Yes, Madam Vice Mayor. Members of the City Council, the PACE program is something that we're very familiar with. The way that it's set up and state law is a city has to, by resolution, opt in. And that really is the extent of the city's involvement. So once the city opts in, the city council is allowing this agency to operate on our behalf. We are very familiar again with this process from commercial and industrial. We have a number of firms that the council has already opted in and allowed them to participate, and this would be adding another one for commercial and residential. So if that helps answer the question in terms of the JPA, I don't believe we sit on the JPA, but I am. Yes, we don't believe we have a seat on the JPA. And I guess the just the obvious question is how does this benefit this program benefit the city of Long Beach? So the goals and objectives of the space program is essentially to provide another financing mechanism for certain types of improvements for greenhouse gas emissions. So, for example, if a business or industry wants to replace all their lights with LED lights, they could have a financing mechanism through your property tax. Same thing for solar. So we've we've looked at. This property or this process. It's very good in terms of the underwriting standards for commercial and industrial. We as staff do have some concerns about residential because there are some cases where you're not really using a FICO score, you're not testing whether or not there's means to repay. And it's fairly high interest rates. There are other things available. So that's why we're fully comfortable with Councilmember Andrews motion to move forward with commercial industrial. Thank you very much. Councilwoman Mongo. Did we opt. In as a city for residential? So many years ago. We opted in, yes. As a residential program, and that was before residential programs really existed. So we opted into the county program. We had been working very closely with the L.A. County of L.A. on their program and were very comfortable with the way. That they were structuring their program. There were a couple of other. Programs we were being offered that we didn't feel had quite the consumer protections that that we would want. In the end, two of those firms, the L.A. County, changed their own program and actually adopted two of those firms. So they are operating right now in our city as residential. We continue to have some of the same concerns that we did before. We'd really like to study it for about a year to see what's going on with those residential properties. And at that point, if the council is comfortable moving forward, we can look at some others. But we we do have some concerns about whether or not those firms could lead people who don't aren't quite financially literate to enter into some financing agreements they may not be able to afford. So I second your concern as a resident of the city of Long Beach and a county employee. I received a letter with a seal of the county on it and a quote from our Environmental Protection or environmental director from the Internal Services Department. And I think it was a surprise to many in the county that such a thing existed and the Department of Consumer Affairs was contacted and reviewed the documentation. And I think that it really speaks to is it good for us as a city for neighbors to upgrade? Yes, but not at the risk of the interest rates, fines and fees that are in the place. So I think the city staff are doing excellent work in determining the the the new additions to the team. I know there are really good operators in this program, really great contractor, some of which are Long Beach contractors who should be able to get this work just as well as any other contractor. But I had some of the same reservations, so I really appreciate and I support this commercial and industrial version of this program. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any public comment? Please come forward. Good evening. Honorable Council members and staff. I'm Krystal Crawford. I'm State Director for Y Green Energy Fund. And so I'm here this evening to, first of all, thank Mr. Andrews and his team for bringing this forward. We've also had an opportunity to work with your staff and have some discussions with staff about the Why Green program, and we very much appreciate the opportunity to at least initially offer our program to commercial and industrial properties, although we would certainly like to continue working with your staff and with the council members to explain how our program protects residential property owners and actually provides an excellent an option for people. And again, pace is an option. There are other financing tools available, but there are differences of course. And so I believe this council and your staff, as has been mentioned, is very familiar with Pace. But I'd just like to mention a couple of things about why. Green We are one of the oldest and largest pace administrators in California. We were one of the original companies coming forward after the legislature created Pace. We are the only company that is operating under the second legislation, SB 55, as Mr. Andrews mentioned, which does offer some advantages to your property owners. And so we think that offering an additional choice to properties property owners in the community of Long Beach is a plus. Choice is always an option, of course. Today why Green is is has funded and approved over 20,000 projects for a value of over $1,000,000,000. We've completed over $300 million in projects and we're operating in seven of ten of the largest cities in the state and in I believe it's four of six of the largest counties. So, of course, the city of Los Angeles has endorsed our program, along with San Diego, San Jose, Fresno, Sacramento, Oakland and Santa Ana. Just to mention a few, we make it our priority to protect property owners by providing detailed disclosures and information and also having processes, consumer protection processes in place. So again, we would welcome the opportunity to begin operating in your community with the limitations that Mr. Andrews has proposed. We are in favor of that and would ask that the Council bring our item back, work with we would work with the City Attorney to bring this item back with the resolutions at your next council meeting. And we do have property owners and contractors who are very interested in taking advantage of our financing options. So thank you again for the opportunity to be considered and for the thoughtful presentation and comments this evening. And I'm available certainly to answer any other questions that you might have. Councilwoman Mongeau, I want to thank you for coming, and I want to thank you for the work that you do training contractors. And I think that, especially in our senior community, sometimes the additional fees are the best way to go for them, because I'm financing through the property tax with a short term goal of eventually selling. I see all of those benefits and I appreciate you as a contractor and I also appreciate that you understand that we have to be weary of some of the others. So thank you very much for that. Yes. And so, again, thank you for the comments. And we look forward to meeting with you and talking more about the why green program and what we can do to protect your residential property owners and address your concerns. Thank you. Thank you. Members, please cast your vote. I'm. Please come forward. I already called for public comment. Is there anyone else that would like to make a comment on animal 11? Thank you. Larry. Good to clear. Because these guys were full disclosure. I didn't hear all of the staff report. But one of the things that did capture my attention in the subsequent comments of people was that there. Some financial services companies available to help entities that are I think they used a very tactful word, financially not literate or financially illiterate. I'm wondering whether or not that might be worthwhile for this city to consider entering into a contract with some company like that. Given the very sage comments offered earlier today relative to the replacement of this facility and that which is published for you to read on the Long Beach report relative to the very credible Teri Jensen of how unwise your financial. Path that you focus on is and I think that would certainly classify being financially illiterate. So if there are programs and I believe there are be worthwhile for this council to consider entering into. And I think one of the one of the recommendations they would make is the same one. Either they is to. Fire the city. Certainly fire the city manager replaced the manager, the mayor, with a federal master. Til until we get back on a financial track that allow us to slow the projection and the path we're on to becoming a a something akin to what one would find in a fourth rate city, which is within the next 60 years, where we will be unless there's a marked reversal. In the trajectory that we are now on. Thank you. Kate. Members, cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 12 Communication from Councilman Andrew's Recommendation to approve the use of six Council District Fiscal Year 2015. One time infrastructure funds in the amount of $20,000 to fund community improvements in the Sixth Council District.

A MOTION making an appointment to fill the vacancy in the position of state representative for the 36th legislative district.

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All right. They all. Thank you, Mr. Kaplan. We appreciate your participation, and you're welcome to hang up. Thank you. At any point you wish. Thank you. All right. And that takes us to item five on the agenda. Proposed Motion 2015. 534 Will there be an opportunity to please brief remarks before this afternoon, or is that the appropriate time? And is. Thank you. Well, it's legal. I understand. You're. Trying to learn the committee. Are we today? Our next item is Motion 2015 534, which is the motion filling the anticipated vacancy in the state representative seat in the 36th legislative district. And Counsel, if we can begin with the motion, Councilmember Gossett would be willing to make the motion. Yes, Mr. Chair, I'd be happy to move at this time that we adopt proposed motion on a 2015 0534. And this is a motion making an appointment to fill the vacancy in the position of State Representative for the 36th District. Thank you. The motion is before us and it is referral to the full council would be on the assumption that the full council will take its final action this afternoon to appoint Representative Carlisle to fill the Senate seat and represented Carlisle has indeed resigned the Senate seat. With that said, again, since it is a partizan position and Representative Carlisle is a Democrat, the state constitution requires us to choose from among three nominees recommended by the King County Democratic Central Committee. Three nominees have been recommended for our consideration, and they are again in alphabetical order by last name Newell Frame, Jeff Manson. And so. Right. Senator Barneveld, once again, we'll start with each I invite each one of the three of you to join us at the presentation table. And we'll again start with a two minute introduction from each one of the nominees and then proceed with questions from the council. And so to continue the order. Good morning and Miss Frame. Yes. Good. My floor is yours. Well, good morning, members of the King County Council. Honorable members. My name is Noel Frame, and it would be the honor of my life to be the next state representative from the 36th District. I am seeking this position because I want to tackle the biggest challenge facing our state fully funding our public schools. I grew up in battleground in southwest Washington and experienced firsthand how underfunded classrooms can impede a quality education. Knowing that students today are experiencing what I experienced two decades ago is my motivation to wanting to be a leader on education funding. I believe that to fully fund our schools, we need comprehensive tax reform. And I believe for that to happen, it's going to require a robust statewide conversation with voters. And as that is the reason I think that you should appoint me today. I am a communication specialist and an organizer at my core. I've been involved in statewide civic engagement work for 15 years. I worked in the nonprofit, private and public sectors, and I offer the experience and perspective of bridging the divide that will be so critical to reaching consensus around school funding and tax reform issues. I have lived in the 36th District for more than a decade now, but my house, my first home just two years ago and ran a full campaign for this position in 2012. I came out of that campaign stronger, more confident, and even more tenacious than I was before. But that passion and that resilience certainly did not start with my campaign. I grew up the child of two restaurant workers who are here with us today. We are a family of very hard workers. But for too many people today, working hard still isn't enough to pay the bills. In the Legislature, I will work to strengthen economic security for our middle class and those in poverty. I also come from a family with a long history of mental illness and all of its related challenges like addiction. As a consequence, I served as a foster parent to two of my younger cousins. Mental health issues were not managed properly as that has a devastating impact. And I want to work on mental health issues. My name is Noelle Frame and I ask for your vote. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Manson. All right. Good morning. Thank you. It's an honor to be here and in particular, to be part of one of the first official items of of business that my council member, Jeanie Caldwell's. So I've been working to make the world a better place since I was ten years old and helped found the Earth Club at my elementary school. And since then, I've tried to use every moment to maximize my own impact for social justice, economic justice and environmental justice. It's what led me to law school and to being a legal aid attorney. And for the last six years, I've served this state as an administrative law judge, where I've seen how state laws and state budgets affect the most vulnerable in our society at the ground level. Meanwhile, I've also served as the chair of the 36th District Democrats, where I have worked to inspire people to change public policy through grassroots organizing and citizen activism. So last year I threw my hat in the ring because I was ready to fuze those two roles together, taking my deep policy expertize as a judicial officer and my organizing skills to the Democratic Party and serve the 36th District as a progressive champion in Olympia. And I'm glad I ran because it was such an incredibly enriching civic experience. We have an engaged group of 216 CEOs, 192 of whom participated in this process. And they represent every neighborhood, every conceivable profession, and reflect the demographic diversity of our district. And a substantial portion of these CEOs took the role very seriously. A good portion of them took the time to meet with each of the five candidates for at least an hour at least once, and then followed up with questions by email and by phone. They pored over our questionnaires and websites, attended several formal candidate events, including a two hour long moderated forum. So it was truly one of the most comprehensive and intimate vetting process as we could have had to choose the three nominees here today. I'm honored to have been the the second choice of the CEOs, and I accept their first choice as the right choice. And so I encourage you to appoint my friend, though I'll frame today, but I'm happy to answer your questions about my qualifications and my background. Thank you. Thank you so much. It is wonderful. Good morning, council members. It's an honor to be here today. I'd like to start by thanking my husband, Joel merkel and my family for their support during this appointment process. You may know that I'm a public sector attorney, but I'm also a wife and a mother to a spirited 16 month old daughter, a community activist and a proud progressive Democrat. I've spent the last ten years as a public servant working on behalf of the people of this state, currently as a public sector litigator, fighting for the rights of Washington workers. As a mother and education advocate, I've become increasingly concerned with our state's chronic underfunding of education, particularly public education. I thought appointment to the state house, in part because I believe we can and should do better for Washington students. It was an honor to participate in the appointment process and engage in meaningful conversations with CEOs about how to tackle the enormously consequential challenges facing our district and the state. The key messages I heard over and over again is that we need effective leadership, more effective leadership to champion and reform our regressive and unfair tax structure and increase revenue for vital social services to fully fund education in accordance with McCleary and create an excellent public education system for all our children and to protect our environment for future generations. I would not have thought this appointment if I did not believe I was uniquely qualified to tackle these challenges. I remain excited about the possibility of serving the people of the 36th District and using my legislative experience, skills and relationships to champion students, our most vulnerable and our environment and Olympia. While my desire to serve the people of the 36th District has not changed, I do support the nomination process and know our friend's nomination and I think it was a fair process. Thank you for the opportunity to present to you today, and I would welcome any questions that you have. Thank you to each of you. Questions from Councilmembers Councilmember Gossett. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I have a question for you three also related to economic and racial disproportionality. Recently, it was mentioned in the Seattle Times that Seattle is now one of the most expensive cities to live in, in terms of the cost of housing and the Seattle Times reporter Mr. Eugene Ball. The article not too long ago and he said that the average black household family income has now gone down to the ninth past in the United States, $25,700 a year. And when compared to white annual income, it's just $70,200 a year, he said. That's a tremendous economic gap. Do you think that that's something we should be concerned about? And if so, is there anything that state legislators can do about the cost and availability of housing for our most dominant families around the state type place? Thank you. Yeah, affordable housing costs in general is obviously it's a crisis here in the city and in our 36th district. And much of what we can do at the state level, we can do things like continue to invest in the housing trust fund so we can have more affordable housing available here in Seattle. I look forward to working with the city as they advocate for their housing affordability and livability agenda action items to again continue to add affordable housing and working class housing stock here in the state. But I want to go back, I think, to the racial disproportionality question, because I think so much of that goes back to our educational system. We know that. The opportunity gap, often referred to as the achievement gap, is a problem here. Last I checked, the opportunity gap was not decreasing but increasing in Washington state. So much of what we need to do is invest in our public school system and always, always bring a racial equity lens to that work. So much of what we can do to address racial disparities in education is early interventions. And I just want to say we should be so proud with King County, with the Best Arts for Kids Levy as a huge investment in early learning and early interventions for families that will no doubt have a strong impact on families of color and low income families to help try to level the playing field. Investments in early learning is one of the best places that we can start to level the playing field of that opportunity gap and later those economic opportunities available to folks. So I think the focus I bring on fixing the tax structure, working on K-12 and hopefully early learning as well will be will help address some of the challenges that you've addressed. Councilmember Gossett. Thank you. So I agree with what Noel said. I think looking at the affordable housing, you can look at both the expense side and the revenue side, if you will, of an individual family. On the expense side, I think investing in more low income housing is something the state can do, can also allow municipalities to reasonably regulate their own rents, which I know Seattle has been interested in doing. I don't think we'd be following some New York City style rent control, but putting some reasonable limits on rent increases as a way to immediately limit the affordability issue. And then on the revenue side, on the individual family sort of income side, I think housing can become more affordable if people have more disposable income. And I think raising the minimum wage, I'm glad Seattle started that and got that ball rolling. I think we can do that around the state. I support raising the minimum wage statewide, nationwide. In fact, I also think if we reformed our tax structure to be less regressive, it would also end up with lower income families, would have more money with which to to pay for housing. I think of Seattle is currently in affordability crisis. I'm very much a proponent of housing first and I think we need to drastically expand the availability of affordable housing, particularly to communities of color, low income communities and vulnerable populations. I think part of this on the state level is going to be an increased investment in the affordable housing trust fund. I also think, particularly to your point, there's things that we can do to regulate and prohibit employment and housing discrimination, which still occurs. And there's some legislative solutions that have been proposed, particularly to address housing discrimination. And I think that's extremely important in terms of addressing the problem. I would agree with Noel that I think it starts, you know, in terms of expanding access to not just early learning for children, but in addressing the opportunity and achievement gap. I think we absolutely need to do everything that we can to address the opportunity of achievement gap, including reforming school discipline in schools, implementing the restorative justice model and ending the school to prison pipeline. I think that's extremely important in addressing this problem. So I think we need to expand first and foremost the amount of affordable housing. I also think that it's important to look, you know, at investing in Washington workers. One way to do that is to increase the minimum wage. And I'm a proponent of increasing the minimum wage. And in fact, I'll fight as a litigator for the rights of workers and every day. Thank you for the questions. See none. Councilmember one right there. I'm going to have to wait till she makes your motion. Okay. Councilmember Caldwell's to make a motion. Let's see if I can get this right. The time I believe we first need to open an oral amendment right. We have. We've already moved the motion itself, and so we need an oral amendment. So with that, Mr. Chair, I propose number 20 201505341. I offer an oral amendment on line five to add Reuben Carlisle No, no. Yes, sir. I was wondering. But there are, there are two things here. Correct? Correct. You and ignore ignore the peanut gallery. Just keep going. Online. 12 to add the name of Noel Friend. Thank you. There's an oral amendment to add the name of Reuben Carlisle to line five and Noel frame to line 12 of page 45 of our packet two motion 2015 534 and I will do better this time to speak to the motion, wrote Council member Cole Wells. Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's a delight for me and a privilege to be able to speak to this amendment to add both Reuben Carlisle's name, as I read it, resigning from being representative for the 36th District and to add Noel Frame's name to be appointed as state representative. I've known them both for many, many years, and just as I stated earlier, when we took up the matter of the State Senate appointment, rather than Carlisle will make an outstanding state senator and I believe the same for Noel Frame to become an outstanding state representative as this is my district. I can also say that I will be very proud to have them representing me. I will be their constituent to the State Senate and the State House and they're both really superb Senate. Though I would like to say that Jeff Manson and Sarah Reed involved are also superb. And I wish we had three state representative, I mean, actually for Gail Thomas and I would love it if all three of you could be in the State House and perhaps in the future you will be able to assume such positions or similar ones that with that I'm delighted and I would like us to go ahead and make the appointment. Thank you. The amendment has been moved and seconded. Council Member one Rick Barrow. Thank you, Mr. Chair. When this first came before us during the holidays, I received some calls from some folks who thought, you know, maybe he had some strong feelings about some of the candidates and I had never had a chance to meet anyone. Well, I had a chance to meet one, but one of the candidates that were selected, but I did not know the other two. And Councilmember Larry Gossett encouraged me to meet with Noel. And I did that. And I got to tell you, it wasn't really enervating experience. You have a long resumé here of civic involvement and passion for issues and compassion for your neighbors. And she and I talked about where some of this began because I've been involved in my community in the Qantas Club. And while you may look at it on her résumé of all these great activities, I looked at the fact that when she was a teenager, she was the leader, the governor of Key Club. Now, a lot of people don't understand that, but that is as tough as you can get to get to be a teenager to be at that. She was flying to Alaska, flying to the East Coast as a teenager to work on behalf of programs that serve communities and especially those who have students in need. Qantas is about service and you know, some people suggested again during the holidays, jump the line, go to somebody else. No, I'm sure glad that I had the chance to meet with her, talk with her, listen to her. And I understand why Larry Gossett is such a big fan of hers. She is a person who has compassion about her neighbors and. Passionate. About her district, and she brings her incredible work ethic, which really impressed me. So I'm very happy to join my colleagues in supporting this. Good luck. Thank you very much. Councilmember Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to just say the same thing as the previous speaker, but elaborate on just one other part. And the idea that she spent the time to do this process in not only being here and meeting with Beth, but also coming to our meeting where we were talking as a council with the electeds about what it is that we are seeing our issues and be there to really hear us. The people that are trying to do what the people in your job are telling us to do. But it's difficult when we start getting our hands tied behind our back and our money to do it. So I really appreciate it. Not only that you were there, but I was watching you because I didn't know at that point who you were exactly. And you were really assimilating that information. And I really appreciated that fact. You were listening, and I thank you for that. The other thing is that in our meeting, I got to find out that we share similar passions. And as councilmember right there said, you know, this is not the thing that started last week with you. The fact that you were, I think, 25 and raising two teenagers, we share in common being a foster mom at 21. I know what that looks like and it takes dedication and hard work. And I appreciate that you have lived what you believe. I thank you. I look forward to working with you. Thank you. Councilmember up the Grove. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Even though we're a nonpartisan body, I'm going to be briefly partizan here and say that I am proud that the Democratic Party has such a deep bench of talent here, and I'm speaking in favor of the motion. But I also had the chance to get to know Sarah over the years and impressed with her, and your presentation was great. Jeff We're friends and. Common and. We're lucky to have three people who have this kind of energy and. And, and smarts. I've known Noelle probably 15 years or so, and I was thinking about what it is I like about her. And it was. One of the things that. Cathy alluded to. One of the coolest things about Noelle is the work you did as a foster mom at a young age. I couldn't have done that. It's a it's a labor of love. And you did that while balancing a professional, difficult professional career. When I think about what I know about you, it's as a champion of education, largely someone willing to fight, even when unpopular, for the values you believe in that are supported by your district. I just think you'll do a great job and I'm really excited for you. Thank you for the discussion. All those in favor of the amendment please signify by saying I am opposed. Nay, the amendment is adopted. We have the motion as amended before us discussion and final passage. If the clerk would please call the roll. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Well, Duty Councilmember Dombrowski. Councilmember Dunn, High Customer Resources Chi member Caldwell. I'm Councilmember Lambert, Councilmember of the girl. But Councilman, run right there. Hi, Mr. Chair. Hi, Mr. Chair. There was no noise, no notes, and then excused. Thank you. By your vote, we've given a do pass recommendation two motion 2015 534 and we will expedite that to this afternoon's full council meeting. Councilmember Gossett. Yeah, I just like a point of personal privilege. I'd like to thank Noelle's mother and dad for being willing to share her with all of our community. Well, thank you. And as we have said, there will be a special meeting of the county council at 130 to act on these recommendations from the committee of the hall. And since this is a special meeting, there is nothing else on our agenda. And we will adjourn and I will see everyone at 130 for the full council meeting.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group (Capital Projects Grant Fund) in the Public Works Department by $1,900,000 for the Shoreline Drive Realignment Project, offset by Measure R funds from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MR306.60); and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $1,900,000 for the Shoreline Drive Realignment Project, offset by transfer of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Measure R funds from the Capital Project Grant Fund. (District 1)

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Thank you. Let me go to item 23. Report from Public Works recommendation to increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund Group and the Public Works Department by 1,900,000 for the Shoreline Drive Realignment Project, offset by Measure R funds from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority District one. Can I get a motion in a second, please? Motion by councilmembers and they have seconded Councilmember Austin. This is a pretty, pretty significant project. And Mr. Monica, do you want to have just to kind of briefly share what we're doing here? Yes. Eric Lopez will give the staff report. Thank you. So staff is is happy to announce that we are in the process of receiving additional funding for the realignment of Shoreline Drive. This is part of the Early Action Project. 17 early action projects are related to that. Shoemaker Bridge Rebuild. The realignment from Shoreline Drive is the first major phase of kind of our new gateway westward and then try to and and so we received grant funding in the past we got some more that will help us complete the engineering design and helps and help prepare us to request that future funding now for construction. So this is a really big project, one of our bigger projects in the area and we're really excited to continue moving forward. Thank you, council members and perhaps any comments? Yes, thank you, Mayor. I just cannot express how excited I am about this project. This will enhance and revitalize the area near our beloved Cesar Chavez Park Islam. Absolutely love this vision. There are many details and different components to making this vision come true. Thank you. Thank you, Director Lopez, for your comments. And thank you for all the hard work that you've been doing along with the team and everybody involved. I am really looking forward to seeing this this item come alive. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Austin. Thank you. And this is really. Really amazing to see it come to fruition. I had a great pleasure working on the campaign for Measure. It's been a lot of sweat equity to get that measure passed in to see that that that those funds. Now, literally ten years later or more coming into the city of Long Beach, making our our our downtown more accessible. The Shoemaker Bridge Project, the Shoreline Drive realignment projects were all listed as potential early action product projects for several years. And so, you know, working with the Gateway Cities Council, the government through that that body to see this, this these funds are being appropriated, something that certainly I'm happy to support and I would encourage our colleagues to do as well. This is all good for our downtown, our economic development goals, but also make our city more accessible for for visitors. Thank you. Thank you. Just just what is really public. I mean, first. If any members of the public would like to speak on this item, please, you just raise a hand feature or press star nine. See none. That concludes our comment. Thank you. I do have a couple questions. So this is just for staff. So obviously incredibly supportive of this project. Of course, I've been following it since I joined the council and very active and in the development with the community early on. And want to ask Mr. Lopez or anyone. Obviously this project has a lot to to also to do with our Schumacher Bridge project and all of the other smaller early action projects that we have happening in that area from a construction perspective. Mr. Lopez. Remind me again, as far as the Shoemaker Bridge Project, how far away or where we are from fully funding that that project. The shoemaker bristles. Yes, Mayor. So the shoemaker bridge rebuild. If that's the design, the engineering, the design is fully funded. So we're working with Caltrans on the design. We're going through our process. We hope to be ready in the next couple of months to really bring forward the latest design proposal, proposals to the community. But but the design is fully funded. We have to reach a milestone, a certain percentage milestone in the engineering to be able to make a request for construction funding. But because it is an early action project, we really feel good about about securing the construction funding as part of our standard process, working with the state and the federal government. And I just want to, again, just uplift that. The time to get this funding is now right. I mean, the infrastructure money for this project that qualifies for top of federal funding for the infrastructure bill is right now. And so us making sure that we are prepared to receive that funding and are aggressively lobbying for it in D.C. with our with our team is really, really important. And so I know that obviously you're all aware of this and you're on this, but I just really want to hope that we're really pushing hard. I mean, we we pushed hard outside the normal system to get the port, the $51 million that we got for the fair for Pier B and the rail extension. We got the largest grant in that first infrastructure cycle for for the port. And I'm hoping that we do the same for this project and others. And so I just hope that we're doing more than just the regular checking the boxes on on the on the applications here and there and that we're being aggressive. Secondly, on this part of the project, Mr. Lopez, which is the Shoreline Drive realignment. When do you actually think we're going to actually see construction? Oh, at the, at the current schedule, we, we are looking at starting construction in the next 12 to 15 months. So we got to finish the design. We have to make our formal request for construction funding and and then we've got to gear up and go through the normal bidding process in order to kick out that construction. But it could be as close to 12 to 15 months as our current estimate. And what what percent. I know that a big percentage of the funds for this project are the county or county, and are we doing a county state funded combination or what's the biggest piece of the funding? May we expect a combination of state and federal funds. We actually think this this realignment project and Shumaker are going to be very competitive with the recently approved, approved Federal Infrastructure Fund. And so we're coordinating with Caltrans and the local groups to ensure that when the opportunities are actually there to apply for funding. This is one of the top regional projects that we push forward. So at the end of the day, I really think it's going to be a combination of both state and federal funds. What federal funds being the bigger chunk? And okay you said that the designed to be ready soon for for this for all of this project. When do you think that will will be will be done. So the first part of the project will be the design of a short realignment. So that design will be done within the next 8 to 12 months. So that gets us through shortly. Great. Okay, great. Great update. Thank you all very much. Roll call. Vote, please, Madam Park. District one. I district to. My. District three. I district for. My. District five. I agree. District six. I. District seven. District eight. By. District nine. I motion is carried. I think someone asked for a public comment. We did take public comment on that. That is correct. Great. Next the next item will be let's go through the four ordinances. And then we have we do have a report for the an end of year budget performance. So let's kind of quickly go to the first reading of the ordinances and then we'll go back to our final item.

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 125475, which adopted the 2018 Budget, including the 2018-2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP); changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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Agenda Item seven Council Bill 119 274 and many Ordinance 125 475, which adopted the 2018 budget, including in 2018 through 2023 Capital Improvement Program Committee Recommends Bill Pass. Thank you. This is a 20 1728 carry forward appropriation ordinance and it's typically used to reappropriate funds that were previously provided for various purposes in our actual adopted budget and for various reasons. Money that had been identified but had not been spent will now be carried over into 2018. That's what we're doing now is adopting approximately $16.4 million. And just to give you a sense of what we're talking about here, $6 million in finance, general reserves will be used to continue to support the Equitable Development Initiative or EDC funding program. $5.3 million in the Information Technology Fund will be used for projects that will be force Seattle I.T. and it's such things as upgrading Seattle City Lights Outage Management Project, the Seattle Department of Construction Inspections portion of the Permit System Integration Project 440 442,000. Replacement of computers for the Department of Parks and so on. This is typical that we do these kinds of things total. This time, as I mentioned, is $16.4 million. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. But we do recommend adoption. Thank you very much. Are there any further comments or questions not? Please call the role on the passage of the Bill O'Brien. So I beg John Gonzalez, Herbold, Johnson, Suarez Mosqueda and President Harrell. Hi nine in favor and unopposed. Bill first chair of Senate please read the next agenda item the short term. Agenda item eight Council Bill 119 276 Amending Ordinance 20 507 which adopted the 2017 budget, including 2017 through to the 2022 Capital Improvement Program. The committee recommends the bill. Pass. Council for Inspection. Thank you. This is our final item from the Finance Committee. At the end of 2017, there were a few, what they call exceptions, and the exceptions actually were unanticipated costs that were realized right at the end of the year in 2017, and it resulted in spending beyond the authority that was previously budgeted. Ben Noble suggested that this is the kind of thing that comes forward. They're not unusual or irregular. There was not malfeasance, but it were things that resulted in some cost overruns. And as an example, 1.9 million in the employee retirement system to cover costs related to the implementation of the new pension administration system and 1.6 million in the Transportation Operating Fund in the Department of Transportation to cover over expenditures that were related to the move Seattle Levy implementation. So grand total here is about $5 million and we recommend adoption of this ordinance so that these can be paid. Very good. Thank you. Any further comments or questions? If not, please call the role on the pastor of the Bill O'Brien. So I thank John Gonzalez. Purple Johnson Juarez Mosquito President Harrell hi nine in favor none opposed to a. Personal share of Senate. Please read the part of the gender equity safe communities new Americans and. Education Committee.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the transfer of City property located at 525 North 85th Street; authorizing the conveyance of the property to the Phinney Neighborhood Association, a Washington non-profit corporation, consistent with the intent of Resolution 31856 and to provide for the continued delivery of social services; making findings of fact about the consideration for the transfer; superseding Resolution 31837 for the purposes of this ordinance; and authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services or designee to execute and deliver documents necessary to carry out the conveyance of such property on the terms and conditions of this ordinance.

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The Report of the land used in neighborhoods. Committee agenda Item eight Council Bill 120086 An ordinance relating to the transfer of city. Property located at. 5 to 5 North 85th Street. Authorizing the convenience of the property to the Finnie Neighborhood Association, a Washington nonprofit corporation consistent with the intent of Resolution 31856 and to provide for the continued delivery of social services. The committee recommends the. Bill pass as amended. Thank you so much, Cassandra Strauss. You are the chair of the committee, so I'm going to hand it over to you to walk us through the report. Thank you. Council President and thank you, Deputy Clerk Schwinn. CB 12086 Transferring the property at 525 North 85th Street to the Finney Neighborhood Association enacts a transfer of the Greenwood Senior Center from the city to the Finney Neighborhood Association, which currently operates the the Senior Center. This transfer is being done in line with the city's process for mutually offsetting benefit properties, and it was meant to be transmitted to council last year alongside the transfers of Byrd Barr Place in the Central Area Senior Center. Unfortunately, it was delayed and it's now before us, so this was intended to be part of that package. Under the terms of the transfer, if any neighborhood association would receive ownership of the property and would be obligated to continue providing the social services associated with the senior center. Additionally, should a future redevelopment on the site occur, the agreement requires that affordable housing that any housing be affordable to 80% of the area. Median income and at least half of the units would be affordable to 60% of the area median income. We made one amendment in committee from Councilmember Peterson. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, for your amendment to clarify language that allows the city to reclaim ownership in the event that any neighborhood association does not meet its obligations. I can tell you many in our community have been very eagerly awaiting the passage of this bill, and I look forward to passage today. I recommend a yes vote. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember Strauss. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Hearing on the clock. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Sounds great. Yes. Thank you. Councilmember Suarez I. Lewis? Yes. Morales s most thorough. I. Peterson. Oh. So aren't. Yes. Council. President Gonzalez, I am in favor when opposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read item nine into the record? Agenda Item nine Council Bill. 120084 An Ordinance.

Adoption of Resolution Declaring Intention to Establish the City of Alameda Communities Facilities District (CFD) No. 22-2 (Alameda Marina - Shoreline Improvements Maintenance and Adaptive Measures), and to Authorize the Levy of Special Taxes Therein; and Adoption of Resolution Declaring Intention to Incur Bonded Indebtedness of the Proposed City of Alameda Community Facilities District No. 22-2 (Alameda Marina - Shoreline Improvements Maintenance and Adaptive Measures). (Public Works 80700001)

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That Senate resolution declaring intention to establish the city of Alameda facilities, district number 22 attached to Alameda Marina, shoreline improvements, maintenance and adaptive measures, and to authorize levy of special taxes there in adoption of resolution declaring intention to incur bonded indebtedness of the proposed city of the account for this District 20 2-2. All right. Thank you. And so, Mr. Byrd, Miss Smith, whomever who wants to give us an overview of this item. So I'll start. And then we can certainly, certainly use other members of the team to fill in the blanks that that they feel are important. Again, thank you, mayor, vice mayor, members of council. This this is a follow on item to the first community facility district. This is really an opportunity to take a proactive approach to potential changes to the the sea of the seawall that's being constructed. So if there are issues with either new requirements or or maintenance that needs to be taken care of, and there are you know, there's an inability for the the responsible parties to take care of it or that there's just a significant amount of new additional or new investment that needs to be made. This is an opportunity for for a subsequent community facility district to kick in and create a special kind of a back up tax that would allow us to have reserve or funding in place to to make those improvements in the long term. So essentially, once the first community facility district that covers the original costs, those bonds are paid off. There'd be an assessment at that time and these bonds could then start. So that wouldn't be an overlap with the with the first district. This would be subsequent to. And it's just an opportunity for us to make sure that this important infrastructure is maintained over time and can be enhanced if necessary. So with that, I'll conclude my presentation. I don't know if Director Smith would like to add. I see a hand. Yes, please. With the mayor. Absolutely. The public works effort with please. The evening again. Madam Mayor Council. I'm Aaron Smith Public Works Director. Jerry, thanks for that overview and intro. I just wanted to highlight one key point of this second CFD and it's I think maybe one of a first of its kind that's really contemplating revenue needed for potential sea level rise adaptation measures. So the seawall is currently built to end of century height based on current projections. So if that falls short, literally and figuratively, the this CFD would allow revenue to be collected to construct the seawall and shoreline improvements to a higher level for additional protection. There are some other nuances to what we're calling the triggering event. So these two CFDs will never be assessed. At the same time, the the bonds, which was the previous item, would be paid off before the second CFD kicks in and then their specific triggering requirements, one being the adaptive measure. So I spoke of others being the one Jerry had. So I just wanted to kind of highlight the uniqueness of, of putting in place this CFD for adaptive measures. And then thank you for the further explanation because I am very proud of the work that's been done. It's very proactive and forward thinking, and it's been almeida's approach with our climate action and resiliency plan that we have to take this stuff seriously. As you all know, we are an island, so that counts over her. Spencer Kim, we'll start with you because you pulled this item for discussion. Thank you. Mayor. And I. Really appreciate staff's and. The star crew's. Assistance in trying to figure out what the ask really is. So it sounds like and I please forgive me I don't recall it was the former 120 years. So are we talking that this would kick in at the. Earliest of 20. Years or what is the timeline? So what did you miss with. Its 30 years councilmember? 30 years to pay off the balance of the first CFD. Okay. And with so that we're actually talking that we're being asked tonight to make a decision for an issue that may or may not arise in 2052 or sometimes they're about. That's correct. Is there a reason why this couldn't come back closer to the expiration. Of the. Former item so that we're not so that we actually are not making decisions for that far. Out? Yeah. If if I could answer. Mr. Gooden, please explain the rationale for this. Sure. That there will be people who will be buying real property as part of this as part of this development. And so the idea is to inform those property owners from from day one. So the disclosure package will include this as a requirement. Trying to impose a tax after somebody is already there means we'd be dealing with a lot more property owners and likely less support to do something like this. And so this is an opportunity for us to set this as the, I'll say, pun intended, high watermark or the the goal for this particular project to be able to to sustain itself over time. May I continue? And I'm just going to add, we're going to limit the number of puns. Just kidding. Go ahead. I think Mr. Bowden, assistant city manager, has more to add. Mr.. Back to your. Tim was bringing his own counsel. Sure. We always want to hear from the attorneys. Mr. Jimmy Loggins wanted to mention that the master plan for this community specifies that we have this district. Also, the quote, trigger event is only if the property owner responsible for these measures does not implement them. So it really is a backstop. And I would emphasize also what Mr. Bowden said, that once the you have all the registered voters in there to get a two thirds vote for something like this is very difficult. That's why it's written into the master plan that it be put in upfront, even though it may not take effect, it may never take effect if the property owner responsible does what they are required to do under the master lease and the bccdc permit. So it's really a safeguard for the city to be sure that this flood control measure is adequately addressed well into the future. Thank you, Mr. Olson, attorney for all made of Merida. Was there anything you wanted to add, sir? Charles Olson. I may have an marine. Yes, mayor and council members. Just you just add, as Mr. Tenet indicated, this this was built into the master plan from day one as a as a way to address this issue. And it is really very dependent on the future of sea level rise. The project is built to adapt the 42 inches of sea level rise. That should be good until the end of the century, but no one knows. And so it is consistent with the master plan approval from 2018. Thank you for that clarification. Okay. Back to Councilmember Harry Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. So the prior item was specifically for the townhomes. But does this include townhomes, condos, anything else that could be approved between now and 2050 to automatically. Hi, Sara. Mary's with NBC again. Yes. This if you refer to the boundary map that's attached to this item, you'll see that it does include additional area that was indicated to be future annexation area on the previous item. That area is included in the boundary of this CFD. So it does include the apartment property, the live work property, the nonresidential property, as well as the townhome project. Okay. And my understanding was, though, that the prior item for the condos, it would have to come back to council for a vote. Whereas what I'm hearing now is that for this item, there would be no more. There would not be a future vote. That's correct. Those projects are already in the boundary of the CFD. And I really appreciate the explanation of because right now, how many people, how many. Property owners are there. That will be voting to approve. This? Is it to property owners? Mr. Tim McGraw. It's still three young girls. Also three is correct. And who are those three? I'll defer to Paul related to aluminum arena. And the third is the townhome developer. Okay. And then in the future, for instance, in 2040, how many property owners would there be and who would they be? They would be voting on the idea. Nobody votes this. Once we put this in place, it's in place. The people who buy property, owner or rent or whatever, there will be disclosure that this CFD is in place, but there's no future vote and the number of people who may eventually reside here, it's really hard to predict. I mean, who would have thought some of the things world events are happening and financial markets are moving? So to predict the future 30 years out, a little tough. That doesn't really answer my question, so I'm going to try again if possible. My understanding is we're being asked to approve something tonight because and someone did speak to this one of y'all that in the future has to get the two thirds of the property owners. And right now there are three is what that answer was. So in the future, whether it be ten, 20 or 30 years from now, I think we're probably talking because we already were told that there would be about. 790 units or something. Like that. We're talking hundreds, I think, but that's what I want to make sure, because that goes to, I think, why we're being asked to approve it tonight as opposed to the 30 years. And I'm going to, if you will, hold on for just a minute. Assistant city manager has his hand up and behind you, but the upper screen part of my screen. So, Mr. Bowden, you want to comment? Sure. I think that in terms of the when the vote takes place to Councilmember Spencer's point, it is it is much more efficient to do this now and much more straightforward. The more property owners that come into the mix, if we don't take this action now consistent with the master plan, it gets harder to implement over time . And whether there's you know, whether there's 50 or 100 or 500 property owners in this area today is today is certainly the the most straightforward time for the city to take this kind of this kind of belt Dalton suspenders approach to making sure that that seawall is properly maintained into the future. If if we do wait it if we waited ten years from now, the the likelihood of being able to get that two thirds vote necessary for this kind of for the for this kind of a financing mechanism is a lot less likely. And so I think Mr. Tim makes a point about it's hard to predict the number of property owners is true. I think what we're trying to do here this evening is is move forward with a master plan contemplated financing mechanism at a time when we have three property owners who are willing to support this effort, understanding that it helps protect their their investment, but also ensures that future property owners in the area are also going to be protected as well as other neighborhoods in the city of Alameda. Thank you, Mr. Brady. And now we'll go back to Mr. Tim. Just a very quick technical point. The city's municipal code provides that if there's less than 12 registered voters residing within the boundaries of the proposed district, the vote is by property owners with one vote for each acre or a portion of an acre. So as long as we don't have 12 registered voters under your municipal code, the vote is by property owners on the statutes designed for exactly what we're doing here to put mechanisms in place and then obviously inform property owners that they're there. And you've done cities, a number of other ones that have put in place similar measures. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Back to Councilmember Harry Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. And I just want to clarify also that. So the three owners right now are all the developers. They're similar. It's different from a person going out and buying a house and becoming that owner. But in regards to the amount of money anticipated that what this would be, because we saw that the for the next 30 years, the prior vote that I did support would add an additional the CFD was, I believe, 5500 up to like 9000 per year for the 30 years. What is the dollar? And there was no tax bill attached to this as an example. So do we have any idea what we are committing to in the future of what the cost would be to the people then that are, you know, the hundreds of people then that are owning. The properties on an. Annual basis. This mayors, I wonder, is that where you'd like to to address? Yes, please. Thank you. So anything you know, to puzzle your point about not being able to predict the future, it's very difficult right now to predict what the values of those homes would be in 30, 40 years from now. And the effective tax rate is based on the value of the home. So for that reason, it is difficult to predict what those might be. However, the CFD is established, this particular CFD for the trust to is established at rates that start lower than the rates that you saw for CFD 20 2-1 for the facilities. So they are starting at lower rates in fiscal year 2223 and the special tax rates are going to increase by 2% on an annual basis. So when property owners are paying into CFD 20 2-1 for those facilities, they will have a special tax as shown in that rate method of apportionment and those rates increase by 2% a year. When we get to the point, if we get to the point that CFD 20 2-2 kicks in, they will be paying less than they were paying before when the bonds for the first CFD were outstanding. So. By that measure, I think that we're we're looking at a lower effective tax rate eventually, if this CFD were to kick in because the base rates are lower than they are for the facilities, CFD and they both increase at the same percentage rate on an annual basis. Thank you, sir. Harry Spencer. Any further? Thank you. Yes, but those numbers could change. Even though you're saying that that's currently what you're anticipating in the future, if, in fact, the cost of maintaining the sea wall or not is there not somehow it's open so that whatever the costs are would then be passed down to the homeowners ? No, it's not. Open in the dollar amount that is established in the written method of apportionment is a maximum special tax, and the most that it can increase by on an annual basis is 2%. And that applies to the one that we're talking about this 22 days to. It applies to both of the CFD is actually. Yes. Okay. And what is the start, the starting rate then in 2052? Uh, 1/2. I have to look that up. I will just add that it's pretty exciting to see this project take shape and I really like the cycle track that runs along Clements in front of it and and I appreciate the weekly updates I get on the construction and. I'm very excited to see this taking shape. And I'm happy to continue. Yeah. Well. Ms. Mares is, is then scrolling through your data, but just shout it whenever you're ready. Did any other council members want to comment? That's why that's your immediate. I guess, asking a quick question. My understanding is tonight we are just setting in motion a process that does not commit us to actually all it does is set a set in motion on a process that sets up the election that we can certify later. But we could actually decide at that time not to call the election ahead of that. Is that correct? It is. Mr. Burton. I was going to say that is correct. This is this is just the initial step, and there would have to be an election. The challenge is that this is a financing mechanism that was contemplated in the in the master plan. And so I'll stop there. I think that you all know where I'm going next. So we go to the lawyers. Yes. I understand. So I guess my my my comment and maybe request is, since we have at least three weeks before that's back before, you know, I personally I appreciated the opportunity to meet with everybody on the screen and ask my questions. So that's why I don't have any questions there. I'm wondering if maybe we could move forward with a vote and if there are further deep dove questions that can be answered. And we have three weeks until the next meeting and we have the opportunity not to move forward at that point in time if if the questions are unsatisfactory. And thank you for bringing that up. And because I also want to thank all of you on the screen who met with me. I'm sure you spent a solid hour going over these details. And I did ask lots of questions. I think I would like to see this continue to move forward. And I wonder if there is a way and we certainly want council members questions to be answered, but I wonder if there's a way to do some of that off line council day. So I see your hand up. Thank you. You know, I think we all here in Alameda know that our city, unlike any other city in the Bay Area, let alone California, is affected by sea level rise. And it's really simple. We either rise to the challenge of sea level rise or we sink. I think what's before us is quite innovative. While I certainly have my qualms with regard to the amount of affordable housing. I think that the financing mechanism contemplated for the future and there will be an increase in sea level rise. So that's without a doubt and I think it was just about ten days ago, I think the federal government issued a new saying that they're eight inches off. So if you're saying 42 inches a sea level rise at end of century, well, it's now 50. So so I think the mechanism that's before us, I think, really warrants any of us to step up and say, you know, we've got to support this. I might have my qualms with the housing project, but I think that's what what this is. Financing is important for all of Alameda and hopefully other projects along the waterfront do something is similar. Thank you for your comments. Councilmember Desai and I agree completely with you. And also, as was noted, it doesn't just affect this development, it would affect other properties in the vicinity. So we're protecting a lot of folks and properties and council redesign that have been in motion. Should be happening. I would be happy to move. Staff recommendation. Okay. And Councilor, we're not a second. Okay. We have a motion in a second. And Ms.. Mayors, you have your hand up. And I know you were doing some research, so please go ahead. Councilmember That's what you did. My and I just want with the direction that that staff connect with Councilmember Spencer to get her get any further questions that she has answered before the next meeting. Thank you for that. And Ms.. Mayors, let's go back to you. Thank you. I just I have that data that was requested. And so I'm just looking at one of the property types rather than going down the entire list. But just taking a look at the townhome property that is less than 1680 square feet. So that's just kind of the base unit that we're looking at in the CFD 20 2-1. That property in 2223 has a rate of $5,498 escalated to 2050 354. That special tax rate ends up being $9,958.87. And then we move over to the CFD 20 2-2, which is the maintenance CFD or the adaptive measure CFD. And that starts out with a with a special tax rate of $2,289 in 2223. And in the same time period that 2050 354, that rate would be 4000 147. So again, just comparing that to what they would have been paying in the other CFD, it would have been almost $10,000. Thank you. Yes, Councilman Harry Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. And is this one also 30 years. Or so ago through. Is the the CFD is actually levied in perpetuity. It does not have a 30 year term. It doesn't. There is no expiration on this. It's as needed to fund the special tax requirement. So if anyone wanted to end it, then what would they need to do? If a citizen at the years down the road wanted to end the special tax, they could petition the city to end the special tax. But then is the majority of council. Then that would determine in the future in perpetuity at some point whether or not they wanted to end the tax. Sorry. Could you say that again? So then it's the council. The majority of council in perpetuity. It doesn't. The the voters, the homeowners could not put something on the ballot. They have to try to convince three council members. Mr. TIMBERG, you're nodding your head as you want to say something. That is correct. That is correct. They can petition the council to terminate the CFD, but they don't have the right to just bring it to a vote. This is under your ordinance that governs this type of district. So I just want clarification in perpetuity. And at some point council. Could also increase. The amount or not. No, they cannot increase it without a vote. But to terminate it would require a council vote at any time. Three council members could terminate that CFD. The reason why it's in perpetuity is because the maintenance of the wall is not going to stop in any given year. Again, this is a fallback in case the property owner isn't doing the maintenance. This tax may never get levied, but if it if we need it and the property owners are not maintaining the seawall and there is an adequate protection, this CFP can continue to levy what is required each year up to the tax rates to maintain the flood protection. And you I believe Erin Smith had her hand up. What did you want to add, Ms.. Smith? Just to follow on, I think Paul was touching on it there. Each year it's determined whether that maximum assessment amount needs to even be levied. So it could be levied and then determined no longer needed. But the amount levied is only that which is needed for the maintenance and or adaptive measures. Hey. Thank you so much. We have a motion and we have a second and it's almost 9:00 and we're still on consent calendar. So how quick would you call the roll, please, for this vote? Councilmember de Shag. Yes. For Spencer. No. Actually, I Vela. I Mayor. As Ashcraft, I. That carries 4 to 1. All right. Thank you so much to our staff and to our outside experts, all of you working on this. We appreciate and I'm always fascinated to talk to you about this project. And I really do commend you for the forward thinking approach to an existential reality that we all face here in Alameda. So I think you're leading the way that other cities will follow. So thank you so much for your time. All right, counsel, I do believe we've come to the end of the consent calendar. Yay! So then we move on to our continued agenda items. And, Madam Clerk, if you would, please. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. That's okay. I just. Given that it's given. It's 9:00, we're just about to start the things we didn't get to last meeting. Before we get to the regular agenda, I'm wondering, I know there's interest in seven C in the city. Staff for seven C and seven D are the same. I'm wondering if we might move 7e2 to the continued items as well that our planning, land use and transportation folks who needed to be here for this last item, one of the last items, you don't have to sit around and wait till 11:00 to find out. We're not going to get there. I, I, I'm not I don't think I'm pessimistic here. No, I think you're great. And I think let's do a quick vote so we don't get too much further. So I think. I move that we move item seven E to the continued items at our next meeting. And just thank you, Vice Mayor, just for the sake of clarity, madam, quickly you tell us what that item is. Seven E Yes, seven E is the Alameda Loop shuttle basically item. Thank you. So just before we vote, anybody who's in the audience waiting to hear that one or the transportation plan which we already had moved to the next item. When we come back before you on April 5th, I believe it is, those two items will be up at the top. It will I should not count chickens before they hatch. Let's take a vote and then I'll tell you whether those items will end up at the top of the next agenda. Councilmember Jane, a quick comment. Quick comment is, you know, we have a process in place for removing items. And and I think we should stick to that process. I believe we remove items at a certain point. So thank you for your comments. We have a motion. We have a second way. We have a roll call vote. Please remember they said no. Her Harris Spencer. I. Knox Phi Phi Phi Alpha. I may as the Ashcroft lie. That motion carries four, two, one. Thank you. Okay. So now we go back to the the regular agenda. And now, Kirk, if you would, please introduce our first item. Six days introduction of ordinance authorizing the city manager or designee to execute a First Amendment to the lease with Park Street Wine Cellars, Inc, a California corporation for approximately 700 square feet of retail space in historic Alameda Theater, located at 2315 Central Avenue, Suite 122, to provide six months of rent deferral with a three year repayment period

Recommendation to authorize City Manager to enter into a 24-month agreement with Microsoft Corporation to host free Digital Alliance events located in and conducted in collaboration with the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)

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Sure. Report from City Manager Recommendation to authorize the city manager to enter into a 24 month agreement with Microsoft Corporation to host Free Digital Alliance events citywide. Okay, I'm actually going to have staff briefly touch touch on this. This is actually a really big deal, which is kind of has is at the end of our agenda today. But I just want to make sure everyone realize we've been working on this for a very long time. I've been out to the Microsoft headquarters to talk about this. This is very exciting for the city of Long Beach is going to be a big announcement tomorrow. So I I'm to turn this over to Mr. West to just kind of fill in what this means. Mr. Mayor, council members, this truly is a great program. I'm going to turn this over to our new tech innovation director, Brian Stokes, and also to Rachel Tanner. So I don't know which one's going first. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. This is a very exciting opportunity. Microsoft and the city are preparing up to do as it says, a digital alliance, which includes. Three types of events. One is a digital camp did two camps, one for boys, one for girls. Those will each. Serve up to two up to 100 young. People each. And then a big spark event which is geared towards entrepreneurs and really showing them how technology can increase their business, help them perform. Routine tasks and really ultimately enhance their bottom line and grow the economy here in Long Beach. Microsoft does not engage often with cities in. These partnerships, so it's a pretty unique alliance, and we're lucky to be. One of the cities they've selected to. Work with in the coming year. So we're very, very excited and I'm open for any questions. Thank you. This and by the way, this falls right in line with all of our tech and innovation kind of initiatives in the city. There's like Miss Tanner said, this is a they go through a process of select cities and we're very, very happy to be a partner with with Microsoft on this. And so this is the beginning of a very hopefully extensive partnership in a variety of other ways as well. And so we're excited about that. Johnson Richardson. I think this is great. So I want to be the first to say I want one in North Long Beach. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And is there any public comment on the item? Seeing nonmembers, please cast your votes. Everybody. Motion carries seven zero. Okay, now we're on to announcements. But before we do that, let's do as there's a second opportunity for public comment. If anyone can speak on any ideas for the agenda, please come forward. Just identify yourself. For the record.

A proclamation supporting the reauthorization of the Colorado Lottery Division by the General Assembly in 2018.

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Okay, great. Let's go on to presentations. Madam Secretary, do we have any presentations? None, Mr. President. All right. How about communications? None. Mr. President. All right. We have one proclamation this evening. Councilwoman Black, will you please read this proclamation? Yes, Mr. President. Thank you. Proclamation number 17, Dash 1404, supporting reauthorization of the Colorado Lottery Division by the General Assembly in 2018. Whereas Colorado voters provided for a statewide lottery and in a subsequent election, adopted the great outdoor Colorado Amendment to the state constitution, which directs that lottery profits be used for parks, open space, wildlife and outdoor recreation purposes. And. Whereas, following the voters approval of a lottery, the General Assembly created a lottery division in the State Department of Revenue to administer the lottery. And. Whereas, as provided in the go COA amendment, lottery profits are allocated to the great outdoors Colorado Trust Fund, the Conservation Trust Fund and to the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife. And. Whereas, since 1992, the Coast Trust Fund has distributed approximately $1 billion in grants for projects to improve communities. In all of Colorado's 64 counties, funds have helped connect families to the outdoors, improved local trails and parks, built out outdoor recreation facilities, preserved ranch lands, water resources and view corridors, improved river access and quality and conserved wildlife habitat. And. Whereas, the Go Go Trust Fund has distributed over 22.5 million directly to the city and county of Denver for these purposes. And. WHEREAS, since 1983, the Conservation Trust Fund has distributed approximately $1 billion in grants to counties, municipalities and special districts for acquisition, development and maintenance of new conservation sites, capital improvements and maintenance for recreational purposes on public sites. And. Whereas, the Conservation Trust Fund has distributed over 152.5 million directly to the city and county of Denver for these purposes. And. Whereas. Since 1992, the Cocoa Trust Fund has distributed approximately 215 million of lottery proceeds in support of Colorado's 42 state parks funding park, land acquisition, park development and Operations, Trail construction and Maintenance, environmental education. Youth and volunteer programs and stewardship and natural resource management. And. Whereas, the Colorado Lottery Division is critical to the administration of the entire Gboko program, and the division is set to expire unless extended by the General Assembly, which, during its 2018 session will consider legislation to extend the division to 2039. Now. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that this Denver City Council strongly urges the General Assembly to approve legislation during its 2018 session to reauthorize the Colorado Lottery Division until 2039. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. Your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation. 1404 be adopted. All right. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by members of council. Can someone black? Why, thank you. Senator Williams, I'm glad you're here. I hope you will support this. So the great outdoors, Colorado, if you were listening to that long, boring proclamation, has done amazing things in our state, funding over $1,000,000,000 for parks and open spaces all across our state. The city and county of Denver has benefited quite a lot. I have a few projects in my own district that I was involved with. They've increased the number of parks in our city and all around the state and improved trails for all of our citizens to enjoy. It was under the leadership of Roy Romer, who was our governor, and Ken Salazar who worked for him. And you will recall that Ken Salazar later became our senator and secretary of the interior. And it really showed the kind of thinking that he was involved with and how important he thought open space was and why he was such a good secretary of the interior. And anyway, the the voters of Colorado in 1992 made it an amendment to our Constitution. But what we didn't do was create sort of the management agency that operates it. And this proclamation is just in support of our state legislature reauthorizing that department so that they can continue to run the great outdoors Colorado and fund open space in our entire state. So I hope that everyone will support it. Thank you. And that was a nice shout out to our senator over there. Okay, Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to thank Councilwoman Black for bringing this word. Go CO is an amazing organization and we are all in the debt of the work that's been done. I said in committee, you can't throw a rock in any direction in Denver and not hit a park that Gogo has helped with in some way, and maybe nowhere more so than along the 10.3 miles of the South Platte River, including the birthplace of Denver, as it flows through our city. And if you haven't been down to the river lately, go down there. There's millions and millions of dollars of improvements to a river that in the seventies was completely dead. There are no parks, no trails, nothing living in the river and go down and experience that today. And none of that is possible without Gold Coast. So I think this is critical for our parks, critical for our city. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. And I'm very excited to support this tonight. Thank you, Mr. President. Yeah, thank you, Councilman Clark. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I just also wanted to chime in. Thank you, Councilwoman Black, for bringing this proclamation forward. Hopefully this is reauthorized. I don't know if there would if there is any trouble in doing it, but I think it's awesome that that to us as a council, you know, when when session is underway, they get to see that the city and county of Denver, at least the council, is supportive of the reauthorization. I could tell you one story and that sits on Alameda and Osceola over in the struggling Westwood and Barnum, and that's quite an event. Those four Winds Park and Quadra event. This park is Westwood's first park in 30 years. And that park was an empty, empty trailer, former trailer homes. And they're just old bar chop shop. It's really it's a blighted parcel of land in a recession. In a recession, the Great Recession, we were able to build this park partly with with the trust for public land, some money in the 28 bond that it was able to move around. I'm good at that and move that money around into the park and then also go. And if it wasn't for Google, we wouldn't have that park. And I you know, we have a lot of parks in Denver and I'm bragging because this is my district and this is my whole where I was born and raised in four crews over the quarter and those take your kids on a and it's best in the summer because the little water fountains going on. But this park is pound for pound, I think the coolest park in Denver. And it was designed by the people in the community, designed by the folks in middle and elementary school over a nap. They when they were in kindergarten or kindergarten or first grade, if we wanted a park, we want to help design it. Now, I visited him as a fifth graders just last week, and they love that park. And that was because of go call. And that's exactly what that money does is, you know, I'm. I'm horrible at the lottery. I think I'm one of those people that don't play because I think it's just people who play the lottery don't go. I'm not I'm not trying to offend anybody, but I think it's just attacks for those of us who are bad at math. Right. And so but the lottery is awesome. And it's awesome because even if you don't win, the community wins. Right. And even all those little scratch tickets that I didn't win anything up, at least we have a park in the West Side and we got something out of it, so I can tell you that. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman Black, for bringing that proclamation to. Thank you. Councilman Lopez, I think. Okay, Councilman Gilmore. Thank you, President Brooks. Thank you, Councilwoman Black, for bringing forth this proclamation. My I started out working for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources when Governor Romer was in office and Ken Salazar was the director of the Department of Natural Resources. And so great outdoors. Colorado has not only addressed statewide issues, but community wide issues as well. And so not in my council district, but in Councilman Herndon's council district in the Monticello community. Great outdoors. Colorado helped purchase five and a half acres of raw, undeveloped land at the front side of Mont Bello off of Albrecht Drive in Peoria. And that land will be maintained. Four and a half acres as an open space outdoor area for the community to come and learn and environmental, education, science and technology, careers. And the final acre will be a holistic wraparound service education center right in the Montebello community. So, you know, projects in Grand Junction Brush, Colorado all over the state, but right close to home in the Mount Velo community, great outdoors. Colorado is also making an impact. And so thank you, Councilwoman Black. And I hope we can continue and get the support to make sure that go continues on its important work. Thank you, President Brooks. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman Gilmore. All right. It has been moved. The second see no other comments, Madam Secretary, roll call. Black. Clark II. Espinosa. Flynn. I. Gilmore. I. Herndon. Cashman. Can each i. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Susman, i. Mr. President. I. Please announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Proclamation 1404 has been adopted. It's unanimous, Senator. Unanimous. Okay, Councilman Black, is there anyone you want to bring up? Yes. I would like to ask Chris Castilian, who is the director of Great Outdoors Colorado, to say a few words. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman Black. I really don't know what to say after all that. I show up and I get to hand out money for all these great projects that you all bring forward to to go CO and our other partners with the Conservation Trust Fund and State Parks. We're very lucky in Colorado to have an organization like Gboko, as you all have articulated. We've had a tremendous impact throughout the city and as a Denver native, I've seen the impact myself and the communities that I've grown up in around Denver, and I'm grateful for it. And I'm just the last guy in line here to hopefully carry on a longer term vision for this state and appreciate your support for the reauthorization of the lottery division so that we can continue doing great things in all of your districts and working with great partners throughout the state of Colorado. Thank you. Congratulations, Mr. President. Thank you. Right. All right. Thank you, Councilman Black, for bringing that forward. Madam Secretary, please read the resolutions.

Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-6958 for the Improvement of Pine Avenue, between Seaside Way and Anaheim Street; award the contract to All American Asphalt, of Corona, California (not a MBE, WBE, DBE or Local), for the base bid in the amount of $4,370,286 and the additive bid for items AB-2, AB-3 and AB-5, in the amount of $57,021, for a total of $4,427,307, plus a 15 percent contingency of $664,096, for a total contract amount not to exceed $5,091,403; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents and necessary amendments to award street light additive bid items AB-1 and AB-6 through AB-13, for a total of $751,331, plus a 15 percent contingency of $112,700, for a total contract amount not to exceed $864,031, to City Light and Power under its existing agreement with the City of Long Beach; and Increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $2

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Motion carries nine votes. Item 2222 is a recommendation about plans and specifications for the improvement of Pine Avenue between Seaside Way and Ninth Street. An award of contract to all American asphalt in an amount not to exceed $5.091 million and authorize city manager to execute an agreement with city lighting power for the provision of well, I can't see here an additive additive street light additive bid items. We got it. Thank you. I'm a conservative councilor. Lowenthal thank you. Just continuing on with my gratitude for our community partners and our staff as well, and particularly the Dolby, for its commitment. We're very fortunate to have many distinct neighborhoods here in the city and business corridors, each with their own character and Main Street like element to them. However, Pine Avenue has been our city's main street historically and without a doubt a critical part of the downtown's revitalization with its cultural, entertainment, dining, retail and residential contributions. So it's been over two decades since Pine Avenue was improved to this degree, but the timing could not be better in terms of public sector investment that supports private sector prosperity. I trust from the stakeholder meetings held recently that staff has an appreciation for the types of issues, construction for the types of issues construction will bring to businesses and residents so that we can make improvements in an efficient manner without severely impacting our daily routines. And I'd like to thank you for your support for that. Thank you. Mr.. And come on up and as you come up, this is extremely exciting for for us in Leamington downtown, we're essentially reimagining Pine Avenue from Shoreline all the way to Anaheim with streets, new landscaping, street furniture. It's going to be a real great project. And thank you to to you and the deal for being such a part a big part of that. So thanks. For coming. I really appreciate that. And I just want to take a moment to thank you, Councilmember Lowenthal, as well as city staff for resurrecting this project. This project could have easily been left in the grave when the RDA was dissolved, but with the forethought and certainly the perseverance of yourself and Councilmember Lowenthal City staff and our board of directors, we resurrected this project, although it's not the $35 million project that it was three years ago, the $5 million or four and a half million dollar project today will go a long way. And certainly the residents and the business owners are looking very much forward to this. We want to be able to thank you as well as the stakeholders and our board for this. We look forward to that celebration, hopefully later this month or early next month and really kick off this project and get it done and really make Pine Avenue look the way it should look. And certainly it does help with the new stakeholders coming in. To the district. And to the area. So thank you very much for your support. Absolutely. And to all the residents on this issue. Be patient. Pine Avenue will be under construction for for a few months, but it will be a great end result. So with that, we have a motion on the floor. Please go ahead and members, cast your votes. I mean. Yes. Great job, Greg. Motion carries eight votes. Yes. Okay. And we did 23. So we're going to go and move on to new business. Councilman Andrews. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I would like to announce the 26th annual Martin Luther Junior King Peace in Unity Parade celebration on January the 18th this year. Our special guest performance is by the R&B band Rolls Royce, singing the hit song Car Wash leading up to the parade. We have martin luther king jr. Peace week, a week long celebration of events within the community to instill a peaceful environment and utilize the teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King's This Week celebration January 11th to the 18th Peace Week included the seventh annual Martin Luther King and Candlelight Peace March. That will be Saturday, January 11, by 5 p.m. for McBride Park. This is the march in honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. I invited all the residents of Long Beach to join me and Mayor Bob as we continue this wonderful neighborhood, March for Peace.

A RESOLUTION designating the monthly President Pro Tem of the City Council of The City of Seattle for 2022-2023; superseding Resolution 31924.

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So will the clerk please read item eight into the record? Agenda item eight. Resolution 232036. A resolution designating the monthly President Pro-Tem of the City Council of the City of Seattle for 2022 2023. Superseding Resolution 31924 introduced today, January 4th. Thank you. I'm honored to adopt resolution 32036. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. Sponsor this resolution. I will address it first. Resolution 32036 designates the monthly president pro tem of the City Council of the City of Seattle for 2022 and 2023, which supersedes Resolution 31924. The general rules and procedures of the Seattle City Council provide that a president pro tem shall be designated every two years on a monthly rotation basis based on seniority. To act in the act. To act in the absence of the President. This resolution includes a table outlining assignments per month for the year of 2022 and 2023. My office sent each of you a copy of this proposed resolution yesterday that this Monday, January 3rd, for your consideration. Are there any comments on the resolution? See none. Well, the clerk please call the role on the adoption of the resolution. Herbold Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. MOSQUERA Hi. Nelson, I. Peterson. I want. Yes. Strauss. Yes, council president. Was I nine in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The motion carries. The resolution is adopted. The chair will sign it. And will the clerk please affixed my signature to the legislation? Moving on to item number nine, which is also mine. Will the clerk please read item number nine into the record? Agenda item nine Resolution 32037. A resolution relating to committee structure, membership, meeting times and duties of the Standing Committees of the City of the Seattle City Council for 2022 and 2023 and superseding Resolution 31947 introduced today, January 4th.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for numerous properties located generally within the 38th and Blake Station Area. Approves an official legislative map amendment to apply the River North Design Overlay (DO-7) and 38th and Blake Incentive Height Overlay (IO-1) to existing underlying C-MX- and I-MX- zone districts and overlays on properties generally located within the River North Business Improvement District or within the boundary of the Future Maximum Building Heights Map in the 38th and Blake Station Area Plan Amendments in Council District 9. If ordered published, a public hearing will be held on Monday, 2-12-18. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 1-2-18.

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11 eyes, one nay counts. Bill 16 talking about the over can you remember we we're voting on there revision or design overlay has passed will now go on to 17 and we'll put that on its. Do we need to put that on the floor, Secretary? Go ahead. Councilman Espinosa, please put 17 on the floor. I move the council bill 18 zero. That's weird. 1718 number 17 be placed on final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved and seconded just to read it into the record. This is 17 before ordinance changing the zoning classification. Numerous properties locate generally within the 30th and Blake approves official legislative map amendment applies the river north design overlay in 38th then it goes into some specifics there you guys can see there council members it's been moved in second it madam secretary roll call. Black eye. Clark. All right. Espinosa. Flynn. All right. Herndon. I. Cashman can eat. Lopez. They knew Ortega. My assessment. I. Mr. President. I. Please close the voting, announce the results. Sorry. There's one missing. Yeah, we are missing one. Thank you, Dr. Sussman. Close. ANNOUNCER Very close the votes. And tell us with the. 11 eyes one name. All right, 11 eyes. One day, 17 passes. We will now look at Council Bill 14, count 14 and 19. Councilman Espinosa, will you please put 14 on the floor and place upon final consideration? Do pass.

Recommendation to approve use of Council District 4 funds for various parks and infrastructure improvement projects to be allocated as follows: Eyes on Anaheim $85,000 • Cameras • Signage Orizaba Park $20,000 • Cameras Whaley Park Baseball Field $410,000 • Storage Structure • Field Stands Stearns Park Baseball Field $275,000 • Baseball Field III Enhancement • ARC Field Enhancement

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I'm 34 as new business from the office of Customer Patrick O'Donnell, Councilwoman Suzy Price, Councilwoman Stacy Mango and Councilman Al Austin with a recommendation to approve the use of fourth District Council Council District funds for various parks and infrastructure improvements. Okay, there's been a motion and a second. Councilman Price, were you cued up? I would just like to. Sorry. States that I've talked to Councilmember O'Donnell. And it's his intent that that we approve these District four funds as recommended and allow the director of Parks, Recreation and Marine to use the remaining funds for additional district for park projects as he sees fit and under his discretion. Any public comment on the item? CNN. Please cast your votes. Motion carries eight votes. Next item. It's item 35 with it's a recommendation from the office of Councilmember Rex Richardson, Councilmember Roberto Ranga and Councilman Al Austin with a recommendation to request city manager to work with the Gateway City's Council of Governments to form an Artesia Boulevard Corridor Committee and develop an Artesia Boulevard Corridor Master Plan.

A MOTION confirming the appointment of John Diaz as the director of the department of adult and juvenile detention.

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With that, we'll move to our first business item on the agenda to this motion 2019 371. It is consideration of the executive's appointment of John Diaz to be director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. We'll begin with a discussion from with the staff report from Mr. Cory of our central staff, and then we'll hear from the executive branch, Mr. Keller and Mr. Diaz himself. Good afternoon, Mr. Curry. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, members. I'm Clifton Curry of Council Staff. The staff report for the signing begins on page nine of your packet today. And again to some very brief background. The King County Department of Adult Juvenile Detention operates one of the largest detention systems on the Pacific Northwest. It operates two adult facilities, one here in King County, one in Kent, the Baling Regional Justice Center. In addition for adults, the county operates a community corrections program with a variety of services. Those services include a day reporting program known as Sea Camp or the Community Center for Alternatives Programs, Work Release and a variety of other programs. In addition, since 2002, the county's Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention added the J to its name and began operating the juvenile system right now up at 12th and Alder. In addition to those programs, the department staff also operate the alternative programs for juveniles, which include work release excuse me include electronic home monitoring and a series of other programs through the department's court detail. Staff from the department escort inmates throughout this building and other courthouses in the county will also guard inmates while they're at health facilities for appointments such as dialysis or for emergency medical care and will transfer to Harborview and Valley. It's also one of the largest departments in the county. Its 20 1920 biannual budget is just over $323 million, and the department has over 900 FTE ees as required by King County Code. Mr. Diaz is confirmation of his appointment as director has been transmitted to the Council for your review, and I believe I'll defer to Mr. Diaz to describe his background. However, I've had the pleasure of working with him for almost 20 years now, both in his work for the city of Seattle and since he's taken the position acting prior to his designation for the permanent appointment, he was the interim director of the department. So I've had the pleasure of working with them and I'm joined. Mr. Shaw. If there are no questions for me, I'm joined by KC Keller from the executive's office and then also Mr. Diaz. Thank you, Mr. Gray. Mr.. Six. KELLER Good afternoon, Counsel. Wonderful to be here. I'm delighted to be here today on behalf of Executive Constantine to introduce John Diaz as the executive executive's nominee to lead the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to speak and for scheduling the meeting today. You all know John Diaz have his back in front of you, so I won't spend a bunch of time retelling his story. I'll let him do that for you. But what I do want to convey is our deep confidence in John Diaz, his ability to lead. This is not an easy job. As it turns out, it's not an easy job to recruit for. When Director Hayes announced his retirement last fall, we conducted two national searches. Neither search produced the candidate or candidates that we were looking for. Executive Constantine is not looking for a jail director. He's looking for a change agent, a leader who shares our values and vision for transforming how we approach detention and community corrections. And someone who has the experience expertize and frankly, the thick skin necessary to lead the department through this period of change and isn't afraid to tackle difficult operational challenges, particularly around staffing in both the adult and juvenile facilities. John Diaz is that person. John brings three decades of senior management, law enforcement and labor engagement. Experience to this job. His leadership style reflects advanced study and by his own career, rising through the ranks of the Seattle Police Department, where he began as a patrol officer in 1980. After serving in the United States Army. John believes strongly in engaging directly with employees to inform decision making. He's now with staff during successive shift changes at our facilities. He leads our regular labor management meetings and is known for simply walking up to line staff to introduce himself and engage in conversation. And that may seem like a trait we want for all of our leaders, but when you have 950 employees, it's easier said than done, especially in an operation that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. I want to just touch on two quick items, which I know John will expand on as well. One is mandatory overtime. And just to underscore that, in the six months that John has been interim director trying to address mandatory overtime, a longstanding issue for the department has been a top priority for him. And I'm proud of the work that he's doing. So far we have cut the time to hire and have with the support of the council. We've hired two new recruiters, which is allowing us to pursue more aggressive hiring strategies, including the hiring referral bonuses that the Council also approved as part of the budget. And we've increased wages for the latest corrections officer contract. These efforts are bearing fruit so far this year. We are on pace to hire. So far we've hired 52 corrections officers and 17 juvenile detention officers, which is remarkable when you think about the fact that we're competing against SPD, the sheriff's office and every law enforcement agency north and south of us. But I do want to underscore that hiring alone will not solve this issue. The fact is, nearly 20% of corrections officers have overtime restrictions and the department is currently processing three or five new restrictions per week. The average annual leave use of a corrections officer is nearly 500 hours, including scheduled unscheduled and unpaid leave. This equates to about 60 days off a year. Additionally, other contract provisions on work rules contribute to vacancies on ships. We continue to discuss with Labor how contract provisions contribute to overtime and look for ideas for reducing our vacancies. But John knows that staffing for today and the future is his top priority and that to be successful we must approach this effort in partnership with Labor and our workforce and with the Council. Lastly, I want to touch briefly on the Juvenile Division and Ordinance 18 637. I'm proud of the work that John and his team has achieved over the past six months to advance our shared vision for how we engage with youth in our care, including implementing new restrictive housing policies at both the juvenile and adult facilities consistent with Ordinance 18 637. These changes are reducing the use of restrictive housing, as our most recent quarterly report to Columbia Legal Services demonstrates. Later this week, we'll be interviewing finalists for the Juvenile Division Director position. So we have a lot going on. But one of the characteristics I so appreciate about John Diaz is that he sees each of these challenges as opportunities because that's what they are opportunities for us to improve, to partner, and to demonstrate to you and the community our commitment to continuing efforts to be an industry leader in taking a more progressive therapeutic approach going forward . Thank you so much for the opportunity to offer some opening comments and I urge your support of John Diaz to be the director of the HPD. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Question for Mr. Six Color. I can't explain the fourth quarter. Questions for our staff and Mr. Keller. Councilmember Garcia. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Cliff, what year was it that we as a government research discussed and implemented the job and oh, job and for the lift in audience purpose. Tell them what those two terms mean. Certainly, Mr. Goss at the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan was the first effort. This effort was undertaken in order to ensure that the county did not have to build a expansion of the then existing juvenile detention facility with 200 beds. At that time, it looked like the county would need at least 80 new beds. Rather, the the council promulgated the requirement to develop the operational master plan, which would emphasize the use of alternatives and efficiencies, etc.. That was done from 1998 through 1999, and the Council adopted the documents related to the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan in 2000. For the consideration of the 2000 budget, the Executive sent over a request to begin a jail planning office that would build a third county jail on East Side property that the county then owned. And at that time, the Council chose instead to begin an adult justice operational master plan. Following on the success of the Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan. That document was ultimately adopted in July of 2002 with again providing policy for how the county's secure detention facilities would be used. At the time, representatives from the National Institutes of Correction noted that we were only the 11th county in the United States to adopt a policy for how secure detention would be used in the county. Mr. KELLER, you mentioned the challenge of overtime, and I wanted to ask you, because I think it's an achievement that I think you said we've hired 60 plus officers in the last 6 to 7 months. What impact has the hiring had on the outstanding challenge of doing something about overtime hours for our regular staff? Mr. Gonzales. I would prefer to defer that to Mr. Diaz, who is close to the operation of the programs. With that. Mr. Diaz, welcome and good afternoon. Thank you, counsel. I first of all, I want to say that I'm honored to be considered for the permanent position as the director of the aged. It was not a job I was planning to go to. I was asked by by the executive and and Mr. Six killer here to come in and take a look at the operation and do it on an interim basis. My my whole effort was going to be really toward seeing what I could do to stabilize the operation and then help them move. What we're trying to look for, for that next jail director and also gave me a chance to not only work closely with the executive and I had a chance to meet with virtually all of you, but also meet with the rank and file with them and meet with the different stakeholders throughout the organization. And what I was really looking for is seeing if, a, if I was going to be the right fit for this organization. I think that's incredibly important to me. I'm at that stage of my career where I only want to work on things that I think I could solve problems on. And and if I could go and just talk very quickly about my background and then maybe just go right into questions, I think that won't be helpful. So very quickly, I think, you know, a little bit of the story. I was. My family was from from Mexico, from a town of our clients and the state of our clientele as it's kind of northern Mexico. They moved to San Francisco, and that's where I lived most of my life, a pretty progressive city. And but at the same time, I was able to see racism. And it's probably at its worst at times. And I then went into the U.S. Army. I was a criminal investigator, and I spent the first eight or nine months for a variety of reasons over in the Deep South and down in Alabama in the late seventies . So that was an interesting time from somebody that came from from a different part of the country. I had a few days vacation between the time I left. I left the Army and started with Seattle PD. That was poor planning on my part. I was planning on taking a few months off and it turned out that I had an opportunity to start earlier. So I had a four day hiatus and then I started with S PD, worked my way up through the ranks as a patrol officer, then as a sergeant working in mainly the Central District that I became one of the first community police team sergeants at a time when no one knew what that actually was, including me. And we were able to see and it was really our first attempt as in policing, at least in the city of Seattle, really trying a different way of working with the community, working closely with them, and really working on a problem solving approach. I spent a couple of years in Internal Affairs, which was quite the education, and then I continued to move up through the ranks. I was a watch commander, which was maybe in charge of approximately 50 patrol officers, once again, mainly in the Central District East Precinct. I then was promoted to captain, spent time as precinct captain, and then during kind of some of the worst times in our city with a gang violence, I, I then became in charge of the, of the gang section I spent there. I spent a couple of years there. I learned incredible amount from the men and women working in that organization, working with other people in the system, and working with some of the gang members themselves and trying to find different ways to try to keep them out of the system. Eventually, I did spend a couple of years running the homicide and robbery section. Once again, it gave me the opportunity to at times to work with with the victims families and just seeing the role of gun violence had in this in the city and the things that we needed to do to change. I was then moved to the deputy chief of administration. We had a new chief that had this idea that I needed to learn about budgets and all these human resources training, all these areas that I pretty much tried to avoid and spade, you know, stay on the operational side. So I spent five years there running the budget, which was around $250 million at the time, and which I'm very good staff and some really good ideas. We were the first time in in in our history that we actually stayed within budget in the in our with our budget, which was very unique because we had this crazy idea that we didn't need to. Actually stand back and usually over time was a driver. So we did work through that. Eventually I became the chief of police toward the end of my career, and we worked on a consent decree. We worked on a variety of other issues. But I guess more importantly, what I want to say is I just didn't hang around for those 33, 34 years on the department. I really tried to do is every place I worked. I was always looking at, you know, the status quo was unacceptable. It was always looking at what can we do to make the place better? And invariably, the only way to do that is you have to engage your staff. You have to turn and turn that culture into one problem solving, looking at trying to experiment and realizing that times you're going to fail at those experiments, and that's okay. People that know me know that it was a great idea. They would always get credit if it was a bad idea. I would always take the responsibility and I would continue to ask that here. Also, we're going to try some different things, and sometimes they're going to fail. If they fail, blame me. But if they're good ideas, please, you know, give credit to the staff and the different people that were involved in working on that. And that's how you get people to change from just treading water to really trying to improve the organization. I've had a chance to meet a lot of people in this organization and we're lucky. We have a very talented group of dedicated people doing a very difficult job. I'm kind of used to being in that environment and I really look forward to trying to continue to improve this organization if given the chance. Thank you. Thank you very much. Councilmember Gossett. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, Mr. Diaz. I had wanted to began by asking you a question about over time. I was impressed by Mr. Keller. I said that just in six or seven months we've hired quite a few officers here and King County in our jail facilities. I know it's two of them. And my question to you is, has that been enough to put a dent and the challenges around over time? Yes. No. And why not? The answer to that. Councilmember Garcia, there's no PBA. We have made some great headway in that arena. However, I think what we've what many of us have done being included is when we talk about mandatory overtime, we use shorthand is saying it's staffing and staffing is just one piece of it. It's a big piece of it and it's an important piece. And I have to be and I'm very proud of the of our h.r. department. Peter, you in central h.r. I want to thank all of you for the the bonuses that that you authorized that kept us in the running when everybody in this area, every agency is offering bonuses. We've done incredibly well. I want to thank you for that and for those employee referral bonuses. Those have been incredibly helpful also for the use of two people from central H.R.. One of them is a marketing specialist, and we're trying a lot of different things. Sometimes they don't always go well, and I won't talk about the backpacks and how badly that went. But but we are trying some new things and they are they are bearing fruit. We need to continue to do that. And we will will do so. They know that we need to at least hire that many and probably more this coming year. But staffing is just one piece of it, you know. And like I said, we tend to use it as shorthand. There's a couple of other things that we need to look at, and one of them is our work roles. You know how the management occurs prior to this recent arbitration, that award that just occurred. You could walk in an hour or you could call an hour before your shift was going to start and take a day off . Now, that makes it incredible, incredibly difficult if you're trying to manage it, manage a workforce, and it's different than it was. And we're going to propose what I could sometimes we could make make that work. When you have actual policies that have to be have to be managed, have to be staffed, that makes it incredibly difficult. So our current changes in the contract now require a 72 hour notice before you're going to take a day off. That's going to be helpful. The other thing that the award could help us in is there's now a cop on. I mean, there's a cap on compensatory overtime on comp time. It used to be that there was no cap on comp time. So basically you could continue to earn it throughout the year and take it as you need it. I understand it. And it's a yes. And I understand how this would be fantastic for the employee. And but we needed to put reasonable limits on that. And so currently now there's a cap of about 82 hours for a certain type, another 40 total. So I think it's a total of 122 hours. So now there is a cap on our comp time. That's just an example of some of the work rules we need to change. The last piece of that is culture. Mr. Six Killer talked about we have a percentage of our employees right now have FMLA restrictions on using on on mandatory overtime. And I understand it perfectly. Men and women of the organization want to have predictability in their lives. They don't want to work double shifts if if without being given a heads up. And once again, that's a that's been a problem with not being able to give them predictability. I understand it. If what we need to do, though, is become one team, we really as a as organization, we truly need to become a team. And if it all would take just a little of the overtime, we wouldn't be in the situation where we have so much mandatory overtime. So that leads to those are some of the problem. But other solutions to that, we we've met with the with the unions and I'm I want to thank our adult corrections staff or looking at a variety of different ideas. We have floated one of them that they just recently had said that they would be interested in looking at is having an auxiliary workforce of retirees that could come back in and fill gaps as needed. That could only work with both both sides having a shared interest. Finding an MLA where there'd be appropriate language that both sides would be able to ensure that their interests were being met there. Frankly, there need to be also an escape hatch if it turns out that it's not working the way we want it to. So currently, as we speak, we have a survey out to retirees in the last two years to see if that's something that they would be interested in. Another area that the labor was interested in and once again, we have a shared interest in trying to solve this would be are there different areas where we'd be able to try some different shifts that might be more efficient and effective and reduce the use of overtime? So we're putting together some workgroups where you to sit down and frankly, you know, we have to be willing to kind of open up our minds in our hearts to try to to try these different things. We will we will work closely with our with with labor on this. We will will together some potential employees. And then we'll work through to see if any of these are worth pursuing, to see if they meet some of our goals. And at the end of the day, if they don't, then we need to stop them. The other thing that we're we will plan on, if any of these members of understanding that we're looking at doing, there's going to be a hard cap to them. So there'll be a timeline where at a certain point they will end. And if they're the best thing that we've ever seen, then it's something that we should put in a regular as we go through and we negotiate our next contracts. But to me, this is an example of it's three things. I know it's been a very long answer, but it's three things. It's staffing. It's looking at our work rules that make sense for all. And it's really it's also changing culture and having the spirit of innovation. Spirit of innovation, as you say. A spirit of innovation. Yes. Thank you. Council member of the Grove. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for your willingness to serve. I know it's a thankless. Job and we're lucky. To have someone. With your experience. And reputation being willing to step into the hot seat. And I appreciate your comments about when you try something big and bold and it doesn't work out, you take the blame and then you. Share the credit. But what. You missed was when you do something big and. Bold and it works out, we, the politicians take the credit. So. Yeah, my my question is, and it's. Kind of two pieces, but they're. Related. It obviously a. Large portion of in particular the chronic offenders that are housed in the facilities have behavioral health challenges. And do you have any. Plans or thoughts as. To how we can speed up programs such as medically assisted treatment with addictions? And secondly. Ways to improve our release and transition programs to better integrate those behavioral health programs either into the facility or that kind of seamless handoff into services. So I feel like that policy area is ripe for also for innovation and new. Ideas and. Bolder ideas. And I wonder if you have any thoughts in those areas. Yes. Sorry. Yes, I kind of said it better myself. These are the these are two areas that you touched on that we're something that I'm very interested on. When I first came, when I was asked to come and talk to to Mr. Six together into to the executive, I'm frankly, I think they read me like a cheap novel . They realized that there is certain things that I was very interested in. I've spent my whole life trying to work on problems I've seen. I spent my whole life watching arrests, people, and he had all sorts of issues. And then we would bring them in through the court system. We walked them into the jail and then, you know, shortly thereafter they're back out. And, you know, all you have to do is see that and say, what could we do differently? We must be doing something different. That's why I was a big proponent of lead when that was started by you know, was started by Lisa Desjardins and members of the Seattle Police Department. That was now it seems probably something that we, of course, we should do, but it was a big deal when we started it. There was a lot of tension about whether that was going to work. But that was just an example of here's a better way of doing business. I talked to Dr. Sanders here with your health and he knows and I'm a a big supporter of what we could be doing in medical assisted treatment. And I don't like playing defense. I like working on our bench. Just recently, I was at a large jail network meeting. That's some of the large. The Steelers in the country. They met in Columbus and there was a big, big section or a session. It was all about medical access to treatment. It's coming our way. It should come our way. This is an area that we should be working closely with. Yale Health. All of this isn't as easy as we would think. The delivery of the medication, as an example, is is is an issue that we need to continue to refine the type of. When they use Bute, it turns out that that's something that they could that they could sell within the jail system. They can sell when they go out of the system. So that means somebody has to sit there and watch them as far as they're taking the medication for a period of time. There's different delivery system that we're going to have to take a look at, and that's just a little example of how my agency, Joe Health, needs to be working together on how do we make this a better system. And one way to do that is we still get ideas from other places. For instance, right now on state of Massachusetts, the legislator required they were going to require all the jail systems to go to a to match treatment and a medical assisted treatment that jails came back and said, you know, we're not ready for prime time. So four of them decided to do a pilot program and they moved ahead on some of these areas and some of the areas that I think we're going to have to work on. They've already had some answers. Now, the other thing that's music to my ears is because I ran budgets and I'm incredibly, incredibly I use the word frugal about the about the money of the taxpayer, is that there's some technical assistance money where we could send send teams out to Massachusetts. There's four counties right now that are kind of moving pretty far ahead in this area. And we should, frankly, if any good policy they have, we should take it and use it. You know, there's a I, I was pleased to see that this large scale network was very similar to a major city chiefs that I've spent 15 , 20 years going to, where we were very good about stealing each other's ideas and everybody actually revels in it. And we make it a point to try to see how we could do things better. But of course, it's a treatment. It's something that we will certainly be working very hard on and trying to trying to work on. The other area that you talked about is those people, those high barriers group that goes in and out of the system over and over again. It doesn't make any sense to me that we have people that have substance abuse problems, mental health issues and homelessness. And then on a Friday at 4:00 in the afternoon, we're walking them out the door and assume they're going to make it to some appointment on Monday. The chances of that happening are are pretty poor. What we should be doing is having that warm handoff. And that means probably more caseworker, more caseworkers needed a better triage of who needs that kind of help and working with our outside community programs and such to make that happen. So that's another area they will certainly be working hard on. When I say me, it's really going to be just one I'm pretty good at doing is tapping the talent of of a very smart organization. It's a it's a, you know, we have 900, 950 PhDs in this organization. And it's really tapping into that, into their innovation and ideas and making it okay for them to want to come up in and try new things. Because I remember Lambert. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, I wanted to follow up on your FMLA comment earlier. So do you know what percentage of your workforce is on FMLA at this moment, and how often do they have to be there by their FMLA documentation? You know, I know. I think currently we have and I'm sorry. My. Math today won't be great, but we have approximately about 140 people, I believe, on FMLA. Because that's 140 at 950. Yeah. And that's between the the juvenile and corrections. And I think there's and once again, I'm just going by memory at this point so I could give you a more detailed review and I could send that to you as far as how often they're supposed to do it. I believe that they're supposed to go in every six months, but I will verify that. I know that we're not doing as good a job as we can. Once again, it just comes down to the amount of staffing that we have. When we talk about staffing, there's also staffing issues we have up in the administrative side of the house as well as in the corrections officers side. We need to be doing a better job of managing the people that have FMLA restrictions at the other. Too bad. It's as I said before, I could perfectly understand why why people are getting FMLA restrictions. We have an aging workforce and what we're asking them to do is difficult. And being that I'm on that end of the spectrum, you know, there's a variety of different experience headaches, knee surgeries, you name it that people go through . And I think that's one piece of it. But I can't give you those. I can't get back to you on the actual percentages. Looks like about 14 and a half percent, so six months seems a little long to not have to revivify, especially with that high percentage. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Bell duty. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Apologies for being late. I am empathizing with you a little bit right now, having sat in that exact chair in this exact meeting once upon a time. And if I can start by just offering thanks for your willingness to take on that, it's such a big challenge to run our jail system the right way. It's you don't get to choose who comes in the front door. You have to deal with whatever comes to you. There's always not as much in the way of resources as you could use. You certainly could always use more. And it's one of those operations that it seems that a large percentage of the public just sort of assumes they know how to do it, just as well as the people who are doing it. And so there's a lot of criticism that comes your way and and yet it's very hard to do well. And on top of that, it's something that we should rightly be judged for if we don't do it well. So it's just a challenge. It's a real challenge. And I appreciate that you're willing to take it on. My second thing is just a piece of advice. If you're able to, after all your years of being involved with 24 seven operations, to find a way to put your phone away and get a full night's sleep at night, that's a highly recommended. Yeah, but my question for you is this. So when I was working as the jail director, I, I got some very good advice myself that was about always having a a principle or a goal to that. You were sort of chasing after that you're trying to challenge the organization to be better in some way, as opposed to just dealing with the problems of the day . Because the problem of the day are going to they will fill the whole bucket and then some. But so one of the things that came to me, it wasn't my idea, but it was just sort of an issue of the time when I was the jail director. And it was something that we heard from the Department of Justice in our own jail health people and others was to really limit the use of of isolation housing in the adult jails. And so we worked at that. That was that was a big major initiative when I was the jail director. What sorts of things do you see as being the initiatives of the next few years, aside from dealing with the things that just present themselves on your plate because they're there? And if you don't have those because you're coming from a different kind of line of work, where do you find those those sorts of things to keep us pushing into the high end of the practice? Yes. Thank you, Councilmember and Baldacci, I think you've just explained the ongoing issue that you have when you have these kind of jobs. You know, I would just put your the quote by Marcus Aurelius, but basically it was you have urgent things and you have important things. You know, we have the day to day urgent things that we have to get done. We have to keep this place running. It's a it's a daily population of about 2000 daily adult secure population of about 2000. You know, we are blessed. You said 900 people and all that entails when you're just doing the day to day work. So what are the urgent things that have to happen? But and the bigger thing is the important things. And that's really the area that I want to focus on is on those important things. One of them is and will continue to be restrictive housing with the ordinance that Councilmember Dombroski and Councilmember Wells. This is this is an area that we're going to continue to move forward on. And I'm pretty pleased on where we going with that. As an example, we have a MDT multidisciplinary team that's made up of a sergeant, a classification specialist and somebody from psychiatric services, and they are going systematically on the Adobe side as an example, working through each floor, trying to find different ways to reduce restrictive housing. Our biggest restrictive housing, as an example, is or people that are in restrictive housing, almost probably 60, 70% of them are people that are refusing housing. So what I mean by that is you walk in the door and you have a you know, as you're going through classification, they decide. You're going into the general population and people said, no, I won't, you know, who do I have to hit? You know, what do I have to do to stay out of out of that? So these are people that kind of self-imposed, restrictive housing. So what this team is doing is basically kind of putting together groups of people that are like minded so that we keep them out of restrictive housing. So that's just one example of what they're doing. They, you know, I sent them to the national conference once again, we should be stealing good ideas. We should be saying what? What what are the best practices around a nation. On the juvenile side of the house? What's come out of that ordinance? You know, the eight six, 637 has really been, as we've been looking at, really reducing and ultimately trying to eliminate the need for restrictive housing and trying a different and different approach as we've we've been trying some new things, such as Restoration Hall. So basically, instead of putting somebody into a youth into restrictive housing, they're doing one on one. I mean, they're trying to help. This helped his kid be able to manage working day to day. When you have those, you know, those general difficulties in life, these are the same kids that I saw out on the street all the time. And what usually would get them in trouble would be lack of impulse, you know, impulse control. You know, they'd see something, something would get them upset and they would react. So we're trying to do different programing to try to help them as they get out and go back out into the community. And I think that's an area we're going to have to continue to move forward on. We talked about Mattie. That's another big area that we need to continue to work on. The other big area for us is succession planning. We have a we have a large group that could retire, you know, in the in the coming years. And currently, I have some of my top people could retire today and active might come back. They might have already retired but so it's. That. So it's really we need to do a better job on getting our future leaders out there. That means identifying training, you know, making sure that as we try some of these new ideas, having our rank and file involved in not only coming up with the ideas, but being involved in those workgroups of trying to change things and getting them ready, coming to these kind of a, you know, coming to council hearings as different issues are coming up so that they understand how to continue to work collaboratively with people. In the last the last piece of that would also be is getting our workforce to understand that our our world is changing, the world of corrections continues to change, and that we really need to be involved with so many other disciplines as we continue to do this work in the future. I mean, it's one thing that I started seeing on on the statehouse for the probably the last decade or so is more and more we were at tables that had so many different other disciplines involved. And that's where really that's where you started to see some real solutions. That's what I want us to continue to do here, and that's what I'll be moving forward with. Councilmember Dombroski he was. CHAIR And thank you, Mr. Diaz, for Cheetos, like the guy for being willing to serve the people of King County in this very difficult role. I appreciate the multiple opportunities. You and I have had a chance to talk over the issues, and I'm just done a great degree of confidence in your ability to lead this department in a way that is aligned with the community's values and and continuous improvement. I'm pleased to join today as a co-sponsor of the motion confirming your appointment. I wanted to give you the opportunity to share with the Council today a little bit about your work on a national level with juvenile population and your background and experience there that you've engaged on to reform the systems around juvenile offenders. And then maybe just looking ahead, whether you see an opportunity to explore whether or not in due time and with appropriate planning, there might be an opportunity to take our detention for young people. And rather than have that be a part of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention, where we have a kind of a corrections approach to be consistent with the general push, to be restorative in nature, to bring that public health perspective, as the executive has talked about, to really take that opportunity when we have young people that are justice involved and wrap them with support to get them going in the right direction. And whether that should maybe be it could be benefited by being out of kind of a detention department, if you will. Wow. Okay. It's a I. You. Can you can give us the executive summary. I know there's a lot there. We're running on the juvenile side of it. You know, I have for quite a few years, I was part of the a group run by Justice Bridge looking at kind of the big picture items as far as, you know, what are some of the changes that we should be looking at? And the juvenile side of the house also for many years, as you saw and you've just seen it in the in the reduction of population in secure detention is when I first started and with speedy I mean the we were we probably had five or six times the number of of kids up in the youth service center . I mean, there was no screening or triage. And I think all of the studies have shown that that is, you know, the more we keep them out of the criminal justice system, the better the higher likelihood for success. So there's been a lot of work, I think, done by a lot of people with once again, with the right heart, the right mind to to change that. And now you've seen that. I think today when I look I think our our current population up there right now is 40, 41, I believe. And it's been fairly consistent now that I would say that all of us would say that's 41 too many, but it's a significant reduction in what's been happening. The approach to public health is one that we've already have embraced and are going to continue to move forward on. It's going to be now how do you how do you implement that change? Currently, we are working closely with the University of Washington, with Dr. Trump, and we're working with King County Health and Dr. Carrie and really changing the way that the those juvenile detention officers, how they're, you know, how they do their work, it is really changing significantly. In fact, if I was going to mention juvenile, you know, that division in general, I use one word, it's change. They're changing how they do their their business and they're moving into a new facility. They're ultimately they're moving to a completely different public health approach and one that is sorely needed. So that's going to require immense amounts of training. It's going to be picking the right juvenile director. That's going to be incredibly helpful, that wants to continue to move forward in that and that arena. It's understanding where we are with restrictive housing in the fact that we're going to change that significantly. And we already have started moving, I think, in the right direction and I've been pretty pleased by what they've been doing. So I guess what you what I would say is you're going to continue to see change in how we do things. And I would ask that you continue to observe what we're doing. I you know, I'm sure there's going to be direction and advice is always going to be needed and how we continue to speed that up. But it's going to be it's going to be interesting change in how we do business. Councilmember Caldwell's. Hi, I thank you, Mr. Chair. John, congratulations on the appointment and why you're here today. Obviously, I think you've done a terrific job in the six months you've been here with us. And so. The City of Seattle. You commented when you first spoke about having been in San Francisco and you saw a lot of racism when you were there. And that was quite a long time ago. Also commented that had been involved with the consent decree in Seattle. And you've also commented about the world is changing and so you're trying to stay up to speed on that and be able to bring our center into those changes. But I'd like to hear from you just a comment now coming full circle, in a way, starting off your career, going to San Francisco, being at Seattle, and now being here with us at King County. Any observations on discrimination, racism, how things are changing? To what extent do they still need to be changed and so forth? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, the world is changing. I mean, in my time in and in my career, I saw a sea change in how we were doing business, how we are continuing to move forward. I wish I could tell you, though, that it's enough and it is. And we know that the issue of race and disproportionality is one that continues to plague our country. It's it's an area that we need to continue to focus on trying to fix. It's a it's a you know, you look at every one of our social structures and you see it where it doesn't matter whether it's education, whether it's economics. Your job, as I in the medical field, I can't think of an area, any large system where we don't see it. And I think we've gotten better in many ways, but it's one that sometimes we take a step back and language matters. You know, our leaders talk matter, whether we're willing to take a stand on things that maybe aren't maybe aren't popular, but are important to try to move forward, I think it matters. And so I feel very fortunate that I came from a progressive city and I still go to my family still there. I worked in a very progressive city here in Seattle, and now I've been very pleased by what I've been seeing in the county's approach to equity and social justice. And so I think it's a I tend to be optimistic by nature, and I think we're moving in the right direction. But this is an area that there's still so much work to do. The area that we've been focusing on is ensuring that we have the most diverse workforce that we can. So we started a recruitment team made up of juvenile detention officers and corrections officers, and we've been sending them out to different community and ethnic events and and really with the whole idea of trying to continue to do that, to hire. And, you know, that's been a big change from when I first came here. I came and worked for the city, you know, way too long ago where, you know, it was you know, you just didn't see the diversity that you see now, that diversity and not only in and race, but in gender. And and and just just seeing the openness that that you see in this area. I could tell you, though, that even now, you know, as I travel across the country, it's it's not the same everywhere. And it's one that we're going to have to continue to work on. It's one that I feel deeply committed to. As he as I said, I've seen it firsthand. You know, I've seen it how they you know, even to this day, my mother, who's 87, who who's English, isn't the best yet, and and how she's treated at times. And, you know, you just you know, when you notice it, when you when you see it in your own family and then you notice it everywhere. So it's an area that we need to continue to work on. And that's something I'm committed to work with here in this agency also. Thank you very much, Mr. Diaz. You've been introduced by Mr. Six Killers as change agent, and you've spoken yourself about not being satisfied with the status quo, both in your written materials that you submitted to the committee ahead of time. In our conversation today, you've talked about integrating into the division's work, the principles of equity and social justice that King County truly is trying to champion at every level and have already demonstrated that in your work as interim director, by reaching out to communities of color in particular, as you try to recruit a workforce that looks like the community we're serving, that and your dedication to staff training is all exemplary and I look forward to that continued work. And with that, I'd encourage continued attention to best practices around persons that are transgender or gender nonconforming to make sure that King County is always on the front edge of making sure that we are we are committed to those communities in the best way possible. Yes, sir. In fact, one thing I was very pleased about was director Dr. Sanders from Geo Health just came back from a national conference on correctional jail health and it was ace one of the sessions was on transgender policies in the jail and I was pleased to see that they highlighted King County's policy and I could send you a copy of that email. So I was very pleased to see that they were they liked the approach that we were taking in this arena as an example. Once again, we'll continue to work on that. We're going to be on the leading edge. Exactly. Thank you. Other questions seem that I would entertain a motion. Councilmember Gossett. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilwoman Lambert and I were very pleased to be the initial sponsors of this motion. Therefore, I would like to have the honor of moving that. We confirm the appointment of John Diaz as the director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention. Councilmember Gossage moved adoption of motion that we give a do pass recommendation. The motion 2019 371. Is there discussion, Councilmember Lambert. I'm very pleased that even after being interim, you want to stay on. So that's a good thing. And I really appreciate your accessibility, how you're really involved and teamwork, and that you make our 745 minute meetings each week and the planning that goes into that and that that's stressful. And yet you're very calm about the decisions that need to be made. And so I appreciate that and your compassion for the people that work at the jail as well as the people in the jail. And both are important. So I look forward to continue to work with you and I'm excited about voting yes. Thank you for the discussion. See? None. I'd ask the court to please call the roll. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember about the tie councilmember did last year. Councilmember Dunn. All right. Councilmember Bassett, I. Councilmember Colwell Councilmember Lambert, I thank the member of the Broward County. Something on record. Mr. Chair. Hi, Mr. Chair. The vote is 90 zero no's. By your vote, we've given a do pass recommendation motion 2019 371 and without objection, we'll place that on the consent agenda before full council as well. What day will that be coming before a regular. Course of business? Or a week from Wednesday. Thank you very much. Thank you. I would say congratulations, but you still have to make your way through the nine member council. Thank you. Thank you. That takes us to our last item on today's agenda, which is a briefing B 162 on district court vacancies on process update and to present is Sam Porter Chair.

Recommendation to receive and file a report from the International City Theatre in recognition of National Arts Month.

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And okay, we're going to go ahead and hear item 14, first item on the regular agenda, then we're going to public comment. Madam Clerk. 14. Item 14 is communication from Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Peers Recommendation to receive and file report from the International City Theater in recognition of National Arts Month. Councilwoman. Yes. So I'd like to say I'm so very excited. It's a very special evening because we have Karen Dhesi here, as well as many of our fellow many of my fellow board members. And it is a fantastic way to celebrate them through National Arts Month, which is October. In addition, if many of you did not know, they are actually our very own theater company. The ACT International City Theater has been a leader in the live theater world for over 30 years. In addition, this year they have not one, not only one, ten, 25 or 30 thereabout, almost 40 awards, basically envying theaters such as the Center Theater Group in L.A., the Geffen in L.A. and the South Coast Rep, among many others. And I'm so very proud to present them with a recognition today and also bring them up to say a few words I'd love to have carried up to the podium. We also have a presentation via video as well, and I hope we can get it right for you. So thank you so much. I'm Karen Deci, artistic director, producer of International City Theater. I want to thank Mayor Garcia and the Honorable Council as well for allowing me a couple of minutes to talk a little bit about these awards stage. Since L.A. recently announced their awards and I received almost 40 awards and one of the most important was named Best Larger Theater. And we were named we of South Coast Rep, the Geffen and the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles. As you can imagine, our budget is much smaller, but and we are the only company our size that was included for that award. And also last year, if you didn't know the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award gave us outstanding season, and that's out of hundreds of theaters in L.A. and Orange County. Why is this important? Quality work enables us to attract extraordinary talent. I'm talking about actors with Broadway credits, television and film. Why is this important for Long Beach? I and other cultural organizations play an important role in the city's future development. Residents seeking an urban urban experience need things to do. I City is also an economic partner with the number of jobs we give annually more than 150 for artist, SMG employees and ancillary businesses, graphics, printing, etc.. We also serve our community with six education programs that's in every district, all nine districts from elementary school age to low income seniors. With 32 years in this community, we've created many ambassadors with artist workers and patrons continue commuting from L.A. and elsewhere and going back to their cities and talking about Long Beach. Now, I would like to share a short. Video. I hope that tells our story. Thank you very much. BCT is one of the best things we have in our city. I grew up in a in a community that really didn't have anything like that. And it wasn't introduced to me as a kid, and I wish it had to watch her see it for the first time. I can only imagine what it would have been like for me at her age, from music halls. To West Coast premieres to classic revivals. I can't think of a single production that I haven't enjoyed. I knew immediately what quality level was in these productions. Just from seeing the first one or two that I attended. They're always outstanding choice of material, of scripts, of directors, of casts. The kinds of shows that they have been putting on. Over the years. Build on the diversity in our community. The casts are amazing. They are full of some of the best talents. What I think is going through our communities is really changed our life. They have programs that go inside the community. Reach out, grab them. And expose them to. Go to the they. Go into the schools. They have special programs on Saturday free for families. At the end, you do like a 45 minute show, and it's really fun to actually go on the stage and show people what you've been doing for the last six weeks. The PACT program is a program where the ICG personnel come into my school and they teach a theater arts. Program in the classroom. It ranks right up there with passing a playhouse marked paper for the Gap. And it's one of our finest houses, and I think it's one of the undiscovered treasures of Los Angeles theater. I see. T is opportunity giving enhancement, having people engaged in theater, and you allow yourself to grow. With the community. I want to go back and see every show by. I also want to recognize my board members that are here tonight and my staff person as well and thank them for their patience and support and your support. Thank you. Thank you so much, Karen. Thank you very much. Give her a round of applause, an actor or so. We are so thankful to have you guys in our community. Councilman Gonzales also offers some additional remarks. Yes, I would just I do have a little recognition for you. It's not a little too big one because you deserve it. But I would also say that if you haven't if any of my colleagues have not been to the theater, please go. The issues are thought provoking, really fantastic actors, but the issues are also very timeless for for today's the day and what we're dealing with. So thank you so much again. And if you can all come up, we'd love to have a photo with you as well. We have a motion. Yeah, I'm going to get that first. So we need a motion in a second. First. Okay. Councilmember Pierce, to any comments? I do have some comments. I just want to say I want to echo what my colleagues said, which is you guys are a gem. You know, when I first got elected, you do the insane run around where you get to meet as many people as I never met before and fall in love with the city. And while I love the presentation that the CVB gave us, I fell in love with the city. When you and I sat down and talked about all the programs that you do, the outreach that you do, the community engagement and then coming to the theater. So I think I've been to three shows now and every one I'm just blown away, the intimate setting that's there. And I just feel like Long Beach is that city that, as they said, is an undercover gem still. And while we can do the lights and the shows and everything else, it really comes down to a thought provoking art. And so I'm really honored that my colleague asked me to be on this agenda item, and I look forward to getting other people to come with me to future shows. So thank you so very much. I really appreciate having you guys in the city and all you do. Thank you very much. Any public comment on the IKT presentation? Hi. My name is Emily. I live in West Side, Long Beach. And I do have to say that raising my two boys in Long Beach, we were able to go to the International City Theater free programs on the weekend. And I they were things that I could say to my boys, look at this picture. Do you want to go to this? You know, they trying to get them into the arts. And I was able to at least get them in the door. We were able to park and and it was like intimate venue. We were right up front. We did this for years and I have to do things that are free with my art, with getting my kids in the arts. It has to be free or we just can't go, including parking. And they did that for my kids for the last 20 years. So that's real access in the arts. Thank you. Thank you very much. See no other public comment. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Of course. I was telling you. It was nice. Thank you. Okay. Close. Thank you so much. Yeah. Okay. Just as an announcement. We are going to be adjourning the meeting later tonight in honor of Rick McCabe, who was a longtime city employee, as well as a member of the LGBTQ community and the former second District field deputy who passed away earlier this month. And there were some folks who wanted to honor him. I just want to make sure that people know that the we will be closing the meeting in memory of Rick McCabe, who had a lot of friends here at the city. And so that will be it at the end of the meeting. Okay. So we'll proceed with the city council meeting. Let's take up the consent calendar. We we took that out. Where are we now? Well, let's take a public comment.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution amending the Master Fee and Charges Schedule. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. Hearing to. Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule citywide. There's a motion in a second. Mr. West. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Grace Yoon, Budget Manager, Financial Management will conduct a presentation today. Good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council. So the City Council's approval is being requested for mid-year changes to the master fee, fee and charges schedule for departments. I propose a total of 12 fee changes to the schedule. This includes the addition of eight new fees. The master fee in charge schedule is updated at least twice a year to allow departments to meet City Council stated policy on user fees, which. Calls for a full cost recovery whenever appropriate. City Council last. Approved an amended the master fee. And charges schedule on September 5th. 2018 as a part of the Fy19 budget process. Some examples of midyear fee changes in this report include a lower new fee for a site plan review of facade remodels to encourage additional applications for facade remodels and to distinguish the level of effort to review these remodels compared to new building constructions. A new annual registration fee to ensure charitable food operators are complying with health and safety code. A new fee for the operation of onsite catering companies or mobile. Food operators at at host. Facilities and new fees for the Catalina parking lot, which the city has assumed operations in line with the city's policy on cost recovery. The proposed fee changes are set at full cost recovery. The full list of fee changes and deletions are available in attachment A to the Council letter. This concludes my staff report and department representatives are also here to answer any specific questions you may have on the proposed fee changes. Thank you. There's a motion. There's a motion. Okay. There's a motion and a second Councilman Bong go. So I just wanted to add a potential. Option to limit first. Is there any public comment on this hearing? Okay. See none. Councilman Mango. So one of the things that we've talked about at length is accepting credit cards at Eldorado Park. This last Sunday was, again, a large scale event at Eldorado Park, which is Easter, where people want to enjoy it and we still aren't able to accept credit cards. So I'd like to add one additional fee item to the schedule in case there's some kind of cost recovery necessary to implement this, that it would be the current fee plus the cost recovery amount. So if our current rate to get into the park is $7 and it cost us a dollar 50 transaction fee, then I'd like there to be an added line item for credit card processing or whatever it needs to be to be $9 or $8. But I just want to give a general update and you can bring that back in a two from four. And I just want to add, Mr. West, I've been talking about this for four years. Why can't we get a credit card reader at Eldorado Park? I take credit cards. I don't understand why we can't do that as part of this. So I know it's not part of the fee schedule, but she just brought it up and it just, you know, it's it's getting there. So, Councilman Bango, is that is that part of the fee schedule? What what Councilman Mangum mentioned? We cannot add a fee tonight. We have to do a study. And you have to come back to add a fee to the fee schedule tonight. So if it's direction to. We can't modify a fee. You cannot increase the fee without your study. You can recommend or tell them to do that. You could eliminate a fee tonight. You could. Could we lower a fee tonight? You can't raise a fee and. They're eliminating fees. That's my favorite thing to do. So I'm going to just direct that. It comes back with the October fee schedule adjustment. I know that there's an independent park fee schedule study, blah, blah, blah. This has been going on for way too long. We have the ability to do this through labs. We have the ability to do it through some technology that's available in public works. I'd like to have it on board something, even if we use the current fees this summer because backing up the 605 Freeway to the Alamo is just not acceptable. That's every weekend, by the way, Councilman Austin. I second the motion and I like the idea of lowering fees. But this this fee schedule report is pretty voluminous and it would take some some serious time to do that. But the one one question I did have for for staff in terms of fees, can you speak to the hardships that that that, you know, our residents may face and how they're dealt with in terms of fee collections? Councilor, let me take the first shot at that, then I'll get back to Grace. We've already implemented and we'll probably we probably owe you a two from for on that, especially in the homeless arena. Whenever we whether we tote a car, whether we've sited cars, and if paying those fees or getting their car back puts the onus of someone going into homelessness or losing their their vehicle or not making it to a job and losing their job and losing their income. We have a policy between Fleet and the city manager's office to waive those fees, at least for the first time, and get that vehicle right back as soon as we can. In addition to that, we're very in fact, we're going through a situation right now where Broadway opened just recently and we advertised it street sweeper in time again to get tickets. But a whole bunch of people get tickets and are complaining that should we have gotten should we have got a little bit more notice? So those are things that we're certainly looking at, those kinds of things that just pop up. But other than that. Grace, do you have anything? I know. I'd just add that. Yet, depending on the fee, there. Are various. Programs that are set up, such as? Like the ambulance fees, there are waivers, programs that people can apply to, as well as the financing plans and things like that. So those are evaluated and looked at by department on a case by case basis. I think it was a question I had and I appreciate the answer and appreciate that our staff in city is being compassionate and understanding, sensitive to the challenges that are that are our residents face. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Is Dennis done here? I know. I can recite is Karyn public comment? And Larry Goodhue for the comment.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFQ AP17-053 and authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract, and any necessary amendments, with In-Ter-Space Services, Inc., dba Clear Channel Airports, of Allentown, PA, for the development and operation of an airport advertising program at the Long Beach Airport, for a period of five years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (District 5)

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Next up is item 20. We heard 2021. Report from Long Beach Airport in financial management recommendation to execute a contract with Clear Channel airports for the development and operation of an airport advertising program at the Long Beach Airport District five. Thank you. There's a motion. Any second. Is there any public comment? What? I'm sorry. Yeah, I'll switch it up. Okay. Yeah. You know what I want? Okay. There's a motion in a second. Is there any public comment? There's no public comment. Let me actually get a short staff report, cause I know this is something that a few of us up here are probably looking forward to. It's exciting stuff. Our airport director, Jess Romo, less honorable. They were members of council. The item before you is a concession agreement for advertising opportunities. Long Beach Airport. This is a successor agreement to an advertising contract we have in place. This one, if approved, will generate in excess, in excess of $1,000,000 over the term. And it will broaden our ability to advertise more fully at the airport while still abiding by the city's regulations and ordinances relative to billboard advertising. And any questions you have, I'm happy to answer. Okay. That was a separate point, Councilman Mongo. I'm just glad that we're moving in this direction. I think that there's a lot of opportunities in this, and so I look forward to seeing what gets created. Thank you. Account Summary Gringo Councilmember Superdome. Thank you. I just wanted to recognize Director Romo and staff for sitting through a long meeting. Thank you. And please cast your votes.

AN ORDINANCE relating to water services of Seattle Public Utilities; revising water rates and charges for service to wholesale customers; and amending Section 21.04.440 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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34 Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee and Item 24 Council Bill 119308 Relating to water services of Seattle Public Utilities, revising water rates and charges for service to wholesale customers, and amending Section 21.0 4.4 40 of the Senate Committee recommends the bill pass. Kassebaum. Herbold Thank you. This piece of legislation relates to wholesale water rates in the Southwest subregion. The Southwest subregion includes Highline, Des Moines and Burian. The city of Seattle sells water on a wholesale basis to over 20 suburban cities and utility districts in the cost allocations and rates are set through water supply contracts. Last fall, the Council adopted the other wholesale water rates for the other other regions. But the Southwest subregional surcharge was delayed through changes in metering equipment and the need to complete a rate study before approving those those new rates. The new surcharge for the Southwest region is decreasing and it works out to be about a $380,000 a year decrease because of past overcorrection. This is fairly common in rates are adjusted every three years to account for over or under charging. And also there has been a decrease in demand that was previously incorporated but has been delayed past 2023. Very good. Any further questions or comments? If not, please call the role on the pastor. The Bill. O'Brien. Herbal Johnson. Whereas President Harrell high six in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and chair of the Senate please read items 25 and 26.

A bill for an ordinance amending section 8-67 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code requiring a provisional breed-restricted permit for owners of pit bulls, subject to the approval of the voters at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election on November 3, 2020. Amends section 8-67 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code requiring a provisional breed-restricted permit for owners of pit bulls, subject to the approval of the voters at a special municipal election to be held in conjunction with the coordinated election on November 3, 2020. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-28-20.

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Thank you, Councilwoman. All right. We're moving on to now. The next item is Council Bill 760. Council members say to Barker, will you please put Council Bill 760 on the floor for publishing? I move that council bill 760 be ordered published. Baguette Thank you. It's been moved and seconded questions or comments by members of Council Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm sorry, Madam President. This is a topic that has been around the city for a very, very long time. And as you know, we spent a lot of time last year having much discussion and we took a vote on this. And I just want to say that this is one I will not support moving forward to the voters. You know, with most of these, I think it's it makes sense for our electorate to decide. But this is one that's been through the courts and has been around for a long time. And I'm just not supportive. It's put on the ballot. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. We have Councilman Herndon up. Thank you, Madam President. I know, Councilman. We're taking it seem like it was last year. It was actually earlier this year, only a few months ago, where we had this conversation. And as I mentioned, I was disappointed that even though a majority of council members felt this was the right decision, my my next thing I would do is to send this to the voters, because I do believe the voters should side. And that's why we're here. It isn't publication. And so I would hope that we could, if there's any comments that we can save them for next week, since we do have a public hearing hearings. But I do believe we've exhausted this topic thoroughly. And let's send it to you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. So, you know there, Councilwoman CdeBaca. Thank you, Madam President. This questions for Councilman Herndon. In what cases do you think that we shouldn't send something to the voters? Well, I'd have to take each of those individually. But since this was an exhaustive topic, I think this is appropriate. Anything else? I have to wait to hear what the actual topic is and weigh in on those merits. And do you believe what do you believe about this media? Exhaustive. Well, since we had a one that came to committee, Tahari had exhausted topics about that, as well as going through the committee process, hearing multiple experts speak on the topic. But once again, if there's something separate that a council member wants to send to the ballot, I'll once again weigh that on the individual merits. But particularly on this case, I think it's time. Thank you for answering those questions. All right. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call. Ortega. No. Sandoval. Sawyer. I. Torres. I. Black I. CdeBaca, I. Clark. I. When I. Herndon. I. Hines. I. Cashman. I h i. Sorry, Sandoval. I didn't get that vote. I think you and council president I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announced the results. One May 12 Eyes 12 Eyes Council Bill 760 has been ordered published. The next item up is Council Bill 670. Council members say to Barca, please go ahead with your comments. Thank you, Madam President. If anybody is here to speak to this one, it would be helpful to understand. Is the Family Crisis Center part of Denver health exclusively? Is it a partnership with Denver Human Services? Is it like our community clinics? Can you just talk a little bit about what this one is and how this came about? Good evening again. This is Lisa Plumlee with the Division of Real Estate. So the Family Crisis Center itself has been. Around for 20 years. It is a co-op group with Denver Health. With Denver Human Services, with Denver Police Department, with the district and city attorney's offices. It is there. To serve our young victims. And originally it was. In a. Building on the Castro. Campus. And a couple of. Years ago, we relocated the entire group to the building at 405 South Platte River Drive. So that they could be there. It functioned a little bit, gave them a little more space, but it also allowed us to repurpose the building on the Castro campus for the Solutions Center. So the Denver health lease that's coming through. Is really to. Align with the service agreement. That Human Service has with Denver Health that allows them to be in. This building. Working with all of these other. Agencies. The square footage within the building the Denver. Health itself occupies is only about 2900. Square feet. And because I've had multiple community organizations coming to us asking us how we pick and choose, what organizations get these discounted leases or get to office with City of Denver in our facilities, how does this work? How do community organizations go about getting access to the city of Denver properties and leases at this discounted rate? How would they even know about them? Well, first of all, I think this is this is not. Just an open lease for. A nonprofit. So I think we need to. You know. Take a step back and realize this is a programmatic. Thing that is for the they are used in the city and county of Denver that is a partnership with the. City. So it's it's an ongoing program. Like I said, it's. Been in existence and the. Partnership has been there. So I can't pick. And it's not real estate picking and choosing those partners. This is just to acknowledge that they've changed locations. As far as any other facility. Nonprofits reach out to us all the time. What we try to do. There were a number of years ago when we had a lot of vacant space. We tried to work with nonprofits through an RFP process. We would still do that if we have vacant space, but it's really limited right. Now given the occupancy rates we have that we exceed in all of our buildings. But if we do have something that is available, then we will post it on our website and make sure that there is an opportunity to respond to in an RFP process. Thank you. And how is the amount of that lease, the dollar amount, determined? Well, once again, in this particular instance, because there a partnership that we require to perform the service, that this is a nominal lease. And as I think I have shared. In a previous city council meeting going forward, what used. To be dollar leases are now the city attorney's office is determined that $10 is the legal nominal amount and so it is there to provide that the it has to be a group that is performing a service to the community.

Recommendation to Award a Contract in the Amount of $395,000, Including Contingency, to CDM Smith to Prepare the Citywide Transit and Transportation Demand Management (TDM) Plans and to Amend the Measure B and Base Reuse Department Budgets for Fiscal Year 2015-16 by Appropriating $100,000 from Each of These Funds to Pay for the Citywide Transit and TDM Plans Contract. (City Manager 2110)

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Okay. Recommendation to award contract in the amount of 395,000, including contingencies to CDM Smith to prepare the citywide transit and transportation demand management plans and to amend the Measure B and base fees. Department budgets for fiscal year 20 1516 by appropriating 100,000 from each of these funds to pay for the citywide transit and TDM plan. Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the City Council. I am Gayle Payne, the city's transportation coordinator. And this agenda item pertains to the transit and transportation demand management plans. And City staff is recommending the City Council to award a contract worth 395,000 for the CDM Smith team and also to amend the Measure B and base reuse department budgets for 100,000 from each fund. Keep in mind the City Council already partially funded this effort and up to 200,000 from the general fund. To recap, this time last year, the City Council approved Councilmember de Suggs referral on transportation planning. Then city staff took an initial approach to the Transportation Commission and the planning board and then returned a revised approach to you all in April that you approved and then you approved in September a request for proposal, including a work scope for the citywide transit plan and the TDM plan. So here we are today requesting your approval of the consultant team and fully funding this planning effort. And to step back. The reason why we're doing this is we're trying to sustain our high quality of life. We're going through an economic boom. We have more traffic congestion. We're seeing or expecting 2 million more people in the region by 2040. So we want to work on this issue and the key concepts are shown here. And the best way that we can see to tackle these issues is to create a shared vision on how to move forward. And this comprehensive planning effort is really the best way we see to do it. And to recap on the goals, we have two main mobility goals. One has to do with the island crossings, especially during the peak periods. And then the other key goal is has to do with our island community. Yes, it's a request. So we have folks in the audience and maybe watching who don't know what all those terms necessarily mean. So what are the island crossings that you're referring to? Yes. So being that island community, we have our bridges and our tubes. So trying to make it easier for people to get off the island in the morning and back on in the evening, since we basically more of a bedroom community, that's where the the peak direction of travel is. Yes. And then the work scopes of these two plans. We have the transit plan, a focus there will be on the transit related services and the infrastructure. Keep in mind that the city we own the public rights of way and so the key question will be asking is how can we make our streets more efficient for transit ? And for the transportation demand management plan, where it will be recommending how to best manage those transportation funds and how to standardize requirements on new developments. And then for community involvement. The. Main special part here is we are going to be doing a public opinion survey. It will be a statistically significant survey with about 400 responses expected. And another difference here with this community involvement effort is that we will be going back to the city council at four different times during the 18 month period, since it's a city council led effort. So that's more than we usually will go back to you with these types of planning efforts. So in the fall in October, the city received four different proposals from four different consulting teams. And then the selection committee in November interviewed the top three that you see here. That selection committee consisted of two city staff members, two staff members from transit transit operators, a planning board member, a transportation commissioner and a developer representative representing Alameda Landing. That's Catullus. And this selection committee picked CDs Smith team. They have excellent qualifications in traffic engineering, in transit planning and team planning. They are a global operation. Yet the key staff will be working with is in San Francisco and they're here tonight. We have the principal in charge as Bill Hurley and Brian Sutherland is the project manager and then Camille Salo is the transportation or transit expert . So we look forward to working with them. They have great experience with our neighbors in the East Bay and also they've done innovative work in Silicon Valley and also worked on the Mission Bay development, which is very similar to L.A., made a point in several ways. CDM Smith is supported by three different sub consultants that are experts in their niche fields. Meg will lead the outreach effort. Kenji will lead the public opinion survey and Wendy Soltani will work on the team efforts and is already helping the city with the Alameda Point Premium Plan implementation. So it will be very helpful. So staff is requesting that the City Council award the contract to the CDM Smith team. We have seven tasks. One of the first task will be this Near Term Strategies Memo that will take back to you later this year. A schedule of 18 months as expected. The budget is expected is at 395 395,000, which is higher than the initial proposal because this one includes contingency as well as three additional tasks. One is pertaining to Councilmember Otis bike share feasibility study. We folded that one into this plan, the team plan part of it, and focus on data driven that you requested that we are going and using a vendor that works with GPS data. So making a more rigorous rigorous data. Emphasis. And then the last two tasks have to do with implementation, trying to make this an implementation focus, and that's an intersection analysis. And then also I guess that was the bike share that I had talked about. And like I had mentioned, city council already partially funded this effort with the general fund up to 200,000. And so we are requesting tonight to fully fund it with Measure B and base reuse department monies. So again, city staff is recommending City Council to award a contract for 385,000 to CDM Smith and also to amend the Measure B and base reuse department budgets for 100,000 from each fund. And we are here this like I said, this consulting team is here to take questions. I'm here and I'm working for Jennifer Ott on this project as well. So she is here to take questions. Thank you. Thank you. Any comments or questions? Nelson Remember? De Saag Well, thank you very much. I'll just start with the comments. First off, by saying thank you very much to my colleagues for allowing this to move forward. I mean, I think we in the city of Alameda, all of us recognize the difficulty of of traffic movement in the city of Alameda and the need, especially for some ability to tie together the various real estate projects that are going on in Alameda, whether they're at Alameda Point or the Northern Waterfront or other parts, to make sure that the separate traffic transit solutions that are coming out of each of the different real estate projects are somehow kind of combined so that we can coordinate better . But I think in the presentation tonight, really the staff did a great job in laying out clearly the first, you know, what the real goal of all of this is, in addition to the, you know, tying things together, the goal is is ultimately to encourage people to get out of single occupancy mode of travel. And that was, goal number one, minimized, total net new single occupant vehicle trips at the island crossings. And then goal number two in an enhanced multimodal. So these are challenges that we as a city, whether we're residents, future residents at the new projects in Alameda Point or on the Northern Waterfront or even existing residents right now, who all of us who live here right now, these are challenges that all of us have to rise to because most of us, you know, we get up in the morning and we go through the tubes or we go over Park Street Bridge together. You know, it's completely possible that we could just say no to all development and and maybe that that that solves the traffic problem. But in a way, if you think about it, it doesn't. Because even if we said no to all future development. Right now. We still have problems going in and out of the tube in the morning. So. One of the things that we really need to do is we need to have some kind of strategy to get kind of a culture shift, to get people to to seek out alternative modes as transit, especially at the at the key point, at the key AM commute times. So through this process, what we're going to have is my hope is that is that this isn't just a research process, but it is the deliverables are going to be what are the actual implementable steps that are going to make not just a marginal difference, but an important difference in the lives of residents here when it comes to traffic and in alternative modes of transit. And for this reason, I eagerly look forward to this. And let's get to the key question. It is, you know, above $350,000. But at the end of the day, this is an issue of such magnitude that, you know, we need to do what's necessary to get the right answers or right strategies. And if it's 375,000 or $395,000, so be it. Then I'm I'm willing to put my name behind that, because I think we as a city, the only alternative of doing nothing is not an alternative right now. You just have to go through the tube right now. You know, I've been you know, people know that I've been doing these kind of funky videos of my trips through the to once you hit the tube at 7:45 a.m. or 7:50 a.m. your travel time because the tube degrades dramatically as opposed to if you get to the tube by 7:35 a.m.. So we need to move forward and we need to move forward in a coherent, articulate, intelligent manner. And I think what staff has outlined is going to get us there. Thank you. Remember Ashcroft. Thank you. I echoed the sentiments of Councilmember De. So, again, I just want to raise a couple of points. First of all, I really enjoyed reading the proposal that the CDM Smith Group put together, and I would recommend anybody. It's on the city's website, exhibit one to this item. Take a look at it. It's really interesting reading and traffic is certainly one of the most prominent issues that we as city council members hear about. And I call it the good news, bad news. The bad news is exactly what Councilmember De Saag alluded to. If you're trying to get off of the island in the morning or back on, it's not as bad coming back because our return times seem to be a little more staggered. But we do run into those problems of just getting stuck in traffic. On the other hand, last week I attended a forum in San Francisco that was sponsored by the Bay Area Council, and the topic was the direction of real estate development in the Greater Bay Area, and that was really the Bay Area as a bag looks at it, nine counties, 113 cities. But Alameda County is certainly a prominent part of that, a large part of the reason that we're experiencing these traffic problems and the housing problems, the rental crisis that we've also dealt are dealing with now is because the economy is so strong, because there are jobs, because employers are wanting to come here. But we can't. And I think most of us would agree that we want a strong economy and we want people to have jobs and not just any jobs, but good paying jobs. But the discussion also turned to the responsibility of transit. And we need help from the state and from the federal government. But also local governments have to do what they can to address their part in all of this. And what I was enthused about in reading the CDM Smith's proposal is they talk about getting to know, you know, the data and getting to know our patterns, but then also being able to apply their experience in other similar areas where they've worked to come up with innovative solutions to our problems and they will come up with solutions for the near term. So even before the end of this 18 month period of the study and all the public input process, there will be solutions that can be put into play and then there will be long term solutions recommended as well. And the the last thing I just want to leave my colleagues with to think about is that we then at the end of the 18 month period, need to muster the political will that it takes to actually say, okay, we're going to bite the bullet, we're going to follow these recommendations, we're going to adopt these innovative solutions. I think that we are going to be greatly aided by what this study is doing in pulling together the various transit providers and looking at different developments across the city to make sure that we're as coordinated and and funding as efficiently as possible . But at the end of the day, this council will need to make some decisions about what we want to move forward with and support, and I'm confident we can do that. Thank you. And Brodie. Thank you, Madam Mayor. First of all, I want to thank my colleague, Councilmember de Song for bringing this to the council's attention. Back in January, I think we had one or two meetings discussing the concept and then we had another meeting on the budget and this was like the fourth time I think this has come before us . So and I keep my comments brief. I have to kind of technical suggestions. If you look at exhibit five, the scope of work, I was glad to see that under 3.8 which is TDM plan the east. The memo contents will include reviewing recommendations of existing local and regional plans and policies. I hope that those also include, you know, the work done by Catullus at Alameda landing by Tim Lewis at Del Monte Alameda Point Partners. These are all relatively fresh TDM plans. One of the purposes of the councilmembers referral was, you know, we had these various developments and we had these various teams, but we had nothing bringing them together. So hopefully we can reuse and pull some of that existing research and be a little more efficient. And I also hope that, you know, as staff implements this, we do have a robust community involvement, a process, you know, possibly even some type of ad hoc committee made up of citizens that can help analyze the data and come up with recommendations. So just on the general thing now, has as we as council members either serve in our day to day office or we knock on doors and campaign to get here. You know, we make certain covenants with voters. And when voters come and tell us that traffic is a problem and that we make a commitment to address. Those issues. You know, we make a covenant with the voters to to address these problems. And I think if we ignore them and choose to do nothing, then we breach that covenant. And that's where negligent in our duty. So I'm really glad that we are taking this really strong, positive step towards looking at citywide traffic and the future impacts of all developments on citywide traffic and coming up with concrete solutions. So I applaud my colleague and I'm for bringing this to the council's attention, and I'm honored to keep my covenant with the voters and work on addressing the issue. I swear I'm ready to go on. This citywide approach is what we need. So I do I do not support this approach. When this had come just before I had wanted to do. But Oakland is doing in regards to hire a specific person. It is a staff member to work focused on her percent on Alameda. When it came to us before it was about $200,000 from the general fund. Now we're talking 400,000, including 100,000 for measure B and base reuse budgets to create a transit. Demand management plan. Just the plan part with the consult not to actually do any work. I want to respect the voters and I actually want to respect our staff. And I think if we want to really get it done as opposed to having it come back in 18 months and then longer, to get us to go through all the steps of voting on something, I prefer hiring someone, focusing on Alameda and moving forward similar to Oakland. I also have a concern that when we were looking at this at prior meetings, we actually do have one of these that was done years past. Then as exactly sit on a shelf, but pretty much dead. When I asked, had we achieved any of the benchmarks that were spoken that were supposed to have been reviewed during that time period? We did not have the data. We need more than another report. We actually could use the one that we already have, I think. And next and modified. I would prefer with an employee. And then and I do agree in regards to honoring our voters and getting something done. So I appreciate that part. That being said. Now. We're sorry. Just one. Quick point. You know, the the sewing a. I don't know how you sing the song. The saying about sewing applies here. Measured twice, cut once. So in putting together this comprehensive strategy, it's about measuring twice and cutting once. It might be altogether possible that one of the implementation solutions is to have a stand alone Transportation Department, ala. The City of Oakland. But I think we let's get the experts to help us kind of figure that out how best to approach that. So I'd like to make a motion to move staff's recommendation and move forward with this item. Also. Look, you. Know, I was. He was waiting for me to finish, but. Oh, right then. Okay, we have a second. In a second of although some favor I oppose. I oppose motion carries for two one and. Next item. Okay. It's interesting. 6 a.m.. We do not have any speakers on the side of my other.

Greenway Golf 2015 Annual Report on the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. (Recreation and Parks)

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Here we go. 2014, some highlights. You might want to raise your might. Yeah. Some highlights. If you've been out to the par three, you'll notice a much different par three than what was there before, which was just a dead fat, flat piece of. You know, turf with nine flags sticking in various intervals. And now we have a golf course that's really, really spectacular. We imported a lot of dirt and and created some elevation and change and irrigation and drainage, brand new irrigation and drainage. And we've we have two big retention ponds on the on the on the on the myth. And we've already tested it. We had some heavy rains in December and the drains beautifully. On the par three i when it first opened, I thought that it would be slammed and I was mistaken. Oh, we're starting to see some some good activity out there. You'll see that average monthly round in 2014 was close to 1900 rounds. And that's by a, you know, nearly 900 rounds on. More per month than any month in the last any year in the last five years. And the revenue per round is up considerably and it continues that way on Sunday. My daughter and her boyfriend were here and I said, when you go out and play the mission called me, said, Dad, I can't get slammed. So that's good anyway. Does it help to know the right. Excuse me? Doesn't it help to know the right people to get on? What's your daughter? Couldn't get on. It? No, she couldn't get on. No. Anyway, other improvements at we did a complete renovation of the driving range and it's it's much improved and much more esthetically pleasing. You know, they had that old synthetic turf grass. It was tearing up at the edges and what have you. And now we've replaced it with new irrigation, drainage and, you know, natural grass. And then at the back end of the driving range, we and we imported quite a bit of dirt and created a nice, really nice grass area. And we have a range membership back there for people that are a little more serious about about their game and hitting balls off of of real turf. The South course project. You've been out to the golf course. You'll see that there's a lot of activity out there. We started to see we started in. When did we start? Last spring. Last fall? Believe in September. And it's moving rather slowly because the key to the project is the importation of the. Of the topsoil in the dirt. Because as you all know, this is a landfill. And in order to get proper drainage and and natural features on a golf course, we were elevating the entire site between three and and eight feet. And so we're basically going to be building a brand new golf course. And when I. I know a little bit about golf architecture and design, and I truly believe it's going to be one of the top. I tell people top 50 public courses in America. Certainly it's going to be a top 100 course in America. Public course, it's phenomenal. General course conditions. There were some we have some issues because of the drought. High salts, fairways and greens. And some people were complaining, at course, caused a turf thinning and and bare spots on the golf course. Then in December, we got a significant amount of rain and it flushed the salt. And I would say since then, conditions are much improved on the on the north course. One of the things that we have learned the the slews that are out there. Previously, they have been used as, you know, as drainage and as being filled with reclaimed water and what have you to act as a water hazard. And we we've learned and discovered from dealing with the Regional Water Quality Control Board that that is illegal, and it's really meant only for stormwater runoff. So we're not allowed to augment those slews in any way. And so you might have some complaints about the ponds and the slews that were they were they were dry and they were, you know, they had an odor. Hopefully, that's not going to be a problem anymore. We're anticipating some heavy rains as coming winter, so that will solve that problem. Um. I already mentioned the storm in 2014. 13 inches of rain and we lost a lot of trees. And so we were busy with that. Greenway Golf. We believe that we're in the entertainment business and we have a program called Fun Starts Now, and we try and do things that, you know, make the game fun. And so periodically on the driving range, we'll have we have music, we'll have, you know, shaved ice truck for kids . We have skill challenge games. We we're just constantly trying to do things to, you know, to encourage people to come out and to have a good time. This is a recap of 2014. North Core 62,000. Round South course 34,000 rounds. That was a partial year because we were close from September through December of last year and then the Miss had 13,000 rounds. That was also a partial year because we were closed from January two to May when it opened last year. Total revenue was three point almost 3.4 million. I mentioned earlier the conditions on the north course were not up to par what we wanted and we had some bare spots. And what we did, we have a special machine that we imported from Australia was called an over planer and so we took some sod off of the south course when we closed. We took some Kikuyu sod and we basically over planted into the fairways on the north course. And it's I was out there this afternoon and it's really amazing how successful it's been on the fairways are much improved out there. And again the greens are much better because of the you know able to were able to flush the salts due to some some rain rainfall. Again, the course improvements, the the South course, basically, it's really going to be a brand new golf course. You're not going to recognize the first hole is starts with the first hole, which is going to be a combination of the old first hole and the second hole. And it's going to be a long dogleg right par five and we're going to reverse ten and 18. So the 10th tee in the first tee will be side by side. And and and right the old south course. You may remember, if you're coming up 18 and your politician are your second shot you could hit people on the 10th tee was kind of dangerous so we reversals holes and by doing that we're able to to to do some things at the 11th hole for example is going to now be about a 235 or 240 yard par three. So it's going to be a much improved golf course. Reece Jones is our architect. We're working with my partner. Mark Logan is an Australian and we're we're building a golf course, designing a golf course. It has an influence from Melbourne. That's the what we call the sand belt influence and design is going to play very fast and firm, big landscapes, big fairways, beautiful bunkering. And of course, Reece Jones is a world renowned architect. And and we're working very closely with him and he's very excited about the project. He'll be out here next month on August 13th. These are some projections for this coming year because of the construction and all that. You remember that we were at 3.4 million last year. In this year, going to be 2.7. We're doing a good job at controlling expenses. One of the things was actually in the San Francisco Chronicle tomorrow I think we're going to be featured, but Ron Korczak doing a big article on our company and we went, It's going to be on the drought. But I think he's he started interviewing us and he was really intrigued and he came out to the to the golf course with with a photographer. And to give you an example, we spent $550,000 last year on water, and this year we're going to spend about 50,000. So, you know, we're doing a really good job of of controlling our expenses in water consumption. We're we just released today a facilities survey. So if you're on our email list, you will have seen the survey net that this went out today and the par three in the range we we got some summer leagues we got music as I mentioned earlier, player development programs. We've got free golf schools for for juniors on Saturday mornings. We're doing we're doing a lot in the way of player development. One of the things we like to do when we get a little closer to opening and if all goes well, we plan on opening the South course probably in the fall of next year. And one of the things we want to do is, is look at the branding and, you know, refresh the whole image out there. And we will do some things to the clubhouse, to, you know, stonework and on the facade and some other things and create them a much nicer image than what currently exists. This is another exciting thing. I was just out today and laid it out with Mike winking. Footgolf has become very popular. It's basically you can integrate soccer, foot golf into nine holes. You're going to 18 hole soccer course in nine holes. And you can actually once you've you've determined how it's flowing, you can actually integrate the soccer players and the golfers in the same nine holes. It's pretty it's pretty interesting. It's very successful around the country. Yes. And when I read about that and saw the pictures, my only question was. And that doesn't harm the turf. No, no, no. They're not wearing cleats. And and you can see that the cup is in the same relative proportion, size wise to a golf ball and a golf cup. And it's really I haven't played it, so I can't speak from experience, but I know a lot of courses are are have introduced it very successfully. And and, you know, it's for people that, you know, quite honestly don't play golf. And up in Sacramento at Hagan Oaks, 70% of the people they come out and play foot golf at SAC and Hagan Oaks have never, ever been on a golf course before. Kind of interesting. So we'll reach out to local soccer clubs and and soccer coaches and what have you and try and really promote this. I mean, this year will probably be very slow, but hopefully next year we can really get it going. Member I actually have played that. I actually have played golf. Oh, you have at. The Hanging. Oaks in Sacramento and it's a. Blast. It's really. Fun. Yeah. It's I think it's become immensely successful at a lot of golf courses around the country. And like I said, it can it can add it, you know, incremental up to 10,000 rounds. And you charge, you know, I mean, we haven't figured out what we're going to charge yet. But I mean, you know, we probably commiserate to a nine hole rate. It's a good group. Activity with a cart and some. Refreshments. And I'm remiss for not reaching out to each of you individually to maybe see if we can, you know, meet and have a cup of coffee or lunch. I know that. Councilmember Ashcraft. We have that. You're the only one. I believe that we you know that I've met personally. And I look forward to meeting you all because I'm looking forward to a long and prosperous relationship with the city of Alameda. Thank you. Counsel comments, questions number Ashcroft. Well, I just want to say that a very impressive report, very impressive what you're doing. When I went out to see the new MIFF when they opened it. I mean, I couldn't believe my eyes. And so I expect nothing less spectacular than the South course and probably twice as spectacular. Twice as many halls. Right. So we continue to raise the bar and I think it's really going to pay off in the long run. And I think it's going to be fantastic. I really do. I'm really excited about it so well. And I commend you for all your resourceful, imaginative ideas about how to bring even more people out to the the course. Thanks for all you're doing. You're welcome. Any other questions or remember Daisuke? Just a quick comment. I just want to say thank you very much for turning around the Korea golf complex. I mean, this is clearly one of those local assets that we can leverage to bring even more persons from outside of the community to help bolster our local economy. So in that regard, not just a recreational tool, but I think it's a key driver in our economic development. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. Okay. So I'd like to add I've been participating in the Gulf Commission meetings and Mr. Logan just attended our most recent one. So I have been able to meet him and we are making progress there. At the last Commission meeting, the Commission unanimously voted to support gyms, coffee shops, conceptual design and and it works very closely with what you're doing out there. Mr. Logan and Tom were there, right, speaking about it. So it really looks good and we're making progress out there. So thank you very much. Amy has been great in helping us kind of broker the relationship. And I think we've got a good understanding with with Tom. And I think it's he's going to make some really nice improvements that are going to be in on par with what we're doing out there. So this will be great. So thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Three B. Alameda Museum. 2015 Annual Report.

A proclamation designating the week of June 22 through June 26 as “Bike Week” and Wednesday, June 24, as “Bike to Work Day” in Denver.

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With pleasure, Mr. President. Designating the week of June 22nd through June 26th as Bike Week and Wednesday, June 24th, as a bike to work day in Denver. Whereas the city and county of Denver partners with the Regional Denver Regional Council of Governments, local bicycling organizations and cycling enthusiasts each year to plan activities and events intended to promote awareness of the benefits of cycling. And. Whereas, Bike to Work Day is an annual event designed to encourage people to ride their bicycles for transportation on a consistent basis to reduce congestion, improve air quality, and benefit public health. And. Whereas, the Department of Public Works hosts the Civic Center Park Breakfast Station, one of the largest in the region where cyclists celebrate their commute to work with free snacks, raffle prizes, music and educational outreach offered by organizations in the region. And. Whereas, the Department of Public Works is a major contributor in the planning and implementation of Denver's bicycle infrastructure, implementing at least 15 miles of new bikeways annually, and this year installing two protected bikeways on Arapahoe and Lawrence Streets downtown, with vertical separation between bikes and cars, and whose plans to install more protected bike lanes are contributing to Denver's designation as a top bicycling city and its inclusion in the People for Bikes Green Lane Project, which provides technical assistance in the installation of bike lanes. And. Whereas, the city now has more than 140 miles of on street bike lanes and SROs and more than a hundred miles of off street trails, offering recreational opportunities along the scenic routes and is in the process of constructing the 35th 36th Street Bridge and important pedestrian and bicycle connections from the new RTD East Line and will begin work on the Brighton Boulevard bicycle facility in late 2015. And. Whereas, Denver is supporting bicycling in other new and creative ways, offering on street bike corrals and bike sharing stations in places where people gather with the goal of supporting local businesses and making bike riding an attractive way to get around for more of Denver's residents. And. Whereas, bicycle and pedestrian safety and infrastructure continues to be a top priority for the Denver City Council of the City and County of Denver, which is supporting funding for additional and expedited multimodal improvements that will increase bicycling in our city. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the City Council, the city and County of Denver, Section one, that the council designates the week June 22nd through June 26th as Bike Week and June 24th as Bike to Work Day and encourages citizens to keep their heads up and watch out for one another and stay safe this summer, no matter your mode of travel and section two that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest, and to fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy hereof be forwarded to the manager of Public Works. Thank you, Councilwoman Sheppard. Your motion to adopt. I move that proclamation 384 series of 2015 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments. Councilwoman Sheppard. Thank you so much. It is my pleasure. I think for the third or fourth year in a row now to read this proclamation celebrating not just bike to Work Day, but Bike Week and all of the wonderful progress that our city has made in becoming a truly bike friendly city. I really want to thank all my colleagues for that, for consistently making the investment of the city in bicycling infrastructure one of our top priorities in every single budget retreat that we've had for the last three years in a row. And I'd really like to thank the mayor for continuing to increase the amount of money that he puts in the budget annually to meet many of the goals that we've laid out and of course, our public works. Department for, you know, carrying that banner and working hard to make these things happened. And I remember when we opened up the 15th Street Bikeway, you know, that was like a wow revolutionary big deal. But, you know, it's doing what it was supposed to do. It's giving people a safe space to ride down a very busy east west corridor in downtown that has a lot of bike, a car and bus traffic on it. I actually ride down 15th Street probably twice a week on that bike lane, and I can attest to the fact that those improvements that we've made in the street, you know, really helped me feel more comfortable as I'm riding down. So, you know, I think we're doing a great job. I think we have a long way to go because we were recently designated as a a gold city in our bikes in across the United States. But we really want to be a platinum city. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's only one in the country. So we really want to aspire to get even more of our residents out of their cars and onto their bikes. Let me just tell you, when I bike to work in the morning, I get to come down Confluence Park and ride up the trails underneath our street grid. And I arrive and I feel so relaxed and distressed because I didn't have any traffic jams, I didn't have any crazy drivers. It's there's so many benefits to it other than just being a convenient way to get from point A to point B. So I just want to say that it's important that folks think about biking to work not just one day a week, but perhaps every day or at least once or more a week, and make that commitment and see how it changes your life. I've been doing it for like about the last month this year, and it's really been actually a lot of fun. So with that, I'm happy to to sponsor this proclamation and I don't know if anyone else has comments as well. Thank you, Councilwoman Shephard. Councilman Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. I think, Councilwoman Sheperd, for bringing this proclamation forward. I remember probably about three or four years ago did my first bike to work, and I showed up in a bunch of kind of biking gear minus the tight shorts. But, you know, the Colorado Denver biking gear wasn't in my normal go to work type of gear. And and I just thought, you know, it's just a fun little exercise that we do as a city. When someone from Bike Denver told me, no, the point is that you actually use it as your transportation to work. So come next time in a suit. And I really didn't understand nor get nor see kind of biking in the overall multimodal system within our city and county of Denver. Until I went on a trip with people for bikes and a couple of folks from the city and to Copenhagen and really begin to understand how this system could work. And then we went to other cities as well. And so, you know, I think it's important that we do the the bike to work day, but I hope that it helps all of us in the city and county of Denver think about multimodal options and mode share quite differently than we had in the past. That right now in the city and county of Denver, 80% of our mode share is around cars. And I think one of the most important and most issues that I hear from every neighborhood is the issue of congestion and traffic. And so I think it's important, number one, that we as a city have a vision and get serious about our investment and implementation and to multi-modal not just bikes, but pedestrians, making sure we have transit opportunities and things like that. And so, you know, we can't just encourage bikes. We have to kind of put our money where our mouth is, like Councilwoman Cheryl was saying, and dedicate funds each year to increase protected bike lanes. And we know that if we have protected bike lanes, 60% of the people in this city who do not ride bikes will simply because they're safe, comfortable, and they're connected to the places that they want to go. So I'm really excited for this. Thank you. Councilwoman Schipper and I will be supporting this. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. Councilman Moran. Thank you. Council President Herndon. Right before I came over here, I actually saw an email from Transportation. Solutions, which is a. Transportation management. Association. Whose board I serve on, as have Councilman Brown and Councilwoman Sussman and. Councilman Nevitt and the whole. Ideas to get people out of the single occupancy vehicles, cars. I mean. Your bicycle might be single occupancy. But at any rate, I'm not the confident cyclist that many of my colleagues are. And so what interested me in this announcement is that Triple A, the Automobile Association, is going to be offering complimentary roadside assistance on Bike to Work Day, and that I thought was pretty great and shows how we're changing the number. And this is a paid political advertisement. The number is one 800 a help. Thank you, Councilwoman Robb. Councilman Monteiro. Thank you, Mr. President. I would want to say that slowly, but also kind of quickly. We've been building on shifting the mindset in the city and county of Denver in terms of people looking at riding their bikes to work. And I was one of those people because I was always a little tentative, as Councilman Brooks was saying, about what to wear. And so, you know, how do you come to a community meeting? You're all sweaty from riding your bicycle and everything. But all kidding aside, I began to look at utilizing my bicycle when I lived in the Central Valley, and I was very close to the South Platte River and the Cherry Creek, and I would just get on my bike and ride all the way into the city and county building. Part of that also is that, you know, there's a lot of conversation about utilizing the street grid in terms of protected bike lanes and getting to work. And that's all important. But I also just want to bring up to many people that bicycle that we have another grid and that's on the South Platte. On the Platte and also Cherry Creek. And you will see many people utilizing that as transportation as they're making their way through the city of Denver and possibly even to work. So I just wanted to bring out that in my mind, there's two grids, there's a regular street level, and then there is a river path. And so we also have that option as well. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Monteiro. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I you know, Councilman Brooks, it's cool to wear your suit riding your bike. And when you when you're coming from the east side where everything's nice and flat, but when you're coming from the west side, where there's nothing but hills and bar, no still no bike lanes in a lot of areas, no safe crossings. It's really hard. And I tried it. I've tried coming down here, I'm not so bad downhill. But going back, let's just say you got to you got to take your suit to the dry cleaners almost every time you ride your bike. So having said that, I think it's important that, you know, we recognize Bike to work day and that we all participate, but we also pay attention when we when we are coming downtown and we are biking down here, biking wherever we need to go, we got to pay attention, know areas that we need to improve, areas that we need to have, bike lanes where it makes sense. Places like Colfax, instead of having to go all the way down into the gulch and on the way back home, in the dark and in pure obscurity, you know, places where it makes sense, places where it makes sense to put down striping. And I think it's important that we take note of that when we when we do bike places where it makes sense to cross. Right. And it's upon us and it's incumbent upon us as a city to make sure we recognize those intersections and not just give the priority to cars right away at those intersections that we may stumble across like Federal Boulevard and 10th Avenue, or like the Colfax Di Viaduct, which is beyond me why we have not thought of making Colfax bike friendly and more pedestrian friendly instead of having to go under and around it and through the. Through the crevices of the city and maybe over our bridge some day. So we have to put our thinking caps on. Yes, it's awesome to participate in, but we have to make sure that we're identifying gaps and we are marking certain places and certain intersections where it should be bike friendly and taking that to committee. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Any comments? Proclamation three 8413 nine. Madam Secretary, Roll Call Edward Susman. Brooks Brown I fats I can eat lemon lopez monteiro, i. But I'm sorry. Nevett. You sure? Okay. Hi, Ortega. Hi, Rob. Mr. President. Hi. Catherine Levitt, are you sure? I thank you. All right. Madam Secretary, please close the voting, announce the results. 3939 is three. 84 has been adopted. Councilwoman Sheppard, is there someone you like to invite to the podium to receive the proclamation? I would like to invite several members of the Public Works Department to the podium. Please introduce yourselves. Council. President Members of council. My name is Emily Snyder, and I'm the urban mobility manager with Denver Public Works. I'm going to make my part brief as many of you are transitioning off council and this is Bike Week. I just wanted to say thank you very much to this council for all of their support over the past years, for bicycling and walking in this city and for making it a priority, as you have done. And with that, I'm also transitioning the acceptance of this proclamation over to my colleague Rachel Bronson. Thank you, Emily, and thank you. Council President and members of Denver City Council. Emily has passed the torch. It's pretty exciting. As a recently designated bicycle friendly business and community in the city and county of Denver is proud to celebrate Bike to Work Day. We will be celebrating, as Councilwoman Shepherd said at Civic Center Park with our annual breakfast station. We'll be celebrating, along with dozens of Denver businesses and vendors and thousands of bicyclists from across the community. Our Bike to Work Day celebration at Civic Center Park would not be possible without our many partner agencies, including Denver Parks, Parks and recreation facilities, public works, solid waste, public works, communications and public works right away. Services. Currently across the city. In terms of staff, we're competing in a bag to work day business challenge. We have 325 staff across the city that are registered and the leading agencies in this competition who will all be eligible for prizes. Are the Library Technology Services, Environmental, Health and Parks and Recreation. Back to work day, bike to work week and Bike Month would not be possible without our many partners in the community, including Dr. COG, CDOT, Spike, Denver, Bicycle, Denver's many transportation management associations and many others. So thank you all for recognizing this very important day and for your leadership in making Denver a world class bicycling city. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Shepherd, for that. We have one more proclamation in Proclamation 427 sponsored by Councilman Brown. Will you please read Proclamation 47?

Recommendation to formally support the proposal by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to enter into a contract with the Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department to perform security and safety services on the Metro Blue Line.

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Item 25 Communication from Councilman Austin, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Durango. Recommendation to formally support the proposal by Metro to enter into a contract with the Long Beach Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department to perform security and safety services on the Metro Blue Line. Thank you much for this. Over to Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And we ask that this issue be placed on the supplemental agenda due to the sensitive timing of the matter. Next week, the Metro Board will be considering this particular issue. So it's very important, I think, that the city council here tonight weigh in. Improving blue line safety has been and is a high priority for this council and for thousands of residents who use the public transportation moat of light rail in an effort to improve safety and quality of ridership. Metro staff has proposed entering into contracts with Long Beach PD and LAPD to partially replace the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and to increase coverage of policing during each 24 hour period. Response times in Long Beach would improve from 12 to 14 minutes to less than 5 minutes. This is a local policing approach that should be strongly supported by this council. And for that, I'd ask for your I vote and encourage our new MTA representative to support as well. And that is Dr. Robert Garcia, obviously our mayor. And so with that, I would ask for your support on this matter. Okay. There's a motion by Councilman Austin. Is there a second? Yes. Second by Councilmember Andrews council managers. Yes. Thank you. First of all, I want to thank councilman also for bringing this item, you know, forward. You know, I also want to thank and congratulate the mayor, Robert Garcia, as he's, you know, settled into his new Metro board seat. And congratulations, you may on that. Metro is a wonderful access to our city and we can't get from Long Beach law says in less than an hour. This thing you know, this kind of service requires safety and welcoming assets to the Long Beach residents. Also, our Long Beach officers know that the understanding our community and needs better than everyone else, it knows about the situation. I would also be wonderful to know them, to be a part of this process and make our station safer and actively patrolled and directed enforcement. You know, Law Order on these are on that platform. So thank you again is also bringing it forward. And again, Mayor, for receiving that, you know, position. Thank you. I know we can't log in or any other councilmember comments. Councilman Pearce. Yes. I just want to say how exciting it is to be able to finally have some great representation on our Metro Board and colleague support. I think reducing the travel times of someone who rode that blue line for 3 hours straight every day is going to be a big deal for folks that are traveling to downtown and public safety. Being able to take off some pressure from our PD is really exciting. And when we talk about mobility in our city, it's transparency, it's accessibility and dependability. And being able to do that with our blue line through the whole city is going to be really great for everyone. Thank you. Thank you. And just to add, I want to thank customer Austin under his leadership as president of the COG. They've been very involved in metro issues. And so I know that Councilman Austin as as president has been pretty involved in this issue and a bunch of other issues around Metro. And just to summarize, again, the Metro board of 13 members will vote on this not this Thursday, but next Thursday. And the vote is essentially to allow Ambridge Police Department to be able to control its own destiny when it comes to the Long Beach blue line and patrol the blue line ourselves, which is something that we've been wanting to do for for a long time. And so I've been on record supporting this already. I support the council's efforts tonight. I think it helps for the board next week, and I'd like to open it up for any public comment. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council. Craig Koch with the downtown Long Beach Associates. As the. Mayor articulated, there's been a strong effort for many, many. Years. To bring this to fruition. I strongly support this this movement. Our board strongly supports it. The community is very much behind it. We have joined forces with the Chamber and the CVB in order in order to support this this motion being. Presented to the Metro Board next week. We will continue to mobilize. Our community and encourage them to help support this initiative to make Long Beach as. Well as the Metro. Line, much safer than it is today. So I appreciate your consideration and look forward to your support. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Very good. You work as my address. My perspective comes from one who that is, I would venture to say, has a better understanding the blue line and every system that the MTA operates than anyone in this city and with the exception or two or three anyone in the tri county area, period. This is, I would say, one of those items. What I would in first reaction would say it would be divorced from intelligence. But the problem is it would never had a nexus with intelligence, period. That's separate and distinct from the fact that we don't even have enough police to police our own streets, let alone a paradigm that is entirely different. Then policing a city, period. No ifs, no ads, no buts. I had more knowledge of this blueline than any single person in this room. Period, as I said. But also the MTA system itself, as well as comparative systems within the backwash I transportation corridors, very policing of a transit paradigm is entirely different. No ifs, no answers, no buts. And anybody who says otherwise has their head firmly in a position that they need to see a proctologist buried. I'm absolutely sure there are serious problems. It no question. I think the answer and this is way out of the box thinking. The only way to really solve this problem. Is to enter into an agreement with the Holy See, hire a platoon of nuns, well-trained, know how to use a 12 inch wooden ruler and a bar of lava soap. And you give them the guarantee that the AFL-CIO will not be allowed to interfere in that, and only that, with the possible exception of ending the DNC program of encouraging people to get household income by popping out a kid every 18 months. That's the only way you're going to have the money needs to go to the trained professionals, i.e. those that Jim McDonald and captain and excuse me guy believes now Captain Thomas do a very well great job training. They're the ones that the county board of supervisors needs to funnel the money to not Long Beach police. That again cannot even protect its own streets period. There are only limited there are only the Long Beach police should only be in call. Call to take the purpose of this the station or out of a train. Beyond that, they should not set foot on a blue line. Thank you. See any other public comment? Please come forward. Karen replied. I live in the corner in seventh and Pacific Avenue. As someone who takes public transportation every day and regularly rides the blue line, I am very excited that our officers locally are going to assist in safety. I think it will stop a lot of the drug dealing that happens on the platforms and will keep a lot of people that come from other areas to our city on the blue line to do illegal activity and cause problems downtown from doing that activity. So I'm excited. I know this has been a long time in process that this is finally. Coming to fruition, and I believe that. Our Long Beach police will do a far better job than the sheriffs do because they will know. Who the local perpetrators are. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no other public comment and no other council comments. Councilman Austin. Yes. Thank you. And before we take a vote, I'd like to just make sure that this this vote is married in intelligence and considers the the colossal paradigm shift that we are going to be embark on. I'd like to call the police chief up and just ask a couple of basic questions. Hello, Chief. So an understanding the motion before us. And I'm sure you are aware of the the the issue. Does Longbridge PD have the resources to effectively police the blue line should this measure passed MTA. So the question is tied into your previous vote, because of the leadership of this Council and the foresight, you have supported us in hiring back to back academies that started last year. We are going to hire two more academies this coming year. So as we are becoming more healthy, as we're considering attrition and some of the other factors, we are well-positioned to join in this multi-agency security plan. And I got to emphasize that it's not just Long Beach taking over the blue line, it's Long Beach taking over the blue line. And then the Los Angeles Police Department taking over a significant amount. Of the rest of the. Metro line. That's going to positively impact, I believe, the entire system. But for the city of Long Beach itself, to have our own police officers patrolling the the the rail itself or on the train itself and the platforms and the corridors adjacent only enhances the visibility up and down our primary corridors, which I believe, based on my experience, will positively impact not only crime but the quality of life. No one can patrol or knows their city as well as their own local police department. And I have heard for years for many of our stakeholders and our citizens that they're unhappy with L.A. County sheriffs, and they have wanted us, the Long Beach Police Department, to patrol this blue line. And through the mayor's leadership and all of yours. This sends a strong message. I'm not saying we're going to get it, but I think we're well positioned on February 23rd that the vote may go our way and the city our city is going to benefit greatly. Thank you for that. I don't think I have any other questions. I think, you know, that helps me make an intelligent decision this evening. Thank you, Chief. Okay. Thank you. Seeing no other public comment members. Again, the Granicus system is down. So all those in favor, please say I, i any oppose. Okay. Motion carried unanimously. Thank you. I'm going to go to think and thank you all for your support on that. I'm going to ask so the Granicus system is down. And so we've been trying to move some things around here. But if I can have an Cantrell, Larry Goodhue and Larry Boland all, please come up. And just one after the other.

Recommendation to direct City Manager to identify immediate one-time resources available to implement a Parks, Open Space and Median Drought Response Plan to preserve the City's trees and landscaping through the summer months and the end of Fiscal Year 2018.

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Motion carries. 26. Are we doing 19 or skipping straight to 26? We're going to come back to 1986. Okay. Communication from Councilman Austin, Councilman Andrews, Councilmember Urunga, Vice Mayor Richardson. Recommendation to direct City Manager to identify immediate one time resources available to implement a parks open space and median drought response plan to preserve the city's trees and landscaping through the summer months. Thank you, Councilman Nelson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Unfortunately, this year we had a historically low rainfall here in Long Beach and what is budgeted for irrigation. The city relies on rainfall for more than half of the water needed for our parks, open spaces and medians. As a result, our parks have received far less water than they need this year and result in many of our party's parks are very obvious. I've received numerous calls and emails from residents about the yellow and brown grass in our parks and large areas of dirt where there used to be grass. And my staff has actually gone out and taking photos of conditions in some of our parks around the city. Obviously, this is not an acceptable condition for our residents and our parks, which are treasured assets for our city. Some of our best efforts and best programs happen in our city parks as we enter the summer months. We're inviting our residents to utilize parks through a number of popular events, such as concerts in the parks, movies in the parks, summer Fun Days and the Be Safe program, not to mention the countless picnics and family gatherings that will be taking place. The lack of water for our parks is impacting the quality of the experience that our residents will have at these terrace events. Not only that, if we don't address the lack of water now, the cost to the city will only increase down the road with the need to replace large areas of grass and trees that may die. I request to have brought forward this evening with my colleagues as the request is very straightforward. We're asking the city manager to identify one time funds necessary to close the budget needed to water our parks for the remainder of this fiscal year to preserve our landscaping and trees. And I'd like to ask the city staff if they can provide a report on what steps they've already made toward thus far toward this plan and what can be implemented to respond to the drought we've experienced and the impact on our parks. And I want to be very clear before staff gives their report. I want to thank my colleagues for signing on, because this is an issue that's not only affecting my district, but both parks throughout the city. And and I don't want to point fingers and blame anybody because we don't control Mother Nature. We don't control the fact that that, you know, we did not get enough water this year through rainfall. But I do think that this is a situation that does merit our attention. And we have to do something now to preserve our assets and resources as a city. So with that. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Rocks. Well, I think we have a most of the second. Call me. Yeah. Okay. Well, I think this is a good a good item. And I would just say we all know that we're in a drought and we have a massive park system. And we have to sort of think about if we're going to expand resources on water, where does it make sense to do it? Some of our parks, you know, we we've stopped doing, you know, afterschool programs and things like that. I think it makes sense to sort of shift the water as well to the places that we've shifted our strategically shifted our programing to because those places do require additional water. Just this past Saturday, we had our Uptown Jazz Festival well-attended, best attendance ever. And, you know, we survey we conducted a survey. And, you know, it was what folks want to talk about weren't the things on the survey. They want to talk about the grass, how the grass at the park was in bad shape. And some people were upset because they've been to this park for seven years for the jazz festival. And this was either ever and we addressed it. We talked about the drought. But the reality is, I mean, we're a big city. We can shift our resources to make big things happen in our regional parks are our programs. Parks are the ones that receive a lot of use. And I couldn't think of another analogy for this because I'm a Trekkie. I think of when, you know, when the enterprise is starting to go down, they shift their power to the you know, to the main life support services. I think we have to think about shifting our sort of our water to the parts that need it most and the parks that have the most demand on it. I think that's what this conversation is about, and I look forward to what staff has to say. Thank you, councilman. Awesome raising this conversation. And I know that there there are some things that we can do to make sure our main parks, our main parks, our main medians are open space. They you know, they we do save that grass. Thank you. I have a series of councilors I want to speak. So, Mr. West, I'm not sure that you just responding in general or. We have a staff report. Councilor. Did you ask them to be their staff report? Okay, then let me go ahead and do the staff report. Our interim director, Steve Scott. Okay. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the City Council. I want to thank you for bringing this item forward for discussion this evening. And we, too, agree that, you know, the current drought conditions are not ideal and we absolutely do not want to see our parks browning and becoming dirty. And so thank you again for bringing this item forward. I just have a couple of slides to supplement tonight's discussion on the drought impacts to our parks and how we've kind of shifted some of our resources to address some additional watering cycles that we can provide over the course of this summer. So with that, as you all know, water is critical for a thriving landscape for parks, open spaces and medians. Properly landscaped areas result in safe playing fields, healthy trees and plants and cultivates the esthetic Long Beach residents have come to enjoy. The department is responsible for the care and maintenance of close to 1000 acres of parklands and open spaces. And according to the California Department of Water Resources, on average, 47 inches of water is needed to sustain the vegetation in our Southern California climate. We work towards meeting the landscape need through rain and our purchased water or irrigation efforts. So far this fiscal year, we have received less than two inches of rain. Mother Nature has not been kind to us by comparison. During the difficult drought years of 2012 to 2016. The city received as much as 7.9 inches of rain during a drought year, almost four times as much as what we've received so far this year. And when you combine that limited rain with our budgeted $2 million irrigation line item budget, which purchases close to 21 inches of water , we can expect only about 23 inches of water resources or 49% of plant need and recall, that's about 47 inches. So 49% of plant need. We're getting through rain and irrigation. So the next couple of slides just kind of depict in a few different ways really the severity of the drought that we find ourselves. The blue bars on this chart represent the 47 inches of water needed to sustain plant life. That red line across is essentially shows 13 inches and that's what the city receives on average during non non drought years. So you know, outside of the drought we can expect close to 13 inches. But really what I want to show here are those green bars. That's the actual amount of rain that we've received since 2012. And, you know, just about every year, with the exception of 2017 has been bad. But I really want to highlight 2018 less than two inches. I mean, that that green bar is barely legible. Next slide, please. So this chart helps to illustrate the water resources against the 40% 47 inches of plant need for the past six years. The light blue bar that you see at the bottom of all of those bars represents our irrigation budget. And you can see that that's been relatively flat since 2012, but that's despite the annual water rate increases that we've had and the new park acreage that we've added over the years. And so that limited water budget has been spread even more thin than in years past. The dark blue bar represents the annual rainfall discussed in the previous slide, and then the green bar represents the amount of resources that the department has found over the years outside of the $2 million budget to put towards our irrigation needs. And then obviously, the red there is the shortfall that we're experiencing to meet that 47 inches of water needed for our plants. Next like so over the years when annual rainfall and the department's water resources do not provide the necessary amounts of water, the department thoughtfully focuses on managing the shortfall and implements a series of short term strategies to help stretch the supply of water throughout the entire fiscal year. It seems like every year prior to the summer months, the department reviews water usage to date and evaluates water need through the balance of the fiscal year to determine how the remaining supply will be used. This leads to a prioritization of water use for heavily used areas where the department essentially tears irrigation with a focus on providing those limited water resources to areas of high use and active uses, including our heavily programed park areas where we might provide, you know, some of our park programing during the summer. Our sports fields receivable sites, those are the sites where people can reserve a picnic area and come and enjoy the parks, special event venues and newly developed park areas. This prioritization and touring of water resources actually began during the drought years earlier this decade and has been a way for us to manage those limited resources. Unfortunately, as part of this hearing, though, we do experience some of the browning and dying of grass in some of those areas that are receiving less water resources. Looks like. So this is the slide that I really want to focus on because there is some good news on this slide. And over the last few months, we've worked hard with both the city manager's office and financial management to identify both budget savings within our existing budget and one time resources to help supplement our existing water budget this year. And I'm happy to report that we've identified a little over $800,000 in newly identified resources to put towards additional water. So what does that mean? It means we no longer need to tier the water usage this summer. We're going to have the resources to be able to now ramp up again the water not only in those heavily used areas, but also in those lesser use areas. So the community will see greening at our parks, sites and open spaces over the coming days and weeks. We've already begun this process of reprograming our controllers to apply these additional water cycles. And so again, we will start to see greening continuously throughout the course of the next couple weeks and summer. And then I just also want to point out that we are once again utilizing a summer reclaimed water truck that is going to help us apply needed water resources to our median trees. And then lastly, I just wanted to point out a couple of our long term strategies. Obviously, this has been a historical structural shortfall that we have budgetary. And so we are working through the annual budget development process to help address this historical shortfall. We are also working with our partners such as the Water Department, to implement water conservation strategies and upgrades to some of our infrastructure and technologies that will help us better manage our limited water resources. And so that very quickly is kind of where we are right now. I want to leave you with that. With these additional resources, we are going to be applying additional water cycles to our both high use and lower use parking in open space areas. And we will see greening coming forward. That concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you. I have a long list of council members. I want to speak. I just want to just say one thing. I really appreciate, obviously, the the focus on water conservation that the city has had in general. We actually lead the state on water conservation issues. And one of the top cities to have addressed particularly we had the drought with the governor and his mandates that we can implemented across the city. So I'm very appreciative of that. You know, at the same time, having, of course, parks that are not properly watered, not only cause issues with access for families, but as we know , it causes it could cause real damage to trees, especially trees that have been in place for four decades and not receiving enough water. I'm also grateful that we were able to find the resources to make this investment. But I also just want to make sure, just to the team and particularly the parks management team, that, you know , we shouldn't get to this point where all the trees are dying. The issue gets brought up. The council agendas are set and now we're going to fix the problem. I would much prefer that proactively we come to the council and say our trees are in jeopardy. Our parks across the city are looking embarrassing and embarrassing and in very bad shape and we need a larger request. And that was done during the budget process last year when you guys came last year and said we need more, more money in the budget for watering. And that was a great move and the council acted on that. But the current shape of the parks is the worst I've ever seen them, and I've never received as many complaints from our community on the on the upkeep of these parks. And so I just I just want to ensure and I appreciate Councilman Austin greatly for kind of we've all this has been an issue for all of us. But I'm glad that you agenda is that to provide this forum. I just want to make sure that it doesn't it should not take this type of action. We need to address this. And the second there's a problem, come to the council and we will find ways to ensuring that our trees that are our parks don't end up in the shape of the currently and including those medians. And so I just wanted to say that we've had a lot of concern on that. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. This is something that when Councilmember Austin let me know it was coming on the agenda, I let him know that my office has been working on this for several weeks. Many of you don't know that 70% of the acreage of the parks are in District five. Up on my screen in front of me, I have a line by line budget of Parks and Rec and what has been spent year to date. And I think one of the important things to discuss is that 800,000 didn't come from thin air. I mean, it was something that was budgeted for other things. And so within Parks and Rec, I appreciate that they've made the tough decisions on where to move some resources. We have a very tight budget and even considering how tight the Parks and Rec budget is and considering every single year that I have been on this Council , additional funding has gone to Parks and Rec every year. And if you read the articles in the paper, we almost have double the funding per resident for our parks programs as other cities as the median. A median city spends just over $100 per resident and we're at 208. And so we are really doing a superb job and our parks do continue to win awards. But as the mayor said, when I reached out to your office three weeks ago, it shouldn't have been. Well, we've stopped watering or we reduced water. It should have been, hey, in three weeks, we're considering some changes that are going to impact you and your district and you and the residents. And here's what we propose. Can we get some input? Do we need to agenda? Is this where are we? Here's what our thoughts are. And those are your decisions to make it until a policy is made by this council. And so I think that will have a better perspective when it comes to Bossy this year. And I appreciate that. Every year Parks and Rec comes and asks. But I also want to say, and it's in my newsletter this week, that the time has come for every single park to have an advocacy group, whether it's Pan Am or Hartwell or Eldorado. We have groups of people who occasionally are super involved, and then it falls off. But one of my my big concerted efforts in this next six months is going to be an ad, an organized advocacy group at each park. And we've prepared some things with Park, Parks and Rec. We have had several meetings about a grid system where we could better tell each other where the issues are, because with almost a thousand acres of park and I don't I'm not sure if people really have the grasp on how big an acre is. It's multiple football fields. I mean, we're talking about I mean, how many football fields in a row is it really we say, Mr. Scott. It's approximately 45,000 square feet. So I can't. And so even if we start, it's great that we have all these beach cleanups. But starting. In this next six month period, we're going to park cleanups. We shouldn't be busing our children from all different parts of the district on Saturdays all the way down to the beach. We appreciate the beach. We want to clean up the beach, but we have a lot of parks and rivers and lakes and duck ponds right here in the neighborhoods that people live in. And those park cleanups on the first Saturday of every month are going to be a huge, concerted effort that I hope to hear a lot of feedback. So please stay tuned in this week's newsletter. And we have a lot of exciting information that's taken months and months to work on. I appreciate having worked with Parks and Rec over the last few weeks, and I also appreciate Councilmember Austin for agenda laziness. I know it is frustrating and I know we can do more, but to do more we really have to be organized. And so I look forward to working hand in hand with the neighbors on on their organization, because, as Councilmember Richardson said, resources have to be shifted. We can't each year know what Mother Nature is going to give us in terms of rain. And in the years like last year when they had additional funding and Parks and Rec came in under budget, what we should have done, in addition to just allocating additional money for this year's water, is we should have started a trust fund for water. We really should have started an idea where we can set aside a water fund for the future and buy at a different rate. So thank you so much for the work you've done, but a lot more has to be done. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Ranga. Thank you, Mayor. And I want to congratulate you and your efforts as well. And look and recognizing that we have a problem. Councilmember Austin and myself share a park. I think we're the only two districts that really have split a park and have lots of rules park. And we're going to be sponsoring our first concert in the park coming up in a couple of weeks. And it's you know, it's embarrassing when we're going to have our first concert in the park and it's dry. I mean, it's almost dirt out there. And and we're expecting people to take their blankets and their lounge chairs out there and enjoy the music. And it's somewhat bittersweet because when we go to the park and you put your blanket down, you want to be able to enjoy the music in a nice, comfy place where it's green all around you, and this year it's not. So I'm very glad to support this this item here we have a lot of park. I rescheduled an event at Silverado Park that I want to have outside, but when I saw the conditions of the or the grass, I think that that that there's there's no way that I can support this. So we had to take it inside. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to be put in that situation to have to make that kind of decision to where I want to have an outside event and have to move it inside because of the conditions of the field. So I fully support this item and I'm glad that the staff has reviewed it and looked into it. And I agree with the councilmember Mongo that, you know, you know it it's all 2020 now. But this is something that we could look at in the future in terms of if, again, we had this opportunity to target some money towards water for our parks, I would certainly support that. And and on top of that, I have a lot of meetings in in the seventh District and a lot of our trees in the medians are also dying. I had, unfortunately, the decision to make it two years ago. Daisy, Daisy tree. These deadline, we had to basically bring down a number of trees because, well, both of age and disease, but only just because of the drought. They were just they were just not being sustainable anymore. And we had to to cut them down because of the drought. So I hope that we can turn this around. And I hope that once we get our our most project in place, that we can use some of that recycled water to go into other places in the district that are in the city that are in desperate need of recycled water. And I hope that we will be able to do that. So thank you, Cosmo Rosser, for bringing this forward. Thank you, Councilman Hooper. Now. Thank you. I, too, would like to thank Councilmember Austin for bringing the item forward. And thank you, Mr. Scott, for the presentation. And I would also like to commend you for being reactive to at least what our office has brought to. And thank you, Mr. Owens. Also, we had an emergency situation in the Stearns Park a couple of weeks ago, and you guys stepped up and and took care of it. I did speak to the city manager yesterday. We have special circumstances in some areas that might concern like a public health issue. And our office would be willing to fund that, too. As I've offered to you folks before, that's going to need to have a special circumstance. I think all my colleagues have said, you know, please come to us and ask this and I think we can support you. So, again, thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes, thank you. I would also thank constant council members in bringing this item forward. You know, it is a serious matter and we need to address it with proactive measures. You know, because the community has, I think, been very patient and understanding, you know, with the drought restriction and the shortage. But, you know, our parks are not looking appealing today. You know, I've seen kids in six discipline, you know, in the dirt and in the desert they pick up on it is a concerned you know I think anything we can do to help. I would really ask that we get on that as soon as possible because I was out at the park with our concert in North Long Beach, and I think afterwards it was like, what is this? It wasn't about the music is about the dirt and the dust we had there. So as soon as we can address this issue and take care of it, I want to thank the Parks and Rec for really letting us know that they are going to do something about it. And thank you, guys. Again, thank you for being so proactive. Thank you. Councilman Price. You know, I would like to thank my colleagues for bringing this item forward led by Councilman Austin. So thank you. And I want to just start off by saying I want to thank Steven Scott for doing the presentation. He's had a very challenging role, although he'll never admit that because there's been a lot of changes in leadership in that department. And the the drum that's been beat for the last few years has been lack of resources, lack of resources, not by Mr. Scott. And that's incredibly frustrating for those of us who go out every day and try to serve the community the best we can. I met with the former director of the department in 2016, shortly after the city auditor's office came out with recommendations through their park maintenance audit. And at the time, I requested Slash, begged, pleaded for some sort of plan moving forward in terms of what the future was going to look like for irrigation, for planting, for maintenance, and was told that that was that was forthcoming. It's definitely something that we were going to be working on. To this day, we don't have a strategic plan for the maintenance of our parks and our medians. And I understand the department has gone through a lot of changes. There are limited resources. I think this is one of those situations where I'm saying, how come? How can I help you? Help me? What can we do? Because we go out there and we literally get killed at every community meeting this park, which is our brand new park that we were so proud of, the right of way . It's on the cover of the Long Beach Business Journal. It doesn't look like this. It does not look like this today. It's it's I there have been times where I've told that I've been told that medians, the plants are supposed to look dead. I've literally been told these things on multiple occasions. And I'm not an expert and I've deferred to the experts on many occasions. But it's incredibly disappointing. And with all due respect to my colleague, Vice Mayor Richardson, I agree. We need to shift our resources. And I know you aren't trying to say this, but I hope we're not implying we should be shifting our resources to where the programing is, because some of us who don't have a lot of programing in our parks and have. Repeatedly asked. For more programs like we don't have afterschool programs in the third district, they were taken away over my objection, please don't. Now take the water away because we don't have an after school program. And I know that's not what you were trying to say, but what I don't want to do is pit us against each other in terms of what parks are, programing, what don't. This is a very political process. And look, we have programs and some parks and we don't have programs in other parks. And I would love to have an after school program in my district somewhere. But the level of programing shouldn't equate to how much resources we get in terms of irrigation. Just because I'm not offering an after school program in any of the parks in my district because that's just not available to me. Doesn't mean we should cut off irrigation for those parks because all the kids in that neighborhood have, frankly, is the grass because there is no programing in their parks. So what I would. Really like to challenge our Parks Department to do and through our city manager with the arrival of our new program director, is think strategically about what the future is going to look like, because this is a conversation that we continue to have individually as council members. With. PRM during our briefings, and we're able to Band-Aid situations here and there. But there's no overall space of comfort where we feel like these issues are going to be addressed proactively. Mr. Scott is aware we have a resident who emails us almost, you know, weekly about grass dying in a. That's received less and less irrigation. That's a prime has been fantastic and working with us, we're probably going to have to replace the grass there to make it drought tolerant. But these piecemeal approaches, I think, are probably not the most efficient way to do it. I don't know. I challenge our city manager to help us figure it out. But each of us individually going to the director of PRM and asking about this park or this median, asking for more water or asking for an additional plant or two. It just seems like there might be a better way for us to approach it with a more streamlined process and some level of comfort that we can have as council members in terms of what we can expect, so that when we go out to the community, we can say, here's our irrigation plan, here's the maintenance plan. This is consistent. It's going to remain consistent because I think this is one of the things in my personal opinion. Parks, infrastructure and public safety are the things that most residents agree on in terms of what they want in their community and so to be good in their community. So I think this is an area for us to really focus on. And I would I would suggest that that maybe looking at the park maintenance audit might be a good place for us to start those discussions of what the future looks like. Again, PRM has done an amazing job with the resources that they have. They are incredibly responsive. Kelly and Hurley are both here. They are tremendous partners to us. Their inability to be able to keep these parks and medians alive has nothing to do with them, has nothing to do with their work quality or their work performance. It's an issue of resource allocation. And so I just want to make that very clear that the team is fantastic partners, they do a great job, but we should not be having to defend against dead weeds and explain to people it's the natural cycle of the plant to die and it may never grow back. I just people don't believe that. So we and nor should they. So I think we need to we really need to maybe ask. For a little. Bit of compassion and empathy in terms of, you know, you prm you deal with PRM issues. We deal with every issue that residents are concerned about. We do the very best we can, whether they want to talk about infrastructure, public safety, parks, airports, taxes, whatever. We do our very best to bring whatever limited expertize we have on those areas to answer questions. This is a major area where every single one of us is getting hit hard. We're getting hit very hard on this issue. And there's got to be some empathy and compassion for what we do when we go out to the community and we try to convey a sense of confidence in the government that we're going to be taking care of these things. And so I know this is a little bit of a rant. It's not meant to be. It's this is just an issue that's very important and so timely, especially when Jack Cunningham, our chief of staff, put this in my mail to read. And the first thing I thought of when I looked at this is this park no longer looks like this. I mean, Jack's here. If you don't believe me, you can ask him. We we send multiple emails every week about this park. It's true, right, Jack? Right. Yes. Okay. So, anyway, I thank you for indulging me and allowing me to share that. I think what I'm really asking for, what it boils down to is I would like to see us have a strategic plan for park maintenance and I will be asking my colleagues to support an item reflective of the same. Should we not start to see some changes where it's not incumbent upon us individually to have these discussions one on one, where we should be talking about this broadly, how it benefits every park in the city. We shouldn't be shifting water from one park to another. We should be thinking about how we water all of our parks. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilmember Pierce. Thank you. And I want to thank Parks and Rec for also bringing forward your presentation alongside this item. You know, I don't want to to go too much. I think I'll echo the same thoughts that my colleague said, same thoughts as the mayor said. It's unfortunate that our parks are in the situation that they're in. I know that there are some hard decisions that we've had to made at Kara Park. We had a historic tree that was a beautiful tree that we had to to take down. And I know that's been a huge impact for the community members there. I agree with the strategic plan and I want to push as I'm not sure I need to bring back another agenda item to talk about it. But outside of a strategic plan, looking at what additional resources do we need to plan for as a city? You know, I'm not sure this is the answer, bond measures or anything like that, that we can actually invest in our parks as a whole across the board, not only for infrastructure. Water. I know that there's a countermeasure out there around reclaimed water that we need to be looking at. But just really pushing ourselves as it seems like we've done a great job reforming many things in our city and that this is the one area that we consistently come back from and that, yeah, it impacts every single district , no matter if we have small pocket parks like Arts Park or larger parks like Bixby Park. So I look forward to seeing our parks come back green and seeing hopefully a staff report come back around the audit that was done. Appreciate that. Councilman Gonzalez. Yes, thank you. I think this has been a really good discussion. You know, it brings up the more global issues, as Councilwoman Price was mentioning, about just esthetics in our in our city. And that is the very first thing I know that we just constantly hear from our residents about on top of all of the other layers that we're hearing. So I agree with everyone. Everyone here, I absolutely think that we need to think a little bit more creatively and have a plan. And I appreciate as well that each of you have been so responsive to my office and the many asks that we've asked you day in and day out. A few things to think about. Absolutely. I know we have, I believe, smart irrigation in a few locations. Is that correct or what does that look like currently? Yes, we have. 28 sites that are under smart or central control, kind of a combination of both. And we have 90 ready to go out to bid probably in the next three months. Okay. And will that I'm assuming this will be included in that plan as well, just as far as maybe getting us to 100% or getting us somewhere close so we can be at a little bit more innovative and then, of course, a little bit more of course, a lot more efficient with our water usage is that. We have approximately 187 clocks in the parks. Alone. And the the the next phase, so to speak, will get us to about 80%. We'll be able to reduce the actual total number of clocks with this program. The other thing is it takes me approximately four weeks to go out and program these clocks. I've spent a large amount of staff time over the last four weeks bring these water systems were moved back out over the last two weeks to and to them as we've located water sources but the the smart controllers are the web based control allows us to do that in several hours versus four weeks. So we have prioritized that program to assist us with programing the water. Okay, great. And I would just a couple more things. So the National Recreation and Park Association, I've been on that website like religiously over the last six months or so, just reading about what other cities are doing. So just a food for thought for my colleagues to look at some of the cool things that other cities are doing and finding areas for inclusion, innovation, etc. And I know parks, I'm sure you are reading it religiously as well, but there's a lot of good stuff in there. Secondly, I'm actually kind of of the mindset that we may perhaps in this plan and I appreciate my colleagues bringing forward is possibly including our sustainability and Parks Commissions , just to add another layer to garner some ideas from them. And we do have some new commissioners. We also have a climate action plan that could contribute to this as well. And I think it would be good to just add that to the to their agendas, just to offer some some feedback from them so I can add a friendly amendment for that. Also making this a friendly amendment include our commission's parks and Rec. And I think the commissions would be great. Yes. Awesome. I appreciate that. And thanks again for bringing this forward. And thank you park staff for your work. Thank you, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. A couple couple more questions that came up from the discussion. So the will be must count. Councilman Rangel brought up lbe must. So is that going to create additional opportunities for us to divert, you know, cleaned up recycled water from the L.A. River? And is that are we going to prioritize our parks? Are they going to the parks adjacent to the river? And we thought about that. Is that an opportunity for us? So I'll take a crack at that. So, yes, that is the ultimate goal. We are funded for about a $30 million project from Caltrans. And what that gets us is the building, the treatment facility, and it's really designed to treat runoff. We'll be creating a wetlands as well so we can store some of that water. At the moment, it won't immediately be able to use for portable like up and down the system, but that is eventually the plan. We'd love to get that into the system. There are some technical capabilities with that we need to figure out with the water department. Okay. And just so the public understands, can you just give us like three sentences on what LP must actually. Is sure will be must is a very innovative project to treat stormwater so instead of water that is dirty coming off all of our streets and dumping into the L.A. River, we would instead captured at the pump stations, bring it down to a central treatment plant, clean it up to a to a level where you can put it back for irrigation. And eventually we'd like to expand it to multiple phases. So we're capturing a ton of water that we can use for irrigation on the West Side, which does not have access right now to reclaimed water. Okay, next about medians. So majority. All but two medians in my district have been converted to drought tolerant. I think we should maintain continue to do that. The two medians that still remain one of them will be converted to drought tolerant and the other one will not. And that will be the one that will remain. And we would hope that that since we've gone through I mean, we should think about sort of rewarding converting those medians to drought tolerant. It saves money, saves water, allows us to divert to your other medians. So we should be thinking about, you know, where are councilmembers community supportive and how can we encourage and incentivize that conversion? Because I know some communities just don't like it. And I have that in my district. Some neighborhoods like the converted look, some do not. And we want to be able to think about how we incentivize that because we're on this topic. I'm just going to mention the drought tolerant landscaping some some are front of some of our public buildings we should take a look at, too, like, for example, the new fire station 12. They're drought tolerant stuff. You know, some of the love has died. The Michelle Obama library a lot of that they're drought tolerant stuff is is great so we should think about what you know how can we learn you know I mean these are within a mile of one another. What's what's the difference? You know, is it broken? You know, are we treating it differently? Is the contract different between a public work site or a park site? But we should really think about that. And then lastly, I just wanted to touch on the comment about the strategy. I just want to clarify for Councilwoman Price the point, and I'll try to use an anecdote to to explain it maybe wasn't the best anecdote, but the point isn't, you know, what political tool can we use to get more water for my district? The point is, you know, or you know anything about my parks or more needy or poor than other parks. The point is, everything's going to have to be on the table because there's finite resources. So we have to think about what the strategy is. If a strategy is look at parts that are utilized and say, hey, we want to make sure that if we have additional it goes to these parks over others. Those are tough conversations, but the public expects city council to have. So just to be clear about what I'd like to see, I have some of the fewest parks in the city. I get that. But if you were to ask me, I think the public would tell you some of our parks are more heavily utilized than others. And if we had additional resources to invest, I think that sort of community context of what we actually use and we care about all our parks, but some of them, some of them are a little more high profile and those we should make sure that we're paying attention to. So I've got Coolidge Park, I've got the Forest Park, Ramona Park and out in Park. But Hampton and Ramona are the two sort of larger parks that majority of the programing and majority of activity takes place at. So, you know, I want to disarm anyone. This isn't about, you know, using any political whatever the language was, political thing. This is about choices. We're going to have to make some tough choices. And I want to inform that with some sort of community mindset about what's important, some community context. But thank you. Thank you, Councilman Mongo. So I appreciate your comments and Vice Mayor Richardson. But I'll also add that a lot of the funding and grants that are available in CDBG areas for median turnover is not available in the rest of the district. And so incentivizing is great, but a benefit given to those who abide by a program that exists. We don't use we haven't used CDBG for our conversions. No. But there are other programs too like this that with Mary Knight, maybe not in your district. And and under her leadership, there was money available for median exchanges, and they were not available to not one median in the fifth District. And so just to ensure that the context also around, as Councilwoman Pryce talked about every day in Hartwell Park, there are there's not programing in certain areas. And there's heavily utilized areas of our parks. And so we just have to come up with a plan. I think that in my discussions with Steve Scott, our interim director, we've talked a lot about how this plan, how we're going to have a strategic plan for the department, how we're specifically going to talk about long term maintenance goals and how those discussions will be better had. Once we have the feedback from the RFP that's out right now, that puts any of the contractors that provide that maintenance into a objective and standards based contract, which we have not had in the city ever to due to the fact that we're hiring contractors for millions of dollars. And there isn't a grading criteria by which they succeed or fail, where by which we would have financial penalties for contractors who don't meet our expectations because our expectations are so vague that anyone could meet them. I mean, these are serious things that our council has had to start the process on tackling, and I'm proud that it's taken us two years to go to RFP on that contract because we've had to have a lot of hard discussions about how small a park, how small of buckets can we break the city into to get more bidders on these contracts so that more organizations can really be at the table to provide those services? And I just I only actually cued up just because I also wanted to say a big thank you to Hurley, because as the trees are dying and they are falling down in our parks, a call to your team really gets people out there quickly and in all of our interactions, our staff and our community have had with you and your team. And they've been very polite and informed and transparent. And I think that's one of the most important things, is honesty about what is really happening and what we need to do. And as a city, we also not only need to talk about park trees, but but city trees and median trees. A lot of our trees were all planted at the same time. And so if at this time we are able to turn over a third of our trees and do adopt a park programs and adopt media and programs where we could start replacing the ones that are at end of life so that five years from now, not everything will be an end of life. We kind of have to get out ahead of it. I think that needs to be a part of that plan. And so I look forward to working with Parks and Rec staff on that. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you very much. And I want to thank everybody for their their input, their comments. It's clear that that this issue is is resonating citywide. I want also thank our Parks, recreation and Marine staff. They they they do the best they can. I want to echo Councilmember Price's comments. This is a resource allocation issue. This is this the question before the council. And so tonight, we are giving our staff the resources and tools they need and the decisions making they need to to move forward and to hopefully rectify a problem that we have and have identified with with the maintenance of our parks. I want to just say that that there also has been a lot of new parks development. And, you know, I've benefited from that a bit in my district. And we're seeing, you know, several acres of new wetlands restoration through the the forest wetlands as well as Molina Park being developed, as well as Davenport Park being developed. And so Parks, I'm attentive to to to to the maintenance of those parks, but also the future of wood planning and strategic planning that we're going to have to do to make sure that we're maintaining those parks. The reason I brought this item forward was not because of my parks, particularly in my district or any particular area of the city. This is I recognize as a citywide challenge. And it's clear that all most of the council members of all, not all nine of us are facing these challenges. And so I recognize that that any sort of resource, a strategic resource allocation, that we we empower our city manager and Parks and Recreation Department to to to move forward with should should address issues in all nine districts. And so I certainly hope that that will be the case. And I would ask for a unanimous vote here. See me. Thank you. You can read your public comment here just a second on this issue. But before we do that, just to just also end on a good note as well, I just want to say obviously thank you to the staff. I mean, obviously, this is an incredibly important issue to everyone. I think it's you know, when all this comes out, I think you realize that there's a huge conversation happening in the community that needs to be properly addressed. And so I'm sure that that will that that will happen. And I really want to agree and I'm glad that this idea of the kind of more. Strategic thinking about how we look at our park master plan has been brought up a few times. I think I support that and I think about kind of what we're doing right now in public works around around infrastructure and around the Clean Long Beach Initiative and how we're using innovation and investment and kind of strategic conversations to really drive that, I think, in a way that the city hasn't done in the past. And I think that a similar approach to our park system could really see a great impact. And and I want to know it we haven't said it tonight, but, you know, yes, we're having all these issues. But again, the Parks Department and our parks were ranked as one of the best park systems through the walk score list that comes out every year as far as being walkable and being accessible. And that remains true. And so we're very proud of that. Public comment. Anyone come forward? Then we're going to go to public comment, general public comment after this. Larry, you do. I think this council can take great confidence and. In the fact that Hurley Own is involved in this. I've known Hurley since 19. In the early 1980s. And you will not find a more diligent, more competent individual. And that department should understand that. Notwithstanding that, let me make this suggestion. Obviously, I like green, lush grass as well as a lawn to lay down and have a picnic on. But there's some other alternatives, i.e. in the water boating in the Marine Stadium. If there are if recreational needs are not met on land, come down to the Marine Stadium. We have ample selection of opportunities, notwithstanding the destruction of the criminal the criminal conduct of our mayor and taking down to us and his complicit fellow travelers that will be going to prison. There are opportunities there that the Marine Stadium and the other boating dynamics can provide. If you're used to parks, don't meet up, are not currently up to your standards. But as I said, I have no hesitation. I have no question whatsoever that if Hurley is involved in the issue, we could not find a better individual in helping to address it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thanks for your time. My name is Andrew Carroll. I live in the second district. I think it's really important subject. So I'm glad the city council has gone back and forth on this several times. I wanted to say, first of all, to Councilman Pryce, that I actually really liked the standing desk and I hope to see that used more in offices across America and in schools, etc., etc.. So thank you, I guess for sort of introducing that to. The very progressive. Yeah, there you go. You got to take what you can get, I think. And so I'll I'll one that I'll extend my hand on that. All I wanted to say that there is a lot of money available to the city if it if money is a problem. I think we all know that parks are also an economic driver, so they create economic value. We put a lot of money into our parks, but where does that money go? Of course, the park itself doesn't have any rental value because it's public property. You can't do anything private with it in the sense of income, but the value of parks actually spreads around into a catchment area around the parks. So areas with nice parks tend to rent for more money on any kind of catchment area could capture some of this value, which is essentially windfall gains for private owners, mainly banks . We're not talking, you know, homeowners really in the city we're talking about in London banks, any kind of catchment plan could capture most of that public value and redistribute it to other areas of the city. And then you could have plenty of money to fund your parks. I mean, there's actually been studies done by Stiglitz, who actually won the Nobel Prize for four for this theorem, that the exact amount of money you put in to public investment shows itself in land value. And if you tax that land value, you can sustainably fund public investment, which is a really cool concept. Joseph Stiglitz, again a Nobel laureate, observed that this isn't strange. We already have catchment areas in Beaumont. Shaw, for example, they funded their beautification project using that, but that was from from parking. But it's a similar economic concept. The city can do that. Another thing I encourage is to spread the funds around to the city. So there's this back and forth between what areas are might be getting more of the resources, maybe excuse me, getting more of the resources. One way to deal with that is to capture some of this value and actually spread it to different parts of the city instead of letting it stay in one area. If one part captures a lot of value, send it over to a different district. That can be easily done. Another thing that could be done is to reduce or rather stop the tearing without tearing. You encourage every resident in the city to view parks as all our parks instead of just their park in their neighborhood, because there's no more tearing. So essentially all parks get the same amount of water, get the same amount of resources based maybe on mileage, square mileage, or, you know, some even concept and is objective, easily understood, debated in a public forum, decided upon. And from there on, you can encourage maybe some of the more privileged residents who have a little more organization to know that when they're fighting for their park, they're really fighting for all the parks in the city because any funding that is increased for one park ends up going to all the parks. So those are some of the ideas that I would like to throw to the staff and to our city council. And if you have any questions about resources, I'd be happy to provide them. Thanks. Thank you. Next speaker, please. I'm taking an excerpt from one of the oldest documents in our world history. Second Chronicles seven. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain or sin, pestilence upon my people or locusts to devour the land. If my people who are called by my name. Well. Humble themselves and pray and seek my face. And turn from their wicked ways. We'll hear from heaven. And I will hear what land? Those of you who remember when prayer was in school. Who remember when your parents taught you to pray or the Catholic nun had you recited prayer every morning. Who are older now? Some of us. But it is that God that has shut the rain for you. It's that same one. So let's connect the dots here. Some of us who have alphabets behind our names, DS and BS, embassies, busses, whatever. What do you. Whatever you have. I have a couple. It's that same God that has caused you to be in a drought. That same one. So now you counsel people. And you're over districts of people who are like you. We're taught in schools by Catholic nuns and priests or pastors. And so now that we are in positions of influence, we want to act like what they said then was not true now. But it is that same God now that has caused the heavens to close. And if all things we don't have rain, the sun comes up every day. Darwin and Freud haven't taken credit for it. The moon comes out every night and the stars in their season. But tonight, we have no rain enough. Well, our grass. And he is again saying to us tonight that same God, if you will consider what I consider important, I will send the rain again. But you will not have rain for quite some time. I personally, along with people who are not in here, have asked that the homeless be more upgraded in their care. The homeless are agreeing with me tonight. Do something because you won't have rain for quite a while. I've asked. Because some of you with the funding in this city that you have had and made legally or illegally, you have withheld service to the poor and the homeless. And you bring up reasons why not to increase their funding. Thank you, Mr.. And that concludes public comment. Members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll move forward now to public comment. We have ten speakers here, Larry Goodhew, Jeff Lawrence, Thomas Stewart, Janet Tennant, Matthew Nokes, Laura Herzog, Robert Lucero, Letty Hernandez, Adrian Wences and Marina Rosales. So let's start off with Larry Goodhew.

AN ORDINANCE relating to historic preservation; imposing controls upon the Edris Nurses Home, a landmark designated by the Landmarks Preservation Board under Chapter 25.12 of the Seattle Municipal Code, and adding it to the Table of Historical Landmarks contained in Chapter 25.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Agenda Item number seven Council Bill 119422 An Ordinance relating to historic preservation, imposing controls upon the Idris nurse's home, a landmark designated by the Landmarks Preservation Board under Chapter 25.12 of the Seattle Municipal Code, and adding it to the table of historical landmarks contained in Chapter 25.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. Councilmember, please. We're getting something. Okay, very good. Thank you. So this is a beautiful building up on Queen Anne. It was built in 1923. The property first house, the nurses home from the Children's Orthopedic Hospital Hospital was founded in 1907 by the Women's Hospital Association to provide medical care to children regardless of their ability to pay. This is a building that is still being used. I believe it's housed in the American Cancer Society since the 1980s, and we recommend that this be added to the landmark status. Very good. Any questions or comments? Please call the role on the passage of the Bill O'Brien Lecture. Hi. Gonzalez. Herbold. Hi. Johnson President Harrell. Hi. Six in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read. Agenda items eight through 17.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3087 S. Sheridan Boulevard. Rezones property located at 3087 South Sheridan Boulevard from Former Chapter 59 B-2 with Waivers to S-CC-3x (from the former Chapter 59 business zoning code to suburban commercial corridor) in Council District 2. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 12-20-16.

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I police lost voting and as a result, 12 eyes 12 eyes council bill 1166 has passed. Congratulations. Thank you. Okay, we have one more council. Well, Councilwoman Gilmore, will you please put Council Bill 13 zero nine on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 1309 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved in second in a hearing for Council Bill 13 zero nine is now open. May we have the staff report at lisa hall. Good evening, president and members of council on spoke with community planning and development here to present the case at 3087 South Sheridan. The existing zoning on the site is former Chapter 50 excuse me, former Chapter 59 B2 with waivers and the proposal is to go to SCC three X. Moving on to side two, you can see that the subject property is located in Council District two and in the Bear Valley neighborhood. On Slide four is a map of the subject property, location, aerial. And it is at the southwest corner of Colgate in South Sheridan Boulevard, near the Bear Valley Shopping Center. The property itself is a bit under one acre and it is currently used as a vacant surface parking lot. The request is to rezone from former Chapter 50 9b2 with waivers to a3x. The specific request is in the suburban neighborhood context. CC Standing for commercial corridor three is a maximum building height of three stories, and that X means that there's additional use limitations that are more stringent than those in, say, the SCC three. In the review of the existing context, the zoning of the property to the south is a3x with the property to the West as B2 with waivers, and the North is a former Chapter 59 PD and across the street to the east as assumed, which is a single unit zoned district. Bear Valley Shopping Center is primarily B3, which is a former Chapter 59 zoning as well as some other SCC three x. Specifically, though, what is currently on the site is two waivers. The first is leaving the right to allow for any sort of adult uses. It's important to note here that now adult uses are captured within a use overlay which cannot be mapped or expanded in the city of Denver. So it's currently not allowed on this site and the rezoning will not enable for any adult uses on the site. Secondarily, in the primary purpose of the rezoning is the waiver to construct anything within 100 feet of South Sheridan with a the zone lot of a depth of about 112 feet. It really prohibits any sort of development from occurring on the site. And through the evaluation of this, the intent to waive that really wasn't seemed to be important moving forward as all the rest of the area has developed since then, as this is very old waivers. The waivers were in play prior to the Bear Valley Shopping Center. So as we can see, more development has occurred. That is within 100 feet of South Sheridan and this is a remnant of it pardon. So from an existing land use perspective, the site is considered surface parking. There is an office tower and bank to the west and then we have some commercial uses to the north and south as well as quasi judicial to the east and single family residential to the northeast to acquire ourselves a little bit more with the suburban type of development. The top right photo is that of a Walgreens and the bottom is that of the site that you can see currently. So the process that has moved forward for this case has been standard with standard notification of notice to R.A., as well as sign posting on the property notifying of the planning board which recommended approval of the site. Notice for land use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, as well as notifications of this hearing here tonight. As of the date of this report as well as this evening, we have not received any comments specific to this application. Therefore, as we move through the rezoning criteria, we do have two citywide plans to review Plan 2000 as well as blueprint done for the land use and transportation plan. Comp Plan 2000 provides a variety of strategies. Few that I'll just highlight are promoting infill development within sites that already have the infrastructure in place, focusing our development along arterial corridors to understand their importance for commercial activity and encouraging infill development that's consistent with the character. Moving on to Blueprint Denver. The subject property is considered a town center which is intended to provide uses that provide shopping, entertainment service, employment needs that not only serve the needs of the neighborhood but the larger region. It is an area of stability, meaning that we are wanting to maintain the current pattern of growth while accommodating for some reinvestment in the area. This is consistent with the street classification of South Sheridan Boulevard being a residential arterial, providing services for residences in the area and West Cole as an undesignated local. Moving further on to the other review criteria, we do find that this is uniform in the district regulations and application across the city. This application furthers the public health, safety and welfare through the implementation of city adopted plans. SAP has also conducted a review of the B2 with waivers to the West and concluded that no adverse impacts will occur by removing this portion out of the B2 with waivers. The justifying circumstances is that since the time of these waivers in the early seventies, there's undergone significant redevelopment of the Baer Valley Shopping Center, changing the character of the area, making the site appropriate for development. And we find that it is consistent with the neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intent of the suburban neighborhood district. And as such, CPD does make the recommendation this evening to approve the rezoning based on the review that other criteria have been met. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have two speakers this evening. I loved him to come to the front. Troy Campbell and Lorraine Tucker. Campbell, your first 3 minutes. Good evening. My name is Troy Campbell. I'm with coffee engineering and surveying address 4045. St Cloud Parkway in. Loveland. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Laurie Tucker. Good evening. Thank you for allowing us to be here. My name's Laura Tucker. I'm with Verdad Real Estate located in Southlake, Texas. I'm here to answer any questions and. I don't know how to answer your questions. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Tucker. Welcome to Colorado. All right. This concludes our speakers. Are there any questions for members of council? All right. Seeing none that the public hearing for Council Bill 13 zero nine is now close. Comments by members of Council Councilman Flynn. There we go. Thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to check to make sure this wasn't a mirage and that there actually was a reason requesting counsel to speak to my predecessor. Councilwoman Fox, I believe, had told me that there had not been a rezoning for the last six years, at least, of her tenure. So I imagine this is the seven year itch. I have had no concerns from any any constituents in my in my district or any other businesses. So I'm happy to support this tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. I feel guilty not asking a question since you came all the way from Texas. But I just wanted to take this moment to congratulate Aunt Elise. She is now the lead role of the slot home task force. So since I have chosen this venue, I'm going to do it. So thank you for taking that on. So sorry. All right. Are you excited to take that? I'm just joking. Okay. Councilman Nu. I just want to congratulate Councilman Flynn on getting a rezoning in his district. We've been waiting many, many a day for this event, and we want to remember this was not as big as the Super Bowl last night, but this is a great event. And so we're proud of what you're doing. I also had a question, if this is the second highest point in your district. I want to. Share. Okay. Thank you. Mr. President. Yeah, no problem. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mr. President. That was in the vein of I forgot to ask that during the questions. But is this the highest rezoning we've had since we've been on council? May I respond to the scurrilous comments? Yes. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. No, it is not. It's in Bear Valley, so it's one of the lower points in the highest district in the city. If you can't have fun on council and can. Yeah. Hey, I want to just. Councilman as well as you back up. I just want to acknowledge Kevin's admission that he's worked on. The lowest point of of he. Involved in the lowest point of the district, too. Right. I want to thank everybody for for working hard on this. Councilman Flynn, congratulations on your first rezoning. May I make one more comment? Well, in a serious vein, when I said I've talked to some constituents, the business that's contemplated here, if I might, might I say. No. Okay. I've talked to some I've talked to some of the I've talked to some of the one of the in particular one of the business owners in the district who directly competes. And he had no serious concerns with it and and and isn't here to this evening as well. So with that, I suggest folks join me in voting. Yes. Thank you. All right. The wheels are falling off on this. Madam Secretary, take us home. Rocker Flynn, I, Gilmore, I Herndon I cash in. I can eat new Ortega I Sussman my black eye. Clark Espinosa. I Hi. Mr. President. I Please close the voting and announce the results. 1212 IES Council Bill 13 zero nine has passed. Congratulations. Monday, February 13th, the day before Valentine's Day, 2017. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 55, approving an amendment to the St Anthony's St Anthony Urban Redevelopment Plan for Sloan's BLOCK three project and creating other signs

Adopt resolution directing the Director of Development Services to submit a request to the California Coastal Commission to certify an amendment to the Certified Local Coastal Program. (Citywide)

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Motion carries. Thank you. Hearing three report from Development Services and Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt negative declaration 05-17. Declare Ordinance Amending and restating Chapter 5.58 and amending Title 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code, all relating to regulations of massage establishments read for the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting for final reading and adopt a resolution to submit a request to the California Coastal Commission to certify an amendment to the Certified Local Coastal Program Citywide. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Is there a public comment on this hearing? CNN. Do we need a staff report that we have the data in front of us? We do a few. We do. I did one. Okay. Please go ahead. Carrie Thai, our current planning officer, will have a short report. Good evening again. Before you, tonight is a request to amend the city's regulations for massage uses in accordance with recent changes in state law. There some background on state law, but basically in 2008, the state prevented local jurisdictions from regulating massage. They have since updated the state law, which does allow us to regulate massage uses as long as they have certification. This pertains to Title five and Title 21 of the Municipal Code. Title five hasn't been updated since 1988 and so clearly is outdated. And then also Title 21 treated massage uses as adult entertainment businesses and state law now prohibits us from doing that. So those are the causes of the two updates. The proposed Title five amendments, like I mentioned, have to do with reflecting state law, but it also basically allows for massage businesses to operate not only just as accessory , but also as primary uses. And it has a whole licensing system that's proposed. And then Title 21, like I mentioned, would remove massages from adult entertainment uses, allow them to be permitted as massages, and require an administrative use permit, which is a process that requires a public hearing application fees and has conditions of approval to allow us to enforce the massage uses. There is a buffer of 750 feet that separates primary Massachusetts, and that's one of the most important details about location. So the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on this in February and has recommended that the Council approve this application. Our project. Thank you. That's what Andrew's council member. Pierce. Yes. Thank you, guys, for all your work on this. I had some clarifying questions. It was stated to me in the briefing that this brought us into alignment with the state rules and regulations on massage parlors. Can you clarify, does the state allow for a massage therapist to get a license and practice massage in her home or his home? Yes. So this ordinance would not allow for massage has to be a home occupation. So that is that is the state might allow for certification and allow for somewhere for operation in a home. But our ordinance does not allow that was my question because I was told that we were being brought up to alignment with the state. And then once I looked at this in detail, found out that that part was not included as somebody. My grandmother was a massage therapist. She had a half of her home dedicated to that business. And I have several residents have reached out to my office that have been frustrated with the system and Long Beach. And so it was my hope and expectation that this would align with the state level on that. So could I get some clarity on why we might have left that out? I, I would just like to just say that we were essentially looking at the inconsistencies in state law in the sense that our code was really outdated in. Terms of how massage is. Treated as a professional service. It's changed over time. In our code. We're still in a period where massage was treated as an adult use, essentially, so our code really needed to be brought up to speed. So the fundamental change that we made was to not consider an adult use, but to change kind of how it was classified as a professional service, which is what it's generally recognized as today. So the state law is probably more permissive than the local law, and ours was essentially putting in place regulations to essentially regulate it as a professional service under generally the same standards, which is as a professional business as opposed to a home occupation. Okay. So what changes would need to be made to allow for somebody to to conduct this professional business, our home business, a lot of misuse start in their home before they open up a storefront. So I want to, you know, make sure that I'm responding to my constituents concerns on this. We currently do have home occupation, a home occupation permit, and there are a number of occupations that that can be done in the home, but there are some. That could not. And the message at this point is one of those that is not authorized, because we didn't change the code. We didn't anticipate. Having massages done in the home. This was strictly massage as a a business opportunity. So my question might be for for the city attorney or what would need to be done to make that change? Can we make that change today or do we need to make that change somewhere else? I believe we'd have to come back because the zoning code would also have to be amended and that would have to go through a planning commission. Okay. Can we get a motion in a second? And Councilwoman Margot. So two additional points that were brought up by massage therapist storefronts in my district. I don't believe this can be folded in tonight, but I would like to see if there are currently storefronts that have expanded and they have multiple facilities now within the city limits and currently under the current business licensing. If you are a hairdresser, someone who does nails, someone who gives massages, you actually need to get a business license at each and every address that you execute according to what they were told by development services when they came here. So if that is true, I'll try to work with you over the next several weeks so that when those licensing fees come back to the Council through the budget process, that perhaps we could find a way that they wouldn't need multiple licenses, they could just do a small add on per location or something along those lines. Because what we're hearing is now that they're opening multiple locations, it's getting difficult for the massage therapists to move between facilities when demand changes. And so they're looking at opening a third one, but they won't open one now because of this restriction and they don't want to have a whole new staffing process. So if we could look at that between now and then, it would be great if that came back through the budget cycle. Thank you. We can certainly work with the finance department to look at the business licensing because that's a business license. Well, we. Understand the concern and we'll. Work with finance to address that issue. Appreciate it. And it would be for people who come here and provide nail supply services and massage services. They all have the same licensing mechanism. Thank you. Thank you. And that's the final. We already called to comment on this. I think we did. Is there any public comment? Okay, so please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Let's move on to the consent calendar. Can we keep the consent calendar, please? Okay. So I made the motion. I don't see a second here. Is there a second on the calendar? Okay. It's been moved in.

Recommendation to request City Attorney to prepare an ordinance (1) amending Chapter 5.81 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (“Tobacco Retail Permit”) to prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products, except for those products sold at hookah lounges and premium cigars under certain conditions, within the City, and (2) repeal Chapter 5.94 of the Long Beach Municipal Code (“Sale of Certain Flavored Tobacco Products”) temporarily prohibiting the sale of certain flavored tobacco products within the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Well, we go on to the next item, please. We're gonna do item number nine. Item number nine report from Health and Human Services. Recommendation to request city attorney to prepare an ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code to prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products citywide. Turning it over to the staff or the city attorney have a report or comment on this. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We'll have a staff report from Kelly Collopy, our director of Health and Human Services. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and Council Members. Thank you for this opportunity to discuss the request to establish an ordinance to prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products except for hookah lounges and premium cigars under certain conditions. A December 3rd, 2019, the City Council adopted Chapter 5.9 for the Long Beach Municipal Code, a temporary prohibition of the sale of certain flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigarillos, flavored electronic smoking devices, flavored electronic smoked smoking device fluid and menthol cigarets. As of January 4th, 2021, this has expired. We thank Councilwoman Price for bringing this item forward in 2019 and first supported this Council to pass that temporary measure. In August 2020, the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 793 to ban the sale of flavor tobacco products statewide. The ban prohibits the sale of all flavored tobacco products in California, with the exemption of hookah and premium cigars under certain circumstances. The Senate bill is more comprehensive than the temporary ban that was implemented in Long Beach, covering a wider array of flavored tobacco products such as flavored smokeless tobacco products. Senate Bill 793 was slated for implementation starting on January 1st, 2021. However, implementation has been postponed pending the outcome of a referendum planned slated for 2022. Statewide election. As of December 2020 over 60 jurisdictions in California currently have taken action independent of state action to regulate the sale of flavored tobacco products, and many more are currently working on ordinances at this time. Cities such as Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach have banned the sale of all tobacco products. Our Health and Human Services Department strongly recommends that the City Council take immediate action to adopt a permanent prohibition of the sale of all flavored tobacco products in the city, except for hookah rounders and premium cigars under certain conditions, as outlined in Senate Bill 793 to protect the public health of our community. We recommend this based on compelling data regarding youth utilization of flavored nicotine products. Impacts of nicotine to the youth brain and health. The Future Addiction. Based on early use of these products, it's essential to take immediate action for the safety of our youth. Nationwide, youth e-cigarette usage has grown nearly 20 fold in less than ten years, increasing from 1.5% in 2011 to 23.6%, including nearly 5% of middle school students in 2020. Both the FDA and the U.S. Surgeon General have declared that use use of e-cigarettes is an epidemic. Flavored tobacco products are currently the current youth. Driving are driving the current youth vaping epidemic. 81% of youth who have ever used tobacco product initiated with a flavored product. This includes all types of flavored products, including cigarillos, hookah and menthol products. Nearly 40% of youth who use e-cigarettes have never been cigaret smokers. It's the flavored e-cigarettes that are engaging them in Nicorette and nicotine use nicotine as damaging effects on the developing brain, which continues to develop up until about the age of 25. It changes adolescent brain cell activity in the parts of the brain responsible for attention, learning and memory and can interfere with emotion and impulse control in the future. A younger person is. A younger person is. When they start using nicotine, the more likely they are to become addicted. As of 2017, there are more than 15,500 unique e-cigarette flavors available, such as cotton candy, gummy bear and juice boxes. Flavors can create the false impression that a tobacco product is less harmful than it really is and lead to increased nicotine intake. An average cigaret contains 6 to 12 milligrams of nicotine and a user inhales approximately 1 to 2 milligrams. Flavored product range and nicotine levels from just above 0 to 90 milligrams a day for pods or about 41 milligrams of nicotine and puff bars are at about 50 milligrams of nicotine ether, often aware of the amount of nicotine they are. Vaping and vape devices also deliver nicotine more effectively and generally and higher content. In addition, the flavor additives themselves can contain chemicals that are harmful when inhaled. According to the Surgeon General, some of the flavorings found in e-cigarettes have been shown to cause serious lung disease when inhaled. At least ten chemicals identified in e-cigarette aerosol around California's Proposition 65 list of carcinogens and reproductive toxins. To add to the concern. E-cigarette products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not yet subject to manufacturing standards. Studies have found that even though 91% studies have found that 91% of e-liquids marketed as nicotine free actually do contain some level of nicotine. Menthol cigarets are also concerning as they pose more of a risk than traditional cigarets because menthol users may be inclined to smoke more due to the masking nature of the mint flavor. Additionally, an analysis conducted by Truth Initiative found that partial flavor bans that exclude menthol as a flavor increase the risk of flavored tobacco users switching to menthol tobacco products. There also is a link between COVID and smoking and vaping. Emerging research is showing an ever stronger link between COVID 19 and smoking and vaping. Studies show that the smoking doubles your risk of severe symptoms, such as hospitalization and death from COVID 19. And it stems from the fact that menthol and other tobacco flavorings and e-cigarettes increase the severity of lung related, lung related illness so it's harder to recover from COVID. A separate study from Stanford University shows that teenagers and young adults were five times more likely to be impacted by COVID than peers that don't vape. The Health Department has continued through all of this to provide a robust prevention program, including partnerships with Long Beach Unified School District, the YMCA, Youth Leadership Institute, Families in Good Health at St Mary Medical Center, and many other community based organizations to bring vaping education to youth in Long Beach. This program conducts an annual seven week summer leadership program focused on youth capacity building and engaging youth in conversations on tobacco control issues and how to make their communities healthier. Your Health Department seeks your support to pass a permanent ban on all flavored tobacco products with an exemption for hookah and premium cigars under certain conditions, as outlined in Senate Bill 793. That ends my presentation. I'm open for questions. Thank you. Have Councilwoman Pryce, have you up first? I do have a pretty lengthy public comment if you want to go to public comment. Or did you want to make comments first? I'll just make some brief comments. I don't really have a need to hear myself talk, especially after that eloquent presentation by staff. Thank you very much. It was very detailed. I fully support this and I urge my colleagues to do so as well. The only clarification question I had is I know that the state exempts hookah lounges as well as hookah retail. I just want to make sure that our ordinance would align with the state. So I just have a point of clarification. Yes, the ordinance would align with the state. The state allows for retail for only if people if it's for 21 and over as a say so. It would allow for retail in that in that situation. Okay. Thank you. And, Mr. Mayor, I don't have any additional comment. So if you want to go to public comment, I defer. Entirely to you. Okay. Great. I will. Go ahead. I think that's emotion. I do have a second, but I think it's Councilman Austin. Councilman, should we do public comment and then I'll come back to you. Councilman Austin. Yes. That would be fine, Mr. Mayor. Okay. So, Madam Clerk, let's go through public comment, then. Our first speaker is Eva carbonara. Diva. Hello, carbonara. Uh. Yes. Hello? Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Okay. Perfect. How are the city council members? My name is Ava Carbonaro, District four, resident and senior at Wilson High School. Although much has changed for youth of Long Beach over the past year, there's still an invisible plague that haunts us. A virus that, in addition to the rise of COVID 19, threatens the lives and wellbeing of those it captures. Youth, nicotine addiction and the appeal of flavored vaping products is as dangerous as ever. Pandemic withstanding. As mentioned, previously youthful vapor up to seven times more likely to contract COVID 19 and suffer even more severe symptoms. Returning to in-person learning will never be safe as long as smoking persists on my campus. As a teenager and lifetime Long Beach resident, I urge you City Council to implement a permanent ban on the sale of flavored tobacco and ensure the safety of my peers. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Amir Khan. Amir. Brian. Yes. Please begin. Amir. Yeah. Hello. Yes, Ameer, please begin your public comment for item nine. Yes. I'm a store owner. I have two locations in six and four. And my comment was like, we've been hurting before. Like our business down by 30%. I wish it works, but what happens when you guys pass the law? All the business will signal help. Nothing changed except we lose business. It was the next city. All my customers. And then after you guys allow us to sell, buy from us after we stock up, now is going to happen the same thing. All our business is going to go down and all the money along with money is going to go to the next city. So I don't see was helpful. I wish the works but it wasn't helpful. It does give more business to the next city. That's my comment. So please consider we've been hurting because of quarantine. And then again, we're going to get hurt more after we purchase all this inventory. Then why not wait like the whole California people if they're going to vote on it? Why not? We'd like California to hold the whole state. Why? Only long before they do that? To harm us more and more with the coronavirus in the top of that. All the money goes to a different city. I don't know any of my customers. They stop because of smoke. Except. Thank you. Our next speaker is Charlie Patel. So. Hi, my name's Charlie Patella. I'm also a store owner. And like in last six months, once we banned flavored tobacco, all sales go to our neighbor city. And you look at like sales data, like about more than 70% of people of Long Beach, they smoke like menthol cigarets. And right now they're talking about like smoking is dangerous. But how do you consider like flavored tobacco is only dangerous? Non play what is not dangerous for smoking and please wait until California State decides to stop all state like menthol ban. Then it's going to stay the same customer either way all customer try to next city and they buy cigarets from them. Yeah. And for menthol you cannot stop anybody like that. Be like otherwise you have to make a distinction or something like that. So my concern please wait until the state here we decide like posted stop w where tobacco and menthol cigarets then so do not do right now at least due to COVID at least give us businessmen a little bit of any time. Either way, it's hurting too much to our business. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jamie Rojas. Good evening, Mayor and council members. My name is Hyman. I'm with the National Association Tobacco Outlets representing many of the retailers in Long Beach. We are definitely against the ordinance that's proposed. It's a shame that we're in the middle of a pandemic and the Long Beach Public Health Department is focused on this issue versus the issue of opening up business, vaccinations, distribution. And it's a wonder why things are a rea in regards to dealing with situations of public health in general. We completely oppose it. And I hope city councilor realizes that all they're doing is closing more businesses and losing the economic opportunities of businesses reviving in Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mark Torno. Good evening. Long Beach Mayor Garcia and City Council members. My name is Mark Torno and my family owns and operates Long Beach Circle K, which is a 76 station Circle K located at 6370 Strand Street in Long Beach, Palo Verde and Stearns. We're located in District four with our council member, Super Nine. We've been I've been a business owner in the city of Long Beach for 23 years, and I love Long Beach. I spent $2.1 million three years ago to rebuild this site and make it a beautiful site in the city of Long Beach. I pay a lot of business licenses to the city, to the health department. Business licenses. I pay a tobacco license and we oppose putting a ban on flavored cigarets. We're here to. To sell to our customers to make it so they don't go to other cities. You know, when they had that temporary ban on, we lost a lot of business. This year, our business is down over 30% due to COVID. I think right now we need to focus on saving lives. We got a lot of people dying from COVID. I think the health department needs to focus on that and that's not focus on labor. Cigarets Right now it's up to state do their job. You know, the state has that. Yeah. They're going to be voting on that state. Thank you. Our next speaker is Myra Batista. Myra Batiste. My Rabbi Battista. Sorry. Thank you. Hi. My name is Myra Batiste and I represent Natal. I like to give the examples of cities that have adopted a flavor ban and how it only makes adult customers travel to nearby cities and spend their money elsewhere. I'm taking away revenue from small. Businesses and still the youth. Find it online. And elsewhere. In are not regulated entities that they're going to find and that's going to be the problem. The mission of the city is to help and keep the underage usage of tobacco. Well, the stores that have legal appeal systems, that white cards are not the problem. Instead, the city should look at different ways that the retailers should help with school officials and find solutions and not take away from their revenue. I say please, please stick with SB 793. Give them a year and a half at least. This is something that at the very least, the city of Long Beach should be supporting their small businesses. So we should not be destroying them right now. There's a pandemic going on and right now we need to work together. The businesses, we do not feel supported by the city of Long Beach, and we want to be heard that this is not something that can be decided in one city council meeting. Please wait for the state. Do not hurt the businesses anymore and support us. Let's create let's create committees for small businesses to work with, with the schools and with the city. Let's work together. Stick with us. Thank you. Our next speaker is Michael Rowe, a child? Hi there. My name is Mike. For the past couple of months, I've had the opportunity to get signatures to declare the California flavor tobacco ban until people can vote on it. Because of this opportunity, I was able to talk to thousands of people about this issue. The main consensus was that we should wait for the voters to decide. Of all the people I talked to, I want to focus on the younger generation and what they said to us. Almost every response I got from the younger people was, I don't care about the ban. I will get it either way. They said they would get it from different cities out of state. Online, which is unregulated or the scariest part is from dealers on the street. A lot of the stores that I went. Who they're already dealers selling illegal drugs outside the stores. And now young people are going to go to those same dealers, get unregulated, questionable products that might contain other harmful drugs. I know that in many past cases, dealers have also added stronger drug products to their clientele. Please, we don't want our kids to have any more access to harmful drugs. Let's wait for the state to figure out a better way. Thank you. Thank your next speaker is Primo Castro. Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Primo Castro, government relations director with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Our goal is to reduce tobacco use and prevent cancer in our communities. We ask that staff be directed to draft the strongest ordinance possible to protect all residents of Long Beach from flavored tobacco. Specifically, this ordinance should include the following all flavored tobacco products, including menthol, mint and Wintergreen, include all flavored tobacco premium cigars, cigarillos, pipe, tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and loose leaf tobacco. Include all sheets of flavored tobacco products and exclude any exemptions for any tobacco product in this ordinance. Again, big tobacco continues to addict countless lives through the use of candy flavored tobacco, including flavored sheesha products levy tobacco continues to exploit communities in the name of profit. It is clear that Big Tobacco has not learned the lessons from the late 1990 tobacco master settlement agreement that found reprehensible practices to take tobacco advertising, marketing and promotion of these and cigarets to targeted communities. As one of the leading public health authorities, we continue to push for public policies that protect public health against cancer and other chronic illnesses. It is the reason, along with other public health organizations, we have led the fight to push for needed changes such as Pot 56. And thank you. Our next speaker is Vanessa Battista. Hello. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. My name is Vanessa, and I'd just like to start off by saying, in high school, I had the pleasure of working with the lieutenant governor and went on to work for the United States Senate. And tonight, I'd like to speak on behalf of my generation. I think one of the worst things that we can do for our youth in our upcoming generations is take away their right to make a choice, take away the right as a voter to express their voice and take away the right to education. Banning stuff. Taking stuff away has never helped. It's never worked in terms of the prohibition with alcohol. It doesn't work with abstinence. In fact, teen mothers that are pregnant have that are addicted to smoking cigarets are actually being told and encouraged to move on to vaping because there's less side effects and less harm for them, their bodies and their babies bodies. So vaping can be a big help to those who need it. And taking away the right to purchase tobacco isn't going to help education. Kids need to be able to learn. Education needs to start at home and in school. And furthermore, please consider the businesses, the local businesses, by giving them time. Let the California voters express their voice during SB 793. And don't take the businesses into your hands. Let California voice their opinions, exercise their vote, and be educated. Thank you for this time. Thank you. Our next speaker is after nine. The good. Hello. Yes. Afternoon. It's been a motif name. Yes. I would talk about my experience. Hello? Yes. Please begin your comment. Okay. I have a store in Long Beach. The border? Ramone Beach. And now you want to burn the minister and the Veep? I have a customer. We're going on Paramount. Buying the Cigarets the menthol cigarets from over there sale on Long Beach. Now you looking at that? I am losing my business. Just wait for the state for your voting. Give the customers the right to vote this or no thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Victor Sandoval. Hello. I please begin. Salutation to council members. My name is Victor Sandoval. I'm in the eighth District of Long Beach under Al Alston, but graduated from Jordan High School and I'm currently attending PCC. I would just like to inform you that I believe a permanent flavored tobacco ban would do this community well because of how flavored tobacco has been gaining prevalence within the youth of Long Beach, the Stanford School of Medicine stated that 97% of kids who smoke have done so with flavored tobacco products. This number amounted to 3.6 million kids from middle to high school. Imagine how much that number can be reduced by withdrawing flavored tobacco products. The reason why I want this effort to buy tobacco better passed is so the kids don't fall into addiction by flavored tobacco products, which can hurt them, especially during a pandemic. Please prioritize the health of our kids over the profit of us or another city like Signal Hill. Thank you for your time. Take care. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. With that, I'm going to go ahead and go back around. And I have Councilmember Austin. I have a motion and a second by Councilmember Austin. Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I also want to thank our staff for the presentation and the comments from the public. I want to thank Council Member Susie Price for bringing this item forward and back in December of 2019 and for the City Council for their bold support of a temporary ban on flavored tobacco here in the city. I think it was the right thing to do. It was the right decision. Moral decision. Because we know that the outcomes for youth are impacted negatively if they pick up addicting habits as youth, particularly smoking. A lot was said about our council's focus and our health department's focus, and I can I know for a fact that we are focused like a laser beam on COVID 19 and reducing our numbers there. But I think as other items come up this evening of those paying attention to the council meeting, we also understand that our focus is also on youth this evening and improving the outcomes for our youth in the city of Long Beach. I think some of the points were well taken and I do have a couple of questions just to follow up. But this permanent ban by having a permanent ban, I think we reduce the addiction to tobacco or for youth. We reduce the access for our youth and we reduce hopefully have impacts in reducing actual smoking habits among youth here in the city of Long Beach. And hopefully we can figure out some way to measure those outcomes over time. We want to also understand that that smoking leads to harmful outcomes, health outcomes, respiratory disease, cancer, even death. I mentioned when this item was before us. Before that I've lost loved ones, my own mother to lung cancer and smoking. And this this this smoking and the negative outcomes disproportionately do affect. Black people and communities of color. And so, you know, the moral thing to do, the right thing to do would be to turn to Turkey to support this this permanent ban. But I did have a quick question. Just understanding the state legislation and how it impacts other cities as it as was mentioned by some of the speakers and perhaps that this is for our city attorney or the city manager of the state legislation that currently bans flavored tobacco statewide. Can you give us an update on where that at and how that impacts other cities and what happens if we don't pass? An ordinance in the city of Lombard permanently banning. Taylor Anderson is on the on the line to answer respond to that question. TAYLOR Good evening, Councilmember. So Senate Bill seven 3793 was supposed to take effect January 1st of this year. The tobacco companies actually ended up gathering enough signatures for there to be a referendum. So and there is an injunction preventing this bill from becoming effective. So right now, there is no state law, in effect, prohibiting flavored tobacco products. It will go on the 2022 ballot for the voters of California to decide how to move forward. And it's my understanding that other cities in the interim are anticipating or waiting for that outcome, have banned flavored tobacco products because there is no state law in effect. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. I would just say that that I do understand the impact to to our small businesses and operators who have enjoyed selling this retail product for for many years. Well, but it's a horrible product and one that is is, again, the problem with our youth accessing these products in our retail stores. I really wish everybody played by the rules and this was only applicable and everybody and we were talking and having our only adult conversation. But this this impacted significant population in our city and we're doing our best. And the intent here is to to protect our youth. And that that is that is why I will be supporting this. I do understand the the the unintended consequences or creating an illicit market, I hope will will not be the case. But and I do believe that the economic impact on the city in terms of in terms of sales tax revenue is going to be negligible. But I would like to, if possible, have have that information and that information studied as well. But I'm supporting this item because I think it's the right thing to do and I encourage my colleagues to do the same. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, I have Councilwoman Mango. Thank you. If I could get an answer from the health department as well. I'm interested in knowing if the target is to eliminate youth, getting access to tobacco products that we may not be bringing forward an item that has more strict guidelines and consequences for businesses that violate the. And sell to miners. And we talk a lot about the health order. And we have restaurants that violate in restaurants that are good. And we wouldn't want to shut down all the restaurants because two or three restaurants aren't meeting the health guidelines. We would then want to enforce and shut down the restaurants that are the problem. Why are we not bringing forward an item that says one strike? You lose your tobacco license completely. You're both adult and your adult your license to sell adult products at all. So that's my question for the health department. Councilmember right there. Sort of two pieces to that. One, the developing brain goes until about the age of 25. Currently, any sort of focus right now is the age of 21 around tobacco products. And so it goes beyond the the limit for which people are monitoring the utilization of vaping. The other is that there are a number of adults who have never been smokers who had who had begun vaping and also, you know, increasing the level of nicotine and other addictions going forward. So we are focusing on youth, particularly because of the impact on brain and long term development. But that does go up through at least age 25, for which no one is, you know, focusing on the ability to sell their as well as on adult. And. When the state brings this item on the ballot. If the voters approve the measure as written, wouldn't this overturn our own local? Ordinance. If the state passes the ordinance, then we would request that we become part of the statewide. Which the signatures that were collected were for. Allowing flavored. No. Well, so if the if the. So I'm going to turn that over. The city attorney, though, explain it better. Yeah. I was just going. Let me help. Let me help. Yeah. Yeah. I'm confused by the number of comments I've received in my inbox, and I can't even tell the difference anymore between one side or the other. Yeah. No, it's okay. And this this is a this issue keeps growing, too. So the council letter, letter and recommendation from the health department as written would actually have a sunset provision in it. So upon the effective date of a statewide ban and our local ban that mirrored the state's language would be terminated. And so only the statewide ban would be in place unless the council took a different action. So what the voters are going to vote on statewide in the 2022 election is to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products statewide instead of just at the local level. And it would be it's just about all flavored tobacco products. The state did carve out an exception for hookah lounges and then higher end, higher end cigar products. I believe it's a $12 is the threshold for cigars and flavored marijuana is not in the ordinance either. So no flavor. Marijuana is regulated by a different chapter in the state law. So this is strictly under tobacco products. Okay. Well, my preference would be and I, I voiced this before, but it doesn't seem to have gotten any traction. I preference would be that when you have a bad actor who does something wrong, they should lose their ability to participate in the game. When we say, okay, well, here's I can give you an example. There was a vape shop in my district that has now gone under and now that land that landlord is out rent, the tenant has debt, the storefront is vacant and I cannot find anyone who will give me an example of any time they've seen a youth in his store, he particularly catered to adults and specifically focused on individuals who wanted to quit smoking cigarets and move over to flavored vape. And so in that case, we've lost jobs, we've lost viability. That storefront is now vacant during the pandemic and many of you know the challenges that come with vacant storefronts. And so just the the ripple effect of this policy, which I think kind of pairs with the same discussion I've had with Mr. Modica related to the ordinances that the Health Department puts out. The Health Department says, you know, we want 60 people six feet apart. And then they put out an ordinance or a health order that says we want be feet apart, because when people are asked to be eight feet apart, their chairs scoot and they become six feet apart. But yet for Mongo, you're 5 minutes, right? Thank you. There are unintended consequences because if we said the thing that we're trying to accomplish and legislated to what we are trying to accomplish, there would be less unintended consequences. Thanks to Mexico Councilwoman Allen. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to I just have a comment. I wanted to say that this is a public health issue. And I want to thank staff for taking the lead on this in light of Senate Bill 793 postponement. I also want to thank everyone who contacted my office to voice their support for this item. I think it's really important that I hear from the constituents and the residents on such critical issues like this. Labor, tobacco, and particularly vaping among the youth is something I'm definitely concerned about. Personally, my son quit his menthol cigarets because the band he just got out tired of driving out of the city to buy his menthol cigarets. And I'm here to tell you that the ban works. We are saving lives and we are helping our youth. And I think this is a may your step forward in improving the health of our communities. And again, I just want to thank staff and I want to thank the Health Department for their work on this. We're doing the right thing. Thank you. Thank you. Got some of your Ringo. Appreciate other comments have been made, I guess, to put it clarification legislatively. So the the the referendum that's going to come in 2022 is to. Have a permanent ban or not. So we adopt the permanent ban. What happens in 2022 if the referendum does not pass and it is not there? So council members. Are on the other way. Yeah. So council member if if tonight this council directs my office to draft an ordinance and an ordinance is put in place to ban flavored tobacco locally and the state does not implement a ban. Then the local ban would remain in place until this council either amended it or repealed it. Okay, that's all I have clarity that. Councilmember Super now. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you to everyone who participated in public comment. I just have one question, and I think it's for Taylor Anderson, and that is, should this item pass tonight? What would the timing be? When would that be brought back to council? Or more importantly, when would a ban go into effect? Good evening, Councilmember. I believe that we could get it back to you within the next couple of months. I don't even think that it would take that long because we have we have the states language to look to. So it should be fairly easy to implement. And then I'm sorry, what was the second question? Well, would it would there be a grace period built into that ordinance? Is that what you intend on bringing back? Oh, yes. For the retailers. Okay. So is in the council letter from the health department, there is actually a three month moratorium to allow the vendors to sell any product that they would have acquired between January 1st to now recognizing that our local vendors likely had acquired product. The time period is shorter than the last time that this council enacted a moratorium. And that's just recognizing that the amount of time that the vendors have had to acquire product, it's a it's a very short window, which is why it's only three months, I believe last time it was 180 days. Councilmember. Did you have anything else? No, no. The mute button is a little sticky tonight. I apologize. Thank you. Okay. Councilman's in the house. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you so much to Councilmember Price for bringing this forward for our city staff. I think that this is a very important item to bring forward. I know that a lot of our of our youths, including our Latino and black communities, are the most affected. And so it is always an it is always a priority of mine to see how we can improve the outcome of our youths. And so by providing such a and I think that we can definitely improve the quality of life, not only of our youth, but also of their families in this community. I do, however, appreciate all of the public comments, and I, I know that, you know, these are tough times, but we really have to look at the fact that this these tobaccos are really harmful to our youth, especially in the early years. But they can have over over lasting consequences that will last throughout a lifetime. And so it's very important that we take action. And I'm very, very much in support of this. So thank you again, Councilmember Price. Thank you, Councilwoman Zoro. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Two council women price. Excuse me for leading on this item. And I also want to thank Ms.. Collopy and the department for working on this. And I just want to share that I appreciate the comments and the letters and the meeting I've had with various members of the community that's concerned about these items. And I also want to share that the you know, the tobacco industry has also just really had a long history of targeting communities of colors and youth of color, especially around how flavored e-cigarettes and vapes have always been a risk for addiction for our youth, especially since a majority of youth of color lives in my district , as well as the north, west and north Long Beach. And how? And also the number of retailers that are in the district as well, making the accessibility of it that it is there. And I and I am in support of this item because I think it's really important that we decrease the accessibility and that we ensure that we increase our young people's health. And and so and for that, I'm a part of it. Thank you. Vice Mayor Richardson. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. I won't take too much time. Congratulations to all involved. Councilwoman Price, when you when you stepped up and let this is obviously was a trigger for the whole state. So congratulations to you. We all know what this is about. Flavor, tobacco targets, young people. And we all are unified and making sure that we make the right decisions and that we move away from these practices. I can remember as a kid, the ice cream truck had little, you know, little pieces of candy blow on it and it looks like a cigaret and smoke will come out. Little pieces of a pieces of ground and we move away from all of those things. So I think this is the right thing to do. And this obviously has my support. Councilman Price. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to the comments from my council colleagues. This really is a public health issue. And when we brought this item forward in 2019, it was long before COVID and we knew the public health risks, and now the public health risks are exasperated. In light of everything we know about COVID and protecting our communities from being vulnerable to illnesses like COVID in the future, hopefully we don't have anything like this again, but I think it's really made us all mindful of what we can do to get at the root of the problems and make sure that people are strong and are able to fight anything that comes their way from a health standpoint. I think that I just want to I want to thank everyone who called in, especially the businesses. But I do want to just remind folks that when we brought this item forward, I'm not sure how many remember my comments at the time. I really wanted this to be a permanent ban then, but we made it a temporary ban as a way to mitigate the impacts on the businesses. And we alerted them that we were providing sufficient time for them to pivot in light of the scientific research regarding these products. Regarding the national conversation and gave them time to try to get rid of the products that they had and think about an alternate business model. And what I shared with a lot of those businesses is I'm a small business owner myself. If there were research that came out that said the products that we were providing to people was scientifically found to have a public health risk. As an industry, I know that myself and other businesses in our category would have to shift and pivot understanding that the industry was changing forever. And I understand that they're scared and this is going to have a negative impact, but we can't ignore the national conversation that's happening. And in a way, to say that we're pro-business, we are pro-business. I think this entire council does everything we can to help our small businesses. But when we've got public health versus supporting business, we've got to find a way to move forward that doesn't endanger public health. You can't even compare the two. And I just want to make sure that everybody understands this is something that we did tremendous outreach on. And because of COVID, the item hasn't even come back to council. So there's been plenty of time for our business owners to be able to get rid of their product and anticipate the changes in the industry and pivot in light of those. And so with that, I want to be sensitive to them, whatever the city can do to help them pivot their industry in terms of what they're selling and how they're marketing in light of this new reality for them, I think we would do happily, but this is a national conversation. It is a statewide reality. And if the voters disagree with what we're doing today, then we can reassess the situation then. But until then, I just want to thank my colleagues and just remind everyone this is really about a public health issue and nothing more. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. With that, that concludes council comment. I do have a motion by Councilman Price and the second by Councilmember Austin. We can please do the roll call vote. District one. I. District two. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I. District six. District seven. By. District eight. Hi. District nine. All right. Motion carries.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2900 North Eudora Street, 2685 North Dahlia Street and 3025 North Glencoe Street in North Park Hill. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1, located at 2685 North Dahlia Street, and E-SU-DX to E-SU-D1X, located at 2900 North Eudora Street and 3025 North Glencoe Street, in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 3-29-22.

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If you have signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes. There is no yielding of time. If translation is needed, you will be given an additional 3 minutes for your comments to be interpreted. We will alternate between in-person and virtual for efficiency by calling in-person participants and then alternating the virtual participants. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council member can reach where you please put Council Bill 20 2-307 on the floor for final passage. I move that council bill 20 2-0307 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 2-307 is open. May we please have the staff report? Good evening. Council members and members of the public. My name is. It's an evaluation. I'm with CPD before you. Today we have three specific properties, one located on in Door Street and the other one in Gallia Street and then Glencoe Street. All three of them are single unit zone districts and they're applying for a single unit zoned district that allows for an accessory dwelling unit. Two of the properties are in the urban edge neighborhood context and one of them is in the urban neighborhood context. All three properties are located in Council District eight in the North Park Hill neighborhood. Um, as you can see, the three specific properties are single unit dwellings. The properties on Endura and Glencoe are 6000, just above 6000 square feet, and the Dahlia property is just over 8000. Close to 9000 square feet. Like I mentioned, each of these properties are single unit zoned districts that are applying for an accessory dwelling unit, which allows for a maximum height of 24 feet. And the minimum lot size for the urban neighborhood context is 5500 square feet, and the minimum lot size for the urban edge context is 6000 square feet, which. Um, now the zoning, like I mentioned, are two specific zoning districts. The first one, Dahlia, is located in the US, you see, which is a urban single unit city with a 5500 square foot minimum. And the other two properties, Endura and Glencoe, are in the east, which is the urban edge single unit D, which is a 6000, and the X would allow for urban and suburban forms. As you can see here, the indoor property is a single unit, land use. It is a one story structure. You can see it on the top left corner and then some of the single families across the street from it. The same thing with daylight. You can see here, it's a single unit, residential land use and the value property you can see on the top left is a one story structure and you can see similarly one story structures across the street as well. Then here is the Glen Cove property, which is like about 1.5 storeys in height. And you do have a mixture more here about between one and two stories. As you can see, some of the single families across the street is one and two stories. And so this went before planning board on March 16th. It was approved unanimously and it is before you. Today we have three comments, three letters of support, two letters of support, and then one letter of opposition. That letter of opposition pointed specifically on the quality of life. They had some concerns around traffic and parking. All three letters are attached to the staff report. And then there are five review criteria that we analyze that we get from the Denver zoning code, and I will jump through some of these. The first one is consistency with adopted plans. There are three plans that fall under this area which are comprehensive plan 2040, Blueprint, Denver, L.A. and Transportation Plan 2019 and the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan of 2000. There are several strategies specified in the staff report which these zone districts are consistent with, but I would just highlight a few of these under the equitable and affordable inclusive go to strategy a create a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families within the strong Atlantic neighborhood. Go one Strategy B Ensure neighborhoods offer a mix of housing types and services for all diverse populations, and then the environment for resilient goal h strategy a promote infill development where infrastructure and services already in place. When we're looking at a blueprint. DENVER The future neighborhood context for the Dahlia property is urban, which is more of a small multi-unit, residential and low intensity mixed use buildings, which are typically embedded in single unit and two unit residential areas. And then the properties for Endura and Glencoe are urban edge future neighborhood contexts, which are predominantly residential, and it tends to act as a transition between the urban and suburban areas. For the future place type it's all three properties are classified as residential low where it's predominately one two unit uses and accessory dwelling units are appropriate and as well as all three streets are classified as local or on designated streets, which are categorized predominantly by residential uses. And all three properties fall under all area, all other areas of the city for their future growth area, which we anticipate to see 10% of new employment and 20% of new housing, new housing in these areas. As well as blueprint has a policy regarding accessory dwelling is found in the in the land use and built form housing policy number four which talks about diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. Now when we jump into the Park Hill Neighborhood Plan, their specific sections, they talk about maintaining the existing character and the residential character, Park Hill, as well as compatible mix of housing types and densities, as well as action number three, which talks about create and maintain a mix of housing types that are all that are attractive and affordable. Now the staff report, it specifies how criteria two, three and five are consistent. And now for the fourth criteria justifying circumstances, a city adapted plan is highlighted based on what we discussed earlier in Blueprint Denver that talks about allowing accessory dwelling units in all residential areas. Therefore, CPD recommends approval, basing that based that all the findings of the review criteria have met. Staff is available for questions and the applicant is here as well, available for any questions you might have. Thank you. All right. Thank you for the staff report this evening. We have three individuals signed up to speak. Our first speaker. Are all three are on line test already. Okay. I'm going to talk to our producers. We don't have tests. Dougherty joining us tonight, so we'll go ahead and move on. David Hagan. David Hagan. Not seeing him there either. We're going to go ahead and move on. Our next speaker is Jesse Paris. Yes. Members of council can be heard. Yes, go ahead, please. Yes. I just want to start first off by saying Sam on you, Denver City Council, Oakland and Chambers, all those people. It's been a decade of this urban campus banner needs to be repealed. Somebody needs to take in this before the next election and repeal this urban camping ban in regards to the rezoning as set out to council the back office down there with the people in regards to this rezoning. Excuse me. My name is just with Tom Perez and I'm represented for Blackstar at the Movement for Self Defense, Positive Message Move Sultan's speech as well as the guilty party of Colorado. The East Denver Residence Council Front Frontline Black knows and I'll be the next mayor of Denver in 2023 and I reside in District eight and Councilman Hardy's this district. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. I supported 80 youth when I ran for City Council At-Large in 2019. I continue to support its. We're the city, just like we need to state our faces and other forms of attainable housing all over the city. We have a housing crisis, and if you didn't recognize that someday you will never recognize it. This has been a decade of doom and we can do better. It looks like it's going to take a whole new administration in order for us to do better. So I'm in favor of rezoning me of the criteria, which is consistency with adopted plans, a uniformity of district regulations as far as public health, safety and wellness and means justifying circumstances to say one neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intense song about zoning fight will once again slam on council members like days to let the people speak. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers this evening for this hearing. Questions from members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 307. Councilmember Flynn Thank you, Madam President. Edson Could you address something I'm trying to figure out in the application or in the planning board comments, it includes a comment from someone who lives a couple of blocks away who said, What is it? Park Hill is not designed to have commercial businesses in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I would note that that, of course, there are commercial local commercial business strips in Park Hill. But I'm curious. Was there something about this application that prompted that remark? Is there any thing in the application that I didn't see that I missed that opens up commercial business with these ideas? Maybe they're going to use it for short term rental or. Was anything stated along that line. That wasn't specifically stated by the applicant? Okay. And I believe the individual got confused and maybe it was a short term rental. I did reach out to the individual, but they never responded. Okay. Um, so I was just trying to understand more if it was more of a short term rental concern when they were describing that. Thank you. I think then I, I share your your mystification at that remark and why it was made. Thank you. That's all, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Flynn. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 22, Dash 307. And I'm not seeing any. And so I'll go ahead and weigh in. The this rezoning meets all of the appropriate criteria, and I'm happy to support it this evening. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 22, Dash 307, please. Black. I see. Tobacco, I. Clark. All right. Flint. All right. Hinds. Cashman. Kenny Ortega. I swear. I. Torres. I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 1111 I's Council Bill 20 2-307 has passed. Thank you, Edson, for the staff report. Councilmember Kasich, would you please put Council Bill 22, dash three, four, three on the floor for final passage.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 385, 395, 405 & 415 South Cherokee Street in Baker. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property located at 385, 395, 405, and 415 South Cherokee Street from I-B UO-2 to C-MX-16 in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 8-8-17.

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Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech and direct your comments to council as a whole and refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council woman can each just in the nick of time, will you please put council bill 841 on the floor. Yes. Council President I move that council 841 council bill 841 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. The public hearing for Council Bill 8 to 41 is open. May we have the staff report? Scott Robinson, how are you? Thank you. Scott Robinson with community planning and Development. So this is a request to rezone a3853954 or five and 415 South Cherokee Street from ib02 to C Annex 16. As you might notice in the staff report, the City Committee Planning Department is the applicant in this case. If you're familiar with this property, it is in Council District seven in the Baker neighborhood at the Alameda Light Rail Station. It's a portion of the Dennison development near the Alameda and Broadway intersection. This property was recently completed and we recently realized that a portion of the property was still zoned IPU Hotel, which is an industrial zoning instead of the C 16 that the rest of the property was developed as. As far as we can tell, the when RTD sold the property to the developer, they included a sliver of what used to be the rail right of way. And so that carried the industrial zoning. And it wasn't caught until earlier this year after the violent permit had been approved and the building had been completed in the city and occupancy had been issued. And so we realized the issue. The Iby zoning does not allow the residential uses that are currently on the site. So in an effort to clean up the zoning and get it all under the same zone district and his own district, it allows the existing uses. Brad Buchanan, the executive director of Community Planning and Development, decided to sponsor the application. So this is sponsored by the city. The property that's being re zoned is a little less than half of an acre. As I mentioned, it's the west portion of the existing Denison development. Going from the industrial idea you go to to see an X 16 the you go to is the billboard you overlay see an x 16 is urban center neighborhood context mixed use with a 16 storey maximum height request is along with the rezoning to remove the euro to overlay. There is a view plane in the area from Washington Park that limits the height to 160 feet. That'll come up again later. There is also an existing general development plan and urban design standards and guidelines for the area under the Denver Design District. This is in some areas too of the GDP, which calls for high intensity development around these station. Current use is mixed use site is mostly residential. There's one small retail portion of the denizen development. Surrounding it is the rail right of way to the west industrial uses to the north and the Broadway marketplace shopping center to the east. As you can see in the pictures in the middle one, there is basically the area that's being reserved, the sliver between the west side of the development adjacent to the station and the railroad tracks. The top is the property to the north and the bottom is the property immediately to the east. This went to the planning board in July with a unanimous recommendation of approval and then the Land Use Transportation Infrastructure Committee in August. There's been no public comment at any of the public hearings or received in written form. In order to approve a rezoning, the city must find that these five criteria have been met. First criterion is consistency with adopted plans, and there are four plans that apply to the area. First is comprehensive plan 2000 as described in the staff report. Staff has found that the proposed rezoning complies with these five strategies from camp planning 2000 mostly have to do with development, your transit and mixed use development and redevelopment. Blueprint Denver from 2000 to designates this area as right of way, which isn't actually further defined in the plan. The plan does say that the boundaries are fluid and not always specific because this was a citywide plan. And so if we look at what this really should be, it's most likely to be the adjacent designation, which is transit oriented development, which calls for compact mid to high density development and a balance mixed abuses, which is what these next 16 zoning would allow. This is also designated as an area of change. Both Cherokee and Alaska are on designated local streets, intended to provide connections to bigger streets both Alameda and Broadway or mixed use arterials, which call for a variety of travel options and more intense development. The bigger neighborhood plan from 2003 designated this as part of the transit oriented development sub area calls for a mix of uses, walkable neighborhood and a gateway development around the station area, and also calls for maximum building heights of 4 to 12 stories. And that was updated in a later plan, the Alameda Station Area Plan of 29, which calls for a plaza around the station area which has been constructed and. Office or the office uses at the station, which would be allowed under the sea. 16 Zoning. And this plan calls for building heights of 5 to 14 stories, which is slightly less than the 16 stories that would be allowed under the sea and 16 zoning. But as I mentioned earlier, there's the View plan, which limits development to a maximum height of about 160 feet, which will limit it to about 14 stories . So with the new plan, you can't develop the full 16 stories that would otherwise be allowed under the zoning. So if that staff finds that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the adopted plans. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of the C annexed 16 zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and welfare of city. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adopted plans and by allowing for the continued use of the existing development under appropriate zoning. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff finds that the proposed rezoning is justified by the changed conditions of the property. The property has been redeveloped and the proposed rezoning would update the zoning to match the existing development. And the final criterion is consistency with the neighborhood context, zone, district purpose and intent of the urban center. Neighborhood context is intended for higher intensity mixed use areas around like transit stations and the scenic 16 zone district is appropriate around transit station. So staff finds that the fifth criterion is met with that. Staff recommends approval. I'll be happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you, Scott. Appreciate it. We have two speakers this evening and representing CPD, Evelyn Baker and Chairman Sekou. Ms.. Baker, you're up first. And if you're just available for questions, you can let us know that, too. That's basically what I'm here for this evening. Good evening. Members of the city council. My name is Evan Baker. I'm the deputy director of Community Planning and development here on behalf of the applicant. In this instance, Brad Buchanan, who is the executive director of Community Planning and Development. I'm here basically to answer any questions that you may have. It is slightly unusual for this agency to be the applicant in in a rezoning request such as this one. But as Scott has described in his staff report and his presentation to you this evening, really this is an administrative sort of cleanup that we're doing after the fact to get the zoning in line with the the development that is occurred on site. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. Otherwise I will watch the proceedings. Great. Thank you, Miss Baker. Chairman Sekou. Good evening. My name is Chairman Sekou and the founder. Organizer. For the Black. Star Action Movement. Whose constituency are poor, working, poor. Homeless people and senior citizens. For the city and county of Denver. I would be remiss if not to mention very briefly. Our absolute. Thank you. For participating. In the. Dias Square Center thing and to. Thank the staff members of Way News and your staff and deputy staff and Robin your staff for putting up with old man. I'm not a out of my German sexual. Urgency so we're going to get right. Here. Yeah we've got to get get right to. It and. Keep watch on the clock because I want. To be. With the process. We can see it. We support. This. Ordinance zoning change for a couple of reasons. One, jobs. Poor, poor, working, poor, homeless people. And we are. Hopefully. Enthusiastic. About this project being that it presents an opportunity. For us to uplift. The bottom of the. Socioeconomic. Barrier. And to get folks into a position where they. Can be self-sustaining and productive. Members of City. County and Denver. Our war is against poverty. It has nothing to do with race or class. It's about poverty. And we feel that each and every member of humanity should have a gainfully employed so that they can take care of their families and have a. Lifestyle worth living. That's number one. Number two. Is. I agree. With the C CPD. Report that we need to do something about the zone and it seems like it is coming up piecemeal where the projects coming up, we change them. But if we take a thorough examination. Of what exists, we can. Stop all of. This and actually be proactive. In changing the zoning. And being done with it. So folks don't have to. Spend all this time, money and resources waiting for this thing to happen when it should. Already be done. And we're talking about plans. It's been in effect for. What, 2005. 2017, 12 years? I know we can do better than this. And we have that responsibility for the consistency to make this. Process flow so. That. We are a government truly of the people, by the people and for the people. And it's not about. Us. Particular in terms of our positions and whatnot. Here are districts and whatnot. It's about really us doing the due diligence and be. Proactive and helping move. This process of government along so that the citizens feel as if. They matter. And. Oh, that's it. Time out. Thank you. Thank you, Chairman. Thank you. This concludes our speakers questions for members of council. Councilman Espinosa. Couple of questions. Who is the developer that this city is doing this on behalf of? The developer's name is D for development. For the property owner. And why wasn't this done? I mean, why wasn't this picked up on the verification, the physical verification that goes on at the site. That I'm not sure about? I know the development services side of the department has taken a look at it and tried to improve their processes so that this won't happen again. So but I don't have the details of that with me tonight. Okay. Can somebody elaborate on what changes have been made? Because when we. Create when we have other problems in other departments, we actually it does very good result in some either disciplinary action or corrective training or whatnot. What have we done to actually mitigate this level of the De Silva error in the future? I would be happy to follow up with further discussion in terms of what process improvements we put in place to safeguard against these kinds of oversights in the future. I don't have that information for you this evening, and I'm but as I said, I'm happy to provide a follow up following this this matter. Okay. Okay. Because it's related. It might be part of the response there, so I'll be prepared to hear it. It's sort of a word there. Drawings incorrectly showing this is is is part of their within their bound I mean part of their zone lot and property. You know, so maybe that would be part of your response later on. I can take that later as well. Yeah, I would be happy to follow up on the specifics of how this oversight happened for this particular this particular development review matter. Certainly after after this hearing. In the reason why I'm even asking these questions and look forward to that response is because we do get complaints about building placement, you know, I mean, discrepancies between what we sort of know, what we can sort of document and then what gets built. Sure. Clearly not to this degree of of of error, but still it ends up being an error. And then our inspectors, I found, are sort of ill equipped right now to address these things in real time, at a time when they could be addressed and have resulted in civil litigation in District one. In my time in office. So I would love to see what you guys have come up with as far as resolution. Absolutely. I'd be happy to follow up with you directly on that matter. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. Evelyn, if you wouldn't mind coming back for just a second. So I know the site is right next to the railroad tracks and the development already exists. But I just want to take advantage of the opportunity to ask, as we have been seeing applications come forward that are adjacent to railroads. Are we seeing cooperation with the new checkoff box on the form that they have to fill out that's come through? Right. That's a great question. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. I've been working with we do. In fact, we have, in fact, modified the application for any site development plan that's under review to ask the applicant to indicate whether or not it's you know, there's some proximity to the railroad. And I've been working with Jack from your office to identify the referral, the correct individuals within the specific rail lines to refer those projects to. So I don't know that we've had any of those checkboxes checked since we changed that application, but Jack and I have been coordinating and trying to find the right the right individuals within each each rail line to refer those projects to. And why that's important is because when the applications come to us. They basically have not been approached about their proximity to railroads. It's not typically part of the reason process is more normally the design review and development review process. And so we don't see whether that compliance or that cooperation with that new check off boxes is happening. And I know in this case that doesn't apply. But as we have others, I continue to raise this issue just to make sure that we are, in fact, addressing health, life and safety issues as part of these developments. And you've done a great job of reinforcing the importance of checking on that. So it is front of mind for the development review staff. They are aware that it is something that they need to incorporate as part of their referral process, and that was part of the training that you all did with them as well, correct. You know, in terms of training, what we've done instead of having a focused training on this is we have provided resources as the matter comes up. There are resources that are available for the appropriate staff members to refer to and to provide to the applicant as well. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. All right. Seeing no other questions. Public hearing for Council Bill 841 is now closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to thank CBD for finding this, for bringing this word to clean this up. Obviously, this is a building that was built. It's already people have been living in it for over a year, I believe. In fact, on Thursday evenings, you can now catch an all electric e took took to five destinations on Broadway from this plaza that was built. And so this one obviously slipped through the cracks. But thank you for bringing it forward. I'm going to go ahead and support this, and I would urge my colleagues to do the same. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Clark. Seeing no other comments. I'm going to go ahead and vote on this thing has been moved in. Second, about Secretary Raquel Clark. All right, Espinosa Flynn hi. Gilmore I Cashman can eat. Lopez I knew Ortega. Ortega. Sussman Hi Black. Mr. President. I please close to voting and announce the results. 1212 I's Council A41 has passed. All right. On Monday. This is just a pre German announcement because we're we're done. On Monday, September 25th, 2017. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 903 designated the Packard Park Hills Historic District, located generally between Lowell Boulevard on the

Recommendation to request City Manager, or designee, to work with appropriate departments to report back to City Council within 30 days on funding a MI VIDA CUENTA COVID-19 Latino Health Initiative. The MI VIDA CUENTA initiative should include sufficient resources for providing continuous health education, equitable vaccine distribution, appropriate food distributions, and mental health care for the Latino Community including undocumented residents.

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Thank you. We will move on to item number 12, please. Item 12. Communication from Councilwoman Sunday has Councilwoman Allen, Councilwoman Sara and Councilmember Oranga recommendation to request city manager to report back within 30 days on funding a mia Vita center, COVID 19 Latino Health Initiative. All right. Mayor Garcia, are you handling this? Are you willing to go over after. Just go ahead and start. I'll be. I'll be right back. And, um. Yeah. Okay. Well, I don't have the Q, so we're gonna do a voice motion. We're going to. We're going to send. We're sending the cues over right now. All right. To Matt as we go. Okay, let's do some voice motion so we start discussion. This is Council Member Sunday. So I'd like to make a motion. Okay. So you're recognized as our second. Thank you. And we're all around the council member. And they ask, how do you want to handle. You want to start report? Um, actually, before we get into it, I also wanted to make a quick motion, and I'm an amendment on the motion. I wanted to read that, you know, I would like to request our city manager or designee to work with the appropriate departments and relevant community partners, meaning community based organizations such as fraternal Latinos and Action and other neighborhood associations, so that we can have this item be more of a city and community led health initiative. Fantastic. All right. So we have that and it's been it's been seconded. Anybody else? What's the councilman you're on? I am with you now. Helping your. They gave me a poor support of this item that thank you customers and that has to bring this forward. As we heard earlier during the presentation on our budget items that we brought with the federal relief. There was a chart there that showed you those of communities. Are. Highly impacted. And we saw Latinos are impacted tremendously by the coronavirus and its impact in the community. And so I am fully supportive of this and where we would you need to identify what resources are out there that address these issues. Particularly in these. Hard to reach communities. And we know that there's systemic issues in the Latino community when it comes to vaccinations and how it is contracted. We know that that there are multigenerational families living together, that that doesn't do us any help in regards to controlling the virus, that when they're all together in one location, one place, it makes it tough. So I'm very supportive of the Sacramento Thank you conference and that is we're bringing this port very much needed. All right. Okay. So that concludes comic metals members. And they asked if you have anything else. Yes, actually, I wanted to see if there was any public comment before I continue my comment. Right. I was going to go public next. Is there any public comment on this? Yes, we have. Jessica Quintana, thank you. Jessica Quintana. Jessica Quintana, please. That means yourself. Vice Mayor. That concludes public comment for this item. Okay. I see we have we have Council District two, Councilmember Alan. I thank you, vice mayor and Council Womans and de Haas and Councilmember Turanga and Councilwoman Sara for bringing this item. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of this very important initiative that addresses the disparities in our community with regards to health resources. This pandemic has been anything but fair, and many folks in our most vulnerable communities were hit the hardest. And also many of our workers were undocumented and haven't received any assistance from the federal government. And are also hesitant to even access resources. So this item will lay the find foundation on how we build community resilience. So I'm very honored and happy to support this item. In first the council member during the council members in the House. Well, actually, you know, before you get final comments, we have one more for you from Councilmember Taro. Yes. Thanks, Vice Mayor. I want to thank council members in Doha and colleagues for Councilmember Urunga and Councilmember Allen for supporting this item. I think it's important that we continue to address the community's needs, and I think that it's so crucial that we involve community leaders and nonprofit leaders in this process, because it takes all of us to make sure that we continue to make our community healthy and safe. So thank you very much. All right. Council members and they are you can close us out. Thank you very much. Vice mayor also wanted to make it clear that the intent of this item is not exactly to wait until the 30 days are up to try to do something. As we know, every single day we have Latino residents dying from COVID and many, many families that are being affected by COVID on an on a hourly basis. So, you know, I know that it says on here within 30 days. So I will come up with a plan and I'm looking forward to working with city staff on this. With that said, I know that we're counting down the days that we as as a city, as a nation can go back to, quote , unquote, normal life. And I'm so incredibly grateful for all the work that has been done during this crazy pandemic by our city staff, by city council, by our community. I mean, our true colors have really shown, you know, our compassion has really shown. And I'm very proud of everyone. Something that we must absolutely not lose sight of is the way that COVID has highlighted the inequalities in our city and the work that still lies ahead of us. And we we really need to close that gap. And I know that we're working hard to do so. One of the things that I've been doing is I put together a Latinos contract COVID task force that focuses on on why is there so many disparities right now in the community, in the Latino community, and how we can stop the spread of COVID in the Latino community , which is being affected by COVID the most? And so I think out of this task force, we have had several equity based vaccine clinics throughout the city, and I am so very proud of that and that we've been able to reach those hard to reach individuals like the the grandmas, the grandpas, the uncles, the EMTs that are not computer savvy or cellphone savvy or don't understand the process. But the only way that we've been able to do that is through our community based organizations that I have been working with very closely, including Central China, our Washington neighborhood association, Latinos in Action. When they we all these amazing organizations that have helped be able to reach out to to those in particular those those communities as as vaccines become more available. It is absolutely unacceptable that we allowed the gap to continue. And we have an obligation to provide all the necessary support to ensure that we are prioritizing the health of our Latino residents. I'm grateful for the work that has already been started. And through those efforts, we like I said, we've been able to vaccinate so many, almost a thousand Latinos, hard to reach Latinos in our community. And that is to me, that is significant. And I want to continue to have those. I think that that's going to be very, very important. We know that the process has also demonstrated me the importance of engaging our community partners in this work and and that I think it's beneficial that we continue to have those conversations and that we continue to use our trusted messengers through these community based organizations that really are in the ground, you know, in the ground, working with all of these communities, especially the Latino community, and who who the Latino community already has a built in trust with. So I think that that's very important that we continue to work with them as we develop this health initiative for our Latino community. Also, I know that we had one public comment on this, and she wasn't able to. She was still waiting. I don't know if if you guys can check if she can speak right before this item is voted on. Mary Garcia. Or if we lost her, you know. We can do a public comment again on the we call for her. But I think Jessica's on the line now. So we tried public comment again. Yeah. Give us one moment and try to see if we can get her. Jessica Quintana. It's a cooking timer. Hi. Good evening, Mayor Richardson, members of the city council. City Manager Tom Modica. Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak tonight. For the first time, I'm just so inspired and and. Hopeful for. Better days. I've never heard such a council meeting that had so much inspiration and working together. This has been great. I just want to thank council member then the House for bringing forward the movie La Quinta Initiative and Councilmember Roberto Dongo and Councilmember Sorrell. This this initiative is so important. I'm not only the executive director of Center Child, but I've lived in the city of Long Beach for over 56 years. And so living here in the city know I've seen a few things, I've been through a few things and worked in non-profits for over 30 years and been with Center Child for over 20. So through my experience, I've seen us be hit with health and economic emergencies in our city. We heard earlier about. The violence in the eighties and the nineties and, you know, the deaths and injuries that occurred in our city and having to respond to those issues with the with the drugs and alcohol that plague our communities, um, with the mass incarceration, with discrimination against Latinos. And now we're seeing the uptick in, in Asian Pacific Islanders, which is, which is terrible, you know, and this is all due to, due to lack of, of information and access and inclusion. Language barriers. But we have never seen in the history of Long Beach, no health emergency like we have experienced the COVID 19 that has hit the Latino community harder, three times harder than any other community. We've had members in our community not only lose a member, one member of their family, but they have lost several members of their family. This has hit our community not only helped, but but grew economics. And so I just want to thank Councilmember for bringing this item forward. As she has mentioned, the culture, COVID, the task force, has been working very diligently together, putting on Latino clinics in our community, really trying to reduce the barriers of access to the system to be able to get vaccinations are reducing the language barriers and the fears and the myths that happen in our Latino community. So this initiative will not only help with information and accurate information to our community, but also develop it from a thought up model which is so much needed in our community from a thought, our models are evidence based. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Thank you. We're going to go customers and they have. Did you have other comments or should they go back to the council? You can go back to the council. Mayor. Thank you. Okay. Council member Ringo. I just wanted to add the council members in the House will also accept reaching out to unite here. They have also been a an organization that's been trying to do a lot of corporate outreach in the hotel workers and the people who are our service workers as well as well. You could include a unite here in that list of the organizations to reach out to. That would be great. Absolutely. Great. I just want to just add just a few remarks. I want to thank particularly Councilman's in the house for working on this. I know that she's been talking about bringing forward a Latino health equity plan or initiative for many weeks and months. And she's been talking about it with staff and with me and with I know other folks on the council and the community. And so I just want to thank her for that. I also want to just thank her and council murang'a for their leadership around the Latinos contract and group working group has been meeting regularly. It's really great to see that group and so many leaders in action and taking on the Cova challenge that the Latino community has been disproportionately impacted by COVID 19. That is something that is real. It is direct the relationship direct when it when it looks when you go back to health care access, when you look at the way a lot of people that are undocumented feel about getting services or about accessing health care and they're scared. And so to have an initiative that focuses not just on the undocumented, but on our immigrant community, our new Americans are full Latino community. Those that have been here that really need that additional support is really important and key. And I think that I just want to thank the councilwoman. I think this is really great. And of course, everyone that's that signed on to this item, but especially to two councilwoman and they have some concern. Murang'a You guys are our true champions for the community. Everyone, I want to thank both of you and, of course, the community groups that have been advocating, in particular Cynthia, Jessica and so many others. So with that, there is a motion and a second. So we'll go ahead and do the roll call the. Councilwoman Sunday. How's everything? I Councilwoman Allen. Hi. Councilwoman Price. I. Councilman Sabrina. Hi. Councilwoman Mango. I Councilwoman Sarah. I. Councilmember Ranga. Hi. Councilman Alston. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. Hi. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. We're going to go back to item 13 here. Let me go ahead and get a couple of three other items that are just quick off the calendar here. Really quick. Item 16, Madam Clerk.

Update and Follow-Up on Harbor Seal Haul Out Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Between the City of Alameda and the Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) at Alameda Point. (Base Reuse 819099)

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Update and follow up on Harbor SEAL haul out. Memorandum of Understanding between the city of Alameda and the water emergency transportation authority at alameda point. Good evening, mayor and city council members. I'm ninette mercado in the community development department. Also the base we use department. I'm going to be making a very brief presentation because you have pretty much the summary of everything that's in the written report. And I'd actually appreciate you sharing the. Highlights of it. For Issue four. So on March 17th, this city council approved the lease with the Water Emergency Transit Authority on the condition that they enter into and an MLB with us to construct harbor seal haul out to replace the existing dilapidated pier which is being used by the seals right now and spend up to $100,000 to make that happen. Can you show the diagrams as we're going through this or can someone. And that. I mean, we've got experts here. And after that, the next day, unmarked on March 18th. And the I submit it to read out the list of the specialists that were given to me and as part of my research on the harbor seals. Oui, oui, oui, oui. Went on that list down to about three candidates. Looking at their background and working with marine mammals. Also, we did some calls to see who was available to work on this project, and then we circulated it within a working group that we established. The working group consists of the members of the community who had expressed an interest in the project. So there's about seven members that we've been working with. The working group all decided and I'm kind of happy about this on our on the number one candidate, which is Dr. Jim Harvey, who is the head of the research at the Moss Landing Marine Mammal Center. And your report says on an April 24th, actually, that's the wrong date. That's the date the meeting was set up. But on May 18th, we met on site with this, members of the working group and Dr. Jim Harvey to talk about it, to look at the existing pier that's being used right now. And actually that day there are about six seals on the pier. So that was really great for him to see them. And we talked about how the best location to relocate the the hull out the community. We walked the site a little bit with Dr. Harvey. The community was okay. The members were okay with this proposed site. They actually had another site in mind which is closer to the De Pave Park area, which is all the way on the other side of the property. So we drove over there with Dr. Harvey and looked at the site and Dr. Harvey felt that that site was less desirable for a hall out. It's super far from the existing place and the water's a little bit more choppy in that area, even though some of the community members have seen SEALs in that area. He thought it would be really difficult for the SEALs to find the new hall out. So we all agreed that this proposed location would be the best location for the future hall layout. So Dr. Harvey put together a paper which I'm going to distribute to you tonight, and also I'll give to the city clerk so you can put it in the written record. And it's a summary of the meeting that we had. And also he includes sort of a drawing of what the hall out could look like. And at the meeting he talked about some strategies to ensure the success of the Harbor SEALs. And he said is that most people when you think about a SEAL, you think of the sea lions that you see at at up here, 39. And those are super social seals, sea lions that harbor seals that we're talking about. He referred to as the cats of the marine mammal world because they are very particular on where they're going to haul out. Their behavior is very difficult to predict. I mean, we could build the Cadillac version of a hollow out and they may never show up to it. So he kind of gave us that caution as well. He did give us some strategies that we will be utilizing, which is putting some floating docks out and and moving it closer to where the proposed site will be so that they can potentially get used to the location. Still, there is no guarantee and we actually own some docks that we might be able to use for that purpose. Now, after the meeting with the community, I brought Dr. Harvey back to look at those docks and he said, That's perfect, if you can put them out there that see if that works. So with that said, and with this paper written by Dr. Harvey, we has submitted the paper to Bccdc on the 30th of June and asked about the next steps. What do we need to do to get our permit in place and start moving along? And then we to has a meeting next week with Bccdc and this is one of the items to discuss. So I anticipate coming back to you when we have another milestone and I wanted you to know that we were moving this forward as fast as we could. We didn't even wait the next day. We were busy trying to move this forward because we do want to be able to have something in place before we have to demolish the existing hall up. And we have. Go ahead. I was just going to comment and thank Ms.. Mercado for that very comprehensive report. And also just to remark on what a wide variety of projects you cover, because. This is the. Woman who is in charge of all our leases at the base. So she's everything major manufacturing and reuse of these buildings and new locations for harbor seals. I you know, that's something to add to the resume and other. Duties as required. So we do have a public comment and there's clarifying questions I'd like to call. Ahmed. Yes. So can you recap who's who's on the the committee? Who's on the committee? Okay. I don't. Since we'd have contacts, all of the members, I can tell you that it is the six members who came. It's Mark Kline. Richard Bangert. Okay, Leonora. I don't know her last name. There's another woman whose email is Irene. Only Irene Dieter. Okay. Yeah. And I'm comfortable with those. Okay. Okay. Or too. I was looking for you. Said them. Okay. And then. I had a question, but it just escaped me. So if I think of it again, I'll bring it up later. Any other questions? All right, Richard Banger. He's our only public speaker. If anyone would like to speak on this, please turn in your slip. Thank you, Mayor. Members of the City Council, city staff. It's always good to spend a little time talking about our other Alameda Point Partners Wildlife. Also known as the other Dub Nation. I'd like to especially thank the Net City staff and Mike from way to who's not here tonight or really putting in a diligent effort on this and especially in securing the services and expertize of Dr. Jim Harvey. He's the right doctor for this very bypass operation. This is this is probably a first on the West Coast of the United States, as you know. That said, they may adapt to it. They may not, but it's going to be. If nothing else, a noble effort that a lot of people are watching, especially the Bay Conservation and Development Commission, who told us that their recent permit hearing for the weight of society that this has never been done before and they're hoping for the best, too. So. Thanks for all the work city staff has done on this. Counsel or my question. So the status of bccdc. There's a hearing next week to approve the permit. It's not a hearing. We informally have asked them, what are that? What are they going to require from us? And so it's a follow up meeting from the emails, sending Dr. Harvey's report and asking What are the next steps? Okay, so are we doing well? Besides that, I guess the technical or are we doing some preliminary support letter or something that says this is important to us? Well, I think that when this was submitted to the Bccdc, Dr. Harvey's report that the transmittal letter said that this was the work of members of the Alameda community, the city of Alameda and Rita. So they know that we're on board. We also know that, as Mr. Bangert said, that AC DC and they're interested in seeing the success of this project. So we're just, we just, I think because it's not been done before, they're going to have to tell us what the what's the roadmap to get it done. Okay. But so when do we expect them to like actually give the permit? And we don't know. We have a little schedule here that we've kind of put together. But if we need a full court press, we will come back to you to ask for letters of support or something like that. We just think that we need them to tell us what they think the process will be. Okay. Thank you. And this is an update. We do not vote tonight. Are there any other council comments? So and so. I also want to thank staff for proceeding with this, Dr. Harvey, the the community members that are involved. I'm I too am hopeful that this works. And I in regards to the next update, I don't know. I know you you're you don't really know when you'll be coming back. I would like at least an update. What do you think? Like monthly or quarterly, if there is no other news, just to let us know what's happening? And would it be all right if we did a written corresponded to the packet from the city manager's office. And so that we make the announcement. Yes. But then if you can share that to the public. So because. Until we have a big milestone very. Important to the public. Sure. The public can continue to communicate with staff if they have not been part of this committee, if they are interested in joining or have any questions regarding this. Absolutely. Thank you. All right. So no other comments. We're going to move on to six D. A public hearing to consider adopted a resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming a diagram and assessment and ordering the levee of assessments. Island city landscaping and lighting District 84 to all zones.

Executive Session. The Council will meet in executive session for the purpose of receiving legal advice that is attorney-client privileged.

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be filed with the Council offices no later than Monday, August 16, 2018. I move. We are going to move into executive session here and I move that council, enter into executive executive session for the purposes to receive legal advice that is attorney client privilege. I second the motion. All right. It has been moved and seconded by Councilman Clark per section 234, Section eight of the revised municipal code. A two thirds affirmative vote is required to enter into executive session. So we need we need seven. Affirmative. Madam Secretary, roll call. Black High. Clerk. Hi, Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. I Cashman. Can eat. Lopez. All right. New Ortega assessment. Mr. President. I please those voting in US results. 11 eyes. All right. We have 11 eyes will now enter into executive session when council returns on the floor from executive session. Tonight's meeting will be adjourned. In the city of Minneapolis. We really have seen just, I think, increasing support for this system as opposed to more divided opinion about did we do the right thing. So that has been the tone in the tenor in the city of Minneapolis. Am I up there? Oh, yeah. Here I am. Sorry about that. Here's a couple of key findings to share from 2017. Again, this is our third time that we've used ranked choice voting, and this was one thing that was just super. We had this big surge. And so you saw the mayor elect in the video at the beginning. He talked about having 45%. Let's see, where do I get this? Oops. So this is just a little graph that shows how much we increased. Normally you would see in a general election, more like in the thirties, low thirties as a turnout in a general just municipal election. I don't know what in Denver it's sort of your general turnouts are in your more general election and then you can see the line down there about the primaries. So A, we had tremendously increased participation in this election, but also regardless of even with the lower participation, it was much different who you were playing to as a candidate if you did not have a primary. And we. Right. That was just. Let's go through that. Okay. So this is the next thing that happened in Minneapolis in our 2017 election. And now we have an example from the mayor's race and we have an example from a candidate's race that I want to share. But we just had tremendous participation in people ranking their ballots. So they didn't just show up and rank their favorite candidate. They ranked at least two and many ranked three candidates. And so here, if you're able to I think this is kind of small, but I will read out in the mayor's race, 87% of voters ranked at least two candidates. 73% of voters ranked at least three candidates. And I will say and again, when we look at the mayors example, you'll see this a little bit more. We had an interesting field in city elections in Minneapolis in 2017 where we probably had, I consider, five of those candidates for mayor to have visible and viable campaigns. And when we look at this election, I'll kind of tell you who raised the most money and who didn't. And you'll see it's kind of surprising, actually, when you look at who won. We had a valid ballot rate of almost 100%. And again, that was explained. This means that people filled out their ballot correctly. And also, we have a system in Minneapolis where you can feed your ballot into the machine and it will kind of spit it out if you haven't filled it out correctly. So we have a mechanism to automatically assist with that. What am I doing here? Let's. We had just a tremendously diverse slate of candidates. Again, I think this goes to this issue of. Who who is who is electing these candidates? So now you are as a candidate, you have won elections. It's more about turnout. It is about reaching as many voters as possible. It's about talking to everyone that you can. Even those who have said someone else is my first choice. And we heard candidates say that they felt more comfortable coming into the race even if they weren't sure how valuable they were in the beginning. So we ended up with, again, just a very diverse slate of candidates. These are people who were elected. The first two transgender council members were elected in the first Somali-American and Latina council members were reelected in this election. And for Minneapolis, this is a big change. And again, this is not fully reflecting the whole slate of candidates who are running. All right. Let's see. I'm going to skip that. Okay. So I wanted to get to this example from the mayor's race. So here we have let's see. One, two, three, four, five. So we have essentially what I talked about where these top five mayoral candidates and then this was other. So again, this was kind of an interesting race. We have an incumbent who was running for reelection and she did not win her race. Two years, four years ago when we had a mayoral election, we had what I think is is had been more traditional than what I had seen, which is that you had like a couple of candidates just sort of rise above the pack and kind of hold on to that. So it felt even though like there were more candidates, it felt like there were two main candidates. That was not the feel in Minneapolis this year. You, sir. I'm going to go through here. So here they first eliminated the other candidates. And we knew who won the mayor's race. We had an inclination of who might win the day of the election, and we had final confirmed results for the mayor's race by the early afternoon of the next day. So those ballots moved voters. Second choices. Round two. Round three. Nicky Levy LB is eliminated. She was the African American woman who was featured in the early video. She was a candidate. I'll just say in the last elections report I saw, she raised only $40,000. So I just want to say this is like an election where someone like that who I will say was someone who had a lot of popular following, was able to come out in the top five candidates in a competitive race. Oh, that's. Right. And she had a baby on the campaign trail. Yes. Tom Hook is eliminated. I'll just want to mention him, because he was the candidate who raised the most money. He spent a lot of his own personal fortune. He raised about $750,000 that he spent on the race. So he was gone next. I'll just flip to this because I will say on our elections website, which you can see at vote dot, Minneapolis, Amanda Jovi, they have a very interesting graphic that shows how people's votes went once they were eliminated. And so you might just want to take a look at that. Betsy Hodges is eliminated. She was the incumbent mayor, Herbert. And then we had whips, and then we had a winner with 57% of of counted ballots or continuing ballots. All right. This is one other race just to kind of take a look at, because there's this kind of shorter story to tell here. This was a race between a 20 year incumbent and she had two challengers. This was a race we we do do endorsing of candidates in Minneapolis. Nobody was endorsed in this race by the party, although the challenger, Phillipe Cunningham, was the closest. And what ended up happening here was so there's round one. There were two challengers, Stephanie Garcia and Phillipe Cunningham. And in Brown to Garcia and then another candidate, Hanson, were eliminated. Garcia and Cunningham clearly were aligned candidates. They and they ended up promoting a message towards the end of the campaign where they encouraged the other person's supporters to please rank them as their second choice. So there was an alignment that that happened there. And in the end, even though Barb Johnson was first in the early round, Phillip Cunningham received the lion's share of these other votes. This was a big story. He was a. He was a surprise candidate to win that race. And this is just another graphic of that. But she she was not successful. The incumbent, in attracting enough second choice votes to put her over the edge. And this is the winner. Phillip Cunningham. I think I've taken up quite a bit of time here, but I will just say that I feel sad that we weren't able to have our elections. Our city clerk here, Casey Karl, he had to deal with a recount in one of our races. And he's preparing for, you know, a new mayor and a bunch of new council members. But people should feel free to reach out to Casey Karl in the city of Minneapolis. He has been a great advocate of how to institute this elections method. Well, with integrity, our elections team has won some national awards. And also just to this point of engagement with voters, I feel like our whole elections team has continued just to be creative in how to engage with voters. Just like the work around ranked choice, voting has ushered in a whole new kind of way to do the work of the Elections Department, where they now perceive that part of the work is about continuously educating and engaging with voters, making sure they have good information about how to fill out their ballots and all this kind of thing. So it has ushered in also a lot of policy changes of the city of Minneapolis and how to make things work the best way that they can for voters. So thanks for letting me share a story. Thank you, Elizabeth. One more speaker and thanks. Thanks for sticking with us. And a terrific set of information being presented, I hope. I'll say the one part of the Minneapolis story that sort of jumps out to me from like looking at that Merrill result is that if it had been the old system in Minneapolis and those first choices that translate into votes, which you don't know for sure would have happened, but it would have been the two biggest spenders. Two white men would have advanced and been the only general election candidate when turnout was much higher. But they had this sort of richer debate with with with more people, which is analogous to what Denver where you don't have this sort of winnowing election, you have everyone run in the first round and someone can win in the first round, but some of the systems out there wouldn't allow that. And say Paul also use ranked choice voting and they sort of interesting example of it was a big open seat race for mayor. People thought it would have multiple rounds, ten candidates running and a candidate ultimately won 51% of first choices. So sort of drives are pushed forward in a we will be the first African-American mayor of Saint Paul. But part of the coverage of it that I really appreciated just following was that people, you know, felt that all these candidates contributed to the dialog about the city. So even if it sort of looked like a first round result where just it was normal, you had sort of people. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Part of the part of the dialog and part of what he as a successful candidate had to learn how to be people. Second choices. So our last speaker is going to be Connie Schmidt. And one of the great advances for us at FairVote is the rise of the ranked Choice Voting Resource Center, which is run by former election officials, all with some direct experience with ranked choice voting. But who can really get into how to make this work and how it's working and be a resource to communities and states as as they look at ranked choice voting and Connie is an example of what a great asset they have. She was election commissioner for Johnson County, Kansas, for nine years. City clerk for Merriam, Kansas. For 20 years. Has been doing a lot of consulting, has done some work with the Election Assistance Commission and direct consulting to KC Coral and some work in Minneapolis. So Connie. Thank you, Rob, and thank you, Amber, and your group for hosting this event. It's a very nice turnout and we're very happy to be here. As Rob said, my background is totally in local government and service to the public, and the last nine years were spent with the best job on earth, which was managing elections in the large county in Kansas, in the Kansas City metro area. Since then, it's been a lot of my privilege to work around the country with a lot of initiatives in various states and jurisdictions. In 2011, 2013, 2017, in Minneapolis, where I learned for the first time about ranked choice voting the last couple of years, it's been another privilege for me to be associated with the team of people that developed the ranked Choice Voting Resource Center. And I'm really excited about it because it is basically a place where any election administrator, voter, public official, any want candidate. If you have any questions about ranked choice voting, you can go to this website ranked choice voting dot org and you will find all of the information that we have been able to find anywhere across the country. And so the group that I'm working with, as Rob said, are retired and former election administrators. We're very big believers in elections and sharing best practices so that no one has to reinvent the wheel. And so we're very proud of everything that we have there. It's from all the jurisdictions across the country who have implemented ranked choice voting from legislation to any other kind of ideas that are there. Part of the things that it includes is a compilation of really what is ranked choice voting. And so you can click on various tabs on the website if you're a voter or you're a candidate or you're an election administrator and go to various places of information that would help you understand what it is. For example, there's information on how to mark your ballot. And so you if you were a voter or if you were running for office, there's information there from other places across the country, including samples. We have information on single winner, ranked choice voter and multi winner ranked choice voting races. The election tool kit is probably one of my favorite places we have started this year, a webinar series that we've been doing online, and I'll talk a little about that in a moment. We have a lot of reports and presentations that we have done across the country and various reports that I talk about. We've been working with the Center for Civic Design on usability tool kits and education tool kits. So the first thing, the webinar series and those webinars are posted on that website. So if you're interested in any one of them or all of them, you can go on your own and view those. The first one we did was to introduce everybody to really what the ranked choice Voting Resource Center is and how we can help you. And I need to add that our services are provided free of charge to any jurisdiction, including travel. So we are here as a resource and to help in any way we can. One webinar was basically the ABCs of ranked choice voting, and that was kind of a introduction to what is ranked choice voting and what does it mean? Where is it being used? And then we've done one on the history, going back to the beginning when ranked choice voting was first started in the United States and then the usability studies on how to design a ballot voting systems capabilities, including statewide. How do you do this for a whole state? And designing the most important, which is voter education and how to present election results to the voters. We're going to be doing more webinars in 2018. And again, those are all going to be posted on our website as we go along. The tool kit has a variety of reports and presentations that our team has put together. The first one we did, we called it the Ranked Choice Voting compilation. And you can print it out there. It has active hyperlinks throughout the document that will take you to other best practices across the country. But it's basically just that it's where has this been done before? How can I see what was done before? How can I get an example of how someone else that managed elections did this? And so that's where we'll find that. The other report that I think is really good is implementation of ranked choice voting with multiple voting systems. You're fortunate in Colorado, you have all one voting system statewide. Not every state has that convenience. There are many states that have various voting vendors throughout the jurisdictions, and the model RCP implementation plan is one that we've just finished in September and it basically takes it's a road map that we put together for any jurisdiction that was thinking about going to a ranked choice, voting as a model for managing elections from how do you pass legislation? What are some examples of model legislation that you can take a look at and print off to? How do you do voter education all the way through? How do you build the ballot and how do you actually provide election results on election night? So there's a lot of really good information in these reports and presentations. The one thing I wanted to talk about very briefly is the Center for Civic Design. We have several reports on the website that they have done. They've been a wonderful partner to FairVote and the ranked Choice Voting Resource Center. I think you have some handouts on your table on the website. We have the principles and guidelines report that was done by their team. The ballot design testing documents. And I understand they're going to be here in Denver later this month to do some more for you all voter education testing documents. And they did go to Minneapolis and they have tested a lot of this information there. And how do you present election results on election night to your voters and to the candidates? So some of the highlights for their design report and I have to say many of these when I was reading through these preparing this PowerPoint pertained to elections in general. And I think one of my colleagues earlier said the same thing. It's really not any different than just managing the normal election. So many of the guidelines you're going to see for the Center for Civic Design pertain to any election that you're doing. Give voters the information they need to prepare to vote. The only thing is when you're going to ranked choice voting from a normal regular election where they just vote for one person. You have to explain the benefits and the basics of what is ranked choice voting. Be prepared to answer their questions and be able to show voters how their ballot is actually going to be used in counting and tallying election results. And so one way to do that is this is a sample. They may be on your tables. I think I might have seen this one that the Center for Civic Design put together. So basically in very simple language, what is ranked choice voting? Why are we using it with as few words as possible? And you notice their icons and their words at the bottom for why it's being used. Save money, stronger voices, broader participation. And so those simple words can can help a voter and the general public understand more about how to use it. So that's an example that they put together. Another guideline that they presented was all of the information should be in clear and simple language. Any of us that have been in elections for any period of time have this kind of pounded into us. Clear and simple language is very important. Keep the information short and to the point and use it everyday words so that anyone will be able to understand it. In elections, we kind of call it kindergarten words, you know, make it simple for everyone. Use illustrations any time you can and use icons very sparingly to draw attention to different types of information. And I have added the Minneapolis Voter Guide from 2017, and they're really proud of it. They've done a great job in Minneapolis through the years, improving each year on the process. Their mission that we kind of started in 2013 was to be the gold standard for ranked choice voting. And I'm so proud to say that they really are. So this voter guide that they did in 2017 utilized the information from the Center for Civic Design on how to do this best, some other information that was presented. Is the how to do election results on election night. And as Councilwoman Glidden pointed out, the Minneapolis folks really set a high standard in the 2017 election. If you can go to their website and click on the mayor's race, you can see this really marvelous visual of how each round of tabulation moved various results from one candidate to the other candidates. So they did a very, very good job on that. But use a combination of text and graphics to tell your story, use color and shading icons to draw attention to the various pieces. It's important to include the details of where the voters expect them and use labels to remind the voters of the most important information. And probably the most important thing is to use plain language if you're explaining local or state laws and terms. And and just very few words to help people understand. An example is this visual. I think it's on your table that the Center for Civic Design created for us in partnership, and it does show how each person's unique ballot and vote for each round is being tabulated. And so any time you can do any kind of a visual, something like this, it really helps the voters and the general public. And I have to say, the media, too, because we have to educate the media on what is ranked choice voting and how it is secure and how we are going to tabulate the results. And so I want to show you a couple more examples of a way you can present this information so that the public can understand how the votes are being re-allocated to other candidates as the tabulation occurs on election night. Everybody is used to having election results before the 10:00 news, right? Well, sometimes in ranked choice voting, we it takes a little bit longer as the gentleman from Alameda indicated, that they still are counting mail ballots after the election night. So the same thing is going to happen with ranked choice voting. It will take some time to pull all the election results together. Some of the candidates will automatically win on election night if they receive over 51% of the vote. Those that don't will have to go into the rounds of tabulation. This is an example of a grid style ballot. Is there on your left, if you're looking at it on your right is the columns and there are various ways you can design the ballot. Minneapolis allows ranking of up to three voters, 3 to 3 candidates, I'm sorry, other jurisdictions rank up to six and maybe up to ten candidates. That's a decision that you'll have to make, but you'll notice the voter instructions at the top. It's really important to show a little visual for what they how you actually mark the ballot. And it's that that's really important piece of all of it. I wanted to talk a little bit about educating the public. Again, I'm partial to Minneapolis because that's where I worked in ranked choice voting, but they've done a really good job on their website and I have the address, their vote, Minneapolis, myGov and you can go there and just get all kinds of background information for how they implemented it. Starting in 2009. They used social media, I know you all do here in Denver to Twitter, Facebook to keep the public and the voters and the candidates informed and engaged in the entire process, including on election night when we were doing tabulation. The use of Twitter and Facebook was a really good way to keep everybody engaged. They have a video I'm going to show at the end on how tabulation occurs. That's on their website. Also, they do voter outreach handouts in various languages. The one that really helped them the most, I think, is the Voter Information Guide mailing. They mail this to every household in the city of Minneapolis and in ranked choice voting elections, which is once every four years, they include more information about what ranked choice voting is and how it works. And they do a post-election survey they have in 2013, I believe they did it again this year, surveying election workers and voters in various. People, and the Voter Guide was identified as the most effective tool for learning about ranked choice voting. But I have to stop here and again, always say that our most important informant to the voters is our poll workers in the polling places on Election Day. My colleagues in North Carolina who did a ranked choice voting statewide election in a very short period of time. The poll workers in the polling places are the ones that really, really helped inform the voters and be sure they had the right information. How it works, educating the voters. I have this handout available over here. If some of you would like to take that. This is what Minneapolis uses. It tells people how not to do what not to do with the big red circle and the line drawn through it. It also provides information at the bottom about how to count your vote. And it also says that if you've made a mistake on your ballot, you can please ask for another ballot and you can start over so that it's like a poster that's in every voting location, which is also really, really good. I wanted to give you a just a couple of statistical things, because I love statistics. And looking back on Minneapolis, this is from November of 2013. I don't know. They have all of these numbers put together from this past November's election. But I think it's important to note that the overvotes in are very, very less than less than 0.5%, which is probably comparable to any normal election that you have skipped rankings. There was, again, less than 0.5%. They repeated the candidates in a few. And so that was an area they identified by looking at these statistics that they had to do a little better job on voter education. And so that's the benefit of doing some of these post-election statistics and analysis of how the ballots were actually voted. You can see where do you need to continue to engage with the voters to be sure that they understand? The next one relates to how many people voted, how many were choices, how many people were ranked in the mayor's race in 2013, while over 75% of the voters did three choices? They ranked all three choices. Again, there were a lot of candidates for mayor. You'll notice if you can see this, I'm not sure if everyone can. The city council race had only had one candidate, while of course, only 96% of the people ranked more than only Brook, only ranked one candidate because it was only one. But if you look down any any race that had more than three or four candidates, they they chose at least three choices when they were ranking their ballot. And so these are really good statistics to go back and look at post election when you can review everything after you've got the election certified. The last thing I want to show is the video and I must see if I can do this. This is on the city of Minneapolis website, and it's a really nice, little simple, easy to understand visual about how we're going to count the votes on election night. So I'm going to see if this were oops, it didn't work so we can rely on the gentleman to make it go. In most elections, you only vote for one candidate for each office. But in some elections, voters can rank three or more candidates for each office. It's called ranked choice voting. Here's an example of how it works. All of the candidates will be listed on the ballot in three columns. Make your first choice. Vote in column one by filling in the oval of the candidate you'd most like to win. Vote for your second choice in column two and make your third choice in column three. That's all there is to it. Now let's see how the votes are counted. Let's say there are four candidates running for mayor Aisha, Zach, Omar and Lucy. Once the polls close, we count all the first choice votes first to be elected mayor. A candidate needs more than half the votes. In this example, Aisha has more than half of the votes, so she's declared the winner. However, if no candidate gets more than half the votes, we start eliminating candidates and counting the next choices of those who voted. In this example, Zac is the candidate with the smallest number of first choice votes. So he is cut. We use the second choice votes on Zack's ballots and count those voters second choices instead. If one of the remaining candidates now has more than half of the total votes, that candidate is declared. The winner, if not the next lowest candidate, Lucy, is eliminated. Her votes are now counted for the next choice on the ballot. Some of Lucy's votes went to Zac, who was already eliminated. So those new votes for Zac instead count for those voters. Third choice candidate. We are now down to two candidates, and Omar clearly has more than half of the votes. That makes him the winner. That's how ranked choice voting works. For more information on Ranked Choice voting, visit our Web site. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Connie. So I think we're actually going to try to get a hands on experience next. So maybe Amber will introduce us to that opportunity. Okay. So we've got a couple of ways that we can test this out. First, you have some paper ballots that should be on your table. We also have the tablets that are in the back of the room against the firewall. And once we collect everything, we will count in that in the tabulation room and bring the results out and show what those look like on the screen. I think what I'll do is I'm going to kick off with one question that I have just given Denver and the jurisdiction that we have here in the city and county of Denver. And the question I have is actually for Dave MacDonald. He being from Oakland is a section two or three county, which means they have multiple languages that they present their ballots in. And so my question really is, given that Denver is also a Section 203 county, we put all of our ballot materials and instructions out in Spanish. I wonder if you could share some information maybe about your experience with multiple languages for voters in in Oakland. Thanks. Yeah, that's a real challenge. When I was a registrar, we had three languages English, Spanish and Chinese. And anything you do in English, you have to do in those other two languages. So if you have an English poll worker, you have to have a Spanish speaking poll worker and they have to be bilingual, which is interesting. I got in trouble with DOJ because we had a really hard time finding enough bilingual Chinese poll workers. I could find a poll workers who spoke only Chinese but limited English, even though we had other English speaking poll workers there. That was not good enough for DOJ. And so they doing this pretty hard on even though we had the poll worker there was not bilingual. So it is a challenge finding staff as well that speak those languages. And I think now I think L.A. is up to nine languages. Los Angeles is up to nine different languages. So when you look at your ballot, it gets even more complicated because you can have all the languages on one ballot or you can have separate ballots for each language, which means in in California, our ballots are huge. It's not unusual for us to have five ballot cards. So imagine all the boxes. You have English boxes, Spanish boxes, Chinese, and then so on, whatever the other languages are. And so it is it is a it's tough to do. It is real hard. So I my hat's off to anybody that does multiple languages. Three is is two isn't to balance English and Spanish because we you can have a bilingual ballot with both languages on a single piece of paper, but get passed two, it gets even more complicated. So I don't know if that answers the question. When they all had just about about these Bay Area elections in particular, but also just about sort of this general question of of racial and ethnic minorities in a ranked first ballot in the Bay Area. As Dave said, there's a big ballot because they're voting on a lot of things, I think. San Francisco in 2016 had more than 30 city ballot measures. If I'm remembering right and more than ten state ballot measures and voting for president and many other offices and then down to the board of Supervisors using ranked choice voting. So when you're sort of seeing Rachel's voting results, it's in a climate where people are voting on a lot of things, you know, a whole lot of people voting by mail, a whole lot of people voting in person. A whole lot of people, you know, you know, most they are for, you know, voting for president or something. And you are seeing, you know, really pretty effective use of the Rangers ballot across demographics. Now, you'll still see kind of a mirror of the the differences of how low income voters sort of handle ballots than higher income voters. But one thing we've looked at very closely is when you're particularly when you're placing two rounds of election, almost always one of them has lower turnout than than the other. And when it has lower turnout, it's sort of disproportionately lower among those communities. So any differences that you see and how people of color may be handling, say, a ranked choice ballot is is much bigger magnified when it's actually the difference is of a of a turnout that that you see. The last thing I'll mention that is New York City used to have 32 local school board elections using ranked choice voting. Did it, in fact, by 1972, the two to about 2000 and there were nine of them and now 32 of them with nine seats on each one. So a lot of offices. But they were voting by counting by hand. And people like, oh, that's kind of a pain. Why don't we move them to voting on equipment and not use the ranked choice system? And the Department of Justice at that point had to pre-clear changes to the New York City ballots under under Section five of the Voting Rights Act. And that was actually the last time the DOJ denied pre-clearance to a change because they thought it would be an adverse impact on racial minorities to take away the ranked choice ballot because of the effective use that they were making of the ranked choice ballot. So so I think we're just going to people are should line up because I because I think we want to have questions from the microphone. So why don't why don't we do that? Hello. Hi. Thanks. First of all, I want to say thank you. It was an awesome presentation. But this is a policy question for those that really implemented it. In terms of how did you decide on how many choices you were going to give the electorate for each candidate or each race? So I'll just Minneapolis. Ours was actually dictated. By what our elections equipment could handle. So that's why we had only three choices. Our sister city of Saint Paul has up to six choices because they handled it in a different way. And so they had different policy choices. And same thing in Alameda County. We had three choices, really, just because our voting system could only handle three. And what we're seeing in the new generation equipment, including, I think, the Dominion system that people just were trying out, that that I believe can do up to ten rankings. So we're going to generally see, I think, in with with that kind of ballot design, an increased number of rankings. I think it's certainly sensible to, you know, when it's five or six or seven candidates to kind of allow people to rank that many just as one thing. And just about what voters want to do is that in the New York of rather sorry, in the in the 2016 presidential cycle, we did a poll with College of William and Mary when the time the Iowa caucuses and the Republican contests or 11 candidates and we invited people to rank accounts. We didn't say please rank them all. We said we invited them to rank cans. These were thousand likely Republican voters from around the country and more than nine out of ten chose to rank everybody. And you really saw a lot of coherence and and meaning in their rankings, including Donald Trump was the plurality first choice leader and the plurality last choice candidate. It's kind of an interesting example of how voters were reacting to his candidacy. Yeah. I was just going to say San Francisco, I think the initiative was full ranking, but within the initiative it was written to have the option for through only three, if that's what the voting equipment would only allow. So San Francisco has this elastic thing built into the initiative that they can go to for anything. Hi. My name is Rafi. My question is more so directed to Dave. But please, if anyone has. Insights, chime in. You had mentioned. Voter education being a priority. When Alameda adopted ranked choice. What was your process in actually gathering your advisors from the community? Who did you decide to select? Who did you include in the process? Yeah, it was pretty, pretty open. The League of Women Voters was a very active participant, and so they had several representatives. And also in each of the cities, there's a you know, Alameda County is a pretty liberal area. We have a lot of activists. You know, we're home to Berkeley. Anybody heard of Berkeley here? So a pretty liberal city. And so there was a very large community of activists. And so I invited some of them to be on the committee. And it was pretty open. I mean, kind of whoever wanted to be on it with as long as they weren't too disruptive and they had to call the sheriff a couple of times. But, you know, so we had a lot of people on the advisory committee because I figured the more input, the better. And I and you know what happens when you have a committee like that, people are all excited at first and then kind of the fringe drop out and the ones who are really interested hang in there through the whole time. You were coming on Minneapolis. Yeah. You know, I feel like our voter education work has changed each each election. And it's not just about ranked choice voting. We also had some other reforms from the state of Minnesota that I would say sort of layer on to what's happening with ranked choice voting, including we adopted early voting for the state and that is again then just a different layer of of of kind of how the engagement works in the I think in the original year when the when the materials were developed, we had a similar process to what you did where there was sort of an open invite to engaged constituencies, organizations that worked in the community trying to get really community based feedback. And we use that to develop some of the materials, but not just the materials. It was more about then what do we do to resource kind of getting out into the community. And I would say that's sort of like the biggest thing that has continued every election is I swear there's elections workers but also other kind of nonpartisan groups that just cover the city it feels like for a pretty long time during the elections season. So there is just a lot of voter engagement happening, a lot of again, a lot of nonpartisan voter participation kind of work happening around bring choice voting. Now said one thing and maybe, Gerard, you can amplify on this. But my my recollection about San Francisco is that, you know, it did a lot of the upfront work, which is you often see like the first election and then they do less going forward. But they did use some of the cost savings that they were getting from going to ranked choice voting to ultimately have more lasting staffers involved in voter education for everything. If I'm correct me if I'm wrong. But but but then that sort of there was sort of a new, you know, so the city's saving money, but it's using a little bit of that to now have staffers who do voter education throughout the time. Is that currently it's currently it's the staffers who do the outreach and community. But when ranked choice voting was implemented, a lot of the outreach was contracted out. We had groups like the Gray Panthers, senior citizens groups. They were funded by the Department of Elections to have people from their organization go out and make presentations. So we actually had some community funding, I think the first first two cycles just to do a very blanket outreach. Hi. My name is Celeste Landry and I was happy today to see that there was a two winner race on today's election because there is a councilmember race like that in the Denver ballot. And I want to let people know that I have copies of the Cambridge ballots for this year where they have 26 rankings for city council and 12 for the school committee. And this afternoon, Robert, she and I are going to be giving a talk on multi winner ranked elections at 130 at the Denver Press Club if anybody wants to attend that. And I wanted to ask Elisabeth because Minneapolis also has a multi winner race. So could you talk a little bit about how that works? Some people won't be able to make it this afternoon, so you'll be all they probably hear. Thanks. Sure. It this is sort of one of these things, honestly, like the explaining feels a little more complicated than what it is. But we have a park board at large positions three, and they are elected differently. So on your ballot, as you fill out the ballot, you select three and then that will ultimately be selected as your three park board candidate. So it's different then for each park board candidate that you would have three choices who's going to fill spot one versus spot two versus about three? So it's just a different way, a different mechanism. And this was again because of how those seats were set up in our city charter originally kind of dictated how that how that happened. It's sort of one of these races, honestly, where I feel like you can get into the weeds with how the counting works in the end, how you fill out the ballot. And which is I mean, in the end, the critical piece. Are people understanding the system? Are they feeling their ballot out correctly? To me that as someone who's been a candidate and kind of seen how those elections work, I feel like that's a critical piece. There is some ballot design issue to this as well. Sometimes there are some challenges presented by your elections vendor, your SO. So that's another issue. And I'll just add that for a multi winner, election systems are different, algorithms are choices one can make. There's sort of ways you can do it where preserves a majority principles or, you know, rancorous voting designed when you're electing one person to uphold the principle of majority rule. And you can do that. So each person has to has to do that or win a multi winner. More common is what they what they do for the park board elections where they do in Cambridge which is a which is to try to have as many people as possible help elect someone. And so when you have more seats, you can actually expand the numbers that are likely to do that. So in Cambridge, you generally have at least 90% of people voting for a winner, but they do that by having each winner not needing 90% to win or 50% to win, but actually needing about a ninth of the vote to win. And that's how that works. But that's that's that's a that's sort of a policy choice for for multi winner races. I thank you for doing this. Councilman Paul Lopez, I represent the west side here in Denver. Two questions. So and they kind of have to do with each other. And I think I alluded to them earlier in our private conversation. But one, I'm curious about the interface between this kind of ballot and an all mail ballot election and the the conflict I would see that would present itself and wondering how you would reconcile that or if there's a protocol to do so. If somebody accidentally filled the first choice and fifth choice or for the same person by air in person, you be able to come up say, Hey, I messed up, can I get another ballot printed? How do you reconcile that, that issue when it comes to an all mail ballot and just those dynamics? I just want to know what your thoughts are with that dynamic. Well, I can address that in Alameda County, over half of our voters vote by mail and half go to the polling place. So we kind of have that now. So if you're in a polling place and you make a mistake on your ballot, you know, you vote for the same candidate twice and you feed it into the machine. It'll kick it out right then. And the poll worker will give you a fresh ballot and you can correct your mistake if you want to. Now, if you're voting by mail, you don't have that opportunity to correct the mistake. So what we do is we scan all those vote by mail ballots through a high speed scanner. Any ballots that are marked incorrectly will get kicked out. And then we'll have staff go through and look at those and see if we can determine why. So, for instance, sometimes what'll happen? I'll vote for Rob as my choice, and then I'll think about it and I'll scratch it out and vote for somebody else. Well, the machine just sees two votes, but if you look at it, you can tell what the voter intent was. So if we know what the voter intent is, then we'll copy it to a fresh ballot. Does that. I, I hope that answers the question. So we we do our best shot, but we can't catch them all that. I mean, knowing what Denver elections does, I mean, it's the same kind of thought process. But I'm just I'm just wondering if there's any policy and protocol on that. So just a short conversation before I'll say what happened in Minneapolis and maybe this is kind of how you've ultimately dealt with it is we adopted an. Ordinance. To ensure that those policy protocols, which are very kind of a elections administrator, kind of driven on what are those protocols and were clear, transparent and people understood how the ballot would be interpreted. Again, with the intention, you're going to give the most benefit of the doubt to the voter so that their votes count. Was the name of that ordinance. Just so we can find it and we can put it up on the, um, I don't know where you're posting information, but. I'll just go to this because this is already addressed actually in most of our laws in Colorado. But, but we do with our dominion system, which is different than what I think any of the systems that are up here, we have what we call adjudication. And so even now with our mail ballot process, if a voter makes a mistake, it goes on screen. And then we have a whole review process, a bipartisan review process where they resolve these discrepancies. And so in a ranked choice model, we have a voter intent guide, it's called. And so you would still be able to resolve those discrepancies and and resolve them so that the ballot was counted appropriately. We also instruct the good thing about mail ballots, and this is kind of one of the things that I know there was a reference to how great that kind of model is. But with ballot delivery, it gives us an ability to to send instructions. So every voter in the city gets the exact same instruction and we're no longer relying on instructions happening verbally at polling places or things like that. So we've really increased the consistency for how we deliver instructions for voting, and we have an ability to design those instructions as we need to within the packet that every voter gets. And so one of the things that's kind of happening in addition to this event is next week the Center for Civic Design is going to test out three different basically ways of designing ballots and three different types of instructions and ask voters for their feedback, and then they'll be able to share all that data with us, which I think is really important because the Center for Civic Design, not only in ranked choice voting, but they've been doing this work kind of with other types of voting. And their research is really guiding the way that we know our designing instructions and certainly the way we've done it in Denver and Stu Club, who's our our staffer, that does a lot of this. He's really tried to adopt the principles of best design so that so that people are getting more visual materials and better instructions. And and you can even see that on some of the ballots that we did. I think Jimi used the Center for Civic Design Principles, which is really helpful for voters. So there's a lot of things in there. And and certainly with our voter intent structure and Colorado's law for for elections, we have those things where we always want to make sure that the the voter's intent is captured regardless. Keenly aware and I think Alton did a good job and one of our tours last time was kind of showing that behind the scenes process. Yeah, I'm just wondering if that prevalence of those errors increased compared to your typical ballot before or if they kind of stayed the same? And I think you talked a little bit about it and just kind of our effects, how that would work in our system. So I appreciate that. Ammar. Yeah. Thank you. Well, I know that you and I showed you kind of showed the percentages for the various mistakes that voters might make. And I do have a chart up here that city of Minneapolis did incorporate into their charter, which is basically their voter intent guide. And it's a nice visual that shows if there is a mistake in the first ranking, that the second ranking then becomes the first choice vote and it shows how the voter's ballot will be counted to the most to the most voter intent can possibly be be made. And I think the issues of are very similar for our Civic and on our CV races. Right. You can make a mistake on a non or B race and still have to figure out how to get your ballot. But the one thing that I believe I'm not going to confirm this. I don't know if Dave has the numbers, but but I'm pretty sure that the rates of at least invalidated ballots are not any more with vote by mail than in person, which is quite interesting when you think about it. But they also have more time, right? So there's that's and that's again, just vote by mail versus in person voting for everybody. But they have a lot more time or time to think about the candidates. And, you know, one of the things that's interesting about ranked choice voting is a crisis increases new incentives to find out more about candidates and candidates to tell you more about themselves. And so there's a. Voters tend to learn a little bit more about their voting, whether they're voting in person or about voting by mail. That people. Any more questions and people should come to the microphone if they have one. Hi, Elizabeth. Little page, election coordinator for Denver. How did great choice voting change your wait times for voters in light. I'll ask you a question. You know, it's. We have such a complicated ballot in California, so many ballot cards that we have to make sure we have enough voting booths in a in a polling place. So I didn't see waiting times because of ranked choice. Voting delayed very much during a very exciting contest such as the presidential election. Yes, there are lines out the door. We do a lot of early voting. So the usually 29 days before the election, you can still come and vote. And we would have lines out the door around the block because people were so excited about voting for the president and that just during the first Obama election, I know I had one woman came in. She was the first time she'd ever voted. She was 105 years old. And there was a huge line of people. And so this is the one time I made the exception. I let her take cuts as she came to the front of the line and as she voted. But really, to answer your question, the archive does not really confuse people that much because it's fairly simple and there aren't that many contests really with our. It's just your your local local races. I'll just add that in Minneapolis, I think similar to what you described, we have election judges who are there just to make sure there is someone to explain the ballot if there are last minute questions. Again, that's in addition to kind of all the other things that have happened. And then just again, we still in Minneapolis, we have our municipal elections a year where there are no other elections. And so the 45% was humungous turnout for us. So we do staff to make sure people don't have inappropriate waits. But this is a different turnout kind of election than other elections, presidential year elections. Any questions? My name is Ryan and I'm visiting here from Utah, so I really appreciate you holding this event for us. My question revolves one of the virtues that we hear about ranked choice voting an awful lot is that it eliminates plurality in elections, and there are several instances in ranked choice voting where plurality still is an issue. One specific one, maybe Gerard can answer. I'm in 2006 in San Francisco, there were almost 20,000 votes cast in a District four race, and the winner won that election with about 8400 votes cast. So by the time you exhaust some of those votes and things like that, there is still the possibility to end up with kind of a false false majority on that of getting the 50%. I just wonder if you could talk about that just a little bit. Well, I'll start. And then others can comment too. So. So in rancorous voting, if you like, in Australia, you may people may know that Australia mandates voting and so not everyone votes, but they can be fined for not voting. They also in that spirit, they mandate ranking, right? So they're really like trying to make you make a choice. Right. And and that's not something that's part of any ranked choice voting election use in the United States or anywhere else that I know of. And so if you don't mandate ranking, then it's possible that you know that your top choices that you've ranked get eliminated and then your ballot's not going to count for someone, right? So that if you compare the first round totals with the last round totals, there are a certain number of drop off like people that have chosen not to. Not to rank in the places where they restrict rankings to three that can there be some people who rank three people who just don't get to the final two if it's where they don't have a restriction on rankings? It's sort of a voluntary abstention. It's a choice to say, you know what, I don't care about any of these other people. You know, I'm indifferent to them. And I guess my belief has always been, well, if I'm indifferent to the people, it's sort of like not voting in the first, but, you know, it's an abstention. So that kind of drop off, which tends, by the way, to be a lot less than in regular runoff elections, like the drop off in regular runoff elections, as I showed in that slide on average is almost 40% right in the congressional runoff primaries, which I know that Utah is debating. They might end up having, you know, congressional primary runoffs would probably drop off to 30, 40%. What you see kind of the drop off you might see in a regular spending election is more in the order of 5 to 10%. You know, so it's people that that that that drop off in in a really fractured race like this one in San Francisco, you might be referring to when no candidate got more than 11% or first races super. You know, it would have been a fractured race under any circumstance. And so a limit of three rankings. There were a lot of ballots that didn't didn't end up counting when it got down to two. But that's a real outlier. The rest are usually in the sort of 5 to 10% drop off. So it's not necessarily a majority in the first round, but it is a majority of the willing in a sense, particularly if there's not a limit on rankings of people that made a choice, they're having a chance to express it. And and so it's a majority of the final round. It might not might not always be a majority of the first round. And if anyone else wants to add on to that. Well, I think that's a that's a good explanation. I will say to where I and maybe, Rob, you can speak to this, the majority vast majority of races seem to have something that is 50% plus one. There are some, including Minneapolis, where we have had something, again, because of the drop off, where it is less than 50% . But still, the races I have seen have been in the high forties. So maybe you can speak a little bit to when we talk about plurality or you know, what, what does that look like in ranked choice voting? Yeah. And it's obviously there's a have a different, different measure also of sort of what voters might be meaning like in the current Minneapolis mayor race that just happened, the winner was ranked. In the top three out of it was ten candidates for mayor, 11 more, something like something, a bunch of candidates. And this person, I think maybe even 15 or something, right. So ranked in the top three by more than half of voters. However, some of those voters ranked his opponent in the final round. As a higher choice. So his two bouts didn't count for him in the final choice because they were counting for someone else. But those voters had made a sort of an expression of interest in support for it, for that candidate. And so if you look at it that way, you almost always get the winners getting expressions of support for more than 50%. And from in a sense, from a from the the the voter perspective, they they in a sense, feel represented by that person to a degree. Right. You know, like like they they made an affirmative decision to rank them. But anyway, that's sort of getting in the weeds. But it is sort of a way that it's a different it's not just sort of a one on one thing. It's a it's how you attract support from a from a community of people. And certainly the candidates see it that way where they need to reach out to as many people as possible. So when the new mayor of Minneapolis, you know, got affirmative expression of support for more than half the voters, and that to me seems important. I just want to say something on that because and this is in this isn't expressly answering that question. But just on this point of how candidates look at being ranked, I talked to the the winning candidate in a race that wasn't featured in my presentation, but also was very competitive. There was a socialist candidate. There was a Green Party candidate. There was kind of a business minded DFL candidate and another DFL candidate. And so the the the winner was the DFL candidate who who called himself a kind of a progressive DFL candidate. And he said to me after the race that he looked at the fact that he was ranked by 70 some percent of voters in in in the election. I mean, he was looking at who actually wanted to select him as one of their top three, and that mattered to him because it helped him understand also the spread of where were the voters. It gave him a very clear picture of where were the voters at in the war that he was elected to represent, what was the contours of that? And then where did he fall within that? So I thought it was really interesting, a comment to me by a winning candidate. Other questions. Yeah. Can anybody say at all, talk at all about what the opposition has been as it is and entities have taken on ranked choice voting? What are the common threads in that opposition and what are some of the strongest points that opposition groups have made. Wants to tackle that? I can talk a little bit about it. You know, the I guess the opposition is a lack of understanding of what ranked choice voting as it's something different it's new and. It can be confusing once you start diving down into some of the minutia. So we got that a lot. We got opposition because of cost, even though I think if it's done correctly, there's cost savings. But initially, you spend more money if you're going to do a lot of outreach. We had to buy. We had to do all of our outreach. We had to buy software to do our CV. We had the additional poll workers. So there was some initial expense that normally wouldn't be in an election. But then, you know, the software gets amortized over multiple elections and and that kind of goes away. So the other thing I think that that I kind of saw is elected officials and I know we have some in the room, so don't take this personally. But elected officials know how to win a certain kind of contest. And now all of a sudden here is a ranked choice voting contest. And this is different. I've never won that kind of election, so what do I do? And so I think there's been a little bit of a learning curve. There were some unrealistic expectations on candidates parts. I know we had one mayor in one of the cities who was an ardent, ardent supporter of ranked choice voting because it was he thought it was going to save him money and running his campaign. You'd only have to run one campaign rather than two. So he pushed it through the city and got it adopted. Well, of course, you know what happened. He he lost the ranked choice voting contest. And now he is an ardent advocate to eliminate ranked choice voting. And he used to send emails all the time saying, why did I make them do this? So it was it was kind of funny to see that happen. But so I think it's a it's really a lack of understanding sometimes about what it really means to win an election campaign. So and I think I'll just add very quickly that the turn of Elizabeth, which but I think is that one of the lessons learned in Minneapolis in some ways has been a good example for for doing this, which is to make sure that all the players in elections, the people most involved, really understand the system, because if they go in misinformed and then lose, like Dave was mentioned earlier, some people go out there and say, Rank me first, second and third thinking that helps and it doesn't help. And and and if they find out later didn't help and they, you know, it just just makes them feel stupid or something, you know, and then they're they're more and more likely to feel like they shouldn't do it. So just making sure that the key players understand it and then understand outcomes, which is one of the things that's interesting about that Minneapolis video, which is showing both winners and losers sort of accepting the outcome. We also had to deal with the situation in these early adoptions of ranked choice voting, that there wasn't a turnkey solution to implementing it. There would be. Taking over the world. I think if that was going to happen, it probably already would have with viruses which are basically nature's nanobots. And even though it's cold and flu season, viruses have not actually taken over the world, they are limited by their resources and they compete with each other all the different types that are out there