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AN ORDINANCE related to KeyArena; authorizing the renovation of KeyArena into a world-class, multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena at Seattle Center, including its design, construction, lease, financing, and future operation; authorizing the Mayor to execute agreements with Seattle Arena Company, LLC, for the renovation and lease of the Arena, including a lease agreement, a development agreement, an integration agreement, and other related agreements; exempting the renovation and future operation of the Arena from the requirements of Chapter 20.47 of the Seattle Municipal Code; authorizing the Seattle Center Director to execute future joint purchasing agreements with Seattle Arena Company, LLC, notwithstanding Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 20.60; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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The Report of the Select Committee on Civic Arenas. Agenda Item one Constable 119 345 relating to key arena authorizing the renovation of Key Arena into a world class, multipurpose sports and entertainment arena at Seattle Center, including its design, construction, lease financing and Future Operations Committee recommends the bill passes amended. Councilmember Suarez. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Before I go to my more official comments, I want to thank everybody who are here today who have been coming to all of our public hearings, our committee meetings, to provide public comment on this very important piece of legislation. Again, I just want to remind everyone that. It is 2018. Let's not live in the past. We just celebrated our third WNBA national championship. Go Seattle Storm. Thank you. Owners of Sales Storm. I guess sometimes when I hear people just go on and on about oh eight and their hearts being ripped out, I get a little annoyed because that was ten years ago, so you kind of gotta let that go. So we are starting a new day here in the city with a new partnership and a new partnership, and I'm very, very happy and excited. The Select Committee on Civic Arenas made a unanimous recommendation on September 14th, 2018 that the City Council passed Council bill as amended. This, as you, many of you know, is a few years in the making. The dozens of committee and committee in city council meetings, private briefings, community events, individual briefings and tons of paper and notebooks. But we're finally here. I want to thank my co-chair, President Harrell. I want to thank the client group who worked with me closely. Councilmember Bagshaw representing District seven in Council Member Johnson. Your participation and willingness to work with me as well as your staff was invaluable. I know we spent a lot of time together and you're probably tired of me and all the notebooks. A special thank you to my amazing five team in my office. Both both past and present. Brendel Nagy, Tyler, Mercedes, Sabrina and Shaina. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of putting together notebooks and reading and highlighting and collating and making sure that my colleagues had all the information they needed to make the right decision. And a very particular wonderful thank you to our director, Kirsten Anstead. Where are you? Kirsten, please raise your hand. This woman is amazing. Want to go a little bit off script here. I don't think people realize how hard and I think I can say Kirsten Kirsten. Is the is the glue that makes it. Happen. She's the one that makes sure all the charts, all the analysis. That it takes it much very sophisticated. Complicated ideas and all these transaction documents and boils it down. And we all work together to make sure they got done. And I could not have done this job without her. So I told her, when I leave this job some day, I'm taking her with me. So I'll leave it at that. I also want to be a special thanks to Ovg and their team. Your commitment, both financial and civically, to our great city is very, very much appreciated. We appreciate the time you took for us in the last about 18 months to work with us through many drafts and many documents. And I cannot tell you it was a labor of love, but it was well worth it. I want to thank the leadership and the cooperation of the executive team, particularly Mayor Jenny Durkin, Robert Nelms, Marshall Foster, the two Carls Carl Carl Steckel and Carl Hersch, Ben Noble. Thank you, Ben, for all your hard work and of course, our legal team, Greg Nava and our experts, most notably for me anyway, it was Mr. Abrams from NYU. Mr. Abrams again spent a considerable amount of time who the Legislative City Council hired to walk us through the most difficult documents, making sure that we understood due diligence , equity, financing, backstops, all that stuff. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are all proud of the hard work everybody contributed to deliver us here today. And in particular, I want to thank the city of Seattle and all the dedicated public servants who I did not list off today, who spent countless hours in time. And of course, all my colleagues and their legislative staff that came to meetings and took the time to meet with me and Kirsten and anyone who would listen about any material or any information or anything that they didn't understand. And one last thank you to the wonderful community groups that reached out to me that we met with so we could accommodate all of the needs of the residents, not only within the development zone, but those outside of the development zone. And I believe that this is just the beginning of a wonderful new era. 2018 is our year to make our city. And we said that line, and I'm going to say I almost said, make city Seattle great again. No, that's not what I was going to say. Seattle is already great. We are going to make it greater. And this is a phenomenal partnership. Thank you. Thank you. Chair, where's Councilmember Bagshaw? Thank you very much. And thanks to all of you who are here. Many of you were here with us two and a half years ago, and I think I opened up my comments with something like, sometimes you have to stand up what's right, even if you have to stand alone. And fortunately, I had a number of my colleagues who were willing to stand with me. And notwithstanding some of the stuff that we heard over the last year and a half, we have really been heartened by the support that we have received from all of you and from Oak View Group and Kirsten and Robert and Marshall, all of my own. Deborah has already sung your praises, but I just also want to say that when we first put this out in an RFP, the goal was to say Seattle and the Seattle center and the key arena are assets that are worth saving and not just saving, but revitalizing. And I am so excited today that the objectives that we had laid out included provide the world class civic arena that will attract and present music, entertainment and sports events, potentially including an NHL and an NBA. We know the NHL is within our grasp. I believe we'll see NBA by 2025 that we're going to integrate and connect with Uptown and Debbie FRAUSTO recoup are many of you who have been leading this charge. This is so important to me as a person who represents District seven. This is an incredible opportunity for us to design and permit, develop and construct again with minimal financial participation from the city. This is a big deal. It is a different deal than we were looking at two and a half years ago. And I, too, want to extend my thanks to a few group for the work that you have visioned and envisioned, because it's going to be very exciting to see what Seattle Center can become. And I'm also thrilled that our Bicycle Network is going to be extended. Thank you to Cascade Bicycle Club to Neighborhood Greenways for the work you've done and also for those who want to see the pedestrian connections. So, you know, just want to also say thank you to our labor community. Daryl Bright, Nicole Grant for the participation and what you showed us that we are standing together here that is not an us versus them city, but having the community development agreement, the local hire. And then we've also heard from our arts we uptown is an art and culture overlay neighborhood now. So connecting that with Uptown and with Belltown is important. And also I just want. To know that then to remind folks that the neighborhood was involved in the neighbors were heard. The notion of building affordable housing units right in Uptown and Belltown establish an innovative mobility strategy that puts pedestrians first. This is what we're going to be doing. And I don't know if Alan Hart is in our audience today or not, but he's the one that introduced me to this mobility action plan, the map, and making sure that we are connected. I'm excited about what we're doing. I'm very grateful to my colleague, Councilmember Suarez. I just appreciate so much your leadership on this. And you're putting the stake in the ground and saying we are going to have a deadline. I love what Debbie FRAUSTO said. It's that dreams with deadlines. And your goal is was that to bring us here today, get us moving. And I'm so hopeful that we have the NHL team soon so we can start the construction. So many thanks again to all of you that have been here. I'm just very grateful to be working with you. Thank you. Councilmember Cast Member O'BRIEN Would you like to say a few words? Just briefly, I want to thank the folks that have worked on this when less than a year ago when we considered the agreement. And the more you to move forward, I had some concerns of those time and voted no on that. And I want to say that those concerns have largely been addressed. I'll speak to the specifics around transportation when we get to the resolution, but proud to be supporting it today and look forward for the next couple of years. There's still work to do, but I think we can get there. Thank you. Comments from Brian. So we have item one in front of us, but any of my colleagues like the Chairman Castro Johnson, please, just briefly. Since there's a lot of things on the agenda today and everybody else's speeches have been really short in the interest of time, I just want to say how proud I am to be here. We have had a long road to get to this point. But Councilmember Suarez's suggestion earlier, you know, it has been really incredible experience to work with so many different and great people on this project. We've got an agreement where we all share in some risks and some rewards, but we are going to build a world class venue that is going to be home to some world championship teams . And ideally one of those will be a basketball team from the men's side to join the great basketball team that we have from the women's side. And. You know. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention, you know, I brought my little bobblehead friends today, thanks to a friend of mine who gave that to me after the last unsuccessful vote and said, stick with it. This is an important thing to a lot of people in the city. And and I'm really proud that we have a commitment not only to build a new arena, but also that that ARIN is going to contribute two and a half million dollars into our mandatory housing affordability program that it's going to commit $10 million to youth care and another $10 million in the Giving Fund, a three and a half million dollars in public art. And it's going to be part of a community in Seattle center where we have intentionally set up a lot of really incredible arts and cultural institutions. And it's going to respect and work with those arts and cultural institutions. My significant other spent six years on the fundraising staff for PNB, and I'm a big believer in the culture that we've created at Seattle Center, and I'm grateful to you, Director Dellums, for continuing that culture. So I'm just really excited. I'm going to get a lot less harassment from my taller, more athletically inclined cousins at Christmas this year. At six foot three, I got made fun of a lot for being one of the shortest members of the family and for for them. I am very grateful to you all for your vote today, because I think this is going to be a really, really incredible project. And I'm so proud of them both. Thank you, Kasper and Johnson. Now, the comments from many of my colleagues and we say a few words I just like to start off saying by that my heart was torn in 2008. Oh, God. I'm just joking. Oh. Yeah. In all seriousness, this is just a great deal for the city, for the residents, for the businesses. So I'll view hopefully with the success voters, it's no longer our adversarial in a contractual way. They are our partners and I think they've already proven through this process they've been outstanding partners. So just a few things councilmember worries really drove the process your thoroughness is was remarkable so thank you for that. Director Kirsten Aristide and your team were phenomenal. Robert Nel I'm sure team we, we had high expectations and you rose to the occasion as you always do. So we think. Thank you for that. And I just enjoyed Mike McQuaid's description that this is this is world class, this is a legacy project. And in the midst of, you know, we just got off a big Seahawk win and a big Husky win. So we're riding high in the midst of all that sports stuff. We're not forgetting about the people that matter the most the communities, the neighborhoods, the homeless, the housing needs. So this is a good deal for the city and I'm very honored to support it. So and with that, councilman was really like saying, are you ready to vote? Despite being called a bandito today? Yes, I think I'm ready for a vote. All right. We good? Okay. Here we go. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Gonzalez. I herbold. I Johnson. Hi. Suarez. Hi. O'Brien. Sergeant Bagshaw. Hi. President Harrell. Hi. Eight in favor and unopposed. All right, Bill passes. I know this. That's got to be. A record in terms of the size of the bill. My goodness. It's called the next agenda item when you are ready.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 225 East Bayaud Avenue in Speer. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-TU-B2, UO-3 to G-MU-3, UO-3 (urban two-unit to general, multi-unit), located at 225 East Bayaud Avenue in Council District 7. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-24-22.

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12 days. Cancel the 22 days. 0585 has passed. Councilmember Flynn, will you please put Council Bill 20 2-0586 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Madam President, I move that council bill 20 2-0586 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20 20586 is open. May we have the staff report? Yes. Thank you. Brad Johnson, principal city planner with Community Planning and Development. Bringing you today, a rezoning request for 225 East Bay Avenue from u t u v to u032g in u three. U of three. This is in Council District seven in the spear neighborhood. And again, the request is for general urban neighborhood, context, multi-unit with a three storey maximum height or 40 feet. This would allow multiple dwelling going units on the lot more than two as would be allowed under the baseline zoning. Building forms allowed would be urban house duplex, the garden court townhouse and apartment forms. And the applicant does. The Swiss have retained the Euro three overlay, which is use overlay, which is a historic structures use overlay and use overlay. If the building on the site was landmark, that use overlay would allow additional flexibility for a few nonresidential uses. Which are art studio office, non-medical, non dental and bed and breakfast. However, this this building is not landmarked. So for now anyway, this use of would not apply. If it were to be landmarked in the future, it could come into play. And this proposal is intended to facilitate re-use of the structure from from a religious institutional use to to be adapted to adaptively reuse for residential units. So just zooming in on this site a little bit more right here at the corner of Bad and Grant. The lot itself is 94, 95 feet wide, more or less along Green Street. That frontage and the lot areas just over a quarter acre at 12,000 square feet. Here. You see the existing zoning on the site that drew me to you, too, and some of the other areas around it on that block as well. And then the surrounding zoning, you see a lot more that G in Q3, which is what's what's requested here. The existing land uses both on the site and in the vicinity. So you see a wide variety of of different uses. The majority of them are single unit and two unit residential. But if you look along that Ad Avenue corridor, you see quite, quite a variety there. Here are some photos. First at the bottom bottom middle of this page are the site itself. So there you see the former Faith Center Building. It's on the site. Now, that would be the is intended to be adaptively reuse and to the left and right you see some of the immediately surrounding buildings of the subject site. I want to mention that the applicant has the senior staff report up and has entered into a ten year non demolition agreement for the building to maintain it in place at least over the next ten years. And the historic timber. This this rezoning followed all the procedural requirements of the zoning code in terms of noticing the rezoning and posting on the site and so on. In a public hearing tonight. In terms of outreach, we received four letters of support from members of the public, generally supportive of re-use with residential on the site, but also excited about the opportunity for this building to be maintained in place. We did receive one letter voicing concerns about parking impacts in terms of demand that this might generate relative to the when compared to the existing use. And we saw a couple of comments like that at the planning board as well. We haven't received any official or no comments on this. So moving to the criteria is criteria, starting with consistency with adopted plans. We did find that this rezoning would mean numerous goals, objectives and strategies in Plan 2040, just a couple of which are flagged here and others identified in the staff report. In terms of blueprint. Denver The future neighborhood context is urban, so that calls for small multi-unit, residential and mixed use areas that are typically embedded in one and two unit residential areas and buildings that are of a large scale and closer to the street. You'll notice on this map that this site is the context that's called for is urban design district. That's being requested is general urban. See, it's right on the edge there of a general urban designation. So given that and what's being proposed here, blueprint Denver anticipates as a citywide plan that we're not going to map those boundaries. Perfect. And this is a case where blueprint ever provides guidance. There's some flexibility could be shown in a case like this where you have a property that's right on the edge of one of those boundaries, especially if it meets goals that blueprint. Denver And so more on that in a couple of slides. Feature place type is low residential as predominantly single unit and two unit uses on smaller lots. Although you see this language kind of at the bottom of this paragraph says that vacant institutional uses on corner or select sites may be appropriate locations to introduce additional residential density . So this will qualify as that type of vacant institutional use. Future street type is local and designated which blueprint? Denver says that for that type of that street type, there could be a variety of different land uses and urban farms adjacent to that that type of street. And so given that flexibility, we did find that this rezoning would be consistent with future street type. Growth area strategy is all other areas of the city, which calls for 10% of new jobs and 20% of new housing on the properties that are designated as all other areas of the city through 2040. Given that this rezoning would allow additional resident residential units on the site, it would allow for some moderate increase in housing in the city, and therefore we define it to be consistent with growth area strategy. So I talk about how the future context didn't perfectly aligned, but that blueprint does allow flexibility in that regard, especially if the rezoning would meet other goals of the city and that are in Blueprint Denver. And so these are a few pieces of policy language from Blueprint Denver that Carla called for facilitating compatible redevelopment of institutional sites like this, calls for additional land use flexibility in that cases and in those types of cases and actually calls out redevelopment. This would be a reuse of the site, but it goes even stronger than that and calls out a redevelopment of the site as being potentially appropriate. We have one area plan, which is the West Washington Park neighborhood plan. That's a pretty old one from 91. A lot of the focus of that plan is on maintaining the residential character of the neighborhood, which this rezoning would. There is some language that we thought was relevant, particularly relevant, which is this land use policy here, which calls for maintaining and improving historic and architecturally significant structures which we thought this would would fall into that category. So we did find this rezoning to be consistent with this adopted area plan. We also found that the rezoning would result in uniform district regulations and further public health and safety and welfare of the community through implementation of our adopted plans and those policies I just shared with you. Justifying circumstances for this one again pointing to the to that language in blueprint deliver about flexibility on institutionally institutional sites for redevelopment or in this case for and supporting that type of flexibility to infuse additional units in a compatible way. We felt that it did meet that justifying circumstance. And then finally, we did find that this rezoning would be consistent with a neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intent. And so with all of that, we do recommend approval finding of review criteria. Okay. Thank you. We have four individuals signed up to speak this evening in person to Travis Mahfouz. For the record, if you could give us your name and city of residents. Thank you. My name's Travis Michael Foose, the city of Denver resident, the owner of this property and the applicant. And we're excited. I'm here with my development partner, Yani Bellis. We're excited to present another opportunity for the city of Denver to adaptively reuse some of our historic properties, do them in a way that the neighborhoods are excited about and can maintain their character and also enable future community members to participate and enjoy architecture and character in the neighborhoods that make Denver so unique. So thank you for your support and want to persuade planning support supporters. Well, thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is online, Jesse Paris. Yes. Many, many members of council. Those watching at home I name is just in the staff here and I'm up for Blackstone actionable self defense positive actually for social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado, the East Denver Residents Council Hotline, Black News and I will be the next November 2023. Initially, I was against this rezoning. I thought it was going to be more gentrification as usual. But seeing from the presentation, it's not, Hey, I'm in support of this rezoning tonight. It meets all five of the criteria. So yeah. Should pass with. No problem. Thank you. I have less night. Thank you. Our next speaker also online, Michael Flowers. All right. My name is Michael Flowers, and I'm director of Preservation Action at Historic Denver 523, nonprofit dedicated to preserving Denver's unique identity, cultural landmarks and workplaces. Our offices are located at 1420 North Ogden Street in the old Everson School. Historic. Denver is fully in favor of the zoning change. The church was built in 1911 as the second Church of Christ Scientists and later was run by the Spiritual Assembly of the Beehive, Denver, for a number of years before it came up for sale with an uncertain future. The building is a great example of the classical revival style, and the current owners are dedicated to preserving the structure while adapting it into housing to show that commitment. Mr. McAfee has entered a ten year restrictive covenant and non demolition agreement with historic. Denver is also a proven and proven steward of the historic buildings. The Patterson Mansion, a Denver landmark, and Capitol Hill is a prime example. Adaptive reuse projects like this year, buildings a new life, ensuring that they will be around for years to come. The zoning changes are critical. Allman's project will preserve a piece of Denver's history. Now new housing units to the neighborhood. Thank you for your time and I hope you will vote in favor of the zoning change. I'm also available to answer any questions about the covenant, if there are any things. Thank you. Our last speaker online is Gregory Holman. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to speak now. My name is Greg Home. I've lived in West Wash Park for 33 years. In order for neighborhoods. To meet the housing needs of people at various levels of income, at various stages of life, a variety of housing types and sizes is essential. This project will provide a moderate cost option for people who want to live in the West Coast Park neighborhood but can't afford the high cost of a single family home across the island . To the west are numerous parcels zoned Jimmy 303 and there are numerous other similar apartment buildings along are to the east in the Speer neighborhood. 225 is bad is two blocks from bus lines on Lincoln and Broadway, less than a mile from the Alameda Light rail station. Line residents who use transit to commute to work and shopping project said adaptive reuse of a former church building as churches has declined. Adapting former churches to multi-family use is an excellent way to respond to a current housing shortage. For Denver to thrive and continue to attract talent, talented people to move here. Denver needs an explosion in housing construction of various types. Sizing cost in every neighborhood throughout the city is the only way to respond to the housing crisis. I'm glad that staff supports this project and it's great to hear positive comments from other speakers. I said City Council approved this project. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on 20 2-0586. Councilmember Flynn. Thank you. Travis, can I ask you to come up and I'm sorry, I am not recalling the name of the gentleman from historic Denver if he might be available also. Why a tenure non demolition agreement as opposed to a permanent conservation easement that would protect the building it since it's so very important to the to the neighborhood and to to you and your prior efforts as well. Sure. Thank you. And it's a good question. It was a question we received at a previous meeting and from the neighborhood as well. So I'm happy to address that. And also with Michael Flowers helping me from the start Denver standpoint. Our goal is as a development team is to preserve this property. We wanted to enter into agreement with historic Denver that showed that commitment and also enable us time to let the vision that this property will evolve and to evolve and come to fruition. There's no magic recipe in this ten year figure. And the idea is that as that time goes by, there'll be significant investment into this property with a successful rezoning. If that is how we are successful today, it will be significant capital invested into the interior of this property. The exterior will be very minimally, if at all worked on. And so the idea was to provide the time for the development team to put the whole picture together after we have the successful rezoning, but also show the forthcoming commitment to the city, to the neighborhood, to historic Denver, that our intent is to maintain the integrity of this building for for forever, not just for ten years, not just for ten years. Okay. Michael, do you have anything to add to that? Michael have anything. That Travis said? Sorry. I don't know what that was. I'll just second everything that Travis said. And, you know, ten years is typically long enough in a development cycle, you know, to allow for the project to be completed. And we just wanted it to be, you know, protection and control in place to ensure that, you know, immediately after the zoning change that there was protection in place, you know, and especially during the timeline of the project. We've worked with Travis before, and, you know, we think it's going to be a great project. And so we thought ten years would be long enough, you know, that we could control in the future for permanent protection. But I think for right now that the ten years shows a great commitment on Travis's part, and we're happy to continue working with him if he wants to work with us. Michael I looked through I didn't read closely the entire ten year agreement, but I think lamb's through. It doesn't give historic Denver any leverage or any oversight of any exterior modifications or alterations. Now this is this is just a non demolition agreement. So this is not, you know, like our easements and other documents that we have, it's just so that the property cannot be demolished. Okay. Well, it says if the owner promises no demolition or a significant alterations, I believe that that's going to speak to that premise. Sure. And also to the intent of designating this as a historic structure going forward. There's a number of implications that are involved in that process, all of which we're exploring as preservationists and as a successful track record throughout Denver of identifying properties that have the potential to work themselves into the next cycle of development. You know, the idea is that the exterior of the church will be maintained. There will be a roof. There'll be some roof work because of complying with modern code and the like. But the architectural detail is exquisite on this building, and we plan to really use that as the base for the whole development. We're even going to be preserving the majority of the second floor of this building, incorporating those into the interior of the units , much as we have in this beautiful building. And so the the exterior of this building will be as minimally impacted as possible to enable its next purpose as a residence. Thank you. Does the use overlay through the historic use overlay? Does that have any power or any leverage in it to require any city review of any alterations? Or is it simply a a use overlay that allows. Nonresidential uses in historic buildings is the latter. However, for it to even apply, the structure would have to be designated. And so all of the things that keeping infrastructure, being landmarked, including review under our LPC process and so on, would be there. If that your theory was applying, right? Mm hmm. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Fire. Thank you. Seeing no other questions, the public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council 1220 2-0586 Council Member Clark. Thank you, Council President. This is a really, really special building in the neighborhood, and I'm just thrilled that this group came together. You know, I remember the first time we sat down, just there's so much excitement and passion to preserve it. Right. And that's that is often not we're especially in this neighborhood where we've had very a ton of contentious ones where, you know, there is a hostile attempt to to preserve something that somebody else wants to just tear down. And this was the opposite. This was, you know, this ownership group coming in saying, hey, we want to preserve this. We want to find a way to work the zoning, because the zoning is these are really hard to preserve. But we want to change the zoning to be able to preserve this structure and then to bring residential in line with the community. And, you know, I just want to say thank you for all the time you spent with a very smart and very engaged community that does this a lot of times. And I know, you know, put you through the ringer as you guys were working through this. But to continue at it, to work with them, you know, and to share that excitement for preservation with some folks who really, really care about preservation, this would would just be a heartbreaker to lose a structure like this and to hear the plans of how to give it a whole new life for decades and decades to come is really exciting. So I just want to say thank you. And I think that it's special that we still have owners and people willing to come forward and spend time and money investing what is in not an easy project. This isn't just, hey, buy something, tear down and build, you know, another 3 to 5 stories that looks just like everything else. This is unique. It is special. It's going to be a really, you know, just one of a kind, kind of place to live. And so I appreciate all the hard work working with the neighborhood, working on what is a zone district that fits that really meets these criteria, but also meets this goal of of preservation and reuse and to bring it all together here. So I think as illustrated by staff, through your hard work, this clearly meets all the criteria. I'm happy to support it. Today, I want to say thank you for bringing this forward, and I would encourage my colleagues to support this tonight as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Tim Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. I just want to say I also recognize how hard it is to keep the historic structures. I have several in my council district and I've used the same very process and it creates a win win. It allows you to adaptively reuse the building and update windows and update other things that might be challenging if it was deemed historic currently right now, but allows you to build density where we need it and also bring a different type of housing stock that is lacking in Denver. So just want to say that I absolutely support this type of use and this type of creativity. I know it's not easy and I look forward to when they may be voting on the designation of it because it has tax credits that happened also in my council district. Once you've gone through this process, then coming back with the designation so that you as the owner can benefit from those historic tax credits. So thank you for being creative and helping solve some of the solutions of historic preservation and housing at the same time. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilmember Hines. Thank you, Council President. I'm done. Some of the rescind of all kind of said much of what I wanted to say and that we need more people like you who are willing to take properties that are distinctive and and preserve them and and work within the structure to make it something that works today but but celebrates where Denver has come from. You've mentioned the Paterson so I reached out Paterson is in my district in Denver is perfect ten and we I don't know if the council recalls but we actually went through a rezoning of the Paterson not too long ago. So while I was it was fun to learn a bit about your property today. I've been inside of Paterson lots of times and watched its journey as it becomes more accessible to people in, you know, who use wheelchairs like I do. But also it is it is another example of an adaptive reuse. So thank you for. For having a track record of taking great properties and making them current as well. So thank you. Thank you, President. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Roll call and Council Bill 20 2-0586. Clark. I. When I. Herndon. I like Cashman. Kenny Ortega. Sandoval. I saw your eye blank. I see tobacco. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, closed the voting and announced the results. 12 hours. 12 hours. Council Bill 20 20586 has passed a preaent recess announcement. I'd like to use a little bit of privilege here real quick and say a few words about one of our City Council family members who's going to be moving on to another adventure, Zacharias Meyer, whose last day will be this Friday, July 22nd.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions for Entertainment without Dancing to Third Planet, LLC, dba Vine, at 2142 East 4th Street. (District 2)

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Thank you so much. And I think we are all a little bit more conscious about Native American Heritage Month heritage. And we'll definitely do what we can to be more intentional with our support and recognition and acknowledgment. Thank you so much for your presentation. So I'd like to go to a hearing number 13. Item number 13 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record, conclude the public hearing and grant an entertainment permit with conditions for entertainment without dancing to Vine at 2142 East Fourth Street District two. This does require an oath. Please people participating. If you can say I do, I will. At the end of the statement to you and each of you solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the course now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Thank you. I do. Thank you. Uh, so I'd like to go to staff for presentation. I'd like to introduce Tara mortensen, our business services manager, for a brief presentation on this item. Good evening, council members. Before you tonight is an application for entertainment without dancing or a third planet LLC, DBA the vine at 2142 East Fourth Street operating as a bar with a Type 42 ABC license for serving and selling beer and wine, but not distilled spirits. All of the appropriate departments, Health and Human Services, Development Services, Police and Financial Management have reviewed the application and have provided their recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet. There is one correction, however, that's in the condition section, section one, item number four is part of our regular standard conditions, but it's not applicable on this in this situation as it applies only to restaurants and will be deleted from this item. I, as well as Commander Burford from the police department who was on the phone this evening, are available to answer any questions that you may have. That concludes my staff report. Thank you, sir. We have a motion by Councilmember Allen and second by a councilmember that they have. We'll turn it over to Councilmember Allen. Yes. Thank you. I just want to thank the staff, Emily, also Emily and Dustin from the Vine for all their hard work on this fourth street and the retro row area. It's just an awesome, fun part of our community. I know the bid and all the businesses there do a great job at managing the area and the vine is just a very popular spot to go. So I am fully supportive of this entertainment license. Emily and Dustin are great operators and I know that they will comply with all the conditions listed and staff has not received any issues. So I don't think there's any reason why we wouldn't move forward with this license. That can come from within the data. Very supportive of this item. Okay. Remove the second and I don't see any further comment. I'll go to public comment now. Will the following speakers please line up the podiums? And I can say Justin Lavelle's, Tamara King, Morgan Hughes, Carl Stinson. You each have up to 3 minutes. You don't need to use all of that time, though. Careful, the one of these groups might say you're trying to, you know, disqualify the Brown Act amendment. Gentlemen, I am speaking in favor of this entertainment permit being received by the Vine Bar. I find Emily Anderson to be running and maintaining one of the finest examples of creativity within the city of Long Beach. This is a destination hub for a wide spectrum on the age bracket. But most importantly for me, as a participant in live music within the city, it's one of the few places that younger acts and older acts can simultaneously mix both in performance and in and attendance. I think that seeing them make the wonderful turnaround of Retro Row as a resident in the city of Long Beach has been inspiring. And it's it's finally due to the hard work and good nature of people like Emily Anderson. You know, it takes a lot, both as a musician and as a young family, to run an establishment such as this. And it's purely been done just for the good nature of maintaining a culture or a music culture here in the city of Long Beach. So I'm appreciative, appreciative of that. I think that it's one of the imperative pieces that holds together the whole retro area in itself. And I'm always glad to be in attendance there for any of the events that they have. And, you know, very rarely, but at times they do have a lovely root beer selection. And so I always find myself going there at times to just make sure that they they have that intact. So thank you and for support. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name's Steph in love with. Thanks for having us. This is Emily, my wife. We owned Vine together and Vine is served the Long Beach Music Community, music and arts community for over 12 years. The venue provides a safe environment for all walks of life to engage in and share their music and art. Our patrons and staff are extremely community oriented. We look out for the space as well as for street as a whole. We believe having a space like Vine open in the evening greatly benefits Fourth Street and its future. It brings new people to the city, brings all people to the city that have been here for a long time. In regards to sound, Vine has always and will continue to strictly follow the rules outlined in our entertainment license. Music will be over on time. Doors will be shut during light performances. We have a double pane sound, glass windows and our storefronts from the previous owner. And the ceilings are lined with soundproofing material as well. And I have submitted about ten letters from people that live nearby. People have really literally closed as well as the Fourth Street Association. And we have the full support of everyone in that. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Tamara King, and I'm a voting member of District two. I'm one of the residents that abuts the vine bar. And it is not quiet. It is not soundproof. I soundproofed my residence. There's apartment buildings. We just talked about density and cooperative living. This is a residential area. I love Fourth Street. I love live music. But it's seven nights a week and it doesn't stop at 10:00. There's usually people screaming in the alleyways. For those of us who actually do live there, it's a very loud. You know, it's residences on all sides. Apartment dwellers were renters, and no one has tried any sound mitigation whatsoever. So this is out on the parking lot. The door is not closed. The trash is gone through. Please think of the residence. Thank you. Hi there. Thank you. I am Morgan Hughes. I am also a resident very close to Vine. I actually live along the alleyway that butts up to the same alleyway that Vine is located on. So it is a very, very close location. I am here in front of you today fully in support of a small business and a staple to our community. And I echo what one of the other members here said about the cultural impact and the art and the value that Vine provides to our community. As I mentioned, I live very, very close, um, and for a very long time they have always followed the rules. We have never had any issues with people being disrespectful to our property. We do have an open yard against the alleyway and we have knock on wood. Never have anybody disrespect our property. We've never had any issues and we've always been very, very impressed with the way that they have followed the rules and been respectful of the noise curfew so fully and support. And I look forward to the next live venue. Thank you. This is our final speaker on this. I'm Carl Essence and I also live really close by to the vine. Also, musicians have the opportunity to play there sometimes. Yeah, they've done a great job. I think it's a really important part of our street that they keep this license. I think it's a big part of the community and the culture there. Especially on Retro Road, there's a lot of business, I think, that locally has driven through there as well as people come to visit from out of the area. I think it adds a lot and I would agree with the last speaker that sound wise we can hear pretty well down that street and they're always on curfew. Like when I've been there drinking late, there were the second curfews that like we all get put inside, doors are closed out that they do the best they can . I think it's more than enough, and I think it's really important to keep that place there and let them do what they're doing. Thank you. Thank you. I'll take it back to Councilmember Allen. I yes. I just want to speak to the resident and just just know, I. I do hear your concerns, and I just want you to know that we will make sure that, you know, all the rules are being followed. And I trust that they will abide by all the stipulations of entertainment permit. Okay. The motion and second it we've heard from public comment members please cast your vote. Motion is carried. Before we go on to the next item, I'd like to hear from the city attorney to report out from closed session. Thank you, councilmember and members of the council this evening in closed session, the council by a vote of 8 to 0 authorize the city attorney to initiate litigation and participation in the national prescription opioid litigation. Case number 17, M.D., to No. Four in the United States District Court. Thank you. Thank you. So the next item is I would like to just kind of combine our fund transfers. Item 14, 23, 24, 25 and 26 as one item. Let me get a motion in a second on that.

4) Adopt resolution requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to consolidate a General Municipal Election for two local initiative measures to be held on June 7, 2016 with the Statewide Primary Election to be held on that date pursuant to Section 10403 of the Elections Code.

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Item four Police. Adopt a resolution requesting the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles to consolidate a general municipal election for two local initiative measures to be held with the statewide primary election. Thank you. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you very much. I'm going to just make a brief comment before we go on to the next item. I just want to begin just by thinking I think it's important that we think our finance staff and they've been working very, very hard on this issue, as well as our city attorney staff. And I just want to thank you both for doing this. And I want to say one other thing. I think it's important to be very clear. What the councilors voted on tonight and the night before is to give voters the opportunity to make their voices heard at the ballot box. It's not an endorsement of going in this direction. They will all have an opportunity on their own to make those decisions. But it's giving the voters the option. This is now in the hands of the Long Beach voters. And over the course of the next few weeks and months ahead, there'll be a robust city wide conversation. So I want to thank everyone for working hard on this particularly want to thank Mayor Foster and Mayor Beverley O'Neill, who have both advocating to give voters a choice to put this measure on the ballot. And I want to thank the Council for their diligence. Good questions. And in particular, I want to thank those that advocated in to adding the Citizen's Oversight Commission and strengthening its ability to monitor these funds as well. So thank you all the way around and of course, to our city attorney and finance staff as well. And with that, we can move to the next item. Madam Clerk.

AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending Sections 25.05.675 and 25.05.800 of the Seattle Municipal Code to clarify and update references to the Comprehensive Plan and restore the categorical exemptions for State Environmental Policy Act review of proposed “infill” development.

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Three prior the Planning and Zoning Committee Agenda Item for accountable 118 753 relating to license only amending sections 25.0 5.6 75 and point 800 synonymous for code to clarify an update references to the Comprehensive Plan and Restore the Categorical Exemptions for State Environmental Policy Act Review of proposed infill developments committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Johnson. Thank you. Council President Herald This was a bill that we had in committee for longer than we had the comprehensive plan last year. Thanks for referencing it, Amelia. This bill restores something called our categorical exemption for our State Environmental Policy Act thresholds in urban centers back to the levels established by council in 2012. We had a lot of rigorous debate about this. The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections has a set of protocols that they asked developers to go through that we felt were redundant with what a developer has to go through in order to fulfill the obligations outlined in the CBA documents that the state requires of us. For several years it was the Council adopted policy that developments under a certain number of units. We're not required to go through this CPA process because of those additional requirements that we put on development through our Department of Construction and an inspection process. And so the action that we'll take today would remove the CPA thresholds from just urban centers. So our six urban centers in the city and we've asked the Seattle Department of Construction inspections to come back around to us and talk to us about the implications of what removing those thresholds would mean inside our urban villages. To the committee, you adopted this unanimously after several, several months of rigorous debate at committee, and I would encourage my colleagues to vote yes. Thank you, Councilmember Justin. And then any further comments about this bill? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. Johnson, I. Suarez. O'Brian. Sergeant Bagshaw. Burgess. Gonzalez Herbold. President Harrell. All nine in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and chair of Senate. Please read the part of the planning land use and I'm sorry the affordable housing neighborhoods in Finance Committee three four. The Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee Agenda and five accountable 1189 37 million to the redevelopment. Yes. Retirees by the Housing Authority. The cities that authorized the mayor to execute an amendment to the Terrorist Cooperative Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle that was authorized by Ordinance 123 961 authorizing the Director of Housing to

Resolution recognizing the contributions of African American Military Veterans and recognize African American Military Heritage Day. On motion of Councilor Murphy, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Fernandes Anderson and Flynn as co-sponsors. On motion of Councilors Murphy, Fernandes Anderson and Flynn, the rules were suspended, the resolution was adopted.

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Please read Target 0645. Don't you love me? You really love me. Doug Number 0645 Councilor Murphy offer the following resolution recognizing the contributions of African-American military veterans and recognize African-American military Heritage Month. Thank you, Mr. Clarke. The chair recognizes. Counsel Murphy. Counsel Murphy, you have the floor. Thank you. I'd like to suspend the rules and add Counselor Anderson and President Flynn, please. Seeing no objection. Council Fernandez Enerson in the chair also ordered. Thank you, Counselor Murphy. So thank you. So I want to thank Commissioner Santiago from Boston Veterans Services and Mr. Finnell, who are here in the audience. And thank you, Mr. Finnell, for your sacrifice and commitment and service during the Vietnam War and in Okinawa. And thank you also for your continued community service in your educational endeavors as a poet and founder of the Oscar Micheaux Family Theater program. So thank you for that. And I stand to offer this resolution today to recognize Saturday, May 21st, 2022, as African-American Military Heritage Day. Each year at the General Edward O. Gordon Veterans Memorial Park, the Organization of Afro-American Veterans and other military veteran organizations gather to memorialize the history and contributions of African-American military veterans. Here they honor African-American military and civil service by conversating with one another and sharing their experiences. In general, 43% of the 1.3 million men and women on active duty in the United States military are people of color. Yet only two of the 41 most senior commanders in the military are black. Most, more specifically, in 2020, black soldiers compromised approximately 21% of active duty army, 15% of the Army National Guard, and 21% of the Army Reserve. It should be noted that black Americans serve in the Army at a higher rate than their representation rate in the U.S. population, which is 13.4. So the purpose of annually celebrating African military Heritage Day in Boston is to recognize and commemorate the service of African American veterans in every war. The history will not be forgotten, and I'm happy to say that Veterans Memorial Park in Roxbury plays a part in this commemoration. With that said, Boston will continue to support the United States African-American military and veterans to show that our city strongly embraces diversity, to create a system that maximizes individual talents and increases morale regardless of race , color or gender. So in short, I ask that my colleagues on the Boston Council pass this resolution to acknowledge Saturday, May 21st, 2022, as African American Military Heritage Day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Murphy, the chair recognizes Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Counsel Fernandez Anderson. You have the floor. Thank you. Councilor Flynn. Council President Flynn. Thank you, Councilor Murphy, for offering this resolution to recognize the African-American military veterans who have served in the U.S. armed forces throughout this nation's history. They have served despite often being the victims of blatant racism and discrimination. During civil war, they fought to help free their enslaved brethren and themselves during World War II, and they served bravely only to come back to this country to be lynched and beaten, often in uniform immediately after the war. During World War Two, they fought courageously to defeat fascism while continuing to be victimized by Jim Crow and legalized segregation at home. The army itself was not segregated until 1950, meaning that in all the wars I've described above, the black soldiers were in separate fighting units, often led by segregationist commanders. During the Vietnam War, while black people were rising up for their freedom in this country. Many others were drafted into or chose to serve in the army. They fought bravely, even if they weren't always in full agreement with the objectives or if their main goals was to come home in one piece. And so it goes. So the present day where black men and women continue to serve our country via their service in the military. One of them being my son. Luis Miguel. Let me just say, Luis Miguel, Freddy Rocha, who is a marine who I am extremely proud of, who? Induces anxiety every time I talk with him because he is so dear and dear to my heart, I'm extremely proud of him. This young man is so beautiful in and out. Not because I'm his mother, obviously, but I am so extremely proud of my son for making his own decision, for being someone who wants to serve his country. And I am just I can't say how how happy I am that he has taken his own path to serve our country and how much I love him for it. And I pray for his protection and guidance. Guidance always. Amen. So thanks again to my colleagues and for offering us a solution and I am gladly to the second. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Fernandez Anderson. I would like to echo. The comments of Councilor Fernandez innocent and Councilor Murphy. Exceptional heroism of African-American men and women in their role. Is part of the US military. They fought bravely. They fought under very difficult conditions. They came back to the States and weren't treated with the respect and dignity that they've earned. I've had a good friend Will assigned, as well as Saunders, who's passed away. It's an older gentleman. He was a Tuskegee Airman, superintendent of the Boston Police. And I heard him tell stories about the incredible sacrifices and contributions of African-American men and women in the military to our country. So I just want to say thank you to my colleagues, but the entire body for for supporting African-American veterans. I'd also like to. Thank my friend who's the Commissioner of Veterans Services, Rob Santiago, for always being there in support of African-American veterans and making sure that they have the services and programs that they've earned. So thank you, Commissioner Santiago. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter, or would anyone else like the chair recognize this Council of Borough Council? Laura, you have the floor. Thank you. President Flynn. I just wanted to rise to extend my. Gratitude and thanks to the veterans that are here with us today. I think it's incredibly honorable to fight for your country when so many times we have failed to fight for them in the same way. I am excited to support this resolution in honor of black veterans, in honor of the Black Veteran War tax resisters, in honor of the Black Veteran Vietnam War veterans and the people, the black veterans who fought against the war here and abroad. And on behalf of my best friend, Kaleo Goodwin, who is a Navy veteran herself. So I wanted to say thank you to you have been very happy to support us with this resolution thinking. Thank you, counsel. Would anyone like to sign on? Please raise your hand. Mr. Kirklees Council. A Royal Council. The Bar Council. A Brighton Council. A Cardiff Council. A Lara Council Council me. Councilor Murphy, Councilor Fernandez. Innocent in Flynn. Six suspension of the rules and passage. An adoption of Typekit 0645. All those in favor say aye. Aye, all those opposed. Same day. The ayes have it. The docket has been adopted. We're actually files. I am informed by the court that there are there are two way file matters or that three three they found that a hearing order from counsel Bork a personnel order. Oh, yeah. You know, in a letter from Council World, let me go to the hearing order for council. Book council. You have the floor. We? Mr. Clarke, please read the documents that I can. Exactly. Oh, okay. So you should. Okay. So the late files should be on everyone's desk. We will take a vote to add these three into the agenda. As I mentioned, the hearing order from Councilor Bork, a personnel order in a letter from counsel counsel world. We will take a vote to add these items into the agenda. All those in favor of adding the late file matters into the agenda. Please say hi. The ayes have it. Thank you. The late file matters have been added to the agenda. Mr. Clerk, please read the first file, madam.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Subsections 10.12.010.A.40 and 10.12.020.A.29, all relating to speed limits, read and adopted as read. (Districts 6,9)

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Item 32 Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to speed limits red and adopted as red districts six and nine. Hmm. Councilman Andrews, please. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Right. You know, we're just a big family, so. You know, just having fun. Thank you. So. Would you like to address. Fine. We're okay. Okay. Councilman Richardson, would you like to address the item? No. Okay. Thank you. Mr. West? Nothing. Right? It's a good thing. Wonderful. All right, members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. We have. One item under new bids, two items in a new business. 33 Report from Councilwoman Mango Councilman Austin Councilmember Richardson recommendation to request the city attorney to draft a resolution in support of the joint applications by charter Time Warner Cable and advance new House Partnership to the FCC.

Recommendation to request City Council to receive and file a report from the Department of Health and Human Services on the status of the current flu levels in Long Beach and Southern California, detailing steps Long Beach residents can take to prevent contracting and spreading the illness.

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Motion case. Thank you. Item 16, please. Communication from Vice Mayor Richardson, Councilwoman Gonzales, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Urunga. Recommendation to receive and file a report from the Department of Health and Human Services on the status of current flu levels. Thank you. Thank you. And this. This motion tonight is about really receiving a presentation on the flu. Every year we go through our process of helping to educate the community, and it's led by our health department. And this year, it's particularly important that we focus on the recent flu, given that this is one of our most aggressive youth flu seasons in a decade. There was an article weeks ago that really highlighted sort of how aggressive it's been in Southern California. And weeks ago there were about 40 deaths by the flu. But it called out at that point that two cities, two large cities in L.A. County, didn't have any deaths to the flu. And they were the two cities that had their own public health departments. So it was Pasadena, Long Beach. The statistics have changed since then, but I think it's important that we do raise this up and we highlight our health department. We asked for a report in front of the full council and in front of the public about this year's flu season. So at that so at this point, I'm just going to ask for a staff report. Mayor Councilmembers. I'm going to turn this over to our director of Health. And Human Services, Kelly Collopy, and also our health officer, Dr. Anissa Davis. So Kelly and Anita. Good evening. One of the things about tonight is we've. Been able to show you sort of the breadth of some of the. Work that we're doing. So from black infant health to violence prevention, and now we'll be sharing about the flu. So Dr. Anissa Davis, who's your health officer, will be presenting and will be open for questions after. Good evening, Honorable Vice Mayor and Council Members, thank you for giving me this opportunity to present information on this year's flu back flu season. My closeness to the mike. They. Each flu season runs from approximately the early fall to spring. The dominant influenza virus strain this season is H3N2. This strain of influenza virus is associated with more hospitalizations and deaths in young children and seniors. The flu season this year began earlier than usual and appears to be widespread and particularly intense, with record high percentages of people visiting health care providers, urgent care and emergency rooms for flu like illness. We don't know if the season has peaked yet and there are numerous different strains that are circulating. So we could see more cases in the future from different strains. The vaccine efficacy rate is currently unknown, but predicted to be between ten and 30% effective for H3N2. It's still strongly recommended that you get vaccinated, however, because vaccination can decrease the severity of the flu and your chances of being hospitalized from it. And it's not too late to get vaccinated. This slide shows some of the surveillance data that is collected by the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services. The Orange Line shows the number of cases of flu for this flu season so far, and the blue line shows the number of cases for last year's season. You can see that this season started rising much earlier than last season, and we've quickly surpassed last year's numbers to date. In the city of Long Beach, there has been a 78% increase in reported flu cases compared to last year. There have also been 13 cases of patients younger than 65 who had to be in the ICU and had the flu. And there have been three influenza associated deaths in people younger than 65. All of the people who died were adults who had underlying medical and medical conditions. We've also investigated eight flu outbreaks in hospital in long term care facilities and Long Beach. The Health Department's flu response is comprised of surveillance, education and outreach and immunization activities or surveillance of Long Beach hospitals indicated that Long Beach emergency departments and hospitals were heavily impacted with high numbers of patients seeking services. There were reports early in the season of shortages of ventilators and masks at one facility, but these needs were quickly resolved by the Disaster Resource Center, a regional center tasked with supporting surge capacity for hospitals in the Greater Long Beach area. There have been no further resource issues among hospitals, to our knowledge. Tamiflu is an antiviral treatment for the flu. There were reports initially of shortages of the generic form of Tamiflu, but the branded product is currently widely available. Widely. As far as disease surveillance and outbreak response, the health department works closely with neighboring jurisdictions and the state to track flu activity regionally. Besides monitoring flu cases, we also investigate outbreaks in hospitals and skilled nursing facilities this season to provide further support. We also held an influenza update for Skilled Nursing Facilities Webinar to review influenza prevention and outbreak protocols. Vaccinating individuals to prevent or lessen the severity of the flu is a mainstay of the department's efforts to protect the people who work and live in Long Beach. So far this season, nearly 3500 flu vaccines have been administered to residents and city staff, with an additional 3500 doses distributed to community partners and neighboring jurisdictions. The Health Department has held or participated in 25 different flu vaccination clinics this season at local parks, senior center, senior centers, Cal State, Long Beach, among other places, Red Cross nurses and the Medical Reserve Corps members were invaluable partners in this effort. In addition to Health Department activities, the Occupational Health Clinic also vaccinated 481 employees. Our largest community event is our free flu vaccination clinic done at the main health department on Grand. Each year, usually in October. This is an annual tradition going back several years. This year, with our first ever drive thru vaccination clinic where we gave over 600 vaccinations in 5 hours because of the severity of this year's flu season. We held a second drive thru clinic in January where we vaccinated over 150 residents and staff. Both clinics were huge successes with a great deal of positive feedback about the drive thru. About the drive thru component. People really liked that and I just want to shout out four of my staff members who were instrumental in making this a success of this new way of giving vaccinations. If you raise your hand, think. In closing here, our recommendations for preventing and treating the flu. It's not too late to get vaccinated. Vaccine supply is plentiful and widely available, and it's one of the easiest ways that you can prevent yourself from getting the flu or lessening the severity of it. Take antiviral drugs if your doctor prescribes them. The sooner you start to take them after you get the flu, the better they work. Limit contact with others if you're sick. Stay home from work if you're sick and keep kids home from school if they're sick and washing your hands often with soap and water is still one of the best ways to prevent the flu and a variety of other infections. And avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. This concludes my report. I'm open for questions. Thank you. Thank you for that presentation. Again, we just thought it was important that we lift that up and highlight it, given the aggressiveness of the flu this season. I don't see any Councilman Andrew's comment. But one mike clinic. I don't think your mike is on. I just want to thank you for connecting the vaccination clinic and education for the community. And this is extremely important, you know, for so many of us, because a lot of people just think it's a joke, but other people are dying. So I think it's very important that we got this update. Thank you. Vice Mayor. Thank you. Councilmember Pierce. Yeah, I wanted to say I think it's awesome that we had a drive thru clinic and that's fantastic. Awesome. And both of those clinics where they done at the health department offer, Willow. Both of them. Okay. Is there any talk about maybe one in North Long Beach and one east side? Do you want to do? Should I? So next year we're planning on having it at Long Beach City College. So over there by Veterans Stadium. Okay. So a little bit closer. Great. And then is there a National Handwashing Day? Is that in flu season? I don't know when it is. Should be every day. It should be every day. I agree. It should be every day. Okay. Multiple times a day, I hope. Okay. Thank you for all your hard work, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment on item? Please come forward. Thank you. Thank you, Jane Templin, again. I just have a question of why the recording stops at age 65. Well, let's go ahead and hear the answer to that. Oh, I need to hear that. I can respond. Yeah. Okay. That's a great question. So because those that are over 65 usually have a lot of other variables that go into how they do with the flu. We really track those that are younger than 65 to get a good measure of the severity of the flu season itself. Good response. Thank you. Okay. Anything else. You think? 2 minutes. All right. Thank you for your time. Okay. No further public comment. Members, please cast your vote.

Order for a hearing to discuss reinforcing fines or implementing funding for distressed privately owned buildings and vacant lots.

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Kolkata Council. Flaherty. Consultation Council here. Councilor Murphy, please have the chair. Dawkins 0636 will be assigned to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 06370637. Councilor Fernandes Sanderson offer the following order for a hearing to discuss reinforcing fines or implementing funding for distressed, distressed, privately owned buildings in vacant lots. Thank you. The chair recognizes Counsel Fernandez Anderson. Counsel Fernandez Anderson. You have the floor. So I just got a note from my count, my colleagues it to read it. I'm kidding. Here we go. Listen. Look. How did I end up talking so much today? So I've been talking with Ice-T in different departments and really looking into this issue in Roxbury and particularly. And we you guys hear me talk a lot about the decrepit sort of, you know, abandoned looking and neglected properties in Roxbury. Right. And seriously, as we all know, there are dozens of lots around the city, particularly 87 and in surrounding predominantly black and brown working class communities. These lots offer space where exciting and innovative ideas could be occurring. And so also, you know, with a lot of these buildings to some some of it some of the issue is we know that of from poor families, they're not able to actually afford to repair their property and some of them fall in different category and there's different technicalities that prevent them from repairing their property. So I think it's it would be a good idea for us to start talking about what programs already in place funding that is left or not left. From what I'm hearing from different departments is that the funding is actually very low at this point and the program is always at almost at its end. So if we can actually discuss bringing in back reinforcing fines to those who can afford it without disproportionately impacting black and brown or poor families, obviously. And I would like to also add, as an original co-sponsor, Councilor Laurel, I know he's not here, know how that applies, but in council allusion to this order. Thank you. The chair recognizes. Counsel. Counsel Eugene at this time. President. Thank you, President Flynn, and thank you to Councilman Dennison for offering this. We know that we have an incredibly impossible real estate market right now. But still, Boston finds itself with a lot of buildings that are vacant or abandoned or blighted. And this has happened. This has been going on for years and years and years. Sometimes the reason is in part because speculators are land making and they're holding on to land and letting the prices rise while investing nothing and forcing neighbors to live next to properties that are in desperate need of repair. Many times, however, there are times when it's because the owner just doesn't have the money to keep up. It's really expensive to get work done. The cost of labor is increasing, so we need to continue to find ways to tell the difference between those opposed to the land making by the investors and the homeowner who just can't afford to make the improvements necessary. The other category of land owners who can't afford you should be supported with resources that Catherine Anderson was talking about. We need to make sure that we're uplifting, uplifting and supporting the neighbors in the neighborhoods to be able to do something about the property that everyone can be proud of. I was on the phone yesterday and today with a constituent who is dealing with this very issue. Banks, grants, consulting and programs all play a role in revitalization. And I know that there is a problem task force, problem property task force here. But how they work with community groups, neighborhood associations, see programs and grants still leave a lot to be desired. We, the city can do better to help connect the resource, connect resources and create them where necessary, especially in neighborhoods that have been historically disinvested. To make sure that each neighborhood is somewhere where, you know, we have we're building thriving neighborhoods where we all feel like our neighborhoods affirm our dignity. So thank you for having me as original co-sponsor and I look forward to the work. That you council. Mr. Kirk, please add Council John as an original co-sponsor. Unfortunately, we're not going to be able to add council. Where else, since he's not here. The chair recognizes Council of Bach. Council? Bach. You have the floor. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Thank you to the sponsors. And I just wanted to strongly say, please add my name. I was out walking with property management in Mission Hill yesterday, talking about graffiti and just in general, all these places where we see buildings that, you know, again and again, residents are reporting them. And it's coming back with that answer of either an investor owner who's absentee and can't be reached or in some cases a small business owner or a residential order that just the owner that just doesn't have the money. So I totally agree with the sponsors that we have to we need a program that better distinguishes between those folks and that is providing support for the folks who need the resources and I think is providing more substantial penalties and penalties that really bite for folks who are intentionally leaving their properties until an investment like a development opportunity arises and letting everyone else live with it. In the meantime, I just wanted to strongly second this and please I mean my. Thank you counsel block that she recognizes counselor Brad and counsel Brad and you have the. Floor. Thank you, Mr. President. Please add my name. I thank you so much for bringing this issue forward. Councilor Fernandez Anderson, the the business. The other issue that I know, my predecessor and councilor, Madam Ali, raised the issue about vacant shopfronts and storefronts in our business districts and our main streets. It's a similar sort of issue that may or may not be rolled into this conversation, but it's very detrimental to our Main Street districts to have vacant shopfronts and premises left vacant for long periods of time, years in some cases in our district, because an absentee landlord, landlord is just waiting for a more. Profitable opportunity, then perhaps a small local business that might use the premises. So please have my name. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Anyone else like to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes. Counsel me here. Counsel me here. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you to the sponsors. Please add my name. I'm really super enthusiastic about this, and I'd like to echo my colleague's sentiments, Councilor Breeden. And last year I believe it was council and I embarked on another journey to really address the commercial vacancies that are happening in our community. Those are all often distressed as well, and I think we have an opportunity to open up those storefronts and allow small businesses to incubate in those spaces. So I think that there's some room in this discussion if the chair allows through the chair to also add commercial vacancies into this conversation, because I think that is part of the whole community. So I wanted to just offer that as something that we can include. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. Here. Would anyone else like to what? Anyone like to sign on? Please raise your hand. Mr. Carter, please had council. A Royal Council. A Baker Council. A council. Brighton Council. A council. A celebrity. Council may hear. Councilor Murphy, please have a chair. Docket 0637 will be assigned to the Committee on City Services, Innovation Technology. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 0638.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 1200 Eudora Street in Hale. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 1200 Eudora Street in Council District 5. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 11-16-21.

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We're going to go ahead and move on to the next one. Councilmember say to Baca, will you please put council bill 20 1-1372 on the floor for final passage? Yes, I move that council bill 21 1370 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Okay. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20 1-1372 is open and we have Libby Kizer joining us again for the staff report. Yes. Just a second to pull up the presentation. All right, great. Thanks, Libby. All right. Here we go on this one. It's a rezoning for 1200 Utah Street. It's an EDU, so should be much more straightforward than the previous rezoning. And this property is also in Council District five, represented by Council member Sawyer. And it's in the center of the Hill neighborhood. The property is located near Rose Medical Center, about one block north of Hill Parkway and one mile or one half mile east of Colorado Boulevard. It's approximately 6200 square feet and is currently occupied by a single unit dwelling. The properties in the urban single unit C Zone District and the applicant is proposing to rezone it to urban single unit C one to allow for an accessory dwelling unit. The U.S. one requires a minimum size of 5500 square feet and allows for the urban house and detached 82 building forms. The maximum height for a house is 30 to 35 feet and 24 feet for the detached adu. The existing property is on UCC and surrounding properties are zoned a variety of districts, including single unit, multi-unit, open space, campus and former Chapter 59. The land use in the area is predominantly single unit, with a mix of open space and hospital uses to the Southwest. The subject property is shown in the top photo on the right with other single storey dwellings to the north and west. The single unit dwelling exists across both Alvin 12th Avenue to the South with a two storey dwelling. To the east, alleys are prevalent, but garages are a mix of front and rear loaded and sidewalks are generally attached. Throughout the rezoning process, application notifications have been provided according to code requirements. To date, staff has received eight public comments, including one in support and seven opposed due to concerns regarding stormwater flooding and solar access. Most of those opposition comments came into today. To approve the rezoning, it must be found that the requested MAP amendment is consistent with five criteria found in the Denver zoning code. In regard to the first criteria, there are three adopted plans that apply it to this property, including the comp plan, 2048 Blueprint, Denver and the East Area Plan. Ousted in the staff report. The resigning is consistent with several goals in the current plan. A few of those goals relate to providing a mix of housing types and promoting infill development. The rezoning request is also consistent with Blueprint Denver. The subject property is mapped as part of the urban neighborhood context, which is described as containing small multi-unit, residential and low intensity mixed use buildings embedded in single unit and two unit residential areas with gridded blocks and alleys. In blueprints under the future. Places MAP designates the subject property as a low residential place type, which has predominantly single and two unit uses and its use are appropriate. Eudora Street and 12th Avenue are categorized as local or on designated streets, which are mostly characterized by residential uses. Blueprint. Denver directs growth to key centers, corridors and high density residential areas that align with transportation options, while limited growth is desired in all other areas of the city. Specifically at 10% of jobs and 20% of housing by 2040. The proposed MAP amendment is consistent with this growth area as it will facilitate additional housing opportunities. Blueprint also includes specific policy recommendations and housing policy four focuses on diversifying housing choice through the expansion of accessory dwelling units throughout all residential areas. The East Area Plan also supports A2. Use the A2 key policies to integrate them, to integrate them where they are appropriate. The subject property, located in a predominantly single unit neighborhood, is an appropriate location for an ADU, and the rezoning is consistent with the area plan. The rezoning is also consistent with criteria two, three and five. As stated in the staff report, in regard to criteria for a city adopted plan is the most applicable justifying circumstance for this rezoning. As mentioned previously, Blueprint recommends allowing A2 use throughout all residential areas. Therefore CPD recommends approval of this rezoning request. All right. Well, thank you very much, Libby, for the staff report tonight. Council has received eight written comments on Council Bill 20 1-1372. There are no submitted comments in favor of the application and eight submitted comments in opposition of the application. All members of Council that are present have certified that they've read each of the submitted written comments. Do any members need more time in order to read all the written testimony that was submitted? Right. See, no one raising their hand for that. I want to double check. COUNCILMEMBER So you're you're good with that? I'm okay. Wonderful. See? None. Council Secretary Let the record reflect that all written testimony both in favor and in opposition of Council Bill 20 1-137 to have been read by each member of council and all written testimony will be submitted to the official record of the hearing. We have one individual signed up to speak this evening. Jesse Paris, please go ahead. Yes, good evening. Members of council may be heard. Yes. Yes. My name is Jesse with so cast member presented for Black Star maximum for self-defense of the Mexican Man for Social Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and the East Denver Residents Council in Frontline Black News. And I will be the next my member in 2023. I'm in favor of this rezoning tonight. We have an affordability housing crisis in this town. So any time there's an opportunity to increase our health system, I'm in full support of like I was when I ran for city council at large in 2019. I'm still support of accessory dwelling units all over this town. I'm just concerned about the seven letters of opposition opposed to this 80 you. That is very concerning. But besides that, I am in support of this rezoning tonight. You said pass this. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 20 1-1372 Council Member Sawyer. I'm president. I promise I have less questions on this one than I did on the last one. I worry it's a lot. More. Straightforward for sure. But I do know that one of the things that we received in the form letter that was sent to us today was about whether or not the property owner resides on the property and so is the applicant here. We will look here ahead. Oh, there we go. We have Katie Buchanan, her hand raised. And so we'll move her over into the panelists. There we go. Katie, if you wouldn't mind, before you answer Councilwoman Sawyer's question, you introduce yourself for the public record, please. I can you. Can you see me? Yes. Yes, I am Katie Buchanan, and I'm the owner of the property at 1200 Eudora Street. I've owned it since 1998. Great. Thank you so much and thanks for being here. So Denver has a requirement that the if you are applying for rezoning to add an 80 that you live on the property. So I'm asking not just whether you own it, but whether you live there. Well, I am not there all the time. You. No, but I am not renting. So so I'm not there all the time. But I am not going to. What I would like to do is have a part of the property be for me and then a full time like renter is what is what. My goal in all this is because I'm not there all the time. And so I would like someone else to be on the property when I'm not there. And not a short term. A long term. Okay, great. So when you say you're not there all the time, what does that mean? Well, I'm also in the mountains. I have a house in the mountains, too. And also, I, I but I vote in Denver and I have I get mail at the house. So I kind of go back and forth between both places. Okay. So we don't necessarily have anything specific in the Denver revised municipal code that require you know, that specifies what a, you know, what living on a property means. But there are some very specific requirements in our short term in our short term rental code in the piece. In the short term rental code. And it's not are you just the are you registered to vote it at this property? Yes. Is your car registered at this property? It is. Okay. So your driver's license says this driver's licenses, 1200 Eudora Street. I could show you. No, it's okay. I don't need to. I just those are the kinds of things that when you would apply for a short term rental, those are the kinds of things that the short term rental that expires and license would ask to ensure that you are a resident on this property. And since there's nothing like that anywhere else in the code, I guess I'm sort of asking those questions because that's the that's what you would that's the only place that really gives us any sort of direction on what quote unquote living in the property would be. So that's great. If you're, you know, if you're registered to vote at this address, if you are if you're a driver's licenses at this address, if your car is registered at the address, you know, if you have bills that are registered at this address, that would be, you know, essentially what the the city and county of Denver would look at to determine whether you live at this address or not. And that's why I was asking those questions. Okay. That's great. Thank you very much. Really appreciate that. Libby The other thing that was a little bit concerning that was brought up in the letter that we received today was regarding flood mitigation and wondering if you can just talk me through kind of the that the flood mitigation, whether that's looked at, how that's looked at and those kinds of things. Sure. So when we initially deemed this application. Complete, we sent it out to multiple referral agencies, as we always do. And the Wastewater Division of Development Services approved the rezoning, but did note the redevelopment of the site may require additional engineering, such as preparation of drainage reports, construction documents, erosion control plans, and that construction of water quality and retention basins may be required, as could public and private sanitary and storm sewer mains and other associated improvements. So what what that mitigation could look like will be determined through the residential permitting process. It's not something that consideration of would hold up the rezoning. Okay. Got it. So that is not something that we can look at in terms of the five criteria that we're required to look at as council members, when we are when we're looking at a rezoning. You know, you could consider it under a public health, safety and welfare, but it will be something still vetted through the residential permitting process. Okay. So when Mrs. Buchanan goes to actually file a permit, then that triggers the essentially site development review. And that's where that flooding issue, if there is one, would be considered correct. So they would determine how much impervious surface she's adding to the property and what that runoff might look like and where it's going and what improvements. Might be needed. Okay, great. Really appreciate that. Thank you. And then, Libby, this one last question for you. The third issue that was flagged in that letter was regarding the height of a potential ADU and blocking a neighbors ability to put solar panels on their roofs or something like that. So wondering just want to clarify, in this zoned district, what would the max height be for an ADU. For an 80 you? The max height is 24 feet tall and that's only allowed on the rear. 35% of these are marked, which is also then that structure is also subject to a minimum five foot setback in bulk lane require or bulk plan requirements that might further push the upper kind of upper height on the building back further from a property line in order to make sure that the neighbors maintain some solar access, none of that structure would infringe on the solar access. Of the primary. House to the north. Of this property. Okay. Got it. I think that is it for me. Thinks that I'm president. And thanks so much, Libby, for walking me through that. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer. Councilmember Black. Thank you, Madam President. I don't see an attorney in on this meeting, but I just wanted to clarify. You do not need to be a resident of your property in order to apply for the reason you need to be a resident of the property in order to build the EU. And applying for the zoning is different than applying for the building permit. So I just wanted to clarify that. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Black. And we have Nate Lucero in the attendees, if we can go ahead and have him moved over in case there's another question. But we'll make sure if Nate has any further clarification to your statement. Council Member Black. Go ahead, Nate. Did you hear the question or the clarification? Yes. Thank you, Madam Chair. I did hear the question or clarification, and Councilwoman Black is correct. You don't necessarily have to. But I think what we're talking about our short term. Rentals to a certain extent. Right. And for those things, you do have to be the primary resident. But to put forward an application to rezone, you don't necessarily have to be the owner, but the application has to be authorized by the owner. And again, there you don't necessarily have to be the primary resident of that structure to apply for the rezoning. Thank you for the clarification. Yes. And can you go ahead and introduce yourself for the public record? Yes. I'm sorry. Nathan Lucero, assistant city attorney. All right. Great. Thank you. Councilmember Black. Or you could. Okay. Wonderful. All right. Councilmember Sandoval. Thanks, Madam President. Thanks, Libby, for the presentation. When rezonings were coming forward, especially when we got voted into office in 2012 and 2020, they were requiring to go through a site development plan simultaneously because in Denver we don't always have our minimum zone lights match our zone districts, our minimum zone districts. So we were trying to catch these ones that actually have entitlement but can't really build. Do you know if that's still the case that when CPD gets a rezoning application that you have the applicant possible through the site development process? That's a great question. And for commercial projects, we definitely recommend that they go through the site development plan process and begin with the concept plan review to ensure that their development is feasible under the district that they're requesting. But we're having conversations right now with our residential team to understand what their capacity is to review residential projects which don't go through like a full site development plan process, but rather go through a process to get a residential permit. And their project is evaluated after the zoning is obtained. And that's kind of a capacity issue. It's something that we're trying to work through and that we will consider moving forward as well. And then determining kind of what the limits are of the zoning versus the parcel are is important as well to make sure that the applicant has a clear. Picture as to what they're. Allowed. So we are working on some. Additional tools to make. Sure that they know what boxes to check, even if they can't get like a fully vetted plan from the city. Okay. So thank you for that. I do know that. Thank you for bringing up the 2.1 about the capacity and when acknowledging that commercial goes through it and not residential. I just want to go on the record and make sure that we talk about the importance of that and being able to bring up the importance of Councilwoman Sawyer's point that you have to have a short term rental or a ADU. You have to prove residency. So having that simple ADU checklist seems to be appropriate to help answer some of these questions. One other question on this rezoning. Is there an R.A. that I miss. That there is an R.A., but they don't take a position on rezonings? The applicant did reach out to. Mr.. Hill Mayfair. Yeah. Well, you doors the you doors, the Bellevue Hale is on one side of Eudora and Mayfair neighbors is on the other side. Okay. And one other question to you, Kathy. Have you talked to your neighbors about this? Because you have to put up a sign. So it's pretty public process and mailers going out. Yeah, I mean, that all happened. And yes, you talk to me about that public process on your end and what you talk to about your neighbors. And did you get questions about solar panels and things of that nature? No, I got no solar panels. The house next door to me is a has been a rental since like. Early 2000, and it's a person from California and they don't do anything to the house. They've never. They don't even come out to see it. So. No. So I didn't get the questions from them. But 12 Avenue is obviously is where everybody walks and has their babies and the strollers are going back and forth. So I'm sure many people saw it. I actually had calls from people who asked what the process was like. And they said, Well, I'm thinking of doing it, or how did you do it? Or What's it take? I did get it. And do you have an alley? Do I have a sari away and an alley in the backyard? Alley, huh? Okay. Did you talk to the do you know the people who you share the alley with on the other side? Did you talk to them? Because oftentimes construction with accessory dwelling, it happened in the back. The various portions of the alleys slows down. What did they think about this zone change? You know, I have not talked to him. He's a doctor. He's an emergency room doctor. And he he's not home very often. He's divorced also anyway. And so I don't he's he kind of just goes in and out when he's not working. And I didn't know who he is. The thing is, is that I had the street there also on 12th Avenue and a detached garage there. So I obviously I'll get advice, but it might end up being along there because of the detached garage rather than in the alley. Yeah. So thank you for that. It's important to know and we do give it provide entitlements like we're voting on now. It doesn't mean you build it, but the community process and being able to go to your neighbors and make notes for neighbors. The community process is important and that's why we do those notifications is because you are changing the language and the entitlement on your property. Well, thank you, Madam President. That's a. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. We've got Councilmember Ortega. Yeah. Just a couple of quick questions. So first of all, the size of the lot was that 5500 square feet? Is that correct? I think it's 62. Okay. Mr.. Read something wrong when I was looking at the report. And then I did want to ask Libby a quick question. Libby, if you can join on. So have you all experienced people who have gone through the ADU process where the lots are very small, and then when they get into actually going through the design review process, they can't actually build because. Of setbacks and just not being able to squeeze a lot and squeeze a structure on that lot where there's already an existing housing unit. It's always a concern of ours. But those kinds of issues we try to vet in the pre-application meeting. So we look at the size of their law. We look at the zoning that they're requesting and what the minimum lot size is and what the setbacks might be. And so we we try our best to inform them of the constraints that will influence the final outcome. But and if they choose to go through with it, they can still go through, even though you might be advising them there will be some serious challenges. Right. Like they might not be able to maximize the footprint based on the setbacks and the law coverage, maximum requirements and whatnot. So we do our best to try to to give them a heads up as to what that final design process looks like. Okay. Thank you for that. And just a brief comment so that I don't have to make any comments during the comment session. The early access for neighbors who will be impacted by the alley being closed when materials are being dropped off when. I've had a. Then maybe you build across the street from my across the alley from my garage. And there were many times I couldn't get out. I've had a couple of flat tires from nails in the alley. So having. Assuming this goes through, having your contractor and you have a conversation with your neighbors that will be impacted will be really important. So that's it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 20 1-1372 Council Member Sawyer. It's been a president. You know, I appreciated the opportunity to ask through some of the questions that were raised by the community. But this is clearly consistent with adopted plans, 80 years or something that we talked about over and over and over again during the East Area plan process. And it's something that is, you know, a thoughtful way to to introduce gentle density into the area and provide more affordable housing. And so for all of those reasons, I agree that this is consistent with adopted plans and I'll be supporting it tonight. Thanks. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sawyer and I agree as well that it meets all of the rezoning criteria and we'll be supporting it. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 21, Dash 1372, please. Sawyer I. Torres I. Like I. CdeBaca, I. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Hines i. Cashman. I. Ortega. Sandoval. Hi, Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 eyes. 12 eyes. Council Bill 20 1-1372 has passed. Thank you to the community members and the applicant who joined us. And Libby, I guess you're done tonight.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending and restating Title 18 in its entirety, and adoption and local amendments to the 2016 Edition of the California Building Standards Codes and the 1997 Edition of the Uniform Housing Code known as the Long Beach Building Standards Code, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Okay. With that, we are going to begin by going to hearing to we can read that. Report from Development Services and fire recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing and declare ordinance. Adopting and amending the 2016 addition of the California Building Standards Code and the 1997 edition of the Uniform Housing Code by amending and restating Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code in its entirety. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and declare ordinance. Amending and restating Title 12 related to Long Beach Oil Code in its entirety. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and declare ordinance amending certain sections of titles three, eight, ten and 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code read for the first time and laid over for the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading and adopt resolution making, making expressed findings and determinations relating to the adoption of more restrictive code provisions where appropriate, and adopt resolution authorizing the Director of Development Services to submit a Zoning Code Amendment and Local Coastal Program Amendment to the California Coastal Commission for approval and accept categorical exemption C 16, two, one, one and C 16 to 2 for city wide. Great. Thank you. With that, I might turn this over to the staff. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The staff report for this item will be given by Oscar Orsi, our deputy director of development services and his team. Thank you, Mayor and council members. Our building official, Mr. David Karem, is here to give you a brief presentation. Good evening, honorable mayor and. Members of the city council. I'm David Coram, the city building official, and I'm honored to present to you the 2017 proposed amendments to the Long Beach Municipal Code. The Code Amendments package presented to you comprises of the Building and Safety Code updates, including Title 18. All code updates included in Title 12 and Zoning Code updates, including Title 21 and some administrative updates to Title three, eight and ten of municipal codes. Every two years, the State of California adapts the latest. Edition. Of the California Building Standards Code and Uniform Housing Code to establish a uniform standards for construction and maintenance of residential and nonresidential buildings, plumbing, mechanical, electrical. Fire and life safety systems. Green building and energy codes. This desert state published a new building codes July 1st, and that gives the city of Long Beach and local jurisdiction under 80 days to amend the state regulations based on the local climatic, geological and topographical conditions. According to Sea of Long Beach staff from the Building and Safety Fire Code Enforcement Planning, an Office of Sustainability. Has compiled. The necessary amendments and code cleanups. Under one package that is being presented to you for this first hearing tonight. These amendments have been through several public. Hearings, and more specifically, the zoning code. Amendments have also been presented to the Planning Commission prior to the Council meeting. Upon the final reading. And at the next City Council. These amendments will become effective January 1st of 2017. In summary, majority of the proposed amendments are state mandates regulations such as building fire and model water efficiency. Landscape ordinance. Some are based on direction received from this body, the city council, such as expedited and streamlined permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations. And some are based on recommendations received from the staff to make the Long Beach Municipal Code more consistent. And they are in a cleanup in nature. With this introduction, our team is prepared. To answer any questions that you may have. And with me, I had a general building. Superintendent of building and safety. Thank you. With that, I'm going to go ahead and ask, is there any public comment on this hearing? Casey, no public comment on this hearing. I'm going to close the hearing and go back to the council. Mayor, I'd just like to point out there's five separate actions required on this. Okay. So we'll take a vote on on on all five separately, correct? Okay. Great. So. But we only need. But we can do. But the public comment and the motion could be for. All right. Okay. So, Vice Mayor Richardson, any comments? No. Okay. Councilwoman Price. I have no comment. And Councilmember Pearce. Yeah, I just wanted to highlight something that was pointed out to me about the stations, which I think is really exciting. The fact that we've had a lot of community members asking for more stations in the city and that this is going to help us get to scale in a really exciting way. So new development will be in the city required to have that and so I just a shout out for Sierra Club folks make sure you read this in detail. It's exciting news. Okay. Thank you. See no other comments. We'll go ahead and take each vote separately. So do we want to read? Do you want to read each different motion? And we'll take the vote. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to the record conclude the hearing and declare ordinance. Adopting and amending the 2016 addition of the California Building Standards Code and the 1987 addition of the Uniform Housing Code by amending and restating Title 18 of the Long Beach Municipal Code in its entirety. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading. Please cast your votes.

An ORDINANCE relating to City employment; adding a new Chapter 4.27 to the Seattle Municipal Code to provide a Paid Parental Leave Benefit to eligible city employees; amending Seattle Municipal Code Subsection 4.20.055 to provide the Paid Parental Leave benefit to eligible temporary workers; and establishing other conditions of implementing the new benefit.

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Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. The Report of the Park Seattle Center Libraries and Gender Pay Equity Committee. Please read Item three. The Report of the Parks, Seattle Center, Libraries and Gender Pay Equity Committee. Agenda Item number two Council Bill 118356 Relating to City Employment. Adding a new Chapter 4.27 to the Seattle Municipal Code to provide a paid parental leave benefit to eligible city employees. Amending Seattle Municipal Code Subsection 4.20.055 to provide the paid parental leave benefit to eligible temporary workers and establishing other conditions of implementing the new benefit. The committee recommends the bill pass as amended. Thank you. Councilmember Gordon. Well, let's first take a moment to think about the public testimony, money that we heard earlier from the women who had had experiences having given birth without any parental leave. This is a momentous day for our city. Passing paid parental leave legislation will make Seattle the first municipality in the region to have a paid parental leave policy . It is also deeply personal, as we heard from the public comment, to add what we already heard. I would like to read a couple of excerpts from the many letters of support that I have received. Gunnar wrote council last week that while he and his husband do not plan to have children, he wrote on behalf of his sister, who has had a child last year without paid parental leave. After exhausting her vacation time to recover after the birth, she is now back at work but does not have any paid time off for when a call makes its way through the daycare or when family emergencies occur. Beyond personal family reason, Gunnar cites how the US is the only industrialized country without paid parental leave and where it is implemented. It is shown to have a positive outcome for employee retention and competition for talent in the labor market. The city should be and must be a model employer to attract the best talent and paid parental leave will make that a reality. The city of Seattle also must be an inclusive city, as we heard from Madeleine. Here is what she wrote to me in 2014. We were matched for an adoption in Texas. We drove to Texas a week prior to the baby's birth to ensure that we were in the state on time. And we were in Texas for about three weeks before returning home with our bundle of joy. While we had three months of protected leave under federal and state laws, none of this was paid. We had to weigh the importance of bonding with our child to being able to pay our bills with an adoption that cost $60,000 on a middle class income. There are a lot of choices. We each took an additional week once we returned home with vacation and sick time, already exhausted after the weeks in Texas. This was unpaid at my company. Women who give birth to a child receive short term leave, which at least qualifies and provides a portion of their pay while they are on maternity leave. Men do not qualify and I did not qualify, not having given birth. This inequity allows women who give birth to take maternity leave without fear of having to pay at all, whereas I was completely left uncovered. Those were Natalee's words. But this paid parental leave. But with this paid parental leave. Legislation. No family working for the city of Seattle will face what Natalie based. Having to choose between income and bonding with their child. Beyond this, however, paid parental leave is an important tool in combating the gender pay gap. When paid parental leave is prioritized for both men and women, it can shift the perception of women as the main child care provider in the home. Retention of female employees and their mobility into higher paying roles can be improved when paid. Parental leave is encouraged for both men and women. This legislation will make the city of Seattle a model employer, not just for families, but for helping to narrow the gender pay gap. The legislation before us will provide four weeks of paid leave to city employees with tender of more than six months, regardless of gender, who welcome a new child into their home. This can be by foster care, adoption or birth. The child must be 18 years or younger, and the leave must be utilized within the first year of the child joining the employee's family. I have added additional evaluation component to this legislation, including a presentation to the Council so that we can monitor how this paid parental leave policy operates. I would like to thank my colleagues for their continued support on this important legislation, and I would like to thank Mayor Murray for his unwavering commitment to narrowing the wage gap and to paid parental leave. I would also like to help, too. I would like to think I would like to give really big thanks to those who operate behind the scenes, but who are critical to the legislation that we have here today. Thank you to my previous legislative aide, Monica Gauche, for spearheading paid parental leave and keeping the conversation going despite any obstacles. Thank you to council central staff Patricia Leigh and Dan Peter. And thank you to Sarah Butler and Susan Cox Ski with the Human Resources Department, Katie Ewing and Ben Noble with the central business of the Central Budget Office and Sara Wilkinson from law. And thank you to everyone who wrote in or spoke on behalf of paid parental leave. I still have pictures of children that were born before we got paid parental leave posted in my office. And we're grateful for people who don't necessarily intend to have more kids. At least help us back this for others. I share this momentous day with you. With that, I had the mic back over to my colleagues who might have any questions or comments. Thank you. Questions. Comments. Council Members A1. Thank you, President Burgess. I fully support this essential workers. Right. And I thank the council for working on it. I also thank Meghan for her testimony as she so clearly highlighted. Despite having worked for nearly ten years for the city government that serves such a wealthy city as ours. She has had to struggle and many women like her and working close parents need paid parental leave, particularly when daycare is so expensive. It is particularly important for women who, statistically speaking, take more unpaid parental leave, end up having to target exacerbating the gender pay gap, as Councilmember Gordon said. And so this legislation such as this addresses the gender disparities as well as provides for better outcomes for children. And as a public institution, I am glad that the city is taking this step of offering four weeks parental leave, and I hope that the Council will, as a next step, look to expanding it to 12 weeks. In the next budget because that is so necessary. I think that also another step should be to looking to the private sector as well. Beyond setting a good example, the Council will require to actually pass legislation to ensure that the private sector is held accountable as well and paid parental leave becomes the norm in this city. But for this moment, I am very happy to vote in favor of this bill. Thank you. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. O'BRIEN All right. Rasmussen I so want back shot. I got it. Carroll And President Burgess, seven in favor. Nine opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Congratulations, Councilmember Gordon. And I understand also you have a proclamation that is related to this in a way. Do you want to do that at this time? Well, it is related to the gender pay gap. It isn't really quite a partial parcel of this, but it does have sort of some of the same elements. This is a proclamation proclaiming Equal Pay Day, whereas April 14th, 2015 marks the additional 74 days. The average woman would have had to work in 2014 to earn the same 2014 salary as the average man. And. WHEREAS, in Seattle, women who work full time earn 73% of what men earn, generating a $16,346 gap in pay. And. Whereas, the gender wage gap exists for all women, regardless of rape or anything in this in this and ethnic. This is. And. Well, anyway, regardless of race. Yet it is the largest for women of color. Whereas single women typically earn 21.2% less than married women, while a single woman earns only $0.57 to the dollar compared to married men. Whereas women face a pay gap in nearly every occupation, from schoolteachers to computer programmers and are paid less than men in female dominated gender balance and male dominated occupations. And. Whereas, the pay gap hinders Seattle families and the economy, as women make 75% of household spending decisions, they're now therefore be proclaimed by the mayor and the City of Seattle City Council. April 40, 2015 is Equal Pay Day and it is signed by all the council members and the mayor. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please read and read the remaining items. The appointments.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $2,000, offset by the Third Council District one-time District Priority Funds transferred from the General Fund group in the Citywide Activities Department to provide funds to the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club who will be hosting their annual Long Beach Race Week event once all required City permits are obtained; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $2,000 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

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Okay. Thank you. And we are going to hear the other. We have another item 25. That's right. Communication from Councilwoman Price recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund group in the City Manager Department by 2000 to provide funds to the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, who will be hosting their annual Long Beach Race Week event. Is there a motion and a second? Okay. Any public comment on this item? See nine Councilman DiGiovanni Finger OC Race Week. Please cast your vote. Councilmember Urunga. I'm still on the price. Are you? Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. We're going to go ahead and do our commission appointments now. So we are going to start with item 22.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute amendments to Contract No. 33071 with Azteca Landscape, Inc., of Ontario, CA, and Contract No. 33259 with Merchants Landscape Services, Inc., of Santa Ana, CA, for grounds maintenance services; extend the term to February 28, 2018; and, increase the aggregate contract amount by $2,635,454, with a 10 percent contingency of $263,545, for a total aggregate contract amount not to exceed $6,764,331. (Citywide)

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Which increase? Item 29 is a report from Parks, Recreation and Marine Financial Management. Recommendation to execute amendments to contract with Azteca. Landscape and Merchants. Landscape services for ground maintenance services extend the term to February 28, 2018 and increase the aggregate contract amount by 26 2.6 million citywide. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any public comment on this item? Yes. Thank you. Please come forward. You have 3 minutes. I'll make it quick. Put the supervisor amendment here. Okay. This is for two ladies that asked me to speak for them regarding this. They oppose the extending the contract. I guess they're saying that they're using Roundup, a poison that is a suspect carcinogen as a weed killer. The active ingredient is in Roundup is like Goliath phosphate originally used in Vietnam. It's Agent Orange and they're saying that the Huntington Beach and Irvine areas have Boundary Band Roundup and we should use those cities as a benchmark in how to handle weed killing. I'm not going to read this any further. That's it. I actually. And for me, with with this contractor, they they haven't done they haven't fulfilled their contracts. About 50% of what they do doesn't seem to be be working. And or they don't seem to be fulfilling about 50% of it. I'm tied to just nonperformance issues or double billing. I hope that we can resolve some of this stuff. I know I'm not going to I'm just letting you know there's a problem with the contract. We've had audits. You know, we know the contracting department is really nonfunctional. They've failed their contract. So I. I don't know what to do that poor Mary Knight has got a lot of stuff on her hands that aren't even really her responsibility. But she's dealing with it. So. I think I put all three in one and I hope everything works out well, but they oppose it. I kind of I know that it has to be done. So life goes on. Have a great day. Thank you. Count on mango. Just as a point of note, in the future, when people have comments they want entered into the record. There's an online tool that they can use and they can make their own comments so that you don't have to feel responsible for making comments for other people. Furthermore, the Huntington Beach data is incorrect. Huntington Beach does not ban Roundup. They have the same policy we do that we don't use it in playgrounds. We don't use it in play areas. We don't use it in rental spaces. We don't use it on fields. We use it in certain areas that we haven't found another solution for. And we are in certain areas of the park in Eldorado Park specifically try and alternatives. Furthermore, please don't take what I've said and try to retype it on next door in a way that confuses people and causes more confusion . I don't even care about this. Thank you. Yes. I'm not very familiar with this particular. Contract. But it does bring me to wonder, to extend it for so many months, for so much money. So I also I thought, well, if it if they didn't finish what they needed to do within the contract period as opposed to amending it, why would it be too difficult to have brought that for business here in Long Beach as opposed to extending for $2 million, almost, you know, almost $3 million for businesses not located in Long Beach. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comment? Seeing none. Okay, members, please cast your votes. Madam. Critical. My screen's not working anymore. Just press on this. I went to sleep well. And I'm doing a lot of sign pushing. Councilmember Sabina. What? Can you come over here, please? Councilman Andrews. You. Bush and Kerry's.

A proclamation recognizing the 36th Annual Brother's Redevelopment Paint-A-Thon Day in the City and County of Denver on Saturday, July 19, 2014.

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day in the city and county of Denver. Section two at the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest and affix the city the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to the Devoe Board. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Your motion to adopt. Madam President, I move that proclamation number 582 series at that of 2014 be adopted. Second, it has been moved and seconded. Comments from Council. Councilman Lopez. Being that you this is for seniors. Chris Nevett man, you've got to benefit from this and it's just sad to pick on him. I'd like to call Jeff Martinez for him. If you wanted to come pick. Is it am I. On your you're in the comment period. I haven't voted on it. That's right. Yeah. Well, that's okay, Jim. So prepare to speak. Mr. Martinez, get ready. He's given you warning. Can we skip a week and I'll completely lose it? So I. I wanted to. I've read this proclamation, I think, for the last, like, four or five years. And I do that with a lot of pride and with a tremendous amount of honor, because not only have I seen the work, but I've actually participated in this and this and this event and this effort. I see countless people smile and cry and just jump for joy and just are so full of gratitude. I seen in Edgewater when you didn't match water. I've seen it in Denver and and the district and the neighborhood that I grew up in and some of the houses that they were that were rehabbed and painted or houses that had not been touched by a paintbrush since I was a little kid and now always recognized that house was the house in bad need of some TLC. And it was a house that a sweet, sweet lady lived there forever. And to go back and see that house not only painted, well-maintained and taken care of, it's it's a microcosm on why you do what you do and why the employees in Denver do what they do on a volunteer basis in this effort. There's a lot of different efforts that our employees get involved in. But this is my favorite because this is where, you know, no matter what department you work for, no matter you know, what your desk looks like or what building it is in the city that day, you work for the volunteer department and you're a painter and you get to enjoy the best paycheck ever. And that is that warm feeling in your heart and that sense of accomplishment when you see that gratitude on your fellow brother and sisters face. And that is done through the tremendous amount of hard work and efforts and a lot of coordination and user and your colleagues and our employees plan on an annual basis. So, Madam President, it is absolutely a prideful moment to be able to read this for the fifth time. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. First of all, I want to thank brothers for development for the many, many years of service they have provided to our community. I can remember when you had your headquarters in the Sun Valley neighborhood, and interestingly, when I worked at the Denver Human Service Department and we began to figure out how to solve our homeless problem, we realized that the women from the Delores Project used to stay in that building, and during the summertime they would have all their volunteers come in from out of town and stay at their building, and that would displace the women. So we had to find temporary locations for the women until they basically established their own home that ended up being in a city building. But I also want to take a moment to say thank you to all of the city employees who volunteer their time, as well as all of the other volunteers that come out from all over the place and do these homes for seniors across the metro area. I know one year that I volunteered, I was in unincorporated Adams County at the home of an elderly couple. But as Councilman Lopez said, these families are so grateful for the opportunity because if it were not for this program, those improvements would never take place . And so I know how important it is for our community that these things happen, because oftentimes when something falls into a state of disrepair, if it's not taken care of, it will continue to deteriorate. And so I'm very grateful for the work that you all do. And I just want to say a big thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Madam Secretary, roll call. Lopez. Hi, Montero. I never. I. Ortega. Rob Brown. Rex Rice. Rex. But I. Herndon. I can. Each lemon. Hi, Madam President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Close the voting and announce the results. 11 911 ies the proclamation is adopted. Now, Councilman Lopez, is there someone you'd like to call up? Absolutely. I'd like to bring Jeff Martinez to the podium. Well, thank you, Madam President. Member City Council Councilman Lopez. Councilman Ortega, for those kind words. And there's not a lot for me to say. You both hit it out of the park just now, and that means that you really do get it and understand the value of this program. And more importantly, because this day it's proclamation, we have clients who are truly in need and who truly deserving of this. These are longtime homeowners in the city. They've lived right. They've done right. They just can't get on those ladders anymore. They just need a a hand or in this case, a brush to help them with that, that maintenance. But this day is really about those city city of Denver employees, members of Devo, who come out and get on those ladders, get on those tall peaks, get up there on those tall peaks and paint the homes and interact with that homeowner and show them, you know, just how much this community cares. And the sheer support of all of this is so tremendous. So you all alluded to the value to that homeowner is huge. It's also important to neighborhoods across the city. We're preserving that seniors most important investment. We're also doing some neighborhood stabilization in the process. Neighbors come out and they say, Gee, how can I get my house painted next year? You know? So we're really lending, I think, to a greater sense of community. And again, hopefully giving those folks an opportunity also to dedicate the resources that they might have spent on that paint job now to pay for their groceries or utilities because they're on fixed income. So really, I just want to say thank you to folks up here in the dais and also those hardworking city of Denver employees who come out every year this Saturday. They're going to be painting, I think, ten houses across the city. And it's going to be, you know, those tremendous stories are going to come out once again, art and everybody else, just the work that they do is so tremendous and so valuable to to our seniors. So I just I have nothing but gratitude. And again, thank you so much for your support this year and every year. Thanks for all that you do. Madam President, can I just ask a quick question? Do you have enough volunteers for this Saturday or are you still in need of more volunteers? We never have enough volunteers. Okay. Always have another ladder, another brush for you. This is a great pitch. Where would someone reach out to? Absolutely. Well, I think get in touch with Arthur. You can call Brother's redevelopment directly and we can put you in touch with other brothers. Redevelopment org is our website. 303202 6340 is our phone number. And again, even if you can't make it out this weekend and this is part of the big Denver day, we'll be painting houses really till it snows. But we have another big day coming up in mid-August. So another opportunity to rally your neighbors, your church, your office, anybody you can get involved. Because we have so many seniors on our waitlist. It's just I can never do enough. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And congratulations. Thank you.

A bill for an ordinance amending Article I and adding a new Article V to Chapter 4 of the Revised Municipal Code of the City and County of Denver regarding energy efficiency in commercial and multifamily buildings. Amends Chapter 4 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to add a requirement for commercial and multi-family buildings over 25,000 square feet to track and publicly report their energy performance as part of the City’s plan to reach its 2020 climate goal. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 11-30-16.

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I was honored to represent the council and really grappled with what are the ways to work appropriately with private sector owners of apartment buildings, commercial buildings, to think about ways to reduce the impact on climate. And so a lot I learned a lot about the many options and the conclusions were that there is more we can do . And so this ordinance represents the first two steps, which is to, first of all, make sure all those owners know what their energy consumption is. And second of all, to make that transparent. Why transparent? Well, we're competitive in the United States. Just making something public makes folks want to do better. Right. And so we've seen in cities that have made this information transparent that, you know, energy usage drops by a couple percentage points just for making it public. We know that, you know, tenants want to know this information. Maybe it determines what their payments are going to be for these utilities or they want to be in a green building that matches their their values. So it's important for tenants, for buyers of buildings. So so there's a lot of benefits to making this information public. There was a lot of conversation about asking buildings that don't have very good energy scores to do more to make some improvements. Now, that's a hard thing to ask a business to finance upfront, but one of the things we talked about was making sure that those things pay back, right? So you get a little you have a little upfront payment, but you earn it back over time as you have lower heating bills or lower electrical bills. And so you really end up even and the climate ends up the winner. So the the real consensus with the mayor's office was that it was important for us to learn about the scores and get folks started with these first two steps first. And I'm fully supportive of that. I'm hopeful that we have dramatic drops in energy usage from the commercial sector. But I am very pleased that we've committed to come back and talk about this again in 2018 so that we can keep the conversation going and so that if we need to take more action, this is critical. It's critical. Denver is connected to the state economy in terms of tourism. If we don't have thriving ski mountains because we have climate change, we are hurting. We depend on the food sources. And so our city is intimately connected to these issues and we have an obligation to stick with this as long as it takes to get it to get some impacts reduced. So with that, I'm really enthusiastically supportive. I want to thank the departments that worked on it and especially the stakeholders. We had a lot of owners of buildings, you know, experts and, you know, community businesses that do energy improvements all at the table. So for those that are watching or here tonight, I just want to thank you for all your time and encourage my colleagues. I know this is on the consent agenda, but not just to pass it, but to feel good about the fact that we're taking a really important step forward on climate change. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman and Councilwoman Black. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilwoman Canete, for your hard work on this. I just wanted to give a shout out to our apartment buildings and our condominium buildings. While they are big energy users, they're much more efficient than single family homes. And so one of the other issues we talk about as a city is. All in the impact of sprawl on our environment. And single family homes actually are big users of energy, too. And there may only be one or two or three people living in a single family home. And if they're far away from the city, people are probably driving. So this is a good balanced compromise, but multifamily buildings are actually much more energy efficient. So just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of that. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman. I'll just jump in that. I'm very excited about this, Bill. Thank you, Councilwoman, for your work representing us. And I hope that we will continue to push harder to be a leader in sustainability on this front and on all the other fronts, because I think that's the city that we we are and we should be. All right. This concludes the items to be called out. All other bills for introduction are ordered published. You're now ready for the block vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members, please remember that 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. Councilman Cashman, were you pleased with the resolutions for adoption and the bills on final consideration for final passage on the floor? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that resolutions be adopted and bills on final consideration be placed upon final consideration, and do pass in the block for the following items. These are all series of 2016 resolutions 1168 1228, 1249 1250 1251 1252, 12, 13, 12, 14, 12, 15 1242 1243, 1245 1246 1236 1237 1238 1241, 1253 1254 1255, 1256, 1263 and bills for introduction also series of 2016 919 920 1172. Bills on final you'll need bills on final. I'm sorry. The bills on final. Those on 530 with 1196. Not the bills on introduction. 1196 is the first one. Sure. 1196 1218 1226 1083 1084, 1171, 1069. 1189, 1198. 1200 1201. And 1231. Thank you, Madam Secretary. It has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary. Roll call. Black. I Espinosa. Hi, Flynn. I Herndon. I Cashman. Hi, Kenny Lopez. New Ortega. I i Mr. President. All right. 11 eyes. 11 eyes. The resolutions have been adopted and the bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight, there will be required public hearing on Council Bill 1030 for changing the zoning classification for 1209 North Perry Street.

Recommendation to request City Manager to establish a one month Long Beach Public Library Overdue Fines Amnesty Program from April 1, 2016 to April 30, 2016 that will support the recovery of circulation materials and provide the opportunity for patrons to return overdue books, thus restoring their library borrowing privileges at the twelve branches of the Long Beach Public Library system.

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Next item. Communication from Councilmember Dunga, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Vice Mayor Lowenthal, Council and Council Member Richardson. Recommendation to request the city manager to establish a one month Long Beach Public Library Overdue Fines Amnesty program from April 1st, 2016 to April 30th, 2016, that will support the recovery of circulation materials and provide the opportunity for patrons to return overdue books. Councilman Turanga Yeah, I would like to have a staff report on this. Please show us. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, council member, Urunga, this is something that we've been in discussion with your office about. This is something that has happened and an amnesty program has been done at other libraries, including the county library system. We do have a number of books that are outstanding, that are materials that we would like to recover. And so we're prepared to move forward with this. We've been looking at the numbers and we believe if we target those books and the fines that are having to do with books that are actually going to be returned, that this would be a very good thing for the city and we could recover our property and then we would waive those fines. That maximum is about $5.60, I believe. So we think this is a good thing and we're prepared to implement it if the council agrees. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. It's customary, Ringo. Thank you. First of all, I want to thank Glenda Williams for the the staff report and for working with us on getting this to to pass it back to my staff just right now gave me a book that was just returned today, and it was first checked out of February 1st, 1983. So imagine the lines on this. So it's going to work? I'm sure it is. Oh. Well, you know, my wife has I just got a notice in a letter today. My wife has some books overdue, so there is a vested interest in this. But other amnesty programs across the US have been very successful. For example, the city of Chicago earlier this month had 20,000 books returned during their amnesty program, and the city of Berkeley last November netted over $30,000 in weight fees and returned city property. We are looking for similar successes here in Long Beach that the story that needs to be told is that an overdue library book suspends your borrowing privileges. So returning the library book also restores your library privileges. The Long Beach Public Library has undergone a tremendous amount of modernization and programing for its patrons. The Overdue Fines Amnesty program provides our residents with the opportunity to return to the library. Of the almost 16,000 items that are overdue, approximately 65% are from teen and juvenile items items that are needed back in circulation for our young people. And this book is called Box in Love. So I'm guessing it's a teenage book. But then again, I don't know, I have an R rating on it, so I'm going to guess it's rated G. So I'm hoping that residents will take the time to participate in this program and return to enjoying the services that a great library system provides. And I hope that I could have the support of my colleagues on the site. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Actually, Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Arango, for bringing up this item. I think it's really timely. I think, you know, folks know we're really excited about our new library that's going to be opening in North Long Beach. So anything anything that gives us an opportunity to encourage people to go out and get their library cards or update their library cards in advance of that, I support it. And I would say that if anybody wants to join, we have a challenge going on in North Long Beach three with RECs challenge where we want to increase readership. Right now, on average, we do about 5000 books a month. Books are items checked out of our library and we want to, over the course of 100 days, increase our readership by 10,000 books or items checked out. So sorry for jumping on your item and saying that, but it was too, too close for me. For me, not it was too tempting. Councilmember Thank you so much. And I'll be voting in support. Councilwoman Gonzalez So I had the pleasure of being at the library for the last two days, helping run our DG camps and teaching these kids how to code. And then many of them said, you know, I asked them, raise your hand if you have a library book and or a library card, and most of them raise their hand. But one of them said, I do have a library card, but it has a ton of fines on it. And I'm really embarrassed to to come back to the library. I'm here, but I'm embarrassed to come and bring my books back. And so I said, don't worry, I think we have a solution for you if it passes. And so it's you know, these are middle schoolers that work. You know, they live about ten blocks away from the main library. And so his issue was that it was too far, you know, for him normally to come back and drop off the books. And now, you know, he has an opportunity to do that. And I know a lot of places have a day or a week. I'm glad we're looking at one full month for residents. And I think Glenda, for all of her amazing work at the library and all of your staff is just incredible working with them for two full days. It's just been really amazing. But I think this will be a great program. Now, as far as outreach, so many of our residents know these information will be in different languages because I know that, you know, in the Washington neighborhood and other neighborhoods, I'm sure, you know, those parents would like to know whether it's my or Spanish that they can do this . Thank you. Any public comment on the item? That was my question. I'm sure it's going to sound like a question, but they had a question mark. Great. Thank you. Councilmember Gonzalez. Yes. We will have this in different languages. It's going to coincide with a national library month. And we're just about ready for that. So we'll be able to add this information to all of our promotion. So it's just very timely and very happy to do it. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Public comment. Are you too quick as the address? I think it was a great idea. Chicago has done that before. I was there in 1972 when they did it. And the response was so big they had to shut down the library system for three days. So many books had been cut that come up, so forth, or we're overdue. A suggestion in terms of the outraged has just hit me now and I can understand a situation where a library is several blocks from many blocks, and particularly if they have to go through shooting fields to get there. Maybe a an arrangement can also be made with the local schools, like where that person where they go to school every day and they then can take that book to their library where our library can make the requisite arrangements to pick it up and so forth. That might be a solution. But overall, I think it's a great program should be done. But think about having the kids that are don't want them tracked down to their library because they feel is too much of a distance or whatever. They have to go to school, take it there and do their school library and interface with ours and take care of it that way. Thank you. Senior, the public comment please cast your votes. Motion carries.

Resolution recognizing May as Haitian Heritage Month. On motion of Councilor Louijuene, the rules were suspended; the resolution was adopted.

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All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. Opposing. The ayes have it. The docket has been adopted. Mr. Clerk, please read docket 05950595. Council of Louisiana for the following resolution recognizing me as Haitian Heritage Month. Thank you, Mr. Clarke. The Chair recognizes Constitution. Constitution? You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I am very excited to be writing today in recognition of May as Asian Heritage Month. Actually, Boston is the first place where we started celebrating Haitian Heritage Month in 1998, and it's because of the number of events that happen in the month of May that, you know, that are relative to Haitian history, that it became a whole month, including the most. For me, the most important Haitian holiday is our Independence Day, which is on January 1st. What Haiti was able to do when a 13 year slave revolt, the only the only republic born out of a slave revolt. That is the most important holiday. But the most celebrated holiday in Haiti is actually May 18th, and it is still a holiday celebrated around the world, in Haiti communities. It's our Flag Day, where we honor Captain Flynn for creating the Haitian flag by essentially tearing up the French flag and creating something new from that which is symbolic of everything that Haiti has represented and continues to represent. You know, so much of the hate story of Haiti, as we know, you know, there's a lot of pride, but there's also, you know, a lot of pain. I'm not thinking just about the seven months in which, you know, I was running for city council. You know, the things that came up in the assassination of our president. An additional earthquake after continued trauma from the first earthquake that happened in 2010, you know, dodging hurricanes and really and with the political instability in the country, a lot of it being the result of American foreign policy. So there's just so much there. And I think, too, about just growing up as a as a young Haitian woman in this city. You know, when I was in elementary school, we didn't have a Haitian Heritage Month, and I was in a school, an elementary school with a large Haitian population. But I was not an English language learners class, but I was noticeably Haitian. And my father, who was at the school every day, he's supposed to be here, but he's running late because that's what we do. We really he I couldn't hide the fact that I was Haitian. Right. He was always in the school is a very thick Haitian accent when he speaks. And in my classroom, there were other students who were Haitian. But, you know, sometimes they didn't always mention it because they made fun of the Haitian or the Haitian English language learners. And as a result of that, they made fun of me in my classroom. And I think about how confusing that was as a young elementary student, not knowing why it was worth making fun of people trying to learn English or why it was worth making fun of people who had dark skin. And so when I now as a full adult and now as a Boston city counselor, go into classrooms and go into elementary school rooms, I always remember that little girl who was in those classrooms and who wanted to see someone say. It is more than okay to be proud of who you are and of where you come from. And so I'm really happy that I had this opportunity. My father, who just wanted. To to other. Haitian Heritage Month and to also, you know, honor my dad, who is one of the reasons why I am able to stand here as a very proud Haitian person. He made sure that my sister and I were reading Haitian Creole, we're speaking it, which is a thing that a lot of people can do. If you weren't born in Haiti. And so he made me even though it wasn't cool for your dad to make you someone carry your pride, he made me carry the pride of this flag everywhere that I went. And so building on that, we had this whole month where I doing a lot of really awesome programing on the USS Constitution Museum in Charleston, actually has original letters from Toussaint Louverture, where he, the Haitian freedom fighter who is the cause and the reason for our freedom, and really showed the example to the world of what enslaved people can be and become and how we could break off the shackles of slavery. We are having the Haitian Flag Day parade on on May 15. We'll also this council has actually had a breakfast honoring our Haitian Flag Day every year. And for the first time since we have a Haitian American city councilor, I will be hosting it. My announcement for the week, I'm just putting it here, is that I invite all of you to that breakfast happening here next Friday at 10:30 a.m.. I also just want to also recognize the number of Haitians working here in city hall, including my cousin Charlene, who is here. I just there's so many of us here, and I think it's important. I always say that the third largest Haitian diaspora is in Boston that is cognizable. It is here in the city of in in city hall and in our hospitals, in our schools, everywhere we are. And so I'm just so grateful that I now have this ability to do this, to be a representative for my people. And I know that this hearing was also filed last year by any society George and Andre Campbell. So many people here have, you know. We represent communities that are vibrant Asian communities. I think of Council Valley, think of Castro Arroyo. I know that we have many friends here and I just am so grateful for the work that we do not only to, you know, go to Asian communities when they need, you know, when it's time to get a vote or, you know, to say that I'm a good friend, but to really do the real work of being in deep partnership with communities that are often struggling. Right. We have folks coming here from the border. We have folks who are being displaced by fires. We have Haitian nonprofits that are running on shoestring budgets. We have a diaspora here that is in deep, deep need of having a place where we can be centered and anchored in our culture when things happen. So I just thank you all for your commitment to the Haitian community here. I'm into the work that we are going to do together. I'm just going to say this a little bit. Bill Bascom Gabriel Castillo because you've spent considerably more education and I've been to Boston look in L.A. City Hall young film one to excuse me Le Couteur by La Avenue minute. Corner toot toot. Kutumela. What do you miss here when talking with you about this? Are your men and women taking liberty to Kariobangi Newport Tabla and looking to get these women on wharf? It no communication. What can you do that well somebody's awesome their kids may poop I love it really scares me if you poo I'm pretty junior so I just want to say thank you to everyone and thank you to my council colleagues. I hope to see you all next Friday at the breakfast and thank you for the work that you do for me and my people. Thank you. Thank you, Council, John. And on behalf of the body, we also want to welcome you out here. We're proud we're proud to have you here as well. Welcome. The chair recognizes counsel. Have clarity. Counsel clarity. View of the floor. Please add my name to this resolution as the very first sponsor of that breakfast that passed that are working within our mind to see it back in the day passed it on to former counsel Rob Consalvo, who passed it on to former counsel to McCarthy, who passed it on to our colleague Ricardo Arroyo, who obviously passed it on to our first Haitian-American here and roots in Louisiana. So I appreciate the on to come along to that breakfast, but also to her dad. We may want to cook him up with Kerry because he came in a little late after for a speech. So we may able to get him the full tape working through central staff so that he didn't miss the he didn't miss all the action. All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Great, great recommendation, counsel. Clarity. Thank you. The chair recognizes Counselor Arroyo, Counsel Arroyo of the fall. Thank you, Counselor. Louisiana. You know, the country of Haiti is really a beacon for the world in the way in which they were formed in a slave revolt successfully. And much of the trauma and harm that Haiti has experienced has been the result of foreign policy, frankly, from places like the United States of America, which at the time were slave owning and had slave owning leadership that saw Haiti as an existential crisis. And so there's many different ways in which I think we can raise our voice to ensure that we are. We're leaving them, frankly, of the harm that has been done in all of our names. And I know one of the ways in which we can do so as well is pushing for the repayment from France to Haiti, for the debt in which they have incurred upon Haiti, which it was fully paid, which was for themselves. Haiti, upon their liberation, was imposed a debt from France where they were to pay for their own freedom, and that should be returned tonight. And I'd raise my voice to that. And I will say that as we have the privilege and the benefit of a large Haitian population here in Boston, I believe that the district with the most members of the Haitian diaspora in the city of Boston, the breadth of service that has come from that, the culture and in the ways in which they have lifted up our small businesses have joined in and been parts of our community and making them better and in bringing in soccer leagues and doing all of these different things that have created a better day to day for all members of our city. I'm grateful to them. I'm grateful for their spirit, for their resilience and for their pride and where they come from, both from a historic way, from a personal way, from their homeland, but also in the ways in which they uphold their culture and their tradition so proudly for all the rest of us who are members of different diasporas to see. And so I'm very grateful to counsel Louis Gen for raising this. I am in full throated support of this, so please add my name and I'm grateful to our Haitian community here in Boston for all that they do and for the country of Haiti, for all they have done for other countries like the one that my parents come from, who have also grappled with colonialism and with imperialism, and in that specific case, the the ultimate sin of of slavery. And so thank you for for that. And thank you to all Haitians for uplifting their country here at home. So thank you, Counselor. Flynn Thank you, counsel. While the chair recognizes counsel to counsel. COUNSEL Larry, you have the foster. Okay. Thank you, President Flynn. I think Counselor Fernandez Anderson was before me, but she very graciously gave me her spot. I wanted to rise in support of this and to thank Counselor Lujan for filing it. I've said this before and I want to say this again that black people all across the diaspora in this entire world, all the people of Haiti, a great debt and that we are where we are now because of their fervor and because of their fight for liberation. And I also want to stand because I think it's incredibly important to publicly show support as a woman from the Dominican Republic. I think that. You know, what we have seen happening on the Dominican and Haitian border in the past few years has been unconscionable. And I think that as people of the Dominican diaspora here in the United States, we have a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Haitian people. And with your permission, I would like to speak in Spanish to the Baron in terms of for your resolution that they need the assets of Mr. Mario a mr. Patrimonial is also a story. Is that resolution the lack of seclusion for you in the Dominican at the end, rather that they are saying in solidarity that it's a las personas, the idea of establishment of those eating with straw. So thank you for filing this and please add my name. Thank you, counsel. Ira. The chair recognizes Counsel Fernandez innocent. Counsel Fernandez innocent. You have the floor. Well, we just going to make this multicultural, whatever, because I'm both so I'm. I'm publisher. Is your comment separate on power, Robert, not hold back, huh? Well, that well, they're massive for everything that you do for our Rosa. I always say when I met your dad, I told him, I said, you know, you carry all manageable, fancy, suitable, fancy and manageable control. But she but he was like, okay, you know, it doesn't matter. You're speaking it. We understand. Let's go. So I really I really love you, dad, and appreciate you watching this. And during the campaign, I would tell the people the same thing. I'll be like, hey, you're my cousins because y'all left covered right. West Africa went and it being or Cuba as well being one of the first islands to land. So literally, we eat your food. Thank you for your zouk. I know cassava is not Haitian, but still it's your culture and thank you for your food. Keep word being that it's a very new civilization or in terms of post-colonial. We didn't have TV, we didn't have music. We have a lot. So we benefit from your culture and we dance your music and your food and your traditions, or rather what you left behind. So messy for being here, for being president. But I also think that, you know, I literally just watched the documentary again because I love watching it again and again and again to remind me that how we have the strength to be able to fight. But I have great respect for the Haitian people, for their strength, for just a story and how they really showed the world and being the only one to fight a colonial colonialism. So shout out to Toussaint Louverture, as you said, and thank you so much for being here. And I would hope that in the way that I treat you, in the way that I interact with you is exemplary in how I respect you and love you. So I'm good to you for that reason because you are a priority for me. Thank you. Love you. Thank you. Counsel Fernandez Anderson, the chair recognizes. Counsel me here, counsel me here. You have the floor. I am so incredibly happy to have our first and I hope will not be our last Haitian representation here on the city council. So thank you, Counsel Louisiana, for everything that you do, not only to just amplify the voices of our people, but to also continue to fight as hard as you do. Thank you. I just wanted to share the same sentiments as counsel. A lot of you know, I always talk about being an Afro Latina and reclaiming my black roots. Right. I think that Dominicans really struggle with recognizing that we share the island of. Yeah. And that this is an opportunity for us to really as Dominicans to really lean into this conversation that we're here because of you. And I think that's really hard for a lot of Dominicans to to digest that. I actually met your dad even before I was even thinking of running and when I was advocating a deep collaboration with the Haitian community during the earthquake, because there was a lot of tension with Dominicans and Haitians here in the city of Boston. And I think that this solidarity needs to just be here on this council floor. But we need to work in collaboration and bring our communities together to recognize that we need each other and we need to continue to fight for one another. And I do so in the spirit alongside you, Councilor Lucian, for this day and every day. Thank you. And please sign my name. Thank you, Councilman. Here. The chair recognizes counsel Braden. Counsel Braden. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you, counsel Louisiana, for this celebration of Haitian Heritage Month. You know, you've met my nephew, Jamin, and he's a very tall, handsome black man who came from Port au Prince as a very little child. His mom is from Haiti, and she's married to my brother in law, Henry McCarthy. And they live in New Orleans. And my association with that family and by extension, the Haitian community is limited in many, many ways. But I just one thing that impresses me is the incredible tenacity, perseverance and courage of the Haitian people in the in the in the face of so many recurrent and sequential challenges, natural disasters, political strife and political unrest over the last year of the history of the over the history of the nation. And I'm very honored to consider you a friend and colleague on the Boston City Council, the first Haitian woman you walk in, you following in the path of a few other very strong and remarkable Haitian women in politics in Boston. And I'm so honored to have you as a friend and colleague. So I wish all the folks in the Haitian diaspora here in Boston a very happy celebration of Haitian Heritage Month. Thank you. Thank you, Counsel. The chair recognizes counsel. Earl. Counsel Earl. You have the floor. Thank you, President Flynn. And thank you to counsel Louis Gen for bringing this to the floor. I'm in support of this resolution, and I just want to. Let's also add that, you know, just like the Haitian community, you know, setting the example of being resilient fighters and preserving through all the turmoil that they have gone through, you know, you know, Counsel Louis Jean brings that fighting spirit to the city council. And I'm a big fan of the culture, just like Councilor Tang and Anderson has said, you know, typically these that Copa music. And I'm looking forward to celebrating the culture on Haitian Flag Day. And I also know what it's like to have very prideful parents, me being a West Indian, it's one thing that, you know, your parents are always happy for you when you're, you know, doing doing the smallest thing sometimes or, you know, even to this height, you know, recognizing your culture. And it. Jamaicans also have a slogan that says, out of many, we are one. So it's in that collaborative effort that I look like to be united with the Haitian community in my district to kind of move things forward. Thank you. Thank you. Counsel world. The chair recognizes Constitution. Constitution? You have the. Floor. Yeah. Sorry, I'm not going to take that. I just want to say thank you to all my colleagues for your kind words. Sometimes we sit here, we pass these resolutions, and we're like, What is it doing right? I just want to say that I will. I tell people that no city council is recognizing Haitian Heritage Month. We passed a unanimous resolution. So God willing. Right. And they just stood up. It just the joy for folks who for so long have been excluded, who are downtrodden, who have been forced to. When you go into this resiliency. Well, and I just think that like these small, they seem small. But it really does matter to a lot of people. You know, when I was in Kansas and Anderson was here recognizing, you know, and fighting for it as a holiday, what that when I looked around at, you know, the Muslim folks in this room and how much that meant to them, it's the same thing. So I just am so honored to have all of you speak so, so, so nicely about the Haitian community here and hope that that also translate to the work that we have to do. So thank you, Ms.. Champion. KIMBALL And the benediction. May God bless everyone. Thank you, counselors and anyone else I'd like to speak. I would like to add that I'm also proud to. Sign on to this because of the incredible contributions and sacrifices of the Haitian and Haitian American community here in greater Boston is with the constitution several months ago out in front of the federal building where we will be protesting in support of fair immigration for for the Haitian community that came to here came to the United States during the earthquake in 2010, 2010. And I was only I was about 80 miles away from that earthquake when it when it hit. No. And I was part of the I was part of the. Relief team. But I just wanted to say the the resilience of the Haitian community here in our country is exceptional and they are tremendous tremendously to Boston answered into the United States. So happy to sign on as well. Anyone else like to sign on? Please raise your hand. Mr. Clarke, please add Councilor Baker. Council Councilor. Bar Council Operating Council. Flowery. Also our council here. Council. Murphy Council. We're all in the chair. Um. Constitution is seeking suspension of the rolls and adoption of dockets. 0595. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed saying the ayes have it. The docket has passed. We arrived too late. Files. I am informed by the correct that there are zero eight files. Since we are onto green shoots, anyone wishing to remove a matter from the green sheets may do so at this time. The consent agenda. We're now moving on to the consent agenda. I have informed by the clerk that there is one addition to the consent agenda agenda.

A proclamation declaring the City and County of Denver as a compassionate city in accordance with the Charter for compassion.

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Thank you, Councilwoman Gilmore. And we just want to applaud you for bringing this up at operations, and I'm glad we were able to add it. So thank you so much. All right. For our fourth and final proclamation. Councilman Clarke, please read Proclamation 1185. Thank you, Mr. President. I have proclamation number 16, Dash 1185, declaring the city and county of Denver as a compassionate city in accordance with the Charter for Compassion. Whereas the entrance to the Wellington E Webb Municipal Office Building proclaims What is the city but the people? And improving the well-being of the people of Denver is the shared work of our government, private and nonprofit sectors. And. Whereas, Denver's many historic champions of compassion, Little Raven, Potato Clark, Emily Griffith, Dr. Justine Afford Paco Sanchez, Minya Sweet Daddy, Bruce Randolph, Lena Archuleta and all the great philanthropists have set a high example for our citizens. And. Whereas, elevating mutual helpfulness and human respect among their citizens is the sole intention of the nearly 80 community governments around the world that have endorsed the Golden Rule based Charter for Compassion. These include the world's first compassionate neighborhoods Denver's LoDo and Luckey District seven Overland Park, with hundreds more cities pursuing such endorsements. And. Whereas, in 2013, the U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted the resolution compassion as an effective public policy, citing the need for secular leadership in promoting compassion, its benefits to at risk youth and potential savings from reduced crime. And. WHEREAS, Denver's own Agency for Human Rights and Community Partnerships, along with other targeted city initiatives, have long facilitated greater equality, deep connection and full belonging for the members of challenged communities within the Denver population. And. Whereas, acts of compassion boost well-being for both helper and beneficiary, but high city population and density link to increased stress, anxiety and depression so that as Denver rapidly grows, measures such as making compassion one of our core civic values can help keep pace with the public health challenges of urban living. And. Whereas, in designating Denver a compassionate city in accord with the Charter for Compassion, Denver calls on its many civic minded businesses, nonprofits, registered neighborhood organizations and on its neighboring cities throughout the metro area and Colorado to join in supporting the cultivation of compassion and acts of compassion for the well-being of all. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that the Council of the City and County of Denver hereby commits to participate in and help to expand inclusivity, conversations, and systems that are free of oppression. Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy here of be forwarded to the manager of Public Works. Thank you, Councilman. Your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation 1185 be adopted. It has been moved. Need a second? And get a second. There we go. There's been moves. And second, it comes by members of council. Councilman Clark. Thank you, Mr. President. You know, this dovetails really well with what we've been talking about tonight, and that was not planned. I've been working on this with with one of my constituents who I'll talk about later. For a long time now. And for me, you know, this is after everything that we talked about tonight, this is the. Okay. And and what next? And my favorite part of this is, you know, cultivation of compassion and acts of compassion for the well-being of all. It's really about taking care of each other and having respect and compassion for the people that we are bouncing around this big and increasingly busy and vibrant city every day. And for me, you know, I've seen this both through my involvement with the local community when they adopted it and also before I was on council through my involvement through the South Platte River with the Overland community. But it really didn't hit home for me until I started going every week to registered neighborhood association meetings. And for those of you who might have been to one in your neighborhood, you should really try going to like all of them because it is quite the experience when you all of a sudden are going to all these different community meetings and seeing how different each neighborhood, even when they're right next to each other and share a border, how different they are and how different the discourse at these meetings are and how these communities and these neighbors relate to each other. And immediately, the overland neighbor neighborhood, it just felt different. And when you're going to a lot of these things, you know, if that's the only one you go to, maybe you don't notice. But when you go to these things, you know, three nights a week, every night, every week of your life, you really pick up on these things. And it wasn't that subtle either, that this neighborhood just felt different. And at the end of every meeting in these neighborhood meetings, as everything in our life, as we're talking about our city can be confrontational, they can be full of conflict. And we will see that play out in this room probably tonight and every night that we meet where there are disagreements and there are places where we don't agree and we don't agree on the vision for our city and we don't agree on. Barking dogs and we don't agree on everything big and small. And those play out in these rooms. And so often that's where the conversation ends in conflict and turmoil and anger in conflict and not at the Oval and never had meetings because every single meeting in the Oval, in neighborhood since they have adopted, had become a compassionate neighborhood under the charter for compassion ends with their moment for compassion, and it is the greatest thing ever. I won't lie to you and tell you that I look forward to going to every neighborhood meeting because I really would prefer to be home with my kids occasionally at night so they remember who I am. But I can tell you that when I am feeling beat up and depleted from this job or from life being there at the end of an overland neighborhood, when there is a moment for compassion where everybody says, Yeah, we've had our disagreements, we've had our stuff, we're trying to work through this, we're neighbors, there's conflict. And now we're going to take a second to talk about where we saw these moments. These we're going to cultivate compassion and acts of compassion for the well-being of all. And to hear people reach out and say, you know, here's what somebody in this room did for me or here's what somebody in this room did for somebody else that I saw or hears with somebody who I don't even know who they are. Did for me is really powerful. And I don't think that there like I said at the beginning, it was not planned this way. But I don't think that there is a better night since I've been on council to sit here and declare Denver a compassionate city. Then tonight, given the climate that we are in. So I would I would just ask all my colleagues to enthusiastically support this, and I would invite you all to come see it in action at the Overland Neighborhood Associations, third Thursday of every month. Thank you, Mr. President. I think it's the fourth. Fourth Thursday. Sorry. Thank you, Councilman, for bringing this forward. And I think we need to have a moment of compassion every time after council. That would be very helpful. Okay, Councilman Gilmore. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd just like to be added to the proclamation, Madam Secretary. Great. All right. Seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Clarke. I. Flynn. I. Gilmore, i. Cashman. I. Lopez. I knew. Ortega. I. Sussman. I. Black. Mr. President. I. Please close the voting. Announce results. Ten Eyes. Ten Eyes Proclamation. 1185 has been adopted. Councilman, is there anyone you want to bring up? There is. I would like to invite one of my favorite people on the planet, the resident historian for South Central Denver, and a man that I have a great deal of respect for who educated me on this process and pushed and prodded and helped us get to tonight. Mr. Jack Unruh. And Fox would like to say a word as well. Yep. I thought you were going to pass the baton, so I thought I'd start with you. I will pass it to her. Yeah. It'll be. It'll be past. Yeah. You go, girl. Okay, great. Thank you, Jack. So first, thank you, Councilman Clark, for sponsoring the plaque proclamation and the members, the rest of the members of the City Council for recognizing the value of proclaiming Denver a compassionate city and doing the work you do. And tonight was an amazing example of Denver being a compassionate city. I'm representing tonight the exciting neighborhood of LoDo. We were designated a compassionate neighborhood by the Charter for Compassion in 2014. It was actually the first neighborhood. There were other cities and end states, but we were the first neighborhood. The purpose of the Compassionate Community campaign is to encourage and help communities integrate compassionate action in the fabric of civic life to bring compassion to life. So consider how different our world would be if compassion, a fundamental concern for others, is the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, even when we're in conflict. Karen Armstrong, the founder of the Charter for Compassion, defines a compassionate city as an uncomfortable city. Uncomfortable when anyone is homeless or hungry, every child isn't loved and given an opportunity to grow and thrive. When any group anywhere in the world is marginalized or oppressed and when we don't treat our neighbors as we would wish to be treated. So I was pleased to see that Mayor Hancock recognized the growing uncomfortableness in our city post-election and released his video last week and then the council's proclamation this evening. It is sure, as asked, that you were committed to keeping Denver an inclusive and welcoming city. So when I first learned about the Compassionate Community campaign, my intention was to have Denver recognized. Those who knew about the great things we were doing and LoDo suggested I start there. It's Judy Monteiro, my councilwoman at the time. Michael Sapp, our Neighborhood Liaisons Liaison, and Derek Yakubu, Director of Human Rights and Community Outreach. And it made sense. It is in the neighborhood where everyone has the opportunity to give and receive compassionate acts. And Denver is a city of neighborhoods. So Jack, who you will hear from next, recognize this as well? And he was the catalyst to get his community, Overland Park recognized and then to get us to the proclamation this evening. So although most think of LoDo as an entertainment district in which it is many who live and work there consider it the best sense of community they have ever experienced, which is very rare for an urban setting. And I think it has a lot to do with the fact that residents and businesses work together on projects that give back to the community and those in need. So it has been our experience that the actual process of becoming recognized has helped to enhance an even stronger sense of community by celebrating the compassionate acts that are already being done. And we've done that this evening, many of them. And by expanding our consciousness about compassion, we are more likely to do more kind acts and respond to the needs of others. So I am happy and grateful that I live in a neighborhood and in a city. That sees. Compassion as something worthy to focus on. So thank you. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. We've worked many years on this. Yeah. Profound. Thanks. City council members and to each of you and to District Seven's Julian Clarke and his awesome staff who brought this proclamation to you on our behalf. Thanks to Mayor Hancock, whose mayoral proclamation that today, November 21st. Yep. Here we are is Compassion Moves Denver Day. Good things will happen within the frame that these proclamations have created. Thanks to Han and others who have worked on Charter for Compassion Matters and to my fellow Overland Park Neighborhood Association members who became a compassionate neighborhood side by side with LoDo by membership vote on the first ballot . Adding bylaws requiring that each member each. Meeting close with the Neighborhood Compassion Report. These people are brilliant. Thanks to everyone who came to welcome this proclamation tonight and to those who celebrate Daddy Bruce Randolph here tonight. And with the unexpected city council resolution that Councilwoman. Gilmore brought forth. We got a taste of Dr. King's beloved community. People ask me if I've got an elevator speech about this, and I say, the building hasn't been built. That's tall enough. But out of compassion, I'll keep these next remarks short engaging citizens, as Denver writes in a more consciously compassionate outlook as our overarching goal here. Celebrating Denver's many ongoing compassion. Moves and joining in. Even more of this work will be the result. We can trust that compassion is not a fifth wheel nicety. Something is going on when 80 some cities around the world have taken this step. As with this proclamation this evening, with hundreds more pursuing it. Something's going on. When the U.S. Conference of Mayors issues a compassion resolution and when its 2016 keynote speaker is the Dalai Lama. And when most large university neuroscience programs have a dedicated compassion research component in the National Institute of Health website links to thousands of articles on compassion. And when science is studying urban happiness and well-being as public health and economic. Indicators and businesses are. Looking closely at these metrics when planning to relocate and when people are again crossing racial, ethnic, gender, religious and political barriers to stand up for the beloved community they long for. Learning is the human way into life change. The more you get into compassion, the more it gets into you. You can find out more about this new picture of our ancient moral virtue at the charter for Compassion, Dawg. And finally, gratitude follows compassion as a baby whose diapers have just been changed. Let us be humbly thankful this Thursday and consider the compassion that made possible whatever gifts, however small we enjoy. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Clark as well. All right, we're ready for the resolutions. Madam Secretary, do you have any resolutions.

Final Passage of Ordinance Amending the Alameda Municipal Code by Adding Article XIV to Chapter VI Concerning the Review of Rent Increases. (Community Development 481005)

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The. Point of information. Maybe this is what you're doing. I'll let you talk and then I'll ask the question. I'm sorry. Are we combining speakers for both? So that's. Thank you. So I was going to speak to that. We have 12 speakers on five Q And we have one on five. I would propose of counsel agrees that we go through all of the speakers together and address these items together. Do you want to just inform the public who might not know what those items are? You look at five Q and she will read five Q and then five are and they both pertain to the rent review advisory committee, right? So five Q When I just read about adding the rent increases to the municipal code in the next one, five are is amending the altimeter missile code by adding Section two, Dash 23 to Article two concerning the creation of a rent review advisory committee. All right, so do we have any presentation by staff or. I'll just go ahead with the speakers. I'm going to go ahead with the speakers. The first speaker u. T. E. You take outta your chair. And then Barbara Duncan. And then Doug Smith. Thank you. Good evening. I'm here because. We need your help desperately. I had to move in 2014 after September because I had a $600 increase. I moved to new unit and just this year when the lease was up, I had $130 in increase. And I know it's not going to stop there unless the mayor and the council members do something about it, because a lot of people are being displaced, seniors and fixed income, Social Security alone, they have no place to go, no raise. They're trying to decide whether they should pay the rent or buy the food. And people on fixed income that make minimum wage. Same thing. So I'm asking the mayor and the council members to please implement some kind of law that protects some of our citizens as tough and in many others. Because without your help. People like me have no place to go. So that's what I'm here for. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello. I'm Barbara Duncan. Of course you know me. You see me here? Every politician meeting. For the microphone. Just a little four. You pull the microphone down. Okay. Yeah. 1985, we tried getting rent control. It was they had 6000 and so many voters on that. Okay. The reason we didn't get it is because they were not ten pages and there was no holes in the paper. That instead of the people that try to get in the rent control. Go ahead and do this. They didn't do it. They dropped the ballot. They said, no. We won't do it. So what we're trying to do is we're trying to get that back because we. Definitely. Need rent control. There's no way we can survive if the rents keep going up. If they want San Francisco people here, let us know now. You know, I mean, we're all hanging by a ladder wondering are we going to be able to stay? Or is San Francisco or Palo Alto going to move us out? And if they do look at Healdsburg, the history is there. Right. Today, there are no more schools in Healdsburg. The town is almost closed down because they went there and raised the ranch, just like they're doing in Alameda. And I guess that's about all I have to say, that I have this. Gone and read what that says for our audience. Would you say. Could you read what that says for our audience? I rent and I vote. I voted for each one of you on here. As a matter of. Fact, you were in my front. Yard. On pieces of paper and I and sticks. So each one of you, I read up on you and I thought, this is going to be good because this they are fair. Prove your faith. Please let us have the rent control. Thank you very much. Thank you. Doug Smith. Doug Smith and Garfield Cairncross and then Stefan Paul. Good evening. My name is Doug Smith. I am a housing provider in the city of Alameda and I do generally support this ordinance. And the only concern I have with it is 6.5 7.10. The issue about preventing landlords from increasing rent for an additional year if they do not follow the procedure, this ordinance. So other than that, I do support it. And any time we can get a form together where we can bring landlords and tenants together and discuss and understand each other's circumstances. And I just want to remind everybody that from 2001 to 2012, the rents in Alameda did not go up at all. 2001 to 2012, they did not go up at all. Thank you. And audience. Audience, please show him respect. Thank you. And there is a there is a lot of talk about San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland. I just heard Palo Alto. The things those have in common is they're all rent controlled cities. Thank you. Thank you. Those of you in the audience. I know we're going to have a. Thank you. Let's go. Let's proceed with our next speaker. Hello, Councilman. And introduce yourself. Yes, hello. My name is Garfield Cairncross. Hello. Mayor Spencer and Congress are council members. Ten Facts about rent control. Fact one Rent control laws limit annual rent increases. Without rent control. Landlords are free to raise. Rents in any amount as often as they want. Fact number two Rent control promotes stability. Tenants stay in their homes longer and are more invested in their local neighborhoods and communities. Fact number three Rent control leaves tenants with more money to spend in the local economy. Fact number four Rent control does not protect tenants who fail to pay their rent or violate their lease from eviction. Tenants also can be evicted if the owner wants to live in the property. Fact number five Rent control has no impact whatsoever on the development of new housing. New construction is exempt from rent control under state law. Fact number 612 cities in California have some form of rent control. Berkeley. Beverly Hills. East Palo Alto. Hayward. Los Angeles. Oakland. Palm Springs. San Francisco. Santa monica, San Jose. Thousand Oaks, West Hollywood. And now Richmond, California. Rent. Fact number seven Rent control laws are popular with voters. In 2008, California voters defeated a landlord attack on rent control by a decisive 22 point margin statewide. Fact number eight Landlords do just fine under rent control. All rent control laws are required to allow landlords to. Earn a fair return on their investment. Landlords are allowed to raise the rent every year by a set percentage. Pass through certain additional costs. And charge any amount. At the start of a new tenancy. Back number nine rent control can be cost neutral for cities. Any cost to administer the program can come through a low per unit fee paid by landlords and shared with tenants back number ten. Rent control is perfectly legal. Courts have upheld rent control laws for decades. Editorial Comments. Up with wages. Down with rents. Don Lindsay paraphrased. We don't want government interference. I consider that poster ignored political dementia. Ronald Reagan quote Government isn't the answer to your problems. Government is the problem. I'd like to have one more quote from Benito Mussolini. Ill first. She's more a corporate tease mode that translates into fascism is corporatism. Income of renters is up 4.6. Rent is up 18% in the Bay Area. The foxes aren't guarding the hen house. They are the hen house. Our next speaker is Stephen Hall. Please hold your applause. Thank you. Good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Stephen Paul. Our office serves as a joint council of the California Apartment Association. CAA is the largest statewide trade association of owners and operators of rental housing in the United States. Over 50,000 members, over 2 million residential units, 1500 of which are in your city. We generally approve and generally adopt rental mediation ordinances, and we have reviewed your proposed ordinance much similar to the one in San Leandro and in Fremont. There is one serious concern, however, about your ordinance that I wish to bring to your attention. It is the subject of my letter of August 13th to the Mayor, which I trust. All the council members have reviewed, and that is the suspension of rental adjustments for one year for violation of this ordinance may very well serve as a violation under California law and subject your ordinance to attack. And if there is such an attack were to occur, the entire ordinance would be suspended. And that's and I've spoken to your city attorney about that and offered an opportunity to try and correct this situation while keeping the intent of the ordinance. Without that defect in the proposed ordinance, which I don't believe is terribly material to the the the thrust of the ordinance, I don't believe it would suffer a challenge successfully. And we're willing certainly to work with your staff on that issue and answer any questions that the council may have. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Karen Walled and then Patricia Nash and then Angela. Talk about Madam Chair, can I ask you a question? I noticed we've got some young children in the audience. I wonder if you would consider if those parents were interested in maybe letting them go ahead because it's getting a little late for young children. I'm not sure. Well, you might ask if anyone who's a speaker with young children might like to be allowed to go. We have anyone with young children. If you are on this agenda item and if you'd like to go ahead, please let the clerk know your name. Thank you. Otherwise, let's continue, please. Thank you. WARD Patricia Nash and then Angela Hawk about. Hi, I'm Karen. I don't know any of you because I only moved here a few months ago, but I hope I'm going to get to know you so. Especially since I'm expected to vote for you within a reasonable period of time. My daughter and her family moved here and so that she could teach in this area. And so I moved to both because there's lots of nice things about Alameda and because I don't like being more than 20 minutes from my grandchildren. And there's lots of good volunteer work to do here. Every day. I came out to the Bay Area in 1965 when I graduated from Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and have never thought of going back East not only because it's too cold, but because I really like the Bay Area. I've lived in Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and now Alameda. All of the other cities that I lived in did have some form of rent control and some kind of renters rights office that the city sponsored and that I learned a great deal from. And even when I was a homeowner, that I felt was a very worthwhile contribution to our community. Among the. Well, I won't go into all the good qualities of Alameda because I think you all know them. But one of the things that does concern me is the lack of diversity. And what hit me directly was the lack of economic diversity. It was very hard. I'm a retired teacher. I live on CalSTRS. We get 1% at most increase per year. That doesn't even come to a fraction of what landlords feel that it's okay to raise rents. So it really was not easy. I had to spend a lot of time trying to find a place that I could live here. I actually had to have my children cosign with me to be able to rent here because they didn't feel that that I could afford to rent in Alameda. Although I've never in my life had any trouble paying either my mortgage as a homeowner or my rent. I think you want people like me. I think you want people like us. My daughter is also a teacher, an educator. My son my son in law works in solar energy. But this influx that other people have mentioned, especially come in from San Francisco, is making it harder and harder for working families to actually settle here. The kind of families that I think you want you want to have here. So what I'm hoping. Is that since you're surrounded by other cities that do have rent control and renters rights ordinances, that you may already be doing this. As I said, I'm new. Here, but that. If you haven't, that you work together with them, you know, consult with your colleagues in other cities and find out what's working in other cities so that we could have that here in Alameda, my daughter and son in law are hoping to buy a house when as soon as they sell their house in San Jose, they want to buy here in Alameda, which means I want to stay in Alameda, too, but I need to be able to afford it. So I'm hoping that you're going to work to make that possible. Thank you. Patricia Nash And then answer our Haggadah. And I'd appreciate if you'd hold your applause. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, sorry about that. Madam Mayor. Spencer and city council members. I am Patricia Nash. I've lived in Alameda for 33 years. I'm a grandmother of four, mother of three, and I love it here. I'm a member of the Alameda Renters Coalition. Disability. Committee. Our committee members have come here to show our support for creating a rent control ordinance and finish passing an ordinance for universal design in Alameda. People with disabilities. Are much more affected by the renters crisis than many other people because many of. Us live on fixed. Incomes and many places were not built to accommodate disabilities, which narrow our choices for homes. We are seniors. We are 17% of all Alameda. We face much discrimination. We need housing protection. Like all renters, we need affordable housing. But unlike many renters, we can't so easily move away because finding work is so much harder for us. Moving involves complications arising from access and mobility issues. We have deep roots here in Alameda. Generations of families. Are affected by this. Whole families will be broken up. And our lives made unnecessarily harder. Let's stop greed from ruling our retreat. Community and make all housing accessible to all people. I love it. Here and I want to stay here active in my. Community. Thank you very much. Angela Hawk about Jason Buckley and then Gary. Good evening, Mayor and vice mayor and members of the City Council. My name is Angela Hawk about I live on Bay Farm Island and I started the Alameda Runners Coalition and I'm here this evening to thank you for getting the rent review ordinance this far and that we're here tonight to hopefully finish it and provide a modicum of support to renters. Right now, unfortunately, over the summer, I've seen more and more people get displaced out of their homes. And this rent review ordinance does nothing to address 30 and 60 day notices to vacate. I'm seeing elderly people. I'm seeing seniors, single family, single parent homes. And at this point, they can't even afford to meet the 30% requirement to rent of their income for a new rental, even if they wanted to pay that extra money. If they wanted to pay three fourths of their income instead of 30%, they can't. The the rental property agencies won't take them because they don't meet the requirement. And so what I'm trying to say to you is that the reason why all these renters are here tonight is because they are worried that this rent review ordinance isn't going to be enough. And I really strongly encourage you guys or you all as the council to find additional solutions and keep the conversation going. This is a great first step, but it shouldn't be the last step. Thank you very much. Yeah. Based on Buckley and then Grover Rudolph and then Gary Hart. Hello. And good evening. I would just like to say, it seems that, you know, there's a lot of talk about collecting data, figuring out if there is a crisis. And while we're doing that, the crisis is turning into class warfare. People are getting pushed out of their homes. People are getting evicted given 60 days so they could jack up the rent by double. At some point, we have to just say no to this. Greed. It is. Naked greed. And as a community, is this what we want? Do we want to be the community that just pushes people out so people can make more money? Not only do we need rent control, we need. Some kind of moratorium on rent increases and these evictions. If we want to stop our community from bleeding people. That's pretty much all I. Have to say. Thank you. Grover Rudolph. Hello. Good. Good evening. What I want to caution you guys against what some of the other cities do in and around the country. I'm I happen to be in the middle of this sort of thing. I'm a property manager also. I've been a renter as well. And what I would encourage you to do is to not take a one size fits all approach in your city should be some sort of formula that you guys will utilize that balances. Infrastructure, current needs and market forces. Just consider those things. When you take a one step fits all at once. One size fits all approach. End up with a lot more problems than you're going to want. And again, I don't have a dog in this particular fight, but I would encourage you to do something that takes into consideration a formula that's some sort of one size fits all, because it really creates more problems than you think. Thank you. And I'm a Gary. Do you have Gary? Looks like b a tr. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Council members, thank you for reviewing this subject matter and trying to do something about it. Please excuse me. I'm not a public speaker, so I'll try my best here. But I've lived in Marina Vista apartments on the beach in since 1993, and our building just got purchased by the entity that also owns the summerhouse . And within seven days of closing on August 12th, 20, about 25% of us were notified of a rent increase of about 30 to 50%. There hasn't been any work that's been done to the to the building, except for some work that maybe started today. But. This is a very huge amount and it seems to me like something needs to be done, some sort of ordinance to be put in place, to have some sort of fairness. I used to manage the building as well. I managed the building from 2006 to 2013, and in my time of managing the building, I did manage to move the rent by. The rent rose by 25%. I was able to do this by. Basically renovating and fixing up the apartments for the new tenants coming in. Who knew what the rents were coming in. They were happy with that. They didn't have to raise the rents on any of the existing tenants. They didn't have to raise the rents on the elderly, didn't have to raise rent on anybody for like that. So to me, it seems like it can be a workable formula to be able to. Not have to raise the rents on people 30 to 50%. You know, that's going to displace a whole lot of people. I mean, it might even displace me. So of course I'm here to talk about it and hopefully you guys can do something about it. So hopefully you can keep the effort and maybe put some sort of fairness in place that just keeps companies that are coming in to just be fair to the, you know, to the tenants instead of just corporate greed, just jumping in and raising 30 to 50%. That's a huge amount. So I can understand that, you know, there needs to be some sort of an increase. But fairness, you know, in the past it's been like 10%. So anyway, that's what I wanted to say. Hopefully you can do something about this and continue the effort. Thank you. SA three. I believe this is Sara Tariq and then Lucia and Jon Sullivan and then Jon Klein. So. Hello. So Southwest overnight. Hello. Here we are living in the same building. 2019 and. We are first generation here in this country. And my wife has breast cancer and I'm the only supporter in the family right now. And like Gary said, the resentment from the base line, whatever, we are paying it for 30 to 50%. It is it is only unmanageable. We are not asking you sympathy, but I want you to do something about it, to fair to both parties, not just, you know, take the money. We can't even afford it. And also, you know, as a household provider, I'm having two part time jobs. If rent goes this, have within six months or after six months, it goes more higher than that. I mean, where are we going to live? So you guys consider this all and hopefully we are going to have some kind of resolution. Thank you. A future rent control, please. We are. Just try to have one place. Nice place to come. Speaking to the Mike Wilkinson. Thank you. We just want to you know, we are community, we are neighbors. And and we are we just. We want a place we can come into the job and have a place. This is. My home. And we just try to, I don't know, have a consideration for all of us to have a rent control. Is is three four 500 depends of the people will be a lot of money in our building is a lot. And I mean very hard work, but right now I cannot even help or there's going to be a lot of. But to all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Jon Sullivan and then Jon Klein and then Linda Weinstock. And our last speaker will be our Minda Rocca. Unless we have another speaker. Good evening, Mayor Spencer. Members of the council and city staff. I'm John Sullivan at housing provider, an employer and a taxpayer in Alameda. I very much appreciate your efforts and, you know, the energy that was devoted into getting this far, really, and. And updating our rent review process. As a housing provider. I've been involved in that process. True. There are some versions of it that I don't quite have of the new ordinance that we are proposing that I don't quite agree with. But at least I had the opportunity to, you know, to debate its merits. One big exception, really, is, which is No paragraph six, dash 56 of the new proposed ordinance. And that's failure to participate. Failure to appear essentially. If a landlord. Is deemed to not be participating properly or whatever, and he not alone is deprived of his right to raise the rent, the rent that he feels justified in asking. But he's also can't put another increase in place for a whole year. Two years without a rent increase can be really hurtful. Now, that issue was never part of our discussions in the many, many meetings that we had. Essentially, the rent review board at that time was asked to submit their recommendations, their areas of concerns, and they came up with six, I believe, if my memory serves me right. Recommendations and concerns and those six and only those six items were came on onto the table for discussion. We're allowed on to the table for discussion. No. It's obvious that the rent board did not consider that item a concern at that time. It somehow got in later. Maybe well-intentioned, yes, but clear it is necessities to deprive a landlord of an opportunity to impose and increase. And for a whole year. In order to maintain its property. It really is not, you know, not justified. No. It appears that there's a legal challenge being initiated on that matter. This could cost our city thousands of dollars to defend as a taxpayer, as an employer in Alameda. I ask you to really please consider omitting this penalty portion or letting the ordinance go forward, but placing this penalty portion on hold to give your legal counsel an opportunity to speak to the plaintiff's counsel and. Try to work things out, get better legal opinion or whatever. Lawsuits, just like penalties, can be very divisive. Very divisive. In the spirit of mediation, I think that's what it's all about. I think we should work on that. But thank you for the opportunity to present my concerns this evening. Thank you. Thank you. John Klein. Linda WINESTOCK. John Klein. Linda Weinstock WINESTOCK and then our Linda Graca. Good evening. My name is Linda Weinstock, and I'm. I want to thank everybody here on the council and the city of Alameda for all the hard work they've been doing. And and I hope that we can continue to move forward. I came here tonight to tell my story. I've been here for almost seven years, and I've been a very active part of Alameda. And I'm very proud to. Be a residents. Here. I moved here and I was. Paying 1650 a. Month or a two bedroom. I am paying. 2950 now, just got a. 10% increase. And I was told I asked, what can I project? My husband just got his first Social Security check. What can I project for the next year? I was told. A 15 to 25% increase next year. So they're already projecting where I live, a 15 to 25% increase and letting all of us know to expect that. And I just think this is just unreasonable. It's almost like they're asking me to leave. And so we're planning our exit plan. And I think that is horrible because I have given to Alameda everything I searched out for Alameda for six years. I found you. And now I feel like I'm being asked to leave. All I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. And our is the last speaker we have. If you want to speak on this, please turn on your slip it. Evening. Good evening, Mayor. And everybody else. And will you. Please, good friend of mine that. I'm actually going to be with. You. Could we ask you to pull the mic? I'm sure. And then if you could just say your name. I didn't get it. I mean, Doug Rasa. Good friend that I'm going to be losing. Due to this. I came across. An article now Me Beach. I asked the person who wrote it. If I can read it tonight, and he gave me permission to say, I'm going to be the narrator for John Michael Chiodo I'm not slaughtering his name. It says Rent increases. As you may. Or may not know. I'm a realtor, real estate broker of 18 years. And it breaks my heart that of many of my friends and people. Are getting hit with. Ridiculous rent increases. This has been going on for a couple of years now and I've remained kind of silent on the issue. While I have no answers, I do have a response to landlords that are doing this as the movement grows from tenant rights for tenant rights and rent controls from Alameda Rent Coalition, it is because a view that there is a fire burning in the renters bellies of Alameda causing him to organize. You will be the sole reason that rent control passes. It will be. Your short term thinking and greed that will. Affect the effect the majority of good and fair minded landlords in the city. I urge you to come to the table with to the city and the Alameda renters. He kind of like messed up. A little bit that Alameda renters coalition to work out a fair strategy for rent increases before you permanently screw yourselves and the rest of the property owners. Your greed is not only affecting families, seniors and those soon to be retired, but also affecting small business owners of the city who rely on the expendable incomes of those individuals who go out and enjoy this city and what they have. What it has to. Offer. Huge rate increases will affect their ability to take kids out to eat, taking few classes, sports programs and even deny them of Tucker's ice remain. And. Cookie bath. You're causing a great deal of stress on families with children, seniors and children who help take care of. Their parents for short. Term gain. And when the market turns. Against you, you will be locked into lower rates controlled by rent control. Based on your actions today to the Fair Property Owners, I urge you to be involved in these meetings being held with the city and. With the Renters Coalition. There are others that are going to. Decide the fate of your. Investment and your rights based on your noninvolvement. This is a real problem and I urge everybody to get involved on both sides. There can be a mutually beneficial agreement, but if the good landlords do not come out and and work and fight against those landlords that are no longer living here or our our after short term gains will not only ruin the family orientated nature of the city, but also ruin the rights that you currently have as an owner. I urge renters. Rental agents. Property management. Companies. To start the dialog with your owners to explain the consequences of their actions. Not just financially, but to Alameda families to Knutsen. Thank you. Thank you. We have two more speakers. Definition. Definition. ARD and Christoph. Crystal Felder. Hi. Good evening. My name is Stephanie Shannon. I am a longtime Alameda resident. I will confess, I did move to San Francisco for a minute and I came back. I am an educator. I am a consultant. I have been an active part of the Omni community. I served on the Alameda Slow Food Board where we did a lot of investment back into the community. When I was still around and. I can barely afford to live here. I live in I. Just received a 15% rent increase. And so the property management people who own my building or my. The property living. Are not Alameda. They are stationed in or they're headquartered in New Jersey. So 40% of my take home pay is going to New Jersey. It's not coming back to Alameda. That $223 extra a month that is now going to New Jersey instead of Alameda. It's not just a $223. Rent increase per month. That is now leaving the city. It's that I have had to adjust my lifestyle. I have started teaching an extra class over at City College of San Francisco, which means that I am in town less often. Which means that I do not get to. Participate in the activities I want to do. It also means that I have adjusted my lifestyle so that I am spending less. Instead of going to monkey bars on Park Street to buy. My toddler, which is I was making a record. So he's gone now. But instead of buying him a toy at monkey bars, I now go on Amazon instead of buying him books. I think I go on to Amazon because I can buy them cheaper there instead of going and buying the produce box at Dan's produce. I now go to Safeway or wherever I can buy sales, so I've really adjusted my whole lifestyle to accommodate this. And again, it's more than $223 a month extra. That is leaving the community. It is now my choices that I have to make. So it's a snowball effect. Again, it's more. Than a 15% increase. I have not worked at a place that that has given me a raise, a 15% raise annually. But that is where I'm having to dig in to find that. To establish a home for my family. Thank you. Thank you. There's still Felder and then Lisa. Brown. And those are our last speakers, I think. You want to speak on this? Please turn in your slip. Good evening, honorable mayor. Deputy Mayor, my name is Crystal Felder. I live at 2019 Shoreline Drive. We've resided there since August of 2004, so we've been there about 11 years now. Recently we received a I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous on the door, just a piece of paper folded with things that are going to happen. The first one was a letter stating that the building had been bought by a new owner. They didn't put the owner's name on there. Then we got something saying that we would have to pay garbage and sewage and water. And then today they gave us something that said in 60 days we would have a rental increase. That was basically double what we're paying now. And then something else that said they were going to start doing renovations to the patio, we don't have a patio. Our window was right on the driveway. I wanted to show you if I can, why I think there should be a moratorium on the rent increases. Is it okay if I ask this to you? This is. Rather constant as far as the apartment that we live in, it comes regularly. It's pretty bad. It comes up from the shower or the toilet, it comes up from the tub. And so I think the new owner should really invest in. Doing. I don't know what they do to stop that, but I think they should do something about that before they consider raising the rent of 40 or 50%. Thank you very much. Thank you. My name is John Klein. All right, John Klein. So I'm in support of the ordinance. I live in Alameda. I don't have any horror stories, and I certainly hope that I won't. But I am a renter. But this actually doesn't go far enough. And there's a lot of stuff going on there other than rent increases that the landlords need to be watched. They need to know they're being watched because their what the person there was. I was reading an issue where a new owner was back charging tenants for utilities, which is typically the landlord's responsibility. And so the tenants are going, what do we do? What do we do? But in any case. But really what I want to say. So I was looking in the binder outside with the email that the correspondence you have, you have one from. The San Jose Law. These are all opposed to the ordinance. You have one from the San Jose law firm, one from Hayward residents, two from residents of Pleasant Hill, two businesses in Belmont, one from Castro Valley, one from San Leandro, one from the Rental Housing. Association in Hayward. One was unknown. Excuse me. And one was just simply a Bay Area housing provider. That was the majority of the correspondence you have in opposition. All except one speaker tonight is an Alameda resident and they've all been in favor of the ordinance. So you have to pick who you represent. And our last speaker, Lisa. Hi, I am Lisa Brown and I actually came to speak on another topic. So I'm not entirely prepared for this, but I'm I am a property owner here in Alameda and I have a two unit place and I live in the other unit. And I guess, I mean, you know, I, I feel for the people who are being displaced. Um, I, I don't think that all landlords are greedy. Um, and I would. I would offer the idea that this. Be there be some sort of an exemption for for smaller landlords? I mean, I have one unit, so I'm and I live next door to those people. And if I have a problem with them, you know. Being loud and they're next door to me. I'd like to be able to get them out so that I can still live in my property. So, you know, I am on both sides of the issue here, and I would just like some sort of a consideration for maybe four units or less that there there wouldn't be. And I haven't read the ordinance, so I don't know what it says, but. And, you know, and I'm I'm not a wealthy person. I just happen to be able to use the FHA loan when the market was down. So I'm very lucky to be in the position that I'm in. But I, I would like for you to consider it to be specifically related to people with large number of units rather than all landlords. Thank you. Thank you. Thank. She's our last speaker. Staff, did you have a presentation? Thank you. Good evening. So the action before you this evening, which is five Q and five are on the consent calendar is actually a second reading of two ordinances, one having to do with the rent review process and the other having to do with the formation and operations of the city's Rent Review Advisory Committee. The ordinance was approved by this Council on July 21st on first reading. That action was the culmination of about a nine month community engagement process in which there was a community led initiative to work together to look at ways to strengthen the city's existing rent review process. The action before you this evening is to do a second reading of both of those ordinances, and if the ordinances are approved on second reading tonight, both ordinances would become effective on October 1st. So just a couple of things that I think might be useful to point out based on the public comment this evening is that the ordinance is not a rent control ordinance and people may, you know, have their views about whether that's a good or bad thing. But it is not a rent a rent control ordinance. It is an ordinance that is aimed at strengthening the city's rent review process. Staff really adhere to the spirit of the community engagement process. And what is reflected in the ordinance that was adopted on first reading in July reflects that that nine month process. It is not an accurate statement to say that if property owners violate the provisions of the ordinance, they cannot raise their rent for one year. That that's an overly broad statement. There are two instances in the ordinance where we talk about how rent increases are handled. And one is one of the new provisions is that all tenants must be given a notice of the city's availability of a rent review process when they receive notice of a rent increase. And if failure to notify a tenant of their right to access the rent review process is not provided, you cannot that rent increase notice can be a defense of you as a tenant or served with an unlawful detainer that that violation of the ordinance can be cured by a re notice seen with the proper notice. So there is no penalty about any delay of a rent increase for a year that the cure for that is to simply re notice properly and consistent with the ordinance. There is a second provision of the ordinance that does talk about the rent review process. If if a tenant desires to file a rent increase complaint form with the city for a hearing before our rent review advisory committee and a landlord decides not to participate in that process, then their decision not to participate. The consequence of that decision not to participate is that they cannot the rent increase they cannot increase the rent for one year. And if an unlawful detainer is filed, our ordinance becomes a basis for a defense in an unlawful detainer proceeding. So in that one instance, if a landlord affirmatively decides that they are not going to participate in our mediation process, then there is a consequence in the ordinance. It is still a mediation process. The only obligation for the property owner is to participate in the mediation. The landlord does not have to comply with the the direction or the determination of the Rent Review Advisory Board. It's strictly voluntary. So as long as they participate, they then have the ability to have their rent increase stand. So what we are doing is implementing the recommendations that came from the process in the community that involve property owners and tenants. And we have to, as staff, have respected that process and captured that the outcomes of that process in this ordinance. So that's that's where we at. That's the genesis of the two ordinances that are before you this evening. The other thing that the council directed staff to do in July was to do some additional research about three items that were raised by the Renters Coalition in July, where they asked that we study the more to a moratorium on rent increases, that we look at inspections when rent increases are given. We got that direction from council and council asked us when we come back with our report at the end of the year about the impacts of rising rents on tenants. We will be addressing those issues per council's direction at that same time. So we will be continuing. This is an ongoing discussion, clearly a huge. Issue here in Alameda. And lastly, the ordinance does have a provision that we as staff report back to the Council on an annual basis about the effectiveness of the rent review ordinance. So we will be coming back first at the end of this year with our with our report on the impact of rising rents on Alameda residents and on the three issues that the Renters Coalition asked the Council to address in July. And then six months later, we will be coming back. If the ordinance goes into effect might be a little more than six months. If the ordinance becomes effective October one. We will then be reporting back next year on the data and kind of an analysis of how the ordinance has been working over these 12 months, if it's adopted. So that's some context for the audience and for the council, and then I'm happy to answer any questions in addition. Michael Rausch from the City Attorney's Office, who's been working with us on this, is here. And I might just add one more thing. That council also directed us in May to do a legal analysis about the validity of the ordinance. And we reported back in July with a very comprehensive analysis of the legal validity of the ordinance, and the Attorney's Office has opined that this ordinance meets all of the requirements of state law. So staff continues and council reflected the confidence in that legal opinion by introducing this ordinance on first reading in July. So we as a staff do feel confident about the legality of of the ordinance. That's before you for a second reading this evening. Thank you. Member Ashcroft. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Potter, for your remarks. That was some of the most emotional testimony I've heard in this chamber in a lot of years of serving on the council in different bodies. And I appreciate everything that you're working on. I'm confident that we're going to pass a to do our second reading of these two measures before us. One of the things I wonder, and maybe this is already part of your work plan, but are we looking at what is being done and what is working in other cities to address these problems? I know Alameda is not alone, but as we say more than once, we shouldn't need to reinvent the wheel if there's something, something more that can be done. I'd like that to come back to council when you report back to us at the at the end of the year. Yes. That is part of the work plan, part of the review. The report that we're doing on the impact of rising rents will be looking at best practices about the issue of, you know, the adverse impacts of very large rent increases on the community. And the other. I was just ready to move approval. But maybe there's other comments. Well, do we want to do the motion and then come in or how would you like to do that? I propose first we look at five. Q Are we making comments after a motion? We could, yes, I'll hold. Off. If you want to make comments now, you could. Yeah. I can make them now, so. Let's make them now. Doyle has the sign there. I rent and I vote. I rent and I vote. So I totally understand all of the issues that have been raised today. Before doing what I do now, I was a landlord tenant attorney, and as Councilmember Ashcraft said, this was a very emotional thing. And the legal profession, you know, I think the only thing that's worse emotionally than landlord tenant dispute is a family law dispute. So we're talking about a basic need and that's a basic need of housing. So. You know, I didn't say this last time and maybe I should have. It's a little disappointing that this came to the council. You know, I wasn't here. I don't think anybody up here voted for this path last September. And it'll be 15 months before we have data on on the extent of the problem. You know, that's really disappointing to me that, you know, we had an opportunity to address the issues and the concerns that the tenants have been raising. And, you know, it hasn't happened. And we still have to wait another three months to get that information. You know. Each time we discuss this, more and more people come out. So I'm beginning to wonder, you know, in my head as I think about this, is this, you know, isolated to 30 or 40 people or do we have a larger problem? You know, I hear more and more people say I'm getting the 30 and 60 day notices. You know, Linda. 25% this year and 25% next year. I mean, that's that's obscene. Okay. And I'll say it. So for tenants, you know, I apologize to tenants for what we're going to do today because it really doesn't move the needle , I think, where it needs to be moved. This is I think it's a good thing that we're going to have notice and that more tenants are aware of their rights and maybe we'll take advantage of the process. But all landlords have to do is show up. You know, they don't have to mediate. I mean, they don't have to lower the increase. They don't have to listen to that to the the rent poor. They don't have to listen to the counsel. So we haven't really done anything to stop these egregious rent increases. And that's really disappointing to me that we don't have something in front of us that we can do. So, I mean, tenants, you all a lot of you talked about rent control. This isn't rent control. We haven't talked about just cause eviction. You know, we haven't talked about moratoriums. We haven't talked about rent control. But I will say to the landlords. You're pretty lucky that this is all we're doing. And without having the one year delay, if you fail to show up, there's no tooth teeth to this ordinance. There's no teeth. And all you have to do is show up. Come to the meeting, come to mediate, and you can get what you want. I don't know. I can't see where that's a burden. I can't see where that's a burden on landlords to come to one meeting and get what they want. So I'm not sympathetic to those complaints where if you don't show up to the mediation, you don't get a chance to raise rents after another year. So one thing I will say to the landlords. If it turns out that the 30 or 40 people that we keep hearing from are are not isolated, if they're a part of a bigger pattern of massive 30, 60 day notices, if they're a part of a pattern of massive ten, 15, 20% increases, this council is going to be forced to act. And if we fail to act, 51% of our voters, our citizens, our tenants, they will either kick us out or they will put something on the ballot. And what they will put on the ballot will probably be far worse for landlords than anything we could put together. So if you're doing this, if you're giving out these massive increases, if you're routinely evicting people with 30 or 60 day notices. Stop doing it. Be reasonable, because we are watching. The tenants are watching. The council is watching. And I'll be really interested to see the data that we see back in December. Thank you. Member. Ashcroft Thank you. I, um, I endorse everything my colleague, council member Odie just said. I wrote in my margin as people were talking and I even lost track of how many speakers did we have? Madam Clerk? Roughly 19. We're hearing alarming reports of extreme rent increases in Alameda. The council needs to take action on these two measures tonight. That's what's before us. But trust us, we've heard what you said. I know there are people I've gotten your emails who are impatient. They don't want us to wait for data. Just act as do something. Now, whatever a resolution is will be better and sounder and more effective with data to rely on. And we have a very competent staff working on that. I also want to address the issue of the one year suspension of a grant. I was a little surprised that the attorney for the apartment house owners raised that because I know he's talked to our city attorney and knows that it passes legal muster. And and, in fact, those same provisions are in place in other cities in the Bay Area, Fremont and San Leandro. And they have been in place for decades. What I noticed in the last term on the city council was we had two instances that happened in fairly close proximity where there was an egregious rent increase. A couple of them, two different properties. And the landlords just didn't they didn't come to the hearing. Then they're called to come before the city council. They didn't come to the the city council. They said, we don't have to. One of them sent their attorney and said, We read the ordinance. We don't have to come now. It's not a panacea. But one thing we do find and in the mediation process is that if you can at least get parties to the table to sit down face to face and look each other in the eye and hear about the things we heard about today, which is what I would call the impact that this is having on people's lives. It's possible that you can reach some middle ground. It's a whole lot more possible than if the the landlord and it's not by the way, and a level playing field because the landlord has everything the tenant needs. So that's all we're asking. It's very reasonable if you're an out of state landlord. The provision also says you can send an agent, but that agent has to have authority to act and better come prepared to enter into an agreement. If you're just going to sign us off, if you're just going to blow us off as has happened before. Then you lose. If you don't show up, you won't get to increase your rent for a year. And that's completely reasonable. And then I just want to end with quoting Angela Hawk about and I'm also very moved and impressed that so many of you have gotten together in this organization of the Renters Coalition. And I know there's Facebook groups and there's a lot of communication, and I want to encourage the landlords. We know there's good, decent landlords out there. Don't let the bad apples label you get in there and make the difference that you're able to make. But Angela, talk about said this, these ordinances that we're about to vote on tonight, they're a good first step, but they shouldn't be the last. And I couldn't agree more. Thanks, everyone. Yes. Member j soc. Thank you very much. Thank you very much to everyone who came out took the time to share their situation. I think it certainly is indicative that members who are raising their rents were not here, but that the tenants who live here in Alameda are here because you're turning to the city council for not just support but for action. I think tonight is a first step. It's not enough, but it's a first step. Ultimately, as I had indicated in talking with members who are affected by the rental increase, I want to see stronger steps. You know, I want to see specific language with regard to just cause eviction. I want to see specific language with regard to moratorium on prices. Now, I think we here in the city of Alameda, we're going to lose something if we lose a lot of the tenants who are here. You guys are the ones who have made Alameda a dynamic place. You know, we're not just, you know, some affluent Silicon Valley town. We're a town that does have that. But it also has a working class. It has young adult, it has older adults, and we're going to lose that flavor. So we need to take action. You know, all of you know that, you know, I have my twice office hours and I to me, you know, the number of people who come out and let me know that their rent increases is just coming down mean I know that it's a crisis already. It's not about gathering data. The facts are in front of us, in front of and in the faces of that people and the stories that they have to tell my neighbors, Gina and Steve, now, they had to move out of town because their landlord who lives in Kensington, you know, jacked up their rent, all because once again , when I got better tenant, you know, at Farmer's Market, you know, someone came by and told me that, you know, she's active in the church and also she's affected by a huge rent increase. A neighbor of my good friend on Broadway. It's happening across town and we're really losing a significant part of our town. So I look forward to passing was before us right now, but I also look forward to specific action. And, you know, I want to see I want to make a vote up or down. With regard to living wage, earner living wage, with regard to just cause evictions as as well as any temporary moratorium, some kind of emergency trigger that that councilors or the mayor can pull in times of crisis, emergency triggers, as opposed to, you know, something that's lasting. But maybe we have to do something that's lasting. I don't know. But we need we need specific action because we're losing people right now and it's sad. Thank you. I swear I'm ready for the vote right now. It's. We've heard that there should be some changes as well. We can always evaluate as we have this ordinance in effect for the next six months and see if those changes are warranted. Also, any decision that's made at the Rent Review Advisory Committee is appealable to the council, so there's no reason to delay this. Let's take this step. Things. The stories are getting worse. And. We have to. Protect it. The matter of fairness in business here in the city of of people who rent and people who are providing houses, it's got to be fair. I also heard that Santa Rosa City Council is also looking they're looking at rent control. So I think the speakers alluded to the fact that people better start acting fairly. Otherwise, there's going to be there's going to be a groundswell of action similar to what we're seeing in other cities. I'd also like our representatives to League of California Cities to push this issue to see what the league is doing because it affects every city in California. Again, I'm ready for the vote now. I think we should pass this both ordinances at this moment. Yes, but. Member de. Sa madam, I'd like to pass make motion adopting the first item as the second reading. We have a second. I'll second that. So that's five Q But correct. Okay. Five. Q I wanted to speak to that. It defines the base rent as other than fees or charges for utilities paid directly to the housing provider. And a concern I have it's been raised as it's my understanding and we had to speak one speaker us to that at least one this evening that landlords are passing along more charges, whether it's for utilities, electricity, sewage, things like that. And I'm not sure how we can where that can come in, but that can also be a significant increase. That is a new increase, even though it's not defined as part of our definition here on base rent. So I would propose that can we include utilities in that definition? Well, doesn't the paragraph say, Madam City Attorney, help me out? Or I guess it is Mr. Roush So I'm reading this is under section page two of our staff report. You know, page two of the staff report, section six, dash 57.2 Definitions based rent means the rental amount, including any amount paid directly to the housing provider for parking, storage or any other fear charge associated with the tenancy other than fees or charges for utilities paid directly to the housing provider. I wasn't clear whether the speaker who charged was saying that there were now the tenants were being required to pay directly to pay junior or whatever. But perhaps you can clarify that terminology for us. Madam Mayor, members of the council, Michael Roche. What? The city attorney's office here in Alameda. I think the concern that if if we were to do sort of as a procedural matter, if we were to change that tonight. We would then have to reenter and. Reintroduce it tonight, have a second reading, and that would cause some delay. So leaving that issue aside, I think the idea here with the with the definition was that. If the if the. Tenant is paying the utility directly to the landlord, then that would not be included. It's only when the utilities are sort of embodied within the the rent that the tenant is paying. We can certainly come back. And when we bring back the the report in December, take a look at that definition. If if that issue is arising and causing a problem, we can certainly fine tune that a little better to try to deal with the issues that have been voiced here tonight by our residents. And we've also received, I believe, emails or other communications of, for instance, a landlord taking the total amount of the water bill because they don't have individual water to the homes. And then they divide that by the number of people and they just demand that they pay that now. And I believe there's other utilities that are these new charges to tenants in the past the landlord has absorbed. So this is a new this this seems to be another tactic that we're seeing of landlords being able to charge additional moneys to tenants that are already. Feeling, you know, that they're being over having too it's too much. Too much. So if we can address this, look into that issue. There is certainly some law with respect to mobile home parks, with respect to that issue, in terms of requiring sub metering so that the you know, if you if you're using more utility than your next door neighbor, you shouldn't be you should be paying for your charge. We'll have to take a look at whether or not that is as applicable with respect to residential rental units. I'm just not sure that answer, as I said, or stand here tonight, but we would certainly look at that as part of the report we bring back in December. Okay. So if you could also look at that, which I appreciate. Thank you. And also making I've also heard of a landlord of making it retroactive, going backwards and saying that they have utilities that have not been paid and charging tenants to make to make them whole. Can you look into that issue also or would you have an opinion in regards to the legality of retroactivity on something like that? Councilmember It was probably much more well versed in that issue than I am. I don't know the answer to that, but we certainly can take a look at that as to whether or not a retroactive application can be applied. It certainly seems somewhat suspect, but without without delving into the weeds with respect to that issue, I wouldn't be able to answer that definitively today. Thank you. Did you have I. Just want to say, I think the points that Mayor Spencer is raising is important, because what she's what is really getting at is whether we're going to define rent in terms of gross rent or we're going to define it as the, you know, the cash contract rent for purposes of affordable housing policymaking. It's really the gross rent that is always used in terms of defining people who are at or below the 30% threshold. So in a way, it is correct to somehow take into account utilities for those who have to pay utilities and for those who don't have to pay utilities. So gross rent is a rent plus zero, whatever the utility says. The only careful thing you need to watch out, though, is that whatever language that you have, utilities is always going to change from month to month, season to season. So, you know, somehow that nuance has to be incorporated, but I think we could certainly catch it later this year. But by the same token, you know, if we can start on a lot of other things, too, that people are concerned about, like just cause eviction and things like that. I also wanted to thank Jeff Canberra as well as all the tenants and landlords that participated in the multiple hearings that resulted in this. I also want to acknowledge that I believe that there's been a change in the landscape, if you will, and I'm not sure if we looked back that we would be arriving at this solution , quote unquote solution today. There. I am also a renter. I will share. I've been renting the same home for 16 years. Under. Costa Hawkins single family homes are not and would not be affected by rent control. Many of us do rent single family homes in this town. And one thing that this this approach goes to is trying to address all renters and under Costa Hawkins. And that's something that I encourage all of you to look at, anyone that. There are exclusions to it. And that's the state legislation and it excludes from rent control. Currently in the state of California, single family homes and apartments that were built after 1995. This is Brian, it's my understanding. One. One thing you see sometimes is condo conversions because then you end up with essentially a single family home from an apartment. So there are responses. So at this point, I will be supporting I'm confident this will pass this this. This ordinance that is really goes to mediating. However, when we see these increases, for instance, $650, up to 2900, and I can tell you, my landlord and I know many local landlords are not doing this. We have a serious problem here and that that's been alluded to as we have. But I'm going to call out of town onwards that. Don't really seem to be to to to care. If you will, what our about our community. And this is a serious problem. Of our local landlords are trying are trying very hard to help mediate this from what I've seen. And I want to give them credit for that. So this is a step. However, when we see these large increases from apartments that could be addressed through rent control. As well as the 30 to 60 day notices to vacate. We have a problem. So going back to what I had said earlier, I, I don't believe I'm I can't help but think that we would be asking for more concessions at this point if we were looking at the current landscape, which means this does need to circle back sooner rather than later. We do need all of the tenants who renters. If you're experiencing these increases, you need to strongly consider taking advantage of the rent review advisory committee. We want you to use that process and then we encourage the landlords to also participate in that process. And I have attended those meetings and many of the cases are resolved. It is they it is taken seriously. And cases cases are resolved. There is resolution. It's not all of the cases, but a significant number. And that's actually what we're hoping that we will see, especially now, is that we want where we want more of the cases to be mediated through this process. So that's what this goes to. We will, as a council and staff, be monitoring the cases. So please participate in the process. And we will also have that data to see if the process is working. And so that is a means that is can impact all of our renters can fall under that. So it's a way for us to address every renter with the cooperation of our landlords. So this this like others have said, this is a step. And and I do appreciate all of you coming out this evening. What I call the question. All those in favor. I. That's for five Q which passed unanimously. Do I move passage of the ordinance? This is item number five. Are I the final passage of ordinance amending the Alameda Municipal Code by adding section two, Dash two three to Article two concerning the creation of a rent review advisory committee. Like any discussion. All those in favor. I know that five are also passed unanimously. We're going to take a short recess right now. And those of you that are not interested in staying for the balance of the calendar, you may now leave or. Please take your seats so we can read them first. If you could please take your seats, we're. Going to review. Thank you. We are now going to resume the meeting. Please take your seats. Thank you very. Much for that, Sergeant, at. Our. Part of the job description. All right. And we have a request from counsel to actually have the 60 from his counsel. UNESCO sorry. Of regards to item six be to have that item brought back. I know we have at least two speakers on that item. The concern is that. We are paying someone to be here now for this, and we'd rather do it at the next meeting because we have all these other items. If that would be the two speakers that are. I think there's two speakers. Would you mind if we reset this and imposed upon you one more time to come back? I'm really, really sorry. As you can tell, we have not yet made it to the regular agenda items and it's 9 p.m. that we have. So thank you very much. And we will kick over six B until. The first being October. It'll be in October, October and then won't. Thank you very much. I promise. Appreciate it. So we'll try to get to that first on the agenda next time. So we appreciate you. Tucker's is still alive for any inconvenience this may have caused either of you. Yeah. And we do appreciate your service on that commission to. Next. We are now on 6 a.m., adoption of resolution. Three. Adoption of resolutions appointing Arnold Bollinger and Susan Deutsch as members of the Commission on Disability Issues, David Mitchell and Sandy Sullivan as members of the Planning Board and Hoyt to the Public Art Commission on the motion. Adam prior to the Park Commission and Chris Smiley to the Transportation Commission.

Application of 1511 Dexter Limited Partnership for approval of a rezone 16,234 square feet of property located 1511 Dexter Ave North from Neighborhood Commercial 3 with a 40 foot height limit (NC3-40) to Neighborhood Commercial 3 with a 65 foot height limit (NC3-65). (Project No. 3015682, Type IV)

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All right. Report of the planning, land use and Zoning Committee. Please read the report. The report of the Planning Leninism Zoning Committee Agenda Item three Credit File 314 315. Application of 1511 Dexter Limited Partnership for approval of a resume of 16,234 square feet of property located at 1511 Dexter Avenue, north from neighborhood commercial three with a 40 foot height limit to neighborhood commercial three with a 65 foot height limit. The committee recommends that the full council grant the application. Councilmember Johnson. Thank you, Council President. This particular piece of property is a bellwether housing property. They've come to us and asked for a reason to neighborhood commercial 65 to build 45 units of affordable housing at folks earning between 30 and 50% of own median income. 26 units of affordable housing earning up to 60% of the area median income, so a total of 71 new affordable housing units. The corner of Dexter and Gayla Street, though they've asked for 65 feet, is part of this contract. Reason the building is only going to be built to 55. He hired to preserve some views and setbacks with unanimous support and approval from their neighbors and the committee. I proudly bring this thing this this application grant forward. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Are there any further comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. I'm sorry to clarify all those in favor of the clerk file vote. I I'm sorry. Okay. So we just have to file it. Earnings. Please bear with us. There's some legal language that we definitely need to read in order to approve the court file. Okay. She throws the favor of granting the petition. Please vote. I find those oppose vote no. The motion carries the petitions. Granted, the chair will sign the findings, conclusions and decisions of the City Council. Next agenda item. Police Exigent item, please. Agenda item four. Councilmember Joe Council Bill 118 750 relating to the planning and zoning amending Chapter 23.32, the Seattle Municipal Code at page 90 of the official land use map tourism property located at 1511 Dexter Avenue North from neighborhood commercial three Dash 42 Neighborhood Commercial three, dash 65 and accepting a property use and development agreement as condition of rezoning approval, the committee recommends the bill pass. Councilmember Johnson So. Again, this is about the same property, the council bill in front of us and that's the reason granted by the clerk filed by amending the official land use map and accepts the property use and development agreement, which requires the applicant to adhere to the conditions of the reason. Since the committee meeting we've received the executed property use development agreement. So I move the council substitute exhibit B executed property use and development agreement for the UN executed version included in the bill. Their second. All those in favor of Councilmember Johnson's motion to amend the Council bill by the substitution vote i. I opposed vote no. The ayes have it. Please proceed. Councilman Johnson. I believe we now just have the underlying bill in front of us. And I have no further remarks to make. Council President. Any further comments? Please call the roll call on the passage of the amended bill. Bagshaw Burgess. Gonzalez Herbold. High Johnson. Maurice O'Brien. President Harrell. I. Aden favor and unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read the next gen item. Agenda item five Constable 118 675 relating to planning and zoning amending the official land use map to rezone land within the Lake City Urban Village and along Lake City Way and many subsection 23.40 78.005. C of the code to remove certain restrictions on street level, street facing residential uses and amending section 23.47 8.009 to adopt development standards

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; providing salary increases for 2022 for certain non-represented City job titles; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda Item two Council Bill 120243 An ordinance relating to city employment providing salary increases for 2022 for certain non represented city job titles and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. Thank you so much. I moved to Council Bill 1 to 0 two for three. Is there a second? Okay. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of the bill, or address it first and then open the floor to any additional comments so called. In addition to the item to the comments I made and agenda item one I will add specifically related to Council Bill 120243. This bill would authorize, among other terms, an adjusted wage increase of 4% for most non represented job titles. This agreement would come into effect January 5th, 2022. The wage increase would apply to about 1806 non represented employees. The amount of the wage increase would be consistent with a Y in the memorandum of understanding with the Coalition of City Unions, which we just voted on and passed. That was Council Vote 120242. Historically, the city has provided the same wage increases, benefits and other conditions of employment for non represented employees. As for Coalition members. This is a matter of ensuring equity in the workplace, particularly for and for folks who work in a mixed represented non represented environment in their departments and agencies. With regard to the fiscal impact of this legislation, I will echo the comments that I just made. Those comments relating to the fiscal impact are equally true in the context of this Council bill. So as a result, I would urge my colleagues to support the passage of this Council bill. Are there any additional comments on Agenda Item two Council Bill 120243. Councilmember Peterson. Thank you. Council president. Appreciate the time to speak to this morning at council briefing these three bills actually for folks in the public interest. The money was set aside, as I understand from our city council, central staff set aside in a line item called planning reserves, which is at the bottom of page 687 of our budget. Thank you. It so much consumer. Peterson. Are there any other comments on agenda item two Council Bill 120243. Hearing none. Will the court please call the role on the passage of Council? Bill 120243 Agenda item two. Lewis. Yeah. Morales. This was Skinner. I. Peterson. I. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Whereas High Council President Gonzalez. I stayed in favor and unopposed. Thank you so much. The bill passes and the chair will sign. It will please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Will the clerk please read item three into the record? Agenda Item three Council Bill 120244 An ordinance relating to city employment to be known as the 2022 pay zone ordinance. Adjusting the pay zone structures for 2022 for the city's discretionary pay programs and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment; authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 77 to be effective January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2022; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Thank you. The motion carries the clerk file is postponed until July 12. This item will appear on every agenda until the City Council determines what action will be taken in response to Initiative 134. Madam Clerk, we go on to item number three. Agenda item three Council Bill 120 357 relating to city employment. Authorizing the execution of a memorandum of understanding between the City of Seattle and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local Union Number 77 to be effective January 1st, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 and write a fine confirming certain prior acts. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I move to pass Council Bill 120357. Is there a second? I can. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill as sponsor of this bill. I will. I will address it as sponsor of Council Bill 120357. I would like to provide some comments. We have before us a memorandum of Understanding and MCU between the city and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 77 for the Power Marketers Unit at Seattle City Light. The memo You would extend an expired collective bargaining agreement through December 31st, 2022. The memo you makes wage adjustments, changes and changes regarding bereavement leave and the establishment and establishes a joint labor management committee to discuss pay equity, job progression and other personnel issues. The executive estimates that cost to implement this milieu would be about $127,000 above the baseline contract. The executive states that there are sufficient funds held in reserve to cover these costs. Create a bill on an essential staff. Provide an analysis on this contract in a memo which was sent to council members on Wednesday, June 29th. Are there any comments? Okay. Not seeing any. Will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill? Councilmember what? Yes. Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. As Councilmember Nelson, i. Councilmember Peterson. Yes. Council president was high, eight in favor, nine opposed. Thank you. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, can you please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? HQ Moving on to item number four. This is Councilmember Peterson's legislation. Will the clerk please read item number four to the record?

CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (54957.6) City Negotiator: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam Employee Organizations: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1245 (IBEW), Electric Utility Professional Association of Alameda (EUPA), Alameda City Employees Association (ACEA), Alameda Police Officers Association Non-Sworn Unit (PANS), and Alameda Management and Confidential Employees Association (MCEA) Under Negotiation: Salaries and terms of employment

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negotiator is this former dam employee organizations are IBEW, EU, a ACA and NCAA and under negotiation of salaries and terms of employment. Thank you. Now turn to closed. So we are going to resume our revised special meeting from 430 this afternoon. We had met in closed session. And do you want to report out now? There was conference with labor negotiators and counselor received a briefing. There was public employee appointment hiring and direction was given to staff. And the meeting was continued to Friday, December 18th at 8:30 a.m.. And there were two cases of anticipated litigation with the city acting as defendant, and in the first case, direction was given to staff, and in the second case, counsel was briefed on the item. And did you specify that we had a date that we were continuing to. Yes. I I'll repeat again December 18th at 8:30 a.m. for the hiring matter.

AN ORDINANCE relating to King County Conservation Futures Levy proceeds; authorizing the Mayor to amend the Interlocal Cooperation Agreement between The City of Seattle and King County authorized by City of Seattle Ordinance 114978 to allow for the acceptance of Conservation Futures Levy funds without City Council approval; and authorizing the use of a new amendment template for future amendments to that Agreement.

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The Report of the Civic Development, Public Assets and Native Communities Committee Agenda Item six Council Bill 119494 An Ordinance relating to King County Conservation Features Levy proceeds. The committee recommends the bill pass. Council member US. Thank you. Council President The proposed ordinance will significantly streamline the conservation future levy the CFL, the Interlocal Agreement Amendment Process. This upgraded process will allow faster reimbursement for Seattle's CFL projects that have been awarded funding by the King County Council. The Civic Development, Public Assets and Native Communities discuss these items. Last week. Last Wednesday, voted out of committee and we recommend that city council pass this bill. Thank you very much. Any further questions or comments? If not, please call the rule on the passage of the Bill. O'Brien. I. So aren't I make sure I. GONZALEZ Hi. Herbold Hi, Warriors. Mascara Right. President Harrell high eight in favor and unopposed. The bill passenger will sign it. Please read the next agenda item.

Recommendation to conduct a study session to receive and file a presentation and update on Citywide Fiscal Outlook and FY 23 Budget Development.

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Okay, excellent. Then we will transition into our 30 session and then do some any any new business or announcements we have for the study session at the council too was good about that. We wanted to get to the agenda because we do have an important budget update and I want to begin by saying a few remarks and then turning it over to to Mr. Mode. Again, just want to broadly just really take first and foremost our financial financial management staff and our city manager who have been working on the budget every single day. I think oftentimes we view and think about the budget as something that we do during part of the year. And the truth is, is that the budget staff are working on the budget every single day of the year and faithfully. And thanks to a really strong economic recovery, we're going to start seeing some really great news, I think, tonight as it relates to how the city and the budget is doing. So I just want to thank the staff as we go into this. I'll have more remarks after the presentation, but I want to turn this over to Mr. Mordecai and the Budget team. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for that great introduction. Absolutely. We're excited to be here tonight and really talk about how things have changed over the past year and what some of the future holds for us, both in terms of budget, but also in terms of some major investments in our infrastructure. So next slide, please. So as the mayor mentioned, we've had a really strong revenue recovery. And so the bottom line you'll hear all the detail tonight is we get to announce tonight that due to strong revenue recovery, we are not having to do budget targets. We normally at this time of the year are talking about what our deficit might be, what some of the strategies are, and then how we're going to tackle that. But essentially, we've reduced our budget deficit from a projection of about $36 million a year to $12 million a year. And so we are bouncing back very well. It's still important that we remain fiscally prudent and that we're disciplined, as this council always is. And that's really what's helped get us to this point. The budget that we'll be focusing will have a big focus on infrastructure. We heard that very clear from the mayor and city council over the past a year to two years about the importance of our infrastructure and really given the charge to the city manager and to the whole staff on how to find a way to invest more in streets and roads and parks and all of the core services . And so you'll hear about that tonight as we make some announcements on how to move forward using Measure eight money and launching another five year large investment in infrastructure. And it's important to remember that our strong fiscal management has really prepared us for and for for the the actions that we're taking on our budget and and reducing those deficits. And also for so many things that we've accomplished, we have really strong financial practices. The council and the mayor have been very focused on managing our finances. And and we've had good reserves that have helped us cover our temporary shortfalls and the ability to to bounce back. And then, of course, with the Recovery Act, that has really allowed us to both respond and effectively serve the community as well as plan for existing services to continue. Next slide, please. And so quickly, I just want to we always start these presentations to talk about what's happened and keep an eye really focused on on all the accomplishments. If we listed all the accomplishments, you'd be here a long, long time. But just some highlights. We were an early leader in COVID 19, vaccine distribution. Hard to believe that was just about a year ago when nobody had the vaccine in January. And we between January, March, April really rolled out. And we're a leader in ahead of everybody else in getting out the vaccine to our community. And to date, we've done over 330,000 residents have been vaccinated. We created those incredible COVID 19 testing programs. We've now tested 800,000 people and administered 1.1 million tests. We have our booster program. It's still running and we've administered 16,000 shots. We implemented quickly the CARES Act programing and really supported basic needs and early childhood support and helped with youth development and provided food to people and nonprofits and local business support. We launched a number of programs to help our businesses and fill out forms and get help in language and through our busy care hotline, busy care, pop ups, busy outreach teams. For the first time in our history, we implemented Emergency Rental Assistance Program and helped 4000 people with past due rent and utility payments. We did our Open Streets initiatives to get our restaurants back open again and created all those temporary parklets. The Council adopted the Long Beach Recovery Act, a $250 million program, which is the size of an entire budget for some cities to really focus on recovery and been getting back to normal through city hall and city facilities getting back open again. Next slide. It's important to remember just a year ago or actually two years ago, we we've been managing the longest coordinated disaster response in our city's history with our EOC was activated since March 2020. And it's important remember that just last year we went through an enormous humanitarian effort with a family reunification effort and one of the several emergency shelters set up throughout the country to help 1583 migrant children. All were reunited with family members or sponsors, and the community came out big to raise $100,000 to make sure that they had the best amount of care while they were here in the emergency shelter. Next slide. And, of course, homelessness is on the top of everybody's minds. It is a national crisis and Long Beach has risen to that challenge. There is we've done so much. There's still more to do. Everyone acknowledges that. But just to look back on our on our successes, the Atlantic Bridge housing community is opened and was running and a site for up to 125 people experiencing homelessness. We purchased hotel room to room hotel room for transitional supported housing. We opened Project Roomkey, a 47 room Days Inn. We have permanently housed 458 people and stabilized 560 people and housing. We've served 3500 people at the mercy in 2021 total of. 33,000 total visits, averaging 132 people per day at our multi-service center. We've had 4600 enrollments in different homeless services and more than 900 outreach contacts. And we've conducted 860 homeless encampment cleanups. Next slide, please. We've continued the implementation of our Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative with racial equity 1 to 1 trainings, action plans and development of tools for our staff to use. Our Language Access Plan has managed more than a 500% increase in translation requests as we work to ensure information gets out to our community in the language they feel most comfortable. We've had so many different new and re-envisioned existing programs through our city parks, including the senior center and Bixby and Drake and Eldorado and Ranchos. As we look to adapt our services. We've loaned out almost 800,000 digital and physical items from our libraries, including Chromebooks and hotspots, as people can use those to get onto the Internet. And our clean team has been very, very busy out there every day collecting 2400 plus tons of litter and illegal dumped items. We've abated 1.5 million square feet of graffiti, filled 25,000 potholes, and we have an updated and relaunched our Go Long Beach app. Next slide, please. So I'm going to turn it over to Grace now that I get to talk about kind of successes. And and just you could be very proud of the work that the city team has done on your behalf and and for the direction that the mayor and Council have given us on the things to focus on in the last year. And I'll turn it over to Grace now to really talk about what some of our financial projections look like and what the future holds. Grace. Great. Thanks, Tom. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the City Council. I'll first be talking about the general fund, its trends, the outdoor forecast and budget balancing strategies for FY 23. The Star of the general fund outlook story this year really is revenue. Revenue growth projections for FY 23 have improved significantly from our previous projections for FY 23 made last year. At the time, we put the 22 budget together as discussed in the ACT by 21 year end performance report brought to City Council on February eight. Revenues in FY 21 have rebounded from the pandemic and perform better than our expectations. This has improved our projections for the future. This slide here shows a few examples of some key notable revenue streams and how they have improved from the previous projections for FY 23. And just to clarify, the graph does not show a year over year change, but is a comparison between the current FY 23 projection and last year's projection for FY 23. Our two largest revenue sources non measuring sales tax and property tax have improved 14% and 2% respectively from previous projection. In addition to users utility tax, which improved 17% based on better than budgeted performance in FY 2021, there are some revenue streams that are performing less than anticipated. This includes our transient occupancy tax, which was heavily impacted during the pandemic with travel restriction. It has steadily improved over the past year and we are showing growth in the outyear, but just at a rate that was lower than previously assumed. In terms of oil revenue, we are keeping our budgeted rate at $55 a barrel for structural purposes due to the volatile nature of this revenue source and learning from past lessons not to over rely on oil revenues for structural uses. If the price of oil continues to remain higher than the budgeted rate during the year, we will assess at the end of the year for available revenues, net of oil expenses and bring to city council additional one time funds that could be used for citywide one time purposes. Overall, the key takeaway here when talking bottom line impact on our forecast for FY 23 is that revenues have increased from our previous projections for FY 23 by 21 million. Next slide. In terms of expenditures, there are some notable trends to highlight for 23 as well. The projection related to general liability are remaining the same when compared to FY 22. As costs for settlements and judgments have decreased in recent years, the fund is still a negative funds available as previously discussed in different meeting, but looks to be on track to continue to make improvements. So at this time no additional increase to the budget are slated for FY 20. Worker's compensation costs are seeing a savings of about 1.4 million to the general fund due to a good performance and cash available in the fund as of the end of FY 21. Salary changes are increasing by 18 million over the FY 2020 budget and include negotiated cost increases for existing contracts with labor groups as well as a general inflator if there is no contract. There are also some adjustment and reallocation of budgets internally to better align actual cost of services to budget, all offset internally through reallocation of budget or by projected vacancy saving. CalPERS is particularly notable with cost increases being the lowest it has been and a $500,000 increase in the general fund for FY 23. And with the out years starting in FY 24, actually showing a decrease in cost. And I'll talk about this a little more in the next slide. Overall, the key takeaway here when talking bottom line impact on our forecast for FY 23 is that expense projections have stayed the same bottom line from our previous FY 23 projection. Expenses are growing by 22 million from the FY 22 budget. But this was essentially the same growth in expenditures we were previously anticipating. Even though the variables have been updated. I've noted some trend changes and net bottom line impact is the same as before. Excellent. As I mentioned, CalPERS is a really notable trend in this year's projection. As you can see on the graph, we have had years of very significant CalPERS cost increase. To pay down our unfunded liability. Previously we were projecting cost increases to continue straight up until around fiscal year 32, after which we were then projecting to start to see a decrease in costs. Now the projection for FY 23 is a small increase that I mentioned earlier, but then decrease over the next few years until FY 29, when we then see some small increases again to FY 23, after which FY 33 after which we see a significant decline in cost. This is the first time in years we have seen any projection that has cost decreases for CalPERS in the near future. This improvement to the trend is mainly the result of the high investment return of 21% that was experienced in 2021. And one important thing to note is that this trend may fluctuate and even change back to be cost increases depending on variables such as investment, return and CalPERS methodology. A bad investment can easily swing costs back up, but this is good news for this year and a very positive projection in the short term outlook. Next light. All right. So this brings us to our projection for FY 23. We are now projecting a shortfall of about 12 million compared to our previous shortfall of about 36 million. As you can see in the table, our projection improved from 35 million to 15 million, which is approximately 21 million improvement. This is the 21 million I referenced earlier as being the improvement in revenue. We then have about 3 million and measuring revenues that are covering eligible public safety cost increases, which I'll mention more in a later slide. This results in a 12 million shortfall situation for FY 23. It's like. In terms of the budget balancing strategy for FY 23. As Tom mentioned earlier, the plan is to use one time funds made available by the Long Beach Recovery Act to cover the shortfall for FY 23. Originally under the Long Beach Recovery Act, under the category of securing our cities, future funds were being made available to help the city's financial status with shortfalls that were being projected for FY 21 and FY 22 and the general fund and other challenged funds. However, with the strong performance of NY 21, less assistance was needed from the Long Beach Recovery Act, making 12 million now available for FY 23. This is all within our securing our city's future category and does not change or impact programs to the community under the Healthy Communities and Economic Recovery Category. This really is great news in that no general fund reduction targets will be issued to departments as we work to put together a proposed FY 23 budget. Looks like. Moving forward, it will be important to continue to do so with fiscal prudence and discipline. There are some key assumptions and uncertainties in the projections to note. We are still waiting to hear if the California Supreme Court will pick up our measure and if they do not, our structural shortfall situation worsens by 9 million in significant one time. Need to be identified to remit back to water. For the short term, however, we are working and planning to address any FY 23 gap as a result of Measure M with one time in terms of negotiation, FFA and lifeguard contracts expire in FY 22 and miscellaneous contracts expire in FY 23. We have general inflator included in our projection for when these contracts expire, but depending on the results of actual negotiations, our projections will need to be updated, which could make the shortfall larger or smaller, depending on the outcome. There are also potential future costs that may hit that are not currently factored in, as we are still looking into and estimating those items. And this outlook also assumes no future recession, which, if it were to occur, would change our numbers. Additionally, using one times to solve the F 23 shortfall covers the problem just for FY 23. The 12 million shortfall from FY 23 carries over to 524, and this increases the projected FY 24 shortfall from 9 million to 21 million. As a result, while revenues are better than anticipated. The ability to add new services at this point is not in the longer term forecast. All this being said, the youth of one time is a recommended approach. The youth of these one time funds through the Long Beach Recovery Act is intended for this very purpose of helping to address fiscal challenges as we continue to stabilize from the pandemic. Next slide. In the next few slides, I'll talk about Measure eight and our approach for other five with the extension of Measure A voted on by Long Beach residents in 2020. Measure eight revenues are slated to continue at a higher level into the out years instead of dropping to half a percent in FY 23 and then sunsetting completely at the end of F 27. In FY 23, the rate does drop from 1% to 0.75% beginning January 20, 23 through fiscal year 27 due to county measure H in order to stay within the tax rate limit. This is less than the 1% we have been receiving up until now, but still more revenue than what we had originally been anticipating starting in FY 23. I like. The potential use of measuring funds will be developed and proposed as part of the proposed 23 budget for City Council Review . It is anticipated that there will be in the range of 20 to 22 million, an unallocated measuring fund each year, beginning in FY 23 through FY 27. Measuring revenues will continue to cover past structural and other ADD that were part of previous year plan. And as Tom mentioned earlier, a significant focus will be placed on infrastructure. We are looking at issuing three potential bond issues over the next five years that would generate 50 million every two years for approximately 150 million from bond proceeds for infrastructure projects. The annual debt service would start around 3.5 million and the earlier an increase to about 12 million by fiscal year 27. Funding is also proposed to be used towards covering cost increases to maintain public safety services, including resolving the budget issue in fire department for their FY 20 reduction target and increasing and the increasing cost of doing business for police such as the crime lab. We thought. Other potential uses include the funding of Engine 17 and the out years. For the short term, the hope is that we will receive a safer grant to cover costs and are expecting to be able to continue Engine 17 service in FY 23 and beyond. And also we are looking at things like funding neighborhood safe streets, which allow the police department to quickly impact crime hotspots throughout the year. Again, this is all still being developed and will be brought to City Council as part of the proposed FY 23 budget. Flight. In terms of other funds, I wanted to highlight three thing related funds that impact the general fund, either through interdepartmental MRU or cost changes or through overhead rates will not be issued any reduction targets similar to the general fund. The Special Advertising and promotion fund. Main source of revenue is the transient occupancy tax. As noted earlier, during the general fund revenue slide, this was dramatically impacted by the pandemic. So the balance between revenues and expense in this fund is still looking to be a shortfall in FY 22. We were able to use one time funds made available through the Long Beach Recovery Act to help replenish the revenue that was lost in 21. And we are anticipating that we will need to do so again for FY 22 and possibly FY 23. In order to avoid issuing cuts, we will need to look for any one time funds made available during the year to be set aside for this purpose. For the refuge fund. There is a rate study underway as rate increases will be needed to provide for structural balance and the fund, including funds that are needed to cover cost of Greenway Collection and meet state mandates. This study and initial rate increase request is anticipated to come to City Council soon in this fiscal year. FY 22. Next slide. For the last section of this presentation, we wanted to report back on our community engagement efforts around the budget process. So for the first time in recent history, community engagement efforts were done at the beginning of the budget process with two virtual meetings that were held in January. This early engagement was in response to the Mayor and City Council's request for earlier and more robust community engagement. It also aligns with the goal of our citywide racial equity and reconciliation efforts to reach out to a broader demographic and include more community voices from across the city, particularly those who are most impacted by racial inequities and systemic racism. The budget survey was also conducted in January that we usually do in August during these community engagement efforts. We prioritize language access by having all outreach materials available in different languages and having interpretation services available at the meetings as well. Another update we made this year was to add demographic questions that we asked participants in the meeting and in the budget survey to complete. And these were questions such as ethnicity, gender and disability to start with collecting data as best as we can to better inform and track how we are doing and how we can make improvements for future engagement. This exit demographic survey was also made available in different languages. And lastly, this was not related to community engagement efforts directly, but in line with our racial equity goals. We have also requested departments to provide information on their budget proposals through an equity lens as applicable, providing information on groups that might be impacted by the budget requests. That's like. For our virtual meeting, we had a total of 141 community participants join about 44% or 62 participants completed the demographic exit survey. And the data on these slides are from those responses. So please keep in mind that this is not a statistically valid report and depended whether community members participated in doing the demographic exit survey. And we hope to continue to develop these efforts and data collection into the future. Two of those who completed the demographic exit survey. We had representation from all council districts and in terms of age, the largest age group was in the 45 to 49 age category, but we had almost equal participating people in their thirties, forties and 65. With regards to race and ethnicity. The two highest represented groups were white at 42% and Hispanic at 31%. And for gender, the respondents were majority women attendees with women at 65%. Let. For the annual budget survey, we had a total of 723 respondents. A majority of respondents did complete the demographic portion of the survey as well. And from that data, we had representation in every county, whole districts that the High Peace Council District three. At 29% of the respondents, then the highest age group was 65 to 74, age range at 20%. But it was quite even for the other age groups as well, ranging around 7 to 10%. Now slide. In terms of race, the majority of respondents were white at 53%, followed by Hispanics, 17% in terms of gender. Similar to a virtual meeting, the majority of respondents were were women at 53%. Excellent. One thing we did this year that we've never done before was to take detailed notes from the community meeting, recording both the comments made verbally from the community and those entered into the chat box feature. We then took this data and partnered with the city to code and categorize these comments to provide more data than we usually have from the meetings. Based on this, the slide provides the list of the most popular topics that came up at the virtual meeting in order of most mentioned and discussed being at number one. The top three topics were on addressing homelessness, providing sufficient affordable housing options and combating crime, and increasing the community's sense of safety. We're still analyzing this information and will be putting together a report to provide to council in a separate memo to city council. Now fight. In terms of the budget survey feedback. These are the top ten services from the survey that we conducted in January 2022, this past January, compared to last year's survey that was conducted in August 2021. This was analyzed by Andrew Cheng in the city manager's office. Two services have been replaced in the top ten of the service ranking this year. On the left hand side, the service is in green and 523 have been newly ranked into the top ten, while items in red from FY 22 have dropped out of the top ten. Since the last community budget survey, the top three services relating to infrastructure and public safety continue to be top of mind for survey respondents. Police Patrol and response make a return to the top ten services and concerns relating to addressing homelessness and mental health services remain in the top ten. Similar to our virtual meeting comic. And this year we also work with the density to take the comment, a qualitative comment submitted by the residents through the budget survey and categorize them as well. This slide shows the major theme in order, starting with the most frequently mentioned topic combating crime and investing in public safety resources and improving the community's overall sense of safety. Or most comments and you can see other items were around homelessness. Road and sidewalk maintenance. Mental health addiction. Redirecting funds from police to social services, library investments, affordable housing parks. And fostering a business friendly environment. Again, this information is being synthesized and will be provided in a separate memo to city council. Next slide. And now I will turn it back over to Tom to follow up. So thank you, Grace. So just to sum up, is, again, we don't have to take cuts this year and get you targets, which is just fantastic. We're not in a point yet where we are able to add a whole bunch of services, but it's just great knowing that we don't have to go to our departments and affect the services that people really rely on, rely on us for. We will be moving forward with good fiscal prudence and discipline, knowing that we still have some challenges. But the picture is again looking better. And again, we hear so strongly from the Council about investing into infrastructure, just really excited to be able to start working on a five year plan of infrastructure. Those three different bonds that we would do every two years and will be really working on that, getting council input on projects and then proposing that as part of the FY23 budget. And and of course, we'll be focused this year on implementing the Long Beach Recovery Act as well. So thank you for the time. We will stand by. Four questions. Thank you very much, Mr. America, and you appreciate the other presentation. I do have some some comments and just some some broader thoughts and images over to the council. And I think I have some more options to attitude at first. And then we'll go we'll go from from there for any questions or comments. Let me let me just start just broadly by saying that the economic recovery in our city is absolutely happening. And we're seeing it obviously in these numbers and we're seeing it and we're hearing from business owners we have a long way to go, but there is no question that we are seeing that impact by looking at these numbers in the budget. One, two, one note. Know broadly speaking, the fact that we recovered, particularly on the revenue piece of the release, the sales tax and other revenues coming in is absolutely a good indication of where we're headed. And I know that those numbers continue to perform well. And so we could expect our numbers to continue to even get to get even better as we move forward. I want to just share the significance of what we are looking at here. We are looking at a second year with no budget reductions that are being targeted for the city and a really critical time where the city is actually addressing and facing economic recovery. We have just a barely pulling out of this health recovery that we have been in. Things are finally better. We're feeling more hopeful. Right now, we know that small businesses are still struggling. I met with a group of small, small business owners this morning. We're hearing their stories where they're finally beginning to see folks coming back into the restaurants. They're starting to see more people on the streets. And so we know that this focus on our economic recovery and what it's doing to our budget is also really, really critical. So having this opportunity, once again, to not have to focus on cutting a street sweeper or cutting a bike patrol or adding a library services is really important, especially when you're talking about economic recovery and recovery for the whole city. So I am very heartened by the news and I'm even more excited to help put together a budget this year as we present that to the City Council, knowing that that we're not going to have to look at these deep cuts. In addition to that, I want to note that I want to commend the Council for passing the Long Beach Recovery Act last year. That framework that we put in place is actually producing really strong results right now in the community. You think just on the issue of the putting aside money to secure our city's financial future, which is when we look at what we did with furloughs and eliminating those, we rebuild our reserves. Let's not forget the first thing we did and we put all our reserves back for the next emergency, and then we set aside money to help us bridge this difficult economic time. And because we were fiscally prudent and because we didn't have to use all of those funds in the last year's cycle, we're able to take some of that money from the Recovery Act, not additional new money, and put it towards an additional bridge as we continue to recover from the from the economy. So I just want to thank staff for kind of thinking about that and using those resources, quite frankly, as intended by the president. The president I'm proposing the American rescue plan was very clear that the resources were to bridge and allow municipalities to bridge resources so that cuts wouldn't be made so people wouldn't lose jobs during the pandemic as we see the economy improve. And if things continue to improve and there's no guarantees, of course they will. But if we continue to improve, we will continue to see those deficits hopefully get reduced over time. And so that's another very, very positive sign. And I want to commend the staffer for thinking about that. In addition, I want to I just want to also just uplift that as we are in this time that we're focused on this budget, we see what's important. We have to focus on issues around safety, around infrastructure and address those. We all know that that safety is also tied to economic performance in the community as we've seen crime increase across the country in almost every major city in the last two years. We know that it's all direct. There's a direct tie to unemployment. And if people having access to good jobs in Long Beach, we went from a 6.7% unemployment rate at the start of the pandemic to 21% at the height of the pandemic. And now. And now. I'm sorry. We were I'm sorry. We were at 4.6% before the pandemic went to 21%, and now we're at 6.7. So I project there is a huge, huge economic shift that we have seen in just a matter of two and a half years to go from under 5% to hit 21, which was hired , by the way, than at any time in the Great Recession. And now we're back down to 6.7 is an enormous turnaround and comeback for the city, but doesn't mean we should be satisfied because we're not. Too many people still are underemployed and need access to jobs. But that focus and our hope will focus on this budget coming up around and supporting small businesses and workers is going to be critical to the public safety piece because we know that when people have jobs, when streets are filled, when people come back to our offices and are going back to a shop at the small business , go to the grocery, go to the restaurant. That also makes your community safe. Beyond just the investments that we make. And so I'm really proud of that work that staff has done in putting this budget and these ideas together. I also just want to note a few things that were mentioned. I want to again uplift and think to voters. Thanks to Missouri, we are going to see another historic five year plan put in place to put in more infrastructure across the city. This is enormous for us. I know all of you. The council hears all the time more investment in infrastructure. We want more investments in infrastructure. And I want to thank the council for their support. Councilman Price's work on the Infrastructure Committee. I want to thank Councilwoman Mango's work. We've heard and I've been talking about bonds and bonding for infrastructure for years, and she's been continuously an advocate for putting a bond process within the infrastructure package. And I think staff has listened. That's been supported by other members of the council. So I want to thank Councilman Mongo for for continuing to do that. And also, I think Councilman after work, as well as the Committee on our Budget and Finance work has been really stellar in getting to this place. So I think what you're seeing is a product of so many folks work and Tom and the team being be reflective of that. So I want to don't want to sugarcoat that. The challenges absolutely have those liabilities in the future. We have to look at be careful about not overspending in this in this next year. But I think we're starting to budget a really, really great place and and grateful to the people of the community for reinvesting back into the city, because we're seeing the damage back into the city and into our communities as well. So thank you for that. And I want to just personally, Maysoon, a big thank you to you for all the work that you're doing as well. This is a great start to the budget cycle. And with that, Councilmember Austin. Thank you. And I think you really summed it up well. Mr. Mayor, this is welcome news. I think it's actually the best news that I think in my nine years on the council that we we're almost ten years now that we've had to see the curve start to stabilize. The funding coming in and the revenue coming in, the projected budget deficit going down by $20 million over the course of a year. That is a lot of the use of. And I am thrilled about this infrastructure focused plan that we have. It shows that our staff is really listening to not only our constituents, but also the council as well is going to be welcome news to many of our constituents who have been really ringing that bell for the streets, alleys and. Attention to our city's crumbling infrastructure. Although we have made some great, great, great advances with our measure over the last few years, I think, you know, often times, you know, the city council, yes, we take the tough votes. You know, we set the direction for our city budget. You know, I have great colleagues on the Budget Oversight Committee and very attentive council colleagues. But to get us to this point, I think we do have to give our staff a lot of credit. We have excellent stewardship of our financial management team and excellent leadership from our city manager. So I think this is an opportunity for us to just salute them and say great work to get us to this point right now. We were also. Think of benefit significantly from the American rescue plan. Those funds were critical to getting us where we need to be. I just recall just a couple of years ago, the outlook was very, very different from our reactions to our budget outlook since the Council were were very scary. We didn't know where we were going to be. So to have that contrast, to be a leader in the city. The decision maker at this point to hear this information today, to contrast where we were a couple of years ago is is truly, truly amazing. And in the. It also shows that the economy is impacting these revenues and impacting, obviously, our state budget, but also our our bridges system. We're also just a few years ago, the outlook was very different than it is today. Of return rates, rate of returns on the pension funds are different than they were. And I think as a result, we receive from flatter and more stabilized projections of CalPERS. I want to say let's stay the course. I'm again, very, very pleased and optimistic about the outlook. This is very welcome news. And I would just say let's stay to it, stay with it. And, you know, keep our keep working to manage our budget ahead of us. I want to be talking about surplus post deficits in the next couple of years. Thank you. Count summary ringa. Thank you. And I want to thank all of. Councilmember Austin's comments. I mean, they're excellent. And we really have to give kudos to our city manager. He's built a good team. And to put it at this point, I'm very happy to see that our pensions are in the out. They are under control now. They were out of control two years ago. We were talking about the sky is falling in regards to pensions and our commitment to it. So I'm glad to see that there's going to be a somewhat of a decline in the next few years. And and we are. What question I had was about the the oil revenues that was coming in. And we're keeping it at, what, 50, 55, 81 barrel right now. So. Yes, Councilmember, our projection for our structural side of the budget is $55 a barrel. Yeah, right now I think barrel prices have gone up to about just under 100 or right around 100. So, I mean, that's in a way good for us. However, you know, with the. Impending impacts that the Russian war is going to have Russian oil respected oil deliveries in the U.S. So I'm just wondering if that's going to have any kind of significant impact in our oil revenue in the future? Any any projections on that? So Councilmember Urunga, what we'll do is we will analyze the current fiscal year, FY 22, to see what our projections for a year end may be. And if we are projecting and most likely we will projected higher revenues compared to our budgeted $55 a barrel in 20. Those additional revenues above, you know, expenditures, what's needed to cover expenditures could be included as one time or 22 year end or as part of the 23 budget as well. I want to thank you also for keeping us in line with our reserves. It's very important we saw how that really came in handy through this pandemic. And so I want to thank you also for your leadership and keeping us above water. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate all of your comments and I appreciate staff's recommendation. So a couple of things. And I know you probably covered this and I missed it. But on the survey, what was our survey population? Do you have? Did you have that in a slide and the distribution across the city? Yes, we did. Councilwoman Rice, let me get to that. So in terms of our virtual meeting, we had 141 total attendees. And this excludes city, city staff. And also we had identified 16 people who had attended both meeting and then for our budget survey. So this is the written survey or the electronic survey that people could conduct or complete even if they were not able to attend the virtual meetings. We had total survey respondents of 723. And do we have a distribution across the city? Yes. So on slide 22 or the budget survey participation, that would show how many people participated in answering across the council this year. Thank you. Yeah, it's up here on the slide. Oh, I got it. 674 people who answered the demographic exit survey where this information is pulled from. Okay. Got it. All right. So thank you for that. So when we're talking about the budget and that, you know, we don't expect to have any cuts, which is wonderful, does that mean that we're not going to reprioritize anything to address the priorities that people shared with us at the. In the budget survey because there's really no point to do the survey if we just keep the priorities the same from year to year. Right. I mean, the whole reason we do the survey is so we can shift priorities to find the things that people want funded. So what's the plan? And I guess the manager proposes his budget, but I'm assuming that there's going to have to be some shifts in the budget, too, for us to be able to meet the priorities of the residents. Something else. But yes, that will happen in this process. And then the council can take that further once the recommended budget is out as well. Okay. And I know it's still early, and I appreciate that we're having these conversations early. But one of the things that I that I've shared with the city manager privately and that that I'll I'll talk about obviously when we start having our budget oversight committee meetings is look, the community has spoken very clearly about a number of priorities. The mayor talked about infrastructure. That's clearly one. But safety and homelessness are clearly at the top of the priorities for everybody. I think any of us who's having community meetings will tell you those are the priorities. So what I would like city staff to do is be creative about next year's budget. I understand we don't have to have any cuts because we have some bridge funding that will help. But is there anything that's not essential and not an emergency that we can defer for a 3 to 5 year period of time, whether it's equipment purchases or things that are just not essential so that we can invest in the areas where our residents have indicated these are the priorities because we can't continue to st do the same thing every year in terms of budget funding and expect a different result. So I think when we're talking about safety, especially when we're talking about homelessness, I think there are some specific things that we can do if we're able to allocate, even for a 3 to 5 year period of time, some priority and resources to those efforts. And so I know we'll be talking about this a little bit more, but I just I don't want us to get in the position of this is wonderful. We don't have to have any cuts. That means everything stay status quo because the whole point of doing the surveys is for us to have to make some difficult decisions and reprioritize within the budget that we have. And I'm hope I'm looking forward to that conversation. And I and I hope that that's something that's on your. Radar as our. City manager as well. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Ciro. Thank you, Mayor. I will add to my gratitude of our mayor's leadership through this past few years, as well as our city manager and the team for just getting us to this place. I was really worried when we heard projections, so I just want to congratulate and just breathe a, you know, a breath of relief that we won't be going into a, you know, having to make these difficult cuts and really appreciate the steps that the city team is taking to just slowly inch into something that is been discussed prior to the pandemic, which is more participatory budgeting and which is where I think it's been great to be able to move into doing the community engagement meetings earlier before the budget come out. So we do hear from the part about the priorities. But I think with our online survey, I think what is most interesting is you would assume the youngest people that you would survey would be the one to fill out because of their assumed access to online, you know, being more tech savvy that we have a 24 year old being the least number of people filling out the survey. Right. So I like to explore further. I do hear what Councilmember Price is saying about, well, how are we utilizing the information from the survey to inform our budget priorities? But I think what's important is to maybe dig in a little deeper, to hear maybe a focus group of these groups on what their priorities are, and even taking a step towards thinking about what are their ideas of solutions so that maybe it's not so much about funding, but it's the strategy group and how we're utilizing the fund that's resonating in how we're addressing these issues. Right. So I think there are some different steps we could take to make sure that not only are we ensuring all members of our residents are being heard, but also hearing about what they think we could do. And we've heard about them and we've taken different steps and how we are moving towards around public safety issues to homelessness and affordable housing. You know, we're building more housing as much as we can, and we've been going through all of those various processes. So I think that it would be great if we could do a dig in a little deeper to here and really activate our youth engagement. Right. We have had kind of a youth invested in youth, this youth investment fund that was made. And how do we make sure they're part of a larger budget discussion rather than being their own separate? Right. So and also and people who, you know, I know that the survey were done in different languages, which is great, but that's where sometimes people are more in verbal conversation rather than the survey. So those are ideas and a suggestion I love to see as a grow on it now that maybe we won't worry so much about having a shortfall, but thinking more about our engagement, to hear from people, residents, business owners in the strategies we can take to ensure that we're hearing their budget priorities. So, so thank you so much. Congratulations, everybody, for making sure we don't have to have these different cover, you know, difficult conversation and cutting and but being able to think about how do we can be constructive in growing and including, you know, as many voices of our residents as possible. Thank you, Councilwoman, Councilman and D.A.. You, me, and thank you to the staff and to the Finance Committee for doing a great job. And, of course, our chairs, the Finance Committee, Councilmember Austin, for all the work that they've done on the budget. This is very, very good news. I, too, was very scared to see what was happening with the budget and stuff. And I did see a lot of things that could have gone the complete opposite way when there are things that I'd like to see. Now, if we go back to the slide where it says about how different districts responded to the survey. Please staff. Thank you. And just seems like. Continuously know we see. Maybe you can explain to me a little bit more how District One did this. Is this survey? And as far as the sponsors. Absolutely a compliment. Then they have. So this slide that you have in front of you is from our virtual meeting. So the 141 participants in our two virtual meeting, there were 62 people who chose to complete the demographic survey. And out of those people who completed the survey, we were not able to capture information on any of those. Obviously who did in 14 were from District one. And then if we go to Slide 22. The Budget survey. So this was the survey that was available, our annual budget survey. There were 700 total, 723 total survey respondents. Of those, 674 people completed the demographic questions that were part of that survey. And out of those 674 people, 47 or 6.5% were from District one. Okay. Which brings me back to the point that I do believe that you're doing a better job at not you this year, but just as a city that we're doing a better job at reaching out to the community. I know that in the past some district one would come in very low when it comes to recruiting. Members to be part of the discussion. So I really and one of my ask was that we do a little bit more intentional promoting of the, the, the sessions that we have regarding budget. So I just wanted to say thank you that I've seen the numbers increase and I hope that from what I can recall, I've seen the numbers increase and I just wanted to say thank you and set out for, you know, thank you for doing that good job in trying to reach out to especially some of the hardest reach communities and just just one. So thank you. Thank you. I think, Councilwoman. I don't see Councilman Mongo on. On. Oh, there she is. Councilman, I got to give some comments also. Yes. I want to thank the staff for an excellent presentation. I am hopeful that the CalPERS returns have been great and will continue to be great, but I don't want to get overly hopeful because when this has happened in the past and they've allowed cities to reduce their contributions. How we got to where we are now, because there wasn't enough contributions during the good times to have the leveling and the smoothing that's necessary over the bad times. So it's great news. I agree with Councilman Price, the priorities of the community that have been consistent. Our homelessness, public safety and infrastructure. And I want to start with infrastructure. We need to do more. I know we're bringing an item back that's related to my initial item related to a bond. It needs to be bigger. It needs to be more. We need to fix the sidewalks. We need to fix these streets. These people have been waiting for way too long and that the stakes of prior councils have gotten us to where we are today. But even doubling what we've contributed is just not enough. We need to do more. And so that's the first part. The second part is public safety is expensive, but public safety done right really helps a lot of other components of our city. And so we need to make sure to have a strong public safety plan in place and a multi-year strategy. And then homelessness. I think the public safety and homelessness go hand in hand. We've done so much with long term strategies of housing and things like that, but we have to have the funding available for the outreach. The outreach is just so huge, and until you have enough staff to do a lot of outreach, you don't have individuals taking the housing that's available. So thank you for the budget presentation. Thank you to my colleagues for continued fiscal prudence. I still would love to see a strategy where every year the council is brought. 10 to 15 programs that we can either reduce or cut that are not as effective. We need performance measures to show whether programs are being effective. And if something's not effective, you don't just wait until downturns in budget years to eliminate them. We need to address those on an annual basis and all of our programs should be competing to be the best and for residents to demonstrate how much they love those certain programs so that we can continue to invest in the programs that are most successful. And be sure that I think that we notice when we cut the budget a few years ago, we had certain programs that had maybe two or three participants that were other programs that needed funding of the exact same program across the city, had 40 participants. And those evaluations need to be done on an annual basis, not just on years, but we have custody. Think. Any other council comments? Case I seen on the map. My last just comment, I'll say is that I hope it's one I recognize also that I think Councilman Price is right and that obviously the budget's not developed yet. I think at the end of the day, that's a process that we're going to all begin through the city manager process, through any recommendations that I make to the council and and then through the through the BRC and of course, the whole, the community piece, which I'll be a big part I think, this year. And I just want to leave us with this. You know, the the idea that as we're as we're going to this budget cycle, we shouldn't forget what what we need to focus on at this moment. And we have to continue, if it's not focused on helping us recover and not helping not helping us focus, focusing on ensuring that we're providing all the basic services that we need to post-pandemic moving forward, that has to be the priority. And so we know right now that we are doing such a great job on that health piece. This economic recovery of supporting our small businesses is critical to our future. It will impact everything that we do in the future is that support for our workers and our small businesses and and again, that relationship with that as it relates to public safety and our support of ensuring that people are safe in our community, that we have strong programs in place. And we know, of course, that that includes everything from our parks to our libraries. And the things that keep folks and families safe and secure is all critical as well. So it can be a good budget process. And I'm glad that we'll be starting at a place where we can actually think about what investments we want to make in the budget. And with that we have a hopefully a motion and a second on this receive and file study session. Uh, can I see if there's any public comment, Madam Kirk And for the study session. If there are any members of the public, they would like to speak on this item. Please use the raise hand feature or dial star name. They Chikhlia. Your time begins now. I think you can hear me. Yes. Good evening. Okay, great measure and litigation. Uh, may. If we don't win, remit back 9 billion in. No known deficit. There's a lot of contingency generally, but there's one I wanted to kind of highlight at the beginning. The Brant price, the delivery price for oil per barrel is projected to be over $125 in April in the United States. I think it's a very good thing. And Grayson, thank you so much for the presentation and city staff for developing a really great, very detailed, thoughtful presentation, especially on keeping $55 per barrel as the structural price of oil for projections, as we're figuring out a lot of these volatilities. It's also a very good idea to use any. Overage for onetime things. It's quite possible that in addition to record oil prices, we could see 150 or even $200 per barrel. And then at that point, just, you know, there is kind of performance reviews per per annum proposed. If you were to have such a surplus of money for just one time like we had in 2013, 2014, you should use it to pay for one time things you normally wouldn't get to. Like, for instance, a study for how to replace oil and gas revenues structurally and entirely in the city. Eventually, you know, you need to do that. And, you know, I haven't yet gotten to the point of figuring out how it would be good to know how to do that and good to do it with money that we get that we normally want. I have a real concern about these potential bond issues for infrastructure funding when there so so much federal funding available. You know, if you look at the the debt service the year before the Olympics, the 12 million that wipes out, the 12 million that we've been able to kind of claw back from the sluggish recovery for this year. There's a lot of there's a lot of problems with these bond markets, especially if we have another recession or if we have an earthquake the same year before the Olympics. I would like to request either the budget survey or another budget meeting be conducted again in April prior to the May revision of the state budget. It looks like as we're developing this budget and we're looking at things not only in the rose colored equity lens, but the kind of hard headed what are the physical and structural risks perspective? It may be that maintaining natural natural gas systems and water systems in good physical condition may be the wrong way to describe what people actually care about. And then the last, last note. Ba ba ba ba ba ba. Joanne Diaz, your time begins now. Evening. Can you hear me? Yes. Good evening. My name is John Edwards, and I'm here on behalf of the People's Budget and the Language Access Coalition. I'm making an official request to extend the amount of time the community is given to respond. When asked if we would like to provide a public comment. The time we currently receive is not sufficient, especially when considering the time it takes to provide proper interpretation for a multilingual community. It would also give those who are having. Technical difficulties time to respond. I ask. That you provide a. Minimum of 20 seconds for folks to respond before declaring that there are no requests to comment. I also want to highlight the fact that I'm deeply troubled to hear about any increases to the police budget, especially after hearing the clear support to defund the police during. Both of your community budget. Sessions that I attended in January. You have to embrace what the community has already reimagined for you and what true community safety looks like. Police are not the answer to echo what Councilmember Price shared. We can't do the same thing year. After year and expect a different result. We have increased the police budget year. After year and it is clearly not the solution that our city needs and deserves. Divest from the police and reinvest in the life affirming resources for our black community and. Other. Communities of color that your constituents have been asking for year after year. Thank you. Ailsa Chang, your time begins now. Good evening, City Council. This is Alpha Tung. I'm a constituent of the new District five. I wanted to thank the previous speaker for her eloquent comments. And also note I dig a little bit deeper on the written community budget survey that had 723 respondents. Let's be clear. This community budget survey. Is entirely. Not representative of the entire city of Long Beach population. The overwhelming. Plurality of respondents for the written budget survey were white. People. Seniors and residents of District three. Now, Councilwoman Price, I totally applaud your success in promoting the budget survey. I promote. I applaud the success of District three constituents in completing the budget survey. But this is not representative of the entire city and the entire city. The majority are people of color, young people and families and making under $65,000, which is the median income. So let's just be clear. The community budget survey is not representative of the City of Long Beach as a whole. I want to uplift Councilwoman Sorrows comments in asking for a deeper community engagement, deeper investigation, and particularly activating youth who were clearly not represented in the written budget survey. So when you see comments like combating crime and investing in public safety coming out of the community budget survey, this is not so coded language for increasing policing and we have to ask ourselves who is requesting that? Once again, white people, seniors and residents of District three, not representative of the majority, people of color and majority of low income and working class city of Long Beach. Thank you. That concludes public comment. That concludes public comment on this item. Yeah, I do. We have I didn't see any other council comment, so I appreciate the comments. And I also wanted to just note, I don't think we had a motion in the second yet for let me see the file. Who's going to make that motion, Councilman Marston and a second. But Councilman is in the house. Let's do the roll call. Vote, please. District one high District two I. District three i. District four. I. District five. District five. District six. By. District seven. By. District eight, HY Motion carries seven zero. Thank you. With that, we have any other second full time period. People signed up.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2827 & 2833 West 25th Avenue in Jefferson Park. Rezones property located at 2827 and 2833 W 25th Avenue from G-MU-3, UO-3 to G-MS-3, from general urban residential context to general urban main street context, in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 2-21-17.

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Thank you. 11 I's two days. Council Bill has been ordered publish as amended. Final consideration of Council Bill 161. Public hearing will be Monday May days May 1st. So want to let the public know for the new council bill as amended, 161 will be May 1st. We have two public hearings this evening. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling council their names and cities of residents as they feel comfortable doing so. Their home addresses. If you are here to answer question only when your name is called, come to the podium, state your name and note that you are available for questions and council speakers will have 3 minutes unless another speaker has yielded his or her time and which will result a total of 6 minutes on the presentation. Monitor You will see you will not see it because our presentation monitors are down. So we apologize about that. You will actually look on you'll have a light at the podium. Green light means you have 30 seconds left. Red light means sit down quickly. Your time is up. No, don't sit down quickly, but your time is up. Okay. Speakers must stay on topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to council members. Please refrain from profane and obscene speech. Direct your comments the council as a whole and refrain from individual or personal attacks. We do not like that. Okay, Councilwoman Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 150 on the floor? Mr. President, I move that council bill 150 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. All right. It has been moved. And second it the public hearing for council about 150 is open. May we have the staff report? Sarah Whyte, how are you? Good. How are you? Good. Good evening. I'm Stairway three Planning and Development. Here to present the MAP Amendment at 2827 and 2833 West 25th, which is sponsored sponsored by Councilman Espinosa. The request is to go from GMU three with yellow three. Overlay two. James three. We are in Council District one in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. On the next slide, you can see a closer location of the site. It is just east of the 25th and Elliott intersection and commercial area and two blocks east of Federal Boulevard. On Slide five, you can see the existing zoning. The property is approximately 14,700 square feet and consists of two single family homes and accessory structures. The request is to rezone to allow neighborhood mixed use and again it is from GMU three, UO three to GMC three, which is the general neighborhood context. Main Street. Three stories. To the West. The zoning is Games three, which is what the proposed zoning is. And then to the north east and south we have GMU €3 three overlay, which is what the current zoning on the property is. On Slide eight, you can see a map of the existing land uses in the area. The site is currently single. Family residential properties to the north, east and south are a mix of single family and lower scale multifamily, including an under-construction multifamily development at 25th indicator that is not yet reflected on the land use map. And then to the west we have the 25th, an Elliott commercial node and the associated mixed uses. On Slide nine, you can see some pictures of the top picture is the existing site and the bottom photo is an example of the character at the 25th and Elliott commercial area. The next slide is additional photos of the existing character of the area. The top photo is another photo of the toe from the commercial area, and the bottom photo is pretty representative of the mix of housing types in this area. Slide 11, we have the process so far outlined. Planning Board held a public hearing on February 1st and voted 7 to 1 in favor of the request. The Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee moved it forward on February 21st. The public outreach so far, all of the appropriate renos have been notified with the application was submitted, a letter of support from the Jefferson Park United Neighbors. And throughout the process, Jefferson Park United Neighbors did include an updated letter of support. There was also a letter of support from the Federal Boulevard bid. In your packet, you will see a letter of opposition from the neighborhood to the neighbor to the east. But that letter has been withdrawn as of Thursday afternoon, and I believe that email should have been forwarded to you. And then we did receive some additional questions about the historic nature of the property with no stance given. Onto the review criteria. We do have three plans in place here to review the consistency with adopted plans. We have comprehensive plan 2000 Blueprint Denver and Jefferson Park Neighborhood Plan. Comprehensive Plan 2000 has several recommendations related to mixed use development, infill and legacies, which this request is consistent with. Those are further detailed in your staff report. Blueprint. Denver does map this property as single family residential area of stability. However, we are proximate to a neighborhood center area of change designation, and we do have language in Blueprint Denver that states that the boundaries of the land use building blocks provided in the plan are not fixed and that some areas are in a state of transition. So given this language, we do believe that the request is generally consistent with the blueprint. Denver Land Use Building Blocks. The Jefferson Park neighborhood plan. On Slide 17, you see some overall framework goals and recommendations from the Jefferson Park plan related to maintaining and enhancing the character and identity of the neighborhood, creating focal points within the neighborhood , which includes West 25th and Elliott. And then we also have language about developing the potential of West 25th Avenue as a principal neighborhood corridor. Furthermore, we do have sub area maps in the Jefferson Park neighborhood plan. This property is technically mapped within the core residential sub area, but it is the first property on the other side of the boundary from the 25th and Elliot commercial sub area. And again, we have language in the Jefferson Park neighborhood plan that says boundaries between the sub areas are not absolute and the characteristics overlap suburbia boundaries. So given this language, we do find it appropriate to evaluate the request under the goals and recommendations of the 25th and Elliott commercial area. And those recommendations include making sure that any new development is consistent with the character that exists at 25th. And Elliott encouraged new construction to be mixed use with residential and retail and to strengthen the neighborhood retail center to support the neighborhood. And the the GM's three district that is required does provide for a height limit and build to and transparency requirements that do reflect the existing character at 25th and. ELLIOTT So we do believe that the request is consistent with the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Plan goals. Onto our other review criteria. The request would result in the uniform application of the GMC Arizona district, and we will further the public health, safety and welfare primarily through the implementation of adopted plans. The justifying circumstances cited in this case are that the land or its surrounding environs has changed or is changing to such a degree that is in the public interest to encourage a redevelopment of the area or to recognize the changed character of the area. And there has been a lot of residential development in Jefferson Park, quite a few added units. And so we do believe that allowing for additional neighborhood skilled retail is a good enough justifying circumstance to serve a lot of those added residents. And then consistency with neighborhood context. So in addition, purpose and intent, the GM's three zone district is consistent with the surrounding general urban neighborhood. Context and the purpose and intent of the GM's three zone district is consistent with the adopted plans. So given that all five criteria have been met, CPD recommends approval. I'm here to answer any questions. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We have. Four speakers tonight, I'm going to ask that we clear the front to allow these speakers to come and sit down. David Roybal, Justin Potter, Eddie Givens and Ambrose Ambrose Cruz. Hello. David Roybal a concerned citizen in large my address 2107 Salve Jason. I have a relative lived in this area for 40 years right there on the intersection of 25th and Elliott. And as his time there, he's seen the whole color of the neighborhood change. Neighbors is gone. I've been in this park ever since. The mystery theater was, you know, where they used to cut open the dead bodies from baby dolls all the way to chili peppers are talking about family star was channel 12 I remember I grew up in the Sun Valley and we used the church bus used to go from the Sun Valley to pick up the other kids on the other side. But as you see the part of this neighborhood, there's no character, there's no identity. I grew up in this neighborhood, went to North High School. I can't even identify it. And it's like to say the character, I don't see the character. It's a very uneasy neighborhood. When I go being a person of color, I have many police follow me. And I even tell the police I born raised here. I've been here since 1993. Come to this neighborhood. I'm against this. I mean, there's already another one that's on the other side. It's like and then when it's built, how much is it going to be? 26, 20 $700. It's like, who can afford that? A person like me, I have so much to bring to the community with my community experience, you know, bringing people together and I can't even afford it. And the people that come here, they want to be here because it has good view downtown, because it's 5 minutes from downtown. What happens to the history, the culture? I am against this and I just hope it's for the better me because every single rezoning counts. How did it get this bad? From Susan Sheppard? How a whole neighborhood could be turned upside down. Every rezoning counts. And I just hope that this that the until the character and it's growing and there's affordable housing opportunities, I don't think there should be any more rezoning. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Robel. Justin Potter. His own name is Justin Potter's as mentioned resident Denver. I live at 2319 Decatur Street and I sit on the Jefferson Park United Neighbors Land Committee and the chair for that. So I'm speaking on behalf of the Chapman organization. We had multiple conversations with the developer regarding this. We did pretty significant outreach the community. We publish a monthly newsletter that goes out, and so we try to solicit as much feedback for positions that we take as a neighborhood organization. And throughout the process, through the land use committee meetings and through the general membership meetings, basically all the support we had was very positive for this. As it was mentioned earlier, the neighborhood has grown drastically in the last couple of years. I moved into the neighborhood about four years ago and since then the population, the neighborhood has more than doubled and there's been no real significant commercial space added to the neighborhood. So generally most people are on board with getting at least the ability to have more commercial in the neighborhood. We have kind of the Jefferson parking. Our neighbors has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the developer, and we are going to be placing some restrictions on what can go into the commercial space, because we felt, you know, marijuana and some of those other uses that were allowed by the change are not necessarily allowed, but some some uses that were allowed by the changing zone. We're not going to be beneficial to the community. So we tried to kind of, you know, work with the developer and also kind of do the outreach to the community to see if there was support for this. And like I said, it's it's been overwhelming support so far. Land use voted unanimously to support it and recommend that it support that general membership support it and our general membership meeting. We voted unanimously to support the rezoning as well. So thank you, Mr. Potter. Eddie Givens. My name is Eddie Givens. I'm from Englewood, Colorado, and I represent the developer. And I thank you for your time tonight. This this development, this process started some time ago, and we reached out, you know, met with the councilman, reached out to the local community groups with the Jefferson Park United neighbors, with the Federal Business Impact District . And in and through that, they're they're supportive of the of the rezoning. And in addition to that, that they had specific things they were interested into. So we came to agreement in a memorandum of of understanding, which will it'll cloud the title of the property. So the development will meet some criteria that the neighborhood group was highly interested in and and Councilman Espinosa was spearheading. And then that's to have more business development on the street level, to have retail space. And additionally, as Justin alluded to, not having certain businesses and and drive through certain types of structures. So it's it's a nice situation. It'll never be a unanimous agreement, but it's a nice situation where overwhelming support from the neighborhood groups, the local government and Councilman Espinosa spearheading this and the developer are all all in agreement with the way to move forward. So thank you. Thank you, Mr. Givens. Ambrose Cruz. I'm Ross Cruz, speaking on behalf of the United Northside neighborhood. R.A., in which I chair everybody an hour and only everybody I've come in contact with has been pretty much against this zoning change because, I mean, if you adding another building, another zoning change that is going to with that's going to hold these types of businesses in this type of residential areas. There's that right around the corner from the main boulevard. Everything that they could put there is already a walking distance from it. There's nothing more that they can add to right there. And as far as it being holding up with some of the character there, the character wasn't changed. It hasn't changed. It's been destroyed like when it went gone. It's been gone within two or three years. I think that was one of the last neighborhoods, their Jefferson Park area. To not be touched by the gentrification was one of the last. Now that block is gone, too. There was a house a couple of my friends were actually renting out around the corner and they got evicted. So that one next door to where she's trying to put this one is they can put that there's already two around the corner. They got evicted. So why ain't nobody I know that comes from Jefferson Park from way back in the day when you know the stoners and the hippies and the, you know, everybody in the bikers got together and took over that park. Does anybody remember that? Anybody here does. But that's the that's the that's the character that was there as the character that's still there. Some of those people are still there. And to add another another building that can hold, what, maybe a yoga studio brewery or three blocks away, you'll find one. There's no reason to reason in this area. None whatsoever. If there's going to be any type of rezoning, it should be affordable housing. There was no reason for this to happen whatsoever. If you need it, like I said, walk two blocks. You'll get it. You want to pay $3,000 in rent? Walk less than a block. You'll find it next door. You don't need this. That's all I got to say. Thank you, Mr. Cruz. This concludes our speakers questions for members of Council. Councilwoman Ortega. I just wanted to ask both the staff person from CPD and the representative of the developer. What? So. So we're talking about a commercial use in place of what is there today. Correct. The proposed zone. Zone district would allow commercial uses. Yes. Will allow housing as well? Yes. Okay. So what is the the total sort of. Bulk of of space or units that could go into the site given that it's two properties. And I'm assuming they're adjacent to one another. I pulled. Up the. It really depends on the character of the development, how many units can go in. Obviously, that varies. The proposed zone district has zero setbacks on the sides and does have a pretty significant build too. So it can be a pretty large coverage site in terms of units. That come with the parking requirements per unit. I don't have that off the top of my head. I can take a look in the zoning code. Okay. And I'm assuming that the commercial space would have its own parking requirements. Parking requirements are dependent on use. So it depends on what uses is there and it varies based on different retail uses as well. Okay. I would appreciate having that information. And then while you're doing that, I'm going to ask the developer's representative to come forward. So can you just give us an idea of what the developer is planning to put there? Well, the developer hasn't made any plans and hasn't approached the community planning development yet because to do that prior to this, this hearing would be futile. But the general idea is to have street level retail. So whatever that manifests into, I'm not sure, but the coffee shop restaurant, it's some kind of retail. And can you share what the uses are that are in the agreement that are not going to go in? You mentioned marijuana. Yes, the well, the marijuana facility. But I believe you can't do that anyways because of the proximity to schools, um, a drive thru, the drive thru and there was a, there was a few other things. Um, I can expand on that a little bit. So can you come. Closer to like so I can expand on that a little bit. So the new zoning, there's a whole use table and we basically allow, I forget like all the commercial uses that are more retail, residential like retail type of spaces and then we kind of restrict anything that's more of an industrial type of use because we didn't think that would be a good, good fit as well. So it's, it's kind of like the drive thru is the marijuana stuff and then just kind of industrial type uses, car servicing type of things that we didn't think would fit into that. So is is there a reason we didn't look at just exempting those out? We've done that with some of the other zoning laws that have come before us. We've seen, you know, a zone request with exemptions. With through through a memorandum of. So when we see zone districts requested with waivers or conditions, it's CPD is policy to only support waivers are conditions when those are bridging to a future text amendment, which means that we've identified an issue that is on a list to be solved with a future text amendment, and the waiver condition is to bridge to that because it's not in place. CPD generally doesn't do waivers or conditions simply because of input, because it's not if unless it's consistent with our policy. In terms of what's part of a memorandum of understanding or deed restrictions, CPD doesn't take stances on those because we're not involved in them. So although this is a private agreement between the community and the developer, I understood the representative of the developer to say that it will be filed as a covenant on the property. Is that correct? Okay. Thank you. I have no further. Questions and I have the parking ratios still interested. So for any multi-unit dwelling, the vehicle parking is one per unit for eating and drinking establishments in the EMS districts. It is two spots per 1000 GFA and then for for retail sales. There's different requirements for a lot of different categories. But in general the vehicle restriction requirements are 1.875 per thousand. GFA Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilman tell you, Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Know Councilman. I mean, President Brooks, if you. I'm asking for you to indulge me a little bit in case my colleagues have questions, since I am the applicant to sort of give a little background on on this all came to be permitted. Thank you. And it's unfortunate that David and Averroes aren't here. So I could speak. Explain why the reason for this rezoning. But the the primary property that this rezoning exists on actually is a an original Homestead Act home that was built in established way before Town of Highland was. And this came through as a yet another certificate Vernon historic status that would have had all the technical support to get to the council. But as we know, that would die on the vine once it got here. And and so this was one of those challenges where it this is our our character and our history being ground up by development. In the same form that has all the has done most of this damage in the GMU three zone district. So the status quo would have been that it would have gotten denied by counsel and would have had a multifamily apartment, I mean, a townhome project, uh, akin to everything else that is going on in , in the district, I mean in, in Jefferson Park in this zone district. And so the dialog was having been part of neighborhoods first the steering committee for Zoning Planning, I had been present for a lot of discussions about the future of 25th Avenue, which was a former trolley line. It's a very wide street and we're currently working with public works on putting diagonal parking on half of it. And so this was is, you know, because this was an area of stability and it was supposed to be single family, character and Blueprint Denver and all that. But it got rezone to Jim, you three. The character of that neighborhood has radically changed and departed from the adopted plan, which is was adopted in 2015, in 2005. So recognizing and that's part of the CPD presentation, but recognizing that there are community needs that won't necessarily be fulfilled entirely by another multifamily residential project, but it could benefit from a mixed use project. That's how the three parties came together the R.A., the bid and the developer. And it's actually been multiple developers because this dialog originally started with a different developer. And so and that this mechanism is actually something we've used previously in the district of AMU and a companion covenant, which is there's an agreement between those three parties that they will, once this rezoning goes through, that the covenant will be attached so that we can secure mixed use development, an area, a portion of that redevelopment that would be neighborhood serving and gives some direction on the architecture. So those concerns about pattern and material, as much as I would love to do it, and waivers and conditions and we have the tools in our zoning code to do that. You get resistance from CPD and then you ask the developer to sort of go rogue to come forward with an application which I'm sure would go through planning board and get to us. But it's it's a very cautious approach and they want the developers want to have some sort of accounting and accountability. And that's what the process that led us to, to this time. So if you have any questions about any of that, but hopefully I've illustrated most of what's going on. Yeah, I think we're ready to go to comment. So it looks like there's no other questions by members of council public here in council 150 is now closed, comes from the Council Councilwoman Espinosa So I went through the whole elaborate story. I can just tell you that there was tremendous support. We sat through a very actually that was the same day that the the small lot exemption went in. And so I was there for a very long day at planning board, but really, really supportive comments from Planning Board about sort of the uniqueness of this approach and to sort of how we how we capture change in areas of change when there's existing plans that sort of we're directing this in a different direction. So with that, I mean, we have community support. I want to make the developer aware. I think just in with the R.A. is aware that the two members that spoke out in opposition do not live in Jefferson Park. And so they don't necessarily represent they certainly represent an ethos and something that has been transformative in the area. And it's something that I, I desperately try to honor and respect. But that that the the frustration you heard there is is is not currently present as this entire process has been a very positive one. So with that, I encourage my colleagues to support this. So an amendment. All right, thank you, Councilman Espinosa, Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank Councilman Espinosa for that explanation. I want to congratulate him on this on this work and this application. That's all. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Seeing no other comments. It's been moved in Sacramento Secretary Raquel. I'm sorry. It's frozen. Espinosa, i. Flynn, i. Gilmore, i. Herndon, i. Cashman Can each. Lopez I knew Ortega I. Susman Black I. Mr. President. I. I think it. Please call the. Clerk. Forget the president pro tem 13 ice. All right. 13 Ice Council Bill 150 has passed. Congratulations. Councilwoman Ortega, will you please put Council Bill 162 on the floor?

Recommendation to adopt Resolution of Intention to renew the Midtown Business Improvement District; set the date of July 19, 2022 for public hearing, receive petitions, authorize City Manager, or designee, to sign in favor and return the City’s ballot, and designate the Owners’ Association. (District 6)

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The motion is carried. Item 27, please. Item 27 is a report from Economic Development. Recommendation to Adobe Resolution of Intention to Renew the Midtown Business Improvement District. Set the date of hearing July 19, 2022 for public hearing receipt petition, authorize the city's ballot and designate the Owners Association's District six. Grant has been moved by Councilmember Baraga, seconded by myself and comments. Yes. Thank you, Chairman Austin. I have a comment here from consumer to District six. Thank you. To the Middle Business Improvement District Board of Directors and the Economic Development Team, property and business owners of the midterm bid for all their hard work to renew the Midtown be the Midtown bid. The Midtown bid spans along the Anaheim corridor from Richmond to Alamitos Avenues. The mission that the bid is to bring diverse people together and to help businesses succeed. There are a lot of improvements needed along the Anaheim corridor. The Midtown bid will contribute to fulfilling the needs of cleanliness, safety and increased business activity and support. Overall, this will improve the quality of life in the business corridor and the neighborhoods. I am 100% committed to supporting the Midtown pivot, supporting the renewal of the people it will support and promote our minority owned legacy businesses, providing opportunities , increase goods and services for residents, and will build stronger community and business partnerships in addition to economic development. I look forward to seeing the mid-term bid host and sponsor several important events year round to promote and uplift our small businesses along this area. Our spirit of solidarity keeps us striving to make our community safer, cleaner and better for businesses, residents and visitors. I ask my colleagues for their support to adopt this item and move the motion. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember, is there any public comment. Suzanne, as you. Welcome you. Hi. My name's Susanna. Kim and I serve as the chair of the Midtown Property and Business Improvement District Board. Thank you to Councilwoman for her leadership and also to the City of Miami Economic Development Staff for your support. Midtown is located in Cambodia town and has approximately 183 businesses majority who are minority owned, small businesses whose revenues are less than $1 million. Our mission is to enhance Midtown business community by investing in safety, beautification and economic development. Midtown Bird provides cleaning services, private security, marketing and community and business events. The Midtown bid is even more critical now. During the pandemic last year, we provided to the small businesses over eight that $80,000 in micro grants to our small businesses. During the pandemic. About 50% of our small businesses are at risk for closing and are 85% of the businesses have permanently closed. I urge you to support the renewal of the Midtown bid to continue to provide economic recovery resources and to activate our neighborhood. Thank you. That concludes the public comment. Okay. Taking it back behind the rails, seeing no one else cued. Please vote. The motion is carried.

Recommendation to authorize an advance of payment expected to be owed under Management Agreement No. 21667 to ASM Global for operational expenses at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center due to COVID-19 impacts. (District 2)

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Mean. Thank you. Now we move to item 17. Clark, would you please read the item. Report from economic development recommendation to authorize an advance payment expected to be owned owed under management agreement to as and global for operational expenses at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center due to COVID 19 impacts. District two. Yes. You have a first and second on this. Councilman or Vice Mayor Andrews. This is Councilwoman Price. I'm happy. 2 seconds. Thank you. You have a first and second. Would you please as well. Can we on this one? Can we get a stop before. You want to? Okay, fine. We'll get a staff report on this, please. Yes, John Keisler will get the staff report. Good evening, Mayor, and members of the City Council. This item pertains to our operating agreement with SMG Global or formerly SMG. This is an agreement that's been in place for for a couple of decades now. And typically what happens each year is that there's a revenue share component which results in about a $500,000 surplus that is paid to the city. However, in years where operating costs exceed operating revenue, there might be a deficit. And it's very rare. But because of COVID 19, many, many events have been canceled. And as a result, there are still costs associated with utilities taking care of the building, maintenance, security, etc.. And so the convention center is reporting an operating loss to date. This action allows for us to advance some of the funds that we anticipate that we will be paying out toward the end of the year, because there are issues with cash flow for those things that are described, utilities, maintenance, etc.. So by taking this action, the Council will allow for city management to move forward with advancing some of those funds ahead of time. Currently, the projected deficit could be as high as 4.7 million by the end of the fiscal year. Right now, we're just requesting authority up to $3 million cash advance so that we can keep SMG solvent in helping to manage the building until that time. I'm happy to answer any questions and thank you for your support. Fine. Do you have any public comment on this item? Oh. Vice Mayor, I have some questions. Oh, excuse me. It's kind of a big item. I just wanted to hear from staff. What happens if we don't? And then also understand what other cities are doing with their convention centers. I'm just so we can have an understanding on that before we vote on it. So if we don't, we would be in violation of our agreement. It would be a legal dispute and it is clearly spelled out in the operating agreement. We have to do this. We haven't looked at other cities. Every city has different agreements with how they do this. This agreement is about 25 years old and it is nearing expiration. So we would certainly look at it going forward, maybe some different models. But, you know, it is something we're contractually obligated to do. All right. That's all I needed you to say for sure. Support. Brian Levin in public comment on this. There's no public comment on this item. I think we did well. District one. I. District two i. District three i. District four. All right. District five. It's District six. By. District seven. District eight. District nine. All right. Motion carries.

Consider Directing the City Manager to Immediately Hold a City Council Workshop on the Final Phase of the Bayport-Alameda Landing Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA)\Development Plan. (Councilmember Daysog) [Not heard on July 5 or 19, September 6 or 20, or October 4 or 18, 2016]

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And I hear constituents telling me that all the time. Thank you. All right. Now, nine C instead of directing. City manager to immediately hold a council workshop on the final phase. Of the bay for. Alameda Landing Disposition Development Agreement development. And this is member de SACS referral. Did you want to speak to. The quick comment that I have to make is that, you know, the reason why I raised this is that I saw it tell us kind of moving down the pike, along with the planning board in terms of coming up with visions and programs that were, in my opinion, not aligned with what we had contractual contractually agreed to . So I it was my feeling that we have to have a conversation as to whether or not we're going to stick to the contract first. This is our land and could tell us, quite frankly has excited from several projects several agreements with regard to Alameda landing and a I mean I'm okay with the Alameda landing shopping center but the reality is we had a different vision. Um, and now. My opinion, they're back on the final phase. So if they're going to do that, then they need to come to council first. It's a civil. Case. Okay. So that is going to make a motion. All right. An amendment? Yes, sir. If we take the word immediately out. That is correct. That is scheduled practically. But I agree. Second, and. Okay. If I can also make a final amendment to kind of maybe adopt the staff's proposed next steps. Maybe, maybe not January, but January or February, depending on the timing of all the other things. I'd have it separately. I think we decided in our conversations that we wanted to have this separately. The other one. Right. Yeah, but without a date. But soon. Like early February. I'm doing everything in June. We're not doing date specific right now. Yeah. I mean, it's link to tell. Us we can. Have it. Soon. Right. But we also haven't seen our agenda items. I'm just saying we're not doing date specific or taken out immediately. We're not doing date. Correct. All right. City manager, do you want to comment at all at this point and city attorney to maybe. And your point. That's clear. All right. So we had a motion, a couple of friendly amendments, all those in favor. A motion carried unanimously is what I heard there. All right. Thank you. And now we are on nine. D and this is a. Vice. Mayor's referral. Considered directing the city manager to have the Social Service, Human Relations Board, review city policies and procedures for any homeless in order to make recommendations to the City Council for Policy revisions.

Recommendation to request City Manager to work with City Attorney to draft a letter of support for the California state legislature’s proposal to place permanent protections for abortion rights into the California Constitution.

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Great. Thank you very much. We are we're going to continue the regular agenda. I know the cannabis items are over. If I can ask everyone to exit as as quiet as possible so we can continue the meeting. That would be great. Thank you so much. We're going to hear item 31, please. And then after 31, we're going to hear 19. Item 31 communication from Councilwoman Price, Councilwoman Allen, Councilwoman Sara recommendation to draft a letter of support for the California State Legislatures. Proposal to place permanent protections for abortion rights into the California Constitution. Okay. We're going to go ahead and move on to item 31. So I know that Councilman Price is is not able to be here, but we have a motion and a second. But Councilman Taro and Councilwoman Allen, Councilman Sorrell. Thank you, Mayor. I think that many of us have heard the potential of return of Roe versus Wade. And I actually want to thank the mayor, actually the county supervisor, President Mitchell, for bringing forward an item at the county level to ensure there's protection and that the mayor had offer to bring forward an item so that we as a city will work as a county to ensure we continue to protect women's reproductive health and their rights and to ensure there's justice for all women. And so I want to make sure that we thank our governor, as well as our Senate Pro Tem Atkins and Assembly Speaker Rendon for proposing at the state level. This, despite what may happen federally, that we will ensure there is protection permanently of women's reproductive rights and their right to abortion by making it permanent at the California state constitutional level. And more recently, I just want to thank Senator Gonzales for hosting a press conference with Attorney General California Attorney General Rob Bonta. And that was joined by my colleague, by our mayor, as well as Councilmember Sandia and Councilmember Urunga, that we will continue that that uplifted what our state leadership is committed to do. And so we want to thank Planned Parenthood as well, our advocacy group, for ensuring that we keep women's reproductive justice at the forefront. And, you know, and as well as having many of the advocates. So there it's just absolutely I want to reiterate our support at the city level that we continue to want to make sure that women here in Long Beach feel safe, it's a safe haven and that we continue to ensure all levels of resources provided for women to continue to have access to health care, abortion and whatever it is they need to ensure they can make the decision that is right for them and their family. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Allen. Thank you, Mayor. I can tell you that this item is very important to all of us on council, and it's also very important to our community. I also want to thank Councilmember Yarrawonga for already working on this through the State Ledge Committee. I know that means a lot to so many of us. The protection of woman's body and their right to choose is under attack at the highest level. Long Beach can and should lead in pushing for a codification of women's rights to choose and our Constitution. I have faith in the voters of our state to pass such a measure if the legislature places it on the ballot. I know that Supervisor Hahn is working on an abortion safe haven pilot program that will safeguard patient access to abortions regardless of residency. Senator Gonzalez offered S.B. 245 the Abortion Accessibility Act, which removes barriers to accessing abortion care. Our leaders at the county and the state level. Supervisor Janice Hahn and Senator Lena Gonzalez are are just such strong women leaders. And and I just personally want to just say thank you, thank you, thank you for all that you are doing to protect the women in our community and also protect those women who are coming here to seek refuge. Now I think it's time for our city to formally support further protections. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Richardson. Thank you. I think it's important that our city speak out loud and clearly in this moment. You know, we're in a state where people will, you know, come to our state to seek safe haven. And I think we need to show leadership in this moment because the reality is you you can't dictate free will. What people what's happening is and is an erosion of a protection of of health opportunity to have safe access to women's reproductive rights. And so we have to protect that. And I think cities have a responsibility of stepping up. I want to thank everyone who's shown leadership in this moment, Governor Newsom, on proposing the proposal for the state constitutional amendment. Senator Gonzalez, for showing leadership in Attorney General Bonta for coming to Long Beach locally. Mayor Garcia, Janice Hahn for leading at the county level. Councilman Durango for taking this action last week at the state led committee to for the city of Long Beach to formally support taking this step. I think Long Beach needs to be on the right side here. And so, you know, I think all of our council members, everybody has been on the right side. And we need to speak clearly as a city and show our show solidarity. And so I'm happy to support this. Three. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, ma'am. I would like to add my unequivocal support to this item as well. Obviously, we need to speak with a unified, collective voice to stand up for women's reproductive rights. Not only for our city, but our state and our entire country. I'm going to read a statement prepared on behalf of Councilmember Price, who couldn't be here because she obviously has tested positive for COVID and we give her our very best wishes. Her statement reads as follows. Unfortunately, I'm not able to join the city council meeting tonight after testing positive yesterday. However, I still want to speak on this item. I would like to thank my colleagues for signing on to the item with me. Tonight, we seek to take action in support of women's rights to choose reports proposing that the Supreme Court are planning to undo 50 years of legal precedent are why I put this issue on the city council agenda tonight. We must ensure Long Beach is doing everything it can for vulnerable women and to support protecting the rights of women in California. As women, we must support others and raise up the voices and experiences of overlooked women. We owe it to one another to stand up, not just for ourselves before our fellow women who deserve to have their rights protected and have their access to safe reproductive health care. These are my values and the values we should defend for women here in Long Beach and all across America. If we stand together, our rights can be protected. Thank you. So that's a Councilmember Price's comments. And this item has my full support as well. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman's in the house. Thank you. I just want to deter all the comments that have been made by my colleagues. I think that this is a very important time for us to unite and to. Just be able to support women all over. It's also very important that we stand strong because we really need to protect this because I could see a down downfall from this. And it's it's really important for us to stay together and stay on message and make sure that we we come united and that we stand strong together on this. And I'm just very thankful that we're all like it's been said before here tonight on the same side. Thank you. Thank you. Let me just say a few comments and then we'll go to public comment. One is I just want to just echo what everyone has said. When we had a chance to gather a few days ago, I wanted to reiterate that abortion care is health care. It's incredibly important that at this moment that the city takes a formal position to support this incredibly important constitutional amendment. I want to commend the governor and the pro tem and the speaker for move this forward to the legislature. I do want to thank Councilwoman Price for bringing this forward today to Councilwoman Sorrow, to Councilwoman Allen for bringing this forward today and for their, you know, unified support for abortion, access for for partners at Planned Parenthood, and to ensuring that all women that all people have access to care, that is support, and really to to being able to to live in a community and in a country that supports them and their and their freedom to make those choices. I want to also just add that I'm really thankful. Mr. Modica, you had released an update to the request that we had made a few months ago. It's no secret that we've been anticipating this moment, unfortunately, for for many months. And so with our Planned Parenthood partners, the city partnered with L.A. County as well, because we have our own health department to put in place a series of of measures that we're working on to better prepare and assist women that are going to be looking to do these services, and that we need to do a better job as a city to prepare for this moment. And so we've put in place and are working towards enhanced medical training for the community. Budgetary improvements and and expansions work for additional workforce training for, for our partners and a unit for our referral system. And these are all programs that we're working with, with Planned Parenthood compared to Los Angeles, who our partners are here. And I want to just thank them for their advocacy, but also, most importantly, just for operating a incredibly important clinic and center that they have here in Long Beach, which is widely used by the community and that we're very, very supportive of and grateful that they're here in the city. And finally, I just want to say that the city taking this position puts us, I think, in the in the in the category of of of early action on any cities in the state to formally endorse this constitutional amendment. And so I'm really proud of that. And I'm hopeful that we can continue our advocacy and then as a city, lean in on what will be a very important effort to to codify this into our Constitution and more broadly, work into codifying Roe. Of course, at the at the federal level, which which needs, of course, in this moment to happen more than ever. And with that, we have a motion in a second. I want to turn this over to public comment. So I'm going to ask the following speakers or please come forward. We have Jacob O'Donnell, Dave Shukla, Jamie Kinnock and Kathleen Puder. Good evening. My name is Jacob O'Donnell, field representative to State Senator Lina Gonzales as Senator Gonzales, thanks Mayor Garcia and the City Council for your collective support for reproductive justice. As you know, in response to the Supreme Court's draft decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the state legislature is working to codify the right to an abortion within our state constitution. This legislative action will strengthen California's health care access to safe and legal abortions, which are among the strongest in our nation, including SB 245, the Abortion Accessibility Act, authored by Senator Gonzalez, which was enacted this year. And it requires all state licensed health care plans to cover the cost of abortion services without a co-payment deductible or any type of cost sharing agreement, effectively eliminating the cost barrier. Senator Gonzales urges your support on item 31. And thank you. Thanks you for your advocacy to ensure California remains a reproductive freedom state. Thank you. Good evening. I'd just like to thank the three council women who brought this item forward and urge you to support it and pass it. Um, it's important that this city, uh, take early action to defend, uh, these, uh, very basic and fundamental rights. This is an issue of considerable importance and concern to me and my family. And I'm grateful in this moment to live in Long Beach. Thank you. Hi all. Jamie Kinetic, public affairs specialist with the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project. Great to see a lot of you. Again, I'm here in support of item 31. I just wanted to say thank you all to this council for your active role in protecting reproductive justice. And most recently, with your action declaring Long Beach a haven city for reproductive health care. Thank you to Councilmembers Price, Allard and Farrow for authoring this motion. It is deeply appreciated. And just as we see these rights eroded at a national level, it's really important that we at a state and local level are here to step up and to really meet this moment. So very excited to be here, very excited for your partnership, and thank you again for your support on this motion. Hello, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Kate Improver. I am the president of Stonewall Young Democrats for Los Angeles County, and I'm also a volunteer for the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project. Perhaps strong supports agenda item 31. California cannot and will not stand idly by as women. People who can get pregnant are stripped of their rights, and progress is erased that so many have fought for as a result of this leaked opinion. California must work to protect this right and enshrine it in our state constitution to further affirm to all people across the country that California will remain a safe haven state for reproductive rights. I want to thank council members Pryce, Allen and Sara for your support on this and to all of you for your continued support. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. I'm thinking especially especially to our Planned Parenthood partners and friends. I appreciate your especially in this moment. We do have a motion in a second. Please cast your votes. Motion is carried. Thank you very much. We will now move to item 19.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending Ordinance No. ORD-13-0016 extending for six (6) months the temporary limitation (moratorium) on the issuance of entertainment permits and/or business licenses for businesses that operate with a Type 48 ABC License or related permit in the Downtown Dining and Entertainment District; declaring the urgency thereof; and declaring that this ordinance shall take effect immediately, read and adopted as read. (Ordinance No. ORD-14-0011) (District 2)

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Item one report from City Manager Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the hearing. Adopt an urgency ordinance amending ordinance number 13 Dash zero zero 16 extending for six months a temporary limitation on the issuance of entertainment permits and or business licenses for business with Type 848 ABC licenses in the Downtown Dining and Entertainment District , Red and red adopted as red and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading, declaring the urgency thereof and declaring this ordinance shall take effect immediately. District two. If you asked. Our assistant city manager, Joe Martin. Mayor Garcia, members of the city council, Rachel Tanner with the city manager's office, has been working with a task force of downtown stakeholders and will provide a staff report. Mayor, members of the City Council. Good evening. The Downtown Dining and Entertainment. District Task District is an area bounded by Third. Street. And Ocean Boulevard on the north and south and by Pacific and Long Beach boulevards. On the east and west. It also includes the pike at Rainbow Harbor and Shoreline Village, as you can see here in the slide. The council piloted. The district in 2005 and established it on a permanent basis in 2008. The district establishes consistent hours and operating conditions for businesses requesting entertainment permits. Last August, the City Council initiated a one year moratorium against the issuance of entertainment permits in the district for businesses under a Type 48 ABC license. Type 48 licenses typically associated with a. Nightclub that his city council directed. The city manager to use the one year pause to. Conduct an evaluation of the policies governing permits in the district. Following council direction, the city manager assembled a task force of downtown stakeholders to participate in the evaluation and recommend changes. The task force includes owners and operators of entertainment venues in the district, as well as downtown residents and property owners. City staff and the task force met regularly seeking. To balance the needs of various users. In particular, the task. Force wanted to encourage both entertainment venues and residential developments to locate in. The district while minimizing any conflict between the different uses. Recommendations that will improve the. District have been developed. And the task force believes. That the recommendations must be vetted. By a larger group of downtown stakeholders before. Being presented to the City Council and codified. Therefore, the task force requests a six month extension of the moratorium to allow sufficient time to complete a public engagement process. That process includes a public forum taking place next week on the 21st of August, as well as. Opportunities to provide written comment via. Online or email. After gathering input, the task force will meet to consider how best to incorporate the feedback and will then submit the recommendations to the City Council for Approval and Referral to Planning Commission to amend Chapter 21 of the Long Beach Municipal Code. Following Planning Commission approval, the City Attorney will return to the City Council with an ordinance for adoption and as you can see by the anticipated dates in the slide. We do hope that we can complete this process quickly and hopefully expedite it so it can be shorter than the six months requested. This concludes my report and I'm available to answer any questions. Thank you. Turn this over now to Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I was wondering if I'd like to make the motion to move the item and also seek public comment before I make some remarks. Excellent. He's been in motion in a second by Councilmember Austin. We're going to turn this over to public comment on the item. Mr. Mayor, as vice mayor, on many occasions, I have had problems getting home. Oh. My name is Ben Rockwell. I live at 475 West Fifth Street here in Long Beach. On many occasions, I've had troubles trying to get home from events such as a Long Beach Symphony or the Long Beach Symphony Pops because of the fact that our sidewalks along Pine Avenue are so cluttered with people trying to get into some of the venues, they are blocking the sidewalks completely for pedestrian traffic and especially for those of us that use wheelchairs because we are not able to get by. And some of the people literally tried to push me off the curb out into the middle of the street because of our insistence that they have to have the sidewalk strictly for waiting to get into some of the entertainment venues, some of the night clubs along Pine Avenue. I find this abhorrent that we don't have more politeness for people that need to get through on their way from a venue to their home, which is also in Long Beach and fact in the downtown. I don't use public transportation to get from the symphony home because it's too short a distance and it takes longer to use a bus than it does from my home. So I appreciate having the moratorium so that we can have a better chance to make our city better. Thank you. Thank you. Can I get. I got pretty good. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. My name is Craig. Koch, and I serve as the president and CEO of the downtown Long Beach. Associates. I'd like to thank Vice Mayor Lowenthal and her chief of staff, Brock Coward City Long Beach Project Specialist Rachel Tanner, who recently assumed the responsibility as lead staff liaison for this project and the members of the Downtown Dining and Entertainment District Task Force, especially Miss Laura Cat Ivana, who also serves as a residential representative from Council District one on the DARPA Board of Directors for their contribution to this project based on the approaching deadline of the original 12 month moratorium, which I believe is today, and despite the initiative's delayed start and a limited options that are at this point that we have at this point, the DVA supports the recommended action presented this evening . We look forward to working with Ms. Tanner and appropriate city staff, the task force members and the Downtown Staker. Stakeholders to. Expeditiously resolve any outstanding matters. That may exist before precede proceeding through the. Various public engagement and approval processes necessary to codify the proposed new. Ordinance. I'm hoping that we can get this done in a matter of 90 days. Perhaps 120, rather than a six months. I appreciate. Your support, and I thank again those volunteers. For their time to create a better downtown. And we look forward to working with everyone to get this. Get the business. Back on track. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, and city council members. My name is Eric Carr and I'm a resident at 133, the Promenade, which is right in the heart of the entertainment district. And I also had the privilege of being on the Entertainment District Task Force, and I just wanted to come in front of city council to let you know that since our first meeting, we have made considerable progress in this endeavor of coming to a resolution. This both beneficial for the business community and the residential community here in the downtown area. And at this point in time, we just feel that we really need to have some time to do the due diligence of getting that public feedback from both the residents and the business community before we move forward. We present to the City Council, so we just want to support the vice mayor, support a motion to extend this ordinance. Thank you. Thank you, Casey. No other public speakers on the item. Oh, you are your public speaker on this item. Yes. Oh, I didn't it. Please come. Forward. I'm sorry. I'm sitting down. This is about the entertainment. What's it called exactly? Please identify yourself for the record. Sure. Peter Rosenwald, my address is on file. The item is on an extension of. Of a moratorium for the dining and entertainment district. Yes. Concerning the dining and entertainment district, I have been taking note of the activities at 309 Pine Avenue. It's it's the city of Long Beach building, but it says Small Business Development Center and Center for International Trade. About three or four weeks ago, there was some stationery announcing some meetings of this particular organization. Different nights in June, I believe June and July. There was no phone number on the on this particular, the stationery, city stationery. The building appears to be deserted. I have reported this twice to the Long Beach City College, Long Beach Community. College District Board of Trustees. Stating that it's a disgrace to have a building such as this in a business district which is depressed as it is with so many empty storefronts. And I asked that at least the phone number and contact information for the Small Business Development Center and the Center for International Trade be posted on the building at the last community sorry, a community college district meeting. MZ The head of the the department, Lou Ann Bynum, came up to me after the meeting and she stated that it's not their building, but they do have meetings there. I don't understand how the city of Long Beach can have a building and right next to it, up until maybe ten days ago, there was a boarded up storefront at 311 Pine Avenue. It's now for lease. I don't understand how the city of Long Beach is trying to develop its business and entertainment success by having this poor. Representative of the business. Of business. Business development sitting right there and I have not been able to get any changes. Ms.. Bynum told me that she was going to take a look at it, but I had announced this also at a previous meeting of the board. Thank you. I see that you've just finish up the sentence approximately five weeks ago. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. I hope you can do something about it. Thank you. See you. Thank you. Time is up. Thank you. Okay. No more public comment on the item. There is the city attorney. Give a comment. Mayor Garcia, members of the city council. This action will require two separate votes. The first vote is on the urgency of the matter so that the audience can take effect immediately starting tomorrow, so that the moratorium will remain in effect. And the second vote is on the extension itself. Great. So we'll take the first vote. There's been a motion. Mr. Mayor. Garcia, I just wanted to make sure. I wanted to see how many of the task force members were in the audience. I know. I recognize one and two. There we go. Okay. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you both, as well as the other task force members for your service so far and for attending tonight's meeting. It's been quite a commitment that all of you have put into this effort, and I know you are invested in it, and I know you're very busy just professionally and personally, but you've also been very busy over these last several months with this particular task. I appreciate everyone's comments that have come through the task force, the deliberation that's taken place, and then the speakers that came forward today to provide some comment. And it is important that we take this time for the task force to reach out to the different stakeholders and receive feedback and make changes to their recommendation. I think it's really very encouraging about that process and the deliberative process that you've taken is that you recognize that some additional time is needed. So for that, I thank you and for the honesty that goes into that in recognizing that something this important does take time. And while we initially thought we could take care of it in a certain time period, we realized that we couldn't just by going through it. So I appreciate you for that. And for those that are not here participating in this council meeting and that have served on the task force, as well as participated as members of the stakeholder community to support the task force and their deliberation, I very much appreciated. So with that, I'd like to make the first motion. I think we've already made that motion right there. We have the motion on the floor. And so with that and will be a second motion after the first vote. So the first motion that's on the floor has been made. Members, please go and cast your votes. Motion carries eight zero. Okay. And then you take a second vote. Vice Mayor want to make that motion? I'd like to go ahead and make that motion. The second piece of it. I'm sorry, would you remind me? Second piece is to actually adopt the ordinance? Absolutely. So I'd make the motion to adopt the ordinance. Okay. There's been a second by Councilman Austin, and we had public comment for both, Mr. Attorney. So I think that that worked out fine. Good. And with that, please, members. Gordon, cast your votes. Motion carries eight zero. Okay. Thank you. Moving on now to budget item I'm sorry, hearing item number three, which is a continuation of our budget hearing. So if we want to, Madam Clerk, read that.

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services or the Director’s designee to execute a series of four five-year leases (each conferring upon the tenant a five-year option to renew) with existing Seattle Municipal Tower restaurant/retail tenants: Sin Taek Chang and Jin Won Chang d/b/a Amigos! & Beba’s; Hunjo Jung and Na Young Lee d/b/a Chew Chew’s Eatery; RVJ Corporation, Inc., a Washington corporation, d/b/a Core Bistro; and Daniel Y. Kim and Michelle H. Kim, d/b/a Treasures and Gifts; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Bill pass and share with Senate. Please read a joint item number 29. Read the short title, please. Agenda item 29 Cancel 1190 65 authorizing and Director of Finance, Administrative Services or the director designee to execute a series of five excuse me for five year leases with existing Seattle municipal tower restaurants retail tenants can be recommends the bill pass. Just from Burgess. Thank you. This is an extension of leases in the Seattle municipal tower across fifth Avenue. These are for retail establishments that are operating in the municipal tower and this legislation continues their leases. So we will all be able to go across the street and buy lunch there. Any further comments? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill on. Bagshaw I should I thank you. Burgess Hi. Gonzalez I. Johnson Whereas I. O'Brien So I. President Harrow high aide in favor and unopposed. Bill passed the chair of the Senate. Please read the report of the Education, Equity and Governance Committee.

A resolution for approving a proposed Second Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and SII, LLC to increase the maximum contract amount and extend the term. Adds two years and $481,750 to a contract with SII, LLC for a new total contract amount of $980,155 and a new end date of 12-31-19 for continued portfolio integration management services for the National Western Center campus development project including the project master plan development, program facility development, and facility program documents and procurement documents for the delivery of the project (201520513-02). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 2-27-17. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 1-10-17.

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All right. Madam Secretary, will you be able to. You said 17. For the record, 17 000 to. 17 zero 0 to 4. A vote comes from ago. Gilmore, would you please put Resolution 17 0002 on the floor for adoption? Yes, Mr. President. I move that resolution, resolution 000, to be placed on the floor for final adoption. Okay. It has been moved and seconded comes by members of council. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah, sort of in the public comment prior to this, there was a an employee who's been before council several times before with certain grievances about pay rates and pay scales and whatnot. And, and I can appreciate that. But I do think the city does as good a job as any in being fair. That said, this is a contract that is for $480,000 for three years for a part time work up to 20 hours a week, which just seems it just you know, I don't know if that is, in fact, the going rate of that skill set that was not presented to us at committee. So but it does seem like an egregious amount of money for one person for a part time job. And so for that reason, I will was asking for a vote so I can vote. No, thank you. Okay, Councilman. Councilman Ortega. So two things. First, I'd like to ask Kelly lead if you would please come forward and address the issue raised by Councilman Espinosa. And then I have a question as well. Okay. Hello and good evening. My name is Kelly LEED. I'm the executive director of the Mayor's Office of the National Action Center, overseeing the implementation of the Ash Monster Project on behalf of the city. So the question if I understand the question, it's specific to the rate. So just I think it's important to have a little context with this this contract in particular. So when we were when the literally it was just myself and a couple people and we were challenged with the idea of trying to put before the state our Regional Tourism Act application. We had to assemble a team to pull that document together and some of the things that we had to do were building out an estimate of probable costs and understanding some of the entertainment venues. Certainly I have some of that experience, but it was important that we had someone that was had done it more, more recently than I and was more connected to the market. So long story short, this firm had actually done some work previously for arts and venues and had done some work on the Coliseum for APD. And so through that I met the owner of the company and and ended up being able to include him in some work to help us get through that art, which ultimately led to the largest grant approval by the state, 121 million that goes into the kitty to to make that project happen. Specific to your question, though, I will tell you that the expertize that this firm brings and Eric Schifrin in particular is invaluable for us advancing this program, which is, as many of you know, is very complicated and very complex with a lot of moving parts. And you would not be able to bring on, in my humble opinion, having done this now for some 20 plus years, someone that would be willing to work part time on an on a task order basis to deliver the the value we're going to get out of the expertize that this firm will bring to our project. Because the decisions we're going to make for which this firm will help us deliver this project are in the tens of millions of dollars in terms of the impact those decisions will have. So I would tell you that, again, in my humble opinion, that the contract is of great value to the city and one that I would have not put forward before this council if I did not believe that were the fact. Because we weren't taking them. So, Kelly, the question I wanted to ask you about the funds that cover the cost of this contract, are they, in fact, coming out of the 800 million that was voter approved or is this general fund money? These are not these are not general fund dollars. These are part of the $856 million project that was approved by the voters of Denver. Great. Thank you. That. Okay, Councilman. Councilman Flynn. Thank, Mr. President. Mostly a comment on what Kelly wants to. Speak to it. But I just want to point out that, again, the uncanny ability of some of our agencies to put out the initial contracts just below the half million dollar threshold that would have to come to us. This seems like a project that we should have known. Our contract that we should have known would go beyond half million dollars. And here we are with a team already in place. I don't want to say that our hands are tied because we can always vote no, but we have a team already in place and it practically compels us to keep them on the job. And that's a position that I'm very uncomfortable with. And I would like to to find a path forward where we don't have to have this situation. Thank you. Okay. Just let the public know this was in committee. We had a full discussion on this. And this brings the expertize to probably one of the most complex projects that we've had in a long time. I'll be voting yes as it lies in a fine District nine. All right, Madam Secretary. Rocco Espinosa. No. Flynn, I Gillmor I Herndon Cashman can eat new Ortega I Sussman I Black Clerk. Hi. Mr. President. I please close voting and announce the results. 11 eyes, one nay. 11 eyes, one nay. Council Bill. I'm sorry. Resolution 0002 has been adopted. Now, did I miss anyone else? Four bills being called out. I looked down the row real quick. Okay. All other bills for introduction are now court ordered published. We are now ready for the block vote on resolutions and bills on final consideration. Council members, please remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, it's your last chance to call a random person provoked. Councilwoman Gilmore, would you please put the resolutions for adoption on the floor and on final consideration and the final passage on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move that resolutions be adopted and bills on final consideration be placed upon final consideration and do pass and a block for the following items. 00610062. Six three. 1247 1248. 0047. 00480052. 0030004650 1239. 0059. 00600064. 0049005500560057. Oh 58. Okay. I think we missed a couple here. You're right. On to 0060. Oh, sorry. Yeah. And the next one is 0064. All right. Let me move back up here. All right. Sorry, I'm having to scroll through everything here. So, 006400492. No, not 4929. Yeah. Those are the ones on final consideration. You want to help? Sorry. She has she actually has a different screen. She screen is. Yeah, you're having. To scroll through. Everything is mine. Okay, let me get you in the right spot. So. All right. Thank you. 640029. 42, 43, 24, 33, 39. And I think that covers it. That covers it, Madam Secretary. We didn't put a series of 2000 1617. That's okay. Right there at 17. Is that correct? Okay. Should be okay. Thank you. Councilman Espinosa, teamwork makes your dream work. It's been moved in second at roll call. Madam Secretary, black tie. Clark Espinosa. Hi. Flynn. Hi, Gilmore. I printed I. Cashman. I can eat new Ortega. I Susman. Mr. President. I police clothes. Very nice. Results of ice. 12 Ice. The resolutions have been adopted and bills have been placed upon final consideration. Do pass. Tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 1166 change the zoning classification from 16 zero one West Jewel Avenue.

Recommendation to receive Charter Commission appointments and reappointments approved by the Government, Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee pursuant to Section 509 of the City Charter and Section 2.03.065 of the Long Beach Municipal Code.

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Thinking that we're doing the two commission items. We'll start with the charter commission item and then the general commission item, which is 17 and 15. Communication from Council Member Super Nature of Government Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee Recommendation to receive Charter Commission appointment and reappointment approved by the Government Personnel and Elections Oversight Committee. There's also a. Communication from city attorney recommendation to adopt a resolution making findings. Now. I'm sorry. Just item. 17 recommendation to receive the charter commission. Appointments. Thank you. Councilman. Okay. Thank you. We would like approval of this motion from the committee. Thank you. Thank you. And as we as we approve this, I want to go ahead and just read a little bit like we have traditionally have about each county commissioner. I know that pre-COVID, most of our commissioners would come to the council meetings. There might be a few of them that are here for their appointment. If they are, feel free to to stand or wave over or give us a wave. We know most are at home watching, but I wanted to still recognize them and read their their short bio as we appoint them to the Citizens Police Complaint Commission. We are appointing Michael Soto. Michael Soto as a Council District three resident and has called on him for over a decade. He is a police special investigator with the Office of Inspector General, which provides oversight to the Los Angeles Police Department on behalf of the L.A. Police Commission. Michael is also an attorney in California and is practice law in the area of criminal defense for over ten years, primarily as a deputy public defender in both L.A. and Orange County. Michael is a graduate of CAO of University of California, Hastings College of Law. I'm sorry. You refer to California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Also, we were also pointing to the Citizens Complaint Commission, a Dr. Mary to Harry. Dr. Mary to Harry is a resident of Council District four and is currently working as a clinical director nurse practitioner for the L.A. County Department of Health Services. Mary's also served as a sexual assault forensic nurse, completing exams and collecting forensic evidence for both victims and suspects in collaboration with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Dr. Harry holds a doctorate in nurse practice from the University of California, San Francisco. And also being appointed is Michael Bates. Michael Bates is a Council District six resident. He currently works as a design and environmental consulting engineer and the technical services. Mr. Bates previously served on the city's Board of Examiners Appeals and Condemnation as a member and later as chair. Michael holds a B.A. of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in Indiana and also Michelle Anderson. Michelle Anderson of the Council District eight resident. She is a prosecutor with the city of Los Angeles, working at the deputy city attorney and the L.A. City Attorney's Office. Michelle is a member of the Sierra Club, Black Women Lawyers, Negro Lumbee chapter and is active in many other organizations. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Irvine and a Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. Being appointed to the Planning Commission is Alvaro Castillo. Alvaro is a fifth District Council resident. He previously served on the Airport Advisory Commission. Mr. Castillo, the small business owner and a parent of two L.B. Unified School District students, he is employed by the extended Stay America by In America as a divisional director for Human Resources in the Western US, yielding a bachelor's and master's degree from Cal State Long Beach in Business Admin , where he continues to be involved in alumni activities. Being appointed to the water commission is Courtney Pugh. Courtney is a second district resident and Courtney has lived in Long Beach for over a decade. She's a partner at the nationwide public affairs firm and leads her California operation. Prior to that, Courtney spent over a decade working for organized labor and was the first woman and Asian-American to serve in many roles, including as the executive director of SEIU California and the political director for the L.A. County Federation of Labor. She graduated with a B.A. from Bell State University in Indiana. Our re appointments are to the Harbor Commission. Bobby Olvera and Frank Colonna both being reappointed and to the Citizen Police Complaint Commission, Veronica Garcia and Danny Buchanan. And also being reappointed is to our Ethics Commission, Margot Morales, James Shotwell and Susan Wyatt. So those are all of our charter appointments. I'm not sure if any of them are here as I read their names. I know we're not generally generally for during COVID. We don't have folks coming or anyone here in case we want to stand. Yeah, please stand. If I called your name. Oh, yeah, I see some of you aren't here, actually. Let's give them a round of applause, and I'm going to have you guys just come forward in just a minute. But thank you all for being here. And I mean, honestly, you're just an incredibly impressive group of individuals. Just really, really proud to appoint all of you. We're going to do the additional commissioners in just a minute. But we've got to do that. These these charter commissioners first. Captain Boston. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I just want to take this opportunity to say how proud I am to second the motion, also to serve on the committee that made the approval for these charter commission appointments and welcome all these new commissioners and reappointed commissioners to their roles and respective roles. I know that on the CBC we are putting forth from some very strong and competent individuals who are going to have a big job in front of them because this commission is going to go under some dramatic change over the next year or so. And so I thought it was very important to make some recommendations, at least on my end, for somebody who was going to be very strong. And I want to just take this opportunity to congratulate the eighth District representative. There's Michelle Anderson. I know you're doing very, very well, but congratulate everyone in the hall. This is this is a great responsibility. Charter commissions are part of our Constitution, I guess, is the city. And the role that you have are extremely important. So. Thank you. Thank you, councilman. Councilman. Sorry. Thank you. I just want to congratulate to all the commissioners who have been appointed and reappointed. And one is just thank Michael Bates for serving to represent the sixth District for the Citizen Police Complaint Commission. Appreciate your service and stepping up for the for for this and to all of you for your time and your service to the city. Thank you. Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I, too, want to congratulate everyone. I know that the representative from the third Council District for the PCC is someone with whom I've had the. Pleasure to work with on the opposite side. Of the courtroom. And he will bring to the PCC, I. Think, a very balanced approach, having been a public, having served as a public defender for so many. Years, and now being involved in police reform. And police investigative issues. I think he's going to be a fantastic addition. So congratulations. Michael. I think you're going. To do a great job. Thank you. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Please cast your vote on these commissioners. Motion is carried. Great. Congratulations to all of you. And just we're going to take a photo, so just hold on 1/2 if you can just stay here. Thank you all very much. And now I want to we have the next item, which is our general commissioner's.

Recommendation to conduct a study session to receive a presentation on The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (Metro) Ballot Measure M: Traffic Improvement Plan, and its potential impact on Long Beach.

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October 14th, our newest Hall of Fame member, Councilmember Ella Alston. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. So, Madam Clerk, we're going to go to item number 26. We're taking this out of order, but we have at 5:00 time certain. Would you mind reading item number 26. Recommendation to conduct a study session to receive a presentation on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authorities ballot measure M traffic improvement plan and its potential impact on Long Beach. Thank you. So we've allocated 30 minutes for the study session. It'll begin with a 10,000,010 minute staff report from Diana Tang, followed by Signal Hill Councilmember Larry Forester and Diane Hight from the Gateway Cities Council of Governments, who will be allotted 5 minutes. Then the then Stephanie Wiggins, deputy CEO of Metro, who will be a light at 5 minutes, then public comment. So we want to thank our guests, Councilman Forester, Miss Hite, Miss Wiggins, for joining us. We appreciate your time. So let's begin with the staff report. Thank you, Vice Mayor, for the staff report. You will hear from our government affairs manager, Diana Tang. They are members of the City Council. Thank you for this opportunity to provide you with a general overview of Measure M, which is the Metro Board of Directors Sales Tax Measure to fund regional transportation initiatives. So we have for you a PowerPoint presentation tonight that should be coming up shortly. And in this PowerPoint, we'll be going over just a quick introduction of of the ballot measure, which is an extension of Measure R, and it should be queuing up. As we speak here. Those of you I'm sure you all remember measure. Our measure are has funded a number of street improvements in each of your districts. Local streets and roads has helped repave some some of the streets in your neighborhoods and is a vital source of funding for public works. There we are measure. Measure M Centers, County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, sales tax measure. So here we go. I will do an introduction, as I said, a background to Measure R and then we'll go into the details of the current ballot measure that voters will be voting on in November. Measure M proposes to increase the local sales tax in L.A. County by 1%. It also would extend Measure R, the existing half cent sales tax in L.A. County indefinitely. So both of these measures together will provide Metro with a $0.01 sales tax to fund regional transportation initiatives. And the ballot measure also includes an expenditure plan, which we will take a quick look at as well. Just to recap on Measure R in L.A. County, this ballot measure has funded a number of regional improvements, including the Expo Line, the Gold Line, the Regional Connector Project in downtown L.A. that connects Union Station with a number of different light rail lines throughout L.A. County. And then also improvements that you're seeing currently on the I-5 freeway are all Measure R projects. In Long Beach. As I've mentioned earlier, a number of streets in each of your districts have been paved using this type of revenue source. For example, Park Avenue from Pacific Coast Highway to Atherton eighth Street, from Freeman Avenue to Gladys Avenue. The list goes on and I'm sure there are a number that you know of in your district that are not enumerated on this slide. So moving forward, Measure R does expire in 2039 and Metro has identified a number of regional needs that exist now. And without funding going into the future, there could potentially be a shortage of revenues to address some of the major infrastructure projects that would really benefit the region. So as I mentioned before, Measure M includes an expenditure plan. It also projects that are included in Measure M were evaluated by Metro using a performance metric matrix that you see up there that places a pretty high value on using congestion. Nobody likes sitting in traffic on the freeways. And so it appears that that that is weighted at 45%. A number of other criteria that Metro has included in their performance matrix include safety, economic benefits, sustainability, all weighted at slightly less, but still in that performance matrix nonetheless. So what has been proposed in measure are a number of major projects, including the culvert, a tunnel valued at about $7 billion, the West Wing and a transit corridor project at about 2.5 million West Side, Purple and extension, Gold Line extension and the Crenshaw Line extension. These are all light rail extensions in L.A. County, in and around the region, but not in Long Beach. So what is in Long Beach? In Long Beach, a half cent sales tax, as you know, will likely generate about 24 million in in the city of Long Beach. And major projects that we will be eligible for in this funding source will fund improvements to Shoemaker Bridge as an early action I 710 project the Islip and ten Freeway later on in later years in the ballot measure a Wardlow grade separation as as you all know the Wardlow station off the blue line is one of a one of the worst stations that has been rated by Berkeley. And so safety improvements at that location do need to be made. Metro recognizes that, and we've had a number of conversations related to the where the grade separation project. Overall investments in blue line safety are also a part of the ballot measure. Safety on the blue line and other lines in in the ballot measure are all included as operations and maintenance and then potential light rail connecting the green line and the blue line in downtown Long Beach and that residents can get to L.A.X. This is also in there. One thing that we are looking forward to is a direct local return. The measure ballot measure proposes a 17% local return to all cities. Long Beach is expecting approximately 7 million annually from this revenue source. The 17% is an increase from the current 15% local return that we'd get from Measure R so and also based on population. So both of those items are in in Measure M and good for a Long Beach. And so similar to the type of local return revenues that we get currently for measure, our local return for Measure M could be used for streets and roads, active transportation projects, green streets that include stormwater complete streets, the bicycle boulevards that you see, public access to recreational facilities and then transit oriented communities as well. So just a quick look at the funding source or the funding revenues that we can expect you'll see there, measure our revenues. We get about 5.5 in local return annually and that's based on a 15% local return. Allow me to translate currently gets a 20% return as a transit operator in the region. If measure impasses we will get the city of Long Beach will get about 6.7 million or approximately 7 million based on a 17% local return. So in total, that's we're looking close to $12.2 million. And similar to in measure our measure M includes 20% return for me to transit the bringing their total to 8.2. And so before I conclude my presentation, the board of directors did vote to place this ballot measure on the November ballot in June, and voters will be voting on this November 8th. And with that, I'm available for questions if we don't go to presentations from the cog in Metro First. And Vice Mayor, if I can add to the presentation. Clearly, Mr.. Mr. Hang and Arturo Sanchez have been very, very involved in their staff, have been involved in working with Metro and looking at this measure and trying to make sure that if anything is put on the ballot that Long Beach's projects are are on the table and that they're considered as part of the overall strategy. So I want to thank them for their efforts. Thank you so much. And so, Mr. Modica, Ms.. Tang, thank you for that presentation. We're going to move forward to the first of our of our guests tonight, which will be Signal Hill Council member Larry Forester and Diane Hight from the Gateway Cities card. So let's queue up. Once again, I'll just remind folks, we, you know, we have a certain amount of time allocated here. So we're going to set up the 5 minutes on the map. And our guests have been are prepared for that. So let's go ahead and get started. Well, first of all, I want to say thank you for welcoming the Gateway COG to present. I am Councilmember Larry Forester from the city of Signal Hill, a member of the COG. I have a PowerPoint. I think you will have a copy of it in front of you. Okay. Let's look at the measure itself. This is what's stated on the ballot book. I would be remiss if I didn't tell you that myself and nine other cities sued against this, said it didn't meet current election law, and the judge ruled on a very narrow ruling that this was not put on by the populace so they could put anything they wanted. The Gateway COC voted to oppose the measure in 2000. July of 2016. Oh, I jumped over all the measure. M Where it's going to go. But when we voted to oppose it, the Gateway Cities looked at that measure and said it's priorities for new tax revenue or ignoring many of our cities in the cog in the South Bay. That was confirmed when both in Councilmember Diane De Voice and Supervisor Duncan Harvey voted against it, both on the MTA board. The modeling project moves some projects in different locations, some out almost 40 years. We felt that that was not what Measure R had said. The reconsideration has resulted in multimodal operations for the Gateway Cities that were leapfrogged by many other projects, and this given federal funding is a jump. Outside of the gateway card. It simply is not geographically equitable. Nor is it fair to our residents. Who will be funding these projects for decades before they see a benefit. Under the measure, I-5, which is now stopping and downhill, will go no further. I-405 i6 oh five i7 ten year end and the other end of both won't be completed for 30 to 40 years, despite recent offers of commitment from the regional mayor. It is not written, and I must emphasize that I'm here because what's in the measure. Is what the. Citizens are voting on, not the promises being made to us today. The City of Signal Hill and other cities, its commerce, El Segundo, La mirada and industry pay a disproportionate amount on this tax. When I look at and say Signal Hill, we are high. Sales tax, donate 7 million. We get 168,000 back. That's 2%. You get 23 to 26% back. With that. I just want to summarize that this is something that I personally can't support. Take the Hill City Council voted a week ago Tuesday to not support it. I can't support it because it's not fair to the residents of the Southeast, nor to the residents of the South Bay. I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. We're going to save council. Come. You have another minute. If and forgive me, I said Diane Height. It's actually Karen Height, so forgive me for that. Karen is our transportation deputy for the car and. She's my technical backup. But, you know, in the extra minute, it just it doesn't make sense. I've been on council 18 years. I represent the people. I hope where I present represent. Them well. I've been reelected. I cannot tell my citizens to vote for this flawed measure. I've been told by many people Eric Garcetti, Hilda Solis, John Fasano, that I will change it. Well, we've been asking for three years to have those changes put in. What happened? You know, I now have a measure that reads. As such. It doesn't have those changes in it. What guarantee do I have? So there's no way I can tell my citizens having representative for 18 years to support that measure. And Gateway COG has taken the same position. So, again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Councilmember. So next we have Stephanie Wiggins, deputy CEO of Metro, who will also be allocated 5 minutes. Welcome. Welcome, Ms.. Wiggins. Good evening. Thank you. Thank you to the city council as well. I believe I have a PowerPoint as as well. Let's make sure we restart the time to. The thank you. Starting the. Okay. Again, good evening to the council and to the residents of Long Beach Metro and the city of Long Beach, as well as the Gateway City City Council. Governments have a long history of collaboration in improving the transportation system in the southern part of the county. And in 2008, under Measure R, metro allocated a significant amount of funding to the Gateway Cities area. And since then, the colleagues, visionary thinking and active participation have supported us in aggressive development and delivery of transportation projects in the region, including within Long Beach. Since Diana gave a great basic overview of Measure M I'm going to skip through some of these slides and try to address some of the key issues of importance to Metro. One, we want to reiterate for the Council that this has been a collaborative approach and process. It's been a three year process with our Regional Partners, Cities and Council of Governments, as well as stakeholders from the business, social justice, environmental communities with a bottoms up approach to identifying what the needs are out there. As Diana said, we are we have board approval for Measure M on the ballot this November 8th, which is a brand new half cent sales tax and then an expiration of Measure R in 2039. The impacts of Measure M is essentially calculated about $0.05 on a $10 purchase. That's an average of $24 per person per year based on average spending. There are a number of major transit and highway projects which are the crux of the expenditure plan. I'm going to focus on the impacts to Long Beach. Dana went over many of these, so I won't repeat it. I will say there are elements beyond the major projects, such as operations that support Long Beach Transit. You have a local street's local return that you're very familiar with. A new one that I do want to highlight for the city council is the state of good repair. Increasingly, we have an aging infrastructure. We know that with Long Beach being at the forefront of rail in L.A. County's history, with the advent of the blue line . And so as rail lines get older, we need to make sure we don't defer maintenance on those lines. Interview Who ride a blue line today. Know that we've had power outages, we're experiencing the impacts of delays and we wanted to make sure that we could have funds available to make sure we can upgrade that system, continue to make it state of the art, improve its safety, reliability, as well as not for a blue line, but all the other rail lines and any new rail line. So our board has proposed a new earmark from this expenditure plan. We've never done it before in our history and that is to actually have an earmark for a state of good repair or ongoing maintenance of the system. Another new element of the program that benefits Long Beach residents is also to have an earmark for our most vulnerable populations. That is our seniors, our students, and our disabled. The seniors, as many of you know, with over 190 senior housing places in Long Beach, it is the fastest growing population in L.A. County. And so increasingly, mobility is an issue for seniors. Also, we have a new earmark for bike and pedestrian connection to connections to transit here again in this area. Long Beach has been at the forefront. You started your bike share before anyone else in the county. We also know that transit dependent populations also tend to be high pedestrian and bicycle users. So having this earmark is very important. And while we do not have regional rail or Metrolink in Long Beach, we do provide connections to Long Beach residents, to Metrolink through Union Station, and we're proposing to continue an earmark for that service. It's really important, as many of you know, with an expenditure plan, that there be accountability built into the measure, just like we have with propositions. AC And are we're proposing to do the same here. But building upon those lessons learned, we have an Independent Taxpayers Oversight Committee that has an expanded number of participants. We're going from three judges to a seven member expert panel. They will review, among other things, the entire plan. It's an assessment. It's not a replacement of the plan to identify the performance of the plan. It's important to note that the Independent Taxpayer Oversight only can review and comment to the board about the plan. They cannot make changes to the plan. Amendments to the plan are subject to such restrictions or firewalls. However, project acceleration can happen at any time with a two thirds vote of the vote, and I'll expound upon that later. There are impacts of the measure calculated by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. Almost a half a million jobs will be created through Measure M. Clearly, this can be a local economic stimulus program. It's been proven that way with Measure R in terms of providing local jobs. One of the challenges, as you've heard from the previous speaker, that some projects will go. Forgive me, Ms.. Wiggins, but we need you to conclude so we can be fair to both opposition. Sure. Let me conclude by saying a couple of things. Project accelerated acceleration has been a key. We've been hearing it from stakeholders across the region. We did have a performance modeling process. We looked at geographic equity as well as other provisions. It's important to note that these performance metrics were approved by the board. We are also committed to ongoing acceleration. We have a meeting this Friday with the secretary Kelly on the priorities and goods movement projects for the five in the 710. Thank you so much. And to all of our presenters, let's give them all around applause for coming in and joining us down here in Long Beach. At this point, we have some counsel, some council comments. Then we'll go to public comment, beginning with Councilwoman Price. Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentations, everyone. I think this was very educational, at least for me. I didn't know much about this proposition prior to tonight, so I do have a few questions and they were touched on through the presentations, but perhaps staff could could guide me through some of these. So if Measure M were to pass, what would the sales tax in the city of Long Beach be? Councilman in the city of one each the sales tax with measure passing the current measure ah measure A from that just passed in June, our sales tax would be 10.25%. And what is it in? In nearby cities, like if, you know, in Orange County City's SEAL Beach or Los Alamitos. Councilman, I didn't compare our sales tax to those in Orange County, but the base sales tax in L.A. County is currently 9%. Proposition 30 sales tax, the quarter cent sales tax is scheduled to expire at the end of this calendar year. And so that'll take it down. But then there are increases with Measure A and then measure are still in in effect as a house that sales tax. And then it's important to remember that measure is $0.01 for six years and then drops down half cent. So it would go down after that. And what about Measure M? Is this expected to sunset at any time? Measure, as it is currently written, does not have a sunset now. And it'll stay the same consistent rate. It's not expected to be reduced after a certain period of time. Like Measure was. Councilmember? No. Okay. Are there any limitations in terms of Measure M expenditures? I noticed on one of your slides on page 12, you talk about what the project types include. Are there any limitations to this? Bear with me in just one moment while I get to that slide. Carl Zimmer. The project types that are included on on slide number 12 are projects that are eligible to be funded via local return. So that is the amount that the City of Beach receives directly from Metro as a part of this ballot measure. The ballot measure itself funds a number of other projects, including state of good repair system connectivity projects. If you could let me get to that page. Page 11. In the ballot measure itself. Actually, there's funding for transit and operating and maintenance. There's funding for first and last mile capital improvements from existing transit stops and future transit stops. There's funding for highway improvements, active transportation and complete streets, and then as well as the local return formula. Can you talk to me a little bit more about the local return? I'm not sure I understand that. That phrase. Sure. So the local return is the the phrase that is used to describe the direct level of funding that cities can receive from this ballot measure. So all cities will receive 17% directly back to cities for our expenditure on the two project types that you saw on slide number 12. That number will jump from 17% to 20% upon the expression of Measure R and 2040. So that's increased funding directly to the city of one, which for use as we see fit as as it's eligible for streets and roads in the same way that we currently spend the funding in Measure R. So and if I could just add to that measure, our funding, something that we did in the last time we did a sales tax increase through Measure R, we really fought for that language to make sure it's as flexible as possible. Other county money tends to be used only for transit quarters like A and C, but Measure R is really open and flexible for transportation uses. And that's really what we in the city of Long Beach used to fund our residential street program. Other than that, there really is no source of transportation money that can fund residential streets. Okay, so the $7 million annually is that the projected annual revenue until 2040? That is correct. That is correct. So then at 2040, that 7 million would go up because our percentage would go from 17 to 20. Yes. Okay. So that $7 million that would come directly to the city and could that be you? Are there any limitations to how the city could use that? Is it limited to just what's listed here? At this time it is. Metro still has to adopt guidelines and regulations for how we can use that money. We expect that it will be substantively similar to what is in Measure R and enumerated in the ballot resolution as it's described for green streets, complete streets. And a lot of the active transportation type initiatives that we in Long Beach have, I've taken a lead in doing in the region. Okay. So could we use it for I mean, just. In. Really basic terms, could we use it for a residential street repaving? Yes, that is an eligible use. Okay. And is there who has the discretion in terms of how the money is used? The 7 million is in solely in the city's discretion on how they want to use that money like Measure R. Yes, that is correct. And is there any sort of an oversight body for Measure M or any one that would make sure that the expenditures are within the the framework of the the measure, as it's worded now? Yes. So the ballot measure does include a plan for an independent oversight board, as Metro had described earlier. If you'll allow me to flip to that page one moment. I believe that's a seven member panel comprised of seven members, one retired federal or state judge, one transit professional, a professional with a minimum of ten years. Experience in management and experience and financial policies. Professional with experience on large scale construction projects. A licensed architect or engineer, a regional association or business representative, and three members of the committee and the members of the committee must reside in an L.A. county. Okay. Great. Thank you very much. I have no additional questions, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. Councilwoman Gonzalez? Yes, thank. You. I have a couple questions as I see here, and I think they've mostly been answered. By council. Woman price. But I have a question related to, of course, our larger projects. Of course. All of them I would like to see completed shoemaker, bridge, ward, low grade separation, especially being the worst in the county and then the potential for light rail and then added. Additional safety measures for the blue line. So are these not dedicated? They're not dedicated funding within the measure, is that correct? Councilmember funding for the ward. Low grade separation is in the expenditure plan as attachment a it's a footnote item number five. I'll can read it to you very briefly that your board of directors will prioritize the Wardlow Grade Separation Project to receive new funding and or grants and assign this project to be included in Metro's State of Good Repair program. And with respect to to the Shoemaker Bridge, that item is also footnoted as item F, I believe, as a note as part of the I7 ten South Corridor Project, Phase one Early Action Project. And that is in the ballot measure as well. Okay. So because I see here it says the increased revenues are not Long Beach. Projects described within. The ballot measure, but not as specific line item expenditures. Sure. So the ballot measure includes a number of attachments in in the expenditure plan. The one that is most detailed specifies project names, has a schedule of funds available and sequenced groundbreaking dates. And in in that portion of the expenditure plan, our projects are the word low grade separation specifically is not listed. The funding for Shoemaker Bridge is a part of the I-70, but Shoemaker Bridge itself is not a specific line item in the detailed expenditure plan. Okay, great. I think those are all the questions that I have for now. But thank you very much. Thank you. Council Member Super nine. You know, I'd like to reserve questions till after the public speaks, but I just had one very quickly that there's a, I believe, a Sequoia component to Measure R is that sort of wave for residential streets. And then how does that factor into measure? And if anyone knows. Yeah. So we can get you a more detailed explanation on square. But I don't we don't do a higher level sequel clearance for those is just part of our normal street work and they fall under a secret exemption. So residential streets would be just, you know, done the way we would do other normal maintenance projects. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Pierce. Thank you. Yes, thank you, Councilmember Price, for answering some of the questions I also had. I had one question that just came up. I'm curious if. The dollars that come through with these projects be covered by our city wide project labor agreement. Sorry. Curveball. So it depends on what types of projects they are. Our project labor agreement has a threshold of 500,000 projects and higher. However, projects in the right of way that are typically streets are not currently covered by the project labor agreement. But if there are other types of projects that don't fall in that description, then anything over 500,000 would trigger appeal. Okay, thank. You. And do we have any. I'll just make a statement and say that it seems like it'd be something that would create a lot of local jobs and a lot of great opportunity. And I read the memo upstairs and I left it upstairs, but it was great to see that it was highlighting a lot of green investment and transit oriented and the fact that it's not just rail, but that it could be used for bike mobility and everything else. This seems like a great opportunity to. Help. Push us in the right direction that we've already started taking a lead on. And yeah, I'll leave it there. Thank you. Thank you. In seeing a more public comment here, let's go ahead and open it up to the public for any public comment here in the audience on our study session. Good evening. My name is Don Darren Hour, our I'm with the Senior Citizen Commission. And at one point it was mentioned that according to the Metro, that Measure M would designate special funding for transportation for seniors who are their fastest growing population. And I just like to ask how that is going to be applied to seniors and what the amount would be. So this isn't the point to ask any questions, but I'm sure staff can be here to answer those. Afterward. I'd like that to be made public, however. Certainly. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Very good. I'd like to see the MTA set up a paradigm and where we have leaving from the transit mall, maybe 6 to 8 express busses that leave the transit mall, get on the freeway, perhaps at Wardlow or even before that. But I think Wardlow would probably be the best and barrel up the freeway in the bus lane down to seventh and fig and then have an equal number coming back in the evening. I think that makes a lot of sense. Instead of going to Europe, in addition to that, have everything green lighted out of Long Beach. You know, it takes 20 some 20 to 24 minutes often to get from here to Wardlow. And that's ridiculous. We stop at every red light possible. Thank you. Thank you very much. And seeing no more public comment, we're going to take it back behind the rail. Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I want to thank. Larry in Gateway Cities called for their presentation. I want to thank Stephanie Wiggins from MTA and Staff for an excellent staff report. I thought it was very important that we bring this item forward for a study session. Obviously, it is a major issue facing the voters in L.A. County on the November ballot. I did have a couple of questions. And just in full disclosure, I am the city's representative, along with Councilmember Urunga on the Gateway City's Council of Governments. I currently serve as the president. I can tell you that that the Gateway Cities did vote to oppose this measure a couple of months ago. And I want to just commend Mayor Garcetti. I want to commend the MTA for sticking with it in terms of having ongoing conversations with the the all of the gateway cities, individual cities , and trying to understand the projects and the importance of the major projects and how it impacts the residents in. And there has been a lot of back and forth. This is a very, very I would just say, very highly political issue. But I see light at the end of the tunnel potentially. Ultimately, this is going to be up to the voters not only in the city of Long Beach, but throughout the county and our values and. In terms of a regional transportation will be put to the test to complement Measure R. There were a couple of questions that that I do have. I want to ask the question that Mr. Donna were asked in terms of how the measure and proposes to to benefit seniors. I know there was a like a $2.4 billion number. What specifically will be done to aid the senior population? Just one question. Thank you for allowing me to clarify that. So with the earmark for seniors, students and disabled. The idea is to keep fares affordable. So we currently have a discount program for seniors, and this funding would ensure that we can continue that discount available for seniors. Again, for seniors, both students K through 12, as well as college students and community college students. And then for our disabled riders, that's the purpose of that funding. Okay, thank you so much. And then there was a lot and Councilmember Pearce mentioned the jobs, local jobs that could be created. I believe the number in the presentation was through the from the L.A. EDC. So we're over 460,000 new jobs will be created by Measure M If somebody could ask me whether or not those jobs, is that an annual on an annual basis or is that over the life of the project? And what type of jobs will they be? Excuse me. I'll stay closer. It is estimated for the life of the project. For the program, at least the first 40 years where we were able to actually articulate specific projects. So that's what that relates to. And we can make the full report by L.A. EDC available to the council. But they identify both direct and indirect jobs, construction related jobs, planning jobs, or principally construction related jobs. Okay. And in terms of the major projects for for the city of Long Beach, I know it was mentioned regarding the I-70 and Freeway. Staff, can you tell us where we are with that, that project in terms of shovel readiness and and when that project will be funded in the measure M schedule? Vice Mayor Richardson threw the chair to Councilmember Austin. The the project 710 project currently is in IRR phase. It is moving towards a final year. You will actually receive a project update on Friday at the project committee meeting that's taking place at 11 a.m., where Metro staff will come and discuss where they are in the development of the environmental review and the measure that's proposed. Measure M proposes funding in 2020 647, ten, actually breaking ground and moving forward with the project. Thank you. Why have you there? Can you also explain the war? Low grade separation? Footnote what? That project actually. Made do or proposes to do. Yes, sir. Through the chair again of Council Member Austin, the ward low grade separation proposes to look at redesigning the WARDLE station. Currently, it is a station that has a number of problems related to traffic in and around the station and the way that people get to and from the trains. And so we have been working with Metro at relooking at that station and whether or not there's an opportunity to take the rail below ground and separate it from the grade so that you could still have traffic traveling over and the trains would come down, re-imagine what that what that station could look like and help improve overall transit around the area, both for cars and for busses and for the trains themselves. Okay. I'll go ahead and add to that at the Metro June board meeting. As Mayor Garcetti's supervisor, Don Carnaby and Mayor Dubuffet put forth a motion to look at grade crossing, pedestrian safety gates, fare enforcement and safety station maintenance and station gate installation. The board also voted to initiate a feasibility study to improve safety and security at the Blue Line Ward Low Station. And so there are a number of blue line improvements in in Metro's plan to upgrade the blue line in in Long Beach. And so even though it's not detailed in the expenditure plan with the specific groundbreaking dates, this is something that the City of Long Beach has been working with Metro on and hopefully with increased funding can make a reality. Okay. Thank you very much. You know, I'm going to keep my comments very brief in the interest of time and understanding that we have a big agenda ahead of us. I can tell you that this conversations regarding Measure M are happening daily. There is a lot of activity around this to look at alternative funding and identifying federal funds to help with some of these projects as well. And much hasn't been talked about in terms of propositions A, C and A and C in terms of funding available and how that can be leveraged as well. On October the sixth, the Gateway City cargo will reconvene. And this is this item will be agenda ized again. And so I will just just ask that the voters do do what you need to do to do your due diligence to understand this issue and weigh out the benefits that this potentially could have or not for the city of Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. And as we go into the second round of comments, let's just remind everyone we have a full city council meeting to go to next. So, Councilman Price. Thank you. Vice Mayor. I think I think this is an important topic, so I appreciate your indulgence. And going into the second round of comments, I do have some follow up questions regarding some of the things that have come up. Is there a disbursement schedule. Or. What? How will the funds be routed to the individual cities? What's the timeline for that? So on the local return we will likely receive the measure and funds as we do measure are so they will be included in our annual budgeting process and factored into our capital improvement plan. And so how soon with those funds start to come in to the city of Long Beach? They do. They come in on an annual basis, quarterly basis. That we we may have to go back and check with, but they will not be any different than how we receive measure our local return funds. Well, I'm interested. I mean, my colleagues have made some really great points. And yes, all of these projects bring about more jobs, which is definitely good for everyone. But the concern that I have is that the sales tax in the city of Long Beach is going to be incredibly high as a result of this. And, you know, we just had a very passionate discussion about minimum wage and trying to make sure that our residents are set up for success. And I'm concerned about, you know, how increasing sales tax for individuals will be. You know, how that will impact people. So that's that's my preliminary concern, hearing hearing these discussions in terms of some of the big projects that we have, not the local transfer, but that the bigger projects that are part of measure. And when are those monies expected to come to the city of Long Beach? The funding for Shoemaker Bridges in early action 710 project is slated for 2026 in the expenditure plan. Funding for Wardlow for the grade separation does not have an expected groundbreaking date yet, but that is something that we're actively working with Metro on. So it's 2016 and we expect the funding to come in about ten years for one of the major projects. That is. Correct. Would that be the earliest project that we'd get funding for? Of the identified project. Of the identified project. That is the earliest project that is identified. Yes. That our residents would be paying into measure for that ten years without any other. The bigger project starting in the city. Correct. In the meantime, we will be getting the local return revenues back in approximately 7 million. But for the larger projects, the earliest one that is slated is Shoemaker in 2026. Okay. One point of clarification is I believe there is some funding and perhaps Mr. Wiggins can correct me if I'm wrong before 605 Freeway. It is an issue that we are dealing with on the east side with regards to the bottleneck from the Orange County side leading into 605. And so if. If I may indulge Ms.. Wiggins in answering my question as to whether or not six or five funding comes earlier than 2026. Okay. Thank you. Yes, Arturo. So in the expenditure plan, there is an earmark for the six or five hotspots interchange project. It's $1,000,000,000 from Measure M that's earmarked for that program and it would start collecting money, money being allocated to it. And I believe anyway 18 and 19 at the latest. There are also would be money directly on day one, Long Beach Transit as well. And one thing I'll add about the major Long Beach projects, if we are to secure federal funding or are able to make a strong case to the Metro Board of directors, we are able to move projects up with a two thirds vote. Okay. So if we had like a map, a cost matching or something like that. Moving projects up an expenditure plan would require a two thirds vote from the Metro Board of Directors, and so I would assume that they would want a number of qualifying factors presented to them for that vote. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. I think the two thirds. Vote was going to be my question, but I'll just hopefully end on tonight and saying that, you know, we when we invest in our cities and we invest in infrastructure and we invest in things like our waterways or our sewers, ensuring that our transit system is strong when we're innovating technology and investing in that, that's when we get great cities and that this is another opportunity to do that. And so I'm very thankful for the study session today and learned a lot. Thank you, guys. Thank you. And I'll just say just to close it out that, you know, we had our own discussion about a sales tax here in Long Beach that took a lot of our focus. And I have to admit myself, I'm just finally turning my eye to November and all the things that are coming down in November. And so I do want to thank staff and thank all the speakers for their diligence in the presentation tonight. And I know that, you know, a lot of times with discussions like this, they you know, sometimes you don't get everybody on the same page. The one question I do want to ask is, how have we I haven't necessarily paid attention. So forgive it if forgive this question. But has there been a level of engagement outside of these city council meetings, perhaps the business community, environmentalists, community? Has there been some level of engagement or are people surprised by this measure? And I'll ask that of city staff or or of Metro. Yes. There's been a tremendous amount of engagement. In March of this year, when we released our draft plan, we went had in-person community meetings at all nine subregions. We also held telephone town halls through all major subregions where we were able to reach thousands of residents of L.A. County. We had online forums and we received thousands of comments during this public comment period. In addition to that, working with business chambers, environmental groups, social justice groups, as well as engaging with our Council of Governments. Certainly. Thank you so much. And that concludes our study session. Thank you very much. And let's go ahead and reset. We're going to take a moment just to reset and get ready for our city council meeting. Just a moment. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor. We are going to go ahead and transition into the rest of our meeting here in just a second. We're just going to start in just just a minute. Okay. Thank you. I want to thank the council here who has had some good discussions so far tonight and a couple announcements just to . And I'm not sure if these were made earlier. Vice Mayor But I just repeat some of them. Our first presentation that we're going to go to, our first item is we're going to take the item surrounding the Olympics conversation up first, then we're going to take the presentation and discussion on the Queen Mary, which will come up next. Then I have an announcement on item number 15, which is an item by Councilwoman Pryce. That item will actually is going to be we're going to take it up later, but it's going to be postponed, I believe, to the next council meeting or Councilman Price is going to ask for that that discussion to be postponed to the next council meeting. So if anyone's here for that, just as an FII, the item around ARVs will be taken up, I believe, as you're going to make that October 4th. Okay, October 4th. We're also going to be moving up our commission appointments and then as well, I believe it's the item 24. And so a lot of moving today because we have people that have time certains but we'll try to get through everything as best possible. And so we're going to go first into the item around the Olympics, which is item 25, which we need to get out of the way.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 2005 Willow Street in Stapleton. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from PUD 574 to U-MX-3 (planned development to mixed-use) located at 2005 North Willow Street in Council District 8. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 2-25-20.

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And move that council bill 160 to be placed upon final consideration and do pass. Second. It has been moved and seconded the required public hearing for Council Bill 20-0162 is open. Maybe please have a staff report. Hello. Just want to make sure if I share my screen. Great. Can you see my city? Yes. I'll get to go. Hello everyone. Good evening. My name is Edson Ibanez and I am with Kenny playing below for you today. You have 205 North Street. It's currently currently zoned as 8574 and the request is for um, three currently in Council District eight in the Central Park neighborhood, the subject property is on the northwest corner of Willow Street and Montague Boulevard. It's just over 34,000 square feet. And it is one story, animal care and boarding facility. There are no plans for demolition and the property owner intends to retain existing to maintain the existing building and the proposed zoning as you three. The current zoning is former Chapter 59. Cuddy is adjacent to CME 20 with waivers to the north and east arm u 20 with waivers to the west and east to the south. 8574 is that is the current zoning, which is a former Chapter 59 party and it's a custom zoning district that allows for an animal animal care and boarding facility with a maximum height of 25 feet. It has very strict landscaping requirements and building footprint requirements when looking at the land use. The site is occupied by industrial land use and it's surrounded. Uses include single unit, residential office, commercial and public quasi public land uses. And here is a bird's eye view of this, such a property looking north. At the bottom right hand corner is a subject property looking north at the top right is a Stapleton Veterinarian Hospital, which is east of the subject property. At the top left is a single unit residential home located north, and at the bottom left is an entrance of the Stapleton High School, located directly west of the subject property. So this specific application went before the planning board on February 19 and it was approved unanimously and it is before you tonight. And there has only been one letter of support and is attached to the staff report. Five review criteria are analyzed for the appropriateness of the request, and we will start with consistency with adopted plans. So in addition to comprehensive Plan 2040 and Blueprint Denver of 2019, there is one neighborhood plan, which is the Stapleton Development Plan of 1995. When looking at comprehensive 2040 under the neighborhood vision element under strong and authentic neighborhood goals number one Strategy B and mentions ensure neighborhoods offer a mix of housing types and services for a diverse population. This strategy is encouraged quality and for development that is consistent with the surrounding neighborhoods and offer opportunities for increased amenities under a climate vision element under environment and resilience. Goal eight Strategy A Promote infill development where infrastructure and services are already in place and strategy b encourage mixed use communities where residents can live, work and play in their own neighborhoods. The request rezoning is shown in the context map as urban context and different Denver the repos your mixed three zone district is consistent with the neighborhood context description inappropriate for this location because it is a commercial district allowing a variety of building forms, compatible heights and building form a design sense. The building form standards and uses work together to promote a safe, active and pedestrian scale residential areas. And looking at the place types, it is classified as local center, which is primarily provides options for dining, entertainment, shopping and may also include some residential and employment uses. And buildings are generally three hikes. Three stories are less than a mere boulevard. It is a residential collector street in North Willow Street is a non designated local street. The street classification in desired building heights in this area are consistent with the zone district purpose and intent, and therefore it is appropriate for this location. When looking at the growth area strategy, it is classified as all other areas in the city which we anticipate to see around 20% of new household growth and 10% of new employment growth by 2040. Now, looking at the Stapleton development site, five general recommendations for this plan include the promotion of diverse and successful communities. The subject property is located in District one, not Council District one, but District one of the plan, which is intended to create an urban community that's consistent in scale with the adjacent residential neighborhood communities and provide a mix of lower density 2 to 4 storey commercial uses. You mix three is consistent with the general recommendations and District one recommendations of the Stapleton Development Plan. Now looking at the other review criteria under uniformity of disregulation plus rezoning will result in a uniform application of zoned district building, farm, land use and design regulations. It would further the public health, safety and welfare by implementing adopted plans and the adoption of the Denver Zoning Code in 2010 and the retention of former Chapter 59 zone districts of this subject. Property, including custom zoning, is an appropriate justifying success for the proposed rezoning. And lastly, with consistency, with neighborhood context, zoning, district purpose and intent, the request is consistent with the neighborhood context description, zone, district purpose and intent statement. Therefore, CPD recommends approval based on a finding that all the review criteria has been met. And I am open here for any questions you might have as well as the outcomes here as well. Thank you for the staff report. Tonight, Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 20-0162 and we have one individual signed up to speak this evening. And it's Jesse Paris. Go ahead, Jesse. Do not be hurt. Mm hmm. We can hear you. Go ahead, Jesse. I'm just curious. I'm representing Denver Homicide. Low Black Star Action Movies for self-defense. Positive attitude for social change. Was the Unity Party of Colorado, universal African People's Organization and Mile High News. And I will be running to be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. I was against this because initially I thought it was going to be a redevelopment of a property. So now I'm seeing that it's going to be a veterinarian hospital or something of the sorts animal hospital. I'm going to have to retract that. And yes, thank you for approving this of the with the name change, the ownership change can change as well. That's all I have to say. Thank you. And. Q That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council. Councilman Cashman. Yeah, thank you, Madam President. Just a detail question. I'm just wondering, with such a simple, straightforward use, do you have any clue why this ended up being a PE you'd rather than being fit into a standard zoning classification? The applicant is here and they can probably give more reasoning why. Specifically, I know the PD only allows for one specific use, which is the animal care and boarding facility I've done in 2005. I don't know the reasoning behind that. We can ask the applicant if they have any insight would be fine. Their name? If you want to raise your hand. Mark. Mark, come. Okay. We see them in there. And it's an is it? Would you be able to stop sharing your screen for us right now? Thank you. Wonderful. So we've got Mark in the queue. Go ahead, Mark, and please introduce yourself. Hello. My name is Mark Cullen with Architecture. I'm represented following there, Stacy Reid. I believe this whole area was. With all its killed. I'm not exactly sure. But I do know that the producers spent a very specified for exact use and. I think what she is planning to do some other business. She will be a content content owner. And she has a plan, but a plan. My put on hold to it or to it to a pandemic. Sure. Okay. So I can explain more than that, but not a problem. Thank you, sir, for for your attempt. And yeah, its past history. And. Just. Just a detail I was interested in. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. And thank you, Mark. So you know, the questions, the public hearings on Capitol Hill, 200162 is closed. Comments by members of council. All right. Seen no comments by members of council. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. For us, I. Black. The Council on the Black. So you're still you're muted. Okay. She said yes. Okay. Thank you, CdeBaca. I. Clark. All right. Flynn, I Gilmore. Apologies and Herndon. I should have started with you. This is your district. I apologize. Herndon. I. Hines, I. Cashman. I can h. I. Ortega. All right. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes Council Bill 162 has passed. We're on to the next 120 dash 0201. It's a bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4750 Zuni Street in Sunnyside. Councilmember CdeBaca Would you please put Council Bill to zero one on the floor for passage.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the redevelopment of Yesler Terrace by the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle; authorizing the Mayor to execute a second amendment to the Yesler Terrace Cooperative Agreement with the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle that was authorized by Ordinance 123961; and authorizing the directors of the Office of Housing and Department of Neighborhoods to implement the Cooperative Agreement as amended.

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Thank you. The bill passed and the chair will sign it for the record. For the record, the bill passed and there was signage. Please read item number two into the record and you can read the short title if you can. Agenda Item to cancel 119005 relating to the redevelopment Yasser terrorist by the Housing Authority, the city of Seattle. The committee recommends the bill pass. So let's give a moment for the crowd to settle down. I'm not big on this. I just want to see what happens. Me and Councilman Burgess, you do have the floor. Thank you. This ordinance modifies the agreement between the Seattle Housing Authority and the city. That was it. It was adopted in 2012 over the. Yes, the Terrace Redevelopment Project. And this amendment does several things. First, it authorizes $13 million in additional city housing funds for three developments in the phase three part of the Hassler Terrace redevelopment. It revises requirements related to housing occupancy by returning yes, Hassler Terrace residents and other low income households, and it amends the allowable locations for pink patch community gardens to include a stretch of property along Interstate five and adjacent to Hassler Terrace. These funds will be used to support the development of at least 195 replacement housing units and 130 units of affordable housing to families at 60% of area median income or less. This legislation also allows a number of replacement housing units east of Bourne Avenue to increase from 140 to 190. And it prioritizes preschool classrooms in the project at Eisler Way and 12th Avenue. If the city provides capital funding for the classrooms. All right. Thank you. And good questions about this legislation. Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Burgess Hi. Gonzalez, I Herbold Johnson Suarez. O'Brien. All right. So what. I think. Shire. President Harrell. Nine in favor, nine opposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read items three and four into the record.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a new agreement between the Long Beach Police Department and the Long Beach Unified School District, to staff School Resource Officers, in an amount not to exceed $865,649, with an estimated net cost to the City’s General Fund of $216,412. (Citywide)

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Motion Case. Next item. Report from police recommendation to execute a new agreement between the Long Beach Police Department and the Long Beach Unified School District to staff school resource officers in an amount not to exceed 865,649, with an estimated net cost to the city's general fund of 216,412 citywide. There was emotion in a second, Councilman Gonzales who queued up at the Councilman Price. Did you want to say anything? Are you okay? Councilman, I said no. Okay, then. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Yes. I'd like to know which schools will be. I'm sure you predicted I was going to ask that question. Absolutely. Get it in, Councilman Gonzalez. So the contract would include four full time school resource officers assigned to. Millikan, Cabrillo Poly and Jordan high schools. Okay, fantastic. And then were is there a reason why it was just high schools? Are we looking at middle schools at all? At this time, that is the service. Level requested by the school. District. Okay, perfect. And then I would sorry, one last question about a safe Passages model, and I know that we've been talking about that just in various different locations. Is there a an idea to go to a more of a safe passages model that includes community leaders and parents versus PD? Or is this I know this contract is until June of next year, but I don't know if we're inching towards that a different model at all. We currently have a model that is. Near execution of a contract with county. Probation, and that model does include partnering with a local community organization to. Facilitate volunteers from that neighborhood. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. I'm not sure if you guys can answer this question. Do you know if the counselors in those high schools, they have the same number of counselors that they have in other high schools and junior high or if we have PD stepping into some of that counsel role for Councilman Pearce, I don't believe so. However, I cannot say so definitively we could report back. On that item. Okay. So just one last clarifying question. The role of PD and these schools are exactly what they are providing full time support, school resource officers, they are interacting with the students. They are working with administration. At these school sites to. Address potential crime trends that may be observed by administration. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any public comment on this scene? And please cast your votes.

AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance 125207, which adopted the 2017 Budget, creating and revising budget control levels, modifying positions, and changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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Agenda Item seven Council Bill 118908 An ordinance amending Ordinance 125207, which adopted the 2017 budget, creating and revising budget control levels, modifying positions and changing appropriations to various departments and budget control levels all by a three quarter vote of the city council. The committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Thank you, Councilmember Gonzalez. This Council bill is related to the budget of the Office of Inspector General, so it just relates to the 2017 budget. So I will first move for the adoption of Council Bill 118908. Second. Okay. Do you need to say any words? Official words. Okay. It came. With a do pass. Recommendation. Council bill 118908 would create a revised budget control level and provide funding and position authority to start a new Office of Inspector General for the Public Safety in 2017. This bill adds funding in the amount of $354,300 for the OAG sufficient to support staffing for the remainder of 2017. The bill also moves the CPC into a new vehicle that that is its own office of the CPC separate from the Executive Department. Finally, the bill renames the Office of Professional Accountability Vehicle to Office of Police Accountability PCL in order to address funding for the work of these three entities beyond 2017. The Mayor and the Council, in consultation with the OIG, the OPA and the CPC, will set their budgets on an annual basis during the city's regular budget process. So the budget bill before us only addresses what would be set up costs for the Office of Inspector General in 2017 only. And it also does it makes some technical edits to administrative ways to reference in the budget, the budget of the office of the CPC and the OIG in the OIG and the EPA. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. GONZALEZ Hi. HERBOLD Hi. Johnson or S O'Brien Sergeant Bagshaw Burgess Aden favor an unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item eight.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for multiple properties in Chaffee Park. Approves a legislative map amendment to rezone multiple properties from E-SU-B, E-SU-D, and E-SU-Dx to E-SU-B1, E-SU-D1, and E-SU-D1x (allowing accessory dwelling units), located in Chaffee Park in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-29-20.

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I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. 1313 Ies Council Bill 1027 has passed. Counsel Woman Black, would you please put Council Bill 1028 on the floor? Yes, Madam President. I move that council bill 1028 be placed upon final consideration and due process. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded by Councilman Herndon. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill ten 1028. Black. I. CdeBaca. I. Clark, I. Twin. I. Herndon. I. Hi. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Janet, I. Ortega. I. Sandoval. Hmm. I. Sawyer. I. Tomorrow, I. Madam President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. 3913 EIS Council Bill 1028 has passed. Congratulations, Councilwoman Sandoval. Our pre adjournment announcement on Monday, December 7th Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 1133 changing the zoning classification for 2201 Arapahoe St in five points and required public hearing on Council Bill 113 for changing the zoning classification for 1055 Locust Street in Montclair. Any protests against Council Bill 1133 or 1134 must be filed with the Council offices no later than noon on Monday, November 30th. There being no further business before this body, this meeting is adjourned.

AN ORDINANCE pertaining to Admission Tax revenue received by the City; amending Section 5.40.120 of the Seattle Municipal Code to revise uses of Admission Tax revenue.

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Agenda item to cancel Bill 119 344 pertaining to emission tax revenue received by the city amending section 5.40 point 124 Code to revise uses of admission tax Revenue Committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Wallis, thank you. The Select Committee on Civic Arena has made a unanimous recommendation on September 14, 2018 that the City Council passed the Council bill as amended. I moved to amend Council Bill 119344 Section one B2 by replacing Council Bill with number 119344 with 139345 as presented on Amendment one. Okay. Okay. So let's just take the amendment first is somewhat of a technical build number change any questions on the amendment alone? So it's been moved in second to amend the bill by deleting the council bill number as described by Council Member Wars and adding a new bill number. All those in favor of the amendment, please say I. I oppose. The ayes have it. Councilmember Member Whereas you need to speak anymore to the base. Bill No, I don't. Thank you, Councilman Herbert. I'd like to share a few words. Thank you. I just want to thank the Select Committee, thank central staff Director Aristide for working with me to make some changes to the legislation before it came to full council. The the changes that we made in the Select Committee specified that the new use for admissions revenues applies only to the lease agreement for the arena and only with respect to the admissions tax generated through the operations of the new arena. The reason why this is so important is back in 2017, the city I'm sorry, 2015, the city council passed legislation allocating 75% of all of the ad tax revenue to go to fund the Office of Arts and Culture in the next year in 2016. The City Council sort of made a commitment to a multi-year ramp up of of admissions tax with 20 in 2016 going up to up to 80% in 2017 going up to 90%. And in 2018, just last year, we brought it up to 100%. So this this legislation that is as it is before us today, allows us to maintain that commitment to the Office of Arts and Culture. So thank you. Thanks for those comments, Councilman Herbold. Any further comments before we vote? Please call the rule on the passage of the amended bill. Gonzalez I. Herbold I. JOHNSON Whereas. O'BRIEN All right. So aren't I. BAGSHAW High President Harrow High eight in favor and unopposed. Bill Pass in show assignment, please read agenda item number three.

Consider Raising the Rate of the Hotel Tax (Transient Occupancy Tax). (Councilmember Daysog) [Continued from March 19, 2019 to April 16, 2019]

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Thank you, Mr. Levitt. And do we have any oral communications? Not agenda? No. So then we move on to council referrals. Item nine, a couple more days. Well, great. Well, thank you very much. Laura, do you, by any chance have this, um. Oh, yes. Actually setting it up. Just to get to the punchline. The punchline is, I think the city of Alameda should officially seek to increase the current hotel tax rate, which is basically 10%. The hotel tax rate is also referred to as a transient occupancy tax. And so that's basically the punchline and that's one recommendation. And the second recommendation, but these are separate is begin thinking about setting aside some of the increase in revenue generated by the increase in the rate for having an Alameda visiting serving campaign. It could be run, for example, money generated from the increased incremental revenues perhaps could be funded through an RFP process to an outfit like the Chamber of Commerce who might serve as as the visiting center. So what I put together, I don't do this well that I put together is just a bunch of data. And this is actually from this actually from 2015. So this is I know how we talked earlier this evening about the wheels of kind of moving slowly. But, you know, we're almost four years ago. So I so I think one of the points in putting this slide together, which is 2014 data, but I think the rates still hold is to show how low our hotel tax rate is relative to nearby areas like Emeryville, Berkeley and Oakland, which are really within our market area. The point of which is to say even if we increased the hotel tax rate, we wouldn't be putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage. And while San Leandro is a neighbor to us at 10%, if you look at the gross revenues generated by a their what, clearly the $402,000 of San Leandro versus the $1.6 million generated by Alameda to me suggests that San Leandro is a different market. So that's why I believe in increasing the hotel tax rate. Somewhere north of 10% right now would not put our our motels and hotels at a competitive disadvantage. This is the hotel tax rate for the Union City. And the reason why I included this is because Union City created an interesting mechanism where when they when the voters adopted the increased hotel tax rate, they did it in a way that allows the city to kind of calibrated up or calibrated down depending on market conditions. So that's something to think about. This is the hotel tax rate for the city of Oakland. They're at 14% and they were previously at 13%. And you can see you can see how much they're generating. Clearly, we're not going to generate that much because we're at a different scale. So I just want to make sure to clearly see that. And one of the reasons why I think we should think about not only increasing our hotel tax rate, but doing it in a strategic manner is because I do believe that we have a variety of assets that nationally renowned entities are beginning to to recognize assets that we can market to new visitors within the region, as well as market to daytime visitors. People, for example, who are working, coming to our harbor Bay Isle on short contract jobs or whatever, so that they can come to Alameda. And here's an example, something that was in the Architectural Digest where Alameda is antiques by the Fair Bay was was noted in July 25. And then in in Sunset Magazine, again, Alameda, a spirits alley was given some recognition. So my hope is to increase the hotel tax rate. I don't think it will put us at a competitive disadvantage. It does require a vote of the people. And the second thing is to. Target some of that towards a visitor surfing campaign. So I would hope to have staff come back with some more thoughts on this and some recommendations and suggestions. If if the council so looks at this. I think you remind me, colleagues, did did this come up at our priority setting? Okay. I guess we've discussed it somewhat in context of needing to do something about an a Airbnb ordinance and then making sure that our total is competitive with other cities. Those days are old. San Leandro is now past is there but what's the what's the the pleasure of the council and vice mayor? So in general, I support the general idea of talking about this tax at some point in time. I think we just continue to talk to things. I am concerned that a lot of times when referrals come, the way to not address them is to say, hey, let's just put them on a list to get addressed earlier, and then they just become a part of a long list and is difficult to do. I think we have infrastructure bonds, we have a whole bunch of things that we're going to be talking about going to the voters of. And I am happy to have that commerce, this conversation as a part of what are the things we are going to ask the voters for. But quite honestly, I don't disagree with you that this is probably one that we should talk about, but I don't want to jump one to the top of the queue and then find out that we you know, there were other things we wish we were going in asking for funding. Funding. Okay. So you're saying I'm for this into a discussion of of ballot measures for the general election. Okay. A future conversation with Councilmember Vela. So I actually think it's a bit premature. I would say let's wait until we actually have some of these hotels built that are coming in, are we? I know we have hotels currently, but in terms of the impact that something like a total increase is going to have, it's, uh, I would rather focus on the infrastructure. We've talked about the storm drain tonight. I just think we have a lot of other things that we're focused on. So I'm not saying no. I'm just saying no for right now. And if it's no for right now, I don't want to put it on the list for staff to to be focused on. And I would like our polling to be very specific and strategic to the few measures that have already been put forward by staff and discussed by council. And I'll just throw in that. I think the authority is probably an easier measure to pass because residents are generally speaking not going to be paying it. But I, I do have some concerns about that money not going to the general fund because that's what pains me to know that we are getting less in our Toti than our neighboring communities and that's just money that's not going into our general fund. So but that's a that's a discussion that could be had at the same time. Councilman Brody. Sure. I'll chime in. I mean, I think it's a good idea to think about this. Like you said, Mayor, this is not something that Alameda residents are going to pay. I'd like to I mean, I don't know whether it's put it on a list or, you know, at some point we're going to have a discussion on revenue measures. And this needs to we need to make sure this is their. Good. Time. I mean, instead of like just pushing it off and, you know, you know, this is something that was proposed four years ago. And I thought it was something that maybe should have been done already. Again, not to keep beating that horse, but I am concerned about one small thing and that's, you know, dedicating any of of it, because I think that changes the characterization. And, you know, what the what the threshold is to get it passed. But, you know, I think this is something this is kind of a no brainer to me. You know, it's a quick and easy way to increase revenue that doesn't really come out of the pockets of Alameda. Well. Let me if I quickly saying I'm I'm happy to have introduced this. I look forward to having further conversations on this. I do want to make sure to say that I project that if we increase it by one percentage point, that we would generate $160,000 in incremental revenues. And if we increased it by two percentage points to 12%, we could generate roughly $250,000. And I think that would be good money that that that could go towards a visitor surfing campaign. So but I look forward to including this as part of a more robust discussion with other measures. I'm fine with that. I can live with it. Okay. Well, I'll find a note if it does come to a vote. I don't think it will be competitive with another vote for the reasons that we said. All right. Okay. And have staff discretion, direction. Okay. The next item is number ten Council Communications. I'm wondering if we could take item ten a first to make sure we get that covered hearing no objection. Go ahead, Vice Mayor.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record regarding the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) public hearing; and adopt resolution approving the issuance of revenue bonds by the California Municipal Finance Authority (CMFA) to benefit a limited partnership sponsored by Volunteers of America National Services, in an amount not to exceed $13,000,000. (District 1)

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Motion carries eight zero. Report from Financial Management and Development Services recommendation received supporting documentation to the record regarding the tip public hearing and adopt resolution of benefit of limited partnership sponsored by Volunteers of America National Services an amount not to exceed 30 million District one. Can I get a motion? Okay. There's been a motion and a second. Councilman Gonzalez. Oh. Oops. What did I do? Sorry. So. Okay. I just want to say, I'm really thrilled to hear that the chemist senior apartments will be getting refurbished. I think this is the third or so building in our district. That's that's done this and it's wonderful. I just had a question, though, as to the TEPHRA funds. When we received that loan, back with interest. How I know it will be going back to our housing fund, but is that reallocated back into the same district or how is that how is that appropriated? Councilmember I'm going to turn this over to our city treasurer, David Nakamoto. But again, this is one of our policies for affordable housing which are real. Glad to present tonight. So, David, thank you. Councilwoman Garcia. I'd like to make a comment. That was the former mayor. Thanks. Excuse, Councilwoman Garcia. It's okay to the council. My apologies. That's okay. There was a Garcia here in the first before, so. That's all right. I'd like to make a correction in that these funds are not issued by the city at all. What they are. It's a bond issue issued by a Joint Powers Authority, in this case, the CMC, which the city is a member of. We have no taxing authority. We have no financial obligation to support these bonds. Our role is merely to hold a. Temporary hearing to allow the agency to fulfill its regulatory requirements and then issue the bonds. Okay. But I see here and maybe that's where I'm a little unclear as to the I guess, the city loan. And it says from what we received from a staffer, funds will be deposited back into the city's housing fund and reused for affordable housing purposes. So, yeah. Councilwoman Gonzalez, I know you're. A members of the council. There's about $140,000 loan that is existing on the building from when it was. Originally built in 1993. That loan with interest will be repaid. Those funds will be deposited into the housing fund to be used citywide for affordable housing purposes. Okay, so it is city wide. Okay. Thank you. And thank you so much for the thorough information on the Simas Towers. We're really looking forward to that and the district's that. Thank you. Thank you. Any members of the public who wish to comment on the item? CNN members, please go and cast your votes. God, how are you? Eight zero. Motion carries an excited and pleased. Report from Human Resources recommendation to execute the renewal of contracts with seven health care providers for coverage of health, dental, vision, prescription and disability to maintain current benefit levels in compliance with state and federal laws on our plans citywide.

A proclamation recognizing May 19th as “Hepatitis Testing Day” and July 28th as “World Hepatitis Day”.

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All right. That brings us to our third proclamation. Councilman Lopez, will you please read Proclamation 572? Thank you, Mr. President. Proclamation 572 Series of 2018 recognizing May 19th as hepatitis testing day and July 28 as World Hepatitis Day. Whereas May 19th is National Hepatitis Testing Day, and July 28th is World Hepatitis C Oversight World Hepatitis Day. Hepatitis C is recognized as the most common blood borne viral infection in the United States, whereas mortality due to hep C is increasing in Colorado, particularly among people born between 1945 and 1965 and over 19,000, hepatitis C related deaths occur annually in the United States. And. WHEREAS, Hepatitis B accounts for almost 2000 annual deaths in the United States, there are currently about 15,436 people living in Colorado with chronic unresolved hepatitis B infection, and fewer than one third of people with chronic hepatitis B are aware of their infection. And. Whereas, Hepatitis B and C cause an estimated 61% of liver cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma HCC in the U.S. and. WHEREAS, the opioid opioid epidemic is fueling an increase in HPV h. Sorry. HB In HCV positive cases. And. WHEREAS, Hepatitis C has infected an estimated 73,935 Coloradans, as many as 5.2 million American residents, and more than 130 million people worldwide. And is a leading cause of cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver transplants in the U.S.. And. WHEREAS, Hepatitis C can be prevented. Testing can identify existing infections and early diagnosis and treatment can save lives, money and resources. And. WHEREAS, A Liver Health connection is available as a statewide resource for education testing, linkage to care, patient navigation helpline and other support services. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver. Section one of the Denver City Council agrees that preventing and treating viral hepatitis as an important public health initiative that will improve the quality of life for Denver residents affected by the virus. Section two The Denver City Council proclaims May 19th as hepatitis testing day and recognizes July 28th as World Hepatitis C, Section three that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall a test and affix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to Nancy Steinfurth, executive director of Liver Health Connection. Thank you. Councilman Lopez, your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation 572 series of 2018 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded comments by members of council. Councilman Lopez. Thank you, Mr. President. I carry this proclamation every year. One, because I think it's absolutely critical and important that, you know, that this information be out there. And second, because this is something that that's near and dear to my heart. I lost my grandfather in the year 2000. To complications from Hep C, which he was which he got when he was in the Army, and he was hurt in Germany and he had a blood transfusion. And that's where I mean, they didn't test for it, the screen for it. And that's where he was infected. He passed away almost a year and two weeks ago. Oh, not a year. 18 years. Two weeks ago due to complications from that. From cirrhosis and liver cancer. Now have had we had had the medical advances 18 years ago. My grandfather probably still be with me. It's just kind of one of my colleagues was the person that's supposed to carry this at the time. Garcia. And he did. And I said, Well. Would you like to carry on? First thing I thought about was my grandfather said, absolutely. If you can spend more information about this far and wide in our communities, especially boomer baby boomer age. And it is, folks, just to have general awareness I think is absolutely critical. Folks didn't shy away from testing. As a matter of fact, it can save lives. So I wanted to highlight that. I know Nancy will come up and talk a little bit more about the details of some of the activities and the events that's going to happen on May 19. So. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. And thank you for bringing this proclamation forward. Madam Secretary, roll call. Lopez. I knew Ortega, I. Black. Hi. Flynn. I. Gilmore, I. Herndon. Cashen. Hi. Mr. President. Hi, Madam Secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. Nine Ice nine ICE Proclamation. 572 has been adopted. Councilman Lopez, is there someone you'd like to bring up to the podium to. Receive the proclamation? I would like to invite Nancy Steinfurth, who is the executive director of Liver Health Connection, formerly the hep-C Connection. Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak with you. And I'm really excited that I've been able to get so much support from Denver City Council over many years. So thank you for once again supporting this proclamation. I can't read anything without my glasses. So here we go. We're going to miss Councilman Lopez because he's been such a champion for this cause and for our organization. So I just want to give him a little special recognition because he's been so wonderful and so passionate about the personal effects that this disease has had on him . I know of many, many stories and we could go on for hours, but that is not going to that's that's not going to fly this evening. The nation, Colorado and Denver are in the midst of an opioid crisis. And this crisis is leading to a second epidemic of infectious disease transmission. In fact, it's been called this endemic because hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV are all on the rise as a result of shared syringes among injecting populations. At the same time, as the community is responding to the opioid epidemic, we are still working to find baby boomers with undiagnosed hepatitis C, for example. We also go to the VA center. One of my staff members, RECA goes and tests there, so she's going to bring some dog food and some other goodies for you guys to have for this Saturday. Homeless veterans are one of the really hard to reach populations. And so excuse me, the VA and our organization is working to partner and collaborate with groups to figure out where we can locate those folks and link them to care. These baby boomers have had the disease for a longer time period, and it's now leading to serious consequences like liver failure, transplantation and liver cancer. In 2017, Liver Health Connection was able to provide almost 3000 hepatitis C antibody tests at homeless shelters, community correction programs, methadone clinics, pride fest, and many more events. Every person with a positive test result is provided active navigation through all of the steps in the process so that no one is designed denied access to a cure. I'm happy to say that the Colorado Department of Corrections will begin providing hepatitis treatment to almost 700 offenders per year beginning July one. That was a $16.5 million increase to their appropriation, and it was earmarked only for hepatitis C. So that's a big deal with our state budget. It's pretty tough. We work with over 100 local partners, including Denver Public Health, National and Worldwide Partners, to find the missing hepatitis B and hepatitis C millions. We thank thank you for your commitment to support this important cause and hope you can join us at 10 a.m., May 19th in Confluence Park, where we're going to be testing anyone and everyone for hepatitis C runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.. And we would love to have you stop by now. Granted, perhaps someone from the marathon could come over. Swing by. We're going to word have some water. We might have some snacks. It's a beautiful area. I love the park. So that's one reason to come on by as well as testing. And and we're going to we're going to be there for most of the day. Thank you so much. Thanks. Thank you very much. All right. That concludes our proclamations. We're moving on to resolutions. Madam Secretary, please read the resolutions.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Table 31-1 of Chapter 21.31, relating to transitional and supportive housing, read and adopted as read. (Citywide)

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To make sure. Okay. Hearing one. Hearing one. Report from Development Services recommendation to receive supporting documentation and to the record conclude the public hearing and find that the action is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act. Declare Ordinance Amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Title 21 to add transitional housing and supportive housing as permitted uses in any residential zoning district. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading and Adopt resolution directing the Director of Development Services to submit a request to the California Coastal Commission to certify an amendment to the implementing ordinances portion of the Certified Local Coastal Program citywide. Okay, I know this is a small technical change we have to make here. So, Miss Burdick. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, you are correct. This is a small. Technical change we have to. Make to the zoning code to keep us in compliance with state law. Last year, you added. Definitions for transitional housing and supportive housing as required by two different state requirements. And this year we're asking. You to make a technical amendment to add those to a specific table in the municipal code. If you'd like more information, I'm happy to do so. But that concludes my staff report. Thank you. Next step is any public deliberation on this item. Seeing none. There's a motion to second. Please cast your votes. Oh. Yes. Please come forward. Thank you. For waiting. Surely, besides swarm, you can associate what was not clear to me. Maybe it can be answered tonight. Traditionally, when I see transitional and supportive housing, I take for granted that that includes homeless inclusion. Am I not reading that right? Or is that will that be part of the vocabulary added to this particular agenda item? As per the California housing element and Senate Bill two. Do we want to answer that question briefly? No, we're not. You don't have to. Okay. Let's look briefly. So we have a. Certainly these these definitions. Are consistent with SB two, which is what you're referring to. And we have an adopted housing element. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Gearing to.

Councilor Flynn for Councilor Edwards offered the following: Order for the appointment of temporary employee Elaine Donovan in City Council effective February 5, 2022.

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Lucky number 0253. Council of Playing for Council Edwards. The chair seeks suspension of the rules and passage of Docket 0253. Mr. Clarke, please call the. Roll. Back in numbers 0253. Councilor Royal. Yes. Councilor Roy. Councilor Baker. Yes. Councilor Baker. Yes. Councilor Buck. Yes. Councilor. Yes. Councilor Braden. Yes. Councilor Braden. Yes. Councilor Edwards. Ah. Yes. Councilor Edwards. Yes. Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Yes. Counselor Fernandez Anderson. Yes. Counsel. Clarity. Yes. Counsel. Clarity as counsel. Flynn Yes. That's what. Flynn Yes. Counsel Laura. Yes. Castle, Larry. Yes. Castle, Louisiana. Yes. So Louisiana has council on me. He. Yes. Consult me here. Yes. Counselor Murphy? Yes. Counselor Murphy. Yes. Counselor world? Yes. Not so well. Yes. Mr. President, Dr. Number 0253 has received a unanimous vote. Thank you, Mr. Clarke. Late Files now. Late Files now. Moving on to Late Files, I am I am informed by the clerk that there are no late file matters. Green sheets and wishing to remove the matter from the green sheets may do so at this time. The consent agenda. We are now moving to the consent agenda. I have been informed by the clerk that there are no additions to the consent agenda. The Chair moves for adoption of the consent agenda. Mr. Clarke, please call the rule.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Parks and Recreation; authorizing the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation to execute an amendment to the amended and restated Concession Agreement with Tennis Center at Sand Point, LLC at Warren G. Magnuson Park.

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Agenda item two. Constable 1199746 relating to Seattle Parks and Recreation authorizing the Superintendent of Parks Recreation to execute an amendment to the amended and restated concession agreement with Tennis Center at seven Point LLC at Warren G. Mechanism Park. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Thank you, Madam Chair. Consumer worries. This bill is also from your committee. So you are recognized in order to provide the committee's report. Thank you. First, I want to thank Councilor Peterson for his work to move these updates forward. The proposed council bill authorized an event, an amendment to do four important legal and community based changes and additions. Long time coming, but we saw this on the horizon. One is to update the language in the concession agreement. Number two was to add an additional five year term extension option to the concession agreement. Those are pretty common. We've seen these in the concession agreements in the past. Number three, to redefine public benefits, processes, requirements and offsets. That is free court time for youth and seniors. I want to loop back to the public benefits in a minute. And then finally, number four, amend the fee payment due date. Getting back to redefining the public benefits. As you know, we've worked on revamping that whole piece in the last four or five years. So we have a real expansion of public benefits, a real analysis of outreach, with an emphasis on access and equity and race and social justice. Basically keeping civic assets and keeping the public and public assets public. So this is another great way to update the contract and the concession agreement and the amendments and to expand the public benefits piece, which we have been doing across all the civic and public assets that the people of City of Seattle own. So with that, the Public Assets and Native Communities Committee recommends that Council Pass Council Bill 119746 as amended. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Suarez, for that report. Colleagues, are there any other comments on the bill? Hearing no additional comments on the bill. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? Petersen Yes. Strauss Yes. Herbold. Yes. Suarez, I. Lewis, I. Morales Yes. Macheda yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Agent Faber. And unopposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Item three Will the clerk please read item three into the record?

Final Passage of Ordinance Approving a Lease and an Option to Purchase and Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Documents Necessary to Implement the Terms of a 10-Year Lease and Option to Purchase with 707 West Tower Avenue, LLC., a California Limited Liability Company, for Building 9 Located at 707 West Tower Avenue at Alameda Point. [Requires four affirmative votes] (Base Reuse 819099)

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L is final passage of ordinance approving a lease an option to purchase authorizing the city manager to execute documents necessary to implement the terms of the ten year lease and option to purchase with 651 West Tower Avenue for Building 91 located at 61 West Tower Avenue, Alameda Point. All right. So the staff have a presentation for this? Yes. It's up to you. I'm Jennifer, our chief operating officer. From the point I'm happy to make a presentation or respond to some comments or questions you may have. So I pulled these items because at the last this is for the second read. And at the last council meeting, I had noted that there was not mention in regard to the heading, for instance, that this included a purchase, an option to purchase these buildings, that both of these leases include options to purchase and or not. And and they were both silent in regards to other than the the purchase price. Any substantiation of how that was arrived, whether it meets the how how the city is able to recommend that that whether or not that meets the market value of the properties any. Any discussion as to the purchase price. And when this came back, I greatly appreciate that the heading was modified to add that it's a purchase of the building and these are buildings that are at Alameda Point that are the city's buildings that the city is selling. So the city is essentially now granting the option to sell off its assets. And as such, it does rise to a higher level of scrutiny by all of us and that it requires four votes to pass. And I believe that that it also requires that there be written discussion in the documentation that the public can read and see for themselves the analysis of arriving at the purchase price that was not included last time when it came back. I was expecting it to be addressed. It's it's there's still no discussion of it in the written documentation. And as such, I cannot support it. I think it's appropriate to have it return and have there be discussion of the purchase price. And I appreciate that sales prices can be can be discussed and negotiated in closed session. However, when it comes to the public, I think it's important to include a discussion about the sales price and not just state what it was. So that being said, if anyone else wants to make any comments to me or make a motion. I move that we approve final passage of both items. I think I have a second. All right, so I just. I. I think that the presentation and the discussion last time highlighted that the fact that these these buildings are in need of great investment. And we've had past discussions about particularly the commercial potential commercial zones of Alameda Point having a term called negative value because of the lack of of infrastructure and and and the need for renovating and modernizing these buildings. I think the negotiation was fair. And there's also it's an option to buy and there'll be a decision and an opportunity to discuss that and great deal when when that option is about to be exercised. So I think we should move forward on this and seize the opportunity at this time. And, Madam Mayor, for me, yes. I mean, I would just add that when back several years ago, in the last administration, when the the majority of Alameda point was conveyed from the Navy, I remember the saying we had back then is that we wanted to let especially the business community know that Alameda point is open for business . And we want to show people that this is a good place to come, take a risk, because if you've spent any time traveling around Alameda Point, you know, it's in pretty deplorable condition. So the folks who are making these first steps, I would like them to pioneers. It's it's a leap of faith. But I think they're going to make the journey that much easier for those who follow because they'll be able to show people this is what's possible. We started out with something that was in its dilapidated, deteriorating condition, and this is what was done with it. We have a report a little later about an award that was given for our Brownfield Development of Alameda Landing. And this is Alameda Landing and then some just because of the magnitude. So I completely and wholeheartedly second the vice mayor's motion because the longer we leave those buildings out there, the more at risk the city is not only have increasing costs of maintaining that, but, you know, people can be injured just from those sorts of businesses and hazards really remaining in our in our city. So thank you for that motion, vice mayor. I remember days. Ago. Thank you very much. As I was two weeks ago, when we first reviewed this matter, I am satisfied with the business terms that we're entering into because that's what this is about. This is about starting up a project based upon our direct negotiations with an entity who, with a number of partners, many of whom are locally based, approached Alameda with an idea of bringing two buildings that are, at this point, in substandard state. And that's an important point because so much of Alameda point is that way, not just the buildings, but the infrastructure underneath the ground. And what that means is when we're redeveloping Alameda Point, it's very different from, say, redeveloping a building over at Harvard I'll or building at Marina Village or in other business parks like Bishop Ranch and San Ramon. You know, those places while certainly marina villages built out that are very you know, those places have land on which, you know, you can just build and not worry about what's underneath anymore. But that's different in Alameda. So there's there's a certain amount of risk and some might even say incredible risk. But that doesn't mean that city staff or city council members are just going to give away the property. You know, we're going to do our due diligence. We're going to take a look at comparables when it comes to getting value or if or we're going to use other ways to to understand that we're getting the value that that the taxpayers expect of us. One of the another way of valuing land is taking into account the costs that have to go in to improving a certain site, something called a residual land value analysis, blah, blah, blah. So when you look at it on those terms, I think the city staff have exercised due diligence that everyone expects of them to. And the fact that a number of the partners are locally based with exciting products and services, I think this is something that we can all be excited about. But I think one of the points that the Mayor has expressed is something to keep in mind that as we move forward with the this and other real estate transactions , that we, you know, convey that information in an easily digestible manner, you know, what the per square foot sales price, etc.. You know, how does it you know, how did we arrive at the market value, things like that. But I am satisfied that that our staff and the Council has exercised a proper due diligence in terms for this transaction. A member, Odie. Thanks, Ben. Two quick questions, Massoud, if you. So without repeating everything that my three colleagues said. Everything. I agree with everything they said. But if you can. I think my notes were for for building nine. The developer was going to pour $33 Million into renovations and improvements. And for building 91, it was 6 million. Right now it's actually you've got 29 million going into building nine and then 9 million going into building 91. 29, nine. Okay, so that's $38 million and then, you know, an additional probably 8 million if. If they actually do the purchase because one is, what, 5.5 and the other. One's three, so $8.5 million, right. So we have someone who's willing to put in, you know, close over $45 million in two buildings that, you know, as my colleague said, were pretty dilapidated and will attract jobs. So I think that's a good thing. One last question, though, on this option to purchase, if they do do an option to purchase, does that come back to the council? No, it does not. Okay. So I appreciate your last question. It does not come back to us that for both of these documents provided merely Building nine has a current option to purchase for $5.5 million. The option can be exercised upon the completion of a subdivision parcel map. Staff is working on the creation of the subdivision maps and will be presenting them to the Planning Board and City Council next year. That's going to be happening momentarily. That does not renegotiate the price the prices declared right here. That's what the council is agreeing to. That's all it says is what the total price is. And for building 91, it's exactly the same language, except it's 5.5 million. What I believe needs to be included here is not just what is decided in the back, behind closed doors, a negotiated price, but something more than that that shares with the public how this is arrived at to justify that this is in fact a fair market value and long term what the impact is to the city. For instance, on one of these, there's a monthly rent of $18,000. However, when it becomes that the purchase at 3 million, there will be a shift in revenue coming to the city instead of having a monthly revenue stream of, for instance, on that piece of property approximately 20,000 per month, the city will will receive the money, the 3 million, and then they're going to receive a property tax. And there should be my opinion set forth here what the property taxes and a comparison and how we're going to move forward as a city because we have expenses to incur five years down the road, ten years down the road, 20 years down the road. And we are making a choice now to sell off the people's property. And all we are telling them is this one set price. And so as much as there's these questions that go back and forth here, I think it's very important to be put in writing so that the public has the opportunity to review it and that it truly is transparent. And I don't think we are meeting that and I think it truly has to hold up to scrutiny by the public. I don't think it's appropriate to bring new slides as much as I appreciate that. But in the middle of the meeting, I think our our I know our community is entitled to when we are selling the community's assets to more because we're not putting the this is another difference. We're not saying we're going to be selling this building. Anyone can come and bid on it. What we are in fact doing is negotiating a lease that happens to have an option to purchase with that one person. That's that one entity that's doing the lease as opposed to having the building for sale at market value. So there is not going to be the competition, for instance, that occurs when any of us go to try it, try to buy a home or rent a piece of property. And none of that happens here. It's all negotiated. And then there is nothing set forth as part of this. The documents that we have intentionally looked at, the fiscal analysis moving forward and the differences of how a lease impacts versus a purchase. So all of that's what I'm looking for when it comes back to us. But I do appreciate that the heading was changed, that it now includes a purchase and option to purchase. But I really think it should be more than that. And in fact, that's something that we get called out for historically is the deal too negotiated behind closed doors and that the public doesn't really know how we arrive at those figures and that needs to happen, in my opinion. So that being said, did you want to respond? I did want to respond. And what I want to just to offer is that all of last year, Miss Ott did essentially what you're talking about, the analysis regarding the infrastructure, how much was it? Each building's fair share. That analysis is available. It's on our website and I and I, so I understand that. And it is our fault and I think our our job to make sure that we continue to provide that information for new councilmembers and for the public as these things move forward. But much of that analysis has been done that was done last year, prior to prior to these things coming coming forward. But I think your point is well taken and will be sure to make sure that those individual items are identified on each of our staff reports moving forward. Madam Chair. And let me real quick respond to her and say I appreciate that. And and I say I do agree with you that headings should encompass include all the information. But I also am going to take a little bit of exception about the way at least I'm interpreting you, talking about deals negotiated behind closed doors. There are certain topics that by law are discussed in closed session, and real estate transactions are one of those. And the reason for that is that if we were out there in the open bargaining for real estate prices and with negotiating in public, then we would be showing our hand and not getting as good a deal as we might. And so we all are aware that in closed session the council met with staff, including Ms. Odd and we gave authorization for parameters within which to carry out these negotiations, and that was done. So I mean, at some point certainly the sales price comes out and the lease prices come out and become public. That's what's in these items that are before us today. But it's not a matter that we're trying to hide something from the public. We are abiding by the law. And that's that's part of our responsibility as council members. So I appreciate that. However, it's my understanding, and I'm happy to use our counsel here, it's my understanding that even when we negotiate a deal, that when it comes forward that we should be able to be held up to scrutiny by the public in regards to that number. Yes, that that is correct. Once the deal has been has been arrived at with the developer purchasing party. It has to come before the council and it is all public. The terms of the deal are all made public and the analysis and scrutiny then is is available at that point in time before council would actually vote to approve the transaction. So that's what I'm asking for, is more than just the purchase price, but the analysis be made public. Thank you. All right. So that being said, I'm going to call it a question. All those in favor. I oppose. I oppose. Motion carries a 4 to 1. Thank you. And now. And I apologize. We have one speaker, said Mr. Ernst. Five. Did you want to come and speak? Apologize for that. We have another item that was pulled 5mm. Final passage ordinance approving a lease and authorizing the city manager to execute documents necessary to implement the terms of a ten year lease with and navigation company for building 167 located at 1500 Ferry Point. Alameda Point.

A bill for an ordinance renaming Columbus Park located at 1501 West 38th Avenue as “La Raza Park”. Renames the park at West 38th Avenue and Navajo Street from Columbus Park to La Raza Park in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 12-8-20.

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We did also receive 16 letters of opposition, and I think many of those who were in opposition were concerned about the representation of the Italian-American community. And I and I, I wanted to really speak to that. This was not about the diminishment in any way of the Italian-American community, but really a lifting of this place of special importance to the the Latin X and Chicano community. So our Parks and Recreation Advisory Board voted unanimously after a public hearing that was held on November 16 to move this forward, and thus the recommendation and the ordinance request from Parks and Recreation. So on behalf of our department and really myself personally, I'm really delighted to recommend this renaming to you to preserve such an important part of Denver's history. Thank you, Madam President. I will. Thank you very much, Director Haines. We are appreciative of you joining us tonight. And we've got our second speaker up and we have his suit. So Frontier. But even in council I get here, I think Director Heinz did a great job of summarizing the outreach effort and what the department did. I'm just here to answer any questions that council may have after the public hearing about the process that was followed by the applicant, Councilman Sandoval, the community, and then the department to get to you all. Very good. Thank you for joining us. And next up, our next speaker is Richard Sabel. Mr. Sabel, you may. Oh, there you go. You're unmuted. Go ahead, sir. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity to speak tonight. My name is Richard Sabel. I've lived down the road from Columbus Park most of my life, and I'm opposed to changing the name of Columbus Park. This is an extreme affront to the Italian-American community, and a direct attack against our heritage and history in the area is being imposed upon us against our will and until tonight, without dialog or participation on our part. It also highlights the disparity of civic assets allocated slabs dedicated to Hispanic figures over two dozen compared with only two, one of which is under attack dedicated and allocated to the Italian community. Currently, the only civic assets acknowledging the Italian-American community are Columbus Park in northwest Denver at John Cho Park, located in what is known as the Bottoms. While some landmarks still remain, such as the martial arts Cerrone's Grocery and of course the small Carmel Church, all are privately owned. Compare this with over two dozen civic assets acknowledging the Hispanic community. Cesar Chavez. Park Mestizo. Curtis Park. Paco Santos Park. Balboa. Lincoln Park. Val Verde Park. Paul Sandoval High School. Castro School. Panga. Vale of Art, etc. etc.. Based on this comparison alone, Denver City Council cannot in good conscience move forward with this proposal. Further, it is intrinsically unfair to take from one community and give to another. It is also unethical to diminish and erase the historical significance of the park to the Italian-American community and the consequent acknowledgment of the contributions of the Italian-Americans to the community at large. It is our position that there is no legitimate reason to change the name of Columbus Park. But in the interest of cooperation and community, if keeping the name Columbus is too much to ask, then we propose that the park remain allocated slash dedicated to the Italian-American community with a name that acknowledges such. Why not Da Vinci Park or Garibaldi Park? Or for a Colorado connection? Angelo, A.C., please help us preserve our heritage by protecting the legacy of our history. It should also be noted that there is a pyramid structure within Columbus Park that has a plaque affixed, dedicating it to La Raza that has been there many years. If nothing else, why not leave everything the way it is? The Italian-American community keeps their park. The Hispanic American community keeps their La Raza structure, and both communities benefit by continuing to share a public resource they have shared for many years. If this compromise is unacceptable to La Raza people, I suggest they purchase their own park and build their own park. Denver City Council cannot claim to support inclusion and diversity by taking away from and shaming one community in order to give to another. This is an example of cancel culture. Thank you, sir. Hence the time we have allotted. Next up, we have Senator Julie Gonzalez. Hi, everybody. I want to thank you all. So much for all of the work that you all do at the Denver City Council. And particularly, I'm here to ask you to vote yes in support of 20 Dash 1444. This is this is a special night. This is this is solstice. And it is a moment of transition. It is the shortest day in the longest year. This year itself. Has been a decade. And I want to acknowledge that this land has been a site of struggle for four generations. It's also been a site of transition and of transformation. And I think particularly in this year in which our community has navigated so much crisis, whether it has been the. Pandemic, whether it has been the economic devastation. Whether it has been the climate crisis or the racial reckoning. Denver And our our society, we've gone through a lot. This renaming of this land to affirm its name. That the community has always called it a La Raza park. It is a step towards healing. It is a step towards transformation. And it is a step towards unity. And so with that council, I want to appreciate everything that you all do on the. Daily, but particularly. Appreciate the work that the council member, Sandoval and so many others have had that have brought in acknowledging the name of this, that this park has always come by through community. And with that, I do ask for your support in naming and affirm. Make La Raza Park. Thank you very much, Senator Gonzalez. Our next speaker is Arturo Rodriguez. Natale. You're going to have to amuse. Hello, everyone. Can you hear me? Mm hmm. Go ahead, sir. Okay. Good evening. Thank you very much for your time. Congratulation, counsel and everybody, for taking on this historic task. I know the part very well. I was the organizer of the initial protests 50 years ago, so I have lived the history and made the history as a retired Chicano studies professor. I have taught this history for 50 years. University of Colorado. Boulder. Denver Community College. Metro State College this fall. Do you people are interested in the history of L.A. Apart? It's a fascinating history of the entire park. Growing up with the rebels and other Italian-Americans in the neighborhood. I know their story and this has never been about them in us. It's been about the reality, the truth about Christopher Columbus. Under the guidelines of naming a park of Christopher, Columbus does not meet the qualifications for that. Mexican Chicanos as indigenous peoples have suffered genocide over 500 years. We live with that trauma. We continue to live with that trauma. In 1981, when we were gassed at the park, for a lot of us, the park day that we held for ten years in conjunction with the pool staff, it was a beautiful event and it turned into a riot. We live with that trauma, so we now have an opportunity to move forward. We have an opportunity to move into the 21st century. We have new residents in this neighborhood now. There's not a day that I walk in that park when I see a person who I know did not grow up in that neighborhood and I educate them about the history and the beauty of the park. And they think and I think that's the message that we want to give every year. I congratulate you for your work and let us make history. Let us. The park should be also not a nominated and be a historic park. Thank you very much for your time. Oh, well, very good. Thank you, sir. Next up, we have Representative Sarina Gonzalez Gutierrez. But evening, everyone. My name is Serena Gonzalez Gutierrez. I want to thank Councilwoman Amanda Sandoval for bringing this forward. And I'm here in support of naming the park to let us the park. I'm a proud third generation North Sider, and my husband and I are raising the fourth generation right here in the same community in North Denver . I have many memories dating back to when I was my kid's age, playing on the playground, running up and down those steps of the pyramid, performing there with my grandmother. And now I've had the opportunity to watch my daughters perform on the very steps of the pyramid. And I've watched several, as well as at the local graduations that have taken place right on that kiosk. Those. There are memories that also precede me, of course, memories from my family. My mom had her first job at the pool when she was 14 years old. LaRosa Park is a symbol of unity in our communities. And without those that became that came before us, we would not be here continuing to fight for what has been a part of our community, our memories, and what we want to pass on to the next generation. Just this year, we celebrated Mother Cabrini Day to celebrate the Italian heritage and someone that made significant contributions to our communities. Columbus is not someone to be celebrated. La Raza is a word of unity and about celebrating community. And I have always known this to be Let us park. Lastly, I'm going to quote my late grandfather, Rodolfo Corky Gonzalez, who led the Crusade for justice and opened a school esquina Tlatelolco. Over 47 years ago. Land is the base on which our cultural values are created. That is what led us the park is to the Chicano, Latino and the Northside community. It is the land that holds our values to come together, to fight injustices and to celebrate our cultures. Thank you so much for allowing the time and I hope that everyone is in support of this renaming. It is well, long overdue. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have Cameron Selvin. Everyone, thank you so much. So I'm actually a resident of District one. I lived directly on the park on Osage Street, but I don't want to speak to you as a resident today. I actually want to talk to you in a professional capacity. I'm a professor of history at the University of Colorado, Denver. And I'm just seeing the panic in your eyes as you're envisioning me starting to launch into a long, boring lecture an hour three of the city council meeting. What I will not do, I promise. But I do just want to say that over the past year or two, I found myself answering the same question again and again as Confederate statues and monuments come down across the country. And that question is if we remove a statue, right? If we rename a school or a neighborhood. Doesn't that mean we're raising history? And my response is always the same. No. We're not. And I tell my students this all the time, history is a choice. We choose to remember and celebrate certain things and not others. And those choices say a lot more about the values of the society that is making those choices than the things that are being remembered. So stuff like monuments, memorials, the names of schools or buildings or parks, these say a lot more about the society that builds them , the society that names them than they say about the thing that's being commemorated. So I think the real question facing the city council right now is what kind of community do we want to be today in 2020? What kind of values do we want to celebrate today? And I don't envy any of you. You've had to make some extremely tough decisions over this extremely tough past year. But this one, this is not one of those tough decisions. I say this again in a professional capacity as a historian, changing the name of this park from Columbus Park to LA Rosa Park is actually pretty straightforward . This change would go from celebrating. What I see is some of the absolute worst parts of this country's history to celebrating some of the very best parts of this country's history. So for those reasons, I am fully in support of this name change and just want to thank you for your willingness to consider taking this step. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jesse Paris. We need more members of the council, those watching at home. My name is just Perez and I'm representing for Denver homestyle restaurants and mobile for self as the vessel promotes the social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado and Mile High. No, and I will be the next November 2023. I agree with everything that was said previous to me, minus the guy who didn't want to take the part of this. Is a fixture in the north side, is a community center on the city that the city is finally realizing that after all these years, that is a step in the right direction. We need to honor the cultural significance of this park and of this neighborhood that's dominantly brown and Chicano not. Now. I was known as the last the part. I am a native. I was born here in 1987. And this part has always been known since I've been living as the life of the party. So to hear the pushback of just simply taking the name from Columbus, who is not somebody that we should be honoring, especially in the age that we're in now. Post George Floyd protests and previous speakers for Confederate monuments coming down. Why in 2020, with the city of Denver still be honoring a criminal such as Chris of All Columbus? So I am very happy and pleased to hear the testimony of those that descend directly from the playmakers that started the Crusade for Justice in the 1960s and 1970s. Representative Selena Gutierrez. And Senator Julie Gonzalez. They understand the historical significance of this part and why it is so important that this world is also full of holes in the name of this park, like a famous estate. It's always been known as the Rosa Parks since I've been living with this 33 years. So with that being said, I'm glad to see that the city is actually taking the initiative to close and accept the cultural significance of our many diverse neighborhoods in the city and honoring the contribution that the level of community has given to the city of Denver. So with that being said, good job. You've got this of. All right. Thank you, Jesse. Our last speaker this evening is Emmanuel Martinez. We're going to need you to unmute, sir. There you go. We're going now. Mm hmm. Go ahead, please. Well, I try to be brief, which is what I have to say about this, because nearly 50, 50 years ago, after founding Rome, a recreation center, and I was its first director, and at that time, Joe Johnson was director, Parks and Recreation. And he agreed to my request to be a full time muralist for the city of Denver Parks and Rec. And after painting murals at Lama they wanted the Plaza Park was that was already being renamed by the staff there and wanted me to paint murals there so I did when I helped, I didn't have time to do that mural. So so while Roberto Lucero pretty much designed in my help him paint it and get the materials to do that. And during that time. There was some controversy later because at that time, the city council, Linda Damiano, who was also Italian-American, urged Joe Johns, who after we had painted a mural that was acceptable by the community and by the staff. He wanted me to paint over the mural because I was in the city, the city murals, and I refused to do that. And as a result of that, I got fired from my job. So I have a little history with. But let us apart. Going way back to 1970. And, you know, I would just like to urge the city council members to please support the name change of Columbus Park. A lot of support the size of it, besides a small number of Italian residents who identify with Columbus. Most of the residents of that area. I've been calling this park. But also park. And it just seems to me like this is is this a no brainer? I mean, is the vast majority of the community has been using that, not calling it that, you know, it's appropriate to do that. And anyway, it's important to realize that La Rosa Park was just the name. La. The site is a positive term. You know, it's you know, it it relates to people, you know, different cultures. It's not exclusively, you know, just for Chicanos or Latinos or Mexicans. So it's I think I think we will soon be. Thank you. So that's the time we have allocated to. Thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 1444, Councilwoman Canete. Thank you. Madam President, I wanted to see whether perhaps Professor Rodriguez, if he is still here, or maybe the councilwoman, the sponsor, might want to speak a little more, or even Mr. Martinez, since he was about to talk about this, but about the the term. So so when I learn Spanish, I, I know the way that I learned this term, La Raza. And we have some folks who've kind of, you know, I think looked at this term and and their risk of translating to literally. And so I wanted to just give you a moment, either as the sponsor or maybe the professors to speak a little bit to this term and what it encompasses and how hard it is to to kind of get it out of a dictionary, if you will. Councilman Sandoval Yeah, I'm happy to answer. Or if I did the Rodriguez, if he's still here, we can promote him and he would be able to answer. It's wonderful. We're going to see if we can get Mr. Rodriguez. Promoted back up. Yep. I see that we have him here and we'll ask him to unmute. Ah. Theodore, are you still with us? Can you unmute? All right. There you go, Mr. Rodriguez. And then I think Mr. Martinez would like to to speak as well. But Mr. Rodriguez, go ahead, please. The term the word. The word La Raza means the people. During the Chicano movement and during the civil rights movement. We empowered ourself. We said Bieber, La Raza. We as a people encompass a world, a culture. We are predominantly native peoples. A group of people also will inevitably develop customs culture. And if you're asking about the definition of does it mean the race? No, it does not mean the race. That was a negative, negative experience, backlash, if you will, from the general public, because they didn't understand that. When I teach Chicano studies, that's one of the first lessons, is the terminology and what it really means to be La Raza and what it means to be La Raza means to be the people. So when we selected that term in a public meeting in 1970 in the community when we were developing this protest, we looked at the name and we said, You know, what we really want to do here is develop a people's spark. We were actually inspired by the People's Park in San Francisco, you know, the hippies and the people that were developing this new world culture. And so we were inspired by the civil rights movement that they were involved in. And so with the Cesar Chavez movement and the other civil rights movement, it became a term to empower us, to educate people about who we are. We are most of all. Good question. Thank you very. Did you want to add something? Yes, I would like to. Can you hear. Me? Go ahead, sir. Well, you know, the the concept of La Raza actually created by the Save Our School Sailors, who was a philosopher in Mexico City and also the minister of culture. And during the third 1930s. And that as his minister of culture, he was probably, you know, the president, Diego Rivera and Siqueiros and Orozco, the great muralist. He was responsible for getting that work done. But the point I'm getting at is that as as a philosopher, he came up with that term, and it has been popular in Latin America and it is very inclusive in terms of all races. And it's relative to our to our race because we are a mixture of race. We are citizens, which is Europe and and and indigenous people. So it's important to realize that this term is that negative. It's all encompassing of a mixture of races in people. So I think people should understand that this is not just a Chicano full term, you know, and it wasn't created by the father movement or what was goes wrong extensively on the concept of La Raza. And so you may you want to you may want to research and if you want more information on that concept. Thank you. Madam President, I just thought it was important. Languages are living, and any one of us could look up an English word in the Oxford Dictionary and know that that's not how we use the word today. And I think that I just wanted to really underscore the idea that you have to look to how the word is used, not to what you find in some Wikipedia site. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you so much, Councilwoman Canete. Next up, we have Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. I don't know if maybe Director Haines or Hastings could respond to this question, but I just want to clarify for everybody listening that it is not unprecedented to change the name of a park that already has been named officially. And so a renaming is something that has been done before. So Director James raises Hazel. She want to answer that. So in the rules and regs for the naming policy of different parks and recreation, they do allow for renaming, right? Parks there have been parks that have been renamed or portions of parks have been remain renamed by by members of this council and previous groups that that have renamed parks that previously had a name. Great. Thank you. I just want to let bring that out so that folks know that this is true. And to build upon what Councilwoman Kennedy said, history is also a living thing and it can be viewed from many perspectives through many generations and viewed differently. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. And I thought we had another hand raised, and so I'll wait for a second. All right. Seeing no others. The courtesy public hearing for Council Bill 20 Dash 1444 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to begin with a little time and a little history. In 1848, the treaty of his Hidalgo was signed into law, and this was when Mexico ceded 5050 5% of its land. And this is part of present day Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada and Utah to the United States. Growing up, I was taught an important thing. We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us. Christopher Columbus did not discover America. It was already inhabited by our indigenous brothers and sisters. What Christopher Columbus did was genocide. He raped and pillaged our native people. And it is time we stop celebrating Columbus and recognize the people. Or, as we say in this part. Let us ask, as district one resident was quoted in the Northstar local newspaper, Judy Diaz from Acquisti in North Denver, resident who identifies as Latin Next and is married into an Italian family. She said she respects the role the name and park had for the early Italian residents. Many used Columbus as an icon to gain acceptance at a time when Italians were heavily discriminated against. Despite that, today, she supports the change to La Raza. It needs to be a building to embrace community and humanity, said friend from Acquisti. People are going to find it controversial if they want to find something to controversy, if they want to find controversy. Growing up in the North Side, I had only known the park to be named. Let us the park. I have celebrated many events there graduations, kids. And yet at the end of summer follows the summer solstice. And my community feels it is time for the park to be named not as a park. I would like to thank those who came before me who fought in the crusade for justice. Art Do the bones. Rodriguez The Chicano movement and the many Latin, black, Latino, black and Latino elected leaders who came before me group to help them. The Gonzalez Family. Senator Julie Gonzalez. Representative Sydnor Gonzalez Gutierrez. The Chicano Pride Rides Councilwoman Ortega, who brought this forward in her term in District nine and was shy one vote. And all those community members who came out during a pandemic to sign over 400 plus signatures to rename this park. I will end with one of my favorite poems as I know it is relevant tonight. Joyce Johnson Rose. Said, I am standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before me. I am stronger for their courage. I am wiser for their words. I am lifted by their longing for a fairer and brighter future. I am grateful for their vision, for their time on this earth. We are standing on the shoulders of the ones who came before us. They are giants and humans and angels. They are friends. We can see beyond the struggles and the troubles and the challenges when we know that by their efforts things will be better. In the end, they lift me higher than I could ever fly. Carrying my burdens away. I imagine our world. If they hadn't tried, we wouldn't be here celebrating today. I am standing on the shoulders of those who came before me. I am honored by their passion for our liberty. I will stand a little taller. I will. I will work a little longer. And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me. They lift me higher than I could ever fly. Carrying my burdens away. I imagine our world. If they hadn't tried, we wouldn't be so very blessed today. I am standing on the shoulders of those. The ones who come before me. I am humbled by their passion for our liberty. I stand a little taller. I work a little longer. And my shoulders will be there to hold the ones who follow me. I humbly ask my fellow colleagues. To support this long overdue. Name change and Cuba us. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Sandoval, we appreciate your comments. And I want to pause for a second. Councilwoman Ortega, she had tried to carry forward a name change quite a few years ago. And so I would ask my colleagues if they wouldn't mind allowing Councilwoman Ortega to go next and share her thoughts on this. Thank you, Madam President. I really appreciate it. And I just want to extend my apologies to my colleagues in the audience for not having here for the previous votes. I had to leave for an eye doctor appointment and just got back. So I want to thank Councilwoman Sandoval for bringing this forward and for putting all the legwork. It is not easy to do a park name change. Sorry, I'm getting. Oh, we just want. Yeah, there you go. My screen just. I figured. You'd want. Your video on. Go ahead, Councilwoman. But it was on and then it turned off. That was kind of weird. But anyway. As I was saying, it's a lot of work to do a park name change. It requires, you know, the signature gathering, pulling together the historical information and and lining up the votes with your colleagues. And I just want to thank you, Councilwoman Sandoval, for all of your work to bring this forward. As as you know, I attempted to do this in my time as a district council person that had a lot of support within it. And everybody from the community has always called it led us apart. And what I was successful doing was getting the the it's not a gazebo. What do you call the. The structure in the park named as Plaza de la Raza. But that was not that was only sort of in exchange for. You know, having let us name officially on the park. And, you know, there's a lot of history in this park that I believe you already covered. I just got back. So I didn't get a chance to hear that part of the presentation. But I did see the information that Councilwoman Sandoval had provided to all of us. And, you know, the demographics of many of our neighborhoods have have changed over time. And this is an example where at one time this was predominantly an Italian community. And, you know, and then at one point it was predominantly Latino. And now the demographics have changed even once again. There's still a lot of Latino families in the community. But, you know, it's it's a gentrified neighborhood. And if you were a renter, most renters are gone that were Hispanic because a lot of those properties have been redeveloped. And so I think this is a great opportunity to reflect the culture and the history that has existed within the community. I can remember growing up as a young high school student and in my, you know, early days as a young adult, spending time over at the park for some of the gatherings and opportunities for the Chicano community to come together and and just celebrate our culture. And so this is an opportunity to do that. I believe it does not take away from the contributions that the Italians in our community have made on the board of a nonprofit that has several of our buildings named after Italian leaders from the community. And this is just another way to recognize the long standing indigenous peoples who, you know, originated in this city, when the confluence of both the South Platte and Cherry Creek came together, which was the the early beginnings of our city. So just ask for support of our colleagues. And again, thank Councilwoman Sandoval and all of the people who assisted in getting the signatures and helping to bring this forward. Thank you. Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Ortega, and happy that you were able to get back and join us for this important event tonight. Councilman Cashman. I'll defer for a moment to Councilwoman Torres. All right. Sounds good. Councilwoman Torres. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Come to my house. Just a quick note of thanks. Just acknowledging and applauding Councilman Sandoval and everyone of the hundreds of people who came over two days during this year, which has been such a tough year to sign the petition and help make tonight happen. There was immediate reaction and enthusiasm and to have the political will and leadership to be able to do this right now is incredibly affirming and a powerful move. And it did not come without risks of threat and names and just real ugliness over something that I think. We have heard calls for four generations, Columbus statues around the country. Coming down and. People really hitting a limit, a tolerance for revisionist history. And so I really just want to thank Councilman Sandoval, Councilman Ortega before her for hearing the words of community for whom this is really important. And I look forward to voting yes. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Torres. Councilman Cashman? Yeah. Thank you, Madam President. I want to start. By congratulating my colleague, Councilman Sandoval. A great presentation, a great effort. And I am. Pleased. To wholeheartedly support this. Name, change and celebrate with you. And your staff and the Latin community on this just long overdue. Name change. And I need to take a moment of personal reflection. When I was growing up in New Jersey, my my best friend's name was. Don and his. Brother was Andy and his parents, Randy and Kaye. And their last name was Prezioso. And they were proud Italian-Americans. And I'm picturing myself. At their dinner table where I was many, many times, trying to explain to Mr. Prez what's going on here. And being a VA as he was, he would he'd have been difficult to convince. And so recognizing that, I just want to ask our Department of Parks and Recreation as they move forward with the. There are ongoing efforts. To add Parkland to our. System to see if they can't. Find a nice parcel and an appropriate parcel to consider a naming in honor of. Denver's Italian community. I think there are numerous heroes more appropriately. Suited to bear the moniker of a Denver park. And I appreciate the moment of perhaps inappropriate personal reflection. But in honor of Mr. and Mrs. President, I wanted to put that forward. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. Next up, we have Councilman Hines. Thank you, Madam President. We as Council, we are here to guide Denver's present and its future based on the values we want to have in our city. And and certainly we should look back at our history and and revel in our history. But, you know, once dinosaurs roamed the earth and now they just adorn sweaters. And so sometimes, you know, if we can just continue to to to only live in the past, just for the past sake. And. And so, Councilmember Sandoval, thank you so much for for bringing this forward. And this is obviously a tough conversation. I in District ten, we had a Christopher Columbus statue, as in it was actually named Christopher Columbus. And we reached out to the Italian American community. We reached out to the Italian consulate here in Denver. We reached out to people who identify as of Italian heritage in Denver and elsewhere. And and the the the conversations that I had were that the Italians in Denver want this. They want they want to celebrate the people and they want to celebrate the people's part. So so thank you again, Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you for all of the the current and former elected officials that you've had here to present, including my state senators, Senator Consultants, thank you for thank you for making the trip on the other side of of of veterans park and and visiting us in the local yokel end of Denver City Council. I'm I'm really excited and and happy to to be part of the support that helps get this across the finish line. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman, can each. Thank you, Madam President. Kvitova is very exciting. I just wanted to share some perspective about the renaming commission that the mayor seeded about six months ago that Councilwoman Ortega and I serve on. And I was trying to pull out the criteria. I couldn't quite find them fast enough, but. But it includes not just that the individual or term that's used has, you know, a historic harm associated with it. It's also about whether or not that harm is continuing into the future in terms of replicating or reinforcing messages or values that are contrary to the city's. And I think that's really important because, you know, I just first want to say Naomi did an amazing job, really great presentation. But I think what I took from her presentation is the way that colonization right. Replicated itself. And I think that's really important because the disparities that are still experienced by the Latino community and members of it. Right, is that replication of the harm. And so to honor the origins of that harm. Right, is a replication of it. And so I can't predict for you what would have happened, but I think it's pretty likely we would have been ended up here. Even if Councilwoman Sandoval never picked this up. She picked this up because she's a leader, because she knew there was this long standing need in this community. But I didn't want anyone to think that she's speaking only for herself. Right. That I think that there is clearly a movement and we're looking at all kinds of names. And so that that report won't be ready till next year. We're still we are so thoroughly debating it. Some of the most thoughtful, challenging conversation that I've been a part of in my time governing, thinking about the confluence right of history and the present, and inequities and harm and healing and all of that. So I just but I wanted to give that perspective because I think that as we do reckon with wanting to better understand the history and that the harms associated with names or terms of things in our city, I think that you are going to see that this might be one of the easier cases, right, as communities will be the next one. So this committee that councilman are taking on will basically take recommendations and give them back to communities to debate. And only after they debate it will it come to this council. But it's this this is an easier case than some that you may see through those processes. It clearly meets the criteria for a renaming that the Parks folks just described. And I just want to say that to the community who waited so long for this, your perseverance and your commitment and the contributions that you made sometimes in spite of our city. Right, are not to be forgotten. And so congratulations to the to the community and to Councilwoman Sandoval for helping to lead them. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman. Next up, we have Councilwoman CdeBaca. Thank you, Madam President. Just wanted to send a quick congratulations to Councilman Sandoval and all of the North Siders, the West Siders, the East Siders who were a part of the Chicano movement, but also all of our professors, our cultural workers, our community workers who really dedicated lifetimes to teaching people about race as a social construct. And how in order for us to get beyond a scenario where we use race to validate, to justify oppression, we have to start envisioning a world that doesn't exist with race. And I strongly encourage anyone who's curious about this renaming or who's frustrated by this renaming to really do a little bit of research on La Raza cosmic , because what it is really about is acknowledging that there is no pure race. There is no such thing anymore. And the the this idea of La Raza is about a new race of people without the labels applied to us based on color. So I again, congratulations. I'm very happy to see this. I'm very happy to be able to vote yes on this in my term and proud to to say that this is a community home. And I hope that beyond this symbolic fight, this symbolic win, we make sure that the Latino people, that La Raza is able to stay in this community and enjoy this park with this new name. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. And I will go ahead and wrap up on comments. Congratulations, Councilwoman Sandoval. Councilwoman Ortega. And, you know, I loved it when Senator Gonzalez talked about the winter solstice and how significant this point in history today right now is. And I think of our grandmothers and our aunties and our mothers and all of the women in the community and and the men. But I like to concentrate on the women a little bit, because I know that there has been many grassroots efforts and and keeping that fight going over the years. And that I also would be very remiss if I didn't honor our elders, Mr. Rodriguez and Mr. Martinez, who joined us and the the many academics and teachers. I got my undergraduate at Regis at Metro and then my master's at Religious. And so that history is interwoven throughout the Denver metro area, but really within our state, because like my family came from the San Luis Valley and came to Denver for a better opportunity. And so I feel like our elders are smiling down on us and have been whispering for decades to make this change. And I just want to sincerely congratulate the community and Councilwoman Sandoval and Ortega and also Torres, because the preservation in your district as well continues on that strong Chicano Latin history of our city that is so important. And so, without further ado, Madam Secretary, roll call. Sandoval. I. Sawyer a. All right. I. Well, I. Peter Barca. I. Clark. I. When I. Herndon. I. Hi. I'm. Cashman. I. MH I. Ortega, I. Madam President. I am secretary. Please close the voting and announce the results. 13 I. 13 Eyes Council Bill 20 Dash 1444 has passed our pre adjournment announcement on Tuesday, July 19th, 2021. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 1414, changing the zoning classification for 3397 South Geneva Street in Hampton.

A MOTION approving a job description for the King County Flood Control Zone District executive director.

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Good morning, John. Tricia staff to Kent County Council. And Madam Chair, if it's okay, I will provide you a staff report on both items five and six, which is proposed motion 2016 039 No and propose motion 2016 0443 because they are linked. Thank you. First of all, proposed motion 2016 039 NO. Is a proposed amendment to your organizational compilation or your rules? What it would provide for is structure in which employees of King County Council would provide 100% of their services to the King County flood control district while still remaining as employees of King County. What this would do would create within, similar to your independent agencies, create within the legislative branch a flood control district administration unit in which to house the employees and create the roles and general responsibilities of a flood control district executive director within your org motion. The org motion amendments would then go on to cover four key areas related to employment. First and foremost, all of the employees that would be part of this unit would be exempted from your traditional Employment and Administration Committee processes and the Flood Control Zone. District Executive Committee would be providing recommendations directly to the Council, as you will find with a proposed motion 2000 1644 three related to job descriptions and others. So specifically, that relationship would apply to the creation of job descriptions. The County Council would be those who would approve them. Based on a recommendation from the Flood Control Executive Committee for Hiring Processes, the flood control district would be responsible for establishing the hiring process and making a recommendation to the King County Council for appointment and for the Council's consideration for performance evaluations. The Flood Controls Executive Committee would provide performance evaluations of the executive director, and the executive director would be responsible for evaluations of those employees with other employees within the unit. And when it comes to disciplinary actions, those would be the responsibility from the front line, from the executive director to the staff reporting to the executive director and from the executive committee to the executive director. In in cases where those disciplinary actions may be more significant, two weeks suspension without pay or more. Or termination. All of those decisions would be appealable to the King County Council, as is your current practice for legislative branch employees. So it maintains that final linkage with the county from an employment standpoint, relative determination. You may ask your question just for clarification. So it would not go through the EEOC, correct? Okay. It would come to the committee of the hall. It would go to the full county for county council, which your practice would be then to send that information, whether it was a special, I believe, if in the case of a termination, it would be before the full council. Okay. So Labor used to come to this committee, but it now goes to. Any of the substance committees that where the substantive matter resides. And when it comes to Labor policy, the full council meets as a Labor policy committee to address Labor policy. Okay, great. Thank you. We don't do that very often, so I forget. Okay. Thank you. Okay. In your packet. There is one amendment which would clarify that the executive director not only reports to the County Council member who serves as the chair of the district, but is also responsive to all our members of the District Board of Supervisors. This is similar to language that exists with your chief of staff, as well as with my position, the Chief Policy Officer. Unless there are any questions on the job description, I'm on the organization composition. I'll move on to the job description. Let's wait. Just for council member Goss, this question. That's my guest. Thank you, Madam Chair. I think that the final decision making entity for this position is not the county council. It's the Board of Supervisors. Am I wrong on that. Mr. Gossett? Well, the Board of supervisor, while the executive committee, not the Board of Supervisors of the Flood Control District, makes recommendations. The County Council is the final decider on all of its employees, and these employees do ultimately, they are ultimately county employees. And so they will receive the council will receive recommendations flow from flood control and from the executive committee. And they can deliberate and act on those as they would any other matter that comes before them. And when it comes to the suspension without pay or termination, the only time it would come before the county council is if the employee receives that level of discipline. And from whom? From the executive committee or executive director. And the employee chooses to appeal that decision. And an employee can appeal to the King County Council, but. Only under those two circumstances, correct? Yeah, because they are King County. We're changing it now. And so that's what. This is all under flood control. It was. And we're changing it now to open it up for getting more potential people interested in the job. And so that's this is a big change. And you're right. And so that's why we wanted people to have more opportunities to see this. So and I'll jump in real quick. Thanks. Councilmember Goss, at the the direction of the executive committee was to put as much control in terms of employment related decisions with the executive committee, the King County Flood Control District. At the same time, however, making sure that the employee, him or herself, is actually an employee of King County. We did that because we found in our last applicant process that the prospective employees cared a lot about being a King County employee with the benefits commensurate with being a King County employee. And so we were able to put a placeholder on a couple of positions there. And then what happened after we did that, we realized that there were some legal concerns about how we had it initially scoped. And so District Legal Council, working with King County Legal Counsel, came to this compromise, which gives the district exactly the maximum amount of control under law. Okay. Thank you. You bet. But I am glad the supervisor done that. We're at the point of having an executive director because I think we'll save a lot of money and have more accountability, given what our staff just described from this person. Agreed. And thank you, Mr. Garza, for being such a strong supporter of getting this job description out and working. So I think that what we should do, sir. Yes? May I continue on with the staff report and complete the other item, and then you'd be in a position to be able to take action on both items? Sure. The next item again is 2016 dash 0443, which follows the changes to the organizational compilation and would provide for the King County Council to approve a job description for a flood control district executive director who would be housed within that flood control district administration unit that would be created by the previous that the discussed piece of legislation you'll have before you the actual draft of the job description. It was it has just completed its legal review and we just handed it out so it can be attached today as you forwarded for that on this position, which would provide that executive leadership for this organization, for this government would be governed under the King County legislative branch, 13 staff salary table. It is proposed that it would be salary range. 133, which is a minimum of 121 936 through 163 991, which meets the general framing of criteria as the flood control district was looking at a midpoint that was competitive in the market. It is impressive rated that somewhere between one in five staff would be reporting to this executive director position as well as the contractors for financial clerk of the board and other services, as well as providing the oversight of the larger county agreement and administration of the of the government itself and performance evaluation, since that is a piece of Labor policy that you always have questions on again is covered within the organizational compilation and this position will be reviewed by the Flood Control District Executive Committee conducting those evaluations. There is the amendment which is on page 115 of your packet, which would attach the job description which has been handed out to you today. Right. And the first one, 390, also has an amendment and it is done by Councilmember Banducci and an amendment number one, a page 211, done by Councilmember Jim Balducci. I went to read the exact same thing and found out she'd already written it to so two minds thinking exactly the same thing. And basically it clarifies that the executive director is responsive to all members in addition to reporting to the council member that serves as the chair. So all of us have input in dealing with our employee. So with that and that makes that language because it makes it consistent with what the current language in the King County Council organization, Charterhouse. Yes. For both the chief of staff and for the policy director. So. All right. Well, since this is under your bailiwick, Councilmember, would you like to put before us a motion, a proposed motion? 390. Yes. Move. Proposed motion number 2016 390. Thank you. And there is an amendment. Amendment number one. What word and where is that? Page one. 11 of your packet. Yes. On 11. We're just talking about I. Will move Amendment one at this. Time. Okay. I'll let everybody read Amendment number one. Okay. I like Brandon. Explain it. I just did. That's what I just said. But you just explained the amendment as amended. It clarifies executive director is responsive to all members reporting, including the council chair of the district. As when I said that Councilmember Bainbridge and I had the same idea. And what was the idea? That's you're reading right now that it was clear that the person we hire is responsible to all of us in court and continuity with the two other positions that have this exact same language. I know the what was it before. It was just delivered. It just replied report it only to the chair and nobody else. So now it's to all of us reports to him. But all of us have information. The Chair. Yes. Yes. So now it will be addressed to him and to all of us, as we do with our other two employees. Okay. With that, we have a Fourth Amendment number one. All of those in favor of amendment number one. Please say I, I, those opposed nay. Okay. We are now have 390 as amended before us. Are there any questions for those that that are back? Welcome. This is the re of job description or and the reorganization plan for the flight control district. Okay. Let me just speak to that. Okay. I'm in. But this is simply a motion that allows King County to use two of its employees to serve or up to two. One right now, executive director to serve as the executive of the King County Flood Control District. And it makes the reporting language consistent with what we have already at the King County Council with respect to how members in the Chair interact with the Chief of staff. So it marks those two issues parallel with respect to the Board of Supervisors and our upcoming executive director. It has broad support. And then the next item is a motion that's going to approve the actual job description, which. Is in front of you. Now, which is there, the actual descriptions there. So I'd urge you support on item number five of today's agenda. Thank you, Councilmember Gossett. I still have the difficulty of understanding the difference between the King County Council and the Financial Control District Board of Supervisors. Because councilmen are down. There have been. A that I recollect that I made a decision as a executive committee of the flood control district that I knew that several members of the King County Council, more like than now, would not have supported. And then there's been something that I could easily support as a King County Council member, but couldn't as just a narrow Board of Supervisors member. So let's admit it now. We just voted on just as King County Council and is a non state board of Supervisors meeting mean. So right now at this moment I'll try and take it. We're sitting we're sitting as the Metropolitan County Council right now. We're not sitting as the Flood District Board of Supervisors Committee of the whole. So with our King County hats on, which is always sort of hard to remember which hat is on. Right. Right now we are essentially saying we will allow this a King County employee to be hired with a reporting structure and they will become the executive director through a local agreement. And for a reporting structure that is substantially similar to what we have with respect to the way the King County Council members interact with the chair of the council and our chief of staff. So that's what we're saying at this time. And jump in. It is complicated, Mr. Garza. I agree, because this is brand new. And but what it is doing is it just what Councilmember Dunn said? And so this person will work for us as council members and then we will contract as council members for them to work for us. The supervisors for the executive director word. Yeah, for the supervisors. That is correct. And day to day supervision still will be directed by the chair of the local control district. That is correct. That part will work like it does today. All right. Okay. With that, there are no further questions. Kurt, please call for the vote. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Balducci, Councilmember Dombrowski. All right. Councilmember Dunn. All right. Councilmember Gossett. Hi. Councilmember Colwell. Hi. Councilmember McDermott. Hi. Councilmember of the Grove. Councilmember Yvonne Wright Bauer. Hi. Madam Chair. Hi, Madam Chair. The vote is seven eight no nos and councilmembers Balducci and F the Grove. Excused. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. So now we have before us. So, Councilmember Dunn, we have before us. Four, four, three. Move proposed motion number 2016 0443 to speak to it, please do. After a lot of experience with executive directors and a lot of legal wrangling to get it just right, and we have finally come to what I think is a very fine job description for the flood control district executive director. This requires approval of the King County Council as we sit today, but also, of course, the King County Flood District Executive Committee, at least, and I think also the district as a whole. So everybody, it's a salary grade 133. There's a summation and just the career features we are looking for, including the essential duties and responsibilities. There's been a lot of work in this, a lot of specifics. We think that it is or at least my own view is that this is exactly what we need in terms of the proper candidate to run the flood district as executive director, based on a lot of experience, but also because it's a King County employee has the benefit of benefits that we struggle with as a district because we're not set up to do that, at least not yet. And it also provides a salary high enough to attract somebody. I think it starts about $130,000 a year, give or take. A little on the range is 121 through 160. Okay, 1 to 160. Thanks for correcting me in somewhere in there, we think there is somebody who would be willing to try it. And and the hope is we get somebody that can do this for four years and in that shorter period. So that's that's my motion. Thank you. Councilmember Garcia. I have a question for her councilman. And certainly featuring two or three times you said this person will be supervising four or five staff persons. I never knew the executive directors of the path, but I can tell control district the supervisor more than one or one and a half people, though. It's a good question. I haven't said four or five, definitely. That's not what I've said, is up to up to two, one or two. And three or four. I know that. No, the the thought which. We have discussed in executive committee but never taken formal action on. But we've had a fair amount of discussion. It was the idea of hiring an executive director and then based on the workload that we've seen in the past, that that executive director would be involved along with the board in hiring a policy analyst type of person that would backstop a lot of the heavy lifting. And there's been a little bit of talk about the possibility of bringing on a public information officer, which would complete the staff. But that is a decision yet to be made. But we wanted to scope out the job description to include the possibility of supervision depending on what policy decisions are our executive committee and board make in the future. All right. Why does this position require a valid driver's license? Because that individual is going to be going to tons of community meetings across the district, neighborhood associations, town halls, chambers of commerce, as we as we discuss. And Councilmember, I'd like to add to that answer. Transportation and you're in my district is so difficult. They need to get there by their own vehicle. Often there's no way to get to many of my facilities by bus. Yeah. Another day, another Uber. Yeah. Okay. So we are ready now to list before us. We have an amendment. Mr. Dunn, would you like to put your amendment forward. As an amendment one? Yes, I would move to remove Amendment One, which is listed on page 115 of your packet, which is just attached to the job description for approval. And that's a job description. It was handed out a couple of minutes ago, so it was on the dais. Okay. So with that a clerk, would you please call for the vote? Oh, we have an amendment. Sorry. Ma'am. I was late. On the amendment. Are those in favor? Amendment number one. Please say I, I those opposed. Nay. Number one is adopted. So we now have before us and 2016 0443 as amended. Would you now please call for the vote? Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Baluchi, Councilmember DEMBOSKY. All right. Councilmember Dunn, I am Councilmember Gossett. Councilmember Caldwell side. Councilmember McDermott, High Council member of the Grove. Hi. Hi. Madam Chair. I am chair of the vote is ADA is no nos and council member about D.C. excuse. Okay. So a couple comments. Both of those can be expedited and I believe for consent. That's okay with everybody. So that would be good. We can get this moving right along for those in the listening audience, if you're interested in a job of this category, working with nine fun people and and another great group of staff and the job description will be online shortly and it will be under a motion 2016 0443 so you can look it up. We are definitely looking for some great people to come and do this job. So they'll have big shoes to fill, though. And we'd like to thank Kris Lund for all of her work in doing that. She's been an incredible executive and we appreciate all her years of service launching this agency. Before we end. For those that weren't here, I just wanted to give you a summary of the briefing today on local government. We had a briefing on the issues at File City Park, which is a local park that we as local government oversight over. Last year, they had 26,000 visitors to that park and a huge number of garbage problems which we are working on and will continue to work on. And so we asked people as they go out to the parks to please use the garbage cans appropriately. And secondly, we talked about the pristine parks that the topic today was local parks and that progressing as quickly as possible visioning that was done about four years ago. So we would like to see that proceed as quickly as possible. And then we also had last month a fire road that was taken out by, I believe the state government may have been the federal I'm not sure which government it was. And because of that, it has made our rescues for people who have been injured on those trails much more difficult. And I am very concerned about more of our fire roads being destroyed by the federal or state government and putting more and more of our people in danger. That continues to be a huge problem. People assume that any place in King County, you can call for an ambulance and that is not accurate. And so they get into places that are very difficult to make rest. And without the proper roads, that is making it even worse. So I wanted to alert you to that problem, and hopefully we can write a letter or make some request that this will not continue in the future. So any other business that needs to come before this council member Gossett I. One question for you. Sir. Can you say that the advertising for the King County Flood Control District Executive Director is going to commence immediately? Yes, I hope so. I hope we just did. That was the beginning. And. And then when does it end? So I can tell people. I don't know the answer to that. STAFF When will it end? Upon approval, your the human resources folks will be proposing a time frame, I believe, of three or four weeks, and you'll have specific dates within just a couple of days. And we'll look forward to getting that out to you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. And I've already made phone calls to people that I know that might be interested. So I think the broader our information goes out, which is why the reason it's on TV. Hopefully we'll find somebody who would love to do this job and we would love to work with and we've done amazing work. Help me with the number. Before we started this district, there was $3 million a year to deal with the floods in this county. This provided originally it was $36 million a year and there's a lot of that now. I don't remember what it is. Do you remember what it is off the top of your head? It's around 36 million a year. And that you didn't hear. 52 million. 52 million. All right. It's gone up. It's good. 52 million a year and project that. It can be more than that. It's going to be. Depending on how we spend in past years, it can be up to 60 or 60. It just depends on where we are in the project design or the project combination. What's happening? It's very. We put about 400. Money. $440 million on the ground and project since the flood district's inception. Almost to have already almost a half a billion dollars. Say that loud so people can hear that. All the roughly. $440 million in on the ground projects since the inception of the flood districts are approaching half a half a billion dollars. So very significant program. This started in, what, five years ago. That's about seven some years old. Seven years ago. Okay. So seven years ago, we would have had 21 million under the old plan and now it's had almost half a billion, which has made a huge difference in environmental issues as well as flooding issues. So it is a very exciting project to be working on and I'm thankful to all of the supervisors that have worked on that project. With that, the meeting is adjourned.

Message and order to accept for the benefit of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, a donation of a Shower Trailer from the Boston Public Health Commission valued at Thirty-Eight Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty-One Dollars ($38,781.00).

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Thank you. Docket 1274 message. In order to accept the benefits of the City of Boston, Mayor's Office of Emergency Management, a donation of a shower trailer from the Boston Public Health Commission Commission valued at $38,781. Thank you so much. The Chair recognizes Councilor Arroyo, chair of the Public Health Committee Council, where you have the floor. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a one time transfer of property and a shower trailer from the Boston Public Health Commission to the Mayor's Office of Emergency Management. The Office of Emergency Management plans to utilize a trailer for decontamination after disaster and emergency responses. As Chair of Public Health, I ask that the City Council suspend the rules and pass this docket. Thank you so much. Council Royal six suspension of the rules and passage of Docket 1274. All those in favor say I. Am. Any opposed. Nay, the ayes have it. Docket 1274 has been passed. We will now move on to reports of public officers. Madam Court, could you please read Docket 1275?

A proclamation in recognition of Paul A. Hindman, Executive Director of Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, upon his retirement.

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Thank you. Thank you. Communications. Madam Secretary, do we have any communications. Then, Mr. President? Proclamations. We have three proclamations this evening. Councilman Castro, will you please read Proclamation 804? Thank you, Mr. President. I would be honored to as proclamation number 16 dash 0804 in recognition of Paul, a Heineman executive director of Urban Drainage in flood control district upon his retirement. Whereas Paul Heineman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural engineering from Colorado State University and a master's degree in business management from the University of Colorado at Denver. As a professional engineer licensed in the state of Colorado, he has over 37 years of experience in the field of water resources, both in the private and public sector. And. WHEREAS, Mr. Heineman began his esteemed career with the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District on January seven, 1985, as a project engineer for the maintenance program. He has held a variety of positions rising through the ranks to become executive director of the district in 2008 and has decided to retire effective September 16, 2016. And. Whereas, in over his 31 years with the district, he served with dedication and his legacy will forever be remembered through the numerous projects that were completed during his time with the district, which include the Goldsmith Gulch, the Storm Sewer Pipe Material, Technical Memorandum, Lakewood Gulch and the University Mexico Storm Sewer, and where, as Mr. Heineman said, unwavering commitment to the district and the safety of every Colorado resident was witnessed firsthand in September 2013, when many counties in the metro area suffered historic flooding. These same floods also displayed the great work that has been done in Mr. Heineman this time, much of which goes underappreciated until it is needed. And. Whereas, through his leadership, responsiveness to citizens and elected officials, volunteer work within the community and dedication to improving policies, procedures and best practices for flood mitigation. Mr. Heineman has helped strengthen a culture and infrastructure that will continue to protect residents and property for decades to come. Now, therefore, let it be proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that the Council of the City and County of Denver honors the work of Paul Heineman and expresses its sincere appreciation for his outstanding career of service to the people of the city and county of Denver, the seven counties served by the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District and the state of Colorado. Section two. That the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest and affixed the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to Mr. Paul Heineman and the Urban Drainage and flood control district. Thank you. Councilman, your motion to adopt. Yes, thank you, Mr. President. And I move that proclamation. 804 be adopted. It has been moved. Let's see here. It's been moved and we get a second. I'm trying. You can see it. We got Ortega for a second. Comments by members of Council. Councilman Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. First of all, I do want to again mention I want to thank Councilman Lopez for actually bringing this forward. And I'm sorry he's unable to attend and wish his family well. And I know he would be expressing his admiration for Mr. Hyman's work. And Councilman Lopez served as chairman of the Urban Drainage Board for a while and is a fan. I know that for sure. So for those who don't know the urban drainage and flood control district, one of the least cool names for an organization I think I've ever heard was formed in 1969 to work on essential drainage and flood control projects along the front range. The area urban drainage looks at is over 1600 square miles. Includes the city and county of Denver, the six counties that surround us. Parts of it I think 33 cities and towns and affects 2.8 million people. So when I first started on council over a year ago and then President Herndon made the appointments to various boards, I got word that I had been appointed to the board of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, an organization that I knew nothing about. And I thought Urban drainage. What is this going to be about? And I was very unimpressed. And then I started talking with friends who have interest in that area. And universally the word came back that this was an organization, the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, that was held in the highest esteem for the work that it does and the importance of the projects that it does in saving lives. And then as I got began serving on the board and got to know more intimately about the work the board did, it is a totally nonpolitical organization. It is one of the most efficient deliverers of service that I think I've seen in my time on council. They they look to the jurisdictions that they serve to tell them what needs to be done. And then they design and engineer the projects and go to outside sources to actually do do the construction. The work they do has literally saved lives throughout throughout our area. And as was mentioned in the proclamation, all you need to do is to look back at the flood was 1965. I think that the Platte River flooded. And you look at Boulder, the Boulder area a couple of years ago and this is serious business. And we've talked a lot about our drainage needs in this city recently. And I need to say this and this is a difficult thing to say. So I had we had a vote on a drainage issue recently, and I personally have come to have the utmost respect for Mr. Heineman in serving on the board and watching him carry himself. He is deadly serious about the work that his organization does and feels a commitment to the communities that he serves. And we ended up on opposite sides of an issue. And I had to vote in a way that Mr. Heineman was not pleased with and would have recommended against. And I was so happy that that meeting for that vote ran till about two in the morning, because I noticed about midnight that before we took our vote that that that Mr. Heineman had to leave the building. And so when it came time for me to place my vote, I didn't have to look him in the eyes. So. You know, that's the way this job goes sometimes. And it was no reflection on my opinion of my friend. So with that, I would just offer my congratulations on a wonderful career. And those are going to be very big shoes to fill. And thanks and enjoy your time with your grandkids. Thank you. Councilman Cashman, Councilman Gilmore. Thank you, President Brooks. You know, Paul, it's been an honor getting to know you. I kind of got to know a little bit about your work even before I was elected, because I was always kind of researching what we could do about the Montebello channels. And so, you know, your steady leadership and your commitment to protecting lives and property always with not enough money to really do all of these projects. And so being creative and thinking outside the box and going for different grant dollars is so important. And, you know, you're not just going to leave a, you know, small hole in this organization. I mean, for a lot of intents and purposes, you are this organization. And so I know that transference of leadership is something that you've been working really hard on, and we're going to be proud of the next leader. But no, that will be missing you and hopefully living vicariously through your adventures and your grandchildren and all of the different things I hope you get to do. So thank you for your service. Paul. Thank you. President Brooks Thank you, Councilwoman Sussman. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm so happy to be a part of this proclamation for you. I sort of felt the same way when I was assigned to urban drainage about five years ago and but came to also discover how much I didn't know about urban drainage and how much I would like to know about urban drainage. And one of the most special things that you did for us, Paul, was the lectures before the meeting began. He would give us classes in hydrology 101 before the meeting while we were eating a delicious lunch. By the way, I always would like to recommend that to all of the professors I had before. And so I got to learn all these cool words like outfall and drop structure and occlude and capillary. Not not to be confused with hilarity. And my favorites were Cone of Depression and Cone of Influence, which I often feel like describes the work of a councilwoman. But it has to do with water. And I have always been so grateful to have learned as much as I did about urban drainage. And that doesn't sound very sexy, but it's so important to our community. And the work that you done with urban drainage is something that you are going to. They are big shoes to fill and thank you very much for a wonderful experience serving on your board. Great Councilwoman and Councilman Clark. I apologize. I'm sorry. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, unlike some of my colleagues, I was very well aware of who the urban drainage and flood control district was before I got here, because I'd spent 17 years of my life working down on the South Platte River, and this is just a one of a kind organization and under your leadership has really done amazing things. So you will be sorely missed. You know, one of the things that when you when you play and you work down by the South Platte River, there are a lot of organizations who have some touch on that and have some authority and some control. And that is a hardworking river. And it serves a lot of different things. And one of the frustrations for me was always as I was trying to work on making the river fun and engaging and safe place for kids to come and learn was to run into these big organizations with a lot of resources who would say , Well, that's not the primary function of this river. This is that this river's primary function is to convey water, to get water from point A to point B or to do this or to do that. And one of the things that was just amazing to run into urban drainage and flood control was that you guys totally got it. Was that yeah, that wasn't your primary objective. And you're here to keep keep the city safe and to convey that water in a storm event. But you absolutely understood, like I would say, no other organization working down there that is governmental, that that didn't have to be exclusive, that it didn't just have to be that that's the one thing this river is going to do. And so anybody who has been down to the South Platte River and seen the $30 million worth of new improvements that have happened in the last 4 to 5 years under your leadership, none of those projects were possible without. You. And without you guys, they just weren't. And you were. You just had this amazing ability to always come to a project and say, hey, this is what we have to get done. But you know what? We can do it like this. And then look at all the benefits. Look at. Look at what can happen. And look at now. Today, all of the kids who are down there and experiencing the river and all the wildlife opportunities, that is possible because of urban drainage and because of your leadership. And so as a city, we are in your debt and you will be sorely missed. And and I would say that the river has no greater friend than you. So thank you for everything they've done. Thank you for your commitment and your work and enjoy what you're doing next. But I hope you'll continue to be a friend of the river in Denver, even in retirement. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like first to ask that my name be added to the proclamation. And then I want to also thank Paul for his years of service with urban drainage and all the important work that you've done throughout the city of Denver and neighboring jurisdictions. I had the benefit of serving on urban drainage for some time and worked with your predecessor, Scott, and your former colleague Bill DeGroot on a number of projects, some of which are on the South Platte River. But that important work would not happen without the important role of urban drainage. I wish you guys would have been the lead agency on the project that Councilman Cashman talked about just a few minutes ago. It might have been a different project, but, you know, that's water under the bridge, I guess, at this point. But I just wish you well in your retirement. And as someone said earlier, there will be some big shoes to fill and just thank you for your service. I see that some of your colleagues are here and hope that when you get a chance to speak, maybe you can just acknowledge them as well. Thanks. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call. Cashman I 20 start sorry. Cashman can each. I knew Ortega I Sussman. I Black. High Clark Espinosa. Flynn I Gilmore I Herndon High. Mr. President. I close voting. Announce the results just. Sorry. One moment. Yeah. Total Vice 12 Eyes Proclamation 804 Passes. Now, Councilwoman Kathryn, do you have anyone that you'd like to bring up? I like to think about it as a little room full of people. I'd like to invite Mr. Heineman to say a few words. Thank you very much. First of all, I'm glad that motion passed. And I don't want any of you to confuse me. I'm Paul, and there's a Paul, and we both have blue striped shirts on. But I work for urban drainage. And you're with Denver. You know, I've been at urban drainage and flood control district for over 30 years. And as all of you said, it is a great organization and I have just been blessed to have been a part of that and to work with the city and county of Denver on, as you've all said, numerous projects to help the citizens of Denver be protected when when a flood does happen to protect people, property and the environment. I've had the pleasure to serve with in the last eight years as executive director with four of you on my board. Councilman Cashman, Councilwoman Gilmore and Councilman Lopez, who are on the board right now, and Councilwoman Sussman, who was and Councilwoman Ortega, I do remember back when I was working in the Design Construction Maintenance Program that you were on our board as well and and did many projects in Denver. And our partnership with Denver through the years is just been amazing. We we always want it wanted to serve and do what city and county of Denver wanted us to do, not what we wanted or thought or directed to do. And that has turned out some fabulous projects on Lakewood Gulch, where Gulch, West, Harvard, South Platte, River, Cherry Creek. And I think in the proclamation of one of the ones Councilman Cashman mentioned was Goldsmith Gulch. And I was the project manager on that. And any of you who have been with city and county Denver for a while know that was a long, tedious process to get that done. But we did. And more than 150 households are now protected and are not in a hundred year flood plain because of that project. And that is probably the one in my career that I am the most proud of because that's what this is all about, is to protect people. And I again am just so grateful to have been a part of that. And I am humbled by the people that I've worked with, both with Denver and and at my organization. So thank you very much for this. This is this is the high this is the highlight of my career. Thank you very much.

Recommendation to approve the Downtown Long Beach Parking and Business Improvement Area (DLBPBIA) Annual Report continuing the DLBPBIA assessment for the period of October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018; and authorize City Manager, or designee, to extend the agreement with the Downtown Long Beach Alliance for a one-year term. (Districts 1,2)

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Motion carries. Thank you. Number 12. Number 11, please. Report from economic development recommendation to approve the downtown Long Beach. Parking and Business Improvement Area Annual Report. Continuing the assessment for the. Period of October one, 2017 through September. 30, 2018, District one and two. Thank you. Staff Report. Our Carmel has a brief one honorable place Mayor and members of the City Council. This item is the annual premier of the Downtown Garbage Parking and Business Improvement Area Ongoing Annual Assessment. The recommended recommended action on this item continues the assessment for another year. There are no proposed changes to the basis of assessment nor significant changes in proposed activity. Therefore, staff request that the City Council approve the annual report and continue the levy of the assessment and authorize the city manager to extend the agreement for one additional year. That concludes my report. Thank you, Councilman Gonzalez. Thank you for the staff report. Thank you. PEARCE Councilmember Pierson. Okay. Any public comment on this item saying no members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. Can I just make one motion for all the rest? I'm joking. Item number 12, please.

AN ORDINANCE relating to street and sidewalk use; amending Ordinance 126474 and the Street Use Permit Fee Schedule authorized by Section 15.04.074 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and amending Section 2 and Section 3 of Ordinance 126339.

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Reporter The Transportation and utilities committee. Excuse me. Transportation. Seattle Public Utilities Committee. Agenda Item 12 Council Vote 120 256 Relating to street and sidewalk use amending ordinance 126 474 and the street use permit fee schedule. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss. So are you. Good afternoon, Council president colleagues, bringing forward to you a bill I have brought to you before, which is extending the sidewalk and outdoor dining permits. So we're extending the free outdoor dining permits. And my apologies. I thought we were into Zoom for all of these years and I didn't get my video. Good to see you. Council president. Good to see colleagues here. I am speaking into a black box moving forward. As I brought this legislation to you in the past, I bring it to you again today. I may bring it to you once more before we finalize these these outdoor dining permits, because it is important to give businesses , residents and all of Seattle, all Seattleites, the opportunity to weigh in and create the right sized regulations for our outdoor dining. Outdoor dining has been something that some have been interested in for many years in Seattle. And I can tell you during the pandemic, it has been widely accepted and celebrated. And now that means that we need to change how our guidelines, permits and parameters are set so we can best set up our businesses. In the past, we've charged fees that were associated with parking costs for that parking stall. And that's just a it's a blunt tool that's not right size. So I'm looking forward to getting our final regulations from START. And this legislation will extend free permits so that business owners have the consistency that they need to know how to plan for the year. And so these cafes, street outdoor dining permits will be extended until January 31st, 2023. Last year we passed legislation introduced to extend the permits until May 30th, 2022. These long extensions are intended to allow City Council time to work with stakeholders and adults through this program while providing restaurants the predictability, stability they need to retain and improve their outdoor structures. So with this extension, it's one part in the pathway to permanence that I've laid out for cafe streets and outdoor dining. And again, my intention, if we aren't able to create those permanent regulations by the end of this extension, we'll do this one more time. I do like to do the time duration segments rather than just extending them for a very long time. So here we are today. I urge a yes vote at this very popular outdoor dining bill. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss, are there any questions or concerns that we want to ask of Councilmember Strauss? Seeing a hearing done with the court called the role on the passage of the bill. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Macheda I. Councilmember Nelson. I. Councilmember Petersen. Councilmember. So. Yes. Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Council. President Suarez. I ain't in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Right. Moving on to item number 13. Will the clerk please read item number 13 into the record?

AN ORDINANCE accepting various deeds and easements for street or alley purposes; laying off, opening, widening, extending, and establishing portions of rights-of-way; placing the real property conveyed by said deeds and easements under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. (This ordinance concerns the following rights-of-way: the alley in Block 3, Hillman’s Lake Front Addition to The City of Seattle, Division No. 3; Northwest 43rd Street, Northwest 45th Street, and 8th Avenue Northwest abutting Block 19, Denny’s Addition to Ballard and Seattle, and Block 176, Gilman Park; Burlington Northern Railroad Company’s right-of-way abutting the Southwest quarter of Section 11, Township 25 North, Range 3 East, W. M., King County, Washington; Aloha Street and Minor Avenue North abutting Block 4, Supplementary Plat of D. T. Denny’s Second Addition to North Seattle; the alley in Block 44, Addition to the Town of Seattle as laid out by A. A. Denny (commonly known as A. A. Denny’s 6th Addition to The City of Seattle); the alle

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Item agenda item 12. Constable 118 615 excepting various deeds and easements for street or alley purposes, laying off, opening, widening, sending and establishing portions of rights away, placing the real property conveyed by said deeds and easements under the jurisdiction of the College of Transportation and ratifying confirming certain prior acts, the committee recommends the bill passed. Councilmember O'Brien. Think so. Agenda 12 and 13 are similar. The process by which this happens is in development, in development of certain parcels as the developer works with DPD. Sometimes there are conditions that require them to transfer some property to the city of Seattle, and maybe for easements, it may be that it's a requirement that a sidewalk be widened . Those types of things happen. And once about 20 or so of those have happened, as DOT assembles all 20 of those in a single ordinance and sends them our way so that we can do the legal work to accept that property that is being granted to the city. That is what agenda item 12 and 13 both do for chunks of about 20, I think. The attached document shows the maps of where each of these parcels are, and the one is often just a sliver of land that it is being conveyed or laid off. And the current pace of development means we'll probably see one of these bills every couple of months, essentially. Thank you, Councilmember Brian. There are no further comments. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Juarez I. O'BRIEN So on Big John Gonzalez Herbold. JOHNSON President Harrell. Hi. Aden. Favor and unopposed. The bill passes and Cher will sign it. Agenda item number 13.

Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute a contract with W.W. Grainger, Inc., of Lake Forest, IL, for furnishing and delivering maintenance, repair, and operations supplies and related materials, on the same terms and conditions afforded to the City of Tucson, AZ, through Omnia Partners, in annual amount of $1,000,000, with a 20 percent contingency of $200,000, for a total annual contract amount not to exceed $1,200,000, until the Omnia Partners contract expires on December 31, 2022, with the option to renew for as long as the Omnia Partners contract is in effect, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)

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Nine. Motion carries. Thank you. Can you please go to item 15? Support for your report from Financial Management Recommendations. Adopt a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a contract with W.W. Grainger for furnishing and delivering maintenance, repair and operation supplies and related materials for a total annual contract amount not to exceed 1,200,000 citywide. Is there any problem coming inside of. There. No public comment on this item. I have a I have a first by Councilman Richardson. I need a second. As Andrew's vice managers. Second. It was called for the Bell District one. I district to. I. District three. I. District four. I. District five i. District six. All right. District seven. By District eight, by district nine.

Consideration of Mayor’s Nominations for Appointments to the Recreation and Parks Commission and Rent Review Advisory Committee.

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watch it. Anything else? All right. So next item ten a consideration of mayor's nominations for appointment to a Recreation and Parks Commission and Rent Review Advisory Committee. And that's the landlord position. So for the Rec and Parks Commission, we had 14 applicants, 12 or 14. And if anyone was going to ask, they were all interviewed by myself and staff and. Daddy might say a little louder. Wow. It's like, wow. Yes. So I won't be nominating Mindy Chan or Rick and part commission. And then in regards to Rent my View Advisory Committee, the landlord position, I believe that there were five or six people that applied and I will be nominating Jeff Canberra for that position. And that being said, we will now what's the terminology return to closed session? So we're going to go into closed session for item. Which was it, 3eb. So thank you. And you all can wait for us if you'd like. But we're going back into closed at this time. Thank you. All right. Good morning, everyone. It's now 230 in the morning and we have just finished our closed session and it was on item. Three the conference with labor negotiators.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, find that the streets and alleys within the Seaport Village complex located at 5601 Paramount Boulevard to be vacated are not needed for present or prospective public use; and, adopt resolution ordering the vacation, based on the findings and memorializing the conditions of approval included therein. (District 8)

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Adam 24 is report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing. Find that the streets and alleys within the seaport the Seaport Village Complex, located at 560 on Paramount Boulevard to be vacated, are not needed for present or prospective public use and Adobe resolution ordering the location District eight. All right. It's been moved and seconded. There's no oath required. Staff report, please. We'll have a staff report by Josh Hickman, our public works manager for this project. Good evening, Vice Mayor and members of the City Council. What's before you tonight is a. Item to vacate public right away within the Seaport Village apartment complex. The right of way is predominantly used by the complex patrons themselves and therefore not needed for a public thoroughfare. That concludes staff. Presentation available to answer any questions. Thank you. Was there any public comment on this item? No public comment. Thank you. Back behind the rail, councilman. Them anything? Yes. I'm glad to make the motion for the residents of the Seaport Village and the management makes a lot of sense for security and quality of life for the residents in that community. We've been working on this project for for a few years now. Glad to see it funded before us. I speak support. Thank you. Members, please cast your vote. The motion is carried. All right. That satisfies all of our hearings. Now back to the regular agenda. We'll take item 29, please. Item 29 is a communication from Councilman Austin. Recommendation two requires city manager to investigate the feasibility of establishing a safe passage plan and report back to the city council in 60 days.

Petition of Trinity Trailside, LLC, for the vacation of a portion of Northeast 48th Street lying between 24th Avenue Northeast and the Burke Gilman Trail.

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Agenda item 12 Clerk File 314 380 Petition at Trinity Trail LLC for the vacation portion Northeast 40th Street Line between 24th Avenue, Northeast and the Perkiomen Trail. The committee recommends that the petition be granted as conditioned. Castro O'Brien. Thanks. We're back to street vacations. This one is the conceptual approval. So we heard from the project, which is just to the let's see, just to the east of the Berkman Trail, just east of University of Washington campus, and to the west of University Village. The there is a street there, 24th Avenue Northeast. That is a dead end at that ends at the trail. And it previously accessed apartment buildings that are being cleared for this new project, which is a few hundred units of private student housing to go in there. The street was is no longer necessary. It would only access this project. And so they are asking to vacate that and paying the fee for that. And as part of the public benefit there, we're going to produce a new connection between the Berkman Trail and and the University Village. I'm sorry, I mentioned 24th Avenue Northeast. The streamer vacating is for Northeast 48th Street. This would access 24th Avenue Northeast for folks that are familiar with the Berkman Trail up there, the trails heading north. This is where there's a number of overpasses that cross over to to check out pavilion signs that Alaska Council president of Alaska Airlines cartoon court. Known as the Heck Edmonds Pavilion. And then to the parking lots to the further north of that. As you get further north on the Berkman Trail, if you're if you're running her by calling or whatever, you can kind of sense that the university village is off to your right there. But there's really no good way to get there. There's a little footpath that winds down through the dirt there and then you wait around to the north. What this would do is we create a very visible and open graded trail. It would be ADA accessible that has all the way down to 24th Avenue Northeast. There's another project that will be making improvements in 24th Avenue Northeast to make a much safer pedestrian crossing over to University Village. In addition to providing that new public trail access, they'll be providing a bicycle repair station like we see. It's a number of places and also a water bottle refilling station there. In addition to some seating. Actually, it seems like a really great public benefit for this location. I really appreciate the proponents coming up with some creative ideas. And of course, thanks to the folks at our start, in particular Beverly Barnette, for her work on helping them guide them through the process and making sure that the project came up with public benefits that are in the interest of the whole city. This is the conceptual approval. So this is where we essentially give our thumbs up. It's just a clerk file. But we will be committing to grant the ultimate vacation likely in a couple of years when the project is complete. And they've built this according to these plans. Very good. Any questions or comments on this Clark file? Those in favor of granting the petition as conditions. Please vote I. I would oppose vote no. The motion carries the petition is granted as condition chair was signed the conditions of the City Council approved. Please read the next gen item. Agenda item 13 Appointment 1353 Appointment of Brice Colton as Members Cell Transit Advisory Board for Term two August 2nd, 2020. The committee recommends the appointment be confirmed.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle’s technical codes; amending the 2015 Seattle Building, Existing Building, Residential, Mechanical, Plumbing, and Energy Codes to clarify regulations, adopt amendments consistent with Washington State regulations, and make technical corrections; amending Sections 22.100.010 and 22.150.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and requesting that the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections submit code updates to the Office of the City Clerk.

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And item six Council Bill 1190 72 relating to the Sales Technical Codes Committee recommends the bill pass. Councilmember Johnson Last. One for me today. This is generally referred to as our Technical Code's Errata Bill. Here's two examples. It cleans up several of our codes, like requiring rat eradication before demolition of property and updating requirements for elevator permit records management. Exciting stuff. Council President. Urge your support. Okay. You're a punchy group today. Oh, right. So, are there any comments? Right. Well, the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill. Burgess Johnson Right. Maurice O'Brien So on page one, Gonzalez seven in favor not opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. A report of the Gender Equity, Safe Communities and New Americans Committee.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $2,200 offset by $2,200 of Ninth Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to provide a donation to the following: YMCA of Greater Long Beach, in the amount of $1,200; Kahlo Creative LLC, in the amount of $1,000; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $2,200 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

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Communication from Councilman's and House recommendation to increase appropriations by 1000 to provide a donation to the Long Beach Architecture Week to support the absolute best of Long Beach 2022 Fundraiser Event. Item 16 Communication from Councilwoman Zendaya's Recommendation to increase appropriations by 2500 to provide a donation to the downtown Long Beach Business Alliance to support a partnered event with East Village Earth Day. An Item 18 Communication from Vice Mayor Richardson recommendation to increase appropriations by 2200 to provide a donation to YMCA for Greater Long Beach and Carlo Creative LLC. The motion or second. Second, please. Any public comment? There's no public comment on these items. Okay. Casper votes. I can't. My screen is not working. I can't vote right now. And I don't think we'll come in until. Councilwoman Price. Motion is carried.

AN ORDINANCE providing the Office of City Auditor independent audit authority, including access to employer records, after a case is closed by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) in order to evaluate SOCR’s enforcement efforts of Chapters 14.16, 14.17, 14.19, and 14.20 of the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC); amending Sections 3.40.040, 14.16.060, and 14.20.050 of the SMC; and creating a new Section 14.19.065 of the SMC.

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confirming certain prior acts all by a three quarter vote of the City Council. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Agenda Item eight Council Bill 118420 related to business licenses. Amending Sections 5.30.030 and .060. 5.32.150. 5.40.060 and .080 and .0855.45110. 5.55030040220 and 230 of the Seattle Municipal Code. And adding a new section 5.55.238 to the Seattle Municipal Code. The committee recommends a bill pass and agenda item nine Resolution 31595 concerning the creation of enforcement priorities for city departments regarding non-state licensed marijuana establishments. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted as amended. Thank you, Councilmember Licata. We will be dealing with each of these bills separately. So the first bill we will be voting on and I'll be describing is the Council Bill 11 8419 and this is a bill that will amend the ordinance 12 4648 which is adopted in a 2015 budget. The purpose of this bill is to recognize that initiative 692, which created the Medical Use of Marijuana Act we've introduced and U.S.A. created a situation that has presented some challenges for us here in Seattle. It was followed by Initiative 502, and that was driven partly by a desire to end criminalization of marijuana production, processing and distribution. Whereas the initiative preceding that 682 was regarding trying to guarantee access to medical marijuana for people who needed that treatment. So what we have now in Seattle is we have 14 recreational marijuana retail stores, and they have been opened as of June 2nd, 2015 of this month. On the other hand, regarding the medical marijuana dispensaries, we have 99 that were operating without licenses issued by the Liquor Cannabis Board in the city of Seattle currently. Of those, 54 retailers were without state licenses and establish operations in the city since January 1st of 2013. And that's an important date because 2013 is the cutoff date. So what we have now before us is regulations that basically say that marijuana business licenses are limited to those persons who have been issued a license by the Washington State Liquor Cannabis Board to produce, process, distribute or transport marijuana or medical products. The those persons operating medical marijuana businesses before January 1st, 2013, may continue to operate until July 1st, 2016, as long as they meet certain conditions which are outlined in another piece of legislation, the resolution. The bill here identifies a number of conditions that relate to the license. To the license. The license will be $1,000. And then the same for those businesses located in Seattle. It's $500 for those located outside the city. The legislation was written up in conjunction with several city staff myself, the mayor's office, as well as individuals involved in both the recreational and marijuana industry now. We naming those individuals after we go through all three bills. So open for questions on this particular bill. Questions or comments? I would just say. Councilmember Lakota, thank you for your good stewardship of this legislation through the process. I know it's been very complicated, but I think we've arrived at a good place. Thank you. Please call the role on the passage of the Bill. McCarter by O'Brien Okamoto. I Rasmussen I so want. I. Back to my garden. I Harrell. I am president Burgess nine and favorite and opposed the. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Item number eight. This is Council Bill 11 8420. This legislation allows our affairs or financial administrative services to have guidelines for regulating the marijuana businesses. It. This creates a situation where we define a number of terms and also allow some guidance to those in the marijuana business. So allows for determining when. The FAA will have to basically contact those businesses. This is an ordinance and the resolution which will follow. It goes into the actual priorities for enforcement, which will eventually be followed by either further other legislation or directors rules. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. McCarter I. O'Brien I. Okamoto. I. Rasmussen, I so want. I. Facture I got. I. Harrill I am president Burgess high nine in favorite and opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Item nine the resolution. This is a resolution. It's numbered 3159 five. And this creates a enforcement priorities for city departments regarding non state licensed marijuana establishments and in creating the enforcement. The City Council mayor requested the Finance Administrative Services and the Department of Planning Development, Seattle Police Department and the City Attorney's Office work cooperatively to identify and develop enforcement procedures against non state licensed marijuana businesses according to the following levels of priority. I'm not going to go through this in detail, but I will give you an idea of some of the elements that fall into these three tiers. The highest priority this means the highest priority for basically enforcement will be those individuals or entities that are providing marijuana products to those under the age of 21. Also, any enterprise that is providing delivery services for recreational marijuana. And the third element is those who are under law enforcement investigation for criminal violations. And another is operating a business license issued by the city of Seattle after January 1st of 25th, 2013. The second highest priority is violation of building construction, land use, fire, other city codes. And the third, which is the third highest but actually the lowest priority for enforcement, are those basically involved with not having a state license after January 1st, 2013. But there is an exception clause, which I won't go into, but it has to do with ownership, prior ownership of a portion of that business and then also those that have not undergone quality assurance testing. This is a critical element to make sure that individuals who are acquiring marijuana products are assured of having a safe product. And then the last well, one of the last is a medical marijuana establishment located within 500 feet of another state license or non-licensed marijuana establishment. Again, this was worked out with May the stakeholders. Questions or comments. I'd point out that this resolution provides enforcement guidance, but in the event the city attorney or the police department feel that it's necessary to take actions to preserve public safety, there's nothing that prohibits that from from occurring. All in favor of adopting Resolution 31595 vote. I oppose vote no. The resolution is unanimously adopted in the chair will sign it. Councilmember McCotter, did you want to share some closing comments? I did. Thank you. As Council President Burgess pointed out, there have been a lot of individuals paying a lot of time through this. I want to thank Mayor Murray in particular for having worked with the city council. We held a number of, I would say, workshops with many representatives of the industry and the large industry and growing . So we didn't get everybody at the table, but there were a number of people there particular. I want to note, David Mendoza, the mayor of staff, has been very, very helpful as well as Kato Freeman for our central staff who have really been doing a lot of the footwork and actually the brain work of figuring out how to mix all of these various items. Then I also want to identify a number of people in the industry who've been engaged, not simply representing their own clients interests, but also their own personal interests, but also understanding the larger picture and understanding that Seattle is at the forefront and we need to do it in the right way . And that would be Philip, Dottie, John, David, Ryan Day, Alex Cooley, Tim Hatley, Sandeep Kaushik for all their involvement and support. And and then of course, the many recreational medical advocates for their work and support as well. And I want for my staff as well. They've we've had several different staff members working on this, but these are Herbold and new owners who have also been working quite a bit on this. And thanks also to the city attorney, Pete Holmes and his staff. You've been involved in this issue from way back at the beginning before the state even acted. So thank you. How embarrassing. I didn't mention here. I covered for you. Thank you. Item ten, please read item ten. Agenda item ten. Council Bill 118428. Providing the Office of City Auditor Independent Audit Authority, including access to employer records after a case is closed by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights. In order to evaluate Seattle Office of Civil Rights Enforcement efforts of Chapter 14.16, 14.17, 14.19 and .20 of the Seattle Municipal Code amending sections 3.40.040, 14.1 6.060 and 14.20 .050 of the Seattle Municipal Code and creating a new section 14.1 9.065 of the Seattle Invisible Code. The committee recommends a bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Lakota. This ordinance implements a recommendation of the Office of City Auditor to provide them with authority to audit employer compliance with the city's four labor standard laws. To evaluate the enforcement efforts of the Office of Civil Rights and the Office of Labor Standards. So again, this is a check on our own parts of the city government and all departments and offices. It is not designed to basically present a situation of double jeopardy for businesses and the for labor standard laws that they will be looking at to determine whether the city has been adequately enforcing them of the paid sick and safe leave. Minimum wage. Job Assistance and administrative wage theft. Glad to answer any questions. Questions or comments. Councilmember Okamoto I just have a question about extending this authority over and private employee records and privacy issues. How that's handled. They will make a request and the expectation is that they will be accepted if they are not allowed access. At this point, we haven't determined how they respond. It may be that there are enough cases to look at that we'll just move on. We will be noting what types of objections are raised, how often it occurs, and that may allow us then to bring it back to here to make additional policy decisions on how to pursue those. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Look, Carter, I O'Brien. Hi, Okamoto. I Rasmussen. I so want. I. Back show Gordon. I Harrill. I am President Burgess nine and favorite and opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. The Report of the Parks, Seattle Center, Libraries and Gender Pay Equity Committee. Please read Item 11.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including the petitions, into the record, conclude the public hearing, and request City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code, to expand Preferential Parking District “U” as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer. (District 4)

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Hearing item number one, turn this over to our clerk. I don't I don't believe an oath is required on this first hearing. Report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation, including the petitions into the record. Conclude the public hearing and request the City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the Long Beach Municipal Code to expand preferential parking district. You as recommended by the City Traffic Engineer District for. Mr. West, Mr. Modica. He's. Mr. Mayor, the staff report we were given by Eric Wickstrom, our traffic engineer. Good evening. Honorable mayor, vice mayor, council members here tonight before you requesting your approval of the expansion of preferential parking district you in Council District four. The residents of San Vicente Avenue between Merida Street and Los Santos Drive have requested expansion of the preferential parking district to their block to provide parking relief from overflow parking created by Cal State Long Beach students. The residents have requested this parking district. To take place for one hour parking restrictions from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday. The survey, conducted by the Public Works staff, indicated that 83% of the existing on street parking was occupied at the time, and of that 83%, 96% was occupied by vehicles, not registered to vehicle, not registered to vehicles residing within 400 feet of the street. We here before you. After that survey was conducted, a petition was circulated with an 83% approval rating of residents requesting that the preferential parking district be expanded. In addition to that segment of San Jacinto Avenue. We're also requesting that the segments of Garfield Street and Fair Brook Street between Sava Center and Los Santos Drive and Fanwood Avenue between Merida Street and Los Santos Drive, be added to this preferential parking district expansion. Those two streets would not be signed for preferential parking at this time, but they would allow us to expand preferential parking , should overflow parking move to those further streets. That concludes my report, and I'm available to answer any questions if needed. Thank you. I'm going to get any public comments on the hearing. Any public comments on this hearing? Okay. Then I'm going to go ahead and close this hearing with counsel comments. I have a motion and a second councilmember supernova. Thank you and thank you to our city traffic engineer. You covered everything there and there are a lot of stats. But if you missed the one, the one most pertinent, this is a street that's heavily impacted by Cal State, Long Beach student parking. And that number was 96% of the cars on the block did not belong to the residents. So I think that that says it all. So we look forward to getting this done and especially getting it done this summer. So the signs are up in time for the when the fall classes start. And also I should mention that the city traffic engineer did say this, but the other streets that are added to this preferential parking district don't necessarily have to have this restrictions in place. This just allows them to to run a petition if they decide to do so in the future. So I hope my colleagues will support this motion. Thank you. Councilwoman Gonzalez. Okay. With that, please. Councilmembers, go ahead and cast your vote on this hearing, item number one. Councilmember. Motion carries. And moving on to hearing item number two. I don't believe an oath is required for this hearing as well. Madam Clerk.

Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Negotiate and Execute an Agreement with Alameda Family Services for an Amount Not to Exceed $500,000 for One-Year, with an Option to Extend for an Additional Year for an Amount Not To Exceed $1,000,000 for Two-Years, to Provide for Mental Health Services Related to the City’s Alternative Response to Calls for Mental Health Crisis Support Pilot Program. (City Manager 10021030)

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Recommendation to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Alameda Family Services for an amount not to exceed $500,000 for one year, with an option to extend for an additional year for an amount not to exceed 1 million for two years. To provide for mental health services related to the city's alternative response to calls for mental health crisis support pilot program. Okay, thank you very much. And Assistant City Manager Jerry Bowden. Are you presenting tonight? I am. Yes. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you so much. And Laura's has a presentation for us this evening as well. So that'll come up as we go. Good evening, Mayor. As he Ashcraft, Vice Mayor Vela and members of the city council. It's great to be with you tonight to basically put together another piece in our puzzle, which is our alternative response to mental health crisis calls in the city of Alameda. Next slide. You'll recall that the city council authorized a pilot program in July. Since that time, we've been working to address a number of different components for this program the required personnel, the training needs, dispatch processes, modifications for a new vehicle that will help the program, the the first responders get around in our community. In addition to working with our county partners, with EMS, as well as with county health, to secure the necessary approvals to launch our pilot. And where we're in those negotiations as we as we bring this forward for your consideration this evening. A critical step is identifying and getting authorization from the city council to enter into an agreement with that mental health support partner, which is really why we're here tonight. Next slide, please. Thank you. After council direction in July, we did put an RFP out. In August, we received one proposal from Alameda Family Services. After reviewing the proposal, we we did. We did sit down and discussed the needs of the program. We ended up with a revised proposal. And we're recommending a combination of options, one A and one C from that proposal. From that revised proposal, it is a combination option. It summarized in a fairly high level on this slide. Note that there would be two full time staff people involved in the program. There'd be the program supervisor and the crisis response case manager. You can also see that there would be several part time FTE positions that would come from the Alameda Family Services Group to be able to support all of the needs of the pilot program. And this is on a 24 seven basis. And the cost estimate that we put together for the program is in the $400,000 per year range. And I'll talk a little bit more about that number and how it relates to the staff recommendation in a moment. Next slide. Just stepping back from all of the details just for a moment, the AFS proposal did set out to achieve seven goals which are listed on the slide. I won't go through them individually, but just to summarize, the really is an effort in building a strong relationship between Alameda Family Services and city staff for this program, including seeking out training opportunities for for our fire department personnel and possibly other training opportunities as well. Also assisting our community members who are in need of these these support services. So making the case management component is critical, linking folks to services in a timely fashion and then following up to ensure that the services are being utilized appropriately and as necessary is an important part of the program. Finally, the overarching goal here is to reduce traditional police interventions with respect to calls for certain kinds of mental health crisis in our community. And so all of these things start to form what could be what can be metrics for the program. Obviously, our firefighters, the fire department, EMT, paramedics, we're going to need to to also come to that that metrics discussion and we'll get into that as well. As the program continues to develop and before we go live. So I'll say next slide. Thank you. The proposal from Alameda Family Services was was very responsive relative to the the support services and the follow up care that was contemplated in the request for proposals that was sent out. There were three primary options in that in that proposal. Options one, A, B and C, they did allow for a range of service levels and coverage days and hours to be able to to craft different options, as I mentioned earlier, to provide a pretty robust program right out of the gate. Staff is recommending a combination of options one C, one A and one C. And what that does is it allows for 24, seven, seven coverage from from the start of the program, including access to an on call licensed clinician during non-business hours, which it would be unique for our county and something that that would would set us apart from many other programs that that particularly that are in the earlier stages of development. The cost for that option was refined by all media, family services staff after talking with city staff about how to best meet the needs of the community as we get going. But also but also just managing the costs of the program. So you'll see on this slide that when you combine options one and one see the total is about $550,000. But we did discuss how we could streamline the staffing and manage the the kind of the outside overhead or support that's necessary. So that number does now come in just under $400,000 a year. In the recommendation, we're suggesting, a, not to exceed amount of $500,000. That extra $100,000 just allows us some wiggle room. It is a pilot and we want to make sure that we can keep it all up and running, particularly as we hire staff and and move forward. There is there is also. A budget allocation that has been made that supports this number. So it is it is something that was contemplated as part of our two year budget process. Next slide. Of course, the pilot is an attempt to address the the the direction provided to date on this topic. As contemplated, the program would be led by the fire department and this is its approach does need mental health expertize to support the fire department's field work. That is something that is is we're discussing with our county health partners and something that we think is a critical component for the overall pilot success. And so what I'll say is if council would like to consider alternatives to the staff recommendation, recommendation this evening, here are some options that we included in the staff report. Just pursuing other options within the Alameda Family Services proposal, something like not going for a 24 seven model right out of the gate might be something that we could pull from that alternative. Directing staff to evaluate other community based organizations or mental health support options that would meet this need for our pilot program is another alternative. There's also support for the pilot program, but concerns about authorization for for the second year. And if that is a concern, then council might consider authorizing just one year rather than one year with the option for the second year. And of course, we can always redo the request for proposal process with a modified scope of work. If the items that are proposed in the in the of Family Services proposal aren't meeting the needs or the, the, the, the desired outcomes that the community is looking for. So next slide. Now, with all that being said, at this time, staff is recommending that the city council authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Alameda Family Services for an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the for the first the first year with an option to extend for an additional year in an amount not to exceed $1 million. This option would allow us to spend the next year or possibly two evaluating those those needs in our community. We would anticipate regular updates with the City Council and the community and city staff, as well as the leadership from Alameda Family Services are here this evening to answer any questions you may have. That concludes staff's presentation this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Burton. And I want to particularly thank our assistant city manager, Jerry Byrd. And he has done the majority of the heavy lifting on putting this proposal together, and I thank him for bringing that forward. I want to share a concern that I have at the outset. And then we will certainly hear from many public comments and staff and council questions of staff and council comments. But my concern is that this proposal really isn't ready to be brought forward for a number of reasons, starting maybe from the back. We're being asked to provide, to approve, to give the city manager authority to enter into a services provider agreement. And there is indeed an agreement that is in attachment to this agenda item and it references the services to be performed. And I'm on I am for anyone who wants to follow along the the draft agreement is exhibit three and at the bottom of page one of exhibit three services to be performed and there's a paragraph and it talks about that the provider shall do all the necessary work included in Exhibit A as requested. The only problem is that there is no Exhibit A and it's not an attachment to this staff report. And in fact, what I've learned from talking to staff is that there just wasn't time to put it together because there's still so much that needs to be done in terms of getting approvals by the county. And the other thing that concerns me is that the the RFP that went out and again, a lot of people spent time on this, I acknowledge the work of our fire department, but it's a very generic RFP. It was put together by fire that has no experience in this area. In fact, they're awaiting their own mental health training. And so that rather generic RFP yielded one response. And I have a few concerns with that response. But in the interim, because we're kind of, you know, just learning more as we go along. So I mentioned earlier we've had great public response to. Board and commission applications. And I hear from very talented residents all the time. And one day I got a phone call in an email from a resident who works for San Mateo County, where this individual set up Santa Clara County's mental health response to assist with their first responders. And they very graciously said we'd be happy to to meet with city staff. And so I immediately directed them to city manager and assistant city manager who have been in conversation. My suggestion would be, I know we gave the city manager a deadline to get this done by the end of the year, but I think it's even more important to get it right. I would like to see another RFP issued, the RFP reissued, but this time to have it drafted in consultation with someone with actual relevant experience. And there's other possibilities, folks from county behavioral health care services. But and then to reissue the RFP anyone is is welcome to apply or reapply and this time we have a new fire chief who's about to start, I believe, next month. And that individual should be part of the selection process. But I am concerned that we're asked to approve the services provider agreement. I have a few concerns with what's in it, even the part that that doesn't exist, the Exhibit A But I think that this is premature. We should give staff a little more time to come back to us because it's more important to get this done right than to get it done fast. And the last thing I'll just throw in a concern that I had reading over how many family services proposal is that they won't work with anyone who is violent or has engaged in in criminal activity. And so the so for nonviolent non-criminal service calls. But that leaves kind of a wide gap. There are times, I think, when police do need someone with with clinical experience to be out there as a backup, certainly in a safe situation. But anyway, I just. I. Think we we need to take a little more time and a little more put a little more experience into this proposal. So, Councilmember Herrera Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. I believe that was at this time we're normally having clarifying questions and then public comment and then our comments and I would like to proceed with the item is agenda. I raised that my concern just that I think we might be getting into brown actor open government commission problem territory and I wanted to flag that at the outset, but I have done just that. So, Madam Clerk, do we have public speakers? Yes, we have two. Okay. So at this time, let's hear any clarifying questions from the council. And I'm sorry, what was that? That many people just raised their hand just to age seven. Okay. Okay. So that means 2 minutes for public speaker. Okay. Okay. So let's take clarifying questions now and then we will get to our public speakers. Any clarifying questions of Mr. Bowden? Okay. Let's go ahead. And I don't see anybody's hand up, so let's go ahead and take our public speakers, Madam Clerk. And so that is 2 minutes per speaker. And the first one is Aaron Frazier. Thank you. Good evening, Speaker Frazier. Evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members. First, I just wanted to echo Councilmember Herb Spencer's point that my understanding of the rules of the meeting are the Council comments are reserved for after the public comment and for the period before public comments for clarifying questions, which I didn't hear. I wanted to speak in support of my fellow former committee member, Catherine Schwartz, who is the executive director of AMI Family Services and in support of staff's proposal to engage with healthy family services as an important first step. Further delay is an is an unjustified extension of the status quo. That is simply unacceptable. Several people have died in Alameda police custody, including one on this council's watch. And because of this council's inaction. Inaction. It is time to act. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker. Elise Castro. Good evening, Speaker Castro. You're still muted. Thank you so much. I am. Yes. My name is Elise Castro and I am speaking in favor of crisis mental health pilot with an emphasis on the pilot with Alameda Family Services. Many of you know me as a high school principal here in Alameda Unified for about ten years, mostly at Island High School. And it was my involvement with Alameda Unified and with our highest risk students here on the island that led me to become involved with Alameda Family Services. And I really want to speak to my experience with this organization as a partner. I am, and I know that Alameda Family Services is a particularly effective partner for a pilot because I piloted a number of really innovators services with them and they are uniquely positioned to really respond to the wraparound supports that we hear so much from the chief that we hear so much in these council meetings about meeting, we have worked together to divert youth from the justice system to intervene and support families that are dealing with gun violence, dealing with addiction, dealing with domestic violence and many mental health needs. And the Alameda Family Services has continued to step up during the pandemic. And there are. You know, it's it's a hard job, but making it fit in any community is going to require some. Somebody that knows the community that is deeply tied in, that has the established history of providing the intervention and diversion that's evidence based and trauma informed. And Almeida Family Services is plugged in to the needs and resources in this community in a way that no other agency is. And they have the multilingual, multicultural staff to support equitable access to the quality of life and the community that we value in Alameda. And you couldn't find a better partner for a pilot. Thank you. Her next speaker. Lisa Anderson. Good evening, Speaker Anderson. That evening. I'm kind of astounded to hear you, Mayor, say that you are in favor of delaying this further. Just a few weeks ago, you were in favor of handing out $2 million to institute some sort of pilot program in our city. And I just mean further delays will result in more harm in our community. I, for one, greatly appreciate the very detailed proposal from us. This should more detail and clear forward language than the previous proposal that had more than double the budget. I'm only here. I was only here to support the staff recommendation to adopt an option that offers a 24 seven option for care. Having recently started with MH first in Oakland, I can say that the need for a program like this is not is out there and the need is not Monday through Friday 9 to 5. I truly hope that this will be considered and is just the beginning of our city's efforts to limit police contact with our vulnerable neighbors and to financially committing to a true mental health response in our community. My only criticism was that the budgeting for this program was too low. If we're taking responsible responsibility away from APD, we should be able to reduce their funding in a corresponding amount. However, we can prevent another Mario Gonzalez from being killed in our neighborhood. Just do the right thing. It's. Thank you, Speaker Anderson. Our next speaker. Marilyn Rothman. Good evening, Speaker Rothman. Hello again. I agree with Janiece that this absolutely has to be a 24 seven kind of program. Even though they said they stay laid on one day a week, it's not late enough. You know, half of the problems are when most of us are sleeping this kind, this kind of program. Would actually help crime, the prevention of crime, because it's obvious that all the crime statistics have gone up because of the pandemic and people's lack of housing, lack of work. That's why crime goes up. It's not just in Alameda. It's all over. And we need a strong 24/7 response by non-police to incidents that happen in order. To. Stop. More of this happening. I. Yeah. I guess that's all I want to say. Thank you. Thank you. If we could hold for just a minute, I just got a text from our vice mayor, Willie Avila, who inadvertently got kicked off a zoom. Can you see if we can get her back on? Yes. She texted me, too, and I'm as she's calling me. So let me work on it right now. All right. Sorry about this. We sometimes have technical difficulties. But it's an important discussion and I want our entire council to be present. And there's the vice mayor connecting to audio. She did it all on her own. She rebooted and fixed everything. Right. Yeah. Okay. So, um, but I believe we finished the previous year. Okay. Okay. Thank you. The next speaker, then. Jennifer Rakowski. Good evening, Speaker Rakowski. I mean, they. Is she. Is she connected? She disappeared. So now we have Jonna struggling. So why don't we take Baker Saigon? Okay. All right. Good evening. Good evening, Madam Mayor and council members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this item. And I am speaking in favor of the proposal. I'm fortunate to be now a member of the Board of Directors of Alameda for Family Services, but has also served on the subcommittee on unbundling police services. And we were the entity that made the initial recommendation to remove mental health calls from the purview of APD. And the next step we have to take is to. Engage mental health provider in the process of responding to those calls. We've got fire and now we need mental health engaged in that. And you couldn't do better than me and family services. Decades of experience with proven excellence in mental health services in the city. They've all the partnerships you would want to see for some work like this with Building Futures ABC, they used in more to address a couple of the mayor's concerns. I would say the weaknesses of the RFP. Are bounced out by the robustness of what we know AFS can provide with their years of experiences, their network, their experience and community. And that has to be also balanced out by the delay. I mean, we had the presentation from cahoots with the Mayor's meeting with Cahoots. A video was in July of 2020. It was pretty clear that what we needed was mental health response out in the process, and we're more than a year out from that and it's time to make it happen. And I think whatever weaknesses in the RFP are balanced out by that need to to make this happen finally after all this time. So I hope you can all support the proposal. Thank you. Thank you for your cycling. And I did see Jennifer Rakowski here. Before, try to. Get her back. There she is. All right. Good evening, Speaker Rakowski. Yes. Thank you for letting me back in. I bounced out. I wanted to echo what other people have been saying. We wanted strong mental health support. We wanted rooted in community with strong, consistent local ties. We directed staff and staff listen to the absolute necessity for 24 seven respond. And they didn't just take the proposal but really engaged with it and improved it to make a strong but also fiscally sound 24 seven response that I agree with the other speaker still underfunded the need so I absolutely support this proposal moving forward I support the ability for a second year because we need to start and we need to start now. And thank you. And I want to appreciate the staff time from the fire department and from the city in general on this proposal. Thank you, speaker Caskey. Our next speaker. Abra mendoza. Good evening. Speaker Mendoza. Good evening. I'm here also with. Others in solidarity and in support of this mental health proposal, this pilot. Program. And since we listen to such data driven. Evidence before, we know there's a need for this. Service. We know. People. We're taking risks right now. The more delays. That we make. I think another thing. That's. Important to understand is since the murder of George. Floyd, there. Has been such an increased demand in alternatives. And so we should be thankful that we have a qualified, community based organization like Alameda Family Services that has risen to the occasion. It does not make any sense to issue another RFP. I also came. Here to. To support this program to say that I'm in favor of it, that we need a 24 seven, we need $1,000,000 this. Year. Another million the next year. We need to continue to grow our alternatives to police. That's 50% of nine one. One calls are non-criminal in nature anyway. And so. To. Delay, this would just. Be a. Miscarriage of justice. So I'm asking all of you city council members to approve this, approve it with flying colors, and we are going to see our community improve. And this is the first step. This is the first of many, many steps. I urge you to do the right thing, to do it swiftly. Thank you. City manager Jerry Bowden. For that presentation and for negotiating and working with this nonprofit to make this pilot program work for our community. Thank you. Speaker Mendez Our next speaker. Matthew Maddox. Good evening, Speaker. Matter my doubts. Yes, madam. Sorry. My name is Matthew Meadows and I'm speaking in support of Alameda Family Services proposal. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and the executive director of the Behavioral Health Collaborative of Alameda County. We're an association of 30 for mental health and substance use providers, and we provide the vast majority of mental health services throughout the county. In my role, I've had extensive opportunity to work with the AFL staff and I can absolutely attest that they have highly competent staff, experienced leadership. They have a continuum of services and strong relationships with both the community and other providers that I think will really support this program. I am really confident that they'd be able to provide highly effective crisis mental health services, and I'd definitely recommend them for this really important program. The other comment I want to make is I've been very involved with the justice involved Mental Health Task Force, and this is exactly the type of program that the community needs, and I believe it can really have a significant impact. So I strongly recommend them. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Speaker Midas Oak. Next. Speaker Savannah. Chair. Good evening. Speaker. Chair. I. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay, great. I just wanted to echo generally what everyone has said. Much like Denise, my comments initially were going to start with just really the emphasis on that 24 seven care. I really appreciate, Jerry, that you included that and that his staff included that in the proposal. It won't work if you don't have if not everyone can access these really important services. I just really want to echo and put a lot of emphasis the point that like, you have to stop delaying this. It's just been too much time in the time that you delayed this, the police murdered someone. So we don't have any more time to wait. You already have that blood on your hands, so you have an absolute responsibility now to do something. A pilot's a pilot for a reason. I think Jerry commented on this actually in his proposal that this would be really unique and it would be more than anyone in the county has done. And it would be we would be position to try something and to imagine a new way of living that would help everyone. Right. That's should be the goal. That should always be your goal. The specifics around it and then nit picking details are, while perhaps warranted, not saving lives to spend time doing that. Getting in and doing the work is what saves those lives. And that's been clearly communicated to this council. I don't know how many times. I'm not too sure how many more times you need to hear that. So just echoing what everyone has said in general about PFS, that clearly there are providers that can support this type of programing and offer these critical needs to our most vulnerable friends and neighbors. And that should be the priority of everyone that sits on this council. That's your that's why you're elected and what you should be doing. So thanks to everyone for for putting in the time to make this happen. And we need to get this off the ground now. Really? Yesterday. Thanks. Thank you. Speaker. Chair. Our next speaker. Melody Montgomery. Welcome, Speaker Montgomery. Hi. Thank you. I want to say it's good to be here again, but I that's really not true. I just am tired of the waiting, the delays. So no more waiting, no more segways normally no more delays. No more red tape. It's a pilot. Let's get it started. We can we can make tweaks along the way. We can fix this as we move, but we're never going to have anything to fix if we don't get it started. People, please. It's your job. And you all voted for these things to happen. The community has spoken time and time and time and time. Time and time and time and time and time again. I'm not sure what the holdup is. I so appreciated the proposal and I'm all in favor of this this combo proposal. So let's take a vote. Let's say yes and let's get something moving for our town and for the people that are so affected by your non-action. Thank you. Thank you. Speaker Montgomery, our next speaker. Early stadium meeting. Good evening. Speaker State m lang. Good evening. Thank you. I just want to echo what other speakers are saying, that this is the time to act, that this is a pilot and it does not have to be perfect. So I just urge city council to approve this proposal by first. And I also just want to point out that we can't really critique the fire department for putting forth this RFP when city council already gave them responsibility for putting together this program. So saying they're not then equipped to put out this RFP is disingenuous. And also in reality, this is almost like the second RFP the City Council has already put out because there's a first opportunity for agencies to apply to run the program as a whole. And at that point Felton applied and the fire department. So and then now we're going through the second RFP and any other organization could have applied at either of those two points. So opening up again would just cause further delay and also saying that critiquing officials for saying they wouldn't work with someone who is violent or committing a crime, that's not really fair because I believe the program is restricted from handling those types of calls anyways. So it's disingenuous to not critique them for saying that they wouldn't respond to those calls. And also, the program was never meant just to be to, you know, send out caseworkers to serve as backup for law enforcement. So that asking for a program that would be willing to do that is not accurate either. So I don't think any of these excuses should be reason for a delay. I've read through the AFS proposal and I believe it is a sound comprehensive proposal and I support the City Council awarding this contract to address AFS. If if City Council does not, we'll be leaving our vulnerable community members without the services they need. And we. Thank you for your comments, our next. Speaker and any. Good evening, Speaker Kenny. Good evening, Mayor. City council and city staff. You've heard from me many times on this issue in many ways. So you know how I feel about this. You know that this the need for these types of services. Has greatly. Increased during the pandemic. You know that we don't have time to. The services weren't. Available before the pandemic. You know that this needs to happen in order for us to have an alternative response team, it has to. Contain mental health clinicians. In order to be. Effective. I ask you to please support what the city staff has put forward and accept options one A and one C. And I want to thank city staff for putting this forward. And it is a pilot so we can make adjustments. It's more important to have something at this point than to have something perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Speaker. Kenny. Madam Clerk, how many more speakers do we have? That was our last speaker. Okay. I'm going to close public comment now, and we need to do our housekeeping because we're coming up on 11 p.m.. So we need to and by the way, a hearty thanks to all of the speakers. You were quite persuasive. I so we've got 1 to. 3 more. Items under know regular agenda items. I would entertain a motion to go as far as we can to midnight tonight. We need four votes to pass that. But I say we just keep plowing through until we get to midnight and hopefully at least finish the regular calendar. Vice Mayor of L.A.. I'd like to make a motion that we continue to midnight and try to get through as many items as we can remaining on the agenda. Thank you. We've had a motion to have a second. Councilmember Desai. Seconds. Okay. Maybe we have a roll call vote, please, Madam Clerk. Yes. First, I'm sorry. I'm not quite. High. Villa. I may or as Ashcroft I. That carries by five eyes. Okay. All right. And so we we heard some pretty profound public comment just now. So let's have our council comment. Who would like to leave? Vice mayor of L.A.? So I have some questions about what's being proposed, because I think we can we can say that it's a 24 seven program and people have read through the proposal. But I do have some questions about the details. And I do think that the details matter because as many of the callers put it, is a matter of life and death. And if we have you know, if we say we are providing a certain set of services and people call in, you know, to get assistance and we are not writing those services, I also have concerns in that direction. So. The Assistant City Manager. Bowden The 24 seven on call says that they'll receive a stipend for being on call. The councilors would. I'm assuming that by agreeing to being on call, they're agreeing to not just like we would with any other city employee there. They would be bound by basically not they're not going to be drinking or anything like that while they're on an on call shift. They're going to be essentially on call and ready to go to work. Correct. Yeah. The and I will say. That Kathryn. Schwartz is available. She's she's on the call this evening and can probably help to better articulate as far as internal policies. But our expectation with this contract would be that these are these are these are trained medical professionals, clinical professionals who are clinicians who who are able to deliver the services that at any given hour. And they'd be available on call just like any other professional would be working on behalf of the city. If I could tag on to the Vice Mayor's question about the 24 seven on call provision on page eight, the eight a under paragraph premature rule for ability to provide behavioral health professional services on a 24 seven on call basis to respond to acute emergencies in the field to assist field responders, provide response within 90 minutes. 90 minutes. Sounds like a long time. And I do think that these details are important, but I think we have been joined by Catherine Schwartz, executive director of Alameda Family Services. Welcome to do you want to you want to speak to those questions? Yes. Thank you, Madam Mayor. And good evening, city council members. And I'm pleased to be able to answer your questions. Yes. The answer is that if someone is on call and they are being paid a stipend, under no circumstances will they ever. Do anything that would inhibit their ability to perform their job functions fully, just like they would during a regular 9 to 5 shift. And we would pay them hourly if they were activated, if someone called them and they would be prepared to either respond in person or by phone, whichever was necessary. And the expectation that was articulated in the proposal is that they will call back within 15 minutes. The RFP indicated that buyer would accept 90 minutes. And so the indication was that would be the longest possible. But that clearly we reiterate repeatedly in the proposal that the expectation is that they would call back within 15 minutes. Okay. Thank you. Other other questions are vice mayor restore you? Sorry. And by callback, they would be calling and interacting with the first responder. Is there is there going to be an opportunity for them to speak with the individual at all? Or is all of the communication and response going to be within that just limited to first responder, even if they come in person? How's that? What's the if they if they if they come in person, then the expectation would be that they would engage with with the caller, but with the consumer. Yes. And if they respond as a consultant, there would also be a potential opportunity as needed to speak to the person who was having the crisis. The way that our person that our staff is going to respond is going to be dependent on the situation. They're going to use their clinical judgment and work in collaboration with the first responder, the fire department, to determine the best course of action. But if we were called to the scene in order to support, the expectation would be that we would engage with with the caller. But the clinician will be the one making the determination of if they will be responding in person. It wouldn't be our first responder saying we would like a clinician to come. It would be. It would be a discussion. So, for example, the first responder could say, could call us and say, we need you to come out. We have a situation that we feel. We need your you know, we need you to come out in person to support. Or in the course of a phone call based on the information that the first responder gives the clinician, the clinician could make the recommendation that they would like to come out to support. So the clinician with the clinician is going to use their clinical judgment based on the information that they are receiving from the first responder, as in any situation, but also as in any uncalled situation, the person can make a judgment and say, I think it would be helpful for me to come in person and support you. So I do have a question. Would there be a scenario where first responders are asking for the clinician to come, where the clinician would be able to say, no, I don't think I should come? Or is when the request is made, the person would then come. So if our firefighters are saying we want a clinician here, then that would be an end of story. The clinician would would come in. Okay. If I could just ask. Sorry to interrupt, but one person speaks at a time. So advice Maravilla, finish speaking then I'm back to you, Mr. Shorten. I do see Acting Chief as I'm back with his hand up, so we'll call on him next. But Vice Mayor, go and finish your question. And then and then. In the interim, so as the person and I'm assuming that the 90 minutes is to allow for travel time or whatever in the interim, what would happen is that is the first are the first responders going to be on the phone or they're going to be checking back in with the clinician? Can you walk me through that a little bit? I just want to understand, obviously, things can change in a certain matter of time. Is the expectation that our first responders from our fire department or then to stay with the person that's in crisis for the for that waiting period? And then is what what's the communication looking like during that time? I see Chief Beck has his hand and know if you want to speak to that or if you want me to try. What would you prefer, Chiefs? Well, I'm actually running the meeting, so I'll make that decision. Thank you. I would like to hear the acting chief is on Beck because you had your hand up during that line of questioning earlier. Yeah, just clarification. So, first of all, mayor and city council, I'm recused on back the interim fire chief. And there is a point of clarification here. So we've asked element of family services to provide support to the program. Of course, as we well know, and there are several different options situations where we we expect their assistance. One would be a telehealth connection between our first responder and their agency. So we would have an opportunity to put the client on the call and speak directly to a clinician. In certain instances, if it was warranted, because this would be and that's part of what we are working on with county mental health. So it's important that it be understood that, yes, the client could talk directly to the clinician over a telehealth connection and our first responder unit would stay on the scene until the completion of the call. So once we take a client on service, then we're going to stay until the completion. The other possible interaction with element of family services would be if we asked for them to respond directly to the scene. And again, we would wait with with the client until and even during the time that Air Force responds and is on the scene with the client. So those are two different scenarios per se. So that's just for clarification. Okay. Back to you, Vice Mayor. And have we we've been working with the county currently. Is that correct? Yes, we are negotiating with the Council on Development of the Programs protocols as well as some of the additional response criteria. So in Chief Del Bono's on the call, by the way, and he can answer some questions related to operational issues. But we'll wait to hear what your questions are. Yes, he did. He didn't raise his hand, but. Oh, I see. The city manager with his hand up. Sorry. Let me let me go to Mr. Leavitt. And so I just want to add two things to what Houston back said. The third thing when we set out the proposal was the wraparound services after and referring them to the right agency and follow up the next day, which is also a critical component, whether it be this proposal or anyone. That's what we were looking for, an army of family services proposed in that way. And then I think interim chief Deputy Bono can also add where we are with the county. I think part of it is they're waiting until we have a decision of who the partner is because. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Leavitt. I'm going to make sure that the the vice mayor has the fire. Just want to make sure that she's completed her line of questioning, because I think she's still in the stage where the call is happening. So I wasn't sure if you were again vice mayor. Well, yeah, I just wanted to kind of get walk through what does it look like? Because I think what it says on paper is one thing that our fire department is currently responding right now. And so they have an understanding of kind of what their needs are. So I would really like to hear from our deputy chief about kind of how things are going. And then also because my understanding is we are in talks with what will be required by the county if we need to make changes or modifications to this agreement, if we move forward with it. Is there, you know, what would we need in the agreement to allow for that to occur? If, for instance, if the county comes back and says, yes, I know you have this agreement, however, we're requiring these additional things. Do we need to negotiate that now? Are there things that that the chief can foresee becoming issues? Those are my questions. Okay. So Deputy Chief checked up on her. Welcome. Would you like to take a shot at that? Thank you, Mayor. City Council Members Deputy Chief Jarvis. I'll go now. Yeah, I'll take a shot at it. There's a few things here. So we're we're out with the county right now is we're working with public health and county EMS. We work as paramedics. We work under a doctor sports license. So he's he's our county medical director. And one of the things that public health wanted, in order for us to be able to initiate the 5150s and remove PD from there, they wanted oversight from a licensed clinician that we would have access to, meaning that we could pick up the phone kind of like we do. We used to do it in the county for medical medicines and things like that. So now we have access to a license condition 24 seven that we can call and say, hey, we're on scene of A, B and C, we're looking at initiating a 72 hour hold on this client. We want to get your input on it and kind of have somebody to consult with that allows us to do that. That was a requirement of the county. The police officers do not need to do that right now. The reason behind that is because public health doesn't want to expand the the the right for people to 5150. They kind of want to limit it because that was part of the goal of putting them in the county cat units was to limit the 51 phones that were being placed and that type of client being taken to hospitals in overwhelming the system. So that was the county's requirement for the telemedicine, the clinician part of it, obviously, just this week, yesterday, actually, our our nine paramedics who all volunteered to go through over 60 hours of training with the Bonita House as clinicians just completed it yesterday. So just to give you an idea, if we responded to some type of call where we got there and it was above what we could handle, our our personnel will be trained not just in the clinician type training, but the city type training to to de-escalate the situation, calm things down. That's where we would initiate, you know, the clinician and call AFC to come in and assist us. And, you know, Marilyn, you pointed out that that can take a long time, 90 minutes. These calls would take a long time. These are these aren't calls that are going to go fast. These are people that need you need to take time with. You have patients with be trained and talked to. And that's what our personnel wear now and then to have the clinician there to be able to come in after us and be able to bring their expertize there and complement the program because we're not. The word to lead the program. This is going to be a team effort. We're all going to be working really hard together. As you know, Emily's army, the family services, our community paramedics in program PD. There's going to be a lot of people involved in this. So I don't know if that gives an idea of how a call would go. I can ask more I can answer more specific questions if you need me to. I would just like to ask you, Deputy Albano, how often are you able to use telemedicine for some of these calls? I mean, you really could get someone on the screen and having a conversation. We heard a lot of references to the Mario Gonzalez case. Would telemedicine have been used there or what? Help us understand the parameters. Well, I'm I'm not going to go back and second guess what happened on that, because I was not on that call. But I would say in a situation like that, I think, you know, part of what everybody's experiencing with it is and I know I've talked about with San Francisco's models doing along with New York's model with that crisis mobile units, that would be a situation where you probably end up showing up there and moving back if, you know, in de-escalating the situation and and trying to talk to him and get him, you know, somebody that that's in crisis to calm down, work with with what tools we had. If we're not able to get that person to calm down and get in a position to where we can get them to help, and that's what we would call in the clinician to come in and and assist us with that. That makes sense. Okay. Okay. And what if the person was violent? Well, anything that if somebody was violent, we would we would have to have to be there for anybody. It would be a safety issue. Okay. You know, but again, we would be working as a team with PD, L, Alameda Family Services, us being there, you know, not putting people in harm's way and trying to get that that client out of out of harm's way. So. Thank you. Okay. Back to your first mayor. And just to follow up on that, when we talk about violence, it wouldn't be it would be a a team effort, as you mentioned. Deputy Chief. So when you talk about de-escalating, you would, you know, perhaps in a similar scenario or similar future scenario, fire would come in and be the first phase of the interaction. Is that what you're you're saying so that it wouldn't necessarily be a situation where your your approach would be would be different from that of police coming in? Is that what you're saying? I would say, yeah, that we're hoping to have us out in front first. And this would be two people on a low profile crisis unit. This isn't going to be a fire engine, an ambulance PD officer showing up. This is literally going to be two people in a vehicle together that are going to be in polo shirts, that are going to come out and engage, engage the patient, you know, are the client and see where they're at. If they're on the street in the building, you know, PD would probably be there a bit in the background. And we're and we've we've had several meetings with PD and they they they understand what they would their role would be to and, you know, we would work to de-escalate the situation. If there's a weapon involved and somebody is violent right off the bat, obviously, we would have to we'd have to make sure that the scene is secure in our police officers are the ones that know how to do that. But I really think that, you know, from the type of clientele and, you know, we've been transporting mental health patients since 1982. I mean, this is not new to us. And like Catherine had pointed out, this is this is to expand our options to get people to the right place for the right needs. So if we show up on a call, our only choice isn't to 51, 50 somebody and take them to a psychiatric felicity or restrain him and take him to the E.R. room. We're going to have a lot more options here, including treating and releasing. And that's one of the options that we're going to have under our pilot, meaning that we can show up and we call it refer and release in this type of situation. So if the client is somebody that we really feel comfortable with, that we can refer and release, we're going to have A.f.c. on site Monday through Friday handling a caseload that can go and do follow up with with this person the next day. Maybe it's not a mental health situation. Maybe it's a an addiction issue, maybe it's a homeless issue. And I don't know if I added this, but we already have office space for them in our community. Paramedics at the office where Catherine is agreed that this this clinician will be embedded Monday through Friday in our office. So, you know, again, that's a big deal for us because we'll be working as a team together with all of us tonight. That clinician is going to be here and like part of our family. So that's that's how that's how we're going to approach this, you know. So I hope that explained it all. That helps. And and so to follow up the the having the clinician there, there will be an ability for fire to to follow up to actually make sure that the person's been seen as part of your refer and release program. It's not just here's the information. You'll actually have the person there on premises so that you can check in and say, Has this person come in? What's happened? And if the person doesn't come in or there's other issues, you'll be able to do additional follow up? Absolutely. I think that's going to be a huge part of the success of, you know, our response is having that follow up care. I mean, you know, the majority of time that these these clients are like put on a hold, they go to John, George, they're released a couple of hours later. There's no follow up care. This is this is going to be you know, you know, like somebody had mentioned, this is going to be, you know, pretty much one of the one of the only kind of programs that are going on in California right now. So along with San Francisco, they're they're doing the same thing, really high success rates. So. You have a. Sense and then I really appreciate this. I think that this makes it more real and digestible for people to understand what the what the conversations have been among staff in terms of what's being envisioned by this. So I really appreciate the detail of the response. There were two things. I'm just going to go into kind of what my my comments, I guess are for the Quality Assurance Board. I would like to make sure I notice that AFS would be a part of it. I, I well I think AFS is going to be reviewed. I don't necessarily think having AFS be part of the board. I don't know if it was a semantics thing that I'm reading incorrectly, but I just want to make sure that that board, like AFS isn't reviewing itself. I think that's really important. And Chief. So I'm back. I, I see your hand up. You want to comment? Interim Chief Zon. Back. So first of all, let me explain the quality assurance board. We have one for each of our programs, community promotion program or our class or permanent program. So we have oversight. That's part of the process. We review what we do and we look to see how we can improve. So what we want to do, this is a collaboration. So we want to review together what we're doing and we want to understand where we're doing something right and where we need to improve. That's what the Quality Assurance Board is about. Now, we've also discussed the prospect of having an open meeting to the public, some sort of a committee are meeting potentially where we can then have a Q&A with the public about the program on a periodic basis. So that's another I would say what we want to try to do is be as transparent as possible on how the program's doing. Obviously, we're going to have data reporting that's going to be coming from both the fire department's data sources and Air Force. And we have some robust data reporting internally because we have our call response system, our record management, and we also have our our client services reports. We have what we call patient care reports, but there's something that we use for community paramedics and that we envision we use for this program. So we'll have data. We can report that out. Obviously, you'll want that. But we also we would like to be able to answer questions as appropriate to the community on how we're doing . The quality assurance is a big part of what we always do internally. And I wonder, chief interim chiefs are back and Deputy Chief Charbonneau, is there a place for peer review in this process, perhaps from San Francisco, that's doing something similar, maybe what San Mateo County's doing? Deputy Chief And by the way, thank you so much for all the additional insight you provided. I learned a lot just from listening to you. Yeah. So one of the peer reviewed things we're going to we're going to actually have our our personnel go right along with San Francisco's crisis mobile units. They're going to go spend a day or two out there and right along with their units to kind of see what they're doing. But yeah, there is going to be peer review and I know public health, the Alameda County Public Health and our EMS County because we're under a pilot, we're going to have review up there, too. They're going to want to they're going to want to take this data, look at it, see what kind of, you know, responses we have and how that goes. I want to I want to say one last thing, just so you guys get a little bit more comfort level. You know, part of the training was, you know, it was nine days. We had people volunteer board three, our personnel in there, which I learned hopping on in the morning and hearing why they were there. Our veterans, that two of them were were veterans, war veterans that were in Iraq and Afghanistan, one of them ten years and very heavily involved in PTSD stuff. And so these these these nine people, we have volunteered to do this. They didn't they weren't forced to do it. They want to do it. We're going to meet next week and also they're going to be part of forming this program. So thank you guys there. So I wasn't necessarily asking in terms of having community oversight in in the quality assurance. I think the peer review aspect is really what I was getting at. And I think if we can just build in something in the agreement that would allow for collaborative peer review or it doesn't it doesn't need to be quarterly or anything like that. I think maybe a six month check in and then one at the 12 month mark, something like that. You know, San Francisco has been doing their thing for a little bit and yeah, a little bit of time. I think just hearing what's happening within the region and when I say peer, I really mean peer peer programs, regional programs, because these are regional issues. So I just think that would be helpful and give you know, give you insight. I don't I worry about just opening it up to a full, you know, anybody from the public coming in to sit on that the quality assurance board because these are these are it is a pilot program and it's an emerging area and it's also an area where there's a lot of expertize needed. But I would like some sort of built in peer review. The other thing and I'll wrap up, I'm not necessarily in favor of that. The way that it's worded for the second year option by mutual agreement, I do think it should come back to the council at the one year mark we can review. That would be where I would want to hear the data presentations, what the peer review recommendations were because I don't know. If this is where this is a good starting point. I think there's been a lot of work to get us here. But we could be looking for an entirely, you know, a bigger build out to the program. We could find that there's a greater need in one area and not in another. And so I really think that at that point, we need to make that decision and to have it come back to council with that data and that , you know, all of the insight that you've learned to really make sure that whatever the program is, that we continue it in a way that is most appropriate for our community and for our department and what our needs are. So that would be that's my feedback on that. You know, I appreciate all the work that went into this, and I want to thank you all. I think that the goal here is really to just make sure that we have this alternative option. I do also worry about the exhibit A thing. So I feel like we might be able to give some direction tonight on the specifics and maybe have it come back at the next council meeting fully agenda and vote on it that way. I just want to make sure it's clean. So thank. You. There might be a workaround on that one. Let's hear from some other council members who wants to go next. Councilmember Herrera Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. So I would like to hear at some point from the city attorney in regards to the exhibit, because when I read it, it just says it's like a tentative document or something like that. I forget what the word was. So would it be okay to have that discussion now? I'd like to hear from the city attorney. Okay. And I'm sorry. Your question is what again? The issue you raised in regards to the exhibit? Because when I read the contract, I actually think that it's all right that we can proceed with the language that was used in here. Sure. I mean, my concern is that will they open government commission, bring a complaint against us? But I don't have a crystal ball. But, Mr. Chan, is there anything you'd like to add? Sure. Councilmember Spencer, if the council wish to proceed tonight, as Councilmember Avella indicated, you could provide direction as clear as possible. Right. As the staff report acknowledges that the contract is not done, then you would want to provide as many clear directions as possible so that when you're delegating that ultimate authority to the city manager, he understand what your directions are. So that is one path to proceed. Alternatively, you could consider the vice mayor his approach, which is to give direction and have staff bring you back a clean exhibit. Both are legally viable at the Council's pleasure. Thank you. So my preference would act. So if you look at the bottom of page one of the proposed agreement, it says provider agrees to do all necessary work except the right to include it in Exhibit A as requested. Provider acknowledges that the work plan included an exhibit is tentative and does not permit the city to request provider to perform all tasks included therein. So I think it is actually written in a way that it is broad enough that I would my preference would be to move forward and give an allow, which is in fact the title of the document is recommendation to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Almeida Family Services. So it actually provides that to negotiate and execute. So that does within the title itself tell us that the negotiations will still be going on, but that that's what the ask is from staff in the title. So going back to the city attorney, how would you respond to that? I think I think what the councilmember said is consistent with my response to you, which is that you have multiple path forward. You could give the city manager direction tonight. Delegate authority and help negotiate and execute the contract. Or you can direct him to bring back something that's precise. Both are within your authority tonight. Thank you. So I would move that we accept the recommendation here to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with me to family services for an amount not to exceed 500,000 for one year. And I appreciate vice mayor's comments in regards to the not wanting to proceed with the option and have it come back . But I would like to at least start with the year one and make a decision tonight and give that direction, which I think does comply and does honor exactly what the agenda item says here to negotiate and execute four options than one A and one C. See, and I'm going to. So I'm making that motion. I'm hoping that council will support moving forward today. I agree with all of our speakers and we had this like almost ten speakers in regards to how important it is to move forward with this. I was not on council when this process started. However, I agree with our community. It is time and I would actually say it is past time. And when I and some of you may remember back in July when I looked at the zoom screen, I said, In a time of crisis, I want our first responders. That is who I want. When I look at the screen today and I see the executive director of Alameda Family Services, Catherine Schwartz, joining our police chief, our interim fire chief, our deputy chief, that is Alamitos team. Why is that? Our team? First of all, for some of you that don't know this, Alameda Family Services has been serving Alameda, the city since 1969. Our community has been supporting Alameda Family Services for over 50 years. We heard from some of these people today that volunteer. Many of us donate to Alameda Family Services, time and money. They are in our schools serving our community. They are out. And there's a letter from Alameda Point Collaborative. They serve people at Alameda Point Collaborative. They have a presence in our community, bar none. There is no other provider of mental health services that knows Alameda and serves Alameda better than Alameda Family Services. This is, in fact, what I would call the A team that I was hoping we would get. And I strongly appreciate the assistant city manager's efforts and the city manager's efforts in bringing this. But and I agree and the vice mayor's comments in regards to an emerging effort here, cities across the country are trying to figure this out. I'm going to submit that we have a head start because our fire department is acting. I'm sorry, Deputy Chief Telefono said has been transporting transporting mental health patients since 1982. That's amazing. So this is exactly what I want and I thank everyone for stepping up. I hope that someone will second my motion and we can start serving our community to the best of our ability. Now, someone had said, you know, maybe more money should be at some point we may need more money for this some. And I would agree at some point we may need more money now. We do have the ARPA funds. I'm not sure if any of that can be used for mental health, but all the speakers that spoke to increased mental health demands and issues because of COVID. That's absolutely true. The data is there, which is why time is of the essence. And so thank you very much. I appreciate everyone stepping up. And actually, I appreciate you stepping up all these years to serve our community. Thank you. Thank you. Kasper Harry Spencer. And there were many suggestions made by the vice mayor and also by myself. Are you including that is direction to city manager? You know, I so I'm not sure what specifically I certainly do not want to backpedal. I want to move forward. So if you want to enumerate what all the suggestions were, I, I did articulate the one year coming back in a year and we can reevaluate. But I think that the ask is actually, hi, I'm here and I don't think we necessarily have to get into the weeds. When I read the agenda item that was said, if you want to make friendly amendments, I'm happy to consider your friendly amendments. Let let's hear from Councilmember Knox White. So I'm going to second the motion, but I'm going to start off by almost immediately asking to be commended. I appreciate it. I think there's ways to address the issue of the second year. But as somebody who's running two year programs, we're going to be a year and a half through this program. Before we have the data, we need to decide whether we should be moving forward. We're not going to be able to make it a value. I mean, it's taking us four months to get to this point, to have something in front of us, to start negotiating it just because of the turn times and whatever else. We're going to have to be almost back in front of the council on three months starting the conversation about what to do with your two. And I would recommend that we include the option to extend. If things are going badly, we can stop. If they're doing a six month, six month check ins and things are not working and we're not seeing the world seeing the results we want or we're getting complaints and things like that. That option gives us the opportunity to not move forward. But I would like to, to to I just we're going to we're going to cause a lot of work with without much benefit. I think the question for you, Councilmember, not quite the the question that I think the vice mayor and I both had was that the agreement may be mutually extended to when you're at the sole discretion of the city manager, would you want it to come back to the council? I personally, I would like to just give the city manager the authority. I feel like we're I worry that we're walking the walk. That's a no. Okay. Okay. Got it. Okay. We accept his friendly amendment on. You know, it's. I've been studying up on procedure. I think you're actually creating a new motion, but it's perfectly fine. Why don't you go ahead with your amendments? I'm taking notes. Councilmember. So, you know, I was going to say, I want to be careful that we're not stepping into the administrative realm by actually starting to write the contract. I think we I want to get my great appreciation. I was as we were going through the presentation, I was thinking about a year ago June, after the Watkins tapes came out and we stood on city hall, we stood there with city manager Eric Levitt, and he committed to the to the to the community that I think you said a year. But I'm going to say this council kind of blew a hole in the idea that it was going to take a year, but that we were going to be a leader in how we how we respond to these types of things within the next year or so. And I, I said at that point in time that I believe that we were that we had the leadership that was going to get us there. And I think we are here tonight, and I want to thank him for for that commitment very early on. Obviously, all the staff from assistant city manager about and chief and deputy chief and Tom Beck, Miss Schwartz and Chief Joshi as well, who I know is also part of these conversations just getting us here. So I want us to move forward to the point when we move when we pass the motion to do to bring this forward. One of the things we talked about was, you know, this was a pilot and we kept hearing that tonight. We talked about the idea that we wanted to make sure that it was a pilot that was iterative and I might my direction or recommendation or whatnot that I would suggest that I think gets to some of the concerns I'm hearing is that we write the contract in such a way that whatever ends up in Schedule A as the things that need to be done can be changed by the city, with agreement from his words, with 45 days or 60 days, you know, kind of notice or something like that. So that as we're iterating, if we find out something's not working and we want to make that change and you know, you know, either Almeida Family Services or the or the City Fire Department says, hey, you know what, we really should be doing something else because we're not we're not removing cause from the system of where we thought we should create some sort of mechanism for for you to go back as you're doing the quality review and even change the schedule very simply, rather than having to come back and re amend the contract every single day, every single time, I think having that flexibility would be really good. And then I think that if we can give the direction also to get to the address, I think as you're doing the check, you know, it would be good to get quarterly updates just on what's going on and what the numbers look like so that the council, if they have a problem, can raise it before that one year extension has come out. I it doesn't take much for one of us to put it on the agenda and say, hey, this is a problem. We don't want to we don't want to move forward and give that direction to the city manager in the future. So I think that there are ways we can kind of create those breaks. But I also I just I, I agree with our speakers. We have we have sat and talked 15 months on this issue or 14 months on this issue, and it's time for us to move forward. And I think we've got a team that can do this and I'm excited. So thank you. Okay. Thank you. And so if I get my procedure correct and Madam Clerk, help me out here, I think this actually becomes the office amendments, become a substitute motion. Is that correct? I was thinking I thought that I heard Counselor Knox, like, just say them as amendments to the motion. And so, again, I was setting procedure for the League of California's Cities, and I thought that it isn't so much the maker of the motion who accepts the amendments that the the whole council has to decide on that. But what do we usually do now? The usual process that we have followed typically here and I can study it more myself too. Thank you for bringing it up. But is that the maker of the motion does accept the amendments as the way we are practices? Okay. Well, we can we can do it the Alameda way. That's fine. Okay. We've had a motion then by Councilmember Herrera Spencer that's been amended by Councilmember Knox. Right. And the maker of the motion accepted those amendments. And I believe Councilmember Knox. Right. You also seconded the motion. Correct. And so so let's have discussion from the one member. We well, people have time left, but councilor member distracted. You wish to to weigh in. Sure. You know, I think this represents. A historic opportunity for reforming policing in Alameda, an action that I think generations and generations of Alameda will look to and be proud of. So I think we should move forward with the motion as amended. And while I voted for Felton Institute, I think the night that I said I voted for Felton Institute, I also indicated that I'm. Confident that the Alameda Fire Department can manage this contract on the substantive issue of the RFP, it is true that the RFP is all of, I think, a page and a half. But the way that I look at the RFP is basically it's really not an RFP. What you really have is an RFQ. You're asking for the qualifications with respect to the items and the sub items and the subset of items that are in the RFP. And the response that Alameda Family Services had provided was quite in-depth. I mean, there there are proposal is is is 27, 26, 27 pages. And they hit all the points that the Alameda Fire Department said were pertinent points with regard to making sure that we reform policing in ways that allow for mental health professionals to deal with nonviolent situations where mental health issues are certainly implicated. So I think we should not miss this rare opportunity to really reform policing here in Alameda. Will it be a model for others to look at much in the way that people look at cahoots in Portland, Oregon? I don't know, but I know that, hey, you know, this is really this is a big deal that we're doing. And so I support this. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Desai, I have vice mayor of L.A.. Questions through the chair to Councilmember Knox. For the quarterly updates, how would you want those or how are you asking those to come? I just don't want them to necessarily be agendas on a council meeting and then become like massive updates. The second thing is, if we could just make sure that this gets agenda ahead of the one year mark, I would appreciate that. Okay. Yeah. Off agenda reporting seems great. Can always be put forward by a council member who wants to. And similarly, I think we can give direction to, you know, a month before the one year extension is is executed. Agenda. Is it for conversation? Okay. Then it will be. We know it's going to be all on. I mean, I borrowed great job of remember remember that? Remember late. Okay. Yes. Councilmember Harris Spencer. Thank you. For the record, I want to say that I am accepting all of the amendments from Councilmember Knox like. Thank you. Thank you. And I'll just go last. And I, I will say this. I, I have been persuaded, I, I've listened to many of the speakers for over a year now, and I have huge respect for you and the time and effort and passion you've put into to this. And again, I can't think. Assistant City Manager Jerry Bowden And if I was not in any way questioning your competency and the diligence with which you've approached this Herculean task, but I know there's also been more recent information, but I guess there always will be. And it is, as was noted, an iterative process. Thank you for all the representatives from Amalgamated Family Services, the fire department. Thank you. Especially Deputy Chief Del Bono. You really, really shed a light, really illustrated what's been going on, what's what's already in place. And and I appreciate that. And so I, too, will be moving to support this. I think it's appropriate that we we move forward expeditiously, meaning now and I know the city manager has heard all the concerns that were raised by in the discussions and that he and the assistant city manager will take all of those things into consideration when they're finalizing the negotiations. So I would say we just approved this motion and we don't even worry about that. Service provider agreement and Exhibit A, it's not even part of this, writes makers of the motion. So just remove that as an issue. So with that, Madam Clerk, would you please do the roll call vote? Councilmember de Shag. Yes. Herrera Spencer, I. Knox, wait. Hi. Fella. I mayor as the Ashcraft I if that carries by five eyes. All right. Thank you. And thank you to everyone who's been involved and for, you know, really over a year on getting us to this point. So. Okay, everybody roll up your sleeves and we look forward to getting this program up and off the ground. Councilmember Knox. Right. So just a procedural I'm wondering, I believe the Dave Park item actually has a time sensitivity given that there's an upcoming grant. I would like to take that first since the other the other items and. Next it is the next when we should we should move quickly. Okay. So I. Am sorry. That's all. Right. But I'm I'm watching the clock to no. Good point. Okay. Thank you, everyone, for all involved. We're going to say good evening to you. Good night. And we are going to queue up item 70. Madam Clerk, could you please introduce that item to us? Adoption of resolution to apply for the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority, measure a grant to fund planning and design of the park, and allocate 50,000 in matching funds if awarded. Thank you. And that. Okay. I have a suggestion. I know that we have, I believe it's recreation parks director Amy Wooldridge here to present, but I'm wondering if we might just oh I should stop and ask Madam Clerk, do we have public speakers on this item. We do have one. Linda Karlan. Oh, now do you? Okay. Okay. Okay. So good evening, Director Wooldridge. Good to see you, Councilor. How about we take our public speakers and then just because we're playing Beat the Clock here, we'll see if we have any questions of Ms. Wooldridge and perhaps we could then entertain a motion without even needing a full glowing staff report. But let's please start with our public speakers. And the first speaker is Linda Carlon. Right. Welcome, Speaker Carbone. Thank you. Can you hear. Me? We sure can. Great. First, I just. I will be very quick. I first want to thank Amy for all of her work and her energy and her expertize that she put into getting this project to the state we're in. I also want to thank the city staff and the council members and also CASA, who have been instrumental in bringing this project

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund (GF) in the Legislative Department (LD) by $25,212, offset by the Council District Three FY 16 office budget surplus to be used for community meetings, events, and public outreach efforts.

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Item 17 is communication from Councilwoman Price recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund in the Legislative Department by 25,000 to attend 12, offset by the Council District three. F Wise 16 office budget surplus. Councilman Price I've just asked my colleagues to support us on this. We're just reallocating some surplus moneys. And while it's not 177,000 and surplus, as my colleague in the fourth has, it's still a minor surplus. So we're asking to be able to reallocate that. Thank you. Give the second. But Councilman Andrews, any public comment? Easy money, seeing none. And. Mr.. Mr.. PARKIN And I'm assuming that I have met you and other state agencies to it, but I can also call for a motion to say if there's no objection. Moving on to the next item. Is that right? If there's no objection, yes, you can do it by consensus. But we need to be able to identify the motion and the second. First, yes. Okay. So the motion was by Councilman Price, second by Councilman Andrews. And then this was in the objection, a motion by consensus. Moving on to the next item. Item 20 East Communication from Vice Mayor Richardson Council Membership in Councilwoman Mango and Council Memo Durango. Recommendation to request the City Manager to work with South Coast Air Quality Management District to report on the impacts of the City of Paramount air quality to Long Beach residents.

Response to City Council Referral Regarding Reactivating the Airport Operations Committee to Address Impacts from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen Program by Authorizing the Mayor to Send a Letter to Representative Barbara Lee; Reactivating the Ad-hoc Airport Operations Committee to Oversee NextGen Issues; and Adding NextGen to the City’s 2016 Legislative Program. (Community Development 481001)

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So we've moved fairly rapidly. We have three recommendations for you this evening, and it's basically reactivating. One of the recommendations is reactivating the airport operations committee. The airport operations committee was never officially disbanded, but we can kind of just restart it up. Staff is proposing to start it up on an ad hoc basis. We have a couple of volunteers already. We have Walt Jacobs and we have Bersani. Both have volunteered and we're looking for a retired professional pilot. If there's any retired professional pilots out there that anybody knows, please call the city manager's office and give me their name . Jim Hager. Yes, we. It's a very technical thing we're going on right now with the gen program. We're really asking for a kind of a left turn early on. So it's kind of a technical situation. So staff is recommending to bring in the committee on an ad hoc basis and deal with these technical issues and start drafting letters to the FAA in Washington. We have a draft letter attached to this item this evening going to Representative Barbara Lee. We kind of vetted that letter with our federal lobbyists. They strongly suggested that we have kind of a more local angle in that letter than just the broad NextGen. And so to that end, Matt Farris, Lonnie here is going to be drafting us a paragraph to inserted into that letter tomorrow morning that addresses the request, the left turn request that we actually need to avoid noise within the city of Alameda. So we will be incorporating that one paragraph and all councilmembers and the mayor will be copied on the letter. May I ask a question, member Ashcraft, just for the benefit of everyone in this room who possibly doesn't know what you're talking about. Can you just summarize? This is a really interesting and I think an issue that is would be of importance to many of you. So just, you know, how did we get to this point? How we got to this point? We've had dealings with the airport off and on for a great many years. We were sued by the airport at one point and then we through the airport at one point. We currently are operating under the second settlement agreement with Oakland Airport, and that's actually operating very well. The second settlement agreement, the airport's complying with that. During the four years when we were going back and forth with the airport, we formulated the airport operations committee. This was a number of people that sat on this committee. They advised staff and the council regarding air operations out of the Oakland airport and noise reduction. There is also class formed community. Yes. Right? Yes. And that was yeah, it was class that was form. There's a number of organizations. There's an organization in Berkeley. We're trying to we're outreaching to all of those organizations were outreaching to the city of San Leandro, the city of Oakland. Montclair has some impacts from this next gen. The next gen thing was an initiative by the FAA to simplify the air routes within the United States. And in doing so, that kind of condense those routes. And in condensing the routes, they created additional noise problems unintentionally. And so that's really where we are today, is addressing this next gen. The South Bay and the West Bay have organized significantly over there and are strongly lobbying the FAA to look at this. Again, we will be joining that effort with them to to lobby our federal representatives. That we're also adding to asking you to add this to our 2016 legislative program. That's why for you, we could not send this letter without getting that added to the legislative program that we're asking that we're asking to reactivate the Ad Hoc Airport Operations Committee, and we're asking to authorize a letter to Barbara Lee with that additional local annual paragraph. That concludes my report, and I am here for question. And I wanted to start with number de Sock. This was. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Horn. Great to see you back, by the way. Next gen basically is the FAA is transitioning the flight path to into a satellite based path. And as a result of doing that, communities across the United States, including in California, have been experiencing incredible amounts of noise. What that also means is that many communities in trying to deal with that with the FAA are beginning to organize. And so at the leadership of of the late Dave Needle and also at the leadership of Walt Jacobs and Mrs. Barbara Talia and also the late red was well rather Weatherill. Many members of class you know they've really been encouraging us to begin to also mobilize because you know many cities are going to begin to mobilize and we need to know and what they're going to seek isn't necessarily in the best interest of Alameda. For example, after the last airport noise for a meeting that I attended, there were a lot of Montclair residents at the noise board meeting, and they were clamoring all about this. So I appreciate staff's recommendation and bringing us forward because we do, as Mr. Jacobs said. While Jacobs said, we do need to be a presence at the table in staff's recommendation, also working with our lobbyist in in Washington DC is also key too. So I really appreciate that. I think, you know that we've got a lot on our plate tonight, so I think we need to move forward. So I'm going to move staff recommendation and encourage also that we vet any people through class as well. Thank you. And we do not have any speakers on this item, so I'll second. All right. So there's a motion. And second, any questions, comments, all of those. And I just want to just add two quick things. One, it's great to see you back. Thank you. And I'm really glad as someone who used to live right in that flight path, I'm glad that we're examining that that left because a lot of pilots do it voluntarily. Right. A lot of them, particularly the freight airlines that come at two and three and four in the morning, refused to do it. So I appreciate that. Thank you. And I also want to add that I was able to speak with Barbara Lee Council Representative Barbara Lee, staff on this issue. They are already trying they are already working on this issue. However, it is important that we take these steps so that it makes it easier for them to argue on our behalf. Okay. That being said, all those in favor, I am curious unanimously. Thank you very much. Oh, all right. Next item six. Be as in boy. And I do have a question. Does this item need to be heard tonight or what's your time estimate? We would like to have this item heard tonight because there's a long lead time for some of the steps that we have in front of us. Okay. Do we have any public speakers on this item? No. We will. We can go through it fairly quickly. Okay. We could do that quickly because we have two other items that do have public speakers. Okay. So let me I'd love to dismiss this by term, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Okay. Go ahead. So very quickly, as councilor will recall, last October, we came to you for authorization to proceed with a survey essentially to determine if our voters were interested in actually taxing themselves for city services and if they were, which of those services were important.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to take all actions necessary to create and administer a pilot program of workshops to promote Energy Efficient Mortgages among home buyers in Long Beach during calendar year 2018; Increase appropriations in the Gas Fund (EF 301) in the Long Beach Gas and Oil Department (GO) by $40,000, offset by funds available; and Increase appropriations in the Development Services Fund (EF 337) in the Development Services Department (DV) by $40,000, offset by a transfer of funds from the Long Beach Gas and Oil Department (GO). (Citywide)

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You have a good. So that concludes public comment. Well, we'll go ahead and move forward with I believe we have item number 16. Item 16 is a report from City Manager Recommendation to create and administer a pilot program of workshops to promote energy efficiency efficient mortgages among home buyers in Long Beach during calendar year 2018 citywide. Thank you, Mr. West. Mr. Vice Mayor, council members. This is an item that was brought to us to the city council a couple of months ago. We took it under our wing and worked with the the people who brought it to us. And Larry Rich is going to talk about how it can be implemented Larry. Thank you, Mr. West. Good evening, Mayor Richardson and members of the city council here to give you a quick overview of our proposed residential greenhouse gas reduction pilot program. You brought this to us back in May. And tonight, we're proposing a pilot program to educate homebuyers on their energy efficiency financing options during the 2018 calendar year. So what is an energy efficient mortgage or an ETM? Homebuyers or refinancing homeowners automatically qualify for 5 to 15% of their home value added to their mortgage loan to finance energy efficiency improvements. This 5 to 15% can also be used to purchase a home that is already energy efficient. This program has existed since 1980, but a lack of awareness and education has led OEM's to be vastly underutilized. The potential benefits of energy efficiency. Long Beach has an aging housing stock with 80% of owner occupied units built before 1970. Older buildings have large potential energy savings through upgrades. Upgrades provide an average of 25% savings on energy bills. Upgrades also create healthier indoor environments with cleaner air and better climate control. Upgrades can create economic dividends through job creation. And finally, greenhouse gases or goods are also reduced, helping to meet state and local greenhouse gas reduction goals. So the residential greenhouse gas reduction pilot program. So in partnership with local nonprofit Green Education Inc, we plan to provide a series of five workshops during the 2018 calendar year in locations spread throughout Long Beach. Workshops will cover energy efficient mortgages, other energy efficiency financing options, and rebates and grants that can be paired with financing. We will market workshops to local homebuyers and conduct in-person outreach to Long Beach. Employers will utilize prizes and giveaways to encourage attendance at the workshops, and we will follow up with workshop participants to evaluate program performance and energy savings. The financial impact. The budget for the pilot program is $40,000 and would be funded through the Gas and Oil Department's Cap and Trade GHG Reduction Fund. This budget will provide for a one year pilot program, including marketing campaigns and materials that are reproduced by city staff. Green Education Inc's services and conducting in-person outreach and teaching the five workshops. And finally, monitoring and evaluation of the pilot program. That concludes my presentation. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you, as always. Yes. I want to thank you, Larry, for this work. I'm glad to see that we're moving in this direction. And I just have a couple of questions for you. How long do we expect the pilot program to be scheduled for? So we plan on rolling it out over the course the entire course of 2018. Right now, we're planning on doing a workshop every other month with a target start date in February and having the last one in October. Wonderful. And do we know when where those meetings will take place yet or have we gathered that information? We do have five potential venues spread across the city. The first one is potentially at the gas and Oil Department auditorium. But then we want to go to places like Chavez Community Center, something in West Palm Beach. We're also looking at Michelle Obama Library or as other park community center. And maybe I'm missing one, but that's the idea. Great. Well, thank you so much for the work. What you and your team do and sustainability is fantastic. And I appreciate you partnering with us and with green education. I'd really also like to thank them both, Marcia and Stella, because if it was for them, they, you know, this item would not be here. And you all have a vision for this type of program. This is exactly what I envisioned in this program. And I want to thank you for your work. You've been doing this for many, many years, and I appreciate that. And so we're a coastal city. We have to strive for even more initiatives in the sustainability. And I think this is definitely a step in the right direction. So thank you so much. I look forward to seeing the benefits from this after the workshops are done. Thank you, Councilmember Ganga. Thank you, Mayor. I also want to extend my congratulations on on the Green Inc. for putting this forward for us for the city. Just one question. Is there a benchmark in regards to how many households you want to reach within this pilot period? Well, we've estimated that there are 3000 home transactions in the city. Through our five workshops, we're hoping to get at least at least 30 participants each, which is over the course of the year, 150 direct participants in the workshops, ideally more. But hopefully through this process will reach a lot more home buyers that don't necessarily come to the workshops, but that the program will create a buzz. That sounds great. And I really would encourage people out there who are might be interested in and participate in this program to go ahead and reach out to the city and hopefully get their homes so more energy efficient. Thank you and thank you for your work. Thank you. Any public comment on item number 16? Seeing nonmembers, please cast your vote. Councilman Andrews. Yeah. Weisman. Richardson. Motion carries. Thank you. Congratulations, Stella and everybody involved. Next, we'll have 17 items.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager to execute a sixth amendment to Contract No. 31919 with AECOM Technical Services, Inc., of Orange, CA, for as-needed engineering design services, to make any amendments necessary to the scope of work; extend the term for a two-year renewal period ending on December 30, 2018; and increase the contract amount by $1,000,000, for a revised total contract amount not to exceed $4,850,000. (Citywide)

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Report from Public Works recommendation to execute a Sixth Amendment to contract with AECOM Technical Services for as needed engineering design services for revised total contract amount not to exceed 4.8 million citywide is. Councilmember Richardson moves, seconded by Austin. Is there a staff report on this item? Mr. City Manager. Yes. Mr. Craig Beck can provide a brief one. Good evening, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council. As stated in the recommendation, this is a request to extend the current agreement that we have with AECOM for engineering services. AECOM is currently engaged in a number of projects that are still under design and construction drawings, and some of those include the Eldorado Duck Park Restoration Project, the Leeway Sailing Center and the Rainbow Lagoon Improvements. We'd like to have this amendment to allow us to complete those construction drawings and move those projects forward. That concludes the staff report. Thank you. Does the maker of the motion have any comments? So any member of the public that wishes to address council on item 29 saying none. All those in favor I. Opposed. Motion carries. I believe item. 30 was withdrawn. That's correct. Item 31 Report from Technology and Innovation Recommendation to authorize the City Manager to allocate public education and government fee revenue equally among the three categories of cable access providers citywide.

Recommendation to Award a Contract for the Publication of Legal Notices to the Alameda Journal for Fiscal Year 2017-18. (City Clerk 2210)

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Recommendation to award a contract for the publication of legal notices to the Alameda Journal for fiscal year 20 1718. Remember. Did you want to share this? Sure. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I guess the reason I put this will one to have a discussion, because I think we had a discussion last year on this and it was too late to include a competitive bid from the Alameda Sun and. You know, we received and then we have a copy of this up here correspondence from the Alameda Sun that question the. Question the verified audit. So I wonder if if staff could clarify, because I think we do have an updated letter from the Journal. That says their audit is 18,000 and the letter from the Sun alleges that is 23,000 plus. So maybe we can have some explanation on the difference on those two numbers. And if it makes a difference in our and our bid. Bidding process. Well, I can I can respond to part of that. First of all, the way it works for legal newspapers is it's part of the government code that talks about what a legal newspaper is. And they have to be adjudicated by a court that they meet the requirements of the government code to be a newspaper of general circulation . There are a couple of tests. Frankly, the audit is not part of those tests. So the Alameda Journal many years ago, I think it was 1992, I have it here in my file actually was adjudicated as a newspaper of general circulation. So eligible then to be considered by the city to to get that contract. The son had not been. The sun now is the sun also has received from from the municipal court an adjudication that they too are a newspaper of general circulation. Our charter requires that annually the city clerk put out a request for bids and solicit bids from. Adjudicated newspapers to submit what you. Have before you and the and then to award the contract to the lowest responsive bidder. And so that is what the staff report shows. The city clerk did it, did that. I don't if you want to add anything here, Laura, but appreciating the comments from the sun. But frankly, none of them are relevant to the fact that a court has adjudicated a journal to be a newspaper that is eligible for this. And the process would be for the Sun to petition the court if they believe that any information they might have could affect that adjudicated result. Is there any other? Are we? I'm thinking minimum. Are we obligated to go with the lowest bidder? That's what the charter says. It does say that. Charter. Charter Section three Dash 18 says the Council shall annually after advertising in the manner provided for the purchase of. Supplies, which is the bidding. Process award a contract to the responsible bidder who. Submits the lowest and best bid for publication of legal. Advertising in the city for a newspaper adjudicated to be a newspaper of general circulation within the city. You are allowed to reject all bids. But you have to give it to the charter. Responsible bidder who. Submits the lowest and best bid for publication. Is there a definition of the word best? I mean. No, sir. That's what the charter says. Oh, okay. Okay. So. In regards that lowest and best does best give us some opening in regards to evaluate you know in evaluating beyond just the lowest. If you believe there is some finding. That you can make that makes one of them. Better than the other. When they're both adjudicated legal newspapers and have the capability and they have and responded with prices. I the council can discuss that. On their member matters. I would submit to the Council that the local ownership and local operation of Tell Me the Sun qualifies it as being the best. And I think I would add to that that there's speculation locally based on the audited numbers is actually higher. So two points. So I make two. We make a motion to accept their bid over at the Journal. Yes. We'll do it with the findings that you part of your motion should be those findings that you just stated, which is why it is the best since it's not the lowest. So I move that in evaluation of the bids, it was determined that they are in the sun by virtue of its higher circulation and its local ownership qualifies as the best and should be awarded the contract for legal notices for the City of Armenia. Second Vice Mayor. Thought I heard. Yeah. I mean, I think rather than just say that it's got a higher circulation, I would like to clarify for the record how much higher I mean, the prices are. Daniel. A different voice. I would like to at least clarify that for the record. So and I appreciate that there's a motion a second. One thing that I had heard discussed was possibly looking at six months and six months of each, if that was a possibility, and I don't know if council would entertain such a thing. Nebraska, I have a question which was in this staff report on the. So it talks about the cost. The city spends approximately $18,000 annually for legal notices, of which approximately 4000 is from the general fund. Awarding the contract to the Alameda Sun would cause the costs to triple. So remind me. Is that the general fund portion triples from 4 to 12000, but then each department's budget has to cover the rest. Yes. So the total costs instead of 18,000 would be closer to 60,000. And it would be spread between departments who use it and also the general fund portion, which is. Now a quarter of that. And. I'm vice. Mayor. What departments typically use this primarily planning? So I'd like to make a friendly ask if you would consider a friendly amendment to the motion to actually consider to have six months and six months of each of them actually thinks all people get one or the other. Not necessarily both in my neighborhood. I don't know who was mentioned. That was sorry. I think it was never Odie. Sorry. Sorry. Um. Member matter. I see. I can't I can't split my determination of what's best and worth essentially $40,000 in local investment. So I don't think I'll accept that amendment. Forget about you proposing me. Well, I was suggesting some people had actually suggested to me that we consider looking at six months and six months. But the reason was that some people get one and some people get the other that many neighborhoods don't get both newspapers. From my understanding, I know. In my neighborhood. That's true. And. I don't see the logic of that. I mean, maybe I missed the thing, but. I have one other question. People are saying that the sun has higher circulation than the journal. I don't see those numbers either in the staff report and I've asked for clarification on that or in the in the letters that I've received. You want the exact numbers? Yes. Where? Where is that? We're being told it's substantially more so. Okay. Let me let me just pull it for you. I thought. Okay. I've got it. Not in this email, though. It's not me. I need. The number included in the Suns bid and. Is the total is 23,500 is 175 and free is 22,000 930. And then this urinal can observe. Can you learn which. Yeah, sure. Okay. Got it. So this is for the sun first and their total that they say is 23,500. And of those, 22,930 are free. Circulation, free circulation and paid circulation is 175. And numbers for the Journal, huh? There are no. Hard to see. Sorry. Two more. Lines. Okay. They're small. 4471. What was the number? 3471? Although I believe their letter says something different than what they've 18,000, 18,000 tonight. So I think I'm looking at the wrong thing all the. Okay. Wait, I was thinking. I've got to go further. I have like a whole. Thing of all of their. Yeah, that one. I'm sure that letter has arrived, but the 18,000 number? Yeah. I can't. Imagine. I have 18. Seven. The note, the letter. We had an. Open. To the day dais from the Bay Area News Group from. Submitted today. 1801 to is now 15,012. Okay. So that being said, so we have a motion and a second. All those in favor. I. I. I. All those. The motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. That was five E. That completes the concert calendar. Is that right? Yes. All right. And now we go on to our regular agenda. 6 a.m. adoption of resolutions reappointing McCormack as a member of the Public Utilities Board. Christopher Griffiths is a member of the new advisory committee. Sarah Murray is a member of the Rent Review Advisory Committee and Claudia martinez, a member of the Social Service Human Relations Board.

Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on “Care Closet LBC” by community leader Duke Givens.

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I. District eight. All right. District nine. I know she cares. Thank you. Number 17, please. Communication from Vice Mayor Richardson, Councilwoman Allen, Councilwoman Sato. Councilman Austin. Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on Care Closet LBC. Thank you. This this this is a presentation. And like we said, in this virtual moment, it's hard to do recognitions, but when someone steps up and does something important, I think it needs to be deserved to be recognized. This pandemic has been difficult for our entire community. We've seen impacts on our city. We have to do more with less. And we've seen the impacts from Caltrans and trash piling up in different areas. We've seen this pandemic exacerbate our homeless crisis. We've seen a lot of, you know, individuals with a lot of. With with a lot of pain. And so Duke Gibbons is a community leader who saw me sprung into action. And and and from that simple standpoint, you know, he's really inspired a lot of people to step up, clean up their own communities and to help be more compassionate with individuals experiencing homelessness. And so I'm going to introduce a video and then I'm going to have the brief, brief comments from Duke at Duke Gibbons. But really, the point here is this is a grassroots effort. The grassroots effort. And we're we're acknowledging the spirit of this effort to step up and create a wave. And we see it. We want to embrace it, help formalize this structure in our experience. Let's go ahead. We shouldn't have. Hello, everybody. To those of you who do not know me, my name is Duke Gibbons, and I'd like to say thank you for allowing me to present this small little video to you. Over the past few months. I have gotten with some of our homeless brothers and sisters in our riverbeds and other communities, and we started doing a major cleanup. COVID 19 really hit us hard. And in this season right now, we're working diligently to clean up our river beds and other locations in our city. I would like to share with you this small video. Thank you. Enjoy. Somebody burned his whole camper actually up at. Hear about another friend of mine named Ziggy. Somebody burned his as well. Hey, Long Beach. The question is posed. Ask not what Lambie's can do for you, but what you can do for Long Beach. Over the past few months, myself and a few other amazing people that live in our community that are homeless have been getting together and working with the issue of trash in our riverbed and on our entrances and exits of freeway. With that said, I'd just like to thank our city council, our mayor, our city manager, all those who are diligently putting up the effort to fight homelessness first and foremost, and secondly, working on comprehensive housing solutions. With that said, your brother has been out there right now, boots on the ground working to clean up our streets in a major way. To date, we've collected over £4,000 of trash out of our riverbeds and other locations. That's what we can do for Long Beach to help her bring her back to the beauty that this town deserves and what she represents. All right. Thank you. And at this point, I want to be recognized to do our bit of time to honor you and get your comments. You got. I'm sorry. I'll try again to. You don't. That's out on my left hand side. It seems like the audio is working, but we got four comments in the video and we just wanted to receive this presentation. Again, this is really a gesture to acknowledge the effort. I know it's a volunteer grassroots effort. I know that, you know, there is more that we can do to formalize this structure. I think it sends a good message to the city to step up and be a part of the solution. You know, help do what you can to keep our community together and help support those who are hurting. And that's really why we want to lift up and recognize you. So at this point, I'm going to have comments from the city council and I'm going to make the motion and I'm the first person shooter is council member uranium. Thank you, Vice Chair Richardson and I had the opportunity to visit with Duke over the weekend, and we went to a couple of the camps, to the homeless encampments that were along the L.A. River and the freeway. And I got to tell you, it is a experience. One of the most impressive parts of that little tour that I took with him is that we had these preconceived ideas as to who are the people where a lot of these river beds we think about people with. Or have mental issues or other addictions. And I'll tell you, the people that I met were so kind. We're so friendly or so accommodating. We are able to greet and talk to you and tell you about what's going on with them and their lives under the bridges or along the river here and the freeways. But as Duke is doing God's work, he has communicated with these individuals. He has built trust among them, and they see him become the boss of it because he is not only offering opportunities for them to clean up their vacations and their places, but he's offering them some some compensation for it as well. They're looking forward. They look forward to work. They look forward to helping clean up the river, clean up the freeway. And it was one of those enlightening experiences that just gives me a different perspective as to what he's doing. And I want to thank you for allowing me that opportunity to enjoy him. And if there's any way that the city can provide him with support and help, I. He asks for it. Trash cans. Yes, for the porta potties to clean up. And I wish we could. And perhaps one day we came out of that where it would be part of our infrastructure to provide assistance, to continue the ritual. So perhaps we can also look at our mercy and how we can improve services there as well. That did come up in our conversation. So do hats off and congratulations and excellent job doing and you know that are there you will be before and I'll be worried having to put my jeans on backwards and that's why I feel good work. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Duke Now that the audio is here, do you want to give your comments now? Yes. I'd just like to thank you all for giving me this small time. I'm a long beach rather than born and bred. Went to poly. Went to the Air Force. Went to lobby City College, worked for Long Beach, tried for over 20 years, and I've had a chance to work with some of you all as well. And that tagline, asked about what lobbies can do for us that we can do for Long Beach, is truly something that is true in my heart. And being able to get some experience and some form of structure from you all to help me with this endeavor, I think would be a great move forward to assist our brothers and sisters in these communities. Thank you. All right. We have a few more council members. Next in line is council member thoro. Thank you, vice mayor, for bringing this item forward to acknowledge and showcase the work that care closet LBC does. And thank you to you for your just hard work and commitment and passion to serving and finding solution and empowering our our most overlooked members of the community. You know, my office recently made a contribution to the organization and hopes that it continues to further the work that that is being done to lift up and empower our houseless community members and to help make this what you use as a tagline that that I love to is little by little, because I think you are a person who sees no effort is too small and that all of these little efforts together does make a huge difference. And I look forward and continue to find ways to work with you and and, you know, and however we can make sure we're doing little by little to do a lot together. Thank you. And thank you so much as well. Thank you. Next in queue is council members and they are. Thank you, Vice Mayor Duke, I just wanted to give you a huge thank you for all that you're doing for our community. I think that this is so humbling of you and also, you know, thinking about our neighbors who are houseless right now and giving them the opportunity to feel empowered and giving them the opportunity to to just, you know, social while at the same time doing a good deed is something that is very respectable. I think that the work that you are doing is incredible. Keep up the good work and I look forward to being able to support you and your organization in any way that I can. I know that I am continuously committed to making sure that we find permanent homes for our houseless neighbors. You know, that is one of my greatest goals. And and even though things are not done overnight, I wish they could be. I think that what you're doing is something that is very commendable. And again, I look forward to working with you and continuing your your efforts. So thank you again. You're welcome. And that's our new mission will be for all of us, little by little. Thank you so much. Little by little, I love. Thank you. Next, we have council member Austin. Thank you. And this presentation actually hit really close to home. Duke is a personal friend. He is a awesome photo artist. Is that tell you every time you meet him that you graduated from poly? So he loves this city and he can add to his list of accomplishments. Now, as a humanitarian, somebody who's actually doing the work, rolling up his sleeves and making a difference every day in our community. Duke accompanied me several months ago as we were doing some homeless outreach along the railroad tracks on Union Pacific Railroad. And I have, you know, just over the last couple of months, witnessed firsthand the clean ups and the just amazing efforts happening in our grassroots happening efforts happening in our city. You know, Duke has really, really inspired trust from a community that doesn't let too many people in. He has extended dignity and hope to a group of folks who have been forgotten in many respects. And I just want to mention that the care closet was has not been in existence very long. This is a very, very young nonprofit, but one that is effective. And and if you just weigh the volume of the work, he's doing the work in the short period of time, in two or three months, that many organizations and many resources haven't been able to match in years. And so, you know, the amazing community efforts that have had an opportunity to witness at the expo where the sleeping bag drive and and supplies that are coming in, it's just breathtaking when you see the amount of community support behind this effort. Duke, you you you met your colleague. And I think on behalf of the residents of the district, I know we all are talking about meeting your accolades right now, but I want to extend my appreciation and encourage you to continue on your mission. I know that you know from. Programs like this are not sustainable unless other people get involved, unless we are able to put structural resources behind them to to to continue. This is a model that is that is a new model. That is a necessary model. But one thing that I can say about it, it is clearly an effective model because it's visible, it's clear our freeway, our ramps are are cleaner, our underpriced passes are cleaner. And the people engaged in this are individuals who have been on the streets and understand the and understand the the culture of of of of homelessness. And so to work is something that I certainly support. I would ask that my colleagues support and I look forward to working with you on do for many months and years to come. All right. Next, we have council member Alan. Thank you. Will Vice Mayor Richardson, for putting this item forward. And one thing I have to say is do given it's just an inspirational leader in our community and he has been doing amazing work for a long time. And I and Duke, I still have the lobby's pollie hat that you gave me years ago. And it's hanging in my council office right now. And I know, just like me, I think we loved graduating from from Polly. But but you know, Duke, you just been are a role model. You've been an incredible advocate for the homeless community. Just thank you for all you have done in Long Beach and for all the opportunities that you have created for people that really need it. And like Councilwoman Sara said, helping people that are so often overlooked. Just great work, my friend. Just much appreciation for all that you do. Fantastic. The you heard it. No doubt, my love here on this council, we certainly all recognize vice mayor. Yes. This is Councilwoman Price. I queued up. About 40 minutes. Ago. Okay. It wasn't set to go forward. Councilmember. Thank you. So I want to thank you for coming and presenting to council this evening as well. I did have the opportunity to go out and visit him as well, like my colleagues did, and I know that he and so many others, I know there are residents in my own neighborhood. My neighbor is very, very involved in these efforts as well. And I think, you know, the more the merrier in terms of responsible and structured programs to help us get to where we want to be as a city where we're providing opportunities and cleaning up these, well, visible corridors. I know that my office worked with Duke to get him registered as a city vendor, and I know that there's other some other formalities that Duke would have to go through. And I think any nonprofit that's doing work like this should definitely reach out to the city so that we can figure out how to combine the efforts of our nonprofits with some of the goals that we've set in the city. I know one of the programs that we have and I could talk to Duke about this that I feel very passionately about and I presented to council was our homeless work program that got started and then got a little bit of a pause because of COVID, but that's starting up real soon. So I think my question would be to city management. Would it be possible to connect Duke with our once work program so that they can provide who can help provide some jobs to people who might be interested in those opportunities as he goes through accomplishing the goals of the nonprofit ? Yes, absolutely. That RFP is getting finished pretty soon, should be out and we would love do to apply for that. And we've actually done some outreach to realize and there is a newer nonprofit just to help give him a little bit of assistance too on the kinds of things that we would need to have somebody award a city contract to so he can get prepared for that. So, yes, I think it'd be a great opportunity for him to apply. That's great. Thank you. And so, Duke, I know you and I have talked and I know you're going to pursue that. And I just want to thank Lisa West from my team, because she really worked hard to make sure that all the paperwork and everything was processed to become a city vendor. But I think the type of work that you're doing is amazing. And I applaud you and so many others in the city that are doing this kind of work. And we are here. I think I can speak for all of us to say we're here to utilize whatever resources we have in the city to help people structure nonprofit so that we can utilize public resources to effectuate some of the goals that we share in common. And I'm grateful for the work that you're doing, and I thank you for inviting me out to see your work and sharing a little bit about it with me. Thank you. Right. Thank you. I see no further comments from the council. I just wanted to close by saying, you know, there's you know, every once in a while you need to lift up those who inspire others of what you've done to hopefully serves as an inspiration. Everyone can make a difference. You clearly from the comments here, you've heard that you've inspired the council, you've received a lot of comments here. But this is you know, this is recognition of what one person can do to help create a ripple effect, to multiply the impact that we have on the community. So we all just thank you for your friendship and for your service to our community. Let's go ahead to public comment now. There is no public comment for this item. Fantastic. All right. Let's go to a roll call vote. District one by district two. I. District three. District II. District four. All right. District five. I. District six. I. District seven. By District eight. Right. District nine. I know. Curious.

Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the 2019-2022 Memorandum of Understanding with the Long Beach Police Officers Association; and

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So I want to make sure that we hear them. And so we're going to do item 21/1 and then we will go back to the regular agenda, including hearing item number one and the other items. I am 21 Report from Human Resources Recommendation to adopt resolution approving the 2019 to 2022 Memorandum of Understanding with the Long Beach Police Officers Association. And adopt a resolution of intent to approve an amendment to the contract between CalPERS. And the city citywide. Thank you. We're going to hear a staff report first. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council. We are happy to be here tonight to recommend an agreement with our Police Officers Association for a three year agreement. We'd like to walk through a number of the provisions of that document. And for that, I will turn to Alex Vasquez, our human resources director. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the City Council. You have before you a memorandum of understanding and applicable resolutions between the city and the Police Officers Association. The city and PIO had over 13 session negotiation sessions since May of 2019, resulting in the M.O. you before you the way agreed to a three year term contract term that provides structural wage increases that are in part offset by having employees pay a portion of the city's pension costs. The general wage increases include a 4% effective October 1st, 2019, 3% effective October 1st, 2021, and 2.5% effective April 1st, 2022. There are no structural increases in year two. Instead, the agreement includes a one time payment for all employees, with some exceptions of $2,000, effective October 1st, 2020. As I indicated earlier, the agreement also includes a provision for classic safety employees, which represent approximately 70% of the PEO membership to pay an additional 3% towards the city's employer contribution to CalPERS, bringing their total contribution from 9 to 12%. This pension pickup implementation will require a contract amendment with CalPERS. To all the contribute so that all the contributions will be credited to the employees account and the city will still realize the savings from this pension pickup. In order to start this contract amendment, the Council must adopt a resolution of intent to approve a contract amendment between CalPERS and the city. The amendment process. For the. Cost sharing arrangement also requires a vote of the power members and a council vote on an ordinance authorizing this contract amendment. Staff will bring the ordinance to the Council for consideration after the appeal membership vote and after we work with CalPERS to put together this contract amendment. In addition, this Simiyu agreement also includes several changes to skill space, one of them being the advanced boss pay certificate. By increasing it from 7.5% to 10% of the top step of police officer salary at step five, it also provides two new additional skill pays for officers assigned to SWAT and officers assigned to the Dove team. And there's also a change to the detective administrative and administrative pay, skilled pay. We negotiated agreement that provides for a review of this skill pay and also identified approximately 30 positions that will no longer receive this skill pay. Effective October 1st, 2019. Some of the other major provisions of the CMU include changes to the over time bank maximum, which is going to be increased to 120 hours by 2021. The EMU also contains some new provisions that provide parental leave to all employees if they meet certain criteria. And it gives them approximately 30 days or 160 hours of paid parental leave for the adoption birth of a child or foster placement of a child in their home. The MCU also provides an additional city holiday to be determined by the city council and also makes adjustments to vacation in lieu holiday that will assist us with when we implement our new LBE Coast system. There are no increases to these benefits, but just a modification as to how we track them in the new payroll system. In addition, there are a couple of enhancements for the department operations, which includes modification of the probationary training for police recruits that will allow the department to deploy officers. And as long as they're partnered with another officer at month ten, as opposed to month 12, which is current, and they're currently going through 12 months of training. And then we're also implementing a detective rotation program, which will allow police officers to gain experience in the detective assignments. This will also assist with. And giving officers an opportunity to experience a different side of police work. There are also other provisions that are included in the Emmylou, that are non-monetary, that are just codifying current department practices, such as including a provision that explains bereavement leave, military leave, a process for processing documented counseling. Again, these are current processes that are in place, but the Emmylou just codifies it and has a place where employees can see information regarding these provisions in one place in their Emmylou. In addition, there is a new provision regarding SB 1429 1421, and I'm going to turn over to Tom to explain that provision. Thank you, Marin. Counsel and thank you, Alex. I would like to spend a little time talking about the SB 21 provision as that's been a topic in the media. And I know we have some speakers here tonight. So as we all know, SB 1421 is a new landmark law that the state passed, providing kind of unprecedented access to certain files that really had not been disclosed before, not only to the public, but also to officers themselves. And so we are in the process of releasing those documents. In fact, we made a big release earlier this week. And I want to talk a little bit about this provision to clear up to clarify some things. So first, back in April, this is when this issue started where the Police Officers Association requested that as this information go out because it is public record, that they also had the ability to have access to those records. We worked through our city attorney and came up with a process that we believe fully complies with SB 1421, but also provides that balance to give officers the ability to have access to those documents, especially because some of those are going to be coming out and giving them some time for their families to prepare for some major information that has not been released before out in the newspapers. So through that, we started that process back in April, the way as we came closer to negotiations, asked to codify that administrative process in the memo you which is appropriate because that's where all of the documents reside that deal with employee management relations. And so one of the key tenants is that praise are already public record. So praise are whether you are getting that data as a public record or you're requesting that data as a public record, that is all something that everyone has access to. And so the process we created was to notify the officer at the same time that the requester has been notified that documents exist, that that officer would have, at the end of the process, five days to review the documents. But I want to clear up some confusion. They cannot change those documents. They cannot delay those documents. They cannot ask for documents to be withheld. And if they do, that will not be honored. The only way that we would do any of those things is if a court is ordering us to do that and they go through a due process system to order the city to do that. If the employee cannot, you know, review within those five days, the city would release the documents anyway. So we do believe that this provides a balance between full compliance with SB 1421, but also recognizing that there are both officer safety and officer wellness issues and for them to be able to notify and prepare their families for the release of that information. Long Beach is not the only agency to do this. There are six other agencies that we know of. L.A. Sheriff, San San Francisco Police Department, Sacramento Sheriff, San Bernardino Sheriff, Riverside Sheriff and Riverside PD. One of the topics that we have heard is that there are, you know, potentially if there's any misuse of this information, that that could have a chilling effect. I want you to know that this will not be tolerated, that any misuse of that information, that is misconduct and that is most likely a criminal act as well. And that will not be tolerated by the police department or by the city. We also have the ability for request of public records to be anonymous. We have a system that allows that and people do avail themselves of that today. So if anyone wants to submit anonymously, they may. And one other thing that we're doing is we're proactively putting all this information on a website so you don't have to ask for it in the first place so that someone doesn't have to go through a process of asking for it as those documents are available. It's on a website, in fact, that website launched earlier this week. So with that, we stand ready to answer questions. The city attorney, myself and our police chief or assistant chief is here. And with that, we will turn it back to the mayor and council. Thank you. I do have a motion in the second maker of the motion. We're going to go ahead and ask the public comment and then we'll come back to the Council of the Council for motions and questions. And so I'm going to ask folks to come up as I call you up, please come forward. In this order we have. Foster, Stefan, Boris and swallow. Very good, Hugh added. Tushnet and Bridget Cervelli are the first five speakers. Please come forward. Go ahead. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. City Council. Mr.. Your city manager. Wherever he left for tonight, I want to say thank you to everyone that's involved in this contract, to the city management staff, specifically to Alex Vasquez and her staff and all. If she's here, she worked many long hours and getting this done along with city finance. Just to put it in historical perspective of this financially. Look back when the Great Recession hit in 0809, it was the play that was the first one to the city to do pension reform. Then when the economy continued to be very tough, it was the power was the first back to the city that did a contract modification to save the city's finances. And again, here we are first in the city to do additional additional pension pickup for the city. So we appreciate that. We're leading the way. We hope others will continue to follow. We think it's the right thing to do. This contract also sets the precedence for our peers in the fact that it is the right thing to do to continue to pick up and make sure that we're doing our part as far as the city's finances and pension. I do want to say it's a bit disturbing and really unnerving that the complete conversation about what's really a smart and fiscally prudent contract has been hijacked over the last week by some really irresponsible press. Denzel Washington gave a great quote I couldn't find one better and said, If you don't read the news, you will be uninformed. If you do read the news, you will be misinformed. And that's exactly what's happened here. An irresponsible journalist put out a half truth piece of information, has misled the public into believing some falsehoods. And I really owe an apology to the people here who are to speak, because you've done a disservice. Thank you, Mr. Potter. Thank you, sir. Next speaker is different. Burson Twitter. Send Sulu. Thank you. That's a step toward some social democratic socialism in America. Long Beach. I'll be brief, as apparently the mayor is so insecure in his own policies that he can't stand more than 90 seconds of criticism at a time. I'm here today to speak on the menu from the IPO to the massive pay rise for police officers, which was deliberate and secret, is offensive in its own right, especially in light of the past patois induced austerity for other city departments. The fire department in particular should be asking why they are not receiving any of this benefit when there are only four fire inspectors on the city payroll right now. But the ammo use curious decision to undermine public safety protections, including SB 1421, are even more offensive. For a city department plagued by scandals involving excessive force and a complete disregard for mutual discovery rules. This more use inexplicable term, allowing officers both a five day head start and the identity of any requesting party after a Public Records Act request lacks any conceivable public interest. As a defense attorney and a resident in the city memo, that was as to why this policy is being proposed tonight. As a socialist state, it's fascist. This prospect of removing even the pretense of accountability over an agency entrusted with the monopoly of force in the city is downright chilling. In closing, I please ask that the council review the article written by Steven by retired Deputy Chief Steven Downing, proposing eight different questions as to why this policy is being enacted and what protections are going to be available for the requesting parties for public records of records. Record requests. Act. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Very good. Here. She's not here. Okay, we're moving on. Meditation, please. The M.O.. You with the Police Officers Association contains at least one clause that I'm really thrilled to see, which is the. Extended parental leave. I think that's very important. Should be a model for the entire. City, actually, for the entire nation. On the other hand, releasing names of those requesting public records will have an effect on our suppressing. Public involvement in accountability. It doesn't have to be active suppression. It will have a. Chilling effect that people will know that. Their names. Have been released. No one for a positive city environment. We need accountability and openness. No one should fear. Even if you say it's. Not going to happen, any reprisal when they act. To ensure true public safety. Please do not ratify the memo until. The offensive clause is release is removed. Thank you very much. Is Brigitte Cervelli here? No. Okay. So let me go to the next set of speakers. I think it is Dawn, Aliya, Jordan, Darlene, carelessly, and Kim to very close folks, please come forward. In that order. Dawn first, then Alia, then Jordan over the first three. Good morning. So we're going to Don in Canterbury. You're going to switch places. Good evening, members of the Long Beach City Council. My name is Kim Tilbury. I'm a resident of Long Beach and a member of Black Lives Matter and other organizations in Long Beach. I'm reading from an open letter to the Long Beach City Council members that was sent via email today. And I also have hard copies for those of you that may not have gotten to your email. So the letter is in response to this, definitely the agenda item 21, the LIPA Association request for acceptance of a proposed MRU. The provision is a blatant undermining of Senate Bill 1421, a landmark policy police transparency law that went into effect January 2019. Senate Bill 1421 mandates disclosure of police reports and discipline records. Whenever an officer was dishonest sexual abuse to a public, to a member of the public and where there are serious uses of force, such as police shooting. Specifically the section that we're asking to be removed, section nine public records request where the officer is notified of the date the person requests the information, the person's name, the organization that they're with, and any nature of information about that person, I think it's completely dangerous. So approving this memorandum would show that the city of Long Beach are in the business of valuing police privilege over legal transparency, protecting police, violent police officers, and overlooking the safety of our community. This is a dangerous mistake and unacceptable to the residents of the city. In one unified voice, we demand that you remove Section nine of this memo you before voting. Thank you so much, Mr. Barak. Oh, and lastly, there. Are 20 organizations that signed this letter. Thank you, Mr. Barak. I think, Don. Yes. We do time from 3 minutes to 2 minutes. Good afternoon. And I think this is a it's an opportune time for council to stand with its constituents. Just on the right side of history with this people voices with political pressure from the air. And we're all only made aware of this last week. I think it's pretty clear that like these are efforts for police departments across the state to attempt to circumvent Senate Bill 1421. No department wants to disclose records of misconduct by their officers who have raped citizens, who have physically assaulted citizens who have murdered citizens. People who have been impacted by state violence have been seeking for years to get information on their assailants who have committed hard harm against them and have not been able to. And finally now we have 1421 and police officer associations are seeking to protect these violent officers, which is troublesome. My concern mainly I'm going to cut a lot of this out is for the family members who I've been working with for the past five years who are directly impacted by police violence and murder are the families for Dante Jordan and Tyler Woods know a premium. Noelle Aguilar, Hector Motorhome. Jason Coleman, 34. Mariah. Lionel Gibson. Barry Prag. Davon Thomas. If they're family members who now finally have information about how these officers were disciplined, have they murdered before? Are these officers still on the force? And where are they? And and you continue to try to block it. And now they want to use city council to try to do that. If they have a problem with state legislation, they have to take that up with the state. It is not you guys is responsibility to help them circumvent this law. Thank you. Thank you very much, Don Elliott. Hi. My name is Aliya Sheik. I work in the labor movement in partnership with several unions. I use public records regularly in my work to hold employers accountable to their job commitments. So I especially understand how important it is for the public to have access to public records without barriers and without fear. This provision in the police union contract disincentivizes constituents from requesting public records. It's one thing when staff at a good. Governance group. With organizational support requests something and another one an individual does. We know that that the most vulnerable residents historically don't have a trusting. Relationship with law enforcement. And it's not comforting to anyone knowing that an officer can easily overstep boundaries with. Information about us. I shouldn't have to remain anonymous. I don't. Understand why BPD would seemingly be rewarded with such access when they've already shown contempt for the public's ability to hold them accountable by using Tiger. Text. I think that's enough of a misconduct. It's horrifying for democracy. If that is something that you care about. While the city as an employer should engage in good faith with organized labor. Please see the. Difference between police who have so much physical power and authority over residents how they're different from from other. Types of workers. In my opinion, I don't see this as part of a respectable labor initiative. Please negotiate to remove this provision from the police union contract. Thank you. Thank you very much. Jordan, darling. Then carelessly. And then I'm going to ask the next set of speakers, Audrina Redman, so I can see and Shante Campbell and and Cantrell, if they can start making their way up to the podium. Yes. Hello, City Council. And Mr. Mayor, my name is Jordan. I'm here today to ask you to take out section nine of the EMU contract. Obviously, SB 1421 was passed as a transparency bill. We all talked about that. You all know this because you authorized to destroy records right before that law went into effect, thousands of them that we can no longer do public. Records. Request for. And there's been approval in the new budget, as you know, to charge anybody who files these requests, the costs of police time to redact things, things like that, as well as giving more money to the police department for records. These two things are pretty. Clear that you're that these are designed to go around that law and discourage people from actually doing these information requests. Obviously, the message is clear. We're all getting it. I think one of most disturbing things about this, though, is the five day notice. Pat West recently released a memo where he said that and it's. Been mentioned before that. The information will not be stopped unless there's a lawsuit. So you're basically just kind of opening yourself up for the Police Officers Association to just sue the city repeatedly every time there's a records request, at least for anything significant. So that opens up the city to a lot of legal danger. And I have to ask, like, how many millions of dollars are going to get paid out in wrongful shooting lawsuits before now? We're going to have to play suing us as well. Like, where's this money going to come from? It's ridiculous. So I'd ask you to strike Section nine. Thank you. Thank you. Carelessly. Carelessly. And this is one of those topics that's worthy of more than 90 seconds. First I want to look at the fact that it says here in the newspaper that a pay and benefits increase of roughly 30,000 per year. Is is what's been negotiated here. And that seems like it's excessive. I didn't do the numbers myself and I can't validate that. But if someone was presenting that to me, I would be looking in depth at those numbers. Secondly, that Section nine, I think, bothers everyone. The proposed MRU. The proposed amendment already operational. I really want to question that already operational. That's not in the law. The law didn't intend that. Somebody here made that up at the company I worked at. The ethics coordinator instructed us to always tell the truth and further to avoid the appearance of impropriety. This is the appearance of impropriety when you go off and change the way that this law was intended to work. No one said that the person who's being looked into deserves an additional five days to look at it. That came out of the poea and I can understand the peo asking for that. Any department head would want that. What it does is it gives you the opportunity for spin control and it gives you the opportunity to frame your defense. So I'm next. Thank you. Thank you. Next is andrea redmond for mispronouncing audrina. You are is audrina. Audrina, audrina redmond. I am here to close the letter that Kim Tiberi started reading and to list for you the two organizations that have signed on to this letter, all of whom are very esteemed organizations working diligently for families and against police violence. And Section nine allows for the continuing sanctioning of police violence because it allows them yet another way to hide from public accountability. So some of these supporting organizations include Black Lives Matter, Long Beach, Black Lives Matter, Global Network, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Immigrants Rights Coalition. Los Angeles County Public Defenders Ask Me Local 148. CSU Oby Black Student Union Greater Long Beach Interfaith Communities Long Beach Community Action Partnership. Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Community Council on American-Islamic Relations. Housing, Long Beach, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy Come My Girls in Action Sanctuary Coalition. Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. American Civil Liberties Union Long Beach Forward Black Alliance for Just Immigration Long Beach Area Police and Peace Network. National Lawyers Guild, CSU OLB La Raza. Students for Quality Education, Long Beach. Sacred Resistance. Democratic Socialists of America Long Beach Chapter and Affirm. They can't all be wrong with the information they have and you be right. Thank you so much. Our next set of speakers tonight can be shot at Campbell and Cantrell. I think it's on the side that Mubarak and Camilla Holmes, if those next, please come forward, please. So I can say sixth district resident. I like many. I don't know about a misinformed press. I feel like the press is one of the few safeguards of the rights of citizens. So I just find it odd when state, you know, structures are telling people not to read the paper. But that being. Said, I did read the paper. I'm a fond subscriber of The Beachcomber, as well as the Long Beach Post, and we have both been press publications that are covering this local scandal. One of many in the last year or two regarding our law enforcement. And I just want to I'm sure we've all read this. We all know about why people don't like this. So I just I'm just curious. Now they have an opportunity to stand in front of the city council. Maybe Mr. Downing, in his in his article, said that he didn't get any response from anyone from the council. So I'll just ask some of the questions. What the 30 seconds I have left. Number one, he says that the employee has all of the rights under SB 1421, as does a citizen if the employee wants to exercise that right. Why does he or she need to know if a citizen has exercise that right? This being the you know, the the citizen that's asking about the public records. And number two, to what purpose does the people in the city believe information. About the requester it will benefit the. Employee. These are the questions we would like the city council to answer. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. And Cantrell and I agree with all the questions that have been asked, especially. The last speaker's comments about not reading the newspaper. How else are we going to find out about this? It seems that Mr. West had already started this. Allowing the. People to get this information from the clerk back in April. And now, just now we're finding out about it. I'm also wondering about the connection between the amount of money that each one of you, except for Janine Pearce, has received from the peel away in between 2017 and today. Mayor Garcia. Maybe this is wrong. The Beachcomber says that you have received $117,800. That's wrong. Richardson 8400. Austin 6950. Susie Price A measly 2650 EUR. Angus 7858. Stacy Mungo 8200. Thank you for you catch up. And Girls Supernova and the Andrews only 750, etc.. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Let me go ahead and is I'm sorry if I want to say, is Shante Campbell here? No. Okay. Nusseibeh Mubarak is next. And then after the sidebar is Camilla Holmes. And then Maureen McHale. Please. Hi. My name is New Sabir. I'm a community organizer in Los Angeles. On behalf of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Care, California. I wanted to say that it is the right of the people to access police records instantly and anonymously. And Long Beach should lead by example. We need to know the record of police officers who we entrust with armed weapons to protect us. Long Beach Police Officers Association should not have the opportunity to hide officer officers information as it has before in the murder of Douglas Douglas Zarb, an innocent, unarmed man, a black man standing on his back porch. Police officers do not need extra time to cover their tracks. We, the people do not need to provide our information when we request police records. Police officers already have access to their records. So this resolution does not ensure officer rights. It takes our rights. So this is not a balanced resolution. As I heard a speaker say, five days. I should be able to receive a police record instantly as soon as I request it. If citizen's information is public and available, police officers should be held to an even higher standard. Thank you. Thank you so much next week and please. Good evening. My name's Camille Holmes. So I know you guys already know this, but I just want to emphasize that I think it's really important. SB 1421 mandates that personnel records be made available to the public, where an officer shoots at somebody, an officer uses force that results in death or. Bodily injury, an officer sexually assaults a member of the public. An officer has been dishonest, whether it be true for an investigation, prosecution or other police misconduct. In short, SB 1421 applies where it is found that an officer has done harm to the community. As proposed Section nine of the Ipoa M.O. you does a disservice to the community. It prioritizes police convenience, comfort over the community, needs the same community that the police have already done harm to and perpetrated trauma on. And for what? To protect police officers reputation. So they won't be blindsided. I trust that an officer with a record of misconduct knows what they did and should be prepared to address that at any moment. Section nine unabashedly intends to thwart the intent of SB 1421. That is shameful. I proposed this to the Council. Please do not need any more protection. Their union, the legislature and the city already protects the police officers at the expense of the community. We are your constituents. We are the community that elected you. We should be your priority. Thank you very. Much. I urge you not to accept this MRU as it is. Thank you very much. And our next set of speakers are two competing importers of Marine Mickael, Sheila and Andrew. Hello. I'm Maureen McHale, a long time resident of Long Beach, and I'm in the fifth District. So I'm asking that the. Section nine. Of the memo of understanding that was added b be removed. It was made operational in April and it was never brought to light that this was part of the M.O.. You we know that a number of the council members and my council member, Stacey Mungo, received money from the Police Officer Organization Association. That was significant since 2017 to support your officials, U.S. officials. Janine Pearce is the only council member not receiving any money from the poppy. So there is a quote that says the department will provide this opportunity. Well, with this Section nine, the department will provide the involved officer five days to review the documents. It will also provide the officer sufficient time to file a legal action in court to prevent disclosure. So I am asking that Section nine be removed from the memo of understanding. Thank you. And Sheila here and then Andrew. I'm here on behalf of Black Lives Matter, but. I'm going to be reading a letter from Clu, which is the Clergy and Laity United for Economic. Justice. This letter is in response to the Long Beach City Council's upcoming vote. Regarding 20 item number 21, regarding the Police Officers Association and the memo, you specifically Section I X Long Beach Post September 10th article on this proposal stated that the Long Beach City Council is set to review and approve the menu and provision whereby Long Beach police officers would be informed if someone asked to see officers public records of misconduct or times they use potentially deadly force. This is a blatant undermining of Senate Bill 1421, the landmark police transparency bill that went into effect in July and January of 2019. Senate Bill 1421 mandates disclosure of police reports and discipline records. Whenever an officer was dishonest, sexually abused a member of the public, or when there was a serious use of force such as police shootings. Approving the levy EPD contract with this provision would show the Long Beach community that you value police privilege over legal transparency and the community's protection and safety. That would be a dangerous mistake and unacceptable to the residents of long of the city. This is an open and joint letter by Long Beach residents and organizations, including Black Lives Matter, Long Beach, showing up for Racial Justice and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice as people of faith and advocates for workers, their families and immigrant communities. Clue strongly urge you to remove Section I of this menu. Before the vote. Thank you. Hello, Mayor and City Council. My name is Andrew Montano with the Democratic Socialists of America, Long Beach. I'm here to speak against Section nine of the Power's menu. Growing up, I would hear stories of police intimidation and violence from police officers attending parties, violating young women and threatening my cousin if she said anything to unjustly handcuffing my brother and his friend and purposely dropping them off in rival gang territories. But it wasn't until I started working as a legislative aide to then Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez that I saw and heard of the corruption from within. A trusted community resident approached me during the community event to explain to me that her son was unjustly detained and told he was, and I quote, a piece of shit and would never amount to anything by a police officer on patrol. Even though that kid was working and being a positive role model to his friends and family. I forward this information to South Division Commander Michael Lewis and luckily he addressed the issue and had a conversation with the police officer. However, a few days after the commander had that conversation, the police officer patrolled the same area until he found the community's community resident son and stopped him. The officer harassed the young man and asked, Why are you trying to get me in trouble? Not knowing it was actually a concerned parent who informed me. He then proceeded to ask his friends, Why are you all hanging around a snitch? He tried getting me fired. If you come from certain communities, you know, snitching is not tolerated. What would this officer hope to do was indirectly cause harm to this young man by hoping to manipulate his friends to inflict harm. That officer is still on patrol, along with the officers who unjustly killed those individuals Don mentioned. If you allow this to pass, you are making it that much easier for these same officers to intimidate, harass and cause violence to our communities more than what they already do. Thank you, Andrew. Okay. That concludes public comment. Councilman Price. Oh, I'm sorry about that. I have a question for the city attorney. Can you talk a little bit about the petition process that some of the speakers spoke about regarding petitioning the court to prohibit the release of records that the officers would have the option to do? It's not listed in Section nine, but I'm sure it's the public has referenced it. If I understand the question correctly, if the if the officer who is given the opportunity to review the files believes that the city through our process has either put it in contain records that they believe don't comply with SB 1421. The only way that the city will not release those records is if they file an action in the court and the court orders the city to withhold certain documents that are part of the 1421 disclosure. And I understand that. I'm aware of the letter. I'm asking, is it part of the Poea contract because it's being referenced and it's not in Section nine. That Section nine is reads as it is and it's not in there. Or fact, I just wasn't sure if I was looking at the correct version because this is Section nine is a 15 line section that's been included in here. And honestly, some of the comments not necessarily tonight, because I think the comments tonight were accurate, but some of the comments that I read coming into tonight make some inferences from these 15 lines that are actually unreasonable given what these 15 lines actually say. The one question that I do have is Perez, can they be filed anonymously? Yes, they can. And they often are. Okay. What I'd like to do is I'm going to make a motion that we approve this. But as part of my motion, I'd like to request that both the city manager's office and the police department create an interface on their websites, on their public facing websites that allows a PDF billable form that is a public request form that allows for an anonymous option so that that would be an option that would come down in the menu. So anybody who wants to file a PRA can easily file it anonymously. And I think making it easy for people to be able to file an anonymous PRA requests will allow individuals to not be afraid of exposing their identity when they file the pre. And so I don't know if that's possible. So if I can explain our anonymous pre process, so we have for the last several years allowed anonymous praise and we used to do it very much similar to that through a form where someone could give it to us. The problem was they still had to transmit it to us in some way. Whether they created an email address that they'd have to create an email address that was, you know, kind of a dummy email address, or they'd have to walk and give it to us. Over the past two years, we have enhanced our peer system. We have a third party and it has a complete, separate way to do it, where there is no connecting information whatsoever, there is no email address that is required. It just allows you to go in, you get a code that you can use and so that is currently in use. On the city manager side, we are under review today or realizing that is not activated yet on the PD side and we would be happy to turn that on. We can turn that on very quickly. PD currently accepts anonymous ones through the the other method where you don't have to say your name, but you can certainly turn that on as an improvement. Yeah, I mean, I'm on the city manager's website right now and it could just be me, but it's not as easy to just click on the PRA option and submit it. The PDF form shows up, but at least without clicking on too many buttons and looking at it, it looks like it's a form that you have to print. And somehow am I not mine? I'm looking at the site right now. So what can you maybe tell us? I'm looking at requests for public records on the city manager's website and then it says, fill out the public records form. So if you click on that, it's a PDF form with no electronic submission option. So there should be a when you get into the system, there should be a way to say log in and create your request or to log in anonymously. There's a there's a split. And so the log in anonymously is the way to do that. Okay. Well, let me just say again, it might just be me. It doesn't seem user friendly to me. It could totally be me. I do pride myself on being able to get around electronics a little bit, and this doesn't seem easy to me. So if we can make that interface easier so that people can go in and file anonymous ones, because what I'm hearing is that's one of the major concerns is that the requesters name and or organization is disclosed and it shouldn't have to be. Absolutely. We can certainly enhance that. I'm on the site right now and it has a a log in section and then it says submit anonymously and then gives you examples how to do that. We will make that certainly easier and upfront so that people can understand that right away. Are you looking at it on an iPad or a desktop. On an iPad? Okay. Me too. So maybe you can show me how to do it. But either way, if we could just make it very easy. That would be great. The other thing is, you know, I think that in my opinion, I do believe that the police officers should get notice of what's going to be discovered. I think that that is only fair. When anyone is accused of misconduct, they should get notice and they should have the opportunity to review that material before it is publicly disseminated. Guys, we need to make sure that. Thank you. We need to make sure that the councilman's speaking. So please, she has the floor. So I respectfully disagree. And I understand that there are others who may not agree with me. And that's the beauty of our system, is that we're not always going to agree, but trying to find an opportunity to address the major concerns if there is room to do that, I think is progress. I personally believe that our process of justice demands due process when allegations are made against anyone. I will say that while I can't speak for specific instances or specific situations, I work in a profession where every single day the 80 or so employees that I supervise make disclosures all day long with officers who have conduct involving moral turpitude or conduct involving what we call Brady. And so we make those those disclosures every day. I take that very seriously. And I have never in my 20 years as a prosecutor ever come across a single police chief who has ever, in my experience, asked us to hide something, redact something or sugarcoat something. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just speaking to my own experience. So I will say that I appreciate this contract. And I think that if we can try to make Perez more accessible for people to file anonymously, I think that will go a long way in addressing some of the concerns that have been raised. I think, you know, at this point, the most important thing for us to figure out is how do we improve this process and of the multiple cities that are implementing this process. I will say that allowing for easy, anonymous praise to be filed is more progressive than a lot of cities have that have looked at this are entities. So I'm grateful that our staff is willing to do that. Now, I do want to talk about the provisions of the plaza that I think are a huge success for the city of Long Beach. And I want to share kind of my thoughts on that. I want to thank our city team from Human Resources and of course, the leadership of the posse on working on what I believe to be a very fair contract. I want to thank the Powar for agreeing to the increased employee pick up for the pension. As everyone knows, our pension liabilities, our unfunded liabilities in the area of pensions are by far the highest unfunded liabilities that we have. So it's okay for us to say we have other unfunded liabilities, but it's dissent. Disingenuous to argue that the other unfunded liabilities are even remotely close to where our pension pension unfunded liabilities are. So the fact that we're addressing that and we're trying to be more proactive and aggressive with how we're addressing pension issues for for the future is is very important. And again, I think it's progress in terms of our financial status. I also like the probationary training police recruits aspect of it. I like that it increases our patrol staffing capabilities. I think that's something that's really going to speak to the needs of the community with the community wants more patrols and they want more police officers in the in the community. We're going to and just real quick, Councilman, I want to make sure that we've had a public comment now the council with opportunity to speak and make comments. So please continue. Thank you. I ask those in the public, please, to be respectful of the comments thanking you. I know I speak from my own experience in my contacts with with my residents that they definitely want more patrols. We want more police officers patrolling our alleys, our streets, our parks and our beaches. And so allowing this partner. Relationship through this contract that we've negotiated, I think allows for higher capabilities for our staffing, and I'm grateful for that. So I want to thank everyone for bringing these issues to light, and I'm hopeful that this contract is going to pass tonight. I just want to make sure that we have some provision that addresses the concerns of the residents. And that's why I bring the option of the PDF Sellable Form that allows for easy online submissions of anonymous forms. This contract was going to pass with or without that provision, but I think that provision helps address some of the concerns that are raised tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to thank, first of all, the residents who came out and spoke this evening expressing their concerns. I want to, first of all, say congratulations to our city team, as well as our Police Officers Association for coming to an agreement and for those of who have been involved in the collective bargaining process. It's not an easy process. It's long, it's arduous, it's complicated. And to to reach this point, to have an agreement is actually a milestone. Understanding that there are some some some misinterpretation and misunderstanding regarding some of the language. You know, that happens. But I'm glad we have an agreement. And I will just say, from from from from my core, I think due process is is very important for for all city employees we represent and for anybody else, for that matter, who may be accused of something or charged with something. Like it or not. I would also just like to just say that the city council has invested millions just in the last couple of years in response to many of the complaints that we've heard and many of the concerns that have come to this council from people in the community who have a mistrust for public safety and police officers today. I want to say that all of our police officers will be equipped with body cameras. We have invested in data as well as invest in a website portal that actually discloses and provides more transparency than we ever have. And in terms of public records, acts request, you know, I know I've been subject to several of them and many of the city council members as well. It doesn't mean that we were all guilty of something, right? Public records request come all the time and it's part of operating a public entity. SB 1421 There's been a lot of conversation about that, and this particular clause speaks to that. It does do something. It gives a tool to the public, to the press, to to advocates attorneys today that wasn't there a year ago. Right. Today, information and transparency has now forced in disclosure is forced through this legislation. And I have heard nothing coming from our city attorney or city staff that says that we won't be providing that information. So that's a good thing. And I want to just say, speak to too many of the advocacy organizations that spoke here today. You've been to the council member meetings before. Your advocacy has been tireless in the community and and in other forums. And you guys have impacted change. This legislation that we're speaking out today was largely because of many of the efforts that you guys have put forth. I want to say that also you've impacted change in terms of, I think, the culture of this city, particularly our police department. And I do want to have an opportunity to ask a couple of questions to our our deputy chief in city management in 2019 and 2018. How many officer involved shootings that we have? Total. Thank you, Councilmember. Let me get that information for you. It was 2019 zero. You asked about that zero officer involved shootings, one unintentional discharge. That doesn't count as an officer involved shooting. And let me pull up the number for you on the back to you on how many for 2018. Okay. I'd like to know 2017 and 2018, but I want to mark and note that in 2019 we're seeing zero and it's already halfway through September. I think that's something to be noted. Yes. Okay. Thank you very much, guys. I want to make sure that we're counterman also on the floor. So also what i heard also this was a concern of of possible intimidation and coercion and retaliation. Currently. Are there any administrative provisions or laws that prevent an officer from from engaging in that activity? Absolutely. Council Member So first, I'll go back to the numbers. I just pulled them up. 2017, we had eight officer involved shootings. 2018, we had four officer involved shootings. 2019, we have zero. So that's the first part. The second part is if if the use or the information that is released regarding a requester for a public record is used in any way to harass, intimidate or stock an individual when it would be misconduct and not tolerated and could potentially be criminal. And we would file against that officer if that was the case. So is there any policies currently that specifically state that it is will not be tolerated and you will be subject to just discipline if severe discipline if you did if you engaged in such activity. So, Councilmember, there's no policy related to SB 1421 because that's new legislation. But the policy that the officers would have to comply with is professional conduct in conduct unbecoming of an officer if they were to do something like that. And also they are required per policy to comply with all state laws. I'd like to see a policy developed specifically out of the concern that we've heard here today to put a a check in place, particularly as we move forward. I plan on voting in support of the the item in front of us. Again, I understand that it took a lot of sweat equity time effort to get to this point. And I don't think I see anything within SB 1421 or the current provisions that we have for it that would prevent the transparency or disclosure of information as requested. And I do think that there's an opportunity to do some public education, particularly for advocacy groups out there, to try to inform folks that they do have that option to to to file anonymously and request an anonymously. Thank you for your information. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Also, Councilwoman Pierce. Thank you. I want to begin by saying that I was absent at the last closed session meeting where this contract was negotiated. I had had emergency gallbladder surgery and was not supposed to be back at work for three weeks. And I tried to come to work that day and I couldn't make it the whole day. So what happened after that day is nobody raised any flags. No one said we had approved anything until the agenda item was posted and until the post the press had lifted up some of the items in there. And so I want to start by saying that I think there are some good things in here that there's some step increases that I think certain officers deserve. I think that we've got a parental leave, which I think is important, although the way that it's done, I have some some questions about I think the the pickup the employee pickup is is great. And so I want to applaud those efforts. It's no secret that every time we bring up a police officer contract or issues like that, that I have a lot of questions. I have also said from the very beginning of my term in office that I know that we have a lot of great officers that took a risk and they put their life on the line every single day. I've had the privilege of getting to know a lot of great officers in my district that work very diligently to make sure that we're reducing crime, that people feel like they can trust them, and that they're doing that part. But I also know that systems are oppressive and that it takes a lot of change and a lot of ground work to make substantial changes so that people feel protected, that they are protected, that they have trust and that they don't feel intimidated. And so I think pushing back on some of these issues is absolutely the right thing to do. And I don't want anyone in this room to feel like comments that were made by the first speaker should make you feel like you shouldn't get up and speak. You absolutely should read the press. I don't agree with the press. A lot of the times that's no secret. But I think that you absolutely should ask difficult questions. And I applaud you for coming out and speaking, and I applaud you guys for the work that that's been done to get us to this point. We wouldn't have police cameras today if it wasn't for your advocacy. So thank you for that on the front end. I want to talk about the parental leave. I know I talked to city management a little bit and I won't take up too much time on this. But we had drafted an agenda item where we had asked the city to come up with a way to provide parental leave for the entire city. And I was asked to kind of hold back that we were going to assess what was the best way to do that. We had some conversations around should that be in bargaining? And the next thing I know is that we find out that PO has it in their contract. Of course, I'm happy. Of course. I want you to have parental leave. Can you answer for me how it was? Decided to offer them 30 days straight parental leave. And what decisions were made around state disability and not having employees pay into that first. So I'll have Alex Basco to talk about those specifics in terms of providing and to employees. That is something that we are addressing at the bargaining table and we'd be happy to talk to you more in closed session about how we're going to do that through a negotiation process. Alex, if you can answer the other part of the question, please. Yes, sir. Just to kind of. Address a meeting, confer items so that providing these types of benefits is a mandatory subject of bargaining. And so we do that through the IMO you process. So the 30 days that we're providing paid parental leave provides of 160 hours for this particular milieu of time off that employees can utilize and employees done during those 30 days. This is a separate benefit. Don't have to use their vacation or their sick time and it provides them with paid leave at 100% of their pay. The difference with SDI is that that requires an employee deduction of 1% that they have to contribute and it comes out of their wages. And that benefit is not as generous. It provides between 60 and 70% of their wage loss, and it's only it's capped up to a certain amount. So this benefit that we're providing, in my opinion, is much more generous. Not a lot of cities are offering this benefit. So we're actually at the forefront. There are very few cities that do provide this type of benefit in California. So I know my office and I know another office has done a lot of research on this. And there are some cities that do SDI first. And it should be noted that state disability is not only for pregnancy or having a child, but you have cancer, you have gallbladder surgery, and you have to be out that. I've had a lot of employees talk to me about wanting to pay into SDI. So I guess my question is, did you do research to look at what cities and places have done SDI first and then the city backfill the rest to get them longer than 30 days? Because I know all of you guys have kids and I know that 30 days is not enough to spend with your child when they're first born. So figuring out that gap, did we look at that as an option? And we we did do some benchmarking with other cities to see what they offered. And we are we do have a plan that is one of the first groups that we reached an agreement with. We are in. Close to concluding negotiations with FFA and we are currently at the table with four other groups and going to be starting with the remainder of the bargaining units. So I'd be happy to to brief the council in closed session as far as what our plan is for the rest of the bargaining units and go into more detail about that. Thank you. And I'll just I know that this isn't the end of the conversation. Again, I support, obviously, paid parental leave being in there. I personally wouldn't want to bargain against my wages and time with my children. And so I have some some concerns about the way that we bring that up. And I'll let it sit there for now and bring it back. In reference to the item that we've been talking about tonight. I want to let's see, I want to start off with saying it's good to hear that my colleagues like due process. I would like due process to. So can you answer if S.B. 142 requires people to requires the name to be released to police officers or that department. So it's not a requirement, but it is something that is. Allowed under the PRA. Okay. Can you answer the question for me? What's the purpose of a name on the front end? Why is why did we go with provide your name and then you could opt out to be anonymous? Why didn't it start? You are anonymous unless you want your name to be revealed. So since the PRA was enacted. Members of the public have been able to file PRA request anonymously. That has not. Changed. So I think the conversation that that was had by previous speakers was allowing someone to to check anonymous. But that's an additional step. And if you're, uh, if you're someone that's been disenfranchized, if you're someone that has been going up against a system that you're not used to filling out those forms, I'd want to be able to say that very first year it's anonymous. And then you check if you want your information provided. I see. Mr. Parkin, do you guys have a. So we have a dual path when you get to into the system. This new third party that we have, they have a you have a decision to make, do I want to go one route or do I want to go another route? So if you go the route where you're logging in and you're creating a system, an identifier, and that helps you as the requester to get updates, to be able to email, to tell us what you would like to receive. That's one system. The other is completely anonymous. And so they are two different systems. And if we need you, we can put them side by side. So it's very clear that you can go either direction and we can support either one. Okay. That would not I'm not going to say which way I think the vote is going to go tonight, but I think that my my press is that we don't that we put anonymous first. And if that means that that's the top of the website, that it's bright, that there's some kind of identifier that people that aren't used to filling out these forms, like I'm a mother of a son that's been shot and killed, who is under distress, doesn't accidentally mess up on her pre request and then now is terrified of retaliation. I mean, that's real life situation. As much as we can create a system that we think is perfect, real life situations are where those things get blurred. Can you answer for me why this went into practice in April? So this was a request from the pope that came to the city via their normal process of of interacting with management. They asked the city attorney for an opinion and how to help create a process. We saw this as an administrative and restorative issue. The city attorney ran it by the police department, ran it by city management. And we believe that this meant that both the intent, the spirit of SB 1421 and was something that we could put into place. And so that was put in place by management. And then it was then later codified into the memo, you know. So can you answer for me how praise are handled with other departments? Is there a specific question? I can certainly try. Well, I have an example in my head that I wasn't necessarily going to share, but there was a PR done on all of my emails. There were hundreds of them and I got notice 5 minutes before that package went to the press. So, yes, I'm an elected and I'm under different scrutiny, but I want to know, it seems like praise to me is a procedural policy that adheres to the entire city, not one department. And I would hate to create a process for one department. That's not fair to the entire city. So we create a process in general. It's informal that if you are getting a pre, you have access to that as well. I remember that. Day. Sure. You guys. You had to send that out. And yes, we do believe that they are public records in the person who gets the requests has access to those as well. It is not as formal as what is in the agreement here. I would say the difference is this was a formal request from a labor organization going through a process saying, you know, through the bargaining process we would like access to this information. Here is our proposal. And so we were followed a slightly different path. The the specific language that you have here on on 1421 is really only for 1421. It is not going to be for every other PRA and honestly, most people who are prayed and we are all prayed very often we see those documents because we're the ones helping to produce those documents as well. This was their personnel file, something that they don't haven't seen as they don't have access to normally these types of documents. And so it is slightly different. Well, we do know that while the PRA if I gave you one email, you can still go through and say, actually, we think that these other ten emails. So I, I have a real issue with this proposal because I feel like it's a policy that should be adhered to and created for the entire city so that things like politics don't get involved, so that it's equal across the board and so that people don't fear retaliation. They can go forward, they can ask for that information and do what they want to do with that information. So if this item is still in this, I will definitely be voting no unless some of my colleagues can come up with an option to pull that memo due out and go back to the drawing board or make those changes and come back. But it's not something that I can support today. But I think everybody, again, for speaking, I think the Police Officers Association for their efforts as well. Thanks. Thank you very much. I want to make sure just as a friendly reminder, I know we're going to ease into all the rules, but after 5 minutes, if we can just continue going on and then we'll cue back up so we can go back up. So I know we've let it go a few times and that's okay. I just want to make sure remind the council as we as we move forward. So, Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Still getting used to our new rules. I'll say so a few things. So I want to acknowledge and traditionally with a collective bargaining agreement, you know, we start with the knowledge and all the good things. And so I do want to acknowledge all the work on both sides in negotiating a fair deal that also accomplishes and is the first union to address the the full pension pick up. And it's a great standard to to set given we know that we have pension issues, unfunded liabilities and budgetary issues on the horizon. So I do want to lift up and recognize that also as as a parent, you know, fairly new parent. Well, not that new, but, you know, got little ones. You know, the parental leave issue and the FMLA and parental leave issues been an issue, an issue in Long Beach for a long time. I'm glad to see this is addressed here. And I and to be clear, I think this should be addressed for all city employees. I think all city employees, we should be opting into parental leave and figuring out a way to make that happen. So those are my issues there. I want to. So so I want to separate and talk about this issue that's come up and a lot. It's actually been a lot of good discussion from my colleagues on Section nine. So my thoughts, my thoughts and my questions are firstly that we've learned a lot in the last in recent years about the shifting legislative landscape around compliance and public records. We also learned a lot during the Tiger tax issue about updating our policies to keep up with shifting laws. This is yet another example, in my opinion, of the city council and the city not being proactive on a shifting law and allowing for the guidelines in the process of that law to be determined by a collective bargaining process. I want to say that this is not. The community's fault. This is not the police union's fault and this is not the press's fault. We should own up and take our responsibility. If we don't put forth local policies, you cannot hold the union accountable for negotiating the best position for their workers. That's what unions do. I understand collective bargaining. You can't blame them for that. You can't blame the press for going out and talking about a collective bargaining agreement if we haven't shaped the narrative. This is on us. I want the opportunity and we've said this during Tiger to text and I'll say it again now. I think the council and the city should be proactive and take the opportunity to shape and discuss policy in public within the light of day, not in closed session, but as a part of a larger conversation about how we address and handle public records and transparency. I personally believe any question on transparency you should air on the side of being overly transparent. And so. So let's let's get into this issue. I've heard actually a lot of good ideas and discussion from the council tonight. I heard Councilwoman Pryce say the process of making, you know, making sure that someone is has the ability to be anonymous is not clear on the website. I also heard Councilwoman Pierce say that, you know, when you go submit a pre adding your identity ought to be the optional part, not making it autonomous. You know, anonymous should be the optional part. I think both of those make sense. I subscribe to things and then at the end it says, Would you like to add your name, your email address or so on and so forth? I think this is what this process should be giving, number one. It's on us. We didn't proactively address this, and we now have to operate outside of the collective bargaining agreement to shape the policy on the fringes. So, Mr. Moga, is something like that possible? Yes. So during this discussion, we've been putting together some thoughts about how we can address the council's concerns. I think they're very valid. I think this is a good opportunity for us to to look at that. I think I'm formulating kind of four different areas that we we can focus on. One is to remind people when they submit a pray that your pray is probable, that happens a lot. People will submit something and then they'll submit something else to say. I want to see, you know, if anyone else submitted what I submitted. So I think a reminder, when you are submitting a pray that that is by itself creating a public record that is available to others. And I believe we can enhance our anonymity features. We mentioned before just through this review that PD has an anonymous process, but they could be using the same system that the city manager's office uses for other praise to enhance that. And then in that feature, and we can turn that on, we can create that even path for anonymity so that you show up and you have two paths. And there it's very clear that you can go one way or the other and not prefer one over the other. That certainly was never our intent. But when you lay out a website, you read the top four, so we can address that. And then again, you know, we mentioned this earlier, but I do want to highlight that we are trying to create and putting the data out there so you don't have to request it in the first place so that we have that new website. Now, you don't need to log on. You don't need to submit an anonymous request. All of our 1421 data will be available to the public without saying who requested to put that up. And so that is active and now and reminding people that want 1421 data to go there first without even having to go through the pre process. Thank you. So a few of the things I want to lift up. So so I took took a moment to read this letter that just came in from the ACLU, and I read it while I was sitting here. Unfortunately, you know, a lot of this came in, you know, over the weekend, and we're just getting a chance to look at it. Mister City Attorney, have you had a chance to look at this ACLU letter? I have just seen it this evening. Okay, I will. I will. You know, this is an incredibly legal conversation. There's a claim that we're out of compliance with public records laws. I don't know if that's true. I know laws are changing and shifting, and I actually don't need an answer today. What I'd like is I would like for you to actually analyze some of the claims here and the model ordinance that's there and tell us if there are any deficits, what we're doing. I would like to I would like to know that. And so would it be possible for you to do some sort of analysis or to run for and come to us and let us know where we are in terms of our California public records laws? Absolutely. Okay. On the conversational anonymity, it's been brought up a few times and I want to bring it up again, just to be very clear on this on this question. So does this email you in any way diminish the right of a citizen to be anonymous in their records request? No, it does not. Okay. So it sounds like in practice, the way that we actually achieve that, how we implement this, the council is still fully up to the council and up to city staff on how this is implemented, to make sure that we're not somehow inadvertently giving an advantage to one side than the other in terms of anonymous versus not anonymous. You're going to we're going to figure out a way to make that make more sense. That's correct. Okay. And given the shifting in hanging on, I think our my goal here is to try to understand it and try to address the issue and these questions. And I think all of our questions are, too, do those things help understand the concerns that have been raised and help figure out a path to address these concerns. So given the shifting lands, the legislative landscape around public records, are there any additional steps that we can take to make sure as changes happen, the public is advised or noticed on a regular basis on any changes to to the law. Are we thought through any way to proactively when people come to our website, any prey website, either PD or the city's or maybe it should be one website, not two? Is there a way to proactively state, hey, these are the changes and here's how we're implementing these changes? So, yes, we have thought that through. We mentioned that earlier so that everyone gets a disclaimer, a reminder right up front in clear language if there are any changes. So we can look at that on the landing page. We can also do that as you as you actually file your request, whether you're doing it anonymously or not. We think that's a good practice and we will look to do that. So the next area I want to I want to talk about, which has been touched on as well, is there were questions raised in this ACLU letter about the integrity of an investigation or the integrity of a process being somehow compromised through this. What I would like to know is what provisions are in place. To make sure that once parties are notified that there's a peel pre, the investigation is no way compromised. Are these things tracked? Right. Has there ever been an instance where we've notified an employee that something's going to go out an employee's engaged and somehow it hasn't ? The information that was going to go out hasn't gone out. Has that ever taken place in our city? And what mechanisms do we have to make sure the integrity in that process? As Assistant chief. He wished to respond to that. Thank you, Mr. Modica. Thank you, Councilmember. That has not happened. We have released records that were requested and they have not been withheld because of an employee inquiring about those records. Okay, so my. My job. Thank you. Councilmember, if I could just add to that, there have been cases or instances where an employee has raised an issue or asked that certain records not be withheld. And the police department has a process in place where it goes through the chain of command and they they will review that request. And as the chief said, there have been no instances where that request has been honored. Those records have gone out. Thank you. And there is a process. Okay. So what I heard a bit earlier and I want to be crystal clear on this, what I heard a bit earlier was that the only way that could be changed or or held up was through a court order. And that's true for the 1421 records. We were talking about other public records, not just 1421. So we have to subject matters here. We have 1421 very specific. And then you have your general public records, documents under the general public record documents. There have been requests by employees not to release records at that request has been reviewed and then the decision was made. Note that those records were all going out under 1421 at that five day stage. That's going through the final review process before they go out. So there's no delay, like an extra five day delay. And then if if there was a court order, then the city would not withhold, would then not. Sit on those records. So the provision email, you were specifically to the 1421 or is it apply to both? 1421 only. So as it relates to this provision, only a court order can affect that? That's correct. Understandable. So which raises a separate issue, right. I think in general, we need the time. I think the council needs the time and space to talk about these policies in general as it applies to every department. Because simply what you just notice is that I didn't know there was a process for someone to go engage a department and say, I don't want this to be included, make their case, and then that department makes a decision. I want to better understand that and make sure that, you know, separate from 1421 across any department we track. When APRA comes in, we fully understand what changes have happened and why we want to. In this environment we have to always erring on the side of more transparency and build slowly, build community trust. So, so, so for the sake of sake of this, I think this was actually I would have rather had this conversation sooner than later. But I think it's important that we get to this conversation after tonight's vote on this contract. I think it will put the community. The council are all of our bargaining units, all of our employees. It would it would do well to give everyone a bit more stability and confidence in knowing what the rules are and that there are no ways to sort of game the system to create advantage for yourself. And so those are my comments. Thanks. Thank you. Councilmember Ringa. Thank you, Mary. And I really appreciate all the commentary that's come forth so far regarding this issue, because I did read it and it's pretty much square. And what it says in Section nine, the requester, the data, the requests, the requester, name and organization, and the nature of the information request. That's pretty black and white right there in terms of what it says directly. So to be devil's advocate at this point right now, I know there was a discussion earlier by Council member Pearce about not wanting to vote for the for the MCU based on section nine is section is the removal of section nine. I renegotiated that part jeopardized the passage of the emoji tonight. Council member. The Council has the option to either adopt the EMU as it's been presented or not adopt it, receive and file this item and give bargaining instructions to the bargaining team in closed session. As far as instructions on how to modify the agreement, this is a tentative agreement. So those are the two options. The council could not just pull this particular item out and then adopt. The more you. I just want to I just went blazing. It was okay. You want to be clear that what we have before us is a full document and any changes or adoptions that happened to it have to go back to the table for renegotiation, knowing that negotiations take sometimes years and no question months. We're sure a lot of staff time, a lot of staff came from our our management team as well as from the union. So there's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into these these negotiations. And I'm certain understand that other issues I mean, the the Emmylou itself, it's as been discussed, it has a lot of positive stuff to it. You know, the certainly the the pension contribution is good. The ability to offer other skill pays for some of our specially skilled officers is certainly well done. There are some issues that was brought up before in terms of parental leave that we should I'm not going to discuss it here, but we should discuss about a parental leave policy citywide as you go through that. And I'm certainly very much interested in getting a pre policy that also is citywide. I belong to a number of organizations, not only in city law, but others that I that I represent the city on and I get PR aid all the time. I just got a primary today as a member of the Coastal Commission regarding discussions that I may have had or not had with lobbyists or other entities requesting information on whether I've been contacted regarding projects up and down the state of California. So I get those all the time. And it's, it's, it's a benefit to the, to the coast commission staff that they let me know about it. And it's it gives me an opportunity to search my records and my files if indeed I have had any kinds of information that I can share with them so that they can share to the requester. And the requester hasn't been exposed to me, so I don't know who's who is making the pre request for that information because I guess in that process it's anonymous and this and as it should be here, I think it should be anonymous. I'm hearing from staff that that certainly can be added in including to I see this as a procedural administrative way of dealing with it. And and I think that your assessment of this coming to you a few months before at the request of you was was a correct one. The only criticism that I have about that is that we should have known, we should have been contacted as a city council to advise us that this is an issue coming down. And it was based on legislation that is that would that passed in the state of California that we would eventually have to contend with. And I think that's where maybe the ball was dropped, if at all, that was that. You know, it came to a surprise that it there's any one thing, like we say as elected officials, we don't like it, we don't like surprises. And this fell on us as a surprise, especially when it came down to the reaction of the of the public in the respect of what appears here and how it's worded in here. Perhaps we could have provided some kind of language to assist with this in regards to having it in in the email you that it would be that there is an option to submit pre request anonymously without having to basically identify the the the request or or the organization. And in addition to this, I think at the there was another time when as a council member, elected officials certainly were always again what to praise. And I was just like Councilmember Janine Pearce one time there was a pre as my my responsibility as. Remember that came. I knew nothing about it. And the PRK was sent out. And it was sent out with erroneous information. That was not me. But staff sent it out. So I think the the importance of having a citywide PR, a policy that is very similar to this, would be very, very helpful to us as a council and of course, to our to our agencies that have who are pre eligible, if you want to call it, for lack of a better term, who who get praise a lot. So that's my basic $0.02 worth of this. I mean, I want to I want people to understand that we can't simply remove Section nine from the on the discussion of the M or you without affecting the whole M, will you? And after all the discussion that's been taking place for the last several months between the city management and the PEO, so with the addition of the mayor of the portions of the oh the suggestions made by Councilmember Price in regards to improving that ability to submit praise anonymously, I'm certainly good with that. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Andres. Yes, thank you very much. I first of all, I'd like to speak on the VOA contract. You know, I'm happy that we have reached agreement on this new contract because I feel like it's fair in all sizes. But I what is more what I think what it provides, especially additional cost sharing of the pension costs and also provides a raise in pay to keep us, you know, competitive with the other departments. Know what was more pleasing to me than any, I think was that it was a very pleasing that we're now providing a new pay, you know, apparently benefits that would give new moms and dads 30 days spend with their children. I think that should be we hope and I'm hoping that we continue to do this with that bargaining with all employees unions, that everyone will be able to get that form of been it across the entire city. You know, so in all, I would like to commend that the city, you know, management putting this together and to speak on the. The items that came in tonight. I would would hope that the individuals that came here tonight to to express their opinion, to let you know that your voice is not being void. People are listening. They hear you. And that is the only way you can hear the guys is up here. We spoke on it. We listened to it. And it's the only the way things are going to get done. You continue to speak and let people know your concerns and your feelings about various things that you feel is an injustice or not fair. So like I said, I've been on both sides of the law. And like I say, with the grace, I've been able to know both sides of, you know, these issues. And I think transparency is an important issue, but we must have transparency on all issues. So that is my comments on this. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor Councilmember Pearce. Yes, I think the discussion tonight has been a good discussion in the right direction. I was curious. STAFF You've mentioned that you've got a lot of ideas about how to make this where that anonymous part would be up front. How long do you think it would take you guys to make those changes? I don't think that it will take us long at all. So we're going to immediately look at the at the issue of how you approach our website and what that looks like. If it's a simple fix of just moving it left or right, we can do that. If it's a systems issue because there is a third party vendor, they have certain restrictions on what we can do with theirs. We'll work through them, but we can, as early as tomorrow, start working on this and put things up to to make this clearer. And what it would it be something that we could do if we said we vote to move forward with this, but that you suspend that policy until because you've already implemented the policy in April. So have you suspended that policy until the actual contract was completed and those changes had been made? The contract is ready. So once you give us the, you know, the direction today. So you either are going to tell us to go forward and do that or you're going to tell us to go back and negotiate. So I think the direction that I've heard from many of my colleagues is that they don't like the way the system set up. We would like to see that system change. That is not something that's negotiated as part of that contract. So could we suspend the practice until that system change has been made? Does that require to go back to negotiations? Yes, it does. With that, I will still be a no thank you. Councilman Price. I have no doubt that city staff will be able to address the issues we've talked about in the next 2 to 3 days. If that's not and I'd like I'd urge my colleagues to move forward on this item tonight. I will be checking in 2 to 3 days to see with my limited technological challenges if I could file an anonymous request and if it's user friendly and easy. If not, I will bring an item back to council to address that issue. And that's my commitment because I think that's very important. I don't want to hold up the contract. I don't want to go back and renegotiate. We've been working on this for a long time, but I will look on Friday and see if it's easy to find and if filing an anonymous PRA is is as easy as it should be. If I think if staff has any problems with that, perhaps letting us know so that we know progress is on the way. But we're talking about, you know, a PDF sellable form that makes it easy for people to file prey requests anonymously. They have the right to do so. They should be able to do so. We should support and make it easy for them to do so. And if that's not happening by Friday and if it takes needs longer than I expect it to from four, that will tell us that it's going to take longer. If not, I expect we'll be addressing that specific issue at another item as another item to council separate and apart from this contract. Yes, we commit to that. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Councilmember Richardson. Just just to be clear, before we move forward, Mr. Modica, can you just recap what you heard? I think the there was a lot of good comments and you got a lot of good direction. I just want to hear back from you what you heard. I was also a city attorney, if you could chime in on that as well. So what we understand is that we are to make a lot of progress on the website on how to file a PRA by Friday, that we are to create an even path so that it is there. You can choose one way or the other and it's very clear that it's not one is preferred over the other that we are going to enhance the anonymity features also on the police website, which is a uses of the same system, but it's set up a little bit differently for praise and we will do the same thing on that website that we will also be promoting back to people who want 1421, that they have the ability to go to the website. They don't even have to do that. And we'll put that on our 1421 page that that is the place where you can get it without asking for a prior request. We will also be letting people know when they file praise that that is a public record, that the filing of a PRA in and of itself becomes a public record that others have access to. And then those are the major items that I had, Mr. Attorney. And I just had the request from the council member for a two from four on the ACLU letter. Sure. And one thing I would ask, I think in general, I'd like to and we can talk offline, but I'd like to figure out a way for us to have a broader conversation about praise and all of the sort of reporting requirements and how to make sure we have an ordinance that's that's modern and keeping up with the standards that serve our state and federal government. So if that's something that staff or city attorney wants to come out and say, hey, this is how we recommend the council go about it, or if you think that we should bring forward an item, I'd certainly want to hear that on how to take that step, because, again , this is second time that's come up. I want to have a more full conversation about it. So that will take a little bit of additional time. We can respond back with a two from four, just explaining how do we do praise, how many praise we get, how are they filed, how are they handled? We can certainly do that. That is going to take more time than Fridays. Yeah, it'll be. Absolutely. We can do that. Fantastic. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Super now. Thank you. I would just like to add to the motion and in addition to creating the more user friendly pre request page that we investigate that there might, may or may not be an outdated city manager page out there, I think Councilwoman Price was able to find it tonight. I think you two are looking at two different pages. So if you do make the improvement, it's that's going to be null and void if there's an erroneous page still out there. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to make some comments as well. So let me just say that I think there's obviously I want to thank everyone for the discussion tonight on an important. Part of the contract. I also want to just take a step back and focus on the larger contract in of itself. I do support the contract that's in front of us. I think first and foremost, it includes what I believe all employees deserve, which are fair wages and good benefits within our city. I am glad and I support supporting our police officers to ensure that they are paid respectably and that they have the same level of support as our peer communities. I also want to thank the team and the leadership and the rank and file for also doing the pension pick up. I think that's a significant part of this contract. I want to thank the staff and the and the officers involved for negotiation, negotiating a parental leave program. Really the first the first one that we have in the city of this type. And I think it's going to be a model to ensure that we do the same for all of our employee groups. All employer groups deserve parental wage. I think that's been said a few times that we can all agree to that as well. And I want to also just just say that the that the not just on this occasion, but on multiple occasions, our police officers have stepped up and come to the table with fair packages for fair wages. And I want to thank them for that. And so with that, there is a motion and a second. Members, please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. We're going to be moving on to public general public comment I have is king over here. Larry Goodhue, Bernice Jimenez and and control please come forward for. King is King out there.

Recommendation to direct City Manager to support State legislation that would add a permanent seat to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency Board of Directors for the City of Long Beach without disproportionately affecting representation from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors or adding more than four new voting members to the Board, bringing Board membership up to no more than 17 voting members.

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Wishing Karis. Thank you. We already handle 16. That makes it number 17. Item 17 is communication from Councilman Austin, Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Durango. Recommendation directed this recommendation to direct the city manager to support state legislation that would add a permanent seat to the Metro Board of Directors for the City of Long Beach. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you very much. And I want to thank my colleagues for signing on on this very, very important item, which is very consistent with our state led agenda that was adopted by this council in 2015. There is and specifically, we stated that our led our agenda was would be to monitor or sponsor state legislation that proposes to change the structure of the state and regional boards on which Long Beach is represented and maximize the city's representation. There is currently legislation making its way through the legislature. Specifically, the House of Origin was in the State Senate SB 268 by Tony Mendoza. Senator Tony Mendoza and was approved in committee as well as the Senate floor. Now it's in the Assembly. Currently, that bill has quite seeks to to restructure the MTA board, but it does not have a permanent seat for Long Beach. And as you all know, Metro serves as the largest metropolitan transportation planning organization in the nation and is comprised of 13 voting members and one ex-officio member. Metro does not include a permanent seat for the city of Long Beach currently, and as the second largest city in L.A. County, inclusive of the port of Long Beach, Long Beach shares representation with 25 cities, mostly from the Gateway Council of Governments, but also from surrounding areas. As part of the southeast Long Beach sector, current law prescribes membership on the Metro Board directors to be five members of the Board of Supervisors, the mayor of the City of Los Angeles, two public members and one members of the City of Los Angeles, appointed by the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, and four members, each of whom shall be a mayor or a member of the city council appointed by the L.A. County Selection Committee. And these are from four sectors the North County, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley sector, the southwest corridor sector in the southeast Long Beach sector, which we are a part of. And again, we compete with 25 cities for that seat. I'm really happy to say that currently today, our mayor serves on the MTA board. He was recently selected and he's doing a fantastic job. Almost we saw almost immediate results once he was appointed to that board. But the years that preceding that, eight years, we weren't at the table. And we have to ask ourselves what actually happened during those eight years. Measure R was passed and major decisions in terms millions of millions of dollars were planned for transportation throughout the region . And most recently Measure M was was passed by the voters in L.A. County. Long Beach was not necessarily at the table in terms of setting the priorities for the expenditure plan. I think it's very, very important that that we again and I've said this long before I ever got on the city council that Long Beach have a strong regional presence on boards, particularly like the MTA. And I'd like to just move this, this agenda forward to, to, to, to support legislation in any legislation coming out of the Sacramento. And hopefully it's this session that would include a permanent seat for the city of Long Beach. Lastly, I would state that a permanent seat through legislation would improve our city's influence regionally and assure long term benefits to local taxpayers who depend on and are impacted by the decisions at the MTA. So I'd like to make a motion to move that the city council direct the city manager to support state legislation that would add a permanent seat to the L.A. County MTA Board of Directors for the City of Long Beach without disproportionately affecting representation from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors or adding more than four new voting members to the board, bringing the board membership to no more than 17 voting members again. And I appreciate the second by Councilmember Gonzalez. This this is very, very important to the city of Long Beach. It is consistent with our state led agenda. And I would like to also get a. Have input on this as well. We have Diana Tang, who has also been working very, very hard with our state led agenda. Mr. Mayor, if I might, my. Mayor, members. Of the city council, I believe that Councilmember Austin provided a fairly robust description of the bill and what it chooses to do. Currently, the City of Orange does not have a position on this. The bill is in the California Assembly that's been referred to local government and transportation and does not currently include a proposal to add a seat for a Long Beach. And so the bill must pass. Both policy committees by July 14th. We do have an opportunity to ask for amendments that do do what the recommended action tonight here at state. And so we stand ready to implement your direction. Thank you. Is there public comment on this? Okay. Councilman Gonzalez. Thank you. I just wanted to thank Councilman Austin for bringing this forward. I think it's absolutely needed, especially in addition, as we have millions of dollars of investment along the the metro. And we should certainly, you know, have a seat at the table, an additional seat at the table to be able to talk about so many things happening in our city, but also just have a regional seat at the table. But, Diana, I wanted to ask. So July 14th is the the deadline basically. What happens next after that? What is the process? July 14th is the deadline to get out of policy committee. The bill is key to fiscal and so it would need to go to the Assembly Appropriations Committee as well. And the deadline to get out of that committee is September 1st. So assuming that it passes both policy committees on the appropriation committee, then it would go to the assembly floor for a vote by the full assembly. And because we have heard from Senator Mendoza staff that there will likely be amendments, the bill would need to go back to the Senate for concurrence before it would be eligible for the governor's consideration. So end of the year, we're thinking sometime around then I believe end of October, around that time frame. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thank you. I do want to come to an answer. So I'd also just like to add that I didn't mention that this bill got out of of the state Senate, got out of policy committee. It was also voted on on the Senate floor and passed. There have been several iterations of this type of bill moving through the legislature over the last few years. And this is the furthest such a bill has gotten. This one has me concerned because it doesn't not prescribe a seat for Long Beach, a permanent seat for Long Beach. And I will just state that, you know, our state senator, Ricardo Lora, did support this bill as well moving forward. So there is there's, I guess, support for some sort of change on the MTA board. We just want to make sure that we're not left behind. We're going to have public comment in just a minute, I think. But I just want to reiterate, I think what Councilman Nelson's point is that it's been the position of the city, I think both from as mayor and certainly as members of the council, that this body would support changes if, if and when Long Beach was explicitly added as a voting member of the Metro Board at Long Beach were to gain a seat. And so I think while this has been discussed, certainly Diana Taylor, government affairs manager, is a thing can be there in the past at former iterations. We discussed this last year as well. I think this explicitly puts the city council on record once again and just making very clear that that we would support a bill that would include Long Beach as having an explicit membership permanently on the seat. With that, let me invite any public comment. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is. Sadly, I'm here on behalf of State Senator Tony Mendoza. On his behalf, I wanted to thank you for your courtesy of letting me speak. Sentiment also has been supportive of the idea of having Long Beach. On an expanded. And reorganized MTA board. Last year he offered Senate Bill 1472 and Long Beach was listed as one of the seats. There's a historical reason for that. Some of you may remember that before the current MTA was organized, Long Beach had a seat on the previous commission. However, last year, Senator decided to hold his bill 1472, which had the provision for Long Beach because there were three concerns that. A lot of organizations raised. They'd had two legislative appointments made by the speaker and the pro tem. The people were not happy about that and the size of the board was 25 members and people felt it was too big and secondly, that there needed to be a local process. So the Senate went back to the drawing board. He has met at least six or seven times with a working group consisting of the League of Cities, L.A. Division, the Independent Cities, Contract Cities, the County City Selection Committee, the mayor of L.A. and the chair of the MTA board. And the current. Bill emerged out. Of that discussions. And now it's a very simple bill. It essentially expands the board to make sure that the 87 cities other than the city of L.A., the city of L.A. and the Board of Supervisors between them are represented on the board. That is proportionate to the share of the population that govern the 87 cities. That includes you represent 52% of the county's population, the city of L.A., around 38%. Both of them. Have 31%, each of the board seats. So by expanding the board once again, we hope that we can accommodate various groups. What the bill does not do right now, unlike last year, is specify which cities should serve on the MTA board, and that is at the insistence of the three city associations and the city and the county city selection committee. So the Senator wanted me to come here to make sure that I explain that to you. And he would very strongly encourage and he would work with you. Mr. Mayor, the council members, if you wish to work with him, to stress his recommendation that language should be accommodated on the MTA board. But it is a decision that this time is developed through this consensus process, and I've named the groups to you. The second issue that Senator wanted me to bring up to you is the part of the motion that restricts the size to 17 members. If we do that, then the current imbalance which runs against the interests of the smaller cities, 87 cities, will continue. And I'll be happy to get into the details with that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you to the senator. Any other public comment? See? None. Well, there is a motion and a second on the floor to support on as part of our legislative agenda, to support a bill that would have Long Beach as a permanent seat. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item. I think that was the last item was public comment. Second public comment period at this time. My name is Steven Cardio.

Recommendation to respectfully request the Mayor and City Council to join with cities, states and countries in commemorating the 100th Anniversary of a tragic period in our collective human rights history known as the Armenian Genocide; and Request City Attorney to draft a resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide and its place in history.

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Item number 22 communications from Vice Mayor Souza Lowenthal, Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez and Councilwoman Susie Price. Recommendation to respectfully request the Mayor and City Council to join with cities, states and countries in commemorating the 100th anniversary of a tragic period in a collective in our collective human rights history known as the American Armenian Genocide. And request city attorney to draft a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide and its place in history. Thank you. I'm going to turn this over now to Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I wanted to thank our co-sponsors and really the entire council for taking this up for consideration. I'd like to first move the item and also make some comments. I. There's been a motion and a second by Vice Mayor Lowenthal and Councilwoman Price. Vice Mayor. I want to thank Councilmembers Pryce and and Gonzales for co-sponsoring this item. I'd like to also acknowledge and many of you have seen this individual in our room today, I'd like to acknowledge Governor George Deukmejian for his leadership and advocacy on the issue, certainly going back to at least 1986, officially as an elected official, but probably in his heart for much longer than that. We'll have a chance to hear from the governor shortly. Lastly, I'd like to thank all of our city staff and community members in attendance for this issue. Although it's customary for city staff not to speak on council items, I appreciate your being here in support. The use of the term genocide should never be used lightly, and our bringing this forward is not a suggestion of that. It's actually just the opposite. Its origin actually comes from Raphael Lemkin, who in 1944 used the Greek word Genoese race or tribe and the Latin side for killing. In describing the Nazi policies during the Jewish Holocaust, however, it's said that Mr. Lemkin also drew heavily upon his study of experiences of Armenians during the 19th century and early 20th century of the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century and the prototype for future regimes intent on eliminating all traces of a particular people or culture. The denial of this atrocity and the willful ignorance of historical facts for the purpose of geopolitical diplomacy does not diminish what most history historians. Countless countries, cities and states know to be absolutely true. That the Armenians were systematically systemically subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation by the Ottoman Empire. And so tonight, I'm proud to recognize the importance of two thriving communities in our American culture, while acknowledging the willful genocide committed in their ancestral homelands. And many have espoused on this topic academically, politically, personally. And I think it's one that certainly it serves us well to keep at the top of our conversations, at the top of our minds, so that we're reminded to always reject such tendencies toward human cruelty. And I appreciate greatly when great leaders can take a position and make statements, statements that many people hear across the world and over the Easter holidays. Many of us heard the Pope make a very profound statement that when you don't call something by name, it commits psychological violence and it continues to commit that violence throughout history. And so when you don't call something by name, it's a wound that continues to bleed. And so what I am thankful for is for those of us who have an opportunity to serve in local government, in these very local capacities, that we don't have to be silenced by the fact that leaders beyond us do not exercise the courage to call things by name. So I'm often very proud of this council. But tonight I am most proud because of something that we do often, which is call things by name so that we can start the healing process. And with that, I'd like to invite our president and friends and Turkey to do the same. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Councilwoman Pryce. Okay. I think I had just a second, but I can go to Councilman Gonzales. Go ahead. Please. I just wanted to thank Vice Mayor Lowenthal for bringing this forward. It's always very difficult to talk about genocide. I know we're here for Cambodian genocide and recognizing that as well. And it's always very difficult. But I think here in Long Beach, we've certainly made a statement with this and in her leadership in bringing this forward , I think is very important. And I also want to thank Governor Deukmejian for being here as well. I know he's certainly a a leader in his own right. And we we just appreciate this bringing this all coming to light, especially as multicultural as we are here in Long Beach. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I, too, want to thank Vice Mayor Lowenthal for bringing this item forward and allowing for us to all stop for a moment and remember the past and where we've come. And the message that she shared was one that I think we all feel very strongly about here on the city council. And as members of this community together today, we commemorate a great tragedy of history. Between 1915 and 1918, approximately 2 million Americans were eliminated from their homeland through forced deportations and massacres. The surviving refugees spread around the world and eventually settled in some two dozen countries and all continents of the globe. They are now in our communities as some of the most thriving, successful and hardworking members of our society. I want to take a moment to acknowledge, as the vice mayor has done, Governor Deukmejian, who is here, a resident of my district, and someone who I am very proud to associate with the Armenian community. In my profession, I have the honor and the privilege to work with many prosecutors who are of Armenian descent and many judges who have been appointed through the past decades who are of Armenian descent. And I'm incredibly proud that the history and the past of this community has made them stronger and such active members and contributing members of my world and my, my society. So I want to thank the vice mayor for bringing this forward and commemorate this tragedy together with all of you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Mongo. I too, want to echo the sentiments of my colleagues. I think that it's important for us as a country to know where we came from and to know where the rest of the world has come from, to know where we're going. So thank you all for this important remembrance. Thank you. Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Actually, if I may just speak last. Sure. Councilmember Austin. Yes. I just wanted to just just weigh in on this. I don't think there is a euphemism for the word genocide. And so I thank you for bringing this forward. It's been 100 years. And the Armenian people. There are many, particularly personal friends of mine and very feels very strongly about this. This body does not have to worry about, you know, international natal relations or anything like that. We can do what's right tonight. And so I'll be voting in support of this motion. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And also before we go, before the vice mayor closes up, I do want to also thank you, vice mayor, for bringing this forward. I wholeheartedly agree that it will be a great day in our country when we're able to verbalize, which certainly was a horrible genocide and a tragedy. And so thank you for bringing this forward. I'm going to go also open this up now for for public comment that you want to speak first. Okay. Vice Mayor, briefly, I wanted to thank Councilmember Councilwoman Gonzalez for mentioning that we do have the Cambodian American community here as well. And what I'm reminded of on Sunday, we celebrated in the Jewish community, celebrated as a strange word. We recognized Yom Hashoah, which is the recognition of the Jewish Holocaust. And so all of this coming together at the same time, as Councilwoman Gonzalez mentioned, reminds me that it's in the understanding, the commonality of suffering, that we actually rise and elevate ourselves as a human race and and through tragedy, we can do that and through understanding one another's commonality of suffering. And so I don't think it's a coincidence that we all come together for this sort of an acknowledgment and understanding. But I'm grateful to live in a city like this where we can have such a strong multicultural presence and and strong understanding of one another's experiences, because it's in that understanding that we don't separate ourselves as us and other. There is no other. We are the US and we are the other together. So. And Mr. Mayor, I'd like to recognize that the governor's wife is here as well. Gloria's here. And I apologize for not mentioning that earlier. We are so thankful that both of you are here together. Thank you. Now, I'm going to be opening this up for public comment, but I am going to invite the governor first if wanted to make some comments. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council. When you get old like I am, it takes a little while longer to take a few steps. Huh? I'm living in Long Beach. Because. Just excuse me. Because many years ago, how many years we've been married? 58 years. Okay. I was living. In Los Angeles. And. Hey. Excuse me. I don't know what's better with me. I. I was living in Los Angeles and. Got to meet various people. Well, thanks a lot. Thank you. Do I have to return this? And. I met this lovely young lady who was at this event that I attended, and she lived in Long Beach. So. That evening concluded, and I think it was a day or two later. I called her to ask for a date, and she lived here in Long Beach. So. Excuse me. I apologize. So anyway. I came down here to pick her up, to go out on our first day. And I got to know a little bit about Long Beach that day and then subsequent dates. I especially enjoyed visiting the Belmont Shore area of the city. And after a few other dates and going here and there in the community. I found out that there were no lawyers practicing law in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach. They were all downtown. So. I thought I'd look into it a little bit more. And I went to the local community newspaper. And found out a few more facts and I won't track this out. But anyway. That's what led me to Long Beach and. I decided to open an office on the second floor of a bank building. An independent bank building at the time. In Second Street in Long Beach. So I did that. And then. Shortly thereafter, we bought a house there, which we still live in. And that's how many years ago? Not only am I getting old, but I don't remember anything. But anyway, so we got active in the community. And we bought this house. On the East Broadway, and we've been living there ever since. And I became active in the community, and the community was very welcoming. And I began to make a number of friends and get involved in different activities. And so. To try to make a long story short. That's how it all began. And. We're still here. Now, fortunately. Some good things come out of some horrible things. But when the. Ottoman Empire. Embarked upon an. Effort to eliminate all Armenians in their nation. Uh, my. My parents. And my wife's parents who were. Living there at the time. Left that part of the world and made their way to the United States. And eventually. My wife's family made their way to Long Beach. And so. And Long Beach was very welcoming to them and has been very welcoming to us. And I'm very thankful and appreciative of that. Time went on and I started getting more involved in the community and. Most of you know the rest of the story of wound up getting involved in politics. No. Some folks probably who don't like that, that I got involved in politics who don't agree with me on things. Maybe they're not all that. Happy with. The purpose of this item being on your agenda tonight. But throughout the world. In in nations, in states and communities. There are occasions similar to this one where we both acknowledge and appreciate very much the few minutes that you're allocating to this item and. In honor of our ancestors. Many of whom did not make it did not get through the genocide. Who were. Who died and or who then? Those who did not die were dispersed all throughout the world. And you find people from. Our nationality just about any place in the world where you go. So I just wanted to come and tell you how much I appreciate you taking time to recognize this. Just as your agenda item shows. There's a lot of cities and states and. And countries that are. Taking a few minutes to recognize and commemorate this 100th anniversary. Uh. It's certainly our hope that. People will take a minute or two to reflect upon it and. When? Situations arise. During the course of their lifetime so that they will remember this and remember that, yes, it is possible a nation can be wiped out. And. So we have to be vigilant all the time. All the time. And. But we are. Most appreciative of those of you who. Are giving us this opportunity, as is happening in other places throughout the country, in the world. And. I'm proud to be here to represent my families and. And to honor those who did not. I lived through the through the genocide. So on the one hand, it was a horrible, horrible. Crime and situation, on the other hand, were not for that. I wouldn't have found myself and my here in this wonderful city of Long Beach. And I'm most grateful and appreciative of that. So thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Members of the council. And. Wherever you see or hear. Individuals. Talking or acting. Has. We saw back 100 years ago. Remember that it can happen. It can happen here and do whatever you can within your power to. Try to see that it does not happen. So again. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. Thank you very much. Thank you, Governor. That was. There were some great words. Thank you very much. And we all admire and appreciate your service. I know we're in public comment if there's any other public comment on this topic. Please come forward. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Hello, people. My name is Steve Updike. I'm here to say it's about time, sir, that they actually recognize this genocide. My father was born during the Armenian genocide. He's Jewish. So my family were dying in the Holocaust in Germany. And today, because I went to the Church of Scientology, I've been blackballed here in Long Beach because Scientology helped me get me off dope. And here it is. There's people here in Long Beach who want a genocide against me today. This is what's going on today, Governor. The truth of the matter has to be coming up, because I've been weeping, as you say, Suja. I've been weeping. And there needs to be attention on the fact that the Church of Scientology saved my life by getting me off dope. Okay? So I owe them my life. So this genocide or this attack on the Church of Scientology must stop? They are good people. As a matter of fact, Governor, I have done business here in Los Angeles most of my life, and I have had the best people are Armenian people that I've done business with. You're welcome, sir. I truly mean that you are the best people to do business with. And I have to respect you. And I have to respect the fact that it wasn't. Just a genocide against the Armenian people, but it was because you're a Christian and my mother is Christian and Christians are also have their problems. So when I come out and say I'm Jewish, no, my mother was Christian. They raised me to be Christian. So I'm Christian, but I had a drug problem. So I went to the Church of Scientology and they got me off dope. Is that a bad thing? No, sir, that's a good thing. They're good people like you are the same as Christians who raised me. They taught me to love and help. Okay? And that's what I did. Love and help. And today I see there's too much hate. And that's why I'm speaking out against the hate. It has to stop. The hate has to stop. It doesn't matter who we are or what we believe in. We're all here together to survive. We need to help each other and love each other. We're going to make it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. Governor. Agent. My name is Craig Koch, and I'm a resident at 5745 East Rose Bay in the fifth District. And as a proud Armenian-American, I just want to take a moment to thank you very much for taking on this issue and being proud enough to say the word genocide with this with this atrocity that occurred 100 years ago to our people. Unfortunately, other levels of government haven't been as open and has haven't been as willing to use that word, which is unfortunate. But I am so proud of you today to be able to take this agenda item, bring this matter forward to the public, and use the word genocide in describing the atrocities that occurred to our people 100 years ago. Governor, thank you very much for your time. Mr. Deukmejian, thanks very much for being here. And again, appreciate your support. Have a good evening. Thank you. Great. We're going to now see no other see no other public comment will go to a vote. But for that, I have Councilman Andrews wanted to say a few words. Yes. Thank you, Vice Mayor. First of all, I'd like to thank the vice mayor, Susana young councilwoman, that to bring this to our diocese, because the fact that I think not only here, you know, in America, all over the world, we're seeing atrocities is happening to all nationalities. And I think this is so important and we get a chance to see all of these things come to to the real to let people know that it's not all like we think it is. There's things happening all over the world and we must take it here to these things and let individuals know we have to bring this to attention and didn't even know. We've come a long ways, but we still have a long ways to go. And Deukmejian, you and your wife. I was very fortunate to be able to have your son in my government class and I know he got a so just. Thank you and what that will go ahead we'll go ahead and take a vote. Please cast your votes. The motion passes seven zero. Thank you. Governor, thank you again. The subject. Major, thank you again. We're going to now move on to item 22, Madam Clerk. Item 20. Item 22. I'm sorry. Item 20. Communicate. Item number 20. Communications from Councilman Eddie Andrews. Recommendation to request City Council to adopt a resolution to recognize April as Cambodian Genocide Awareness Month.

Consider Directing Staff to Develop a Recommendation on an Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) Program. (Vice Mayor Knox White)

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Considered directing staff to develop a recommendation on an automated license plate reader program. This item was placed on the agenda at the request of Vice Fairfax by. Vice Mayor next week. Thank you. So my interest tonight is to well, you know, as many of you know, 2018 there was a discussion around the use of automated license plate readers in Alameda that was sent back for additional information on the use of the data setting, some privacy policies, etc.. In our last meeting, we set a number of those policies, including expanding to a surveillance policy. And I know that there's been a lot of interest in that in some aspects of the community to at least have a conversation around automated license plate readers. So I brought this referral to find out if there is interest from this body to look at license plate readers and then understanding that there are two different issues. There's the license plate readers which provide real time information about vehicles in cities. And then there's the second issue what do you do with the data once it's happening? And so there's a spectrum of how we how license plate readers could be implemented in Alameda. And there may be places where the police department and staff feel that there is a reasonable use of them and where they aren't interested in that . And so I wanted to again see if there's a interest on the council to ask staff to explore how they might propose using license plate readers in Alameda County consistent with our privacy policy, which is not yet an ordinance and consistent with the the San Francisco surveillance ordinance, which we sent to staff for their consideration to bring back is an ordinance as well. But in that it outlines a number of reporting requirements for when we move forward with surveillance type technology. So until we have our own ordinance set, it's pretty much the gold plated surveillance ordinance in the Bay Area and probably in this country. And it would be a good pilot for how does this work and how does it inform both the council and the community about the impacts of proposed use of technology in in Alameda? And then additionally, if data is being collected, if we were to move forward with license plate readers, where would we be comfortable having staff consider kind of the retention and use and possible sharing of any of that data data possibly providing staff with a menu or a spectrum of of or range of. Sorry. Brain freezing where they were with a range of options for how they might come back and talk to us if they were interested in bringing that back. So that is my refer counsel comments. Councilmember Vela Um, so I'm a little bit, um, I had a referral several years ago to get the privacy and data retention, um, ordinances in place. And, you know, one of the things that happened was that our police department asked for an exemption, uh, specifically for, for law enforcement. Um, and well, we discussed that exemption at the last meeting that was not with the thought of Alpers being adopted. Um, so I would like to see what the actual ordinance and we did give instruction at the last meeting about the ordinances and looking at the ACLU model ordinance as well as the San Francisco ordinance. Um, I think, Vice Mayor, you were, you were pretty clear on that instruction and helping us clarify that for staff. Direction. But I would also like to see, you know, to have staff come back with both of those, um, and with an explanation of how a law enforcement exemption would interact with this and what it would mean . Because I do have concerns about, you know, if we're going to adopt an ordinance for privacy and data retention. Um, I would like the ordinance to apply. And specifically part of it is to have it applied to all aspects of government, including law enforcement, so that there can't be, um, you know, abuses, maybe not even by our own city, but by vendors who we contract with. The other concern that I have, and it's something that we've discussed in the past, is while there is a Supreme Court case saying that cities are not bound to release kind of wholesale data collected by Alpers, the Brown Act still or not the Brown Act, but the the Public Records Act still compels us to release records to people that are the vehicles registered owner. And we've heard from a couple of speakers tonight regarding domestic violence concerns and things like that. Um, I would like to know if there's a way to, to, uh, you know, create a policy specific to checking on certain things, for instance, before we do a release, if we could have a policy in place to check to see if there's any civil or criminal restraining orders against the requesting party, that sort of thing. The reason being, you know, I think that we're all human. Our police officers are human. I was in my third trimester of pregnancy when Alameda Police Department came banging on my door in the middle of the night, woke both my husband and I up. Um, and we had multiple officers and there were four or five at our door searching for somebody who was not, uh, living with us because they had gotten a welfare call and this individual had a criminal and a civil restraining order against his former partner. And that former individual was, had been very abusive and violent and was harassing this individual and basically was calling in to various police departments, um, saying that this individual was a threat to himself and was essentially trying to weaponize the police. And so out of their good intention, they showed up at our house, understandably concerned for the welfare of this individual without realizing that the person calling was literally down the block trying to see if that individual was, in fact, staying with us. And, you know, my concern would be the same sort of thing. You know, if if your partner and you're an abusive relationship has the car registered to them, you know, somebody's putting in an information request and getting that information and then using it to stalk the person. And I don't want us to inadvertently turn over information that could help facilitate that sort of thing. Thank you. Councilman Brody. Sure. I had a couple of comments. I appreciate customer vela's comments that I share a lot of the same concerns. I guess the threshold issue to me is, I mean, do we have support to do this? Because, one, this is a tremendous amount of work for our police chief, who I imagine would be the one. Doing it. And if there's not a majority that want to move forward with license plate readers, it's a waste of time, in my opinion, for him to do all this work if it eventually gets voted down. So further. I mean, if it for me to vote on it, I would want this information. So I think that's a prerequisite even before it comes. And, you know, I'm not into setting the priorities of of the police chief, but we do have a shortage of of staff right now. And I know he's made that a top priority of his. We have eight or nine kids now that have been hit since the beginning of the school year. And I know he's made that a priority of his. So, I mean, my question to the city manager is, you know, where would doing this work fall in with those priorities? Because I'd rather have our police force working on not having kids get run over and filling vacancies than drafting a report for something that may have limited use or limited value. So, I mean, that would be one of my questions. So I don't know. You don't have to answer that now, maybe. So depending upon where the I would agree with you and agree with you, but those are high priorities that you mentioned. My recommendation would be that this would probably fall below those priorities and that we would bring back the parameters you want to see. And then he can move forward with the license plate readers depending upon whether or not the parameters work. But I would do the parameters prior to doing any work on the LP. Okay. Because I'd like to see, you know, information on, you know, exactly what it is that we would use this for because I mean, the original proposal was to put them at the bridges and the tubes. And I hear people, you know, I see on Facebook, well, I had a package stolen from my house and we have license plate readers. We would have caught that person. Well, no, because we don't know what that person doesn't have a car. So or you know, I was assaulted by so-and-so. You know, a license plate reader would have would stop them. Okay. Well, if you're not a car, you don't know when they're crossing the bridge. And I do have I mean, another example is, you know, so and so, you know, I was a victim of a crime by a a green person. So then if we want to find that green person, then we're scrolling through thousands and thousands of photos profiling a green person. I'm just using that as an example. I mean, that color I know we don't have green people, but I mean that that potential for racial profiling is concerning to me. The potential for, um, just the issue with the shooter was not to my tongue, but I forgot. But I'll come back to it. Um, the whole issue with domestic violence, I mean, I could easily see an instance like Councilmember Vela brought up where, you know, someone's the owner of the car, their wife or husband or whatever as a victim of domestic violence. They get their records, you know, they find out they go off the bridge every day at 933. Maybe they're in hiding. And then all of a sudden, the next day, that person's there, they stalk them, they kill them. So, I mean, and then, you know, I have concerns about that. I have concerns about, you know, this data being misused by someone who has a right to that if they own the car, you know, use it in a family law dispute. I used to do that as a as a living. And those things get vicious, you know. And I thought of the other one and I forgot again. But, um. Oh, and I think we were on the verge of adopting this a while back. And then we found out that, you know, data was going to ice, not because we wanted it to, not because our police were giving it, but because the vendor was doing it. Even though we were we were somehow told that that wasn't happening. I don't know if it specifically was for Alameda, but that vendor was sharing data with ice now three years ago. You know, this would not have been a problem. But, you know, I don't know where we're going in the next 3 to 5 years with with data that could be commandeered. You know, this is a different time than it was three years ago. So there's a lot of things I'd like to see. You know, these examples turn into use cases. You know, that's kind of is something where you kind of lay out what's going to happen in these certain circumstances that we can kind of see and show the public, yeah, this is going to be valuable for this. You know, this is going to be, you know, we're going to protect you in case of this or, you know, that type of thing. So I can visualize, you know, how this tool, if we decide to adopt that is going to be effective and how the civil liberties of our public, you know, are going to be protected. Because, you know, you could have you know, there's just so much potential for abuse. And, you know, I before I would vote on this, I'd want to make sure that I was satisfied that that that that potential was protected or prevented. Thank you. Councilmember Desai. Oh, well, thank you very much. I come at this from a different angle. Back in 2013, I believe it was, uh. Council. Lina Tam at the time took an interest in license plate readers. Both of us were asked to attend a meeting at Ruby Bridges Elementary School because residents at the Bayport neighborhood were very concerned about about the increasing increase of crime that was going on and saw in license plate readers as a possible tool to deal with safety and crime related issues. I continue to have that perspective and I saw that the City Council between 2013 and 2015, 2016, I think made incredible headway in terms of moving forward with implementing license plate readers . And we also had an audit report that was issued I think some time in December 2015 looking at, you know, what had been the record of the license plate readers that were put into place. And I believe they were for the four or so license plate readers. They were pretty effective in identifying a good number of vehicles that were associated in criminal activity. My hope is that we return to looking at license plate readers, especially from the lens of crime prevention, of making people who want to come into town, whether they cross the bridges or or come in through the to think twice about coming into Alameda using their vehicles to commit crimes. And I think license plate readers does that. I think there's been some considerable evidence that crime has reduced been reduced in the city of Piedmont because of license plate readers that were placed there. And I think they had expanded the numbers just recently in terms of issues of what you do with the data and in terms that particularly with regard to civil liberties, I believe the city of Alameda had a robust discussion around data, data management and, uh, and I think that certain policies were in place if they need to be tweaked and they ought to be tweaked. But in my opinion, I believe we need to get back to implementing license plate readers where we can within the budget that we have. Um, that's my perspective. I think it's a, it's first and foremost a crime prevention tool in a time of great changes in and in the region and in Alameda. I think this is one way of making people feel safe and secure when they come into the city of Alameda. And I think we owe that to the residents of Alameda. Thank you, Councilmember Desai. So here's my perspective. Um, I think that all of us are probably aware of a horrendous attack that occurred in New York State during Hanukkah where an intruder, a criminal, barged into a rabbi's home, a crowded home with children and guests there celebrating Hanukkah pulled out, I mean, a large knife, but it sounded more like a sword and injured a number of people badly and then fled in a car and was later arrested in Harlem, which was a considerable distance from this home in northern New York. And the way that that person was tracked down and so quickly, I mean, within hours was because there were fixed license plate readers that guests at the party had the presence of mind to get the license plate of this fleeing vehicle. The police came and then that information was broadcast out to jurisdictions and it went up into these license plate readers. And they were able to they ping when whenever a vehicle, a wanted vehicle is located and that person is now under arrest and, you know, will be facing charges for a horrendous hate crime, is what it was. So I was on the city council when we adopted the use of license plate readers on a number of our police vehicles. They don't all have them, but there's a certain number of maybe four, maybe half dozen, I don't remember. And there's a policy that governs the use of those. ALPERS And it's not terribly different than I would imagine a policy would be for license plate readers on fixed locations like our portals, our bridges and. The entrance to the tube. I think it's unfortunate and I know it wasn't intentional that we brought this item forward at a time when the police chief was going to be out of town. I suppose we could have delegated or designated someone from the police department to be here to answer questions, because it's not really fair for us to be speculating. But I will say and I attended there was a forum that was held at the library. Tony, I feel like you might have been there. Are you Jim? Were you. Okay. But you were in the audience, you know what I'm talking about. And there was a panel and there was someone from New Haven. The ACLU attorney was there, and there was a white paper that was published. But it was on the basis of the feedback from that workshop that our license plate reader policy was, was adopted, was, was formulated in adopted. And so I'm sure that rather than throw it out and start from scratch, I mean, I'm sure San Francisco does great work, but we're not San Francisco. I have huge regard for the ACLU. I'd be interested in what they say, and I know we use the ACLU, use white paper and examples in formulating the policy for the body worn cameras that our police department also uses. But I heard concerns raised and, you know, valid concerns that our police department is currently understaffed. And so how would we prioritize all this? But I've also heard our police chief say many, many times he would like to have these license plate readers. He refers to them as a force multiplier, that they're what they're able to do is to be collecting data and doing the work of officers manually having to do that or going out on on a bit of a wild goose chase, a retention policy. Retention policy is in the current the current guidelines. I haven't looked at it for a while. It's could well need to be revisited. Technology changes, but there's definitely a retention policy there. Now I share the concern that's been expressed with sharing. I would be want to be very clear about who does and doesn't get that. But I know there's there's been concern raised about, say, domestic violence victims. I'm more conversant with the of the body worn camera policy because that was more recent in time. There are definitely in our policy exceptions for even activating your body worn camera. If you are interviewing someone who's a domestic violence victim, they're very sensitive. They don't want to be on camera, a child victim. I mean, there's there are guidelines to that and there are certainly guidelines to who can access the the the footage from license plate readers. It isn't just that the, you know, disgruntled ex-boyfriend with bad intentions can can walk in and get that it is that is not the case. But we'd want to make sure that any policy has those protections, the potential for racial profiling. I'm confused here because we're talking about license plate readers that are reading the license plate and not the. I know there were other examples of well, it caught a screenshot of the driver of the vehicle, too. These are machines that are capturing the license plate data and so so it knows that that car with that and yeah it would capture a bit of the rear or the front of the the bumper. So you might be able to tell the make and model of the car. But using it for racial profiling, I'm I'm confused about how that could happen. And certainly this is not something we want to do. But but as far as the civil liberties, you know, we were reminded when we did this discussion previously about license plate readers that there is no expectation of privacy driving down a street or a highway with your car. You don't have a right to the privacy of your license plate as you drive down the street. But whatever we do as a council, of course, we balance competing interests. We want to look out for civil civil liberties. We want to protect vulnerable populations, domestic violence victims. But these are not mutually exclusive propositions. I do believe we can, and I know I certainly get these emails and I would imagine my counsel does to from residents saying, when are we going to get those? And so I think that even more so now at a time when we are short staffed as a police department, and I don't see that reversing or completely reversing anytime soon because we all know the challenges to filling law enforcement positions. I think we owe it to our police department. I think we owe it to our citizens to make these tools available that can help make us a safer community. And again, I give you the recent New York example. We have policies in place now. They should be revisited, updated. But I think I think it's time to move forward. And I had just a couple questions on the the wording of the staff report that on page two says the report should include effectiveness in reducing auto theft auto recovery. I would like to add should include but not be limited to because they're I mean I'm I don't do police work but I would imagine there are other things that license plate readers could help in in in capturing like a terrorist, you know, a hate crime that was in New York. I mean, that's not auto theft. That but that was that was a very important arrest that was made possible by an LPR. And then I, I was confused about the next to the last bullet on the second page, which says the report should include information on the level of interest of Alameda Police Department leadership in proceeding under each of the identified scenarios. And is that what what did you mean by that? I just think there would have been a sub sub bullet of the the bullet above it, which is options for addressing. So, you know, what options would we be if we were interested? Well, if we were interested in moving something forward and we had, you know, some members who were interested in just real time know, warehousing, etc. , that might be one thing we say, hey, please, you know that. You know, city manager, when you come back, look at this option. And another one might be right. This spectrum sharing your data with everybody in the world and not caring about who uses it. Not that I'm proposing that. You're right. Yeah. It may be that the police department says, you know what? Real time license plate readers with no data warehousing, retention and use for detective work in the future not interested in that. So what they. Said at the meeting. Right. So, you know, I think that there are there is a spectrum of what we do with that data. And to your point, there is probably some places where there's probably some places where all five of us are like, yeah, let's, let's, let's move forward this and the police might say we're not going to spend half a million dollars on that. It's not worth it. So I think I just wanted to well, I have some comments, but that was for that. Okay. Well, and that's the extent of mine. So. Vice Mayor. Sure. So, you know, I want to appreciate this. I actually think everybody made comments that I thought were very consistent with what I proposed. This referral is not to say let's do license plate readers. This is to take the temperature of the council and say, is there are there three people who who would be interested in seeing license license plate readers under certain under certain circumstances? And what would those circumstances be? I would say that it includes it requests a report that provides information on the effectiveness of. Yeah, we can we can talk about hate crimes and terrorist tax. I think those happened so infrequently. We have you know, I would I would like to be careful of is getting a report that goes to the hyperbolic very you know Timothy McVeigh you know you could have in court kind of thing which is unlikely where where our community is very much concerned about package theft, etc.. But, you know, to Councilmember Otis examples, I agree. I think that there is a lot of misinformation about how useful license plate readers are. And I think that having a well-researched report that actually uses effectiveness studies to talk about where this will work and be useful like it will help us find stolen vehicles. It will not likely capture most package thieves. One of the areas that our police department does talk about that I was interested in, it came up in our conversation is a lot of the smash and grabs are being done by crews in and when they and they they work the entire East Bay and they start in Fremont and they hit mile after mile after mile. By the time they get to Alameda, they often know that they are out, but they don't know who. But they they can get screengrabs, let's say, from Fremont. And they might actually know as they drive in from High Street that these folks that are going to hit, you know, bridge side, south shore, Alameda landing. Read a village and then leave town again. It might be possible whether or not that's going to happen all the time and it's worth the time and expense is. But but, you know, there are some places where some of these property crimes could could have an impact as well. I'd like to hear from the folks who know better, but I also wanted to be very explicit that I don't want anecdotal. Here's a newspaper article in which some, you know, small town police chief says, we put these in and they were great. That's not that's not useful data to me. The surveillance ordinance from San Francisco. So so I guess what I was going to say is we last meeting, we actually passed a policy for based on the ACLU use your best practice and directed that that policy become an ordinance. So I think that we've already given staff the direction pretty clearly. Well, and so, again, we're not approving anything. What we're asking is bring this back and tell us how any data that was collected would be used in the course of the collection of this, so that we can make an informed decision about whether or not we want to move forward with a license plate readers. You know, if there's not a scenario where a person wants to go or wants to support license plate readers, I wouldn't move this forward. Again, I didn't. I did mark this not urgent but important with the understanding that the the city manager and the police chief are going to have to choose their that their prioritization in terms of work plans. You know, I think, you know, how I would summarize this this referral and I'm happy to say not limited to it's basically is it are there scenarios where a majority of this council would support license plate readers? I would suggest, given that there are scenarios where I will in scenarios where I won't, you know, I would be interested in looking at not sharing with national and possibly state law enforcement agencies, but possibly sharing with local law enforcement agencies, at least for consideration, and then identifying the effectiveness and concerns so that it can come back at some point when the when the police department decides that it is a big priority for their goals and the goals that we've given them, so that we can have that conversation knowledgeably with all the information in front of us. I'm going next because I feel compelled to address something that you said, Vice Mayor. I take exception to the story, the incident that I described in New York being characterized as a hyperbolic example. In fact, it is reported that there is an increase in. It since that I minutes of your time is that council would need to vote to suspend the rolls to continue additional. Can I. Okay. Can I. Whatever time. See, time. I'll be allowed to do that. No. Okay. Okay. Well, you can vote to allow me to continue or not. I'll move. Okay. Are there others who would. Like 3 minutes or 4 minutes or what. Do you suggest? 3 minutes would be fine for me. Day three, then 3 minutes second. All in favor. I. Okay. So I don't think that that was a hyperbolic example, and it certainly wasn't a Timothy McVeigh. That's the reference to the Oklahoma City Federal Building. But Vice Mayor, it has been reported and documented that there is an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in our country just a week before the attack at the rabbi's home. There was an attack on a kosher grocery in New York. And so, God forbid anything should happen in our community. But we also can't put our heads in the sand and pretend that it won't. And what I'm considering are issues. And again, if we had the police chief or someone from APD here, they would tell you that they're concerned with crimes a lot more serious than package thefts and that they have you know, we're a very safe community, but there's some folks who do some pretty horrendous things that pass through here. And so, yeah, at the end of the day, I think we all do want a safe community. Thank you for sitting me more time. Okay. I saw that everybody's got their hand up. I saw Councilmember Avella first. I'm going to go to her, then Councilmember Desai, then Councilmember Odie. Councilmember Vella So I just my concerns from before were that I don't want this to give people a false sense of security. And I think that that's kind of what's underscored by what the vice mayor has put forward in terms of requesting data. And I, I would like I am interested in data, not allegorical stories or that sort of thing, but but hard data specific to prevention. We've we've heard a lot about how these can be helpful in solving crimes, to me, increasing public safety. It's great that we can solve crimes. I want to make sure what's the data around preventing them? And that's part of what's included in here. And I appreciate that. But and that's I just want to highlight that that's something that's of of importance to me. I think that there's often a lot of different tools that are available. For instance, China's using facial recognition software. We see biometrics coming up more and more with AI forms of identification. Even real ID is is kind of another method of of kind of harvesting data by government is. Here that right we're just talking about LPR is just for the sake of Browning correct. But but my concern is while it could be a substantial tool in solving crimes when we're do it, when I'm doing the analysis of the civil liberties, I also want to see what's the trade off. And, you know, I do think we're in a time of heightened anti-Semitic attacks. You know, a lot of this coincided also with, you know, the celebration of Hanukkah. But we're we're alternatively seeing that, you know, there was a report out this weekend that right after the airstrike that killed the Iranian general, that customs, customs and Border Patrol detained dozens of people and that the plane was Iranians. Right. Iranian-Americans that. Right. And and again, how how did they know they were Iranian-American? You know, they were detaining them at the border. Yes, it was the border crossing. And there's a. They had dual citizenship, too. Right. But but to me, I you know, I am worried about again, who are we sharing this data with? I frankly would be concerned with even sharing it with local law enforcement, depending on if those other cities had policies to share their information with other agencies in a time where these sorts of things are being used to to to look at individuals of certain ethnic descent. I also think that, you know, there was a lot of discussion when we heard this item the last time around, the value and this was not our police chief, but the product, the person that was representing the product around the value of the photo showing the surroundings and the people in the vehicle. And I think, you know, my fear, I guess my greatest fear would be that somebody says, I have a partial license plate, I have 6l2, but the person was this race. And all of a sudden we're now scanning through, you know, looking for everybody who's X race and has, you know, one of those things in their license plate. And I think that's. Part of at least what I think is Councilman Otis concern. And so I think structuring around how our police officers intend to use this and, you know, whether or not, again, whether or not they're exempt. To me, I wouldn't be comfortable with a blanket law enforcement exemption to either of the policies that we discussed before. If this is something that we're looking at getting, because I think that this is a tool that that does have the potential to be abused. Thank you. Okay. Councilman Woodside. Well, thank you. We in the city had lpas and and now we don't have lpas and and. Yeah. But we never had fix. But we need to have these kind of lpas as well. So if it means making trade offs, you know, then let's have this discussion and let's move forward with Vice Mayor Knox White Counsel referral. But, you know, there are some things that I'm interested in when it comes to whether there or LPR is on vehicles or whether there are mounted LPAS. There are some things that I'm interested in and I think the city of Alameda had already demonstrated its ability to move forward with, you know, a reasonable policy with regard to all those other important issues like data retention, like civil liberties. I think we've demonstrated that already with the vehicle LPR And I see no reason why we can't use that as a basis for moving forward with the other type of LPR is that the community is interested in having, but if it means, you know, some of the items that the Vice Mayor Knox White needs to be part of the discussion, then okay, we'll have that discussion. And if that's necessary, you know, make trade offs and compromises as I as I would as a council member because I think. That's what the residents want us to do, is to make this a safe and secure island as much as possible for everyone of all ages. Thank you, Councilmember Odie. So just I'll try to be brief. First of all, Mayor, I thought I'll. Give you more. First I thought your points are very eloquent and your understanding of Lpas is completely in line with my understanding. But I don't think the public knows as much about it as you do because. You know, I was there at that meeting. I supported the the the mobile ones, but the mobile ones are scanning and looking for stolen vehicles. And six years ago when we did that, you know, that was that was a big deal. Not just stolen vehicles missing. Right. Right. So to me, there's a difference. And I'm not saying I'm against them. I want I want all these answers. I could vote for them if my concerns were were addressed. But, you know, there's a difference between patrolling around and driving around in the city and capturing the license plate of every single person who comes on and off the island. I mean, that's the difference for me. And you were eloquent in the point that you pointed out exactly what these things do. They help solve crimes. They help solve that crime. And no one talks about it. But the Oikos shooter, we found him because the Oikos shooter was found in Alameda, my understanding, because of one of our mobile helpers. So remember that which incident? The oikos over in Oakland. The he shot. He shot the people at the at the Korean school. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a value in solving crimes. I totally get that. But I don't see how it prevents crimes. I mean, maybe the incidents where, you know, there's a a truck that, you know, is smashed and grabbed up the East Bay and, you know, we can ping and then we know that person is there. Well, that's you know, that's an instantaneous use, you know, that I don't think anyone has any issue with that type of use. The concern I have and because we did a lot of discussion on this is from, you know, when I spoke to CHP and OPD years ago when they were doing this is you have to have a tremendous amount of data if you want to if you want to solve some of these other crimes that you have to look at. And so for it to be a really valuable tool, you have to keep a year or year and a half worth of data and we have to have a discussion on what if we want to if we want to do that. And B, if we do do that, what the tradeoff is. So the tradeoff is data that is at risk or that, you know, needs special controls around it. So I, I really appreciate, you know, those comments. So these are the things I want to hear about. I had one other thing to say, but I forgot. But I am concerned. And if it's as you describe, which I believe it is, Mayor, you know, where you're taking a picture of a license plate and you're never going to be able to, you know, look at the driver. To me, that's my understanding. But I don't think the public has that understanding. I think they they think if they call in and say a green guy, you know, in a in a tan suit and, you know, just did X, Y and Z that the police are going to be scanning license plate photos for green guys driving a tan sedan with or, as Malia said, the six L. S license plate. And that's where I think people want us to be able to do that. And my understanding is you can't do that. And if that's true, then I'd feel more comfortable. But if there's a chance that that could happen, I think there's that's where the risk of of racial profiling comes in. But, you know, I could be you know, it may not matter to me. But I was happy to support the mobile ones. I just want to make sure there's a differentiation. And if there is something that says it prevents crimes, I'm all ears. But, you know, I think it's effective tool solving crimes. But I have yet to see anything that says it's going to prevent crimes. So if I could address your points really quickly and the mobile ones I know, I love it. I should go. I'm had bet on the mobile ones. You know, the Council on American-Islamic Relations actually had issues because of it, as of an incident in New York, where police with Mobile Alpers were patrolling around a mosque and getting the license plates. But we don't do that. We have a policy. Our retention policy and LPR is, if I recall correctly, is six months. The police chief is still not happy with me because he would have wanted a year, but I really held out for six months. I just felt that that should be long enough. And so as far as could they prevent crimes, I would submit this scenario. So the attacker on the rabbi's home in New York, he had been following these, you know, hate filled websites. He was armed. Who knows what he might have done and where he might have gone if he hadn't been stopped. I know that our LPR as our roving ones have stopped people who are child abductors. I mean, that's preventing a crime and stop. The stabbing or the. No, but but but I can't. Yeah. Right. And so anything we do is going to require some public education. I hope we'll go forward with considering the policy. I hope we'll make sure to have someone from the police department here to answer our questions or draft the staff report or something if and when it comes back. Okay. Vice Mayor. So, I mean, if we're ready, I'd like to propose a motion that essentially moves. I really think all this conversation and the considerations is what I tried to do. I heard a few things that I wanted to add into it just to make it clear I heard concerns about photo captures. I think that at the very least, we should we should request any information might may improve their standing as most of the light. Our helpers do not take photos, but I do know that there were some old models that did so a clarification that photo capture would not be a part of that. And then I think also just based on the things I'm hearing, I think that we need clarification and as we're discussing the new data privacy policy, how that links up with our LPR policy, I would suggest the A LPR policy needs to be amended to align with our data policy in that we definitely part of the conversation when, if and when it comes back needs to be an express discussion on the public safety exemption and how that would apply to the data that's collected here, because it's not my expectation that we're just going to collect information and that does APD and other law enforcement agencies are. We need another motion? Well, actually, I think by 3 minutes. Um. I thought it was specific to the mayor, but if no. I think it was everybody. I think if that were my, my motion would be essentially the referral as written with the mayor's not limited to addition clarification about no photo capture and expressly asking for clarification on the LPR policy as it correlates to the new data policy, future ordinance and express discussion on the public safety exemption and how it might play into this vis a vis the data policy. We have a motion to have a second. I mean, I could second that, but I don't know if I want to. Go second and then the. Second. Unless you were making a friendly. There was a kind of be a friendly amendment. I'm I'm not sure we need to say no photo capture, but, you know, an analysis of what photo capture capabilities may or may not exist because, you know, maybe there maybe that'll never happen, but maybe they'll be some technology that can be an add on. I don't know. Maker of the motion. It's I think, you know, when I hear my colleague on the left not supporting front of capture, I'm not very. Much supporting. It either. I'm not supporting I wouldn't support photo capture. I don't think if we're not using I don't know why we need photo capture for this. So I don't think we do either. But my point was, what if the the product we get somehow has an ability to do that in the future? You know, I mean. Then we amend the. Way they did. Then they would have to come back. Where it's happening without us knowing. Well, that's that's that's its own problem. Like Councilmember Vela. I think my concern would be I want to I want an ordinance to deal with the technology as presented today. I want an ordinance that deals with the technology as presented in known today. And I think it's for a future for future council to amend the ordinance if they're going to expand it. And I think this helps prevent the situation that we had even with our last renewal of the license plate reader technology with the company that that was doing things that were in violation of our ordinance. So if we create the ordinance and there some somehow a violation, then we actually have a legal legal ground to stand on to say, hey, no, we said no, you should have known better and you're in violation and breach. So I'll just second it as it is then. Okay. We have a motion. We have a second. All in favor or any discussion? No discussion. All in favor. Hi. All right. Thank you for the discussion. All right. Good work, everyone. Thank you. All right, now we move on to item ten Council Communications. Let's just go down the list. Councilmember Odie. So I. Didn't. Really do that first or second. I don't care to do that.

Adopt resolution amending the Zoning Code (ZCA18-002) by amending the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1) to address technical errors and provide clarifying language in the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1); and Approve a Site Plan Review (SPR18-020) for a new two-story gymnasium with a fitness center, activity room, youth soccer field, and 70-space parking lot, located at 3012 Long Beach Boulevard; approve a Lot Merger (LMG18-008) to consolidate the Salvation Army Campus into two lots; and, find the proposed vacation of a portion of Elm Avenue north of Spring Street, and two alleys located between Elm and Pasadena Avenues, consistent with the General Plan (GPC18-002). (District 7)

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Halfway through our agenda. Report from Development Services recommendation receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, adopt mitigated negative declaration and the dash 04-15 and adopt a resolution approving an addendum to the Midtown Specific Plan IIR. You also declare an ordinance approving a zone change relating to a portion of the Salvation Army campus to the Midtown's specific plan. Read for the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and adopt a resolution amending zoning code by amending the Midtown Specific Plan and approve a site plan review. Find the proposed vacation of a portion of Elm Avenue, north of Spring Street, and two alleys located between Elm and Pasadena Avenues, consistent with the General Plan District seven. Okay, Mr. West. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We will have a quick staff report by Carrie Tai, our current planning officer. Thank you. Good evening on a Mayor Garcia and city council. I have a staff report if you are interested. Okay. I'm going to proceed before you. Tonight is the last phase of this is the last phase of the Salvation Army's build out of their Citadel campus at 3012 Long Beach Boulevard. So this is on the northeast corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Spring Street. And the campus currently has a social services building, administrative offices, a chapel, a multipurpose building, a parking lot and then vacant land. And so the project that's being discussed tonight would go on the vacant portion. So currently along Long Beach Boulevard, it's there's there's that it's completed. And then the project takes place along Spring Street. This is the third of a three phase project that started back in 2013. The history is basically detailed in your report, but due to some oil wells, they had to do a redesign. So they were back here. The site plan is on the screen, but basically it's a gymnasium, a soccer field and a new parking lot. And that would complete the the campus. The building design is a it's a 36 foot tall building in typical gymnasium, and it's a pretty nice design and that's in your plans as well. So there are some renderings of the proposed project phase on the screen there. And one's from Long Beach Boulevard, the other is from Spring Street. So one of the major actions tonight is for his own change. A portion of the campus right now is in the Midtown specific plan, whereas the remainder is not. And so the proposal is to move the entire campus into the midtown specific plan. And also the specific plan was adopted in 2016. And there are some ambiguities and clarifications that were needed to fix it. And since we were hoping opening up the specific plan, we thought we would correct some of those items as well. And so those are part of the proposal tonight. Also, you may have noticed that the campus does span several blocks. And so there are some vacation proposals for a portion of Elm Street as well as two alleys. The action would be a general plan conformity simply to to find that the request for the vacation is consistent with the general plan. The actual action for the vacation would be processed by the Public Works Department, and that would come back to the council at a later date after their public outreach. And then lastly, there are two environmental documents that accompany this action tonight. One is a mitigated negative declaration for the project. The second is an addendum to the Midtown specific plan. ER for those technical changes that I talked about. The Planning Commission did conduct a public hearing on this. That was about two months ago. They forwarded a recommendation to the Council and so we are relaying that to you tonight. So that concludes today's presentation. And the applicant is in the audience and they've been there since 5:00. Thank you. Thank you. Got somebody Ringa. Gong to go ahead and listen to the applicant before I make my recommendation. Okay, great. We go ahead. And if we can have the applicant, which is the Salvation Army, please come forward. Good evening or good morning. Both, I think, are appropriate at this time. My name is Captain Sergio Garcia. I lead the Salvation Army here in Long Beach. I've been here for three years before that. Three years prior to that, I was at headquarters, which is also here in Long Beach on 180 East Ocean Boulevard. So I've been a part of this community for about six years now. We're excited about the expansion of our campus on Spring and Long Beach Boulevard to provide more services for the four areas which we discovered in an assessment back in 2005, 2006 that said that we needed to provide more services to at risk youth, low income families of homeless and seniors. And so our campus expansion will provide enhanced services to all of those areas. We've already did the grand opening for our senior center, which is now seeing two different events a month, plus working with other several partners, community organizations, civic groups to create a space for seniors at our location that they can come, be educated or just have a cup of coffee or ice cream as we're having a social or in a couple of weeks. Then part of the expansion that you're seeing today will allow us to provide services not just to youth, but to whole families. We really believe that a multi-generational approach to what we're doing is best. So we want to involve the grandparents, the parents, the children in this process. And so the new gymnasium would allow us to focus families in education, healthy living, and simply just being a part of this community. Great. Thank you so much. Any other public comment on the hearing? See? None. Councilmember Ringo? Yes, sir. I've had a great opportunity to be part of some of the ribbon cuttings that the Salvation Army has had over the last few years of the the classrooms and the gymnasium. And now, with the addition of the soccer field, I think it's going to be a great addition to the community. It's a wonderful facility, and it's going to be, I'm sure, very fully utilized. And I'm glad to see that it's going to be a great addition into that area to provide some additional services that are much needed in that area. And it also adds some open space with the with the soccer field and other recreation opportunities for kids. So I totally support the project and I hope that I get the support of my colleagues as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I would like to thank Development Services for their diligent work on this hearing. I counsel Mongo and I took a tour of the facilities in and and it seems like the Salvation Army's plan to continue to serve and serve in our community in there and especially in their camps, ministry and recreational activities and assistance to those who need it is amazing. And I want to thank you guys very, very much. Thank you. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I, too, had the pleasure of receiving a tour with Jack Cunningham, my chief of staff, and very, very impressed with the facility. More importantly, though, very impressed with the concept behind the organization and the various programs that you have. I proudly refer people to the program, the substance abuse programs that you have in my capacity in Orange County. So I thank you for everything that you do and the great work that you're doing in Long Beach. Thank you. Councilman Mongo. I also appreciate the tour. You guys are doing great work. Thank you for waiting such a long time and thank you for all you do in the community. And thank you all. It's been great to partner with all of you. I've been there with you guys every step of the way here in these last few years with the the campaigns and the organizing folks. You guys doing a great job of raising money, building out the campus. It's a great space for for folks in Long Beach, seniors and families and a lot of our low income communities that we that you serve every day. So thank you very much. And please cast your votes.

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services to execute an amendment extending certain lease agreements between The City of Seattle and KBS SOR CENTRAL BUILDING, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for office space the City leases at 810 Third Avenue; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda item seven Council Bill 118473. Authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services to execute an amendment extending certain lease agreements between the City of Seattle and KBS. So our Central Building LLC, a Delaware limited liability company for office space, the city leases at 810 Third Avenue and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Gordon. This council bill allows for the. The extension of a lease agreement for space for the Human Services Department and the Office of Civil Rights Committee urges passage of this bill. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Gordon. Hi, Carol. All right. O'Brien. All right. Okamoto. Rasmussen. All right. So want I back? Shall I? And President Burgess eight in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item eight. Agenda Item eight Council Bill 118474 relating to the North Precinct Project and the Department of Finance and Administrative Services amending ordinance 124648, which adopted the 2015 budget authorizing the loan of funds from the city's consolidated residual cash pool or its participating participating funds in the amount of 2,750,000 to the 2016 Bond Fund for bridge financing of the

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation and Seattle Public Utilities; transferring partial jurisdiction of real property within Block 1, Plat of Yesler Terrace Community, as recorded in Volume 267, page 59 of plats; for maintenance, repair, replacement, and operation of the existing combined drainage and sewer facility.

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Three Person Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development and Arts Committee Agenda Item one Constable 119 177 relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation and Seattle Public Utilities transferring partial jurisdiction and real property within block one plat to the Terrace Community as recorded in Volume 267, Page 59 of Plats for maintenance repair replacement operation of the existing combined drainage and Sewer Facility Committee recommended the bill pass. Customer Herbold. Thank you. This legislation would transfer partial jurisdiction of property in Nassau Terrace from the Department of Parks and Recreation to Seattle Public Utilities for the purpose of operating and maintaining a combined drainage and sewer line. The legislation itself replaces the existing FHA easement and allows SPU to maintain, operate and replace the BIND Sewer main. The reason is basically because the current easement with parks is no longer valid. Any further questions or comments? Now please call the roll on the part of the Bill. Johnson or as Mr. O'Brien want I lecture Gonzales Herbold II President Harrell Hi nine in favor and unopposed. Bill passed Chair of Senate Please read Agenda item number two.

AN ORDINANCE relating to public outreach and engagement; creating a Community Involvement Commission to advise and make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council; amending Sections 3.35.010, 3.35.030, and 3.35.050 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and adding a new Chapter 3.62, consisting of Sections 3.62.010, 3.62.020, 3.62.030, 3.62.040, 3.62.050, and 3.62.060, to the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Agenda Item 18 Council Bill 118 834 Relating to public outreach and Engagement Creating Community Involvement Commission to advise and make recommendations to the Mayor and City Council. The Committee recommends the bill passes amended. Agenda Item 19 Resolution 31718 relating to public average engagement. The committee recommends the resolution be adopted. Any comments from the chair? No. Please call the roll on council. 118834. That's a June item number 18. Herbold, I. Johnson Maurice. O'Brien. Hi. So aren't I. Burgess, I. Gonzales President. Harrell All right. Nine in favor. Nine opposed. Bill pass and please call the roll on. Actually have a resolution here so it will shift to a voice resolution vote. All those in favor of resolution 31718. Please vote by saying i i those oppose vote no. The motion carries the resolutions adopted in chair will sign it. We haven't read it, you know. Okay, let's read again. I don't remember to. Short title, please. Agenda item 20 Council Bill 118 864 Relating to the financing of Equitable Development Implementation Plan projects, the committee recommends the bill pass. In comments from the chair. Please call the roll on council 11886 for this agenda item number 20. Herbold I Johnson. II. Maurice O'Brien on Bagshaw. Burgess Hi. Gonzales Hi. President Harrell Hi. Nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it immediately. Before we move to 21 and 24, I might have handed you some files out of order cause that was okay. So when you are ready, please read agenda items 21 324 Short title.

AN ORDINANCE relating to use of City right-of-way by free-floating scooters; amending Section 15.17.005 of the Seattle Municipal Code; adopting a Free-Floating Scooter Share Program Fee Schedule; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the court please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Item 22 This item has already been read into the record and we have also addressed the substance of this bill and had debate. I will make one last call for any other comments on this bill before we call it to a vote. Seeing no other comments on the bill will occur. Please call the roll on the passage of the Bill Herbold. Yes. Whereas I Lewis. Yes. For Alice? Yes. Well. Sarah. Yes. Peterson. Yeah. So, aunt. Yes? Strauss. Yes. Council. President Gonzalez. I. Am in favor one oppose. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Item 23 Will the clerk please read Agenda Item 23 into the record? Agenda Item 23 Council Bill 119866 An ordinance relating to Seattle Public Utilities creating a restricted cash account for depositing donations and gifts authorizing the general manager, CEO of Seattle Public Utilities to accept donations and gifts into the account for the purpose of providing financial assistance to its low income customers.

AN ORDINANCE relating to human rights; including protections against discrimination based on citizenship and immigration status; adding a definition of race for certain purposes; and amending Sections 3.14.910, 3.14.931, 3.110.260, 4.80.020, 6.02.270, 6.202.230, 14.04.020, 14.04.030, 14.04.040, 14.04.050, 14.06.020, 14.06.030, 14.08.015, 14.08.020, 14.08.045, 14.08.070, 14.08.190, 14.10.010, 14.10.020, and 18.12.280 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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The Report of the Community and Economic Development Committee Agenda Item 29 Council Bill 120241 An ordinance relating to human rights, including protections against discrimination based on citizenship and immigration status. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much. Customer morale as someone handed over to you to provide the committee report. Q Council President Yes. This legislation would align the city's discrimination protections with recent changes to the state's Washington law against discrimination to include discrimination based on citizenship and immigration status, and to provide a definition of race that is inclusive of traits historically associated or perceived to be associated with race. This includes, but is not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles such as afros, braids, locks and twists. And because black women are disproportionately likely to be discriminated against because of their hair, including hairstyles in the city's definition of race can help protect illegal discrimination that is primarily faced by black women. So there's sort of too intense here to align us with the state's law and also to make sure that we are protecting this class. Thank you so much, Councilmember Morales. Are there any additional comments on Council Bill 1202 or one item 29? Harry Nunn will discuss the law on the passage of Council Bill 1 to 0 two for one item 29. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Mesquita I. Petersen, I. Strauss Yes. Verbal Yes. Whereas I council President Gonzalez I aid in favor and oppose. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the please. If it's my signature to the legislation on my behalf, will the clerk please please read items 30 through 34 into the record? Agenda Items 3334. Appointments 20642065206720682078. The appointment of Alexander F Chang as member Seattle Human Rights Commission for a term two January 22nd, 2022 and the appointments of Rupali Dhingra, Amanda, Richard, Jacqui Schultz and Shyla Reid as members. Four Terms to January 22nd, 2023.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Office of Housing; authorizing the acquisition of two parcels in South Park for the purpose of development of affordable housing and community ground floor space; placing the property under the jurisdiction of the Office of Housing; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Motion carries and the appointment is confirmed. Will the park please read the short title of item seven into the record? To be part of the Finance and Housing Committee Agenda Item seven Council Bill 120114 relating to the Office of Housing authorizing acquisition of two parcels in South Park for the purpose of development of affordable housing and community ground for space. The Committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much, Governor Mosquito. You are the chair of the committee and are recognized to provide the committee's report. Excellent. Thank you. Council president, colleagues, as I mentioned this morning, I'm really excited about the legislation in front of us. Constable 121104 is an opportunity for us to move forward on developing affordable housing in a critical area of our city that has seen high risk of displacement. This legislation also represents the first time the Office of Housing is useful utilizing the Acquisition Authority that I sponsored Veon and via an amendment to the Administration and Finance Plan. Update In 2019, we as a Council made the decision to adopt the amendment so that we could increase the Office's Office of Housing Authority to quickly act and move forward on purchasing lands of exactly this type for acquisition. Again, in this year in our acquisition and finance plan update in June, we now have not only increased the amount of funding the Office of Housing had, bringing that amount previously to 30 million. Now, the Office of Housing also has more ability to purchase properties like this in the future because we removed the cap. So this is a really great example of that good work that this council did being put into action and examples of the type of future purchases that we will now be able to see via the Office of Housing. Given this Council's authority to remove the CAP on acquisition authority. This property specifically and I see Councilmember Herbold teeing up to speak about it in District one. This is specific to South Park and the South Park Community Center community, who has been working in collaboration with the Damage Valley Affordable Housing Coalition and Duwamish Valley Cleanup Coalition. Office of Housing and the Office of Sustainability and Environment. That is going to be working to create more affordable housing in South Park, using community preference strategies to help stave off and even reverse some of the effects of displacement, specifically in the South Park community. This piece of the legislation also works towards addressing climate resilience in the neighborhood. South Park is a neighborhood that is experiencing a high risk of displacement, and it also is an area, as we discussed in our committee, that is experiencing a disproportionate impact of environmental injustice in the community. This project and the legislation in front of us is responsive to those concerns and will help tremendously add value to the neighborhood at a site previously occupied by just a garage. So let's turn that space into housing and more community assets. The timing of this legislation is also reflective of the urgency expressed within the community and an agreement the Office of Housing has begun to enter into with the community and the seller so we can be competitive in the purchasing of this property. I want to note that acquisitions like this, in addition to the legislation that we passed in 2018 that prevents the city from selling off public land and under-utilised land to the highest bidder. Both of these strategies help bring in more public assets to the city, allow us to acquire and retain more public property that can be used for the public good, like housing and community sites. That is being considered here at South Park housing coupled with community space on the ground level so that we can truly create homes and a place for folks to continue to live, thrive and enjoy in our city. So, colleagues, I am hopeful that you will consider passing this legislation today again passed out of the Finance and Housing Committee with a do pass recommendation unanimously, as this legislation allows the Office of Housing to acquire two parcels in South Park for affordable housing development, along with ground floor space. And again, this is a community supported project that will utilize these properties to create up to 100 family sized affordable housing units and affordable being defined at 60% of the area median income. Along with that critical community space on the first floor, the community has asked the city to acquire the site and do an RFP for affordable housing development with community priorities in mind, which can commence as soon as we pass this. So looking forward to passing this today and thank you for your support. Thank you very much for that report. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Councilmember Herbold. Please. Thank you so much. I want to just lift up the fact that affordable housing was one of seven priority areas identified in the Damage Valley Action Plan. And this was a plan that was passed a couple of years ago. I think our our action on the action plan is good evidence that with community support and community mobilization, the plans that are developed by community won't just sit on a shelf someplace gathering dust, but that they can actually translate into concrete action. The specific goal that this addresses is pursuing additional opportunities for permanent affordable housing for low income households in the Duwamish Valley. South Park is such a small, close knit community that they they often say that they can literally put together a by name list of folks at risk of displacement with the inclusion of the community preference policy embedded in the request for proposals that will be developed with the community involvement. This acquisition can go a long way towards beginning to address displacement for that list of community members. I want to also give a shout out to the Dual Valley Affordable Housing Coalition for their long track record on developing community vision and for organizing affordable housing in South Park, Georgetown and the communities of Egualmente Valley. This is part of a three pronged approach that she's done a lot of work on. I've gone to a lot of meetings about this approach, and it is specifically focused on addressing displacement with the development of new affordable housing. They state, in partnership with a nonprofit developer, build new affordable housing for families, including displaced households from the Duwamish Valley. Second prong is a multipurpose building, a one stop cultural anchor where local families can access opportunities and resources, open space for gatherings and pop up multigenerational space for learning retail, affordable child care and low income housing units . And the third prong is the preservation of naturally existing affordable housing. They rates in the next 2 to 3 years with the help of public and private partners, or, of course, orchestrate the acquisition of enough units to impact the immediate rental area. The goal is to acquire 100 units in the Duwamish Valley and there has been some work on that third prong partnering specifically with Habitat for Humanity on some some probation work there. I want to just also in closing, thank the Office of Housing for pioneering this innovative approach to addressing displacement. And of course, I think Muskat up for her leadership in allow in sponsoring the legislation that allows for the lifting of the cap for acquisition. Thank you. Thank you so much. Are there any additional comments on the bill? Right. I don't see any other customers of their hands up, so consumers get it. You cannot close out this discussion and then we will take a vote. Thank you so much. I just want to echo Councilmember Herbold comments and appreciation from the Vice Chair for Office of Housing for the Community Coalition that has brought this legislation forward, very excited to follow their lead on what they'd like to see there, and wanted to take this chance to thank Aaron House in my office, along which we stressed the central staff for their work on this as well. Appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. Okay, so debate on the bill is now closed. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? So on. Yes. Strauss. Yes. For both. Ah, yes, thank you. Whereas as. Lewis Yes. Morales. Yes. ROSQUETA. I. Peterson, I. Council President Gonzalez I and I'm in favor and oppose. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Is there any further business to come before the Council? Hearing none. This does conclude the items of business on today's agenda. Our next regularly scheduled City Council meeting is on July 19, 2021 at 2:00 PM. I hope that you all have a wonderful afternoon. We are going to stay. I.

AN ORDINANCE relating to contracting by the Human Services Department; providing that the Seattle Human Services Department provide a cost increase when renewing or renegotiating contracts to address escalation in costs and specifying how and when to apply the increase; amending Section 20.60.102 of the Seattle Municipal Code to exempt human services contracts from the provisions of Chapter 20.60; and adding a new Section 3.20.060 to the Seattle Municipal Code.

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The Report of the Housing, Health, Energy and Workers Rights Committee. Agenda Item three Accountable 119 542 Relating to contracting by the Human Services Department, providing that the Seattle Human Services Department provide a cost increase when renewing or renegotiating contracts to address escalation in costs and specifying how and when to apply the increase in Manning Section 20.60 .102 of the settlement occurred to exempt Human Services contracts from the provisions of Chapter 20.60 and adding a new Section 3.20 .06 to the systems code. The committee recommends that all passes amended. Thank you very much. Customer I'm a skater. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I would love to maybe speak at the end and also support you in your amendment. If you'd like, I could either second your amendment or move your amendment. Okay, so we would like to make the amendment first for the basically. Yes. Okay. So I will move amendment, I guess I'll call it amendment number one. And in addition, you have a copy of the amendment and it was probably circulated on a timely basis and I think central staff for that. Basically what it does is we heard a lot of testimony about how underpaid the the employees doing this kind of work are. And I don't think there was any disagreement. However, it occurred to me that some of the language I thought in the bill could have been a little stronger to making sure that is clearly our intent . And we understand that there are high fixed costs in these nonprofits and other costs that they just don't have control over. But I thought a strong policy statement saying that we get that too, but we also get the fact that these are underpaid jobs and we want to recognize that. So that's what the amendment does. Number one, the number two we've had some of us have been around where we've had real tough times where, you know, a recession and where we had to really sharpen our pencil to make some tough cuts and some policy statements that we had this around 2008 or so. Some policy statements that we said during then were why we have to make these real tough cuts, that the work that you all do, the work that Human Services do, we are preserving that. The work is so critical to protect our most vulnerable that in our budget deliberations, this is so critically important that we recognize you have to preserve, if not even enhance the funding. So the other language of this amendment captures that, and I think it's read by say by saying the critical role we recognize, the critical role that human services organizations fill. And it's our intent to fund annual adjustments in times of both economic prosperity and economic hardship. So that's what the amendment does. And I will formally move it, move it consistent with what I described. Councilmember Mosquito's second it. Any other comments on the amendment? I'll take a. Comment. Mr. Personnel. Councilmember Mosquito. I just want to thank you, Mr. President, for bringing this amendment forward. I think it is a really smart idea to make sure that we express the Council's strong desire that these annual adjustments are received by our provider organizations and in dealing with the fixed and variable costs, as we create greater stability for the organizations, our desire is absolutely in line with what both the CEOs, the executive directors and the frontline staff have said. We want to see wages stabilized. We want to see workers stabilize and the turnover and vacancy rates addressed. So I really appreciate you underscoring that in the amendment. I also think it's important that we, through your amendment, underscore our commitment to investing in the critical role that these human service provider organizations, frontline staff and their leaders provide to our city. And by fulfilling the city's intention to fund the annual adjustments in times of both economic prosperity and economic hardship, I think really recognizes that more people are going to need these various services, especially in times of economic hardship. Very much appreciate you bringing this forward and working with our office on this and will be an enthusiastic yes on your amendment. Thank you. Castro administrator. Sort of like we have a few newlyweds here. Sort of like those wedding vows, for better or for worse. Okay. Any more comments before we vote on the amendment? Okay. It's been moved in, seconded all those in favor of the amendment. Only just the amendment. Please vote. I. I opposed. The ayes have it. The legislation is amended. I'll turn it back over to. I'm a skater. Thank you, Mr. President. I am very excited to bring forth to the Council this amended human service provider inflationary adjustment legislation. If it pleases the President. I may wait to make my comments at the very end. Sure closes out. Sure. So many people have worked on this legislation, so now would be the time to talk about if you'd like. I give you the option to talk about any comments you say before councilmember skater closes. Debate on it and I'll wait. Councilmember Bagshaw Thank you so much. Councilmember Misgendered Councilmember Herald Thank you for both bringing the amendment and for your staunch support. And I want to say thank you to all you and the community for the tremendous work that you. Do we know that people that are suffering on the streets, people that are suffering from behavioral mental health, they need your help more. And that warm handoff is more important than anything else that any of us can do. So I want to. Acknowledge how difficult. And challenging the work is and for our friends in the public defenders for the work you're doing on lead. We know that that makes a huge difference as well. So I want to say I support this. I had brought forward an amendment that I was really more focused on the budget to make sure that future councils had an opportunity to make decisions about what was going to be required going forward. We know that that amendment didn't pass. I am in full support of moving forward, in support of you, and also acknowledging that in the future, if difficulties are faced because of budget, the budget, climate, whatever it might be, future councils and the executive can make their own decisions. So I do want to acknowledge just how strongly I feel about the work you're doing. And I also want to respond to somebody in the audience who said it's a good first start. Well, actually, the good first start was last budget when we did add an additional 1.75 to 2% for this exact thing . So now we're adding another 2%. I'm proud of that. And just Godspeed. In all your work. Thank you, Councilman Bagshaw and Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. I just want to add that there's been talk about the council exercising budget, budgetary discipline. And it's my opinion that this piece of legislation is actually an expression of our budgetary discipline. This is us saying that when we enter the budget negotiations this year that this is our top priority and it's very similar to what we've done in previous years. It's precisely in tough economic times when prior councils have passed resolutions or budget priority letters sent to the mayor, saying that our intention was to hold Human Services harmless to two cuts in past years. This is a this is a this piece of legislation is an expression of our values. And future councils may have different values, but this is an expression of our values at this time and my values for as long as I'm on this council. So thank you. Both, stated Councilmember Herbold. Any other comments before we turn it back over to Councilmember Swan? Thank you, President Herrell. I'm glad to be voting yes on this ordinance to try to prevent or at least help prevent human service funding in our city from falling even farther behind than it already has. I really am grateful to all the organizations, the workers and the unions that have advocated for this, including SEIU, Healthcare, 1199 Northwest . This bill requires human service provider funding to be increased with inflation. And let's be clear, this is not some kind of largesse. If the funding goes up in step with inflation, it just means that they break even. And as the speakers in public comment have stated, not only today, but in on other occasions, that not only are the wages not keeping up with inflation, it's also the other costs that all the nonprofits face, including utilities, which they are on the hook for. They can't get go to City Light and say, we can't pay the bills. They have to pay those bills. So this is absolutely the bare minimum the city can and should do. As I mentioned in the committee meetings discussing this legislation, at the heart of this problem, of course, is the chronic underfunding for social services over the past several decades. The federal funding for housing and mental health services that was eliminated in the 1980s has never returned, and we are reeling from a vicious cycle downward. Social services has been outsourced in multiple cities, have been outsourced from the public sector to nonprofits. And once the political establishment offloads that responsibility, they systematically begin underfunding these nonprofit organizations. And so you have the situation where a corporation like Amazon pays no federal taxes and instead gets $129 million tax rebate from the thanks to the Trump tax cuts. Social service workers, homeless service workers are so underpaid that they cannot make their own rent. I think these stories are really poignant of of human service workers being a paycheck and a half away from being one of the people in need of the services themselves. And I just wanted to quickly, in terms of drawing connections between different struggles, also wanted to congratulate the Amazon warehouse workers around the country who are courageously going out on the prime day strike to protest dangerous working conditions and inadequate benefits and really against even, you know, having insecure scheduling. And they are being joined today by tens of thousands outside who are on on the streets protesting no tech for ice against Amazon's contract with ice. So I think these struggles are tied together. And we have to be clear. Also, the problem is not that some workers like that workers are paid more than human service workers. I think all working people deserve a high standard of living. The problem is that the biggest businesses and the billionaires are amassing the wealth of society into fewer and fewer hands. Under capitalism, economies have a cycle of booms and busts. When the economy is booming, big business makes massive profits, the wealthy get rowdier. And when the economy falls into recession, then then workers are asked to shoulder the costs under the false slogan of shared responsibility. We should reject this kind of mythology and understand that we have to fight for our rights. And whether it's a recession or a boom period, we don't accept a low living standard for the workers who make our cities and our services run. We need to fight to fully fund human services, which means that in addition to today's measure, we urgently need to tax big business and the super rich to provide those funds. I would also say that council members who have expressed concerns about so-called fiscal responsibility should not have repealed the Amazon taxes. Very easy way of addressing fiscal responsibility, which is expand public revenues in a city with the most regressive tax system in the entire nation. I also think as workers, we should note the ominous pronouncements that have been made that future councils and mayors may do other things. Yes, that is true, which is why we have to fight for taxes on big business today and enshrine it into law. We also need to fight for rent control to address the alarming rate at which people are being forced out of their homes simply because their rents are going up, out of control, and further overloading the responsibilities of the human service organizations. So for the human service workers, it is not going to be enough to increase wages, because if those wages are taken up by disproportionately high rent increases, then it still doesn't help. So we have to fight for this measure today. But also please join us and me, my office attendance union of Washington State and other organizations in the rent control movement. And specifically, I would like to invite you all to our rent control rally at the All Pilgrims Christian Church on Broadway at 500 Broadway East at 6 p.m. this Saturday, July 20th. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. I want. Any further comments before I turn it back over to comes from a skate. It comes from a stadium floor. All right. Well, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, entire council. And thank all of you for turning out now to half a dozen community meetings just this year alone. I'm really excited to bring forth this legislation today in its amended version for final passage. I have to say that we've been working on this for half a year, but many of you have been working on this for over a decade. I see Allison out there and at the rally I said, you told me that this was something that we've been working on for for ten years, and she said at least ten years. So it's very exciting to be able to take this initial step. And Councilmember Bagshaw is correct. And I want to appreciate her leadership in last year's budget where the full council was able to include a 2% increase for both the non general fund and the general fund in last year's budget. That was an incredibly important first step, but we also at that point committed, committed to passing legislation to end the cycle of uncertainty, the uncertainty for providers as frontline workers, as the leaders of these organizations, and frankly, directly for your clients, the folks that you serve that have come and testified here time after time about how important it was to have case managers and reliable staff at these organizations who have the trust and experience, who can stay in these organizations and help stabilize folks. This is about making sure that we follow through on that commitment. And I want to make sure that the folks who are watching understand the type of folks and services that you're helping with. You're helping, yes. To make sure that people who are most vulnerable get the services that any other country would fund through progressive tax measures, that any other country would lift up and say, we have to invest in these. Here we are in this corner of our country trying to make up for a fact that we don't have the revenue that we need to invest in the very fabric of the social safety net that you all actually make possible. You provide food on the table for seniors through food banks and meal programs. You make sure that our youth development programs get funded and that people have a safe place to stay at night when they're youth. You make sure that those who have experienced domestic violence and sexual harassment and assault get the treatment that they need and sometimes, more importantly, the prevention that they need so that they're not in that situation. You make sure that people have a warm, safe place to stay at night and you prevent people from falling into homelessness. As we said at the rally, you are the backbone of what makes our commitment to serving the most vulnerable possible. And today we're showing that we have the backbone to stand up for all of the services that you provide to those most vulnerable. We also recognize that if the work that you had done had been within a department at the city, if you were city workers every year you would receive this inflationary adjustment departments, frontline workers here at our city, they get adjustments in the costs of both their operational costs and the dollars that go to staff. We've intentionally decided to contract with you. The city has intentionally decided to contract out this work not because we believe in contracting out, but in this specific case, because we believe that you are the most equipped, the most trusted. You have the experience on the ground level to actually serve our most vulnerable in a way that can be heard and well received to help stabilize folks. You are the individuals that we have invested in, and we need to make sure that the contracts that you receive receive those inflationary adjustments at the bare minimum to keep up with the cost of living. So it's a really exciting opportunity for us to show that the city values this work, that we're investing in, the work that you provide, the strong relationships and the community connectedness that you provide at the ground level. And we stand by the principle that nothing should be contracted out just because it's cheaper. We should be contracting out for the very reasons that we are, which is because you are valued partners. So we will continue to make sure that we look at this historic underfund that has been mentioned earlier by my council colleague. We know that we can't publicly state our commitment to making sure that the Human Service contracts, the services that we're providing to the most vulnerable and the workers are valued if we're engaging in a process that forces these organizations in a race to the bottom. Nobody benefits from that. And if you're starting off at a an amount that is already historically low, if there's a historic underfund for many of these programs and services, you're already at a detriment. We heard a year ago about chemical dependency counselors who have master's degrees in chemical dependency assistance starting out at $33,000 a year. It is no wonder that many folks are struggling to survive on that wage. We need to address both the historical underfund in the future and today. We take a really important step by making sure that all of your contracts are tied to the Consumer Price Index, the inflationary adjustment that we experience every year, and that those contracts keep up. I'm really excited that this piece of legislation is coming forward now, and I just want to say a few. Thank you. Thanks to Councilmember Herbold for continuing to support this and standing there at the rally last week. Councilmember. To offer your amendments on the report back and the reflection piece in there. Council Member Harold. Council President Harold, for your amendment today, as we look at the fixed and variable costs, we know that in many cases many of the leaders in these organizations are making heartbreaking decisions about not filling roles because they have to pay for rent, they have to pay for utilities, they have to pay for the increased cost of operations. And the folks who bear the brunt of that are the frontline workers and directly the folks that you serve so excited to have an intent language included, so that we can really look at that variable cost, which unfortunately has resulted in high turnover rates, 40, 50% vacancy rates among our organizations. And to provide that stability that we need to address as a city because it's a value statement. I can't do this anymore. Justice on the workers. I already have you heard them speak today? I think you've heard them speak about a half a dozen times over the last six months. And they've talked about the important role that they provide, the way in which we have, I think, tied the inflationary adjustment to CPI. It's a very common sense approach somebody said in their testimony today. And it is I think the the the value statement that we put forth today in this legislation will have years of benefit to come. So we look forward to working with you, to making sure that this is providing stability and also continuing to address that historic underfund that I know Councilmember O'Brien has continued to bring up. And we look forward to continuing that legacy. So just to reiterate what's been already said, this is not a budget exercise. This is a policy and value statement that is embedded in this legislation that the city moves forward today. And I want to just say a few. Thank you, Mr. President. And I will be done. Please. Okay. I want to say thank you to Allison Eisinger, Hilary Coleman from the Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness. Julia from the Seattle Human Services Coalition, Lauren Fay and Nicole Macri from DSC, Susannah Weinberg and Evelyn Correa from Youth Care, Jesse and Lindsay from SEIU 1199, Kelly Larson from Plymouth Housing, Aaron Moore from West Seattle Help Line Flow from Catholic Community Services. Jennifer from Ballard Food Bank, Rizwan from Muslim Housing. Alex and Andrew Bean from SEIU seven seven, five I say Kareen from okay, you look at my union and all of those organizations, not just those individuals, but all the folks that you've turned out and the frontline staff, the workers, the people on the ground level who have also had those relationships where you brought in the clients themselves, who testified at this very table and their words were incredibly powerful. Thank you again to all of the organizations. SEIU 11 89775 API Local eight, especially the Human Services Coalition and the Coalition on Homelessness. Thank you all for continuing to come forward. The folks at Youth Care, we could probably have not have done a better job of articulating those fixed and variable costs without that incredible demographic or graphic that you shared with us. So thank you for sharing all that information. And internally, Amy Gaw and Jeff Sims from our central staff have been tremendous on this. Jessie, I know you're no longer with us in the city of Seattle. Thank you for your ongoing work where you currently are and for what you did with Councilmember O'Brien staff and Leslie as well . Marc Kazuki from Labor Care wrote an incredible op ed that we're really excited about that highlights the importance of this work. And Katie and Nicole from MLK Labor, our communications team has been all over sharing the incredible turnout that you guys have done. I mean, this room was packed. How many times? Six times in the last six months. So thank you. And with that came the work of the security guards. So thank you to our security for helping get folks up here and continue to move folks in and out, especially in the evening meetings. I just want to say, if we had a huge round of appreciation for those folks and say Joe Perry, chief of staff, who organized all of this. So thank you for all of your work they've done. And, Mr. President, with that, let's do this. All right. Thank you, Katherine. Mascara and make sure we cover all bases here. Thanks for all of your comments. Thank you for your leadership. With that, please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Herbold i. Suarez macheda i. Pacheco all right. So what makes john gonzalez president harrell. High. Eight in favor and unopposed. Bill pass for simon. Well then please read the next and our less urgent item. Agenda item for putting in 1380 appointment of Victor and Lozada as Member Domestic Workers Standards Board for Term two February 28, 2022. The committee recommends the appointment be confirmed.

AN ORDINANCE relating to City employment, commonly referred to as the Second Quarter 2022 Employment Ordinance; returning positions to the civil service system; removing positions from the Civil Service system; and amending Section 4.13.010 of the Seattle Municipal Code; all by a 2/3 vote of the City Council.

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The report of the City Council Agenda Item one Council Bill 120347 An ordinance relating to city employment, commonly referred to as the second quarter 2022 employment ordinance. Thank you. I moved to pass Council Bill 120347. Is there a second that can. Thank you. It's been moved in second hand to pass the bill as sponsor of this item. I will address it and then open up the Florida comments brief. Bear with me for a minute. The council authorizes certain personnel actions through quarterly and employment ordinances. Today, we are considering the second quarter 2022 employment ordinance. This ordinance came straight to full council and was not referred to committee. Last week, Karina Boyle on our central staff provided a memo of analysis for your consideration. If passed Council Bill 120347 would authorize the Seattle Department of Human Services to, number one return seven positions to the civil service system, and number two, exempt one position from the civil service system. It also amend Seattle Municipal Code Section 4.13.010 to reflect the classification civil service changes to these three positions. There are no direct costs associated with these personnel decisions or actions today. Any comments on this bill? Not seeing or hearing any. Will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill? Councilmember Nelson II. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Councilmember Sawant. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Council member Morales. S Council president was high. Six in. Favor. Nine opposed. Thank you. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, will you please affix my signature to the legislation? Moving on to item two. I understand that Caspar Harold is not here today. I understand. Customer Morales is a co-sponsor. Will be addressing this. Madam Clerk, can you please read item two into the record. Agenda item to cancel the 120348 an ordinance relating to appropriations for the Seattle Municipal Court.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; authorizing the Director of Finance and Administrative Services, on behalf of Seattle Public Utilities, to negotiate and execute real property lease agreements and amendments with Broadacres LLC, for office space and ancillary uses in the Wharf Building located at 4209 21st Ave W; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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The Report of the Finance and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item for Council Vote 119 541 relating to the Department of Finance Administrative Services authorizing the Director of Finance Administrative Services on behalf of the Seattle Public Utilities to negotiate and execute real property. Lease Agreement and amendments for Broad Acres, LLC for office space and ancillary uses in the wharf building. 4209 21st Avenue West. In ratifying confirming certain prior acts, the committee recommends the bill pass. Jasmine Back. Show. Thank you. This is a lease for Seattle Public Utilities. They are moving a group that focuses on the kind of ecological disaster that none of us want to see happen. And they've got 19 staff and 16 vehicles and one boat, and they need a place to put all of the vehicles. And they're planning to move over onto Wharf Street, which is off of Emerson and down by the Fisherman's Wharf. The particular specifics on this is that it'll be 7759 square feet of a warehouse. They work closely with FASB, who went through 15 different sites. They visited the four sites. They did cost comparisons. This will be a ten year lease that allows them to add one five year option or to actually reduce it to eight years if they decide that they don't need that much space. And this is actually because of the linear reservoir that is going to be constructed in Ballard. So the landlord's going to provide $310,000 for tenant improvements. Negotiated rent is $25,055 per month. It increases annually, and this is consistent with the amounts of money that others are charging in our area. So I want to say thank you both to Seattle Public Utilities, the folks that came in and briefed us at our committee and also to FASB. The good work that they've done to make this happen. And the committee unanimously recommends that we have previously hornets. Thanks, guys. My backs. Are there any questions or comments? Okay. Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Pacheco I thank John Gonzalez I Purple II. O'Brien, II. President Harrell six in favor and. Unopposed bill passed and chair of Senate. I believe that concludes our business on today's decision. Is there any further business to come before the council comes from Gonzalez? Thank you. I'd like to move to be excused on Monday, June 24th. Second. It's been moved in a second. And that Councilwoman Gonzalez be excused on June 24th. Any questions or comments? All those in favor say I oppose. The ayes have it. Any further business coming for the council? Catherine and Brian. I'll move to be excused on Monday, July 15th. Second. The mood. And secondly, that Catherine O'Brien be excused on July 15th. Any questions or comments? All those in favor say I. I opposed oppose. The ayes have it in the house. Okay. We stand and cheering and everyone have a great rest of the day. You all right?

Consider Directing Staff to Provide an Update on the Negotiations Between the City and the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) as Soon as Possible. (Mayor Spencer) [Not heard on December 6, 2016]

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And I brought this referral ticket to get an update because it's my understanding from the comments from Fox in the past was that they may not have funding to continue the service this past March. And so I would like to know when staff is planning to come back to give us an update so that we will. I'd like us council to be able to make a decision in regards to the status and how we're going to proceed as soon as possible, as opposed to reaching the unfortunate position, I would say, of us running out of money and then hearing. You know, March 1st. Or March. I'm not sure exactly what date that would be, but I think it's important that it come back to council so that we can make a determination. May I come in? Yes. So I actually was out at the animal shelter today because I I'm back now and I wanted to have an opportunity. They invited me to come and sit down with them, the director and their consultant and another board member and I and actually the FAS people wanted me to know, I didn't ask them, but they said, please, no, we didn't request this council referral and they actually let me know that they've met with the city manager, with James Addison, who is our consultant who's doing the analysis. They provided me with a stack of. Data and documentation that they provided him to. I think he got even more. So I anyway, it just was puzzling when I was reading the council referral because I think the, the, the process is in motion. And we do, I think, have some update coming to us in the new year, if I recall correctly. The manager. A So that is true. And based on the council direction at the last time there was a referral to to deal with this. And so since then we have been in negotiations. We have hired James Edison who has been working directly with FAS. He also has a sub consultant who has expertize in the field of animal care and shelter care and we have heard from the council to bring updates. And so I think we can meet this week regardless of, you know, as soon as possible. He is still working on trying to get information from FAS, the last details as the audited financials which they are working on and we are waiting for that information and I think both sides are trying to provide the information so we can move forward. And there's a big team on both sides that are working on this, including Assistant City Manager Warmington, the police chief, our finance director. And we are. You know, we have good intentions to move forward and to protect the animals. The other thing that we talked about today is there is an interest on both sides to make sure that when March comes, if there is a lack of funds, that our first goal is to make sure that those animals are cared for and not, you know, quote, put out on the street or any other thing. So both sides are trying to figure out a way to protect the animals in the shelter. So my preference is that we hear back from staff and I appreciate that. FOSTER Not requests. I think that this is the job of council to hear hear this and make a determination. I think it's our decision and I think it's important that we be provided the information so that, in fact, this is decided by council prior to March 1st. I am concerned that. This may actually, unfortunately, just this time may pass. And I actually see this also as a very important issue for our community. So I think it's very important that staff report back to council and I would say no later than the I would actually say first meeting in February with an update so that we can decide, so the council can decide how we want to proceed with the matter. Vice Mayor, do we have dates for bargaining scheduled or that are do have a plan for meeting with them between now and then? Are. What we are trying to do right now is collect the information, the complete picture of the financial situation, and that includes the audited financials. I spoke to Forbes this morning and asked that question. They are attempting to get that information from their auditor. And as soon as we have all the information, then our consultant has said it's a matter of about, you know, weeks to a month turnaround time. And then after that, it is where we can meet and agree. So we're all waiting for the information right now, the complete picture. So it's hard to actually predict. Well, exactly. You know, where we when we can return back to council, but we want to do it as soon as possible. And that was their direction at the last time this was discussed as referral, I think in October. Yeah. And Brody. Thank you, Madam Mayor, of before I do my comments, I do want to welcome my colleague back and welcome our new vice mayor and get to do that earlier. You know, I'm satisfied with the update that you provided today. I'm a little concerned that, you know, we conduct these negotiations in public when, you know, we trust the staff to go forward and do their due diligence and, you know, do what's best for the city and do what's best for all of our residents. Knowing that this is a priority that not only our residents, but this council has expressed to you. So, you know, I'm satisfied with the update. You know, I'm not comfortable with, you know, putting finite dates on when you need to report back. But trust that you're going to be doing this job. Has you have been doing for the past few months since we first gave you direction. Any other comments? All right. So. I appreciate the comments from staff. I am concerned, as I've said, that this I think it's critical that we hear back from staff sooner rather than later. And I do want to commend all the volunteers in our community that have really tirelessly given to support this shelter. You do an amazing job, and I do support your efforts, and I'm hopeful that we'll be able to make some sort of long term arrangement. So thank you. That's 99 be. Considered directing staff to return to council with an analysis declaring Sanctuary City a policy refusing to honor mandates regarding massive restaurant tournaments policy, refusing to register individuals based on their religious beliefs, and a resolution reaffirming the city's commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. Religious freedoms and social and economic justice.

AN ORDINANCE modifying Ordinance 126081 concerning repayment plans for rental arrears accrued during or within six months after the termination of the civil emergency declared on March 3, 2020.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. And, Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the resolution. Let's move to item number two. This is out of the Sustainability and Renters Rights Committee, a committee that customers want chairs, but customer staff will be presenting on her behalf today. So, Madam Clerk, can you please read item two and to the record? Agenda Item two Council Bill 120305 Modifying Ordinance 1260 81 Concerning repayment plans for rental arrears occurred during or within six months after the termination of the Civil Emergency declared on March 3rd, 2020. The committee recommends the bill passed. Thank you, Councilmember Strauss. I thank you, council president and thank you for I know that the chair of the committee is not present with us today, and I appreciate the fact that we're able to bring my bill before us today. I also appreciate that. So, again. I just said anytime, buddy. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Oh, I love this. Anyhow, I really also appreciate the public commenters today who called in, which is why I, along with Councilmember Lewis, created small landlord workgroup. And I know that there are some snags in getting that set up. And I can tell you that we both met about it this week to get it moving faster. And we both set up the rental market, rental housing market study. We funded that so that we could have that information for the first time since 2018 when that started, so that we can back up and so that we can have the data that is with us today. It's important for us to have this data so that we can back up the stories of the mom and pop landlords who are selling their properties with the data before us so that we can make decisions with all the information. The bill before us today helps us ensure that landlords are made whole and tenants have a reasonable time to repay their debt. The tenant does remain responsible for repaying any and all debt that they've incurred. This bill is a technical correction to the legislation we passed in 2020, which was passed two months after the pandemic began. In May of 2020, the Council adopted ordinance 126081, which required that tenants with unpaid rent from the pandemic be offered repayment plans that lasted 3 to 6 months, depending upon the amount of rent owed. Today is April 26, 2022. If this was 2020, the pandemic would have started last month and we would have passed the underlying the original bill next month. At that time, we believe that the pandemic would only last two weeks and then two months, and we definitely did not foresee it lasting two years or more. We did know then when everything was shut and many people's line of work suddenly froze, that people needed time to address the debt incurred during that that closed down the following legislative session. The first legislation was legislative session in Olympia. Once the pandemic began, the state passed a similar repayment legislation. If we were in 2021, this bill would have passed. Nine days ago. The Legislature had the benefit of having a year longer to understand that the pandemic was going to last longer than two weeks or two months. The reason I refer to this modest bill as a technical correction is because the legislation before you today is a mirror of our state's legislation. There are some very small differences that come from the original bill and require and this bill requires a reasonable repayment plan for debt incurred during the COVID 19 state of emergency. Colleagues, I know I brought this up at council briefing before yesterday, and again, I'm happy to answer any questions. But are there any questions for Council Member Strauss? Right. Not seeing any. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll on the passage? I'm sorry, Councilmember Nelson. And here you. Right? Yeah, go ahead. So I have to say thank you very much for bringing this forward, because I do believe that clarity in repayment plans is necessary. And I will admit that I missed the conversation in the in the Sustainability and Interest Rates Committee, and that's on me. However, that this legislation was was heard in committee only a couple of days after introduction, and we only had one meeting to discuss and vote. But regardless, what's important to me is that landlords had the ability to weigh in on this before we discussed it, and I'm told that was not the case. But basically this bill is characterized as a technical fix to bring us into alignment with state statute. And, you know, digging into this, since then, I've learned that it's it's it's not quite in perfect alignment and it would likely lengthen the time, the arrears specified in the in the repayment plans longer than the within the state statute provides for. So I'll just read some comments from central staff when I asked about this. This bill is tied to the end of the civil state, civil emerged cities, civil emergency, not the state's public health emergency and extends for six months after the end of the city's civil emergency, where the state statute does not extend past the end of the state public health emergency. The state ended its eviction moratorium on June 30th, 2021. So this has gone on much longer than that, and this would cover arrears that are incurred after six months, during the six month period after the end of the civil emergency or after the end of the eviction moratorium. There is much more detail in here. But the bottom line is that I am concerned about losing rental housing stock, particularly that of small landlords who have less resources to to weather the eviction moratorium and unpaid rent that is ongoing. And so they we require them to keep their properties in in good condition for their renters. And I'm just concerned about prolonging the time that that these small landlords will have to get that money to to maintain their properties and add additional uncertainty about when that might happen. So I, I again, apologize for bringing up these concerns at the last minute, but I will have to vote no on this on this piece of legislation. Thank you. Customer NELSON Thank you for sharing your policy reasons for your vote today. Is there anyone else? Okay. Not seeing anyone else for the please call the role. Council member Mr. High Council member NELSON. No. Council Member. Petersen. I. Council member Strauss. Yes. Council member Herbold. Yes. Council member Lewis. Yes. Council member Morales. Yes. Council President Suarez. I. Seven in favor. One opposed. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And, Madam Clerk, please affix my signature to the passage of the bill. To the bill. Moving on to item number three, we have Councilmember Peterson from the Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities Committee.

Adoption of Resolution Approving a Workforce Change at Alameda Municipal Power to Add One Position, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) System Administrator and Amending the Salary Schedule of the Electric Utility Professionals of Alameda (EUPA) to Add the Classification of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) System Administrator, Effective June 5, 2018. (Human Resources 2510)

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Adoption resolution approving a workforce change at medium to some power to add one position advanced metering infrastructure system administrator and amending the related salary schedule. So I mean. Brody Yeah. I have three quick questions if. Good evening, Mayor Spencer. Council Members. Niko Prokop General Manager, HAMP. Thank you, sir. So first question. This was on your request, correct? Correct. And you're the department head. And is is in your professional opinion, as the department had you judge this as an essential need of AMP. Is that correct? Absolutely. As you are aware, we just finished replacing 36,000 meters. We have a lot more data that we're dealing with. We're getting ready to launch a customer portal. We need somebody with a high degree of expertize to be able to monitor the health of the system. We get alarms and we get notices that tamper validations that need to happen. We have meters that sometimes go silent. A lot of these issues we did have before with the old meters, we just had no visibility in them. We did. We have a consultant who's currently doing the work, but now the amount of data and information that's coming in that we need to troubleshoot really justifies this position. And this is a personal. So we're going to be a paying person on this. This is Percival, correct? Okay. I don't have any more questions. Thank you. The other questions. I have a question. Vice Mayor. Was this costs factored into or included in the consideration of switching over to the metering? So when we embarked on the AMI program, we did do a cost benefit analysis and we looked at. Kind of a broad view of the organization, and some positions were fairly obvious that they were going to be phased out. So for example, meter reading positions we did have three of those were now down to one. And then at the same time, though, there was a recognition that this is we're moving towards more of a technology focused platform with these smart meters. We're going to need to maybe a disposition. I don't think there are any plans at present to add another position or more positions related to the program, but they're kind of somewhat of an offset. But I think overall the benefit there is a benefit to the utility in terms of cost reductions, both in this perspective and then also in operational efficiencies, other operational efficiencies. So for example, we have significantly less truck rolls right now. We're able to do a lot of activities remotely that saves on greenhouse gas reduction and other things like that, that saves on wear and tear on vehicles and and other personnel related issues. So this position wasn't factored in into the initial estimate. When you switched over to the MRI system. I don't know whether this one was specifically identified. It was there was a recognition that we would need as part of monitoring the platform. A position of this nature. I don't know whether that was a bit before my time. I turn to Bob as Bob is nodding his head. So that was part of the original business case assessment. So it was included as part of our analysis. And this cost was considered as part of that analysis. Yes. So this was factored into the potential budget of an anime program? Yes. Cost? Correct. Okay. Um, my second question is, um, you know, for this for this position, um. Do we have an internal candidate? Is this a position that's going to be posted later on? We will be opening up the position and there are some potential internal candidates. It will be an open recruitment, so there could be outside interested parties. This is a very technical, IT focused position. So it requires a unique skill set. And that's what we'll be looking for when we when we do the recruitment. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from council? Move approval second. I do. Oh, sorry. I do have a question. Um, my question is. Okay, so if we don't approve this, then what happens? Because I know you installed all the new meters. So currently we have a consultant who is performing to a large degree this function. There are other parts of the workforce who are filling in here and there on other components of the function. But by and large, it's a it's a third party consultant. It has worked up until now as we've ramped up the deployment of the meters. But we do feel that we need somebody in-house who's going to be able to be there day to day. This position not only has the a high technical component, they're also going to be interfacing with many other areas of the department. So, for. Example, when. Field crews, crews need to go out and and look at meters, they will work with them and then so that they can do their work. So it really makes a lot more sense to have this position in-house as opposed to have it with a consultant. So that in here it says something about there is a net savings overall, but there's not a, you know, do you have a dollar amount to give us some idea what kind of savings by I know you've let go some people that go out to the homes and actually do the reading. Correct. And now this is going to replace that. Do you have any idea of what the savings is? I don't have the numbers. We did we did start out with we had three meter readers. We're now down to one. In the pay of a meter reader. I don't know the exact approximately. Yes. Oh, yeah. And this. This starts at 91,000 per year. The range is 200,000. Good evening, Nancy Bronstein. Sorry. There is some savings because the meter readers, probably two meter readers, are probably closer to about 150 between them fully loaded or about 60,000 apiece for salary. So there's still some savings. Even with the addition of this position. Okay. Thank you. I have one more question. Oh, Vice Mayor Brody. Did the cost go up recently or aren't services? So did the cost go up recently for AMP services? Nice Mary. Talking about rates. Yes. So the board recently approved a 1% average rate increase starting in July that will impact different customer classes differently depending on the cost of service. At this time last year, we were projecting a 5% rate increase. So we were very happy to to refine the numbers a little bit. And it looked like based on the strong financial performance of the utility over the past year, that we were able to return that value to the ratepayers in the form of a lower than expected rate increase. Edit I swear. Did you have any other questions? That's it. I said a quick comment. I know we had a budget meeting a few weeks back and there was a request by a department head who we trust to know what his department needs to fill a position that in his best business judgment he felt was necessary and that even would have been covered by cost recovery. And it was the majority of the council said no because it was personal. And now we are faced with a similar situation today with a very high level paid employee being asked for by the department head who we presume knows the business needs of his department. And it's also personal. Yet it seems we are poised to approve that. So it seems a little bit, you know, inconsistent with me that, you know, we have one standard for one department and one standard for the other. That's my comment. I'm happy to respond to that, and I appreciate that. This to me is different in that you have cut other positions because we are installing the automatic what do you call these readers? Smart meters, smart. Meters for installing the smart meters. And so you eliminated three or two of the people that walk around. There's two, and we have a third left and we'll revisit based on workload in January 2019. And I will point out that in the last four years, our staffing level has actually reduced. So some of that's related to the Smart Meter program and some of that is other other things going on as well. Thank you, member Ashcraft. And I'll just add to the mayor's comments that as I believe it was, the fire chiefs request that was being referred to. And I do recall that we also informed the chief to come back when these prospective cost savings were known. At this point, they're just, you know, on paper. And we couldn't we can't base a budget on on speculation. But when those figures are known, then we will take another look at it. But there's always a lot of balancing that goes on. But I'm I believe there's been a has there been a motion in the second of. I believe, member matters to make a motion and your second on it and yeah. So any other questions or comments at this time? All right. Does the acting city manager I. Just wanted clarification that thank you that the this is not general fund money. We all okay. For another distinction? Still personal time. Still personal. But then general fund. Somebody somewhere in Alameda is going to be paying that. Thank you. Call the remember as the article I addressed. I. I. No. Mayor Spencer. I. Thank you. Thank you very much. One note. Thank you. Okay. Five. I was withdrawn or will be coming back to council on a later date. Five. Oh, I just said I voted no on, but we did already vote on that. So now I believe we're on six a we're on our regular agenda. Item six a mayor member asked. My request on six A would be that we bifurcate the vote on the two members. Maybe you were going to do that anyway because.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the General Manager/CEO of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into an amended Water Quality Combined Financial Assistance Agreement with the State of Washington Department of Ecology to partially finance costs related to the construction of the Ship Canal Water Quality Project; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Thank you. The bill passes. The chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, can you please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? HQ Moving on to item number four. This is Councilmember Peterson's legislation. Will the clerk please read item number four to the record? Agenda item four Capital 120354 relating to set of public utilities authorizing general manager, such CEO of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into an amended water quality combined financial assistant agreement with the State of Washington Department of Ecology to partially finance costs related to the construction of the ship canal water quality project and ratifying confirming starting prior acts . Thank you, Madam Clerk. I move to pass Council Bill 120354. Is there a second? Second? Thank you. Councilmember Peterson. It's believed and seconded. And the floor is yours. Thank you. Council president. Colleagues, as we know, the ship Canal Water Quality Control Project is a very large capital project under construction. It will reduce polluted stormwater impacting Lake Washington Ship Canal. The project was agreed to in compliance with a Clean Water Act consent decree involving City King County, Washington State Department of Ecology and the U.S. EPA . And this results. This bill results in the financing costs being reduced. So we welcome this bill. It will enable us to take advantage of 59 million and very low interest funds through a federal program. Thanks to the below market interest rate, the loan will save city ratepayers approximately 15 millions because the legislation will save money and there is time sensitivity to take advantage of it. We set this straight to the city council. Our city council central staff has no concerns with it. And I, along with the executive, urge its passage today. Thank you. Thank you. Customer PETERSON Sorry about that. Are there any other comments? And per my script, Casper Peterson, is any closing comments you'd like to make? No. Thank you. Will the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill? Council member? Yes. Councilmember Strauss? Yes. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Let's remember Morales. Councilmember Morales asked. Councilmember Nelson, I. Councilmember Peterson. Yes. Council president worries. High. Eight in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. And Madam Clerk, again, please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Well, that concludes our committee reports. Moving on to our agenda. There were no items removed from the consent calendar, so we'll move on from that. There are no resolutions for any reduction in adoption today, so we'll move on from that other business. So any other business before council president. Councilmember Strauss.

A resolution approving a proposed Agreement between the City and County of Denver and CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. for on-call Program Management for the National Western Center Campus Development. Approves an on-call contract with CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. for $14 million and three years for program management services to develop the baseline scope, schedule, budget and phasing for the National Western Center Campus Development at the National Western Center in Council District 9 (201632012-00). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 2-13-17. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 1-3-17.

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Well, the tool was just developed, and we're one of the first cities to use this tool with the existing vendor. So it was unforeseen at the time because it wasn't developed back in 2013. All right. Thank very much, Mr. President. Yeah, thank you. All right. Let's see. We're going to let's bring up the next agenda item for a vote council bill 1317. Is that okay? Councilman New. Will you please put this on the floor? Thank you, Mr. Rose. I move that resolution 16 dash 1317 be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. The reasons why I'm calling this out for a vote is this. This resolution grants complete contracting latitude for up to $14 million for program. Managing that is TBD. To get this 14 million figure, the mayor's National Western Center office simply took 3% of the National Western Centers to see voter approved funds of 276 million. Well, it was stated that this number represents best practices. It is a very healthy amount for program management at this scale. Program management fees typically range from 1% to 5%. The higher percentages are typically found on relatively inexpensive projects. Once you enter the millions and tens of millions of dollars, program management fees move closer and closer to 1%, which tends to be a significantly large dollar amount. Well, I have faith that the NWC can and will capture the entirety of the NWC program management needs for the funds that will likely be allocated tonight. The millions of dollars in latitude that this generous contract provides makes me uncomfortable. By voting for this resolution, Council will choose to distance themselves and therefore the people of Denver out of a project that our voters supported based on certain outcomes. Once the contract is approved, the program management work that will be scoped will not require a vote by council. That distance is neither necessary or warranted. And for that reason, I will be voting no. All right. Thank you. I am going to. Since Councilwoman Kanis, did you. I saw you just pop in. Well, I wanted to ask Kelly to come forward, ask him a question, but I am happy to defer to you, Mr. President. And if you don't ask it, I'll turn back in. But go ahead. Yeah, yeah. No, I. I think we may be asking similar questions, but maybe not. Kelly, can you come up? This obviously is in District nine. And and I'm going to ask you a very specific question. And this was on consent. It came off of consent so we could have a conversation about this. I think we went into detail about you having the city's best interests, but more important, the constituents best interests, 856 million reasons why. But tell us a little bit about Councilman Espinosa talked about the furthering that this contract what what would bring for council and I just want you said this already but please. Sure. Sure. So for purposes of discussion, my name is Kelly LEED, and I'm the executive director of the Mayor's Office of the National Western Center. And I appreciate the question. And, you know, because this is this is actually when you add in both the public money and the private money for the first couple of phases of this project , it's a $1.1 billion project that's been essentially approved by the public to advance. And, you know, we the National Western Office was established by the mayor in January of of this year to specifically make sure that there are very tight connections back to the city and to the council and to the citizens of Denver. You know, a lot of times when you bring on these program management teams, the entire effort is turned over to them. That does create separation. I would tell you the exact opposite happens. Here is what we've done is built. We are we are building an embedded team to him, which will be would be the program management team is embedding six people into the National Western Center office team. Those six people report to me directly. We are building a structure by which we advance this program which will take numerous years to complete. It includes if you know, and there's no single tenant for this project. We have obviously Colorado State University as a tenant and we have the Western Stock Show Association as a tenant. So we and we have funding coming from those respective partners as well. So this is a multilayered project that requires a level of expertize that I think stage two brings to this to this experience and to this team. So long story short, what this allows us to do, it's an it's a task based contract. So we will be issuing task orders with very specific deliverables to to and to our consultants to deliver. We fully intend and have continued to do in this dates back to my days in the NBCC. We go to LUDI and provide continuous updates to Ludy on our progress. We establish an annual workplan every march. We will do that again. We will report that work plan with milestones to the council and to the public. And then we will report out on our progress, not just on the delivery of the milestones, but on our budget, our scope and our schedule. As we move this project along, I will tell you that we're still at a place where we don't know what we don't know. And by that I mean is we're going to start to assemble the team that will begin to put detail to this effort and we will begin to put in front of councils a whole range of contracts in order for us to to implement this program over the course of the next the next several years. Thank you, Councilwoman Canete. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm just going to ask two narrow follow ups. So first question. This contract is for program management. It is not for construction of management. We are not seeding the future construction contracts that will be occurring on this. That is. Correct. Program continuing. Right. They will continue to come through the council process? That is correct. Okay. Second question is, this is not the first time we've had program management services. I'm thinking about the better Denver bond. How analogous would you say this role is to that? In terms of my understanding, the better Denver bond approach is that is about extending, for lack of a better word, the human power of the city for a time limited project without us bringing on permanent have to ease that we might not need at the end bring in some special expertize. How analogous would you say? I would say there there's a lot of analogies. I mean, I think the the the embedded structure that we're creating specific for this program, which is pretty unique, has some of its own unique features. But I think that idea of bringing an extended team on to add to the city team, knowing that we just don't have enough full time staff to do it, is, is an appropriate analogy. You know, the one and I think one of the things that came out of committee was, well, what's the legacy of. The program effort. And so I think, you know, Stephanie Reid is here with me. She's from Public Works and is a young and up and coming program and project manager. She's going to get to experience, along with other project managers in the city, the creation of this project. And so the legacy of a project like this is the experience that Stephanie and other project manager, city project managers are going to get that will allow the next generation of leaders in the city to do big programs like this. So we're very committed to doing that. But I think the analogy of better Denver and that role is is pretty close. Thank you. All right, Councilman, as soon as I see Councilman Councilwoman Ortega in the queue, go to her real quick. Thanks. Can we have a couple of questions? So at the beginning of this project, there were some conversations about community benefit agreement and what that might look like. Has there been any progress in identifying any of those issues with the community? I know you meet with them on a regular basis. Some of them sit on. I'm not sure which level of committee because I think you've got multiple levels of committees involved in having input into the project. But can you just give us an update of kind of where that's at? Sure. So, you know, the group I think you're specifically referencing is the Citizens Advisory Committee, and that was actually founded by the Western Stock Show Association at the very beginning of our planning effort back in 2013, 2014, before we started the master plan. And that group of 27 people that live or work in those communities have been with us from day one. In the core of those 27, the core group continues to meet on a monthly basis with us. They played a huge role as an example as we worked through, you know, we did the neighborhood plans first, so we approved the Globeville plan first and at the end of 14 and then the Elyria Swansea plan in early 15, and then the National Western Plan was approved in March 15. That was intentional because we wanted to make sure that the neighborhoods really helped drive the kinds of improvements they wanted to see in their neighborhood. And so what's interesting about the National Western plan is it's not only a master plan for rebuilding the National Western Center, but it's specifically pulls things from those neighborhood plans that we then in turn have to implement. So in terms of benefits, there are direct physical connection improvements that were pulled out of the neighborhood, plans that could reconnect the site to both Globeville, to the West in response to the East. The second would be is obviously we've talked a lot about with council and I think this will really heat up this year now that we have a real project is the range of workforce development opportunities that can occur at the local level as well as at the city's citywide level. Obviously we have a huge challenges in making sure we have the next generation of skilled workers to deliver projects of this scale. And so I certainly see the National Western Project playing a big role in helping make sure that we're starting at the neighborhood level and building opportunities all the way from middle school through high school and beyond as we build the next generation of workers. And then lastly obviously would be the non construction related sort of things that happen. How do we leverage a project like the National Western to make sure that a community like Globeville or Swansea ends up with a grocery store or multiple retail outlets ? Projects of this scale allow for those things to happen. And so I think we have at least the right set of community. You know, Citizens Advisory Committee would be a one of many that we use in order to get that input. But I think we have the building blocks based on what came out of the CAC to make sure that we're continually listening to and understanding what it is the neighborhood wants and how do we translate that into either physical improvements or what I call soft infrastructure improvements over the course of a project like the National Western. So my my next and last question is about. Where we are without going into details about properties, but where we are with the overall acquisition and where we are in terms of target of bumping up to how much we've allocated for acquisition of properties. I'm so glad you asked that question, Debbie, because I just so happen to have the report right here. Look at that. So every month the Department of Real Estate issues an update on where we are with land acquisition. There are 38 private parcels that we have to acquire within the boundaries of the National Western Center and as of December, which was our last report we issued. Let me get to that page here. We had under some level of control 17 of those 38 parcels. So about 45% of the parcels, give or take. We're under control in some level of control. And by control we mean we've come to terms with them. We've executed a purchase and sale agreement or we've actually closed. So that does not. Well, let me just ask, does that include the properties that we've acquired outside of the national western boundaries that would potentially be used for relocation of some of those? No, there's only one. Okay. And that's 5300 Franklin. And the reason we acquired that parcel, so that's it's literally just north of our boundary campus boundary. And the reason we acquired that parcel is it's got rail access and we have customers that are in this mix of private companies that we have to relocate that require rail service. So it made sense to us to acquire that parcel just north of site and offer that up as part of our overall compensation of relocating those business and keeping them in Denver. Okay. In my light, I do have one last one. And I have a response to your last piece. You know, obviously, we're still in active negotiations, so I'm not you know, we issued 200 million in April of last year. But I will tell you right now, we are tracking right where we need to be in terms of of acquiring those parcels and being more or less on budget with the money we've allocated for land acquisition. So we part of the the overall focus needs to. It involves the relocation and the Rock Island Railroad has. Not the the consolidation. Has has that made progress in terms. Of it depends on the day. I'm being very honest it depends on the day. We have had as of late some very productive meetings with the Denver Rock Island. So for the general audience, the Denver Rock Island is a short line rail company. It's privately held by the Mars family and it runs through the site. They have two sets of tracks, one that runs through the current National Western Drive and one that runs along the river side of tracks that run along the river. We've been very focused on trying to consolidate the tracks off the river and consolidate them down the center of the site. And I think as of late we've had some very productive meetings. We had a really good meeting with them this last Friday. And I and I feel like we're starting to make some real progress of understanding what their needs are, how we pull this consolidation off and what that ultimately looks like. But this will be a big year for that discussion with the Denver Rock Island, and that includes moving some of their customers. So it's not as simple as just consolidating rail. It includes moving customers and keeping them as an active line. I will tell you, I mean, one good sign is we had two fast lane grants that went through the federal Department of Transportation and in both cases, the Denver Rock Island signed letters of support for those fast lane grants. So we're still awaiting the outcome of the most recent. So, you know, those are, I think, pretty good indicators that at the end of the day, we're going to figure out how to work as partners with them, because rail is such an important part of the history of the site, and it's important that rail continues to be a part of that story. Thank you, Carl. Yeah, thank you. I'm Kevin. Um, Councilman Flynn, I will go to you. I was just going to cut you off because I want to let everybody know that we had. This is a huge project and it's so big and so important. We have quarterly meetings in the Luti committee. Thank you, Councilwoman, for letting that happen. And we go into deep detail on all of these issues. So if folks are wanting more information on these complex issues like rail consolidation, things like that, we should definitely be at the meeting. I want to zero us in on this particular bill that's in front of us because we have some more tonight. Councilman Flynn, I'm sorry. Thank you. I mean, Mr. President, just a quick follow up then, and you can rule it off topic if you want. But Councilwoman Ortega asked about real estate acquisition. Kelley, I'm wondering, are you on target on schedule with those third with those 17 out of 38 acquisitions, is that where you thought you would be a year and a half ago? Yeah, we you know, obviously without you know, we didn't start officially till April of this last year. So we had less than a full year to acquire, but our goal was about 50% per year. So we're right on target where we need to be. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, Councilman Espinosa, you're back up. Yeah. So one quick clarification. At committee at Ludy, it was five people and tonight it's six. So how many? And it's five embedded. And then there's Eric Anderson is the sixth. Eric is part of the design team that's. A separate. That's a contractor working part of to. But he's going to be spending a lot of time there. But he's not part of the official embedded. Five and part of this resolution. That is correct. And that's a separate half million dollar three year. No, you're talking about Eric. That's a different that's SSI. Yes, that's where we run. Eric Anderson is part of the stage two team and was part of the original team that did our master plan in 2015. Okay. To many Eric's now. To and Eric. Yes. So Eric this Eric is part of six. That is. Correct. Okay. Okay. And then you in again, I, I stress that I do believe that NWC can and will deliver on what you're saying. Even with this healthy contract and you have operated in the way that you're talking about with these reports back. But the thing that I want to stress is that those are reports only informational and briefings. There is no council action report with regard to those those status updates. And in these on call contracts, is that correct? Once you approve the contract? That is correct. Okay. And so that's. So that is that is my concern, because we could just as well enter into a CMG contract that would work essentially the same way for the totality of the construction work that will eventually need, need to happen. And that would continue to keep the direct community and the citizens groups that you mentioned and their needs at arm's length and distant from all elected representatives and advocates except for the mayor. And that's that's that is a to me, a legitimate concern, given the sort of needs that have been long string since stressed and that you're very much well aware of and you have a matrix of needs that we continue to not move in advance on in any sort of with any sort of rigor. And so well, we're carving out $14 million for a very healthy contractor in this regard, and we will continue to do so. There's a community there that has long been ignored and still very much has needs. And I would really stress that we start acting on those. And our response to that. Thank you, Kelly, for being up here. Let me just say to my council members and folks who are watching a little bit of this process before a bill, before action even gets to city council. We have an executive oversight committee for the National Western Center comprised of city council members, the partners, which is CSU, the National Western Center. Some folks from the city, which is a legal team, Kelly, leads that time. But we also have a neighborhood representative, Drew Dutcher, as well. And those meetings are open to the public. This is a transparent process. And in researching some of these complex projects, this is a best practice. And I think, Councilwoman, can each kind of identified what we should be focusing on here? This is programmatic, not construction. During a construction contract, you do give up a lot of oversight, but programmatic, you bring an expertize in that you don't currently have. And so I will be supporting this. And, Madam Secretary, we are we we have a mover and a Senator Rocha Espinosa. No. Flynn, I. Gilmore I Herndon. I can each new Ortega assessment i. Black I. Mr. President. I police voting announce results. Nine eyes, one nay. Nine eyes, one one nay. Resolution 1317 has passed. Can you please. Has been adopted. Can you please pull up 66 Resolution 66 for Councilman New. And 67. Madam Speaker, can we do this in a.

Consider Providing Direction to Staff on Transportation Priorities in Advance of the Active Transportation Plan Work. (Vice Mayor Knox White and Councilmember Oddie)

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I okay. That passed unanimously. Right. Okay. And there is a second council referral on providing direction. Uh, do you want to read that one out and. Consider providing direction to staff on transportation priorities in advance of the action transport? Active transportation plan work. Maybe I can't read, but this is placed on the agenda at the request of Vice Mayor Knox White and Councilmember. So I'll quickly open and then pass it over to my colleague, the vice mayor. The impetus was to make sure, as we do, planning for transit priorities and these projects that we emphasize or re-emphasize as the case may be, that safety, pedestrian safety and especially bicycle safety is our primary focus. We're very concerned, and some of the activists in the bicycle community are concerned that, you know, we keep the bicycle safety foremost. You I started my public service grade 16 on the Bicycle Safety Council. This is a critical issue to me. So, you know, and streamlined processes and make sure that, you know, we can get these these issues addressed quickly and promptly. But we had the issue with the, you know, Atlantic Crossing and all that that just took eons. So I'm going to turn it over to the vice mayor to kind of go into a little more detail. Sure. So thank you. I think also from my standpoint, it was important to just check in with the council because there are a lot of conversations happening around some of these issues and making sure that there's council buy in on on this. As mayor, as he Ashcraft knows, we've met with the Otis neighbors, two sets of them, to talk about their concerns about street safety and speeds. I met with the neighbors and Fern's side. There have been the neighbors on Sherman. A lot of neighborhoods are having concerns. And, you know, we talked during the transportation annual report about a lot of a lot of this. This was really just kind of coalescing kind of all the different things we've talked about for the most part over the last five months or so about creating a safety toolkit that was going to come back by the end of the year as part of the active transportation program. So kind of traffic calming tools that we can do. The idea here is not to give direction to write these policies, but to kind of just start fleshing out some ideas. So the idea of actionable toolkit, so not just a long list of things that people can start picking and choosing, because my experience and not just here is that everybody chooses the easy stuff and says, well, that's hard. And the hard stuff is often that's what we need. We I have heard from a number of groups about just kind of we need that. We need some sort of streamlined process. We right now, we have our groups ask for permission to talk to the staff. And then six or nine months later we meet and then they put together a 2 to 3 year plan. And three years into it, we've done the first two phases and phase three is so big and expansive and everybody's kind of forgotten about it, which is the inside plan. And those first two phases are usually things that everybody could probably guess are not the things that are going to make an impact. So let's go to phase three. Let's figure out a way to go cheap with paint and posts and things like that and start doing cheap but effective things as opposed to expensive flashing signs that don't change behavior the way again, staff can come back with how they how best to do that. The idea about the policies that we've talked about. So we've had conversations multiple times here about the lane widths, policies and whatnot for for reducing speed around the intersection. Access equity. The parking policy started tonight the Vision Zero policy. Councilmember Odie and I talked a little bit. I'm sorry. There are some. I would. I sent you the wrong version of this, but it is automatic automatic speed enforcement cameras. There are some things that are happening to the state right now. There are conversations that are happening between now and the end of the year that are not on our legislative agenda. So the idea of adding automatic speed enforcement, talking about 85th percentile speed reform, that the estuary bike agreement will be coming back on October 1st. There's a move right now which we talked about as a part of the carp, but rebates for e-bikes. Right now, we give eBay. For some reason we're only rebating cars. So there's a movement and some bills being worked in Sacramento around the idea of supporting and giving the same kind of support for electric bikes and then bringing back something that was going to come back within a year. And I think we're past a year now. But the E-bike and E-Scooter policy, which at this point in time so many cities have those, we should be able to just cut and paste from somewhere else, change the city name and and be there. And then the idea was to really try to bring back by next fall the active transportation plan to really kind of set this council's like expectation that that thing is on a on a fast track. So those are my. Yeah. So with 7 minutes to go, does anyone want to comment further or perhaps make a motion or both? So I'm going to make a motion. To the microphone a little. Bit. I'm going to make a motion to to do just that. But I also want to just comment that I think a lot of this is about the impact to existing neighborhoods as much as it is about making sure that the roads we're creating in our new developments adhere to these values and are doing, you know, the most forward thinking things possible to make sure that we are making it safe and accessible for our cyclists and pedestrians. So I think that there is a timeliness element to this, and I think that and I think my colleagues for bringing this forward. Okay. So we have a motion who's going to second. I will. Seconded by Councilmember Ody all in favor I opposed abstain. State for now. Motion carries for to with when four in favor one abstention. Okay. So then we have council communications. I. Yeah.

AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; amending maximum size of use limits and minimum parking requirements for indoor sports and recreation uses; amending Sections 23.50.027 and 23.54.015 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Agenda Item 14 Council Bill 120 149 relating to land use and zoning amending maximum size of use limits and minimum parking requirements for indoor sports and recreation uses amending section 23.50 point zero 27 and 23.50 4.0 15 of the sentiments of the code. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you so much. I'm going to hand it back over to councilmember strauss walks the. Council president last bill of the day council bill. I'm just double checking to make sure I have this right. Yes. Council Bill 120149. This legislation increases the maximum size limit for indoor sports and recreation uses in industrial general two zones. It also places certain restrictions on the higher size limit, including that the site must be 500 feet from shorelines close to neighborhood, commercial or mixed use, mixed zones and not within a mile of another such facility. Indoor sports and recreation uses are defined in the code as including things like practice facilities, but not including spectator venues. That could drive large increases in traffic and visitation. In total, this legislation could allow for the development of such a facility on one of about 45 different parcels throughout District six and District seven, mostly in Inner Bay and in Ballard as well. There have been some speculation in the press that this proposal constitutes a spot rezone. After consulting with the city attorney's office of PCB, the mayor's office and my colleagues, I'm confident that this does not meet those criteria. This legislation does not rezone any land. It does not allow, and it does not allow new uses. So, again, does not rezone land. It does not allow new uses in that zoning. It simply adjusts the maximum size of a use that is already allowed in this zone and applies that change to many properties across the area. As a strong supporter of protecting our industrial areas, I have spoken about with stakeholders in the bid make about this proposal to ensure that they were aware of it and do not have any concerns. In addition to these conversations, we have received many letters of support, including from Todd Rickey, the CEO of the Seattle Kraken. Chuck Arnold, president of the Seattle Seahawks. Diane Sycamore, the former director of planning and development for the city of Seattle for over 14 years. Louise Cherney, former president of the Greater South Business Association, as well as from Swedish Health Services Symetra BCU, the Pacific Science Center, Carter, Subaru and rise above an organization focused on empowerment of Native youth through basketball. As we have heard in public comment and elsewhere, the Seattle storm could apply for permits to build their own practice facility if this flexibility is established, while a different party could ultimately submit the proposal. I do believe that a storm practice facility or any other practice of practice facility would have a positive impact on our city. Creating more spaces for sports and recreation benefits all of us the kids, families, neighbors and fans alike. Local governments oftentimes support the Seahawks, Mariners, Kraken and Sounders, and it is important that we as the city also have the storm, the Seattle storms back as they are the most winningest team and they have had Seattle's back for so long. As Sue Bird shared at public comment in committee. Teams can lose their star players when they don't have the infrastructure to support their players. For instance, practice facilities. If teams do not have a good place to practice and hone their skills off of the competition court, they may lose those star players. Currently, the Seattle storm is practicing at Seattle Pacific University's gym facilities. And if a player wanted to spend extra time shooting, practicing or playing, they could have that time interrupted by a university student hoping to also use that facility. This month, the Seattle Kraken's new facilities and Northgate in that climate pledge arena are a reminder of the positive impacts that sports and sports facilities can have on the city when they are done right. When we are using private dollars to create these institutions so that the public is not spending money, and the city of Seattle and the general public are benefiting from these programs, players and teams. This is another opportunity to allow for a sports facility that will benefit Seattle and to allow our women's professional sports team to invest and deepen their roots in Seattle. This is another moment where we get to tell our four time championship team that Seattle's got their back. Thank you. Council president. That is the committee's report. Thank you so much. Are there any additional comments? All right. I'm not seeing any hands raised. Oh, there we go. That's memorable. I just want to say, for the record, when I first heard about this legislation, I have concerns because how it was described, it made me think that we were we were changing the zoning in contradiction . Several votes of the councilor began as related to proposed changes from industrial zone for the slot in the comprehensive plan. And when I learned that the legislation does not change the underlying zoning and maintains the current industrial zone, my concerns were addressed and I just wanted to kind of get that on the record. Thank you so much, Councilmember Old. Appreciate it. Any additional comments you write, any closing remarks? I'm going to stress? Just a sincere thank you to my colleagues, and especially Councilmember Juarez, who is a longtime supporter and champion of the storm. Excellent. All right. I'm not seeing any additional hands raised. So will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill? HERBOLD Yes. Suarez I. Lewis. Yes. Morales. S mesquita. I. Peterson. All right. So what? Yes. Strauss. S President Gonzalez high nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign. It will occur. Piece affixed my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Sir, any further business to come before the council? All right. I'm not seeing any hands raised. So colleagues, colleagues, this does conclude the items of business on today's agenda. Our next regularly scheduled city council meeting is on Monday, October 11, 2021, at 2:00 PM. I hope that you all have a wonderful afternoon. We're adjourned. Thanks so much about.

AN ORDINANCE relating to surveillance technology implementation; authorizing approval of uses and accepting surveillance impact reports for the Seattle Police Department’s use of Parking Enforcement Systems including Automated License Plate Reader technology.

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Agenda Item 11 Council Bill 120026 An ordinance relating to surveillance technology implementation authorizing approval of uses and accepting surveillance impact reports for the Seattle Police Department's use of parking enforcement systems, including automated license plate reader technology. The committee recommends the bill pass as amended. Thank you, sir. Peterson, you are the chair of the committee. Someone handed back over to you to address this item. Thank you. Council President. So this is the third of the five items here. And this is where parking enforcement team uses this technology to do part of their work. Councilmember Swan spoke to this as well. I want to thank the committee for the amendments that they made and to make it stronger and for the work by the departments. On answering all of our questions during committee. Appreciate it. Thank you. Any additional comments on the bill? Hearing no additional comments on the bill. Will the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the. Bold. Yes. Whereas my. Lewis. Yes. Morales. I. Peterson. Yes. So want? No. Council President Gonzalez I seven in favor one opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the caucuses affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk read item 12 into the record?

Recommendation to adopt resolution which amends the resolution approving the compensation fixed by the Board of Water Commissioners of the City for Officers and Employees in the Water Department.

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Thank you. Item 35 Please. Report from water. Recommendation to adopt a resolution which amends the resolution approving the compensation fixed by the Board of Water Commissioners of the City for officers and employees in the Water Department. I do have any public comment on this item. There's no public comment on this item. Could I please get a second? Mrs.. And they she came in the first. I need a second. When you're Ranger. Would you please call for the vote? District one I. DISTRICT Mr.. Hi. District three. District three. I. District for. High. District five. District five. District six. All right. District seven by district eight. Hi. District nine. I'm curious.

Recommendation to receive and file the Houghton Park Conceptual Plan and consider Categorical Exemption CE 15-155. (District 9)

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Report from Parks, Recreation and Marine Recommendation to receive and file the Howden Park Conceptual Plan District nine. Transformative stuff. Thank you, Mayor. Council members, we have a report by Parks Rec, Marine Director Steven Scott and project manager Meredith Reynolds. Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. The item before. You tonight is to. Provide a brief report on the Highland Park Conceptual. Plan. This conceptual plan was borne out of the planning process for the Highland Park Community Center, which began a little over a year ago in September of 2014. During the community center planning. Process, feedback was. Received from the community that extended beyond the walls of the proposed community center, illuminating the community's desire to plan for the park. The future of the park as a whole. In response. To that input in June of this year, the Department kicked off this planning. Process for the Highland Park Conceptual Plan. I'm now going to turn over the presentation to Meredith Reynolds. Our park development. Officer will provide a. Brief summary of the community. Outreach process and an overview. Of the elements of the Highland Park conceptual plan. Good evening, Mayor. Members. City Council. The purpose of this planning process was to create a comprehensive conceptual plan inclusive of Howden Park in its entirety, which is a 31 acre site located between Atlantic Avenue, East Harding Street, Myrtle Avenue and Jordan High School. The outcome of this process was a conceptual plan that outlined desired park amenities that are to help guide future investment in the park. This is the first of many steps toward rehabilitation of the park amenities. And to understand the how and park site, we first started with a review of. The different aspects of the park. This included site access and transportation routes, utilities on site and off site, amenities and opportunities and constraints. Following an evaluation of existing site conditions at Halton Park. The first of two community workshops was held on. June 27, 2015 at the Halton Park. Community Center. Over 30 participants attended the first Interactive Community Workshop, which included a presentation of background and site information, a site awareness walking tour where participants recorded. Their site observations at each tour stop in a. Workbook format. Individual and group discussions of tour findings such as issues and opportunities. Safety, security, parking and activation. And a group design charrette to graphically. Express ideas on site. Maps. Individual participant feedback was presented to the larger group, and a group design charrette commenced to graphically express consensus for elements of the proposed conceptual plan. The information received at the first workshop was then evaluated and summarized and presented in a draft conceptual plan at the second Community Workshop held on August 29th, 2015, at the Howden Park Community Center. Many of the attendees from the first workshop also participated in the second. Participants were able to confirm that the project team and accurately reflected the information provided at the first workshop. The general consensus from participants was that the draft conceptual plan reflected the desires of the community expressed through the process. Extensive community outreach was performed for both community workshops, including fliers, social media, online presence. And also activating networks of. Community groups to share information as well as the Imagine Outcome website. The conceptual plan shown here is a result of a community process that arrived at a consensus around the elements listed on the screen in front of you is intended that future rehabilitation projects will be implemented as funding is identified. This concludes my presentation and myself and Steven Scott. Are available for questions. Thank you. Thank you. I turn this over to Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. So thank you and Meredith for the presentation and for leading this process. We've come a long way to get here to be able to consider this conceptual plan tonight. So since the 1930s, Highland Park has stood as a central meeting location in the heart of the North Long Beach community. And I just think it's fitting. We've talked about the Queen Mary. We've talked about a lot of things tonight. Well, now we're talking about Highland Park, which is sort of the the heart of heart of North Long Beach, in my opinion. So this heavy, heavily used park is a common fixture, serving as a meeting place center for activities, a safe route for students walking home from Jordan High on the park's north end. Each year, more than 15,000 youth and teens participate in afterschool and fun day programing to fund April programing. This is the first time since the park's been part since the park was developed nearly a century ago that a comprehensive conceptual planning process has taken place to create a cohesive sense of sense of place and a source of pride in the community of North Long Beach. The conceptual planning process balanced, preserving the green space and the history of the history important to the community with rehabilitation needs of existing amenities, with new amenities needed to serve the population who use the park. The result of this conceptual planning process ensures Highland Park is well positioned for improvements when funding and grant opportunities arise. Our community is excited to begin to begin implementing aspects of this of this plan. I'll just list out a few great things about this plan. There's new parking areas, entry monument signs, a new electronic reader board, fitness stations, hydration state stations, seating areas, a community garden, outdoor basketball courts, additional soccer, upgraded soccer fields, improved picnic shelters, improvements to our baseball diamond preservations of our trees and our green space, additional lighting and user focused bike paths. So by the end of the year, we'll see the installation of our fitness plan and our hydration stations, which are both paid for by District nine one time funds. And the North Long Beach Heal Zone, Kaiser Permanente funded initiative in the ninth District. So I want so I'll just take this moment to just invite folks to join us as we launch this plan while we cut the ribbon on the fitness zone one week from today, December 24th and 9 a.m. at Horton Park, 63 on Myrtle Avenue. So that said, excuse me, November. So that said, I make I move to receive and file the Highland Park conceptual plan and consider a categorical exemption. S.E. 15. Dash 155. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I want to take this opportunity to congratulate Councilmember Richardson, the many residents who took part in the planning of this process. I know I took I was a privilege to be early, be at some of the early meetings and see some of the conceptual ideas come come to fruition in this plan . We don't get funding without vision and without having a plan. And so it's great to have a master plan for Highland Park. It is a North Lawn Beach resource. It's the only regional park, I believe, in the north part of our city. We spent the last couple of weeks talking about the need for green space, active green space. I think this is certainly in line with that vision and we'll continue to work together to make this this this plan come to fruition, hopefully sooner than later. Thanks. Councilman Tauranga. Thank you. The buildings that are there, I know that they house some some programs there. I know that the health department has a family preservation project. And within those buildings, there was also some services provided through the work program there. Healthy Babies, I think was also fun that was working out of there. Is your plan to upgrade the the internal offices in those buildings? Honorable Mayor, members of the City Council. The facilities that you're speaking of are were not included as part of the conceptual plan. This was more for. The park specific. Activities. That being the amenities. Related to recreational programing. Such as soccer field, baseball fields. But that facility was not included in the plan. Perhaps, Councilmember Richardson, or perhaps you might want to add sometime in the future, look at some upgrades for some of those buildings, because I've been in those offices and they could definitely use some some upgrades. The ninth District field office is in there for many, many years. In that building, we're very familiar with it. It just received some improvements, some paint jobs and things like that. The focus here was about optimizing the park and we'll continue those conversations. Thank you. Councilman Andrews. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. I just want to, first of all, congratulate Councilman Richardson. You know, I just see what you guys are doing is just wonderful, especially out there, you know, in the ninth District, you know, I was there in the parade and get a chance just to watch some of the improvements that you have taken to make your nightstick, you know, just look great. And I just want to commend you on that hard work and also for Parks and Rec for getting behind this project here. Congratulations. Thank you. Public comment, please, on the item. And Cantrell and I. I see they've taken the picture off. I had some questions about what is being done with the soccer field. I see it mentioned that there was going to be a. Rehabilitation of it. Is that how upgraded? And I'm wondering how this is going to be upgraded. Most of our soccer, all of our soccer fields that I'm aware of in the parks have just been. Any place. There's not trees, there's open space, and they've used the grass that's there. And we found out that that really doesn't work with soccer fields. Like the baseball fields, they have to be installed. With a sand. Layered for drainage and because of gophers, there should be galvanized wire put down to keep the gophers out. And then a special kind of turf that will keep that will last with a lot of play. And there is natural grass turf that stands up to play. And I'm hoping that when you. Doing this, redoing this soccer field at Helton that you will consider putting in a soccer field that's going to serve the children that are playing on it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you, Mayor Garcia and. Our council members, for taking the time. To listen to us talk about this great program. I want to give a shout out to Rex besides just being just a great idea. And much needed in our district. Since we're the densest sixth district and probably the district with the least amount of green space per resident. This upgrade is long overdue and it's really exciting to see. But most importantly, I think that's the process that Rex and Shauna and the ninth District staff has been has presented to us to include the district members and the residents. To come in to be a part of it is probably the most exciting thing of all. I mean, we're talking about civically engaging people who have either dropped out and didn't think no one ever cared about them or giving them a chance to learn how the civic process processes. It's been fabulous. It's been really exciting to have architects, big name architects with big contracts come in and listen to you and implement small ideas into big plans. So I'm really happy about the process that has taken on. I'm so glad that you guys are paying some. Attention to North Long Beach because we love it. And we're actually starting to feel like you like us. So thank you so much. Thank you, Speaker, please. Good evening. Honorable there. Council members and staff. My name is Dan Pressburger. I'm the president of the De Force Neighborhood Association. I'm just speaking to the issue. This is a great time for us. It's a lot of excitement for us. Happy to have this happen. Thank you, Rex. Thank you, Al. And I don't think there's needs to be much more said. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening to Mayor Garcia and the council members, especially Councilman Richardson in Austin, helped in part play a major role in providing open space and meeting. And meeting the recreation needs in North Long Beach. The facilities are used by many groups. Including seniors. Our youth and uplifting youth and teen programs. Many different community groups. The park also served as the location for most of the cultural and civic events held in the ninth District. And. This plan was developed, this plan. Many of the citizens in Long Beach spent time in developing this plan. This is we really look forward to the improvement because the park as I say, the park is very well used and we look forward to it. Thank you. My name is Otis Hogan and I am I am the chairman of the co-chair of the Highland Park Neighborhood Association and a member of the Human Relations Commission. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Howdy. Hey, I'm going to keep this very brief. First of all, I want to compliment everybody here for this. This park. I mean, it's been long overdue. Fantastic ideas. All these concepts in place is fantastic. The way this thing looks like it's. Uh, working out just great. Um, the question that I have is same as what end control we're saying is that there's a concern over the soccer fields, and we're trying to have we're having some trouble. I'm from District five, not from District nine. One of the problems that we're having is we don't know what documents were driving the artificial turf versus grass. It seems like there's a controversy, but there's not a controversy. And so this is kind of what I am going to ask for, is that are we going to have artificial is the plan to have artificial fields over there or is it grass? And what is driving document that that that will be pushing that or will that be something to be decided at a later time? We're having a lot of trouble struggling with this, with this at least a lot of the residents in different districts at this time. And it looks like there's also a big struggle among the city of some sort to to decide that this and we are also having apparently last week there was a problem with an issue where there were a. A developer was saying that the city was telling him that that they needed to have artificial turf, at least build artificial turf. And I'm just kind of wondering where this is coming from. The memo that I saw that was created by the Parks and Recreation before Steve Scott was there by a guy named George, actually was dated, I think, June 15th of this year. And it recommended artificial turf of the, you know, more expensive. I think it was the chrome, not chrome, but it was like a coconut filled thing. And then we know, even though it hasn't been put on the table, there was a chrome rubber, you know, thing. And then I mean, there's been a lot of things going on. But the basic rationale for the. Using artificial turf was. That it was a water issue. And then we have Ms.. Mungo here saying that, oh, water is not an issue. So we have the city in conflict. And I'm just kind of wondering, where are we at in that point now? What do we what do we work? And if somebody could help enlighten me, I'd appreciate that. That's all I have. Thank you, sir. See no other public comment on the Hutton Park masterplan here. Members, please go and cast your vote. There is a motion and a second. Motion carries. Great. Congratulations to the community. And now we have to fund it. And so now that's the next big challenge. And and we're all actively working on that as well. And so we know that's a big deal to the community. So thank you. Next item. Report from police recommendation to receive and file the application of Aroma de Roma Centro for an original application of an ABC license at 444 West Ocean Boulevard, Suite 110 District two.

Recommendation to request City Manager to direct the appropriate departments to review the existing process for individuals entering the permitting process for apartments and Accessory Dwelling Units and design a program that would both incentivize acceptance of vouchers for housing and educate landlords on how Housing Choice Vouchers work; and Request a letter outlining potential incentives related to the Water Department be sent to the Water Commissioners for consideration.

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Okay. So now we move on to the regular agenda. We have item number 19. Item 19 is a communication from Councilwoman and Mongo recommendation to request city manager to direct the appropriate departments to review the existing EDU permitting process and design a program that would both incentivize acceptance of vouchers for housing and educate landlords on how housing choice vouchers work. Okay. Is is as. And I see you. Councilman Price. Is Councilman Mongo here? Yes. Okay, great. Did you want to log your motion and some of the second. Okay, great. Okay. You recognized. Thank you. In working with the. Many different departments of the city, we recognize that there are opportunities to improve the way in which we address our housing shortage. Many know that there are approximately 2000 homeless individuals in our city. And those homeless individuals. There's a report or a statistic from one of our department heads that says between 20 and 30% of those individuals actually have housing vouchers. So if we were able to better incentivize landlords to take the housing vouchers, we would potentially get an additional 600 people off the street. This motion is to encourage the city to come together with many different departments. I've talked to individual department heads about potential opportunities. I'm going I look forward to seeing what they will bring back so that there's an incentive for more landlords who are either modernizing or building additional units and or use to take housing vouchers. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Price. Um. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. I want to thank Councilwoman Mongo for bringing this item forward. This is a fantastic item, and I think it's really important for us to work with our local housing providers to do everything that we can to increase our affordable housing stock. Our office will be hosting a workshop on August 11th. We've invited our housing authority team to be there to educate landlords, all landlords throughout the city. Anyone who wants to come is welcome to come to the workshop on August 11th. I'll make an announcement with the with with the specifics at the end of the meeting. And I think it's really important for us to think very clearly about where our affordable housing options lie in the city and do everything that we can right now to make existing housing stock more affordable. That is something that I think we have a lot of landlords that have very positive experiences in working with the city on the vouchers and that program. And I think it's important for us to educate them and make sure they have the opportunity to participate in those programs with the help of city staff. I think that's a a key issue here with our city staff. They're willing to sit down and educate people on the process. And it's just we don't have enough opportunities for them to do that. So thank you, Councilmember Mungo, for bringing this item forward and allowing us to have that discussion at the city level. Thank you, Councilman Alston. Thank you. I'll be brief. I just want to thank, uh, maker of the Motion Councilmember Mongo, for bringing this item forward. I think it's innovative. It's an innovative way to utilize or to utilize a program that that is actually seems to be pretty popular since we adopted it a couple of years ago. Staff report says it has over 400 applications in for a to use this year. Probably 250 have been built in the last couple of years. And so clearly there's an opportunity for a to use to to help meet our housing needs, particularly for low income households and those with the housing choice vouchers. And so I applaud the innovation and I'm happy to support this item. Thank you, Councilwoman Zendaya's. Thank you very much, Vice Mayor, and a big special thank you to Councilmember Mungo for bringing this very important item forward. I think that we are living in special times, especially right now as we're recovering from COVID and a lot of our residents are finding themselves in need of vouchers. And I have also spoken to a lot of other property owners, too, who would like to take these vouchers. But the time that it takes to get approved, to be able to take these vouchers sometimes is not ideal. And that's one of the things that holds them back from accepting to take these vouchers. Is there anybody in staff that can maybe speak on that a little bit more? Yes. I believe we have Kelly Colby on the line about the voucher program. Well, she may be unmuted or not on the line. Okay. I mean, you can get back to me in regards to this. I just am very supportive of this item and look forward to to supporting this item. Sorry about that, Councilmember. We'll make sure we get your answer. Thank you. Councilwoman Mongo might be able to help with an answer for Councilman Zendejas. You are correct. There used to be significant challenges in the approval process and therefore landlords were incentivized. But several years ago, a few of us on the council worked with the Housing Authority, and they actually will pay you to hold your unit open for one of our members. So you actually could theoretically get rent for holding the unit for about your members, so there's no disadvantage to the landlord. Further, I did want to thank. A couple of my colleagues. I know that throughout the journey of our time together, we had many different versions of what we can do to help our housing voucher community. And I think that the workshop on Friday is going to be very, very, very beneficial. I think that I'll also just mention a couple of quick things that I was thinking when writing the item that many people don't know. But when you add either an EDU or an additional unit, you're not required to add any meters if your property is already metered. And one of the things that's an incentive for the water and gas department is they want to know each and every customer, and they also want to incentivize conservation. It's difficult to incentivize conservation when you have a dozen people on a meter or even two or three people on a meter because no one knows exactly who is using how much and if the things they're doing are working. When you go to build an Adu and or a an additional unit, meters cost upward of 1500 dollars. So if a person wants to add meters, it can be a quite an expensive experience when they're already paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for permits. And the cost of building right now is high. And so I look for opportunities similar to what's possible than water and gas to find ways to incentivize landlords to get something that the city already wants. That helps us all in our environmental pursuit of excellence and finds housing opportunities once again. And thank you, Councilwoman Price. I know that I didn't have time to have you sign on to an item with our restrictions at City Hall and COVID. But I just wanted to thank you as well for being second door on the item. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just offer my support I think is a great item. And, you know, I'll just also just say that, you know, over the years, the group of landlords, it changes over time. And there are always stigmas with the housing choice voucher program. And a lot has changed about the program. Like what Councilwoman Mongo mentioned, the standards have changed. We can, you know, put down additional deposits to hold the unit. And there are a lot of things that people don't know about. The Modern Housing Choice voucher program is very different than the Section eight program of the nineties or the eighties. And so the more we can do outreach, last time we did this was a lease up Long Beach initiative that we worked on together, the workshops and things, but we didn't have to use at the time. And I think this you know, I think this is really, really smart because this is yet another way for us to have a higher lease up rate, because if we don't use all our vouchers, you lose them to the federal government. So we have to continue to identify ways to utilize the vouchers that we have, particularly given there is a long line of people who are who have vouchers in hand and don't have a place to go. So I really like this item. Is any public comment on item 19? If there are any members of the public that. Would like to speak on item 19 in person, please stand up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the raise hand feature or dial star nine now. In person. Thank you. Your 3 minutes begin now. So I can't face success for president. This is a very rare occasion. I'm both a product of public housing here, specifically Section eight housing here in the city of Long Beach. And now I'm a provider of nine units in my neighborhood in a central area where we use Section eight vouchers to house people in the neighborhood. The only problem is not one of them is through the housing authority of Long Beach. They're all Heathcliff. And I'm going to tell you why. I was not incentivized to take a single voucher from the city of Long Beach. The process was strenuous. It was months and months of delay. Um, there's only a percentage of the, uh, units that's covered, not the entire amount. So I just want to say that. And last but not least, another reason why a lot of landlords are not incentivized is because the price points are antiquated. Um, you know, I live nine or 813, uh, the, the median is $1,595. That does not cover a one bedroom apartment right now. So, you know, you take the capital ES aspect, that side of it, right. I just don't know that many people that on real estate that are doing charitable work in relation to the properties that they own. So it's just not working. If you look at, um, currently what we do, we are, uh, we have because of COVID this incentivize the greatest voucher recipients in the city of Long Beach. Those are motel friends. They no longer are taking these vouchers because we're incentivizing them, because we've given them all this COVID money. So now they don't want to take the vouchers because they would rather take the COVID money and the millions and millions of dollars in contracts which we've repeatedly renewed and given to them. And the homeless people continue to be homeless because they're holding vouchers. And when they go to the provider to give them the vouchers, there's no need to, you know, save. Long Beach is one of the few metropolitan major metropolitan cities in America that has more vouchers than public housing. I want to commend, uh, councilwoman. Mango for bringing this up. I think it's a great attempt at solving something. The problem is this is a bandage trying to patch up a gunshot wound. A shotgun, arguably. I think that if we want to have really radical positioning with respect to. You know, getting rid of the 2000 plus people. As Councilwoman Zendaya said, these are special times and we need special efforts. We need to expand, expand public housing. You know, we have under 5% of the city. That's public housing. And if we really want to do more like room for error, we need to just buy up. We need to have the housing authority instead of spending so much time on these Section eight vouchers, you know, open up a conversation with hope and try to buy up, you know, all these antiquated buildings. You know, a lot of these buildings I living in in their time in the last 1960. I just want to finish this point. The building I live in is old. So the apartment, the amount of rooms in it doesn't fit the current families. The current families have to separate by gender. So you can't if you have a boy and a girl, they can't sleep in the same room. Under section eight. We need to update that. If we want to use these vouchers. Thank you. Thank you. I saw one more speaker. Was there another speaker on this? Okay. Our final speaker. Good evening. I just want to clarify something. Is the microphone on. Okay. Maybe speaking to the microphone. Hello? Yeah. Good evening. I just want to clarify written opposition to this as written not because I'm against housing choice vouchers, section eight housing Section eight rental assistance, the need to incentivize uptake of the HCV program to reduce the number of potentially homeless people that are still waiting. None of those things are things that I'm opposed to. It's just as written. There's a bit of a missed opportunity, as the previous speaker mentioned, not only. To incentivize better construction, but to frankly investigate existing aid use not only for environmental, health and safety, public safety compliance, but also just for efficiency. And I made a comment specifically because, you know, when it comes to where we're in human history, but also where we're at in this city, we do not need to pipe in natural gas into any of these homes, frankly. I would love to see more incentives for not only the kind of green building construction we have, but frankly, the kind of building stock that we're going to need to house as many people as we do. And there are other ways to incentivize, frankly, more public housing and more affordable housing construction. You know, this is I mean, you know, just as one one final point. I mean, you know, it'd be great to see if there was some data on not only which landlords, but which landlords have, which situations that are constraining them. And for future projects for new construction, you know, which which properties are kind of waiting for, for these to house these populations. Thank you. Thank you. That satisfies for the comment. Let's have a roll call vote, please. Councilman's in Dallas. Hi. Councilman Allen. Hi. Councilwoman Price. Hi. Councilman. Super or not. All right. Councilwoman Mongo. Hi. Councilman Zoro. I council member younger. Hi, Councilman Austin. Hi. Vice Mayor Richardson. All right. Motion carries nine.

A proclamation recognizing the Annual Brothers Redevelopment and Denver Employee Volunteer Opportunities Paint-A-Thon Day in the City and County of Denver on Saturday, August 14, 2021.

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Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. All right. Seen no other speakers this evening. Four announcements will go ahead and move on. There are no presentations. There are no communications. And there is one proclamation being read this evening. Councilmember Ortega, will you please read Proclamation 21, dash 909. Thank you, Madam President. Happy to do so. Proclamation number 21, Dash 909. Recognizing the annual brother's redevelopment and Denver employee volunteer opportunities into fun day in the city and county of Denver on Saturday, August 14, 2021. Whereas, through a partnership with Denver employees Volunteer Opportunity, otherwise known as Depot and Brothers redevelopment in 85 plus Denver employees will volunteer their time to paint homes of deserving senior homeowners. Four Brothers Redevelopment of 43rd painted sign and. Whereas, all painting will be completed free of charge for homeowners saving the city's fixed income seniors thousands of dollars in home maintenance costs. And. Whereas, volunteers will be beautifying homes and preserving home values in Denver area neighborhoods as a result of their participation. And. WHEREAS, The Paint a Fun is a great way to show city employees take pride in the community and care about its residents. And. Whereas, the paint often truly makes a difference in the line of in the lives of many Denver residents. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City County of Denver that the Denver City Council recognizes the date August 14, 2021 as brothers redevelopment in paint upon date in the city and county of Denver, and that the work of the city and county of Denver shall a test and affix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation, and that a copy be transmitted to the depot board. Thank you. Councilmember Ortega. Your motion to adopt. I move for the adoption of Proclamation 20 10909. All right. We've got the proclamation to be adopted. It has been moved and seconded. Comments by members of council. Councilmember Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I was honored to be asked to bring this forward. I knew the former president, Joe Heatherton, and his co director. I guess I'm not sure that's the right title, but him and many martinis are the two that started Brothers redevelopment, which has been around for many, many years. And the Pentagon is one of many programs that they have done that serve the Denver community. And we as a community are are truly blessed to have them as an organization to do this work and to do it in conjunction with our city employees who volunteer their time to go out and help do some of these improvements on people's homes that had an opportunity to be at numerous properties and assist with some of this work that takes place. And there's a lot of camaraderie that happens as people are out there working hard. And I know our elderly folks in our community who have benefitted from this are truly grateful because they otherwise would not be able to afford to have these improvements done because of the fixed incomes that so many of them are on. So I just want to extend my appreciation to Brothers redevelopment, congratulate them for doing this for 44 years, and to our city employees who continue to do this important work in our community as well. I want to say a big thank you to them as well. Thank you, Councilmember Ortega, and happy to support this this evening, especially where we have Denver employees volunteering and supporting the great work that Brothers redevelopment does in the community as well. And so happy to support that. Madam Secretary, Roll Call Ortega. I. Did you get my vote? I said I. All right. Thank you. Council member. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. Torres. I am black. I see. Tobacco. I. Clark, I. Flynn. I can't. I. Cashman. I can. Each i. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce results. 12 Eyes. 12 eyes. Proclamation 20 1-909 has been adopted. We have 5 minutes for the proclamation acceptance. Councilmember Ortega, we'll go ahead and start that timer. And I believe we have Chad LeBlanc, who's going to be joining us for the the acceptance. Correct. Chad, I just want to thank you for your 14 years as the volunteer manager that has been working with this program and all the volunteers that come in assist Brothers redevelopment with this great program. So the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you, City Council for this proclamation and for your support of Denver employee volunteer opportunities and housing organizations like ours at Brothers Redevelopment. Since 2005, Depot and Brothers Redevelopment have partnered to serve our elderly and disabled neighbors by painting their home exteriors, cleaning up yards, performing light repairs, and by strengthening our strengthening our community bonds through service. Denver employees are indeed from the community and for the community. In the life of the devil painter THORNE 1700 diva volunteers have donated 13000 hours of time to paint 116 homes for deserving Denver residents. The value of this volunteer time is nearly $300,000. This Saturday, 100 volunteers from a wide variety of city and county departments will add to this legacy and lend a hand to six aging homeowners who would otherwise not be able to have this work done. It would cost our average plaintiff, an applicant, 25% of their yearly income to have their home paid by a contractor. So volunteers are not only providing a practical service, but they're also saving our vulnerable neighbors money for things like food, utilities and health care. Thank you. Denver City and county employees for being leaders in our community. Additionally, in 2021, brother's redevelopment is actually celebrating our 50th anniversary as a Denver based nonprofit housing organization. Brothers Borden Staff is a hardworking, creative team with a passion for providing safe, affordable, attainable housing and housing solutions with our community. Thank you for working with us to serve our cities housing vulnerable for 50 years. Thanks for your time. Thank you and thank you for all the work that you're doing on behalf of our residents as well in Denver. All right. We're going to go ahead and move along. Madam Secretary, please read the bills for introduction.

Approves changes to the zoning classification from M-RX-5 to M-MX-5 for property located at 8822 Beekman Place (aka 4936 Verbena Street) in Council District 11. (Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure) Approves changes to the zoning classification from M-RX-5 to M-MX-5 of property located at 8822 Beekman Place (aka 4936 Verbena Street) in Council District 11. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 10-29-13.

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We reconvened, we have one more required public hearing. This evening's 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, just let us know. Come to the podium and note that you're available for questions. Each speaker will have 3 minutes unless another speaker has yielded his or her time, which would result in a total of 6 minutes on the presentation monitor on the wall. When the yellow light comes on, you will have 30 seconds to conclude your remarks. And when the red light appears, your time is up. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Speakers are prohibited from using profanity or making personal attacks during their comments. Audience Members Please remember that council members use electronic devices of various kinds to access the materials relevant to the public hearings. Be assured, however, that by mutual agreement and common practice of this Council, these devices are not being used for texting, emailing or other communications during public hearings. We I'm going to just open the public hearing for 757. We don't need we do not need a motion on the floor as the motion has already been opened, and we just postponed it until this very evening. So I'm just going to ask Mr. Mesereau to come up and give us the staff report. Good evening, Teresa Lucero, with community planning and Development. This is a zone map amendment for property located at approximately 8822 Beekman Place. The proposal is to rezone the property from master plan context residential mixed use with a five storey height limit to master plan context mixed use with a five storey height limit. The property is located in northeast Denver in Council District 11, in the Stapleton statistical neighborhood. It is generally northeast of the Northfield Shopping District, north of I-70, south of Rocky Mountain Arsenal and west of Central Park Boulevard. The property itself is about four acres. It is owned by Forest City Stapleton, and they are requesting the rezoning to enable some commercial mixed use land uses. So the master plan context was specifically written for the Stapleton neighborhood, and it is for redeveloping areas, redeveloping in phases over a longer period of time and contains a variety of residential densities and mixed use centers embedded in areas larger town centers, higher density office and industrial and employment centers. So again, the proposal is for master plan context mixed use five storey height limit. The current zoning is master plan context. Residential mixed use. The land use is vacant. The North Stapleton GDP, which is our most current planning document for this property, does designate the area residential mixed use. The surrounding building form and scale is between, well, actually one in three stories. We've got a new apartment building going in across the street from this property that is a three story apartment building. You'll see as soon as we get to the photos. This is the context. It looks very vacant currently, but you'll see the lines that are on it for residential development. To the north west of the site, you see the Northfield commercial area and noble Sysco Foods off to the east of the property. We've kind of already been through what the surrounding uses are, but the surrounding zoning is Emmerich's five and I am x five, which is an industrial mixed use district in the Master Plan context and Annex five and for the Northfield Shopping Center, the old Chapter 59 commercial mixed use zone district. Again, the site is vacant. The we already talked about the noble Cisco and the Northfield. So I'm not going to get into that. But here are the photos of the surrounding development, brand new housing going in to the north and west, Northfield Shopping Center to the south. Noble Cisco is the top picture on the left. The site itself is the vacant property in the center on the I'm sorry, on the right where utilities are being installed. And then the bottom right is the three story apartment complex under construction directly across the street from the site. So this application was that planning board on October 16th, they recommended unanimously approval. Excuse me. I need a drink. Of. Water. Something about this room dries my throat out. Ludie, on October 29th and of course, here, January 6th for this public hearing, the RINO's notified our Northern Airport corridor. Associates. Associates. Stapleton Master Community Association. Stapleton United Neighbors and I and see of course notification signs were posted on the property 21 days in advance of this hearing. And to date, we have no public comments. You know, the review criteria, consistency with adopted plans, uniformity of district regulations, furthering the public health, safety and welfare, justifying circumstances and consistency with neighborhood context, zone, district purpose and intent. The pertinent plans are current plan 2000 Blueprint, Denver, the Stapleton Redevelopment Plan and the North Stapleton General Development Plan. I won't get into the details of consistency with the plans. It's a detailed in your staff report. Blueprint Denver. This is single family residential. You see the old open space through the map. That was the original layout in Blueprint Denver. Blueprint Denver talks about a city containing neighborhoods that offer a variety of housing types, complementary land use types. All of Stapleton on the Blueprint Denver map is an area of change. There are no street classifications for any streets but Northfield Boulevard on the Blueprint Denver map, and it is an undesignated local street. Now that's superseded by the GDP, and we'll talk about that in a second. The Stapleton Development Plan, this area is designated part of District six, which designates the area a mixed residential and employment zone. Talks about a town center, a walkable scale, and significant outdoor amenities that under the Stapleton, the land use concept for the North Stapleton GDP. This is a GDP that was completed in 2012. The land use concept is residential mixed use, so could be residential could be mixed use. The street classifications for Northfield Boulevard were updated to to what it is a major arterial and willow and Xenia streets which are the two streets on either side of our property were designated collector streets. That's why staff thinks this state thinks this is a prime location for commercial mixed use rather than residential. So CBD finds that the rezoning is consistent with current Plan 2000 Blueprint, Denver, the Stapleton Development Plan and the North Stapleton GDP. That there is no effect on uniformity of district regulations. And by implementing our plans in this manner, we are furthering the public health, safety and welfare. The justifying circumstances are changing conditions. This is a desire to continue the redevelopment of our former airport. So this is a very appropriate justifying circumstance for this rezoning. And we already talked a little bit about neighborhood context to the master plan context actually being written for the Stapleton redevelopment, the zoned district purpose in intent, the mixed use zone district with this being on collector streets and arterial streets, is the more appropriate zoned district for commercial uses that will extend from the existing commercial uses to the West. So staff believes this proposal is consistent with the neighborhood context and the zone district purpose and intent. We therefore recommend approval. Thank you very much, Ms.. Lucero. We have three speakers signed up. I'd like to call on the first one. Mr. BABCOCK. Thank you very much. Madam President, members of Council, good evening and happy New Year. My name is Bob Gorelick. My address is 609 South Gaillard Street in Denver here this evening in support of Council Bill 757, representing fourth City Stapleton, the applicant and the property owner. When you first take a look at the zoning and you think we're coming from an m master plan district, our residential mixed use five stories two an m Master plan district mix mixed use five stories. You think, why are we doing this? Why is it really worth going through this entire effort? And the reason is quite simple. We've gone through two general development plans on the site over the last six years. This has always been a commercial corner. It's across the street from the largest. Commercial center we have in that part of town, Northfield. We're right across the street from Macy's. Some of our users that are looking at this corner are for convenience stores with filling stations. The difference in the bricks versus the zoning is not in use. They both allow the convenience store, but only the Amex allows the building form for a drive thru and with a filling station we have to have a drive thru. So that's the purpose of this entire rezoning. We need a filling station. There are none in this part of town. For our future residents, they have to drive all the way out to Quebec Street. And for people living south of this area, they have to go to Quebec Street to fill up their car. So we'll get this on board. And then in another month and a half to two months, you're going to be considering a rezoning for almost 800 residential units. That'll come on after this commercial corners develop. So that's the intent and that's the purpose of this rezoning. If I can answer any questions, let me know. Thank you, Mr. Garlic. Jeffrey Washington. If it were. Just the. Jeffrey Washington. I live in Denver. I, I didn't know every detail before I signed my car to speaking against this. And basically my reason for wanting to speak out against this was because I seen that they would change the residential use to commercial use. And being with the rise in housing costs we have now, I don't think is wise to change residential uses to commercial uses. But after I spoke to Mr. Goldie, door recessed. I can see how this makes sense to go ahead and approve this. But I just want to keep in council's mind that housing is short and Denver and you know, we just need to be mindful of that when we're doing these zoning changes. We need more housing and the way to do that is just to build more housing to bring the overall market rate of housing down in Denver. But again, after I spoke to Mr. Gold, look, I can see why this makes sense and the need for gas stations, though. Thank you, Mr. Washington Sekou. When I was Chairman Saker representing the Black Star Action Movement for Self Defense Advocacy Group for poor, working, poor and homeless people. Initially I had talked to Mr. Gillick and listening to the staff report. Initially I was for this thing, but as I was sitting there, there was a pain of conscience that says There's something wrong with this thing. See because. In that Northfield area where the shovels is going to go up and where this gas station or whatever that's going to be proposed because not really locked down is what's going to go up there. But when you open up the eyes and the window for this rezoning thing, it's pretty much whatever we decide happen can happen. And so in the process of building that north built, when you look at the commercial properties up in there, there is not. One black outlet, not one. And here we go with the 7-Eleven. And we know that's not no black ownership of that. So what are we really talking about here when we open up here? All right. Because now it becomes very sly, slick and wicked because it's a continuation of the ethnic cleansing of that area. And it's why only. Is good enough for us to shop there, but it's not good enough for us to live there. And so you have a responsibility here, regardless of your good intentions, to start building housing for local. People who can afford that to live there so they can shop there. And until we get that, what are we going to go on and make this a priority for the rich and nothing for the poor? And so I'm calling on the people who are allies of the poor I'm talking to. I'm talking. Susan. I'm talking to my friend Debra. And really, I really need your help on real deep calcium clinics. We got to step up the pressure and we got to use these zoning issues to put poor people on the agenda and speak to these developers about what is expected of the city. Otherwise, it's going to end up quite only are you going to push out the pool and are you going to increase the police budget to arrest. And make them move and make them feel uncomfortable here? And I don't see that commitment. I need the same urgency that you put on marijuana laws to apply to poor people. And it needs to be done now, because I'm telling you, there is a rumbling unmet need and the people who have nothing to lose are not satisfied . And we're not satisfied with the leadership that will be presented here. Because. Mr. Speaker. I think. Your time is up. Speaking on our. Behalf, Mr. Speaker, for your time. Thank you. Okay. That concludes our speakers questions from members of council. Councilman Ortega. I'm not sure who is the appropriate person to answer this question, but I'd like to know how many acres are available for redevelopment out at Stapleton that has not already seen a GDP done on it. To. Our number crunchers. I'm sorry. Some of that. But. It's all got GDP except the area north of 56th Avenue, which is about a quarter of a section. You know, it's actually let me get down to the next. Well, I hit that slice. Any idea roughly how many acres we're talking about in that area? 225. Okay, hide this slide. I'll show you. So one of the things that I think might be important here is to ask I don't know if it's for city or who, but I understand the Stapleton Redevelopment Corporation is disbanding and maybe have an update be brought to committee in terms of what's the you know, what's the role of the community and how these go through the community process? I don't know. Councilman Herndon, you might have some insights that you can share with us on this. Thank you, Councilman Ortega. Actually, I was going to leave this for the comment section, but I was going to invite my colleagues to come to LUDI next Tuesday. The 14th for City will actually be doing a presentation on the redevelopment of Stapleton and answer any colleagues questions they have about that. So this was very timely and I was going to announce that during the comment section. Okay. Thank you. Councilwoman Shephard. Mr. Gorelick. I just wanted to clarify something, because I'm not sure if I understand correctly. Did you say that you under the current zoning, you can build a filling station, but that it wouldn't be a drive through? You know, it's true. It's kind of an interesting aspect of the zoning code. We can do a convenience store with a filling station under the current zoning, but all uses in the arcs have to be enclosed. So yeah, we could do a filling station, but it has to be enclosed. It's a break in the zoning code so we can. I don't know if that doesn't even make sense to me. So could you. Explain that a little bit? Because how else would you get into the filling station? Well, that's why we're rezoning the property. There is a land use limitation. I don't know why I'm losing my voice, but there is a land use limitation in the oryx that requires enclosure of a drive thru uses. Like the enclosure for enclosure. That's crazy. Was this something that was not caught during the zoning code revision? I think this was something that was deliberately written into the zoning code so that these types of uses would go into mixed use commercial rather than residential mixed use areas. I see. That was a way. Of my understanding of it, my interpretation. Okay. Very interesting. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Robb. Thank you, Madam President. Yeah, I was going to get at the same thing. And it's it's sort of appropriate to follow Councilwoman Shepherd, because that was a good question. Mr. Garlic, I was just going to ask you, the way it was said, made it sound like we didn't conceive of the zone districts very well. But really what I interpret you're saying is we didn't map this corner correctly to allow that. That's correct. The zoning just adjacent to this to the west is m m x and this site probably should have been m m x as opposed to our. It was never the intent to have this as a residential corner. It's across from Northfield. So no, you're correct. It should have been mapped initially. And then I had another question, since we're changing this from the remarks, and yet you said, which is really a come in zoning, that you're going to come back here and rezone for 800 residential. Did we also mis map an area and make it mixed and not residential or. No, no. This is the zoning we'll be bringing in in the next 6 to 8 weeks is referred to as filing 45. It's in response to our newest general development plan, our new GDP. It's difficult to anticipate what all these uses are going to be years out. When we did the initial GDP, so now we've revised it and we need to bring our zoning into compliance with the general development plan. So that's the next one you'll see. If I said 800 units, it's 789. Okay. I'm glad you're precise there. If I could just come quickly. Council President In addition to having the Stapleton plan there, obviously given our omnibus zoning amendment, that's sort of coming through at the same time, we're going to plan some time to discuss GDP sort of in a work session at. Ludy as well. Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman Robb. That's good information. I don't see any other questions. So I am going to close a public hearing for Council Bill 757 and ask for comments by members of Council. Councilman Herndon. Thank you, Madam President, and I certainly would hope I can get my colleagues supporting this endeavor. It is amazing to think that DIA is almost 20 years old, as they will be next year, and to think we have not. Had an airport in Stapleton for that long. The redevelopment of Stapleton is over halfway complete. The tiff ends in 2025. And it is just remarkable to think that so much has been accomplished that I thought it was wise to have four city come in and brief council on what has happened there. I certainly want to encourage my colleagues to come and ask a lot of questions and come out for a drive to it is amazing. I think what we have done with a former airport and this is a this is certainly known worldwide for city has been approached by several entities that want to know exactly how they have done this and made this a success. Certainly have been road bumps along the way, but I definitely think overall they have they have done good work and there's still more good work to be done. I would also like to encourage people that spoke tonight, if you're unfamiliar with Cleats, which is a bar in Northfield, Stapleton, owned by Lauren Belt, an African-American couple, as well as Tipsy Cupcakes, another minority owned business in Northfield, Stapleton. That's just the two of the few that I'm aware of. So wanted to make sure that people were aware where we have great large chains such as Macy's and Northfield, but we also have local minority owned business there as well. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman Herndon. And seeing no other comments, I think we're ready for roll call. Herndon I can eat lemon. Lopez All right. Montero Nevitt, I. Ortega, I. Rob Shepherd. Brooks High ground fights. Hi, Senate President. I am Councilwoman Ortega. Get your vote out there. Thank you very much, Madam Secretary. We close the voting and not the results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes Counts Bill 757 passes. I have a couple of announcements. On Monday, January 13th, Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 975, which renews for ten years a contract with Comcast for a non-exclusive cable television franchise agreement. And we will have the one hour courtesy public hearing on the same night regarding the 64 subpoena station area plan in Councilman Herndon's district. And seeing no other business before this body. This meeting is adjourned. Your first quarter. Denver 82. New. York City. Your source? Denver eight is about your city. 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Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP FM15-084 and award contracts to Comprehensive Housing Services, Inc., of Fountain Valley, CA; Harris & Associates, Inc., of Irvine, CA; Pacifica Services, Inc., of Pasadena, CA; Padilla & Associates, Inc., of Santa Ana, CA; Perceptive Enterprises, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA; and Contractor Compliance Monitoring Inc., of San Mateo, CA, for as-needed professional compliance monitoring services, in an aggregate annual amount not to exceed $600,000, for a period of three years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)

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Motion carries nine zero. Item 23 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to award six contracts for as needed professional compliance monitoring services and an aggregate annual amount not to exceed 600,000 citywide. This motion and a second two staff report. Leah ERICKSEN. Um, good evening, Mayor and Vice Mayor and City Council. City Council approval is requested to enter into multiple contracts for as needed compliance monitoring services. We've selected six vendors to provide federal and state required Labor contract compliance monitoring for city projects. The contracts are on an as needed basis for approved projects, and costs will be included within those project budgets. This concludes my staff report and I'm available for any questions. Thank you. To the maker and seconder of the motion. Wish to speak to the item. No. Oh. Okay. Is there any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item 23? Seeing none. Members. Cast your vote. Your anger. Councilmember Young. Motion carries nine zero. Item 24.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 4855, 4856, 4876 and 4900 Sherman Street, 4824 Lincoln Street, 4877, 4901 and 4978 Grant Street, 5000, 5001 and 5021 Logan Street in Globeville. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-SU-D and I-MX-3 to OS-A (urban edge to open space), located at 4855 Sherman Street, 4824 Lincoln Street, 4876 Sherman Street, 4900 Sherman Street, 4901 Grant Street, 4978 Grant Street, 5001 Logan Street, 5000 Logan Street, 5021 Logan Street, 4877 Grant Street, and 4856 Sherman Street in Council District 9. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 7-21-20.

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We have three public hearings tonight. Speakers should begin their remarks by telling council their names and cities of residents and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses when called upon. Please wait until our meeting hosts promote you to speaker. When you're promoted, your screen will flash and say, Reconnecting to meeting. Please do not leave the meeting. You will be reconnected and you will need to turn on your camera if you have one. And your microphone. If you're signed up to answer questions, only state your name and note that you are available for questions of counsel. See, speakers will have 3 minutes. There's no yielding of time. You will see your time flash on the screen when you have 30 seconds left. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to council as a whole and refrain from individual or personal attacks. Council Member Sandoval Will you please put Council Bill 694 on the floor for passage? They moved that council bill 20 30694 to be placed upon final consideration and due process. Has been moved and seconded. The required public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0694 is open. May we please have the staff report? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. Scott Robinson with community planning. And. This is a request to resolve the question of space properties from the SUV and I am sorry to Prochaska. The property is located in Council District nine in Globeville neighborhood and is just north of Argo Park. It's just under six acres and is currently vacant. Request is to resign from that which is urban search context, single zoning and I am extreme which is industrial mixed use three storey zoning to OSA, which is open space to. And the request is to rezone it, to convert it into a city park. As I said, property is currently zoned SUV and I am extreme and see how most of it is being just a small portion. I have three offices northeast corner surrounded mostly by sunny industrial up in the northeast and then OSA Argo Park to the south. Here you can see the existing way of use. The subject property is currently vacant, surrounded mostly by single unit residential with a part to the south and then some. Industrial uses. To the northeast. Here you can see an old photo of property in the bottom. Right. And then photos of some of the surrounding houses. The proposed OSA Zone District is an open space zoning intended for city owned parks and open spaces. It provides flexibility and grants to the manager of Parks and Recreation. The ability to set standards for building form and uses. We just went to a planning board on July 15th, which led to a unanimous recommendation for approval. There was one member of the public spoke with some questions. I went to Rudy on July 21st and has spoken tonight. We received no public comment. This application. In order to approve a resigning the city must find. These five criteria have been met. The first criterion is consistency with adopted plans. There are four plans for the Prime Minister property. The first is comprehensive plan 2040, as described in the staff report. Steps five Because rezoning is consistent with multiple strategies from Complaint 2048, mostly related to improving parks access. In terms of equity, Steph finds the proposed rezoning consistent with the strategy for the equitable, affordable and inclusive vision element. Again, relating to improving access to amenities such as parks and in terms of climate change. Staff finds the proposed rezoning consistent with these two strategies from the environmentally resilient vision element, again relating to increasing open space and parks in some. The second plan is Blueprint Denver. The future complex designation for this property is urban, which calls for a variety of uses and building forms in the context, including things like parks. So the proposed zoning is consistent with that. The future place designation is public park and open space, which again is consistent with the proposed OSA park and open space zoning. Most of the surrounding streets are local streets, except for Lincoln, which is a residential collector on the west side of the property there. Again, all consistent with the proposed OSA zoning. The future growth strategy for the property is for all other areas of the city intended to accommodate 10% of. New jobs and 20%. Housing, which is appropriate for this area and consistent with the proposed zoning blueprint, also includes a number of strategies and other recommendations, including this recommendation to increase the percentage of residents who are within a ten minute walk of the park. So creating a new park will help meet that strategy. Also for larger rezonings, a blueprint requires an equity analysis on the three equity concepts in the plan. So before we go through those, the first is access to opportunity. This area currently scores as less access to opportunity as defined by the three measures equity index, the proximity to transit and access to certain corridors. However, creating a public park here will should help improve that by improving access to parks, which can help improve health of the residents mental and physical, which will improve the equity index and . Access to opportunity. The second equity concept is vulnerability to involuntary displacement. This area scores as more vulnerable again based on the measures of median household income per cent of renters in the area and educational attainment of the residents. Denver Parks and Recreation is working with partners in the neighborhood on a cross-sectoral strategy to address any potential impacts of this city investment in the in the neighborhood on involuntary displacement. The third equity concept is housing and jobs diversity first in terms of housing diversity. This scores as moderate diversity. Our staff finds that the proposed rezoning and park will have a limited impact on housing diversity in the area and similar for jobs diversity scores as skewing towards manufacturing. And again, will have a limited impact. So staff finds the proposed rezoning consistent with Blueprint Denver. The third plan is game plan for a healthy city. The city's Parks and Recreation masterplan, it calls out global neighborhood as a high need neighborhood for improving access to parks and says park and programmatic resources should be focused on underserved serve neighborhoods such as Globeville. So the proposed rezoning is consistent with the game plan for a healthy city. And then the fourth plan is the Globeville neighborhood plan. Again, this plan designates the property as a park or open space and calls out specifically platform open space property with a community led vision to transform this into a park for the neighborhood which this proposed rezoning would help. So step five proposed rezoning consistent with global neighborhood plan and the first criteria of MET. The second criterion is uniformity of district regulations that finds the proposed rezoning would result in the uniform application of a zone district. The third criterion is to further the public health, safety and general welfare of the city. Staff finds the proposed rezoning would do so by implementing the city's adaptive plans and facilitating the creation of new park, improving health and welfare in the neighborhoods. The fourth criterion is justifying circumstances. Staff and rezoning is justified by change and changing conditions. One is adoption of new plans in the area, including four never plans specifically calling out this property as a as a park. And that also the city's purchase of the park, the OSA Property Grocery Zone District, only applies to city owned properties . The city has acquired these properties over the last few years and so only now is it appropriate to apply the. Lessons of district to them. And the fifth criterion is consistency with neighborhood context. The purpose of intent. Stafford's proposed rezoning would result in use and development consistent with the purpose and intent of the Osage District. So that stuff, five or five criteria are met and recommends approval. Words from Parks and Recreation has a few additional information that you would like to go over, so make the hands over to her for just a few slides here. Thanks, Scott. As Scott mentioned, my name is worried about. I'm the associate parks planner with Denver Parks and Recreation. And I just wanted to talk a little bit about the history, community engagement and current status of the site. My cat is also deciding now is the time to be really loud. So I'm sorry to have you guys hear that in the background. So a little bit just about the. History of the site itself. It is it was located within the Asarco glow plant Superfund boundaries, which left the site with a number of environmental issues, including contaminated soil. However. She remediated the soils between 1993 and 2011, so that work was completed during that time period. It had become after that and during that it had become a destination for crime and illegal dumping, and at which point the citizens decided to rise up and get involved and make sure it was no longer used for that purpose. So and they. Had always felt this kind. Of connection to the site. So the history of platform open space is really a community led effort. In 2006, the Globeville residents teamed up with their council men at the time and an organization. Called Groundwork. Denver in order to develop a vision and a. Design for the site. For the next ten years. The residents advocated for the development of the site, working with. Partners. Like the city and county. Of Denver. To make this vision a reality. And excitingly, in 2019, the city and. County of Denver closed on the last property. That it needed in order to complete this vision. Just a little bit about the community engagement. The residents really worked very hard on getting the word out to their fellow neighbors, working with pro bono urban planners and environmental experts. A resident steering committee led the vision, planning and community outreach. The overall design process included three community meetings, as well as door to door engagement engagement through organizations like the Neighborhood Association, Recreation Center, churches and schools. And then at the end of this process, the finished product included a full design set that met the goals of the community, which you can see here on the slide. Active living. Connecting kids with nature and demonstrating environmental sustainability. Okay. So I. Know this slide is a little hard to see, but. If anyone. Would like it, I'm happy to provide a. Bigger enlarged image. But this is the final concept design for a pop farm open space. As you can see, the most important focus is the trails system that was implemented along. With things like native grasses. And enhanced crosswalks and as well as like a detention pond for storm. So the current status. Is that actually the construction has just been completed. It was opened to the public in August 2020. So really soon, really recently. And here you can see two pictures of the finished product. You can see that the grasses in the native are still coming in. But you can see that the trail system has been complete. And we're really excited that the neighbors now have access. To this after. A ten year advocate for it. So that's it for me. I'm happy to open it up to any questions. Thank you to you both. Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 694 and we have two individuals signed up to speak this evening. And so first up, we have Jesse Paris. And we'll probably go ahead and ask you to stop sharing your screens for right now. And we'll. Get Jessie on. All right. Go ahead, Jessie. He was a counselor. My name is Jess in Paris and I'm represented for Denver Homicide now. Baxter Examiner for Self Defense, Positive Action, MIT for Social Change, as well as the Unity Party of Colorado. My belief in the universality of people's organization in our reside in District eight at the Future. Studios. 3737 Quebec Street. Denver, Colorado. I'm saying that the community has been wanting this for. Ten years to. Maintain Globeville, a very neglected and very gentrified community, saying that the city is finally implementing what they've been wanting for the past ten years. I have no choice but to go with this. The only question I. Had was it looks like we did enough outreach to the community. It looks like this is what the community wants. When we say sites like this, though, it just hurts me because we get told. About. Places where there can be tiny villages, but this is where there could be. Encampment safe. Supervised encampments that there's no open space available for this. And then we find places like this where there is open space. Now, this community been burdened. Enough with. The tiny little village which they didn't want in the first place. So I'm not suggesting that you should put one near, but when you see open space like this, we need to keep in consideration that these could be areas that people could be occupying that do not have a home that can afford to live in the mile high income city and that you should we take a further consideration in the bay districts for areas like this to be places where our own house neighbors can reside and not be terrorized by DPD. So that's all I had. Thank you for giving me a chance to speak. Thank you. Next up, we have Silas Eula Barry. Am I. Right? Go ahead. Silence. Oh, can you see me? We can't see you, but we can hear you. Okay. Sorry. I think you should be able to see me now. Now we can go ahead. So my name is Jeremy. Silas LaBrie and I. I grew up in Globeville. I also am a public artist, and I've been a part of the global community on many levels. I created one of the murals under I-70 on Lincoln, and I also created all the public art for the new Larimer Housing Development. I owned 4901 Grant. Which I've owned for. I believe, about five years now. I grew up up the block. My mother still lives up the block on 1595 Grant. I was sent messages last minute, just about maybe 40 minutes ago saying you should tune into this because they're talking about your land. I wasn't made aware of any of the rezoning prior to right now. And I guess my first question is, how does this affect the land that I've worked so hard for and planned on building a home for my family's future? It again, it's 4901 Grant. It's I've seen the construction going on there at the bottom of the hill. Does this does this affect what I own, the property that I owned? Well, can I somehow lose the zoning where I can't build a home on this land? So we're not going to answer any of your questions right now. This is your time stylist to to share your perspective. And then one of us can ask that question of the planner. So you go ahead. This is your time. Yeah. So that I mean, that's that's it is is that you know, I know myself and and a few other people own property around there. And I didn't realize that my address my address was. Was thrown. Into the mix of that. So my, my only, you know, the only thing I have to express is that my concerns of somehow losing something that I'm banking on for the future of my family. And, you know, the reason why I did buy this property in Globeville is because I wanted to live in the community that I've worked and grown up in. So the thought of somehow being able to lose that through zoning scares me because, you know, me and a lot of my other friends, that's that was our plan is that when we were grown, we were going to buy houses there and we were going to raise our kids there and we were going to remain in Globeville. So I guess that's that's all that I had to express. Okay. Thank you. That concludes our speakers for tonight. Questions from members of council. Councilman CdeBaca. Thank you. Madam President, I would like to have the questions answered that Silas asked. I was looking at this property earlier today and realized that there are two properties with the exact same address, Scott. And wondering how this does affect the corner property and the one next to it that both seem to be owned by private owners and not the city of Denver. So if you can explain those two things to me, that would be helpful. Yeah, certainly. So the address and can be a little confusing because when a property does not have an official address signed yet, it is given a temporary address, which is the first address of the block on the other side of the street. This service being on the outside of the street and doesn't have a permanent address assigned is given 4901 Grant Street. And so Mr.. Your base property is at the north end of the that block is not included in this rezoning is not being resolved to address that as part of this rezoning. This rezoning only affects the city owned properties. So it's that simple. But so it stops at the property right to the south of Mr. You Liveris property. Right? Yeah. Those two privately owned properties are not. Included in this rezoning. So 4901 North Grant will not register entirely as this zoning or how do we make sure? Because we're telling him right now it's a technicality, but I don't want him to be in a position a year down the road if he's trying to reason to build and he's told that it was completely reasoned. Yeah. So the, the way the zone district the is used to define. Sort or the legal description, the philosophy and the occupation. And in particular. Though that has a legal description that defines what is actually about legal description does not include this property. It only includes the city on property. Got it. And so those pictures that you showed us are not accurate, right? The pictures include. The pictures include both his property and his neighbor's property. They shouldn't. But if they do, then, yes. They're not accurate. Got it. I just wanted to make sure that we get that all on record. Thank you. And is it is it possible? Well, we can actually set up a meeting to talk with Mr. Barry after because there are some zoning questions. Can you clarify what his property remains zoned as? Yes. His property is the SUV and more for me. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. What? All right, Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I have a couple of questions for the Parks Department. I want to ask the question about dedicating this park land as is. Is that something that will come later after we complete this rezoning? And is there a reason why we just do it all at the same time? Thanks for that question, Councilman. Yes, the plan is definitely to designate this park. After it is zoned. It's not a great answer, but usually it's just typically how it's done. You get a reason and then designate it. However we are, this property actually has made us consider. Doing it together and. Maybe looking at that in the future. But for now, it's separated and it is plan on getting. Idea on the timing of when you guys will bring that piece of it forward. That's a great question. I actually my. Supervisor, Kathleen, is here tonight and she. May have a better answer. Okay. Let me go to my next question. Or maybe she might have some response by the time I get done with this next question. And I'm not sure. Maybe it should be the one that I asked this question, because I know you were involved in this project. Does this have any metro wastewater, which is formerly urban drainage and wastewater funds in it? Yeah. The Southern half. Madam President, may I? Yeah. So? So the southern portion of this site does have urban drainage funding in it. And I actually. I'm sorry. I know we've had a lot of staff changes, Laurie, and you're a little newer to the project. I actually don't believe that the entire site can be dedicated as a park because there is a significant Excel easement for the powerlines that I believe complicates the dedication. So we may need to double check the answer to Councilwoman Ortega's first question as well. I don't know if the Metro wastewater impacts the ability to dedicate as well, but both have easements involved, particularly the Metro wastewater is on the southern portion of the site below the street. And so I just want to maybe ask the staff to, if they're not 100% sure, perhaps caveat that answer before we proceed. Okay. And and then my last question worry. I don't know if you got an answer to that first part, but. My last question is about losing my place here. So was the drainage dedication. So it's a total of six acres. So we need to just clarify if the easements will prevent any portion of that from from being dedicated. But I just lost my place. So anyway, if I if I remember it all chimed back in. Okay. Thank you. I think it sounds good. And then I know we have Kathleen on the line as well. If Laura, you'd like us to bring her up. I think Kathleen's unmuted, so maybe we can get some clarification around the the park designation. That would be great. Thanks. Thank you. This is Kathleen Leveque and the assistant director of Parks Planning for Denver Parks and Recreation. And as Lori mentioned, a platform open space is a good candidate for a park designation. However, we do typically wait until construction is complete, and any surrounding issues like road improvements or utilities are also complete. We have a a citizen committee that actually looks at potential park designations and works with our staff and in works out issues like are there any remaining title issues, encroachments, easements, other things that come into play as it relates to a park designation? And once it gets vetted through that group, it then goes to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and then to Ludy and then to City Council. So this property is very much on our radar, but we do need to go through and confirm if there are any outstanding issues before we can proceed with designation. Thank you. Madam President, I could take my spot if I could just ask that last question. Go ahead. So I just wanted to ask the city attorney. I lusa goes on to just clarify the point that if we have two addresses that have the same exact address, one being in changing the zoning and the other one being in this private property that we have, is there something more we need to do as part of this zoning tonight to ensure that we're not entangle bring this private property into this, you know, this a risk category? The Council members council. Yeah, thanks for the question. So as Scott mentioned, the substantive portion of this ordinance is is the text of the ordinance itself and not so much the bill title. So the address. Right. So so legal description is what is legally enforceable? Does that help? Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think making this all part of the record tonight becomes an important part of the clarification as well for this property owner. That's the two property owners whose address is fall within the the listed addresses on tonight's bill just to help them, you know, be assured that they're we're not changing their zoning. You know, I think Scott explain why that address, those two addresses are being used. And I think that was helpful clarification. But I just wanted to have some voice from the city attorney to just kind of assure property owners that they are protected. Yeah, absolutely. And when the guys department of CP draws the zoning map boundaries, it'll clearly define the area that's being re zoned should this rezoning pass this evening. And it will exclude the properties in question. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilman Hines, you're up. Thank you, Madam President. And and thank you, colleagues who have come before me. I certainly also have the same question. And I, as a person who's not familiar with the city, I would be pretty flustered if my address showed up on the title of the bill. And so thank you for thank you, colleagues. And thank you for city staff for clarifying that the. Are there. Regarding this area, are there people who are currently not 5 minutes from a park who will join the club of people who are 5 minutes from a park? Isn't the reason why I think 5 minutes is. I think that's one of the priorities, one of the goals of the city, if I'm right. Yes. So our typical radius is actually a. Ten minute walk or roll with a five minute for. A downtown core. But you're absolutely right, it's important regardless. We did do that. Analysis and I would honestly double check because there is a park really. Close by. But I do believe that this new trail system does encompass at least a few new homes. But I would need to double check on the exact percentage of people that are getting the ten minute walk access from this park specifically. May I add something, Madam President? Go ahead. Distance isn't always the only determinant of who can access a park. And one of the things that this park will provide is more direct access for the residents of Linden with developmental disabilities and the users of Laird in who? There is a park immediately south of this location, but there's a railroad track between this park and Argo Park. So that railroad track might as well that park. Argo Park might as well be another two miles away for those residents, particularly with their transportation barriers. So ground work worked really hard to, you know, make this site inclusive to Laird and residents in particular. But there are also habitat homes on that north side, as well as the long term residents that our public speaker talked about. I know his property is not yet residential. It sounds like it's land, but there are other houses that about this area. And, you know, some able bodied folks might be able to cross railroad tracks, but we don't recommend it and we certainly don't, you know, know that everyone can't. So I do think it expands access, particularly for those residents that are on that side. But that's important context. And I want to also thank Parks for identifying rock and roll because that includes me. So I do have one other question. Maybe this is for Mr. Robinson that the presentation said that we completed construction on the park and now we are rezoning this to a park. So are we beginning with the end in mind or how does how does this rezoning process work? Because it seems to me like if we say no, we've got this thing, it's all made out to be a park. That is I'm not saying that I'm going to say no. I just I'm just trying to understand the process of do we make it into a park and then rezone it to a park? Is that the typical process? From a zoning standpoint. Yeah, it can go either way. Park users are allowed users in the zone district, the existing zoning. So that's why they're able to build the park on the existing zoning. But for various reasons, we want to zone our parks to park zoning. So we want to build the park. So when you get attorney and law enforcement, why we go for now. But yeah, that's why we even though the park. Is. Now being construction. It's still important to. Rezone it at this point. But I like the idea of calling a spade a spade. So I recognize why you'd want to call the park apart. So thank you. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Madam President. Scott ordinate and possibly Lori. Also a couple of questions. Following up on what Councilwoman Canete was just talking about. It does concern me that the Burlington Northern New Jersey cut off track cuts through there, and there doesn't appear to be. I've been up there a couple of years ago when I was working on the project, and there doesn't seem to be any barriers or protections to keep people from accessing the railroad tracks. What I was wondering was maybe Lori is the best person to answer this. Are there plans to connect this to Argo Park somehow directly, either under or over the tracks of the tracks run on a berm through there to make this accessible. Accessible, because it's very tempting for people to want to go from one to the other. And we certainly don't want them crossing the Jersey cutoff, even though my recollection is that BNSF doesn't use it all that often. Are there plans to connect the two? Yeah, that's a great question. I actually if it's okay, I would like to kick it over. To. Carol. Sure. She is the project manager for the park and the construction itself. So she may be a little more. Knowledgeable about future plans. Great. Thank you, Kathleen. Yeah. It could be Cathy or Kara. Okay, we've got Kathleen on. Hi, Kathleen Leveque. At this time, we do not have plans to go either over or under the railroad tracks there. People can use the on Street Network to cross the tracks. But at this time, there are not plans to connect them directly from park to park. There's absolutely no separation of fencing or anything between that link, and I think it's the one on that on the West Side and all the way over to the other end of our park. So it's kind of concerning. I also want to congratulate Groundwork Denver for all of its work on this over over that long period of time. Great project. But does the and maybe Scott, I can answer this with the with the power lines that are still there. We purchased the public service. Well, I'm dating myself Xcel property just last year, last June. All those parcels and their power lines remain on their. Do they remain now? So now they are on our property rather than on their own property. Do they retain an easement? And that might be what is standing in the way, as Lori pointed out of designating it as a park. Or perhaps we could designate everything but the easement strip as a part because power lines will remain correct. Yes. That's my understanding is there is an easement for the power lines. On the property and those cars will remain. Mm hmm. Okay. And finally, Laurie, maybe you can answer this. I was looking at the staff report on this, and and all the building forms and design standards for OSHA, of course, say not applicable because it's open space. And OSHA is city park. There are folks in Denver who are very concerned that that the manager of Parks in the 2010 citywide rezoning had acquired some ability to to, in effect, rezone and develop part of dedicated city parks. This rezoning doesn't set up any building forms, but I'm wondering, does KPD Scott have a position on what the manager of parks can do in a city park that is designated OSA? Can anything be developed or built on there? So there can be going on there or say a lot of our rec centers are also zoned. So let's say things like rec, some of our public park uses for public recreation. This is can be constructed on hillsides. I probably would be restricted to a park purpose like a rec center or. Okay. Right. So there's a purpose and intent of U.S.. District, which is for. Okay, I just want. Thank you. I just wanted to get that on the record. Thank you. That's all. Madam President. Madam President, I had an answer to Councilman Flynn's question after. No, that's okay. This project has outlived three generations of staff, so. Yes, no, go ahead. Councilman Flynn. There are serious practical issues that would make that very unlikely on this site. So I just don't want anyone listening. The northern portion of the site is capped and that cap would prevent construction activity, freeze and digging without major environmental clearances from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, who governs this site under a voluntary cleanup agreement and the southern portion of the site because of the drainage issues, it is now a part of the flood control system that connects to the outfall. And so so in both cases, I don't believe that that's likely to be feasible and very much, if any, of this site. There is some further improvements to the site that might occur in a second phase when more funding is secured. But those are like play features and, you know, some some work on the trails and things like that. They are not structures, but I, I can't, you know, we need to get an opinion from the design professionals to be official, but I think it's virtually impossible to disturb either the northern or the southern portion of this site given those two issues. So I just don't want anyone leaving thinking buildings might pop up here for a park's purpose or any other purpose. All right. Thank you. And I. I was asking that question simply to to get it the had the common observation that has been made. And we, of course, have that long standing memo from our former legislative counsel, David Broadwell, as far as what the director of parks, the manager of parks could do. But I just wanted to get it on the record about that. I anticipate the parks would build something vertical, even for a park's purpose. But thank you for that. That's all, Madam President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilwoman Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. So I have a question for Scott. Hey, Scott. When the 200 foot notifications go out for any rezonings, do you send them to the house, or do you cut the list where they would get sent to the address? The assessor's record. Yes. It's to the property owner. Based on your assessment records. Based on the assessor assessor's records. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman CdeBaca. Just a quick question for Scott. Do you know why the city sold the other parcel, the other 49. No. One parcel? Because it looks I'm looking at the chain of title and it looks like the city owned it at some point and sold it. But if we've been going through this process for ten years, do you know why that happened? No. I do not know the history. Of. Your friend Mr. Castle. I do not. Know. Property for. Got it. Thank you. All right, Councilwoman Canete for you. Back up for a question. Okay. Well, I can't I was I was I can't speak to the specific parcel without a map, but I will say that there were several properties that groundwork Denver had flagged and asked the city to be more assertive in acquiring that were adjacent to the site. And we had some real difficulties with staff changes, reluctance from the city attorney's office at first to engage with a site that was part of a voluntary cleanup. And I know that there were at least one, if not two parcels that we missed the window on. So I can't speak to whether that's the particular parcel that you are speaking to. But in a in a in a situation as long lasting and complex as this one, we had a difficult time sometimes moving in the real estate realm in the way that we might have needed to. The good news is that the major integrity of the site was held together, and I don't think any of those things undermined the huge success that this is for the community. But again, I would have to look at a map to confirm if that parcel is one of them. And when it when it changed hands and, you know, some of the folks who may have that memory on the city site are gone. But it may be that groundwork. Denver might have the history. My former staffer, Tangiers Barnes, is really good at that stuff. So if it's important, we can try to help you dig it up. Thank you. I was just curious about it because the sale happened in 2005. The city sold it to a private owner. And so it just seemed strange that they would have if we went through all the trouble we went through to acquire the other parcels , why we would sell off one that we owned within the same bracket of time that we were trying to do something like this with that. Well, that parcel predates the city's position until 2013 was that this site was not appropriate for an open space. So it wasn't until 2013 that we began to partner to go in this direction. So that explains it predated it. They they did not think that this site was appropriate for that use. Awesome. Thank you. All right. The public hearing for Council Bill 20 dash 0694 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I just wanted to first thank Groundwork Denver and Councilwoman Kimmich for all their efforts in putting this together. I've had a chance to drive down and see all the improvements that have gone in. Clearly, this neighborhood is an area that floods, and having this storm drainage component that helps address some of the flooding for this neighborhood is really, really important. And this is only part of a whole bunch of other things that need to happen to really get this neighborhood out of the flood zone. And there's this whole process with the Army Corps that's been underway, and a lot of things are in motion to try to keep it out from being designated as a flood zone. But it it this project clearly has beautified the neighborhood by adding more green space. I was going to ask a question, but, you know, eventually this will have connectivity to the park on the other side of Washington Street, which is the Carpio Simonetti Park, which abuts the South Platte River. So having started this little trail and the connection to that park is going to be a really important element and and provide some true benefit to the residents of Globeville and Elyria, because they'll have access through the national western site to be able to get to the river and to the parks and over the hill, through the woods. But, you know, I just happy to support this tonight. I know a lot of work has gone into just finding the funding. And, you know, because it takes time to really stack the funding to be able to make these projects happen. And I just want to thank Councilwoman Kim for her tenacity in just keeping that ball rolling to get the project completed. So thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Canete. Thank you, Madam President. If you want to sum up why I ran for a third term, this project, I really wanted to see it through. And, you know, Councilwoman Montero did get us started and was supportive all the way. The following two council people have both also been supportive, and I greatly appreciate all their support. And, you know, we said great work, Denver. You know, Councilman Ortega, thank you for acknowledging them. I just want to be very clear that they contributed a significant amount of funding to this project via dollars that they were due through some environmental justice settlements. And so it's not just that they were advocates. It's not just that they led the design. They they actually did the contract for the original portion of the design and the planning and all of those things. They actually brought significant dollars to the table. And so one quick comment just about that. I mentioned that there was the second phase that we were not able to fund. This was all before we had a parks tax. And I believe that it would be really important for this site to be considered for the phase two improvements to be funded by that source of funding now that it is available, because, you know, we have what is an important asset, but also fairly barebones in this phase. So I do want to acknowledge the criteria that the department has presented, which I believe that this particular site meets those criteria for a rezoning. And I do you know, it is about the different generations of staff, but I want to thank all of them. The folks that are here tonight picked up a mantle from the folks who came before them. And, you know, every successive generation has helped to make this possible. And so so I do think all of the city staff that were involved as well, you know, I think it's rare to see something kind of, you know, this small I mean, as much as it has, you know, I don't I was looking for the list of residents. David Jet Ski is one of the neighboring residents who's been at the table from the beginning. One of the other, major, Margaret Escamilla, I believe, who has moved out of the neighborhood since the beginning. But was there Councilwoman Sandoval may remember some other resident names from her time in that council office. But, you know, these residents really, you know, inspired us and they frankly were so collaborative. Right. They they they held the city's feet to the fire, but as partners in a way that always allowed us to move forward. And so I just want to thank those residents for making this rezoning possible, and I intend to support it. And I urge my colleagues to do the same. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Sandoval. And thank you, Madam President. So to sum up what Councilman Ortega and Councilman Canete, thank you so much. I remember joining the city in 2012 and sitting down in Councilman Montero's office and explaining that we were not going to stop pushing to get this land and to get it to the neighborhood. And I remember sitting in meetings with you, Councilwoman Canete, and just how complicated it is because of the Superfund site and how complicated is because of where it's located and yet how much it was needed. I have never heard a community take such ownership of land and really, really want it. So it's been a privilege to be a part of that process and starting as a council late in 2012 and now here I am in 2020 voting on it. And I just sent Councilwoman Monteiro a text saying something you started in 2006 I am voting on tonight. And so talk about legacy and talk about history in that neighborhood. So, Councilman, can you just thank you for pushing. I sat in meetings alongside with you and I remember being told no. And you and Judy were just like, no, we're not taking no for an answer. So thank you for doing that for this community. And with that, too, Councilman, can you just point. It absolutely meet the criteria on here and for people who have questions around that area, if you have any questions on the zoning or what you can be built, feel free to reach out to our office. We're always going to help. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Sandoval. And I'm happy to wrap up the comments on this. I can't believe that it was in 2012 that you all started this process and knowing that this all meets the criteria for this rezoning. But we were starting on that same journey with my former nonprofit Environmental Learning for Kids at the same time. And we're going before the attorney general's office to talk about those natural resource damage funds, which were some of the funding stack for this project. And so happy to support this and happy to see that it get to this place. And, Madam Secretary, roll call, please. See tobacco. I Clark. All right. Flynn, I. Herndon. I can't. Okay. Can each I. Ortega. I seen them all. I swear. I. Torres. I. Black I. Madam President, I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 Eyes. 12 Eyes Council Bill 694 has passed. Next up, Councilmember Sandoval, would you please put council Bill 695 on the floor for passage, please?