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A RESOLUTION concerning the health, well-being, and safety of domestic workers; expressing Council’s intent to establish a right to portable Paid Time Off (PTO) for domestic workers in Seattle; and requesting the Office of Labor Standards to work with community stakeholders to draft legislation creating a portable PTO policy for domestic workers.

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Resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the group please fix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will Clark please read the title of item seven into the record. Agenda Item seven. Resolution 32028. A resolution concerning the health, well-being and safety of domestic workers, expressing council's intent to establish a right to portable paid time off for domestic workers in Seattle and requesting the Office of Labor Standards to work with community stakeholders to draft legislation creating a portable policy for domestic workers. The committee recommends the City Council adopt the resolution with councilmembers Macheda Herbold, Gonzales, Suarez, Lewis, Morales and Strauss in favor and Councilmember Peterson abstaining. Thank you so much, Madam Clerk. Are there any comments on resolution 32028? Agenda item seven. Councilor, Mosquito Council president, colleagues, I'm excited about this resolution as a corresponding piece of legislation to pass today along with the budget. The COVID 19 pandemic really has amplified the inequities that are inherent in our current treatment of frontline essential workers. This inequity that we are seeing across many industries exponentially impacts communities of color, workers of color. And there has been a clear impact on domestic workers as well. I am excited about the legislation in front of us that will continue the path of good policymaking that's rooted in community experience, rooted in the experience of those who are the frontline workers themselves, in this case, domestic workers. This piece of legislation builds on the $500,000 that the mayor also included in her proposed budget that the council is continuing to include in our proposed budget and works on policy development in collaboration with community partners such as the Domestic Worker Standards Board and the Affordable Benefits Coalition to develop policy to expand upon the benefits of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights codified two years ago. We all believe that workers deserve respect and all worker on all workers should have dignity. And the legislation in front of us that corresponds with ongoing conversations throughout next year will allow for us as a city, as a city family to develop in partnership with community, a policy that outlines how to ensure there's paid time off for caregivers and their families so that they can care for their kiddos and their elders as well. No worker should be forced to choose between working while sick or facing lost wages. But until we ensure that there is a paid time off policy that can correspond to the work of domestic work which has many different hiring entities, often we are in a situation where disparity continues. I look forward to continuing to work with community partners and hearing more from cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia who have passed or are considering ordinances protecting the right for paid time off to domestic workers. Those cities are currently working on legislation and implementation to make sure that this commitment is a reality. I really love that we are on the national stage for all of the work that you all supported with the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, that national conversation continues to center around how domestic workers have a clear path to paid leave when they need it. So thank you all for your consideration of this resolution in front of us today, which is really about the ongoing work that we will commit to in 2022 with community as and this correlates to the $500,000 included in the 2022 budget process for other aspects which include doing outreach, engagement with hiring entities, community partners, and the necessary work for education and enforcement. I look forward to hearing more in 2022 as we develop this policy together. Thank you, Councilor. Was there any additional comments on resolution 32028 Agenda item seven? What I wanted to think. Madam President. One more. One more time, Councilman. State, go ahead. Just wanted to thank Lori Mayhew, who's in our office of legislative intern, who has been really leading the effort on this. So thank her and Annabelle and labor standards for their deep engagement with community partners, including the Portable Candidates Coalition, and shout out to them as they continue to call in and express support for that. So thank you all. Anything else? All right. Well, Clark, please call the role on the adoption of resolution 32028. Agenda item seven. The want. Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Whereas. LEWIS Yes. Morales Yes. Russia i. Peterson, I. Council President Gonzalez. I vote in favor and unopposed. Thank you. Resolution 32028. Agenda item seven is adopted and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Will the clerk please read the title of item eight into the record? Agenda Item eight Clerk File 314487. The 2022 proposed Budget Committee recommends City Council file to file with council members must get a Herbold, Gonzalez, Suarez, Lewis, Morales and Strauss in favor and Councilmember Peterson abstaining. Thank you so much.

A resolution approving a proposed Amendatory Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Options, Inc., for services and supports for intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals. Amends a contract with Denver Options, Inc., doing business as Rocky Mountain Human Services (RMHS), by changing the maximum amount not to exceed to $7.5 million and to add six months for a new end date of 6-30-18 to provide services and distribute funds to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities citywide (SOCSV-201209022-01). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 1-8-18. The Committee approved filing this resolution at its meeting on 12-13-17.

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That's next. I'm sorry, 1341. I said 341 1341 for a vote. And Councilman Cashman, can you put this on the floor, please? Yes, Mr. President. I moved that council resolution 1341 be adopted. All right. It has been moved and seconded. All right. Comments by members of council. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. I just, you know, this came to committee and there were a lot of comments and we got very thorough response back from Rocky Mountain Human Services that said, under normal circumstances, I would be asking for this to be postponed as a matter of privilege. I am not asking that primarily because if we did, it would postpone it into into January. And services to developmentally disabled children and people actually would be would would this would terminate December 31st and there would be a time where they would go without services. But I do want to comment on that, which is this habit, again, from the administration and people responsible for these bills, for giving them to council in a timeline that doesn't allow that that sort of forces us to act faster than our normal response at mean time. I mean, it is listed on there that we have to act by January 8th, when in fact, we have to act before December 31st. And because this is the last meeting in this year, we have to act today. And that is that to me continues to be unacceptable. And and for that reason, I know my colleagues will move this forward, but I am going to vote in opposition to this bill. And that's why I have called it out for because I actually still have pending questions that I would like to be answered and I'm sure will be answered, but not but because I still have those questions. I can't vote in support of this at this point in time. And I lament the fact that I can't have a chance to review it without jeopardizing services to children. Thanks. Okay. Any other comments by members of the Council? Councilman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. Councilman Nu and I had been meeting with our Department of Human Services in Rocky Mountain over the last year and recently plugged in Councilman Cashman, who is the new chair of the committee, to look at some of the changes that will happen in the new contract. And so it's important that we extend this contract, continue the services that are being provided not only by Rocky Mountain, but by the other providers that they are contracting with. I don't think everyone is aware that there was a federal mandate that we go to a case free management system, which means the provider cannot both provide services and administer all of the services. And so the state is in the middle of setting regulations for how that will move forward. I'm not sure all of that work will be done by the end of the six month time frame. But we can certainly be ensuring that Denver is plugged into that conversation with the state and helps kind of guide some of the changes that will happen in the new contract. There are some things that the Department of Human Services is looking at as some additional things they want to see done differently into that contract that we will see next year. But in the interim, it is important that we move this forward. Thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega. I concur. See no further comments. Madam Secretary, roll call. Espinosa. No. Flynn, I. Gilmore, I. Herndon High. Cashman, I can eat. Lopez All right. New Ortega. High Assessment Black Clarke. Mr. President. I please those voting announce results. 12 days, one day. 12 hours, one night, 1341 has been adopted. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Let's bring up 1395. This is for a comment and a vote. And Councilman Cashman, please put this on the floor.

Recommendation to conduct a Budget Hearing to receive and discuss an overview of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 Budget. (Citywide)

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You know, queue up here with me. I have to be on the phone. So okay with that, would you? Okay. Now we're going to go to enter into our first budget during the 2021 fiscal year growth. Could you please call. Report from Public Works. Recommendation to conduct a budget hearing to receive and discuss an overview of the proposed fiscal year 2021 budget city wide. It's actually mayor and council. I think we would prefer to do the the first presentation of the budget and then do the CFP and then we would get into questions on. Okay. So Mayor and members of the city council or vice mayor and members of the city council, we are here tonight to really walk you through the FY 21 proposed budget that was released yesterday. I am going to be going through the staff presentation and the city manager's proposed budget. The mayor wouldn't normally be here today, but due to the passing of his mom, he's working on arrangements for her, for her services, which are coming up. And so he's asked me to, in that moment, do his presentation at the end of my presentation to kind of some of the mayor's recommendations on top of the city manager's budget. I think somebody might have an open phone line and then we will get into the CIPA presentation. And so as we start this budget, I want to remind ourselves how many accomplishments we have to be proud of. We have spent nearly $100 million or have received or have spent or will spend $100 million on COVID 19 response. That's over 80,000 free public tests sheltering for our homeless. Free medical care. Food. Rent support, business assistance, residents assistance. The the scope of the investment that the city has done in COVID has been spectacular. We have supported over 20,000 bids, put online sessions to help our small businesses. And we've issued nearly 13,000 building permits. The council has passed some very significant housing policies, including inclusionary housing tenant assistance policies. 650 new affordable housing units are in the pipeline. We have also just finished construction on our year round homeless shelter, the very first one. The final touches are going on right now and then we'll be opening that later this year with a private provider who will help 125 people find housing while they transition into other, more permanent solutions. We have continued the largest investment in infrastructure in or I'm sorry, largest infrastructure investment in a generation. And we've also opened the brand new Billie Jean King Maine Library and the LEED certified City Hall and Civic Center Plaza just a year ago. Heal the Bay is continuing to notice our progress on our water quality. And 87% of our city's beaches received A and B grades during the summer. And our animal care and compassion saves approach is working. And our live release rate is is very, very high, over 89%, I believe. And so it's important to remember that we are a full service city. $2.6 billion in operations. We provide a wide array of services through our 23 departments. We're a very complex organization. We have 37 different financial funds that represent a number of different operations, and they each are funded in different ways. The majority of those funds, though, those $2.6 billion are restricted by law for certain operations. And the general fund is the only really complete discretionary fund, which is about 20% of the budget. And really, that is where our tax dollars go. Before we get into the budget, I do want to really focus on some of the challenges that we've had and also really explain some of the coronavirus services that we are providing. And so we are in the middle of the biggest health crisis that we have ever seen in our generation. And it is a global pandemic. So not only are we addressing that for our community, but we are also addressing the major fiscal and economic challenges that are occurring that have been completely exacerbated by COVID 19. We've seen movements to end systemic racism with thousands of people taking to the streets. And we also have the largest general fund shortfall in recent history. That 30 million. That shortfall is $30 million in fy21. We are seeing huge revenue losses, a 9% loss in sales tax. 38% loss in our hotel bed tax and over 40% loss in oil revenue. At the same time, our costs continue to grow as the costs of services increase. We are seeing nearly 20% unemployment and we have that major economic uncertainty both locally, state and nationally. And so we are prioritizing the health and safety of residents in light of that pandemic. And this budget maintains core services in a balanced way while making some very difficult reduction decisions. We've had to balance that budget with an approach that considers a number of different factors and at the same time we're implementing bold actions and investments in the areas of racial equity and reconciliation. And we realize that this budget is really just a first step. So let's talk a little bit about COVID. We have responded incredibly swiftly to the biggest health crisis in a generation. Over 100 personnel have been dedicated to our city's emergency operations center since March. It's the longest running disaster that any of us can remember. And disaster response. We have over 8000 cases reported, tracked and investigated. We have established free medical care for over 4100 individuals and what we call a rapid assessment clinic. We have sheltered over 300 people experiencing homelessness, first in our community centers, and then as we transitioned into hotels. And we've tested over 123,000 people through our city free drive thrus and then also through our private medical providers. Right at the beginning of the pandemic, we went out to the community and asked for support and raised $1,000,000 very quickly and used that to support nonprofits in our COVID 19 response. This council created the first ever eviction moratoriums. We also provided business support through delays of fines and fees. We created brand new permitting processes to quickly get businesses back up and running again. We had creativity in adapting to new models like Open Space and Parklets and Open Streets. We created, we found and we distributed free personal protective equipment. We've also managed a huge warehouse with $1.7 million or million items in inventory of that personal protective equipment. And we've created a COVID business inspection task force, which has visited 4700 businesses. We also rerouted city staff into dedicated call centers, managing thousands and thousands of calls. Just in the past 60 days. It's been over 24,000 calls or 400 a day. We will have spent, as I mentioned, over 100 million that we are planning on on spending or receiving. We also are investing in our community support programs, $14.4 million in the areas, things like homeless, sheltering, food insecurity, nonprofit relief, youth leadership, the arts, digital inclusion, also investing in business support programs $6.75 million for recovery grants, transition grants, helping with technology, helping with PPE and other things. And so the pandemic has really changed our operations and our focus, and we've had to make that our number one priority and divert significant staff time. We've drafted our city employees as emergency disaster workers and have them doing completely different jobs than they thought that they would be doing. And so we've done things like provide a relief to residents and businesses. We've done fee waivers, find cancelations, we changed street sweeping, we've done rental relief. All these are incredibly important, but they've also had adverse impacts to our revenues and our expenses. And there's been some some silver lining as well as we look at different ways on how we provide service, how we reimagine our work. We do a lot more over the phone now. We do a lot more in terms of telecommuting, in terms of online services. And so that telework has really become the way that we operate. And and it's worked very well. And so on June 23rd, the City Council adopted a resolution acknowledging racism as a public health crisis and created this framework for reconciliation. And so that was a bold, bold move that this council took and really took our city to the forefront of the discussion on racial equity. The team went out and held four town hall meetings and 13 listening sessions in a two month period of time, engaging over 600 participants, an incredible level of outreach. And we're investing in the work that and the ideas that we heard. $3.2 million are in this budget in the area of racial equity and reconciliation, 2.5 million structural and 702,001 times. Here's a summary of those items. And we're going to be bringing this plan to you next week, and we'll talk a little bit more about the specifics when we get there. But in the area of health, youth and violence prevention, we have a $1.5 million increase structurally for racial equity. These are things like youth programs, violence prevention programs, trauma informed responses to community needs. We're redesigning our heart team model and moving it from a firefighter sworn program into the health department, using nurses or social workers. We're looking at using social workers in our libraries. We started a pilot last year and we want to continue that. We're looking at some different library models. On investing in libraries seven days a week. We're looking at our senior program at the Expo Center and making the only program that serves kind of a northern part of Long Beach permanent. And we're investing in summer youth programing in areas of high need, including the Be Safe program at 11 sites. In the area of public safety, we've created a new office of Constitutional Policing in the police department to really look at data and reforms and new ways of doing things and best practices that can be implemented along with training. An implicit bias and implicit bias training. We're looking at supporting an effort to look at the PCC $150,000 that in the first year would be to bring an outside expert on to look at all the best practice models, to look at what we're doing now with the PCC. How can it be strengthened potential ballot measures, other models and then ongoing to be able to provide staffing for that, for that body, whatever it becomes? We are investing in our fire diversity recruitment program with one time dollars and continuing that great program. And we're re-envisioning how we do policing looking particularly at civilian ization and converting 34 sworn positions to about 29 civilian positions. In the area of equity. We've got a brand new deputy city manager, that's Theresa Chandler, who's going to be overseeing all of this work in addition to other things. And we are enhancing the staffing for the Office of Equity by a position and a second one that's one times. And then moving that Office of Equity into the city manager's office to elevate the importance of that work and to have it also touch a broader area of the city. We're implementing training for our city employees at $100,000 for implicit bias and equity and also investing in our language access program. And so when I brought the budget approach to you back in May, we talked about using what we call a balanced outcomes based approach. And we knew we had a $30 million shortfall we had to address. At the same time, having to invest in racial equity and reconciliation. And so we prioritized and protected those core services while adjusting others to what we have to understand are acceptable service levels. They may not be what we're our hopes and dreams, but they are the level of service that we can accept. And this budget is balanced using both structural, which are permanent solutions and one time solutions. So before I get into the areas of reduction, I think it's important that we recall what's in it. So what is maintained. And so this budget preserves emergency response, including PD priority one and priority two calls emergency medical and fire services. We're investing in our infrastructure for sidewalk and potholes. We've got our major facilities maintenance. We're investing in our parks and facilities and public spaces. We continue our graffiti abatement programs in our landscaped medians, continuing our are clean teams that pick up trash on the streets. We continue our youth and senior programing and and improving and implementing affordable housing. We're investing in our business assistance programs, in our water and gas customer service. Continue to have strong economic development and business programs. We still have our multifaceted homelessness response and in fact, more money than ever due to a lot of federal grants coming in to address homelessness. We've got investment in technology in our green fleet and in our energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction efforts through upgrades to city facilities. We continue to do a permitting and inspection for businesses so that they can do what they need to do and invest in our animal care services and tree trimming. And so as we look at how we're going to reduce and solve that $30 million deficit, we came up with a five step plan to those savings in reductions , assistance from employees, new and reallocated revenues, strategic enhancements in efficiencies and innovations and service reductions. And I'll go through each one of those because it's important that you understand those. So the first one is assistance from employee groups. We're seeking $11.3 million in the general fund, which could come in in a variety of ways, including employee furloughs or other types of contributions while we negotiate longer term contracts. It's important to say now we don't have a lot of details in the budget on the specifics because that really needs to be done at the bargaining table with our partners in labor. And those discussions are ongoing. So those furloughs are one time solutions. They do have limits. They're not a permanent reduction in work hours. And we're going to have to deal with the structural solution in the following year. And it is a huge impact to our employees. It is the potential for up to 10% loss of pay for a year for non sworn employees, which could mean 26 furlough days. If it were that level, we would be looking at closing city services, most city services one day every two weeks and we would have a loss of productivity by 10% in hours available to serve the community. So there will be community impacts. But it does provide much needed immediate relief in the budget. It helps avoid significant layoffs. We estimate that is the value of about 106 positions that would not be eliminated, and it helps minimize permanent structural service impacts to the community. In the second area cannabis business. I'm sorry, second area is new are allocated revenues. So we are looking at where we can bring in some additional revenue. The voters, when they approved Measure May, which is a tax on cannabis, they gave us a range and from 6 to 8% for medical and from 8 to 10% for recreational . And the council set it at the lowest possible rate as that industry was getting started. We are recommending that the council increase it by 1% as allowed by voters and that would bring in about $800,000 in revenues. And those would cover structural things like racial equity and reconciliation in addition to cannabis oversight and other services qualified under measure. Amy, we're also looking at bringing in some more measure Measure A for maintenance, about four and a half million dollars, which prevents additional reductions to police and fire. We're looking at a new youth sports registration fee. There currently is no fee, just a $10 fee for equipment. And so raising that to $25 and the mayor will talk a little bit about that in his presentation at the end. We're looking at increasing fees in our Eldorado Park and also on our beaches, going from $0.25 to increasing by $0.25 every 15 minutes at the beach parking lots, which is comparable to our other beach agencies and increasing our ambulance rates. Our costs are going up as and we're looking to cover that with revenue. And this would also line up with the county rates. We're looking at some additional support from our gas fund, bringing in about $1.3 million in transfer. And the gas fund also is having investments and they do need additional revenue to make those investments. They are currently 32% below SoCal Gas and there has not been a gas rate increase since 2016. And so this budget does propose a 10.4 overall effective increase. We have some increase in towing fees to keep up with the cost to provide that service. And Measure B is in this budget for the first time at a 1% increase in the total, which was approved by the voters. And that money would be dedicated for arts and Convention Center in the budget. The third area is what we call our strategic investments. We have a capital improvement program of 491 million, which you'll hear about later in the presentation later tonight. And that's in the area of airport mobility, public facilities, utilities and harbor. And I want to focus a little bit on mobility and facilities as this is what we hear about the most from our community. This budget has a $1.2 million and alleys 13 million. And our arterial streets. 14 million in arterial corridor enhancements. 11 million in residential streets. Almost 10 million in ADAS. Sidewalk curb improvements. 1.6 million for Fire Station nine. And investments through AB 32. Energy efficiency in our facilities. And so a big portion of those dollars are from Measure eight, and it's $18.5 million in investment. The Council also asked us last year to really help out a a jewel of the city, which is Sunnyside Cemetery. It was having a long, strong I'm sorry, prolonged financial problems and really couldn't operate as a nonprofit anymore. And so that's been transferred to the city. And but it takes money to be able to to keep it up. And it's about $300,000, which is included in the budget measure passed. And that is calling for a new ethics commission. And so we are bringing on a staff member to support that work. The work is likely needed is more probably 2 to 3 staff members. But we do believe we should start with at least one. It's important that we have dedicated staff into this commission and the city attorney's office will reallocate $150,000 in cannabis funding to support their work on the Ethics Commission. We're also investing in our health department ten administrative focus positions, a non general fund, but these are funded off of grants to help them manage the money that that is in the health department. 98% or roughly so is funded out of grants in our health department. We're investing in animal care, a full time veterinarian, and $100,000 for medical supplies to support compassion saves. We're investing in our park needs as the water rates go up, we need to also raise the dollars that we put towards water to keep the same level of service. And with all the grants that we're receiving, it's important that we invest in infrastructure, in people who manage all those grants. And so the financial management department, while taking some pretty significant reductions, is investing in a grants officer. We're going to have 1.5 million for our runoff elections that are November ballot. We'll have money for our redistricting and census, which is measured and approved by voters. We will also be investing in looking at fire operations. How can we save money in the fire department? How do we look at different service models? How do we raise revenue? How do we lower costs at 200,000? And we are looking we're investing in our homeless rapid response like every year and also setting aside some additional water budget. This budget has several strategic studies. We're studying the CPC. We're studying our fire operations. We're implementing a multiyear citywide Ph.D. study. And we're going to be investing our AB32 funds into energy efficiency projects that both reduce our greenhouse gas emission footprint and help save us electric or money on our electric bill. In the area of the police and fire academies. They are continuing to be funded in this budget and we do think that we're going to have higher than normal attrition in these years, especially in the police department. And so we are planning, even though there are some reductions in PD and some in fire, that to keep those academies. And however, if we always have to estimate how many we may lose to attrition and if it's not enough, we would be asking you to cover that with unallocated measure revenues to avoid any layoffs. And so we also in the safer grant area, unfortunately, looking at the dollars and looking at what is left and how much money we would be able to have and to invest in the future, we are recommending that you forego the decision to go after the safer grant. We would have to spend about $4.1 million to draw down the SAFER grant, which is currently valued at about 1.7 1.8 million. And so I'm sure this will be a subject of a lot of future discussion, but we just believe right now, given what we know in our budget situation, not to pursue that engine 17 remains in the budget. It is funded by a measure for another year. And of course, situations and circumstances can change in a year. It efficiencies and innovations is the fourth area. So we're looking at reduce cost from strategic investments. We've been investing in our cities fleet for the last several years to get our new, more modern fleet, and that's helped us save money. So we are now looking at about $900,000 that we can reduce out of what we spend in our fleet fund. We are getting efficiencies from our investment in technology and lbe coast our new enterprise resource program saving $600,000 and we've got other efficiencies from lbe coast and our east citation technology and accounting efficiencies. In the area of public safety, we're reimagining and redesigning the delivery of public safety services. We are looking to reduce 34 sworn positions, but replacing them with 29 civilian positions, which saves $3.8 million. An example of this is taking 16 police officer positions and instead using civilians to respond to priority three, the lowest level calls that come in to the dispatch center. We also have city police officers that oversee our public safety equipment and facilities and having those be civilians instead. And our helicopter air support unit would be civilian ized. We would streamline our jail operations and consolidate into one jail in down in the public safety building and eliminate 12 non sworn positions in the fire department. We would shift that from a sworn firefighters to civilian nurses or social workers. Saving $450,000 and we'd be transferring our crossing guard program out of the police department to public works. This budget includes both contracting in and contracting out. Wherever we can, we like to replace contracts, work with city staff when it saves money. And that's what we're doing in this budget and saving $1.1 million. At the same time, we evaluated some options where the private sector may be able to do it for lower cost. And so the city manager is proposing about $950,000 in savings. The mayor has an item later asking us to reconsider that. So that will be up to the council to take a look at. And then we're also eliminating vacant positions where we can. So the last area is really service reduction. So after we've done all of that, we know that we still have reductions that we have to make in terms of services. And so our goal is really here we're to provide core services at acceptable service levels. We still need to meet all of our local, state and federal mandates and legal requirements. We have to preserve our organizational capacity so that our our employees out on the street have the support that they need to operate effectively. And so we do not do a across the board approach. I ask all departments to submit reduction ideas and then we go through them and look to see what that balanced outcomes approach is. And so all departments ended up taking reductions except for the health department. They only had their very little general fund, only about 2% of their budget. And and that really is in the area of homelessness. And so we're looking to actually increase in the health department through the equity work. But then all other departments took reductions in this process. And so in the area of public safety, we have proposed 59 sworn police positions being eliminated. That's 54 and police and five and fire. And of those those 34 in police and four in fire are part of the civilian ization efforts that I mentioned earlier. There are some reductions in the area of vice and traffic and narcotics field detail the K-9 team over time, reducing some of the blue line officers and eliminating the Long Beach Unified School District contract in fire. We've got a reduction of 1.9 million. But the specifics are really going to be identified through that comprehensive study in FY21. The FAA 21 reduction will be covered by a one year delay of vehicle capital replacement. So there is money for FY 21 and the structural solutions will be helped to be identified through that study. They are eliminating positions through the heart. Teams transfer. They're eliminating a marine safety officer and reducing some career non-career lifeguards entitlements. And disaster preparedness is reduced to public safety dispatchers. Throughout the organization, we're looking at reducing our administrative services. We've got management reduction, support, position reductions. We're redistributing workload that comes at a cost. We already have employees who are doing an incredible amount of work, and now we have fewer people doing the same amount of work, if not more work. So we'll have an impact on the organization and you'll see some of the positions. Here are just examples that are being reduced. We are reducing in cannabis and oversight and enforcement. That was a brand new program that we put in place. We are recommending a 30% reduction in the positions, which is seven positions. This will have an impact. We won't be as nimble as we get new applicants or a few. Counsel wants to look at new policies, but we do think it makes sense. When we look at the balance outcomes approach and community service area, we really strive to minimize any negative impacts to residents. We had looked at our libraries and rather than reducing any one library or reducing all libraries by the same amount of hours, we looked at a different model where nine libraries would go from 5 hours or five days a week to three days a week. And our three newest flagship libraries would go from five days a week to seven days a week and still save about 300,000. Those seven day libraries can serve the entire region. The mayor has some comments on this as well in his recommendation. When we put this together, we weren't really sure if libraries were going to even be open during COVID, and they continue to remain closed except for a pick up service in the area of youth programing. We're looking at reducing our summer fun day and teen center by an hour a day. And we're also going to have a little bit less proactive property maintenance on our city properties. In the area of Thailand's, as I mentioned, we're reducing a marine safety officer and some lifeguard hours. We have to look at our landscaping in the marine areas and reducing that to kind of match what we do in the general fund areas. We are going to go to biweekly mowing of green spaces and going down in tree trimming from every year to every other year. And special advertising and promotions is the money that we get to do our communications and art and a convention, visitors bureau, business and special events. And so we are reducing two positions in special events. One position and public affairs, eliminating the recently added community concerts funding and reducing Museum of Art by about $18,000. Arts Council by about 25 or so. And Convention and Visitors Bureau by about 450,000. And so those really are the summary of the reductions. Altogether, it's about 136 positions are impacted, 77 of which are field positions and 59 are vacant. We're continuing to look at that and getting the specific detail and we would be going through a process with civil service that would determine the actual layoff process. We will work and do everything we can to try to prevent layoffs for city employees. And we've been holding positions vacant in the in the idea that we may need them for city employees, if at all possible. I did promise you, counsel, when we started this that we would also provide options in the budget and they were in there. We had to look at some very, very difficult decisions as the departments presented. And so these are just some of the real items that were considered and rejected. So these are not in the budgets, but they are listed so that you have some information on what we looked at. We had to look at things like closing branch libraries and our graffiti program and tree trimming and additional engines and paramedic units and our homeless services and animal care reductions. It was a very painful list. I do need to point out that a number of things are not funded or underfunded in this budget, including some of the initiatives that you bring to the city council. And we come back with information on. So this is the time to really revisit those lists as we give you those costs. And so I provided that in the budget for you to take a look at. We also have important unfunded and short term and long term liabilities, which include things like our ADA compliance and additional funding for tree trimming and plant water needs in our insurance and pensions and climate action plan and others. And so those are in the budget to review as well. And so we're relying on both structural and one time solutions to balance the budget. Normally, we only do structural solutions. That is really kind of a core tenet of the of the council. But I am I am recommending that you look at both and there's a reason for that. And because of the significantly challenging factors, the magnitude of the problem, the more we cut in terms of services structurally, the more impact on our residents and businesses who are hurting right now because of COVID 19. And there's also a lot that we don't know. There may be both positives and negatives coming. There could be additional money from the Heroes Act, which could be millions and millions of dollars under the House bill, and that could come as early as mid-next year. And so we're looking in highlights about $18.8 million in department reductions. We're adding back two and a half million for racial equity investments. We're asking for our employees to help us at $11 million. And then we are using some reserves, $2.9 million. For the one times in the budget we normally have one time dollars to invest and this year we do not have one time dollars to invest, but we still have one time needs. And so we are looking at funding that through some additional gas fund transfer and also some use of reserves. And so all told, between one time and operating, we are recommending in the manager's budget 6.1 million in reserves. It's important to remember we still have shortfalls for the next few years. They actually total about $76 million over the next three years. And after we solve this year, we're going to have $32 million next year than 23 than 22 and 22. Excuse me. And SAP is looking like it's going to be down for several years and we would actually deplete all of the reserves and all of the fund balance in just a few short years at the current rate . And Tidelands has some very significant cuts or losses in the in probably the next 2 to 3 years. But then it does get a little bit better out in the future years. And so the budget timeline, you know, we started this back in December. Then we took a pause through COVID, unfortunately, and restarted it back in May. And here we are today. So we are back on schedule. The team had to do a very abbreviated and prepare preparation of the budget, but we are back on the normal schedule. We've submitted that proposed budget and now it's up to the council and we have a lot of meetings scheduled. The community can get involved. We encourage you to attend the budget hearings to come to our community. Budget meetings will be four of those come to the Bossie meetings. We also have a survey that I think we're already at over 4000 responses now, and we have a brand new tool that we've launched called our Budget Balancing Simulator Challenge, which allows you to play mayor and city council and see the different choices you have to make. And it's nascent, it's in its infancy, it's not perfect, but it gives you a good sense of what could what those options are. And so I want to remind us all that this is a city of many, many accomplishments. We continue to be a full service city. We're addressing our challenges head on, and I'm so proud of that. From the pandemic to our major budget shortfall, to our work on racial equity and reconciliation. And we're providing those great services to our communities. And so I do need to end with some thank you's. Our employees have been amazing through all of this. They are. They put themselves at risk as emergency workers. They are out there doing the work of COVID. They're being reassigned into things they've never done before. Our police department, our fire department, our health department are protecting us. They're protecting our freedoms and our expression, freedom of expression and our health. All departments are pulled together during COVID 19. We've had the staff that have put together this budget are just phenomenal and it's amazing what they've been able to accomplish. The same thing in our Racial Equity and Reconciliation Initiative staff under some very difficult conditions. Our technology team has been adapting and helping us learn in this new world of COVID 19. Our city clerk and her office have been fantastic and learning how to do these huge teleconference meetings. And I do want to really thank our employee associations for really recognizing how serious this is and being at the bargaining table with us to look at both the short term challenges we're facing and also as we address longer term compensation. And of course, I need to thank all of you, mayor and council and the support of all of our citywide elected officials attorney, prosecutor, auditor, our clerk, our civil service director, our harbor director, and our water general manager. And so I know that was a lot. That's a lot for me. There's a lot in this budget to go over. I do want to briefly kind of go through the mayors recommendations. I will not do it nearly as eloquent as he would, but I do want to kind of read those into the record. Um, in the area of COVID 19, he's asking the council to consider public health councils that facilitate education concerning workplace safety and health guidance in the industry's most affected by COVID 19. And in that post-COVID-19 economy, he's asking the council to restore some of the positions recommended to be contracting out. Those include parking citation, customer service, public works, surveying and parking meter collection and maintenance. Also asking us to take a look at job training and how we help our disadvantaged workers and explore and supports penalties for noncompliance in the workplace. He's asking us to address and invest in the area of income inequality, and that could come in the form of public banking and really exploring that concept and universal basic income and adding some resources to start the intense study of those areas. In the area of racial justice and equity. He's asking the council to make justice fund funded and permanent, as well as the language access program and make those both structural. And that the Council should continue to look for opportunities to invest in black and communities of color by funding health partnerships, a community led crisis response, violence prevention programs and investments in public social, public social workers and mental health professionals in the area of housing and homelessness. Asking to create a right to counsel program for renters in light of the national eviction crisis. The area of public health and safety is to really look at the nine on one calls for service and explore that transitioning of non-emergency calls to models that have more emphasis on mental health and social services and in infrastructure. With the adoption now of Measure A, we have new dollars that aren't in here now, but they come in FY 23 and to start looking at a new five year infrastructure plan beginning in 23, when those moneys materialize in the areas of arts and culture, libraries and youth sports investing 1.7 million through Measure B, that's brand new money that we now have coming in into our local arts and and our convention and entertainment center. He's asking the council to maintain the existing library's hours for a year and with the opportunity to look at other ways to expand access when it's safe. And in the city manager's proposal, there was the youth sports program, and he's asking to keep those fees at their current levels. Looking into the future, he'd like the Council to consider implementation of the CAP Plan, Climate Action Plan and really look at the city's dependance on oil production. And how do we identify long term sustainable funding options to support those services as oil is likely not going to be in our future. In the future. And he's asking the team to look at different budgeting approaches, including the concept of zero based budgeting and really starting a process for the F 22 budget that brings community engagement even earlier in the process. As we look at just how we do our budget, what those approaches are and how to engage the community so that are there, those are the mayor's recommendations. There's also something been distributed to all of you and uploaded into the register on the specific dollar amounts that he'd like to consider and that those would come out of our measure be a rainy day fund reserve and our other reserves in order to fund those items. So I've spoken a lot. Vice Mayor, I will turn it to you. We can take a break and answer questions here or go on to the CIP program here, that short presentation, and then take questions so as to the will of the council. If that's okay with you at a time. I'd love to have a copy report presentation, if you don't mind. Yes, sir. We're ready to go. Here we go. I will now turn it over to our brand new public works director Eric Lopez. And please give us a minute while we pull up the presentation. Good evening, Vice Mayor. City Council and community members. My name is Eric Lopez and as your new director of Public Works. I'm pleased to present to you the city's capital improvement plan for Budget Year 21. Tonight's presentation will cover a few highlights of fiscal year 20, the fiscal year 21 proposed budget, a brief focus on Missouri and some challenges and opportunity for the city's capital improvement programs. I want to. Start by highlighting what the public works team has been working on in fiscal year 20. Starting on the top left, you'll see the Atlantic Bridge Community Shelter Project, which represents the city's first year round shelter for people experiencing homelessness. I'm proud to announce that active construction is now complete and we're working with the health team on the final preparations for this critical project. The Halton Park Community Center has been completed as has improvements to our city place parking structure and we are in the process of completing the Alamitos Beach concessions improvements and our first of several first new first new beach playgrounds. We've also done a series of street improvements and ADA curb rent ramp improvements. The city is proposing to invest a total of 109 million and new capital projects this year from a variety of funding sources, as shown on this slide. And you will see that the funding allocations have been organized by section of the Capital Improvement Program Book and Fiscal Year 21. Funding has been identified in the four sections listed here. I'll start with the mobility program. The mobility section of the CHP represents the largest section as a majority of funding that comes from the state and county taxes. For example, we have gas tax SB one measure R measure and measure W, Prop eight and Prop C. Some example of mobility projects that we've delivered include residential. Street repair projects. ADA ramps, arterial street improvements, and various EV charging stations citywide. Specifically in fiscal year 21, we're looking at a total investment of $55.2 million comprising of, again, transportation bonds, gasoline tax measure and general capital projects. This funding supports a multitude of uses. The top four main uses, as listed in this chart, include the arterial corridor enhancements, arterial street rehabilitation, residential street improvements and ADA curb ramp improvements, among others as listed here. The map on your screen now provides the city's infrastructure investment plan. I want to highlight the Green three segments, which represent the work that has been completed completed to date by the public works team. We are making great progress, but obviously still have some important projects ahead of us to improve the commitment that we made under the existing infrastructure investment plan. This map represents the major residential street investment plan for this fiscal year and the proposed plan for fiscal year 21. The proposed rates on the map represent fiscal year 20 projects, while the orange represents the proposed fiscal year 21 streets. Now to our Public Facilities program. The proposed projects for fiscal year 21 include energy efficiency upgrades as well as other facility improvements to city buildings identified in our facilities. Conditions Assessment. One example of work that is identified in our facility conditions assessment is roof replacement. And as an example, in this picture on the left, we have the Los Altos libraries that that was leaking. And so we were able to replace those roofs and and and put one in that's much more energy efficient. Thanks to a B 32 funds, the city will continue investing in projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including our EV charging stations and public works. Looks forward to implementing more projects that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency citywide. In fiscal year 21, our airport plans to invest in improvements for accessing the terminal and rehabilitation of the airfield. The runway and the total of that investment is about $1,000,000. In our utility program in fiscal year 21, there's this total investment in this program is just under $46 million. It includes 3 million in council Measure W funds. Measure W was passed by voters in November 2018 and has been identified for use to construct new stormwater and water quality related projects such as the Long Beach Ms. treatment facility. Long Beach Energy Resources has proposed an $11 million investment in the city's pipeline infrastructure. And the Long Beach Water Department is proposing 35.8 million to invest in the city's water and sewer infrastructure. Now I want to take a moment and highlight Missouri and the investment it has made into the city's infrastructure. Everyone should be familiar with the measure investment plan and hopefully you've had the opportunity to visit the cities measure a web page at Long Beach dot gov. That measure. A. First, I want to take a moment and highlight some measure a investments and some projects that the team plans on completing this fiscal year. The top two pictures represent the Rancho Los Amigos project, which included repairs and improvements to the masonry garden walls. Archive room roof resurfaced. The driveway and parking lot replaced electrical systems and seismically retrofitted the exhibit rooms. The bottom two pictures represent improvements to the bank branch and the new branch libraries. Improvements include a replacement of the existing circulation desk where a new ADA compliant desk that not only improved accessibility but will also improve the user experience . The large picture on the right is of the Los Altos Library Roof Repair Project. In addition to the facilities discussed, investments have been made to the parks, facilities, roadways and sidewalks. Pictured here are Silverado Park, where improvements are made to the sports courts, including updating electrical equipment. The Martin Luther King Junior Avenue was repaved from Seventh Street, 2/10 to 10th Street. The project included resurfacing the roadway, sidewalk replacement, new curb gutters, driveway replacement, ADA compliant, curb rounds and traffic improvements. We also see the new playground at Jenni Rivera Park and improvements to sidewalk path of travel. Measure a proposed budget this year, we have a total of 18.5 million investments and mainly going into the mobility and public facilities programs. If you are the programs that are proposed to receive funding in fiscal year 21 for Measure R alley improvements, arterial street improvements, curbs and sidewalks, facility improvements, and some additional funding for Fire Station nine pictured above. We have some street improvement and alleys and the fire station. Since the inception of Measure eight in 2017, including the this year's proposed budget, almost 133 million has been invested into the city's infrastructure. It's truly hard to imagine where the city's infrastructure would be without the investment measure it has provided to the city's roadways, alleys , sidewalks and public facilities. In addition to the projects identified in the fiscal year, 21 capital improvement program, staff is also providing recommendations for investment. The future measure a infrastructure projects. This slide represents the total estimated investment measure A will provide for the city's infrastructure since it was passed in 2017. Originally, Measure eight was estimated to provide approximately $100 million. But as you can see from the chart, the amount has grown to just over 160 million. Um, what we've been able to accomplish a lot of work. We still have a significant amount of unfunded needs. And whilst that while significant, the city in the public works department has accepted the challenge and we are doing the best we can to address as many needs as possible. Investment in the city's infrastructure is driven by successful, successful strategic planning, which starts with understanding the specific details of our needs. This slide represents the various studies that Public Works uses to address the city infrastructure needs. In closing, the proposed budget of 108 million will continue to provide significant investments into the city's infrastructure during these unprecedented times. Without the investment imagery and recent county and state funds passed by voters. The investments would not be anywhere near what they have been. Not just this year, but in the last couple of years. That includes the CIPA report that we're here for questions. Thank you, Mayor and city council. So we turn it back over to you. Thank you for allowing us to really present all that information. And we have our finance team, our public works team and also our department directors here to answer questions. And then we're going to start doing department presentations as early as next week. So you're going to start seeing kind of the major city departments that we normally present to you and getting feedback from you on any others you want to see. So that concludes the staff report. Thank you very much, Tom. I just want to congratulate you and a beautiful presentation. It's very robust. And I mean, you guys really did what we needed here. And now I want to tell my colleagues here, since we have such a large, you know, public comment group, I like to really allow them to start first with you guys or mine so you can hear what they want to ask you. So with that, I would like to turn it over to public comment in Korea. Could you please read the names? Seconds, 90 seconds, because we have a very large company coming through. Our first speakers. Jordan, when your time starts now. Hi there. Can you hear me? Yes. Hello. Hi there. We've been. Anticipating this budget for quite. Some time and I'm glad that. It's finally coming forward and that there are some substantial public investments. But frankly, based on the protests and the ways in which we understand our city budget should work, I think the people wanted and expected a little bit more in terms of defunding the police. I think we need to, as a community, recognize that certain services that are being invested in the police department are suitable much more when they are given to community resources and community investments. I hope the Council will consider looking deeper into how you can integrate community programs, youth focused programs, senior focused programs, and specifically programs that start to circumvent the carceral system and bring justice to our black communities in Long Beach. I hope the Council will consider that when thinking about fiscal year 2020. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Lisa Okamoto. Your time starts now. Good afternoon or good evening, Mayor, and members of City Council. My name is Lisa Okamoto. I'm the directing attorney at Immigrant Defenders Law Center, also known as Index. And I'm also I am submitting a public comment in support of the renewal of the Language Justice Fund, and thank you for the mayor to increase, including in this budget . We are requesting for an increase amount $400,000 and in death is currently the legal service provider of the fund for its first year. As you may know, individuals who are forced into deportation proceedings in detention are up against a trained government attorney and are alone unless there are some intervention like not from nonprofits like us, or if the immigrant themselves can pay for the legal service, the longest justice fund is necessary to protect the due process of our language family members, friends and community at large through the referral of advocates like Long Beach Immigrants Rights Coalition in Dallas is currently representing 37 individual and family units. The average residency length of our clients in the city of Long Beach is 14 years. 79% of our clients are brought to the United States before their 25th birthday, 65% of them arriving before they were 18. And therefore, many of our clients only know language is home. The urgency, a need for representation, has escalated with the pandemic, as many of our community members are detained. Long Beach City Council should follow the steps of the city of Santa Ana, as well as the county and city of Los Angeles, in investing in this legal representation, as well as services that that invest in community and making sure that communities and members. Thank you. Our next speaker is Tanya Jimenez. Your time starts now. Good evening, Tanya Manners here from GSA Long Beach. This fiscal year, you are allocated to 43.8 million of the general fund to OPD, a hair shy of 44% of the fund. The proposal for the upcoming fiscal year allocates 239.7 million of the general fund to a over 44% of the fund. The actual percent of the general fund allocated so this year looking more like 48%. So however you want to frame it as a $4 million decrease from this year's adopted number or 4% decrease from this year's actual number, it does not meet the demands of the people. Maintaining the overall amount of staff by converting some sworn positions to civilian positions is a very underhanded way to reduce the slice of the pie. It does not accomplish what the people have been demanding that you defund PD, divest from APD and reinvest in bad policy. In the last 20 years, 89 people and counting have lost their lives due to fatal encounters with the LAPD. The lackluster changes that are being advanced in the budget proposal make a mockery of all the lives lost at the hands of APD since the department was created, as well as everyone that has and continues to demand that you defund and divest from LAPD, who are you all accountable to? To the money that will be pure in your collective direction, to an institution rooted in white supremacy that perpetuates violence against black communities and communities of color? Or is it the people as it should be, do better? Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jordan. And during your time starts now. Hello. Council and city manager. My name is Jordan during. I'm also a member of DSA Long Beach. Tanya put it quite well, but I just wanted to say that, you know, we've been holding our breath for this budget and honestly, it's it's kind of embarrassing, but this is what we've come up with. You know, what is this? About $3 million for racial equity is like less than a drop in the bucket, especially through the fact that you're barely covering LAPD. Mr. Monica put it that there were protests to end racial inequality. That's not true. These protests were to end racial inequality and to defund the police. And the fact that you're not defunding the police. It's frankly despicable. Also, more importantly, you're talking about up to all these budget hearings, talk to the budget hearings, even though the reconciliation process got completely rattled by the fact that you took out all the comments that said if they'll be speedy. You also took out mentions of black people in place of a posse. So nobody has any faith in that process. So let's move on to what that means. So that means we're going to have to get back out in the streets to demand that you cut at least 50% so we can have 1200 more workers. That means we're going to be following you to the ends of the fucking earth and harassing you to make sure that you're actually accountable to us. So I look forward to seeing all of you through the month of August. Are you in my time? Thank you. Our next speaker is Dave Shukla. Your time starts now. Next week, we're going to need to see the plan. I'd like to explore charter changes for the general fund because 51% of the operating budget does outcome based approach should be viewed within the capabilities and wellbeing economic market sense. Now, when we say diverse, we do mean to suggest, ladies and gentlemen, that there are two systems. Of just two systems for public access and participation. Two systems of social investment. One for the mayor and his friends. And one for everyone else. We mean to abolish the wrong system. And system. Ladies and gentlemen. Furloughs are a fine example of shared sacrifice, but they should not become shared punishment now. Instead of utility increases, we need to explore progressive taxation on AB32 strategic study that involves community factors participation and it needs to start with climate disadvantaged communities. The clear needs to be adopted in 2020 and the $11 million for oil and gas pipeline tell big fucking glass. That needs to be money we use to take that crap out of the ground. That rust itself is not going to get us through this century. Divest from the wrong systems, defund the police 50%. Start building the right city. A city of equity. Don't waste my time. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speakers and control your time starts now. And Cantrell. And I understand that you have a lot of cuts to make. I. I'm unhappy with the fact that the usual suspects are taking the cuts of the employees that are being furloughed, the library hours that are being eliminated. And I'm wondering if there's anybody. In top management that is taking a cut in their pay. We have. I believe it's. 80. Members of, uh. Paid employees that are making over $300,000 a year. And I believe that the cuts should start at the top, not at the bottom. Um. One of the ways that I. Think that we could save some money is to stop having. Recycled pick ups because there is no place to sell the recycled. Uh. Items. And, uh, as I understand it, they're just being burned at surf. So it would seem that it would save the city money to just have one pick up or. To have. Green pickup for the. Thank you. Our next speaker is Seagrams. Your time starts now. All right. So for two years, Black Lives Matter, Long Beach community allies have created and adopted the people's budget. They've done the work. They've put in the time and done the work. And with the clear and stated goal of ending anti-blackness and structural racism in the city and addressing a history of disinvestment in communities of color. Since. So since this land was stolen from the Tioga people over the last two years, these efforts have forced conversations and actions for equity and justice. These conversations have been going on and these community members have been doing the work. But it's interesting to me that Mr. Garcia at the budget release stated that you did not have enough time to change the budget in favor of the people or what the people are demanding, which is defunding the police and investing in communities, specifically communities of color. These are not new issues, Mayor. This is not a new process. This has been going on forever. There have always been brutal LAPD, LGB, PD and LAPD. There has always been this fetishization of development and gentrification. This has always been the case, and it's time for bold change as we see these systems crumbling. So I call for you as a member of District three to see the person looking at you to adopt the Long Beach People's Budget. I don't know why you're so proud. Thank you. Our next speaker is Iris. Your time starts now. When I said there may not is the one long listed botanical history. So no competition for this important epidemic. Is the removal from the hospital the longest? Oh. They made their partner proud. Good afternoon. My name is Edis. I'm a member of. I live in Long Beach and I want to renew the budget for the justice that just prevailed in Long Beach. We're not together until I get the warmest for some, Nicholas. Every medal. And my soul is the one that's simple. They have a lamp or portable medicine. Maybe I'll give for the up for the lack of money that my husband was detained on March 1st and he was detained until June 15th and he was released until June 15th. Adelanto Detention Center. And thanks to the help of the community, he was released to see other empty. Other than needle and thread on this up by the middle, either for better or for worse. Guess where? A while he was detained, I went into a deep depression and deep fear because I didn't know what I could do. See how that anti. As a reporter and confidant, I. Lech Walesa, under the rights of the immigrants, is a long way from gaining momentum on momentum. As I begin knocking on doors, I found the Immigration Coalition of Long Beach, and there were the ones that were able to help me out. See how they. Dante. Eyebrow raising is the font. Nicholas represents Austrian Rhapsody telling me in such a thorough walk, and through this help of this coalition, Nicholas was able to get legal aid while he was detained in the Adelanto Detention Center. Here. If there's some momentum, I get it kind of to guarantee electability that they recognize that it's the mantle of most vulnerable Minnesotans. This is the time to guarantee the health and the security of everybody in the community, especially those of us that are the most vulnerable. So you love it then. See, I'm being me. Get emphasis. You can probably if you noticed and ran into the multiple damages. Detention of immigrants is very cruel. And with the spread of COVID 19, it turns into a death sentence for those of us. Sia ever since I live in Israel will be a guarantee that it gets all those things more accessible. Allow them to see the use of invoices set up a schedule that they just fundamentally, if they feel like party know, it's important that our government guarantees access. To all. Everything that we need and to protect us, especially those of us that are most vulnerable. Sia. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jamil Ochoa. Hi, my name is Jemima and I'm actually going to be speaking in English. Can you hear me? Yes. Hello. We can hear you. Okay. Hi. My name is Jamila and I work with the Lumbee Immigrants Rights Coalition, but I am also a community member with immigrant parents. I am here after a long battle with the clerk's office, advocating for interpretation in Spanish for this very meeting for my fellow community members that speak Spanish only. I would like to speak about language, access policy and the justice fund. It is unfortunate that because I called the clerk's office in Spanish, I was treated poorly and mocked because I was asking for basic services that community deserves. I went through the whole process in Spanish and I was told that since March there has been no interpretation of the city council meetings until today. And let me tell you that I have gone through this interpretation process this evening, and my experience and of that community that I work with hasn't been the best. I am taking notes and I am willing to work with you to get this right. The city needs to invest in language, access policy and take this seriously. Our non-English speaking community needs to be able to understand what is being discussed in these meetings. I am aware that the Mayor has proposed structural funding for the language access policy and the Language Justice Fund, and we need this Council to approve and to provide adequate funding for the two programs that matter and are literally saving immigrant lives. Our community members not only worry about the bills they have to pay and that they can't even afford right now because of the out of work right now, but also the possibility of being deported at any time and being permanently separated from their families. It is the budget duty. It is the city's duty to take a stand and fund these programs as they reflect the community and the law. Thank you. Our next speaker is Maria Lozano. Your time starts now. Okay. Well, when I started. Hello. Yes. We can hear you. Hello. Okay. Good afternoon. My name is Maria Lozano. So residents of the Willamette. I'm a resident of Long Beach. But then I was quite honestly thought of. I belong to the district number two. If I keep up with this, you're so relaxed. Excellently working. I'm here to. To present a petition about access to language. I mean, my mind and I personally like to say that my mother my mother is a senior citizen. If way up. I don't bill the gas out of selfishness. She went to pay a gas bill at your offices. Anthony, I want to, but I want. That's all. This went very well, Bill. She had a question regarding her bill. In one episode, let us leave you alone. And there was no one available that spoke her language. But I will get you into the lead. I think that being a resident of Long Beach. Then among all the rhetoric in personalities office in Ireland and. When we think we have a right that all police some personnel in your offices can speak our language. But I guess I'll know them on a circular. But unless they're comunidad Latina. That way our Latin community will not encounter these obstacles. If they're okay with the decision, says co-chair and whatever is. I do hope that my petition is heard. I do think you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ruby Mueller. Your time starts now. See. I guess, too. Yes, I'm here. Get her thoughts. Testimonial. Throw it up. There it is. Do you want me to start with my meditation all over again? I did go first. Whether this service or just the word of the Spanish language, I think I can repeat myself because it is in accordance with what we're talking about here. CIA. When I started this article there, Roberto Garcia, the Argentinean. Good afternoon, Mayor Robert Garcia and all the council persons. My number is Ruth Miller. My name is Ruth Mueller. But then there's at least three. Don't know my daughter. I belong to district number eight. You saw Miembro de la quality on the Long Beach. And I'm a member of the Coalition of Long Beach. You may put this your name. My petition is the following. 7 million loss from those that we seek to renew the funds dedicated to the justice. But I love it. But it seems that you only got it to address a legal representation. De La Familia. Immigrants. Of all. Immigrant families. Yes. He broke the headlock by loading something that is the most common idea which will protect the family values of our entire community. I target Roberto Garcia. Mayor Robert Garcia. Guess so, guys. But it's time and we're stuck, and we need to help our community. The company that is studied with the community is willing to work with you. It's can be an architectural commentary. I also want to comment something else. In this example, I did see that they learned what? We need diversity. We need language diversity in all of your offices. But then after chat. To take advantage. But the reprobates are those. I love supporting me about it. They know that. That's too bad. They allow me. To take advantage. Of all the opportunities that are offered by the. City of Long Beach. And you know so it will start. To look. And not to make the in which a barrier. But for that, they do not need that much ground to. To make this community larger and more diverse. Thank you. Our next speaker is Chico Zarzuela. Your time starts now. Yes, I'm here. Yes, I'm here. Okay. When I started working on. Good afternoon. A wholesome adult in Long Beach. I live in district number two in Long Beach. The Department's policy on validating immigrants in Long Beach. And I do belong to the coalition of immigrants from Long Beach. Well, the other is God for a wonderful, special day, Long Beach. Today, I'm here to promote the justice fund for Long Beach. Baraka continued. That's the only thing you granted. They expect you back to continue the vital representation of all immigrants in this city. Has been, which is important to foremost. And the other thing would be that this is very important that we have security. So they all know the potassium of the eye that in case there's a desperate deportation by ICE. But then at the same time, we reckon we could have representation an attorney before an immigration court. Lamar, you're real looking. You granted me the most aliyah. Most of the immigrants that live here live paycheck to paycheck. You know, somebody almost I'm a native. If I got a lot of don't have the answers and we would not have the capacity to pay for an attorney or to pay for bail. David McCallum, you're the person other to me, the father of the mother of the family. We know that most of the people that get detained are also fathers and mothers with a family. The Solomon Islands also see hope. They only work to make sure their kids and their families get ahead. A economy outlook keep people almost impossible. They are. They contribute to the local economy and they do pay taxes. So yeah, people don't want to hear what the sample means already. I am here to petition for an amount, a just amount of $400,000. I those who are in Long Beach to the justice fund of Long Beach. Considerable conspiracy, so get them the message from those they are stuck to rather. And I also think that it's important that this fund be structured. Then the step up to seven them on their disability that they all feel they left Europe in such a way that it becomes part of every year's budget established within the city. I farewell the Rachel Mammal. I'm appealing to human rights. Thank you. And that concludes public comment for this item. Vice Mayor Andrews public comment is concluded for item 22. You know, now we're going to go to our behind the diocese. And at first I was calling Austin councilmen, asking excuse to approach Councilman Richardson and Councilman Pearce. Well, thank you, Vice Mayor. And I want to thank the city manager, Tom Mollica, his entire team for their work in preparing this very difficult budget. This budget proposal is very bold and represents a very different approach to some areas, especially when it comes to recognizing the need for public health and also the very different approach to our police budget. There is no comfort in what is before us today in any way. I think it's important to note that when we started the internal budget process at the very beginning of this year, our fiscal outlook was very much different than it is today. It was only a few short months ago that the full scope of the economic impact of COVID 19 became clear, and our staff had to work with all of the departments to identify how to close an unprecedented $30 million shortfall. While all departments were working overtime to address the immediate public health crisis. At the same time, the city council passed the city team with undertaking a framework for reconciliation and developing recommendations for investment to address racial racial inequities in only two months time. So I appreciate the immense amount of time and work that the budget team, the entire city staff have put into. Rising to the challenge is now before us. Enough can be said about that. Our city manager and Mayor Darcy have provided us with a rough draft, which we now will undertake the next 5 to 6 weeks to assess, deliberate and engage our community in a process of prioritizing how we move forward as a city. And there are some meaningful structural changes in how we conduct business here in Long Beach. Proposals that really merit our full attention. At the same time, the budget that we adopted in September would definitely not be the end of our challenge. A Budget Oversight Committee. Last week I had a very sobering presentation from our Finance Director, John Grosse, on unfunded liabilities and anticipated budget challenges in the coming years with additional costs and other demands. So therefore, this budget year, I think this Council and I'm challenge enough to also look at it in that context as well. With that in mind, our concern is to exercise wisdom and discretion on how we utilize our research fund in this year's budget and make sure that any use of these funds are in areas that provide us the best long term benefits for ensure that for our residents, our city operations and of course the taxpayers. We're still dealing with plenty of unknowns when it comes to COVID and how long we'll be dealing with the economic impacts of this pandemic. And so I think we need to be very realistic. And I do think there's room for some departments to do more. I don't also, because I'm also concerned about the furlough impacts on many of the lower paid employees. We're already struggling to get by. They work hard and they are probably most at risk during these difficult times and their families. So I hope to drill down on this further during our bills, hearings and council presentations, I want again take this opportunity to thank the mayor and city manager for making recommendations that are VOCs and innovative and looking for innovative, creative ways on restructuring how we provide services to our residents during these challenging times. I look forward to a robust discussion with the Council and encourage plenty of community engagement as we consider this upcoming budget or this coming fiscal year. But also look at I want us to really look at the fiscal health of our city and the model of the service we provide for the next several years. This is a long game, a long term approach that we need to be thoughtful about. And I'm going to yield my comments for now because I think we've heard a lot of great presentation from the manager, and I do appreciate the public comment. People were already engaged, paying attention and holding us accountable as city leaders. So those are my comments for now. I look forward to the process. Vice Mayor. That concludes my comments for now. You very much. What you said. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I have some comments and some thoughts here. First of all, our staff and the entire city family. I know it's been difficult times, unprecedented times, but I've said it before. I'll say it again. Our city continues to meet this moment. We have been in an emergency operations mode for six months as we face a crisis on three fronts. When the pandemic first came to Long Beach, we laid down on our public health department to have the smartest, most comprehensive response across our region, aligning our response with meet. We led the most robust economic relief program in the region protecting workers in our most impacted industries residents, renters, businesses and more. And when community when thousands of community members hit the streets, demand equity and change. We met that moment as well and are meeting this moment now by acknowledging racism as a public health crisis and asking staff to make this a top priority. That's what they did. They developed their comprehensive racial equity and reconciliation initiative. Our chance to read it last night. They're meeting the moment today with a budget that invests in equity, reimagine public safety. Our city manager's office, the health department offers equity. They jumped in with both feet. And we're making tremendous progress. And I think the future of our city is better off for it. And while we face these crises, we have to take an eye off the ball on issues like homelessness. Investments in our communities. We committed we completed our Highland Park Community Center, which is a decade of advocacy to get that done. Just finally completed our first citywide bridge housing community to help move individuals out of homelessness in our streets and upgrade bridge back into permanent housing. These are big steps that we got done during sleep while facing the crisis on three fronts. Hats off to the entire city team, including our public works team and our new poll work. And so this body I feel it's a great starting point acknowledges and I know there's still a lot more that we need to do a few things to highlight. I think that it's important to note that our health department was invested in the middle of a pandemic. We invested in our health department. They received investments in this budget. I see that there are some tough decisions, terms of contracting out. I have some concerns about that. So I want to discuss that at some point in the future. I love the concept of creating library hubs seven days a week on three three sites, and I want to figure out if there's a way that we don't reduce service in some of these other other sites. So maybe we should think about ways that we can. Well, I want to make I love the idea of social work program going in. You know, the role of libraries is changing. We have to continue changing with it. Are you concerned about the increases? Do you support fees? I know that we may some money off the pandemic. If the restrictions have lifted. You may be able to save some resources heading into the early part of the next fiscal year. I'm really interested in learning more about the alternative response model new non-emergency phone number, the Community Health Councils, the alignment wellness with our health department enhanced warm responses to nonviolent emergency. I'm you know, this is you know, these are new ideas. Well, not new ideas, but these are new attempts for our city. And I really am curious to really better understand them. I want to acknowledge the commitment, racial equity in this moment, structural funding for justice, fund language access, funding the rights of right to counsel. I think there's a great first steps, particularly the right to council. I think given our housing authority, we have a number of different departments eviction moratorium, rental assistance. I'd love to see us begin moving toward sort of one front door on issues related to housing and with respect to renters as well. Given 80% of African-American population, our cities renters, 70% of the Latino population are cities renters. We need to wrap our minds around how we are doing it. I acknowledge and support the next victim in the relocation of the Office of Equity, the reforms part of a commission. The public has been very, very clear. They want us to repeal that and redesign a new modern oversight commission. Well, we just did an equity and ethics commission, which did a redistricting commission power to make commissions with my business. I love that we invested resources to make that happen. I want to pay more attention to the reorganization of the heart teams. I want to hear more about that. One, learn more about the office, the Constitution, policing in terms of what to think about it. I think now is the right word. You sent Councilman Newton's time. You know. I can't understand what you're saying. I go in and just finish out a couple of questions in one minute. Let's. School. Asking questions of the banks. She's at the Radisson. You will come back up. I'd love to finish now, Vice Mayor. Okay. Well, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. We're going to stay close to that 5 minutes real quick. That's why I get there for you. So I got a few questions for you. I acknowledge the good things in this budget. I know there's been in addressed these questions. You know, I know that we're talking about people's jobs and livelihoods. So I ask these questions with great, great thoughtfulness. So I know that there's been a lot of public demand to reduce the police department budget. And I need some clarity on what's presented here. What would have been and this is a question for state. What would have been the proportional cut to the police department versus what is the proposed cut to get the effective proposed cut and what would have been proportional cut? So Councilmember, I'm not sure I can answer the first part of the question on proportional cut. We did not do a proportional fund budget as we've done in the past. We looked at a number of options for each department, and then we we made those decisions. When you total the cuts to the police department that are included in the budget before you, it is a 5.2% reduction. Okay. So so can you explain to the public how you arrive at 5.3%? I'm looking at this book. What I see is about 1.5 in a straight line. So can you walk us through through how you arrive at 5.2? Yes. So essentially you take the number that's in that book, but that that was last year's budget. You then look at what the cost growth has been because that's what creates a deficit. So you add that amount that to and that becomes your new problem to solve. You then put in solutions. And in the police department it was about ten and a half million dollars worth of reductions. And then we had, you know, the other impacts in in PD like they're taking furloughs as well in their non sworn and others. You had all of that together and that is $5.2 million worth of reductions from the police department. It comes out to about 63%, I believe, of the solutions to the reductions that we had to make. Okay. So, so I, I think it's important that we we talk about the sort of the fiscal context here, how much of our budget is made up by public safety in general. And over the past decade or so, what direction has has the budget trended in terms of growth? So public safety has been about 70%. Early on it was in the fifties and sixties and it was growing and that was in the 2002, up to 2010, and it was nearing over 70%. The mayor and council and the city put together a program that was keeping it from moving beyond that. And we've been around 70% with the addition of measure. It started to go above that. And but with these reductions, we are currently in that same amount. So we did not increase that we know of. We haven't done that final calculation, but that is our best sense. So in I asked that, but we can understand, you know, what is the risk if in hindsight that really wouldn't make this fair to everyone you can cue up again. Please keep your thought. Let me answer that one question. If you. Which is what? Because you guys really want to keep it fresh for everyone. So please. Yeah. Thought the next speaker right now is Councilwoman Pierce. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I think that it's a it's probably going to be a little challenging because we've been doing the virtual for so long without having the five minute rule and to have it in place on a day whenever we probably all have a lot of questions. So I will do my best to set my timer and save my questions for a second round of. As everyone else probably will do. So I, I want to say that I think that this is a good first step, but I've never seen a budget like this come from our city staff in recognizing that this is Tom Morata's first budget as a city manager. It's not an easy task at all. And so I just want to thank everybody on the front end. I know that you're in the middle of contract negotiations with Labor, putting together a city budget with a $30 million shortfall and also tackling reconciliation at the same time, all which really take a lot of energy. So I want to recognize staff's efforts for that. I also want to recognize that I don't think this budget would look like it looks today as the very first step without all the community members that have been advocating and organizing and emailing and calling. And that's business owners, small business owners, people that are tied to tourism as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. And so I really want to say this is because of you that we are here with the city manager budget looking at this way and knowing that the next five or six weeks we have more work to do and hopefully get to a budget that really is fully reflective of the diverse community that we have while being mindful of our budget shortfalls. I like the general tone of it. There's a couple of areas that I really, really support. Obviously, the changes to PD, I think you've outlined one of the reasons why that number might look different. I know we've got a lot of community members that are looking at the chart and saying that it's 1% and some change. That's a difference. So I would ask that whenever the police budget does come in front of us as a staff presentation, that it's really clear on how we got that we are cutting 5.2% and making sure that that conversation is transparent and accountable. I know that one of the things that we've talked about is making sure that we have every line item that we possibly can have for our police budget in particular. I think that the budget is reflective, as Councilmember Richardson said, of the COVID concerns, that we have, the racial inequities that we have in the city, as well as trying to make sure that we're not cutting services. So I guess I would start by saying one area that that is a big flag for me is the Hart team and my very first budget on city council. We approved the very first Hart team. And I want to remind people that this idea came from me going on right along. So I went on three ride alongs with fire out of station two and I forget the exact percentage. And hopefully when the Hart team presents they can share this number. But it was somewhere like 80% of the calls for that police for that fire station were for people that were struggling with homelessness or mental health. And so the idea was not just to have social workers or paramedics out there. The idea was that if somebody called 911, that they would be able to get a Hart team instead of a fire truck or a firefighter or a police car, an ambulance, but that the Hart team could come out first. And I know that at least one of our teams can respond to nine on one call. So I have a very big issue and questions that we can dove into at that presentation around how are they going to respond to 911 calls, what cars are they going to use? How do we make sure that we've got first responders on those calls and that they're also being proactive? And so maybe there's a hybrid model that includes our firefighters and social workers, and you guys can present that at that time. But yes, you have one minute. That's one that's 5 minutes. It's hard. So other areas that, you know, I'll dig in more on the hard when that comes. But I wanted to make sure that folks knew that was a very big concern of mine. Our libraries plan. I love that we would have key libraries. The Downtown Library, which is now the Billie Jean King library, has not had seven days in years. And I think the community really deserves it. I think there's some good areas in police changes, but again, want to understand constitutional policing and why that would be housed in the police department and not the city manager's department. The other areas that I want to lift up are fully funding the justice for making that structural language access. We've been fighting for that to be structural for so long that I was happy to see the mayor's recommendations to make that structural right to council when we get to it. I've heard a lot of news stories and I myself have experienced a lot recently as well. And so I think that we absolutely need to have right to council. So lots of other topics to talk on. I know that we'll get to those. I'd like to be able to give staff kind of a heads up on some. My questions and concerns, which is why I'd like to begin a little bit. So I will, as public commenters, will yield my time and queue back up. Thank you. That's Mango. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I'll do some of the additional questions that we're headed down with Councilmember Richardson. So we were talking about PD in this budget is receiving a 5.2% reduction. And while I appreciate the question about public safety and when we're talking about PD, we should just focus on PD. And so my question would be for Grace or Jon. I believe that PD is 50%, 51%, 49% of the city budget. What was that number. Councilmember? Yes, they're around 50%. The exact number right now as of the proposed budget, we still have to calculate because there are some moving pieces like negotiations for other groups that are still being considered. But on average, as Tom was mentioning over the past few years, they are around 50% of the budget on the expenditure. So. Okay. So PD is receiving 62% of the reductions, 5.2% of their budget. And I'm just trying to help clarify. So one of the things that's important is that we also look at the specific things that are being. Re reallocated reauthorized. So I'm interested when PD does present their budget. We're talking about not utilizing sworn for priority three calls. So I would like a report by zip code for priority one, two and three calls last fiscal year. And then, uh, no, not last fiscal year. I guess I would say last calendar year if possible, or a comparable period to where we are this year. And then since we're doing public safety, I think we should set the table on the same for fire, the number of bells and fire calls by zip code. I think that would help give some perspective because what you don't want to do is if you are stating that, you're going to. Civilian eye is priority three calls. You don't want to then have certain parts of our city without the resources should an emergency happen. We're already seeing what happened with the civil unrest that happened and our ability to call in additional resources from outside the city. And it's also very unpopular to call in outside resources from the federal government or National Guard. And so we want to make sure that we have trained people here that know Long Beach and the Long Beach Way and the Long Beach authorities and issues. We don't want outsiders coming in and using their tactics, which may not really coincide with the values we have here in Long Beach. And so what I don't want to do is take some of our most vulnerable communities and then take away their police officers and replace them with civilians. And so I just wanted to see what that outlay looks like by zip code. I guess I agree with. A lot of the comments on things we want to make additional investments in and also agreement with some of the things that the mayor said related to frustration, related to some of the ideas that were brought forward by the city staff. And I think my biggest concern is when I open up the budget tool for residents to try to play along with the budget. You only gave them the options that you considered, but you didn't put all the options on the table. So similar to what the mayor said. I've been saying for two years, and I know that this year we were making great progress in starting our budget hearings in January and kind of going through our vacancy list. But we looked at vacancies made up $6 million. If you took the average salary times, the number of vacancies over a if it was annualized, it would be as much as $6 million. And so I think that that's an interesting component. I don't see where that is in this budget and that savings. And then I would also say that to bring forward a budget with $30 million when we only have one, we have a $30 million problem. I'm hearing from council members that there are a lot of items that are just not in agreement. And so I feel like the city. Place is not. Perfect. I don't even need the whole minute. I think that the city manager needs to bring forward an additional 5 to $10 million of potential cuts so that we could balance those things against the things that he has already proposed in this budget, so that we would be able to potentially consider some of those cuts and not take the cuts that he's laid out. Some of them, I feel, are, again, not options, and I've heard some of those listed, but I think that a robust list of all options need to be presented so that we would be able to make good choices. Right now, there's not a lot of choices to be made. It's here's what we're cutting. And if you disagree, we don't have the background in information from each department on what they proposed could be cut. So if a city manager, you ask every department to cut. How much? In their scenario. What percentage? Thank you. That was the question. I need the city manager to answer it, if you don't mind, sir. And then I'm done. Yes. We looked at reductions of up to 12% for most departments. For them to come up with some ideas and we do have a list, it's in the budget book of a number of different options that we've costed out. And so those are in there. We'll get you the page later. But it's not the 12%. It's a fraction of that 12%. It's not everything. There are things in there that I wouldn't don't believe were actual reductions there. You know, there's I do ask for a little bit of discretion as a manager to put things together that are actual reductions. And so that we put ones in there that we thought were real and were implementable and were part of the consideration for the council to look at. Are you saying that departments put forward things that were not real? Or there were things that were unverified or items that, you know, we we would never, you know, consider. So, you know, again, that's part of the process. We asked them to come up with some concepts and ideas, and then we have those discussions. And then if they put forward things that are off the table because they are council priority, then you ask them to go back to the table and bring up more items or additional items or different items or not have that type. Of event which has try to the 5 minutes you got. Absolutely. Well, please, you guys follow the rules. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council. Well, thank you, Vice Mayor. First question is regarding public works. And on this, if it's in the budget book, in the interest of time, just send me that information or two from for memo would be great in response. So the question is how how much of the planned 2021 infrastructure projects are not attached to matching dollars to state or federal dollars and also a total dollars budgeted from Measure A. So if you understand the question, I'm the one. So I got the second part of the question. Can you repeat the first part? Understood. The measure eight. No, it's the second one. Okay. The first part. How many projects 2021 have? Structure projects are not attached to matching federal or state funds. We want that. That's going to require some analysis because most of our project is something. If that, you know, I get it. So I don't want you to even try to take a stab at it now. But if there's a simple solution to that, if you can let me know later, that would be great. Or in a to come work. Thank you. Okay, then. Moving to public safety. Um, if the city manager. I just let me know if this is acted or not. So I take the staff recommendation is not to eliminate engine 17. The recommendation is to eliminate the safer grant. Would that be accurate? That's absolutely accurate. Okay. So in that, again, if you could come back to me and if if this is in the budget book, I apologize, but I, I need some help explaining to residents exactly why we're turning down the save for grant money. I don't know what that total or total dollar figure, but some of those dollars were used to support E 17. So if we could get those numbers crunched, that would be great for us to share with the public. Yes. So we do have a section in the budget book that explains some of it. I'll have John GROSS answer that question right now. Okay. This is Grace. So part of the reason why we are recommending not to accept the safer grant and again, just to reiterate what you are saying, council member that does not have anything or exactly to do with Engine 17. Turning down the safer grant does not take away the funding for Engine 17 from the Missouri Plan that's currently in the proposed FY 21 budget. But the requirements of the SAFER grant require that we have to maintain a maintenance of effort level of staffing that's above our budgeted level agreed with with the grantor. And in order to reach that budget at staffing level, taking into consideration the attrition that's going to happen and the academy that is slated to happen late this September, we need to have another second class, an Academy class in FY 21 to get us to that maintenance of effort level. We are estimating that second class, which is unbudgeted to be another cost of about 1.6 million of one times that we have to find. And with the timing of everything and the anticipated grant award amount that we were anticipated to receive, we're only thinking that we're going to get about $1.8 million from the safe for Grant anyway . And then also we are required to maintain the state staffing level throughout the whole time period of the Grant Performance Awards. So that takes us into about FY 23, I believe, the three year grant period performance time frame. And so then we would need to find another additional approximately 2 to 2 and a half million dollars for continued investment into academies to keep that level at that amount. And that also means that we would not be able to include fire in any reductions in the future to help try to solve any shortfall. Okay. Understood. Thank you for that explanation. And so I think I can extrapolate from that that you are not planning this for Tom Modica to answer a 2021 Fire Academy. We're doing the one this fall. But you don't have one scheduled for 2021, correct? We have one for this fall, but not for 2021. Okay. Thank you. Did I make it under 5 minutes? No, you didn't. Okay. Thank you. It was used 3 minutes to read. Minutes away. And good job this is going on. Next. Go to one. Place. Vice mayor, did you just say yes? Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Okay. Thank you. I lost you there for a second. I just I got I'm going to save out of my question. But the. But do you know what's wrong? We're not here. Isn't that what you come in. You come out in the middle of the park like there are aspects of the budget. I really. Can you hear me? Okay. Let me try again. Yeah, that's much better. Okay. So I just wanted to thank city staff for putting this budget together. I know a lot of hard work went into it, and it really was a very difficult time for them to come up with the budget. So I really appreciate the work that they did. I'm going to save my questions for when we have the individual department presentations so that we're a little bit more I'm a little bit more efficient with my focus in regards to those particular budget presentations. I do want to let the city manager know in advance that I know he was copied on. A lot of emails that we've received over the last week. For. Third Council member. You broke up again. We heard, Mr. President, we heard over the last week. Councilwoman Pryce, we can't hear you very. And start learned about. Public. You're going in and out. We can't hear you. Don't. If you funding specifically police. Departments are being funded. And and the residents really wanting to have. Some assurance that. Okay. I will queue up back up in just a minute. You got two marriages in. Thanks, Vice Mayor. You're doing an incredible job managing the time. I just want to get back to the question. I was I was focused on this context, the risk. I think it's important right at the beginning or what the pace. About this any better. Although I think the vice mayor moved right on. Back to you, Mrs. Bright. If it's okay, we'll come back to you. If it's okay that you're going in and out. Mrs. Brice. I can't tell you. Lords is in place. Thank you very much. Okay, so, so quickly, I think it's important we know this about the context of city manager financial management. Tell us about a little bit about the credit 70% and what risk that potentially. So I believe the question is about kind of the elevated cost of public safety in the long term. So we have seen significant cost growth for both our police and fire departments just for the cost of providing the same level of service from salaries and benefits and pension. And so what we've seen in the past from studying other agencies is once you go beyond 70%, unless there's some other dedicated funding or source of revenue, it starts to put pressure and on the other services, the quality of life services. So when 70% is public safety, that is clearly an important service and one of our very most important. But there are only then there's only 30% left of the budget to spend on other services. So that is something that we keep an eye on. And the council's been very disciplined at trying to hit that balance of investment of services. Thank you. I think it's just important that we that we understand that that this trend has been going on for a long time and our responsibilities. Therefore, we do have to talk about changing course in terms of of that trend in order to preserve a well-balanced city. Final question. I know that there's been some questions about civilian aviation, and I see two numbers. I see 34 sworn positions eliminated and 28.7 civilian police positions. What's the relationship between the two? Are they. Sure. Just a little bit more about these are these non these non sworn positions? Are they new hires? Are they the 34 sworn positions converted into 28.7 still positions. So it's a reduction of those police officer positions. So those go away and then we add in additional positions that are new positions not yet hired that are civilian ized. And so, for example, in patrol, we'll have 16 police officers that are no longer there, but 16 civilians doing those services. Another example is in the area of air support, which is our helicopter. There's currently six officers that are providing that we would go more to a contract model with about two pilots, commercial pilots, instead of of the six officers. Those are two examples. So those are some of the with this, I think, you know, there's some we got to stay focused on state and federal stimulus and what we have to do in the course of the next year. You have opportunities with the stimulus in discussions, the Additional Cares Act and the Heroes Act. That's going to require a lot of focus on state lands, Federal Lands Committee, Conference of Mayors and others. But I think the approach we've taken in recent months, I think it does bode well for our long term health, our fiscal health, our community health, our economic health. And and it's important to me that as Long Beach comes out, this recovery, we do so in a way that leaves no one behind in place, our community, on a better future footing moving forward. Thanks, vice mayor for the for the time. Appreciate. Thank you, councilman. Russian Councilman. Woman Price, could you please come back in? Sure. Can you hear me? We can. We can hear you now. Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to go back in again and just thank staff for putting this together. Look, I. I understand we talk a lot about public safety budgets and what percentage is healthy and what percentage of the end of the day residents need to feel that the taxes that they're paying are going into critical services that make them feel safe. And I know that the mayor, the city manager and I received lots of emails over the last week from third District residents who really wanted to express their support for our public safety infrastructure and for continuing to have a system in place where when people call 911, they get a response and there's follow through on that response. So as we go into the next series of budget discussions with the specific departments, what I will be asking our police department, our chief, is whether or not the civilian positions that are going to be utilized to take initial police reports, which I think is a fantastic use. I'm using civilian investigators to do a lot of that work, I think is very prudent. There's a lot of agencies where I work that do utilize that. But what is the follow up going to look like? Will detectives be assigned to follow up on those reports? And can residents expect that they'll still get the same level of service from Long Beach PD, whether it's from a sworn officer or a non sworn civilian investigator? That's really important to me. I really appreciate the departments that came forward with creative solutions. And again, I just want to thank our city manager for at least putting this out there. There are aspects of this budget I love. There are aspects of this budget I really don't like at all. And I'm glad the mayor addressed some of those issues, and I look forward to talking about them further and BMC as well as with the entire department. Presentation. So thank you very much, Mr. Vice Mayor, and I hope you were able to catch all of that. Thank you. VICE Thank you. Councilwoman Price. Councilwoman in the house. Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to thank our team for this presentation and all the incredible hard work that has gone into it, into this budget proposal. I know that this is a very, very, extremely difficult job to do, especially now that we have COVID 19. So it's usually a hard thing to do any year, but especially right now. I also want to echo all of the comments that were made by my colleagues, and I also wanted to to say that, you know, I'm very glad that we're looking into some cuts, some that are more necessary than than others. And so I'm glad that we have this this document going forward and that we're going to be having a lot of, you know, discussions and meetings so that we can give our input here today, but also have an opportunity to give more input not only for us, the council, but also for our community. And that to me is very important. Going forward, I really am glad that we are talking about the Justice Justice Fund, because I think that's very, very important, especially to my residents and my district as well, is the language access. So I look forward to having more one on ones and and getting more details on, on all the cuts and, and where we're going to be able to cut. Because I think it's very important not only to all of our to all of our residents, but also to those who have other languages as their primary language, like Spanish or Combi or Tagalog, who are the residents that are most vulnerable? And we need to make sure that we include them in all areas of opportunity that we give to all. So with that said, thank you. Moms and dads. Councilwoman, here's. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Okay, I'd like. I'll try to be brief, although it's budget. So I think I want to pick up on the on the idea of of safety. Obviously, this is going to be one of the contentious items that we tackle on this budget. And I agree with Councilmember Price's comments. We need to make sure that people feel safe, that all people feel safe. And I understand that for some that means a police officer, for some that means social worker, for some that means a firefighter. And so when we've had a budget that's had such a high percentage going to our police department, this moment calls for us all to really reevaluate. Yes, the percentage, but I think the conversation is right. Partnering with the framework to say what are the services that we can provide that are not police services? And so I agree that the civilian positions that are here, I totally support that. I don't think that it goes far enough. I know that one of the biggest things that we've heard are people that are struggling with mental health, with drug addiction, that are survivors of violence, that's being a police officer in their full gear is triggering for them and that the conversations that they have with police officers is triggering for them. And one of the stories that comes up for me is a young gentleman who was shot and a firefighter was on the scene first and how calm that person helped the people at the scene. And so I think that when we talk about public safety, we have to talk about the public safety continuum, that it is police, it is fire, but it is what the staff has started to do in this budget, which is which is mental health, which is nurses, social workers. And so there are areas that I look to hear from staff areas that I'm interested in are our quality of life team. I was surprised to see that the full quality of life team is still in the budget. We had paired that down when I was first on council. We didn't have that many and then it. An amp back up. I know that there are other models like the hard times that have been successful. I know that there are some concerns within civilian staff about when they go out and how they're engaging people that might be struggling with homelessness or mental health. And so I really I encourage us to explore what a new model might be for the quality of life so that it's not with police, but it's with some other lifesaving department. Another conversation that Councilmember Price and I have been talking about is park rangers ethics. And, you know, as we talk about this, it's something that makes people feel safer. Bixby Park I've recently heard some concerns, particularly from my constituents, that they don't want to have police in the park. And I know that we have different levels of police in the park, which are important because of drug use and sales and everything else. But having a park ranger that's overseen by a police department is not something that I think this moment calls for. And so I hope that we can also have conversations about park rangers going back to the Parks Rec and Marine Department. And I also want to want to say that I think that the mayor has lifted up zero based budgeting. And one of the things that I talk to my constituents about is we can cut this budget, right? We can cut it, we can shift it. We could get to a healthy level, which is closer to 40 or 50% of our budget being PD instead of where it is now. But if we're not talking about how we budget every year and how we have a longer process and getting to zero based budgeting is the way that we can ensure that people have a voice. But we also have to recognize the inequalities in our voice because people are. One minute Mrs. Fears. Here. I just want to say as we embark on this. Our libraries are closed right now. There are people that don't have access to this meeting right now. There we have a digital divide still. And so I know that staff is working really hard to make sure we're engaging more people than before. And obviously the framework showed us that. But we have to be mindful about who we're governing for, and it has to be everybody in the city and not one group and those that have been left out for a long time that are asking for a realignment in this budget. I think it's fair and I think all the staff time that we've put to the framework in this budget demand us to follow through on that. Otherwise we will, as a city, lose complete credibility. And so it's more of a comment, obviously, than questions. I'll say my deeper questions for when the presentations come. But I'm really proud of this moment, and I'm really proud of the things that this council has done together, particularly during COVID that haven't been easy. And I hope that we continue that same. That same intention. As we move forward these next six weeks, because it is so important. So again, thank you staff for your work. And I'm thank you to all the community members that continue to speak about your truth. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Mango. Thank you, Mr. Modica. I was confused by a comment you made. You stated that, and maybe I misunderstood. I know this is difficult on calls that the cut to the fire department is an elimination of a grant we don't have. I'm confused. No, I'm not advocating. And I guess just a follow up. Are we not advocating as a city to the federal government to essentially relax some of the safety requirement so we can still receive that funding? We can certainly ask that question. The our understanding right now is that funding requires that you put aside additional funding to continue it after the grant expires. It also requires you to hold a second academy that we would have to invest in in order to get a maintenance of level of effort, level that you then qualify for the grant. It would then also prevent us from making any reductions in any sworn personnel for any type of fiscal problem or challenge we would have in the future. So those are the the main reasons we would essentially have to spend about one and 1.6, $1.7 million in order to draw down 1.6 or $1.7 million, plus the amount to keep the engine per the contractual requirements. So I guess my ask would be, and I know I don't need to make a formal motion, but I would love for the Federal Legislative Committee and our legislative team to work diligently on advocating with our local elected officials at the federal level and to the FEMA office and others for changes to that grant so that we might be able to secure that funding and elongate the restoration that this council believed was a possibility. I guess I'm confused. I'm reflecting back on a discussion about the police department and pilots and gasoline and the cost of helicopters. And I guess I'd have to go back and pull my notes. But I remember hearing something along the lines of one helicopter in the air is the equivalent of nine or 11 patrol officers on the ground. And it's a a way to avoid high speed chases, pursuits, all of those things in a a much safer manner. It also reduces risk to the community when those violent offenders are fleeing that you're able to back off and let them do that. And I think we need to talk through what that means, because I understood the biggest cost of our aero bureau to be gasoline. And so if that is not the case, then great. But I don't know that pilots are very cheap these days. Agencies across the region are struggling to get pilots are actually paying for the full weight for any sworn to become a pilot. And so I would just state that if there are other things involved with that process. The community, I think is asking for civilian aviation is. Most likely asking for those that are most engaged in the interactions. And so at least that's what we're hearing from Janine and their approach to the thing. And so I don't know. I'm not saying that I'm an opinion one way or another, but it just causes some concern for me that I need more information. And then I also wanted to kind of follow up on another comment from Councilman Pearce related to the uniforms. Our department used to have a more relaxed uniform policy. More of our officers were in cargo pants and polo shirts with very thin bulletproof vests. Underneath their polo shirts. They were more approachable. Under a previous administration, we re-implemented a very, very strict uniform system that does have a different look to it. I don't know if there is a potential at the bargaining table to look at relaxing those standards back to we're not relaxing the standards, but restoring a previous left, I think the word she used with militarized uniforms and moved back to that and not nice one you. Have one minute. Thank you. Not just in our police officers service, but also in our our park rangers. I know that you and I have had some talks lately about park rangers and some intimidation that some senior citizens dealt with Eldorado Park. So I think we need to be cognizant of that as well. If you do consider moving parks and Rec rangers out of the police department, I will be firmly against it unless you take away their guns, because I want to remind the communities of the issues related to use of force that we had when we had sworn individuals reporting through a command structure where individuals at the top of the command structure had no knowledge of escalation of force, had no knowledge or training in utilization of a firearm. And it led to outcomes and. Different things that were not of great use. And then my final thing is for years there are things that we have implemented in the last 90 days that as a council member I led on and this council supported and we were constantly told we don't have the resources, we can't do it fast enough. That would take too much time, including specifically telecommuting. We talked a lot about telecommuting. And one of the things and the reasons that it was brought up in the past was that the cost saving measure and I don't want any ongoing job. Right. I don't see any costing specifically. On that unless we have another. Company. If I could finish my sentence more than 5 minutes. We have to follow the rules. We only give our constituent 90 seconds. And you guys, why can't we follow what we voted on? No, no problem, sir. I'll meet you for another 5. Minutes, letting you know. Okay, fine. This is you guys. This is just not fair to our constituents. You will not. Oh, that is not a fair statement. I think that it is not a fair statement. What are you doing? We got 5 minutes, you guys. So my. Problem. That. Finish your sentence. I can't even remember what my sentence was. Thank you for the interruption. I didn't mean it to be like that, but. I. Wish it was more equitable. Councilwoman. I'm good. Thank you. You know. Okay. We have a first class in the second. But Mr. Richardson, could you please call for both? Mayor. I reviewed your request. Like math. Yes, I understand. Second District. Councilmember Mongeau had recused. Okay. Fine. Mango. Thank you. I would just like to know what the unloading of real estate costs that we could reduce if we continue a model of teleworking or employee hoteling at different locations for the future. Because we wanted to move most of our employees to City Hall, but there were still lots of offices that were not able to do that. And so if we knew what those real estate costs were, and we might be able to make some significant savings. Also in the budget tool online, there was a request from residents to determine whether or not we needed $250,000 for additional maintenance. If city staff could explain what has not been funded, that has either increased or is. Necessary but not budgeted for in this upcoming cycle. That would be helpful when that presentation comes. Thank you. The. But could you please call for the vote? District one. I district to. I'm District three. I. District four. By. District five. I District six. And District seven. I. District eight. District nine. All right. Ocean carries. Thank you. Now we're going to go into our non non-related agenda items. Could you please, you know, nonpublic agenda items? Could you please everyone who signed up?

Recommendation to receive and file a presentation on 2020 Census population data for the City of Long Beach. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Let's go back to item 48. Sorry about that stuff. Right. So picking up where we left off, you know, there's the sense is there was is historic for many reasons but the pandemic obviously had a significant impact on the operations of the census and particularly the the schedule. The schedule was extended from its attention to its initial timeframe from July 31st to October 31st, and then abruptly ended on October 15th at the behest of the last administration, despite the challenges with the pandemic. We're proud of the fact that we were still able to leverage significant and historic investment from the state and collaborate with the state and the county for a city wide effort in implementing the census successfully. And foundational to that, or the centerpiece of that was to work with the community through the Long Beach Complete Count Committee, consisting of about 45 different local institutions representing the business sector, the health sector, educational sector, as well as community based organizations. With that said, we had our project manager with Julius renewed. He did a wonderful job working with us in the community and the organization to move this initiative forward. And so I'm going to turn it over to Julian, and he will walk us through the data that we have to present tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Thank you, Kevin. So to begin with, looking at the data we have here for the year 2010, we had a total population that were counted through the census of 406 to 2257. And in 2020, we have a total population enumerated of 466,742. So that is a net gain of 4485 residents. So that's about a 1% growth over ten years. To the right of that table, you'll see the graph that represents the 2020 population by race and ethnicity. So you'll see that Hispanic or Latino group is at 43.3%. Now white population is 26.1, black population 2%, American Indian at 0.2, Asian at 12.7, Native Hawaiian at point eight and other 8.6. And then two or more races at 4.3%. The next slide also presents a citywide 2020 2020 census data. As for the ethnicity question in the questionnaire, though, what this shows here is that from 2010 to 2020, there was a decrease of 2% in a population that identified as non-Hispanic or Latino, and from 2010 to 2020. The study experienced a 2.9% increase in the population that identified as Hispanic or Latino. So the big takeaway from this slide really is that it's telling us that the city of Long Beach continues to increase its population in the Latino community. This next slide is we think is a very interesting slide. So it is a city wide 2020 census data by race response. So the chart here represents the city's race distribution across the races included in the census questionnaire, which are white, black, American, Indian and Alaska, Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander and then some other race as well. From left to right. So for each race category, let's take the white category, for example. The center column you see there represents the resident that identified only as that specific race. And then the rightmost bar represents residents that identified as that race in combination with another race. So the first column on the left, meaning the dark blue column, then represents the total number of residents that identified by that race. In this example, white both either in part or in whole. The good. The interesting takeaway from this slide is that our residents really, if you can see on the far right under some of the race that residents are identifying as having more than one race than ever before. And with that, you know, to understand that, we'd really have to do some more weight on there, more released from the Census Bureau, and also to conduct additional resources to why that might be the case about an interesting finding there. So I'm moving on to the next slide. The next slide is the top table titled Race of non-Hispanic People. What that table does is that it breaks down the citywide population by race for non-Hispanic residents. So as you can see in the far right column title, percent change that there are less residents who are identified as non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, non-Hispanic blacks, non-Hispanic American, Indian and Alaskan alone, and also non-Hispanic native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander on. So for the race categories, Asian alone, some other race alone in two or more races categories, those have actually increased. So now moving to the bottom table on this is also an interesting finding here of the preliminary the preliminary data on. Here. The table titled Race of Hispanic People really reveal some interesting information. So from 2010 to 2020, both censuses, there was a 64.6% drop in Hispanic residents who identified as white alone so equal. Interesting also is that there's a significant increase of 178.9% in the American Indian and Alaska Native alone category. And there's also a really sharp increase of 300% in the residents who identify as being of two or more races. So moving to the next slide, slide number seven. On Flight number seven. It really shows the same information as the previous slide, but it shows it in nominal terms. So it gives you the actual number of residents here. You can see the percentages translated into the actual number. So you can see that almost 50,000 more residents are identified as white Hispanics in 2010 than in 2020. On the other hand, there's also a net gain, as you see at the bottom, second and third, third row from the bottom that there's a 24,000 and family residents who identified as some other race alone and a gain of 35,577 residents. Who identified as belonging in two or more races. So, you know, you might have some interesting questions at this point in time, for example. Comparing the data, you can see some interesting questions may arise. So for example, like, you know, what has caused the drops in residents that identify as alone a white alone Hispanics? What has caused the increase in the number of residents who identified as some of their race alone and two or more races? And then, you know, might there be a connection between this kind of enumeration that happened the 2020 census? So these are certainly intriguing and interesting questions. And again, we would kind of have to wait to see additional datasets being released by the census to see what is actually happening. And, you know, a more local level, we probably would want to see some studies to understand how they're related and why this is happening. So moving to flight number eight. So we're going to move into just more census data by council districts. So now that the citywide data has kind of been reviewed from a high level, we also do that on a council district level for you. So to begin with here on Slide nine or really what you see here is just a table slide that represents the same information that you'll see on the following slide. At this table here includes the columns for a nominal population, data for the 2010 and 2020 censuses, and those are the second and third columns from the left. So here's a map that kind of represents that for you visually. What you see here is that the visually, the darker blue a district appears, the larger the population. Gaining experience from the 2010 to 2020 census is the district. And in contrast, districts appearing lighter mean that there was a loss in population. And you'll see there's even a couple of districts there that have gone from a light blue to, you know, almost like a light red, indicating a loss in population. So the take away from this visual here is that districts one in six have lost the most population, while districts five, seven and eight have gained the most populations . Meanwhile, districts two, three, four and nine have remained largely the same or experienced some modest growth. Slide number 11 is represents here a pie chart that represents a district's population broken down by race and ethnicity. And this slide really has value because it allows you to very quickly determine which districts have large and small populations of a certain race or ethnicity. And it's really good to do a quick comparison if you want to add longer between certain districts to see how they differ in race and ethnicity. This is just an additional slide here, table for your reference. And again, it just represents the exact same information as the previous slide, but in the table format, in case you really kind of want to dig in there into the numbers. Slide number 13 shows the percent change by race for each district from 2010. 2020. I'm sorry, can you just go back to slides really quick, too? There we go. It's one. Make sure I'm reading this right. So let's take Council District one or two. So 59.3 is the Latino Hispanic population, right? That's not the citizen voting age population. It's just a total population. Correct. Total population. There's a census to see VAP or the just does total population. They'll do they'll do both. They do total population. Also 18 plus. Okay, 18 plus the c bap include 18 plus non-citizens or C that includes all voting population. See, that includes all voting population. Yeah, not. Not. Not, uh. Include all voting population, but including undocumented or including folks that are that are not counted as as as voters. I've always wondered about that, about the census, the way that that presents. So from our understanding, the questionnaire asked, You know what? You are born and raised from there it is how they decipher your age. So it it's citizen voting age population, correct? Yeah, that's. Yeah. Because there is. You might remember that. Thank you. Thank you. Um, the citizenship question, which was not on the questionnaire. So going back to fight number 13, it shows the change by race for each district from 2010 to 12 and 20. The interesting pattern here that emerges across all districts, if you can see the father's two columns, is that there are significant percent increase of residents that selected other or two or more races. And so this is something that also would be interesting to look at in the future as the census continues to release information. And then slide number 14. This just shows the same information as the previous slide, but this table really shows more clearly the percent increases in the other race and the two or more races. And because in the previous slide, those bars were actually truncated just for I'm for a graphic and visual effect. But you can see here that feeds 1 to 6 and eight. For example, I experienced the largest increases coming near or above a 200% growth in the category of other race. As we begin to wrap up here. Slide number 15. This shows the nominal change by race and ethnicity for each district from 2010 2020. And this graph shows the actual number of people gained or lost in each district by race and ethnicity. So contrasting this graph with the previous graph on the percent changes graph, one can see that although the other and two or more races categories appear significantly percent increases. Normally the growth is smaller. So just a quick comparison. You see the last two columns there in each council district graph are very high, indicating a high increase percentage wise. Nominally they are a lot smaller. But what you do see here is that the white and the Latino categories do not appear as dramatic percent increases in the previous table, but nominally on this slide. There is a significant gains and losses in the number of residents that identified as Latino or white from 2010 to 2020. So you almost kind of see the opposite as far as the height and decrease of the bars there. I mean, this here is also, just for your reference, is the same information provided in the previous graphs. And with that being said, you know, kind of the big four takeaway here is that we can glean from the initial information is that Long Beach is becoming more Hispanic or Latino. The Long Beach white population has decreased in contrast to the 2010 census. The Long Beach black population has also decreased. And then lastly, is that interesting pattern that continues to show in the data, which is that more residents are identifying with the other race and the two or more racist categories. And just a special thank you to Neish, who was the information systems officer and his two interns that were critical in helping us to gather that data for you to present today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for that presentation. Is your public comment on this? We have three signed up for this item. Dave Sugar Senior can fai Tiffany Davey. They shook the snake and say, Tiffany, please come forward. Your name is called. Please come forward and speak. Thank you. Can you can speak first at the. Son of a cell phone. The courtroom doctor. Okay. Appreciate the presentation by city staff. Just curious if you see the Citron analysis that was recently posted by Washington Post about the undercount of the US Census so that there is up to 2 million African-Americans nationwide that were unaccounted for, ten black children being ten times less likely to be counted as their white counterparts. Thank you. And Hispanics, large Latino children being 3.5 times less likely to be counted. But got a lot of data. I think the way that city staff put it out was an excellent opportunity to see district by district what is what, what is, what is current and what is going on. I think that it's very imperative, especially now with respect to the, you know, the controversial term of the night, the redistricting process, where these things are looking in and where they're going. So I appreciate the presentation and I will definitely be reviewing. I personally noticed and this is according to U.S. Census data, the self-reporting increase. But a lot of the household report's due to, obviously, COVID in the pandemic said family drop in in marginalized communities. So I'm just hoping that we can see some update from the feds with respect to that. I know specifically for in my neighborhood and the 200 block of BURNETT, there was only one apartment building that was visited by a census worker. And so a lot of the undocumented undocumented community in my neighborhood, sadly, were not counted. But, you know, as we know with the census, they do a over a count, an undercount over and under to count the you know, to cover this basis. But with respect to the census, it's imperative that these numbers are as close to the current population as possible, because this is how we do Medicaid and Medicare and Section eight and all of these federal programs that really make or break a trajectory for a lot of these families. But in any case, thank you for this staff report and we'll be reviewing. Good evening. Tiffany in Davie. I want to thank you for this presentation concerning the 2020 decennial census. Now I want to applaud the endeavors of the Census Bureau and local partners leading up to and throughout field operations for the Census. The Bureau face many challenges simultaneously, including the former administration as well as the COVID 19 pandemic. I focus tonight on three areas of improvement for the city as ascertained from my time as a data enumerator for the 2020 decennial census. Through our field operations, both in Los Angeles County, including the city of Long Beach, now had a data collection. The bureau identified four key innovation areas, which included re-engineering and just canvasing, optimizing salt response, utilizing administrative records and third party data as well as rendering field operations. Now, as a result of the pandemic, adjustments were made to the data collection, most notably along the calendar, as well as the schedule. Now. The coffee, manage the processing of data, and work to deliver high quality, defensible data as close to possible statutory deadlines. Now, despite the aforementioned challenges, as well as in concluding data collection, the 2020 census was still able to verifiably count over 99.9% of addresses nationwide. Now I highlight this aspect as essential as a unique identifiers for the establishment of dwellings correlate directly to street addresses which comprise the local data census addresses. Now, while carrying out my data collection duties, I found there to be difficulty not only making contact with a resident of a dwelling lacking an address, but in many of these cases, contact cannot be made within multiple visits, and attempts for proxy were insufficient now. And that also took place with multiple agents across multiple operations, including an initial house unit. Follow up as the non-response follow up as well. Most households across the nation received an invitation to respond to the census by mail during the week of May 12. March sorry, March 12th. The March 20th. Now the importance of there being unique identifiers for addresses is basically to ensure that each member of our community is counted. When we don't have those addresses, we won't do that going forward. We do need to do our best as a city to ensure all dwellings receive unique identifiers and I can see that possibly being encouraged by the participation of the accessory dwelling unit amnesty program and for marginalized communities are included ahead as well as are communicated with the deadlines as they change. And let's ensure that we do outreach, education and participation of the combined community to ensure they can be interviewed when we do conduct those interviews. Thank you. Good evening. I spoke earlier on the Senate calendar about this issue of integrity, of information. I think with the census data, it is absolutely imperative, I believe, that the 2011 and 2010, as well as 2020 decennial census have undercounted our city. I believe that at any given time there are over 500,000 residents in the city, which should be considered a major city. There's a growing body of literature about how this information specifically affected the ability of census enumerators to do their job. So I hope that the city will support efforts by the Census Bureau to make specifically spreading disinformation about the census a crime. And I'd also like to see the city do everything it can to support efforts for the next American Community Survey. That's going to be our best chance to clean up a lot of the problems with the data. Thank you. That concludes the public comment. Thank you. With that, Katherine Austin, any comments? Yeah, I did. I just wanted to comment. I thought this was pretty fascinating. And in my opinion, it's clear that there was an undercount in the census and that there were some bizarre shifts in racial identification. I love to learn more about how and why that was. And I guess one question that comes to mind is, were there any differences in the questions from 2010 to 2020 in terms of or for that particular category? So the categories remain the same. What did change out? A big change. Ever since 1800s, the questionnaire was in paper form. So we were a limited number of character boxes that you could use to identify your race by in the move to a digital era. They moved to Internet based questionnaire, so that allowed for, I believe, was about 120, 130 characters. So I think from the ability of a resident to complete the questionnaire, it just allowed them to include more information about their race background than previously before. And that's just, you know, we believe that there's a lot of other different reasons why this may be the case, but it just has to be. The way the questionnaire was presented to residents this time around was a lot different than beforehand. So so for an African American is of mixed race. And prior to if they were able to just mark on black or African American and now you have another person's identifying with maybe everything else that you may have within your heritage. You may have a few spike in terms of of. Two or more. Racist, right? That's correct. Yeah, that's correct. Which which impacts that that that uses data quite a bit in my opinion. Um, thank you for put American. I think. Councilman, you're Reagan's next. Go ahead. Councilmember. I mean you. Make you a race winner. Really don't have that kind of observation. Obviously, the city of LA, which is changing. We've had a little bit of growth, obviously, but I think we had significant changes in our population shifts in regards to race and ethnicity. One thing I didn't see here in terms of a factor that was obviously very important is the comparison of men and women, where we will see in terms of the population of men and women or LBGTQ youth population. I didn't see that here. Probably was. You probably weren't asked to do that or. I don't know. Was there a question on that in the in the census there? Yeah, there was one of those that's one of the general questions of the ten in the questionnaire, because that data was not included in any of the the graphs that we saw here. So we just curious as to what those numbers are and where and where they are actually in the city. Yeah, I think there will be more details into that in the future. Data table releases. So when they are, we can certainly communicate that to you. Like. Thank you. I'll go next. So, no, I was here in 2010 for the staff report on the last census. And I remember I think Long Beach lost 700 people at that census. 700, 900. It was a more than that. We went up about 800 people. We went up 800. We just it was less than a thousand was almost nothing. We had a small and then this time, you know, 6000 people went up more. Do we have any idea what what attributed to that growth? I know we were stumped before on how did we stay virtually the same size city over a decade. Any thoughts on was it growth with housing? Any any consideration. I would suggest that the growth in the number of new housing that the city has built over the last decade would certainly have been a contributor. It's hard to. Act, and. I know that it's also somehow correlated to the number of jobs. And I think if we can look at the growth in some of our major industries, that could likely be another factor. The only other point I would make is that we think that there's probably more growth, because what we're hearing from some of the national studies is that there was a significant undercount in the system. So I suspect that our numbers are bigger, but there's no way to validate that or to tell what those numbers are. Certainly that's okay. And there'll be other there'll be other counts that that happen. I think we first of all, Mr. Jackson, you did a great job through the census. We know that you faced significant challenges. There was problems with I remember we lot when I went in on behalf of the city to the registrar's downtown, all that meant to kick off the countywide census. And it was that day that like, I think we did like a health order or something requiring masks and no one had masks. So there were significant challenges this time, and I think we all anticipated there would be problems on some significant issues, and that's okay. And we also knew that 2020 was a very nationally politicized year and the administration significantly politicized the census. And that's something that communities tried to overcome. But we would be unwise to assume there wasn't some level of impact to people's confidence in that process, and that's okay. I think what it tells me generally and we're going to obviously I would love to see more data in terms of like what Mr. Tatum was talking about is what are the things that we're doing on a local level that impact growth and how we preparing for growth? And we're not going in a haphazard way, but really thinking about people's ability to live and thrive and have housing and access to open space and those things where we're growing. What attributes to that? That's, I think, an important insight. I think as our population shifts, we need to make sure that we understand the needs of our growing Latino population and what it contributing to the factors of populations that are that may be shrinking. I think Councilman Austin also raised a good point about like my daughters are biracial, they're they're African-American, they're also Latina. So when they grow up, what box do they check? I don't know. And so who knows what the census will look like in the future. But I think we just need to better understand that through data and crossing with, you know, American survey and and other things. But I certainly I want to thank you, Kevin, for four for your efforts in leading this the census this time summer. I think it was in time last time. Right. Good work, both of you. It was Reggie. Reggie Harrison, right. Who was read about it. And I insisted to the redistricting. Right. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I also would be very interested in pulling the data related to home sales as it changed at the point of. Redistricting. So the fifth District has in the last 15 years been dominantly senior citizens, a lot of original homeowners, a lot of widows and widowers. And in the last 12 months, the turnover in housing and the number of families moved into the community. I look forward to seeing the data related to Unified School District in the fall. All sorts of families have called our office and said, I didn't get into the school nearby my house. Well, because those schools were already full and they're moving in midyear. They moved in during COVID, all these different things. So I don't know what. TAI you have economic development, but I know we've asked for a couple of reports back from the economic development staff, so just something to kind of bridge up because I think that had the census been taken 18 months later, my district would look a little bit different. But who knows what my district will be by Friday? Who knows? Thanks so much. Councilman Tara. Thank you so much for the presentation. I have then also just interested in how we're understanding the data from the census. And you know, I am also intrigued with this, the data around the two or more races that the numbers increase. And I don't mean to be funny, but I'm wondering if we consider maybe these genetic testing like these 23 and me and ancestry now data in the last year has made it so much more accessible that people are now using that as credible data to say that this is my race. So I cannot just say anymore that I'm X. Anymore now that. I've seen this test. Right. I'm just wondering, maybe we can look in that to exploring how much data has impacted people, identifying their race. Yeah. So that's, that's something that we were doing the presentation and we're working with technology innovations that we kind of came up several times. You know what, what is the impact that all this new technology on genetic information, access to people's genealogy have? And and how does that impact the way a resident identifies himself? And, you know, that'd be a very interesting kind of area of study to dig into. And especially here, you know, we have such a diverse community. Thank you. No other public comment or questions? Staff Great job in the presentation. It was good to see the numbers. Please cast your vote. The motion is carried. In. I have about six items that don't have presentations and are going to run to those pretty quickly. Item 51.

Adopt resolution determining that the proposed project is within the scope of the project previously analyzed as part of the Midtown Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report (State Clearinghouse No. 2015031034) and warrants no further environmental review pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15162; and, approving a Lot Merger (LMG17-019) and Site Plan Review (SPR17-075) request to allow the construction of a new five-story 145,478-square-foot mixed-use building consisting of 3,938 square feet of commercial space and 102 residential units (101 affordable residential units) at 1795 Long Beach Boulevard, in the Midtown Specific Plan (SP-1). (District 1)

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Thank you. So let's go ahead and pull up our first hearing. So hearing them hearing item number one. Report from Development Services. Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution approving an amendment to Midtown's specific plan. Environmental Impact Report. Adopt a resolution approving a General Plan Amendment to amend the Land Use District Map by changing the designation of 13 properties to mixed uses. Adopt a resolution determining that the proposed project is within the scope of the project previously analyzed as part of the Midtown Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report and approving a lot merger and site plan review request to allow the construction of a new five story mixed use building at 1795 Long Beach Boulevard, District one. Thank you. And I understand there's no oath required that true? City Manager. No. Okay. All right. So, Mr.. Mr. Modica, take us away. So, first off, Mayor Councilors, I do want to introduce our brand new first ever interim director of Development Services as this first ever meeting Tom Modica. Why, thank you, Mr. West. I'm happy to be here for this. You'll hear a staff report from Kari Tai, our current current planning officer supported by Oscar Orsi, our deputy director of development services. So take it away, Carrie. Thank you, Tom. Good afternoon. Honorable Vice Mayor Richardson and members of the city council staff has prepared a presentation that summarizes the staff report. If you so choose, we will proceed. This is a request for a general plan amendment to resolve inconsistencies between the Midtown specific plan and the general plan designation. Hang on. A minute. This on. I don't know. It's like, let's see. In the back. Can we please have the PowerPoint presentation? Not. Sorry. Technical difficulties. This is the general plan. Amendment request is also accompanied by a lot merger and a site plan review approval for a new mixed use project at 1795 along Beach Boulevard. Thank you. So on the screen, the red outline shows the development site, and that's at the southwest corner of Long Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway. The map is oriented where North is. This is actually facing west, so don't let that disorient you. And the general plan land use designation for the site is mostly in land use District seven, but part of it is in three B, which is residential only, and the development is a mixed use project. And there lies the inconsistency. So talk about the general plan amendment a bit. This area used to be what was called PD 29 plan development 29. That was the zoning and it was changed to the Midtown specific plan in 2016. The Midtown specific plan changed the way that we implemented zoning in this area. Namely, it's more of a form based code and uses floor area ratio. So in terms of the uses, like I mentioned, the project site is on the map here and you'll see it's outside of the hatched area that leaves or is not working. But the the rear part right behind the project site area is an area that's marked as a land use district eight A and that is for retail only. And then if you look under just to the vote below the text of the project site, there's Area three B, which is for residential only. And so you can see that those two don't allow for mixed uses. And so along with the project site, we want to clean up the rear part of the project site as well as a basically a comprehensive area because general plans we can't do parcel by parcel. And so the request here is to take all of that hashed area and make it part of land use District seven. And that will allow us to implement the Midtown specific plan the way it was intended to be implemented. For example, something that is under the allowable floor area ratio may be inconsistent with today's general plan. So in terms of the proposed building at 1795 Long Beach Boulevard, like I mentioned, the project is a project is five stories with 102 dwelling units, 101 of those are going to be affordable. The floor area ratio for this project is 3.4, where the Midtown specific plan allows for 4.0. So clearly that's under the Midtown specific plan also allows for ten storeys in this area. But this project is only five stories. However, if it were to go under the existing general plan designation of three B, that only allows 30 dwelling units per acre. And this has 101 over a project site that is just about one acre. And so that's that they're thereby illustrating the technical inconsistency there. With the general plan amendment approved, this project would be able to move forward. The project, like I mentioned, has 102 residential units. It also includes of a series of courtyards, common areas, balconies and amenities for the residents, as well as at that corner plaza there right at Pacific Coast Highway and Long Beach Boulevard. That would really establish a presence and identity right where right now there there lacks a character there. So this would essentially change the entire corner. So then just to summarize the environmental and project findings behind the request here briefly, the Midtown specific plan was accompanied by a certified programmatic environmental impact report. And now that it was always intended that the general plan designations would change along with that, however, as the Council was aware, the ongoing land use element effort that was anticipated to be completed and it was supposed to include the underlying properties for the Midtown Plan. However, since that has not been done, we are actually trying to comply with a mitigation measure out of the programmatic EMR, which required that these cleanup items be completed within one year of adoption. We're just over 18 months now, so we're just trying to get into compliance there. This would clean that up. An addendum was prepared for that program, air for the cleanup, and also the project itself had a separate environmental document that established consistency with the programmatic IIR. The general plan amendment that's proposed is internally consistent with the rest of the general plan. And also the findings for the lot merger and site plan review have been documented in your packet in accordance with the Municipal Code, the Planning Commission who the recommending body on this action met on December 9th, 2017 and recommended that the City Council approve this project. They conducted a public hearing as well and received a series of speakers in support. So lastly, for public noticing, for both the Planning Commission hearing as well as this hearing, public notices were sent out to a 1000 foot radius to property owners as well as occupants of that hashed area you saw on the previous slide. And the staff has not received any comments to date. So therefore staff recommends that the City Council concur with the planning commissions, recommend the recommendation to approve this project and that is articulated in the recommended action on the Council letter as well as the agenda. That concludes staff's presentation and the applicant for the development project is also in the audience. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So that concludes. That's comments. Yes. Yes. Okay. So at this point, we're going to open it up for public comment on this hearing. Is there any public comment come forward? Saying none. I'm going to go ahead and close public comment, take it back behind the the rail. So the motion is made by Councilwoman Gonzalez. Do you have a comment? I just would like to say thank you to the staff as well as the developer. This is going to be a fantastic attribute to central Long Beach, especially on Long Beach Boulevard. We've been waiting for this for so long. So thank you very much for all of your collaborative work. Thank you. Councilman Brice. I echo that I did have a long list of questions for our interim development services director involving, you know, decades of work on his part. But I will refrain from those so we can get to the state of the city. Thank you. Thank you. Because they would be very short answers. Thank you, Councilmember Supernormal. Thank you. I just had one question either for staff or maybe the developer. Was there any reference to the. Original use of this building? It's hard to tell now, but it was a Norm's restaurant, one of the. Real. Most elaborate one of their Googie restaurants. But no preservation, no preservation effort or anything, I guess. Convert Googie. Thank you. QUESTION Thank you for your question, Councilman. So you're not in evaluation of any existing project site staff always looks at the existing building on on site to see whether it qualifies for any type of status. And in this case, this did not meet any criteria. Okay, fine. Thank you. Thank you. Seeing no further comment. Members, please cast your vote. Hmm. Well. Motion carries. Thank you. Item number two please.

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

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Motion carries. Thank you. Let's have hearing three, please. What do you mean? Support from financial management? Recommendation to receive supporting documentation under the record. Conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution amending the master fee and charges schedule citywide. Thank you. If required. I see. Mr. Modica. Thank you, Vice Mayor. The staff report will be given by John GROSS, our finance director. Good evening, Vice Mayor and members of council. This is a public hearing and an item where we're recommending midyear changes to the master fee and charges schedule the master fee and charges schedule the main one normally comes before does come before council each year at the budget time and that's when almost all of the normal changes are made. We have a mid-year adjustment in. What you're seeing in front of you is a small number of changes for mid-year adjustments so that we don't have to wait until the budget budget time and this never mind this year. Some of the items included include aligning fees to the cost of services, reducing airline fees consistent with the business model for the airport and the increased traffic at the airport and then passing on some fees that are have been added by the state. And that concludes the staff report. And we're ready for any questions. Thank you. Any public comment on this item? See? None. There is a motion. Can we get a second on this? It's been seconded. It's not showing up here on the second here. Hold on. Actually, madam, quickly, we switch the screen to the. We all have it. Yeah, I know. It's not coming up here. Hold on one. Okay. There's a motion in a second. There's no public comment on this item. I'm assuming the staff report was already read. Great. Please cast your votes. I have some comment. Please. Councilman Price. Okay. Thank you. So, on this item, this was a ten page report, the master fee schedule. And I want to specifically acknowledge the great work of my chief of staff, Jack Cunningham. Every Sunday night, we send an email out to our residents of what's coming to council. And he actually did pull out something on page eight that relates to future implementation of parking meters in a commercial area in my district on page eight. So I want to thank him for doing that. There are a couple of changes I'd like to make to the recommendation here. Would this be an appropriate time to do so? Mr. GROSS Oh, actually, if Mr. Beck is available, I have a question about it. That would be great. Thank you. Mr.. And yes, this would be the appropriate time for changes. Thank you, sir. Mr. Beck. I wanted to ask you, what is the justification for a public works recommendation regarding parking meters on Ocean Boulevard between Termino and Bennett? So I think you're referring to the feed that's in the masterpiece schedule for $0.75 an hour for the parking meters there. Yes. In connection with another item that's on the agenda tonight. And so like any of our business districts where we see a lot of demand for parking, which also happens frequently in our coastal areas, not only in Long Beach, but in many coastal cities that you provide parking meters in those areas to encourage turnover so that businesses can see their patrons have parking opportunities. So in regard to this particular item, if I wanted to make some changes to the proposed fee schedule and the projection revenue projections and use thereof, would this be an appropriate time to do it, or am I going to do that at a fit with another agenda item? I think we would focus on the next agenda item that talks about the parking meters and the parking rates and that, of course, and we would make any adjustments there. And depending on how the attorney wants to handle this, we can we can make that adjustment now or we can come back or pull that one item off the masterpiece schedule. Mr. Attorney, if you have some recommendations. Mr. May, that I would concur that it'd be great to really have that discussion for the next item. If we're able to do so. We can delay that until the next item and we can. Conform the. Result to the master fee resolution because the Masterpiece Resolution can't exceed or be below what you approve on that. Item. That's perfect. Thank you. Great. So we'll take that as the motion then. And there is there is a second on that motion as well. Members, please go ahead and cast your votes and let's. Vice Mayor, you wanted to add something? All right, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Thank you. I think there's a lot of folks here for the power steering items, so I want to do that next. If we get a quick motion for the concern of improperly steering item will be the next item on the agenda.

Recommendation to restore the $517,000 in sidewalk funds appropriated to the Fire Department on a "divide by 9" basis ($57,444 per council district) back to their original intent - sidewalk repairs.

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Item 39. Communication from Councilmember Gary DeLong, Councilmember Sudha Lowenthal and Councilman Al Austin. Recommendation to restore the 517,000 and sidewalk funds appropriation to the fire department on a divide by nine basis. 57,444 per council district. Back to the original intent. Sidewalk Repairs. Mr. DELONG Thank you, Mr. Mayor. On September 3rd of 2013, the City Council approved a budget that included loaning $517,000 of sidewalk repair funds to the fire department for the restoration of services, specifically Engine eight and Rescue 12. Specifically, the motion stated 517,000 for two months of funding for restoration of fire station engine eight and Rescue Unit 12 taken from sidewalk repair funds with the provision that the sidewalk repair fund would be backfilled upon receipt of excess funds from the State of California EMT program. Shortly after that, it started becoming clearer that our hopes for EMT funding perhaps were overly ambitious and it was going to be significantly less than what we had originally hoped for. So at that point, a decision was made to postpone for 30 days the restoration of services just in case the money wasn't going to come. And then when a little more time went on. It became clear that it wasn't coming. And in fact, what what ended up coming would be a significantly smaller number. So it was certainly my expectation as the maker of the motion that since those services were not restored, that the money would be returned back to the Sidewalk Fund . For whatever reason, that didn't happen. So that is my recommendation tonight, is to restore the $517,000 in sidewalk funds that were previously appropriate. The fire department restored on a divided by nine basis $57,444 per council district back to their original intent sidewalk repairs permit. Mr. O'DONNELL. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr.. DELONG And I had some conversations about that with about this. And he is correct that when the Council gave direction with regard to that $500,000, that it was to be returned for, I believe, further sidewalk use, as he has stated. I don't have a problem with that perception because I think that is accurate. My only question is, is this the right thing to do given that this money is in the fire department budget? And I want to know what impact removing this money will have on the fire budget. Mr. West. Our budget manager. Leon Erickson, will answer that. Mr. Beyer to Councilmember O'Donnell. Right now, the fire department is using that money to support their operating budget. And if they're if the money is redirected to sidewalks, what would happen is previously approved, funds from the EMT that were appropriated in November by council wouldn't be needed instead for the operating budget and fire and without wind mean is that the administration's plan to use to EMT funds for fire equipment next year would be would be challenged. Maybe the chief can weigh in on this because we had a conversation today. I think he's I think his comments were similar to yours. I just want to make sure that your reaction here. I want to I want to know what impact we would have on the fire budget. That was the question. And I know it's been explained just a minute ago. Could you Chief, can you could you offer your opinion? Mr. Mayor? Council members, council member O'DONNELL If the council were to elect to take the $517,000 that was appropriated into the fire's budget back to be used for other purposes, that would leave us $517,000 whole, that would have to be filled. We would anticipate filling that hole with available GMT one time revenue that would come in, which would into the next fiscal year diminish our ability to use that GMT one time revenue to offset the cost of apparatus, vehicles or equipment or other one time needs within the fire department. So it would have an impact and some of those one time needs where there gender equity issues that were being addressed for some capital improvement projects, is that correct? Council the the fire department has been granted funding by the council to address our privacy needs within the fire stations. However, additional one time funding we use for things in the facilities that may not be specifically related to privacy. But because we have the station opened up and we are remodeling it, we want to use additional one time funding to offset the cost of some of those things. For example, if we were to create private spaces for our mixed gender workforce, the kitchen might not necessarily be a privacy issue. But while the station's open, it's it's more fiscally prudent for us to deal with it while it's all open, rather than button it all up and then tear the kitchen out later. So that one time funding could be used to offset the cost of that sort of stuff too, I guess. Right. Right now what I'm doing in my head is I'm trying to figure out what the best use of this money is. I mean, it's accurate to say that it should have been slid back to the to to the sidewalk fund and divide among council districts. I don't have a problem with people having that opinion. I'm just wondering if a better place for this money right now is in the fire budget, given that you are opening walls and you have old fire stations and you find a lot of needs when you do go in to remodel and then you have some equipment needs that you described to me on the phone today. So I'm just have the position that it's probably better off staying in the fire department budget at this time, that that's my point of view . A member of the pub groups, Mr. Dawn? That's right. Go public first, Mr. Arora. And remember, the pub was just canceling the sale. You know, Mr. Dillon. Thank you. You know, I can understand Councilmember O'Donnell's point of view. I do agree with him. I think that there's very valid uses in the fire department for those funds. But I'll also point out that, you know, 500,000 on a $400 million general fund is one eighth of 1%. So, you know, it is a pretty small number in the grand scheme of things if you're trying to find money to do things. I would also say that, you know, if we're going to look at reallocating, let's look a little more holistically on this. Parks and Rec needs as public work needs, our police department always has their needs. So I don't know that we would look at one particular organization and I do go back to the I think there's a point here and a principle that the original policy was it was a loan, there was abuse for restoration of engineering and rescue. 12. And again, that doesn't mean that the fire or any other department couldn't come to the city manager and perhaps the city council and say, Hey, I've got a great idea, I could use some funding for it. Hopefully we're to entertain those requests all the time. But in this particular case, I think there's a principle to be upheld here to follow the council direction. And I would like to see that money restored. And, you know, perhaps the council might look at a subsequent meeting and say, hey, you know, the best use for that is not sidewalks. The best use for that in my district or across city wide is to put it back in the fire department. And that's a decision that the city council can make it on any Tuesday. It's trust. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. I signed on to this this item for the sake of discussion, and I think it's worthy of our time. I did want to get some clarity on the budget because as I recall, during the last budget process, we did appropriate one time moneys for gender accommodations in the fire department. And how much was that? If there's any way to have. 900,000 or 1.8 million, I recall. Okay. We've done that for a couple of years in a row. And I don't think that was enough to finish the entire need. But I think on a go forward basis, we were looking at looking at doing that again in the 2015 budget cycle. I certainly hope the mayor will put that and take that into consideration as he brings forth the budget. So so with that, I support the motion as set forth. Thank you. So now my only point when when you look at the gender equity issue in particular is that we were in a legal situation where there's been some legal activity and we need to pay attention to that so that we don't get caught in a lawsuit . That's why I believe that's so important. But either way. We are where we are. All right. We have a motion in the second item. 39 members cast your votes. Motion carries five one. Okay. Thank you. And we'll go to item 40.

Consider: 1) Directing Staff to Provide an Update on the Negotiations between the City and the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) at the March 7, 2017 City Council Meeting; and 2) If a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has not been Reached between the City and FAAS, that Council Provide Direction to Staff on the Terms of a MOU between the City and FAAS. (Mayor Spencer)

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He's instructing staff to provide an update on the negotiations between the city and friends of the Alameda Elliman animal shelter at the March seven City Council meeting. And to if a memorandum of understanding has not been reached between the city and that Council provide direction on the terms of an email. You and I brought this all because of the last council meeting. Right before the start, I was asked to announce that the item would not be on the agenda for today, which I thought it would be. And when I asked, Is there a new date, there was no date set. So I think it's important to for us to get an update. And and honestly, it's been eight months or something like that of negotiations. I think it's time to set the terms. So now we have speakers as Swati Shah and Marcy Pearce and Tenzin Peterson. You may think each get 3 minutes. Hello, everyone. It's been a long night, so I will save my remarks for the next council meeting. But I really hope that the attention that was paid tonight. To all the. Other very important issues will be focused on the shelter soon. Some time. Because as much as I love trees, as much. As I love what our city does. People come first to me and my animals are second. And so we spend. A lot of time on a lot of other issues. And so I very much look forward to a healthy discussion similar to we had about other subjects today. To be about the shelter, hopefully at the next meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Marcy Morrison Pearce. Thank you, Mayor Spencer. Councilman. I'm Mattie and I began volunteering back in 2009 when Maddie needed some community volunteer credits in middle school. At that time, the shelter was run by the police department and the volunteer program was minimal. Back then there were about 15 active volunteers, including us, and we came to find out from a friend later there was a list of people who wanted a call about volunteering. They never got called from the police department. Back then, I really didn't know much about the rescue movement. We were blissfully unaware of things like euthanasia rates. We didn't wonder why we didn't get much training at all before we worked with the animals. We didn't question why there were no other volunteers. When we were there, we didn't ask what happened to the animals when there were no volunteers allowed in on holidays or days when the shelter was closed. Now enlightened by the rescue teaching we've received through fires, we see problems existed when the animal shelter was run by the police department. That's more word to 2012 when FAS took over and formal training was instituted for volunteers. We started learning about animal enrichment, using and improving what seemed like wasted time an animal spends behind a kennel door. Working with the dogs to make them friendlier. More responsive to people. More obedient, more adoptable. Hence the lower euthanasia rate that's been admired throughout the country. It doesn't happen by accident. It happens because volunteers have that intention. As a volunteer, once a week we come in, we walk dogs, we play with them, we clean up their puppy kennels. We have also been involved with the foster program. We kept two tiny Chihuahua pups in our house for almost a month, raising them to get used to human touch and interaction. We adopted a little terrier mix that fell in love with me at the shelter, and my parents fell in love with him on my dad's 80th birthday , a week after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. We put a bow on Smiley's head and he became the best present my dad ever got. And I believe that dog kept him out of the assisted living for a long time. Now, smiley is the love of my mom's life. I have chased a little Chihuahua who escaped from a harness from the Grant Street Marina through the city's vehicle carwash. I have been the object of Chase from a pit bull who escaped from a kennel and just wanted a good walk. And I tell you all this not to tell my own horn, not to toot my own horn, but to impress upon you this. And this is the important thing. Of all the volunteers I see on a monday afternoon, I do the very least. That's the kind of volunteer force we have. It's a strength of our volunteer force. About 300 strong. That makes for us great. I haven't even told you about the many, many hours Ophelia and Frances put in to raise money for their shelter out the night that many of you attended. The night on the Hornet. Volunteer hours were converted into a money figure. Even at minimum wage, thousands and thousands of dollars we put into this shelter. If the police department takes over this place, that shelter is, will the volunteer force remain as strong? Will the police department recruit train coordinates, sustain and support the force of volunteers and make the shelter a great place for animals and for the community. It didn't happen when I was there, when I worked with the police department. Didn't happen. Getting involved is not only good for the animals, but for the community. And I know that bell rung. So let me tell you, Alameda is a progressive place. Lead us forward. You are leaders, as you said, Councilman Matarese. We look forward. We don't look back to the time that the city had a pound. That's not what alameda is. Value. Thank you. And lastly. Marjorie. Marcy, next time, please turn in this clip for you and Matty. Both of you have sat there all these hours and it could have been 6 minutes and then I wouldn't have had the feedback. All right. So. You need a location for 11. All right. Uh, so we need a motion to continue past 11. Second. Although I favor. My. Motion carries. Thank you for coming down. So it's like Tenzan version. Hello. My name is Tenzin Peterson. I'm 11 years old, and I began. Volunteering. At the Alameda Animal Shelter last year. I really care about animals and believe that they make very good friends and companions. I believe it is the city's responsibility to care for animals and make sure they are treated well. I want the city to accept this proposal because forces saving animals lives. It will be able to send 95% of the animals in the shelter to loving homes. It costs less for farmers to run the shelter than if the city ran it and was doing a great job taking care of all of its animals. I urge you to accept Foster's proposal of $908,000 and keep the animal shelter open. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Patricia Phillips and then Deb Knowles. Then Susan Feltman. Gettleman. GETTLEMAN And those were my last slips on this item. If you want to speak on the side of, please submit your. Hi. My name is Pat Phillips and I've been a feline volunteer for a couple of years. Purpose, sorry. In last. Year I've. Seen a lot of kids being surrendered because people, their owners are moving and they can't take them with them. Or even worse, they've been abandoned. If you just surrender your pet for whatever reason, wouldn't you want to take it to a place. Where you know. They're going to be taken care of and they're going to be safe where they're going to get a second chance? If force does not receive the funds they need to maintain quality of service, I'm afraid that this will this will affect their live release rate. And if they lower this rate for no doubt we'll lose a lot of the volunteers. I mean, as a volunteer, I wouldn't want to come in for my ship to find out that one of my favorite healthy, lovable, adoptable shelter buddies is not on the adoption board. It's gone. So please consider this. When you make your funding decision, it's the right thing to do. Thank you. Deb Nelson and Susan, I think. Here's Pat. You can go ahead. Okay. Hi. My name is Susan Gettleman. And I would like to speak in support of the FAA's funding request. Members of the City Council. I know that the city has received detailed. Financial information. From FAS about the cost. Of running the shelter properly and humanely, and about. Why the FAS. Proposal makes. Economic sense for the city. I'm not here to talk about those details. I'm here to talk about my personal experience. I love being a volunteer at FAS. In the past three and a half years, I volunteered almost 1800 hours. At the shelter. I love the time I spend interacting with the animals at the shelter, and I love the camaraderie. That I share with staff and with. Other volunteers, all of whom support and appreciate one another and have a passion for the well-being of animals of each animal that comes into the shelter. I see staff working far beyond the call of duty to keep the shelter running. As it should be run, not because it's just a job, but because. They're committed to the humane treatment. And the. Adaptability of the animals at the shelter. And I see a large and devoted group of volunteers who have been a key part of the shelter's successful performance over the past five years through the collective efforts of its board staff and volunteers. FAS now provides medical care. Behavioral assessments, daily socialization and exercise. And dramatically. Improved adoption rates for the city's. Stray. Abandoned, neglected and surrendered animals. I'm proud to be associated with Fox and its mission. I'm grateful for the. Opportunity to be an active and appreciated member of the community. And I would like to. Be proud of my. City of Alameda for providing us with a level of funding it needs in order to continue. Buzz is a well-run organization with honest, hardworking and dedicated staff members and volunteers, and all of them deserve respect and full support from the city. Thank you. Thank you. Deb Nelson, and she's the last speaker on this item. Yvonne Last but last but not least. Good evening, Madam Mayor. And Council. Pardon me. They've the best. Class. Well, maybe. Maybe not. We'll see. So. So what I'm here for? I'm Deb Knowles. I'm the president of the board of directors for FAS. And I guess there's been a fair bit of misunderstanding, miscommunication about where things are. From my perspective with with our negotiations and I'd like to set this set the record straight this evening. First of all, our proposal is for 908,000, and our total fund funding to include fundraising is a million for. Not. 1,000,009. In terms of staffing. We are not proposing that the executive director or the operations manager get a pay raise. We are proposing that our staff, those are our hourly employees, receive a 6% pay raise. We are also not recommending that we add four staff. We are proposing that we add one staff. So that's where we are today. That's not where we were a year ago when we began this journey. But that is exactly where we are today. And I guess what I would do is I'd urge you to to to direct staff to update the website. There's a lot of information there that is very dated at this point. And we want to make sure that we're. Going down the going. Down the road together. And I think that if we had more accurate information out there, that it certainly would help us have a more constructive process going forward. And finally, we had some really good news today. We've been working with the city manager's suggestion. We've been talking with APC and we have hammered out a draft menu to begin working with them on an ongoing basis. So we're kind of excited about that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. And APC. And I wanted to share in Apex Alchemy two point collaborative. For those that don't know. All right. So I brought this referral asking that Steph provide an update at the next council meeting March 7th and during the public meeting so the public can all speak on the agenda item. And then we could give feedback and that if an M you had not been reached by that time, that we give direction to staff on the terms of the M or you between the city and us. And I brought this because as we heard from the speaker, this has been going on for a year. I actually brought my first referral on this item back on July 6th, so that's eight months ago. Council gave direction five months ago at the first in October 4th. And I think that it's critical that we way we as council receive an update in a public meeting and then we can have our public comments on the substance of the referral and give direction if necessary, on the terms so that we can move forward and be done with this. And I think it's critical. I think a year, eight months, five months, it's plenty of time. Member Ashcraft. So thanks to everyone for speaking in. I'll also disclose it. A couple Saturdays ago, my husband and I went down and spent a couple of hours at the shelter and it looks great. The volunteers, the staff are doing a great job. The place looks great and we even took a dog out for a walk, which was fun, I think, for all of us. But I. I just want to clarify when the mayor says, Mayor Spencer, when you say this has been going on for over a year, but it's my understanding that the city just got the financials back in January. And so it's hard to do negotiation when you don't have everything in front of you. But that said, I'm feeling that there's been a lot of progress. I mean, I do keep in touch with the different board members and their consultant. I'm also aware that this item is it's a contract and it's appropriate that a contract be heard in closed session. And in fact, at our next council meeting on March 7th, it's on the closed session agenda. So I, I think that both sides I commend you for I can I can tell that, you know, progress is being made. And between now and March 7th, there just might be even more progress to report to us in closed session. I'd actually like so in regards to it's on the closed session agenda. That agenda has not gone out. And I know we had been told it was actually going to be on the agenda for this meeting and then it got canceled. So I think it's critical that we have some certainty that it is actually going to be heard, which seems to be a moving ball moving target. Any other comments? Well, I just would like to say that there has been movement in both sides towards the middle. And the details now are. Much, much smaller and more approachable than they have been in the past. And I feel like there is goodwill on both sides. And there is no question at all from that point of view about the good job that Ford has done. I live release great, good volunteers, just as Councilmember Ashcroft said, and the city does not intend to bring it back into the police department. And we don't intend to take over an operation that has been done so successfully by the friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter. So that said, we are working on the details in between. And the closed session is to talk about price and terms from the council's point of view. And so is. That March 7th. And that is scheduled for March 7th. Ideally, if we got input from the council in closed session, then we could go back and meet with the FAS board and then come back soon after that, if that is the preference of the FAS board and the council. And we're matariki. That sounds reasonable. The one thing I don't want to have happen. Can you also say again that the police department's not going to. The Alameda Police Department and there's a smile over there and has no intention and will not take over the the Alameda animal shelter. And the second thing that I'd like to get a commitment on is I don't want to hear. Or get an email while we're going through this process that there's a sign up on the door saying the shelters close because there's no money. We've had that conversation with the board and the feeling is that there is enough funds to get us through. The end of April, I think is what the last conversation we had. If there is an issue, we have also said that we will make sure that the animals are cared for and continue on with a process in the interim until a decision is made on the details. So the employees are secure and the animals are secure. And and then lastly, I think it's very important because with all the good intentions in 2012 to save the city money and to to get a a knowledgeable animal care group running the a a shelter, not just a dog or animal control facility. It didn't anticipate the actual costs. And I think. Looking at the actual costs and and having that good discussion between city staff and force management to narrow down truly what the budgets are and what the projections are. I think we'll be in a better place than if we rush something through and. That's all said that in the backdrop that you're saying that we're going to have an update at the next meeting. And my expectation is with that direction, go into a room and don't come out until we have a deal. Just like any other contract, it's done in good faith where the negotiators at the table prepare a contract for the city council to consider. So I don't think it conflicts. I think we can have an item on clothes that we are all privy to and we can still have an item on the open agenda where we provide an update to the people and the people can weigh in on it. Yeah, I have no problem. I have no problem with it. But in open session, direct giving direction and open session I think is a bad idea and it's not good faith bargaining, right? But you also. You report out at closed session, right? If we haven't. So actually, I have my understanding that we can give direction to staff if we haven't reached an agreement in the in the closed session that we should be able to. So have it on the agenda, get an update and then we can decide if it's not been reached, that we could have that as an option to give direction to staff at that time if we haven't made a deal. We should still have an update on the agenda on that. The public is aware of it. If I can add, I think and we have talked with city staff, has talked with Foster about this issue. And as Councilmember Matt of us has indicated, when you're doing negotiations, price, terms of payment, those kinds of things, it's better to do in a closed session. So we have informed the FAS staff that have been engaged with us in negotiations that March 7th. We will be getting hopefully what, some final direction from the city council. And based on that, we believe quickly we can work with with the force staff to get the document drafted, which we've already started trying to do the preparations for, and then be able to come back quickly with something for the council. And if we can't get agreement, then we will come back to the council and say we can't get agreement, but to do a closed session and to come back and tell everybody what happened. I would recommend highly again. I swear to you, I say so. I just think that if we're going to if we're going to meet in closed session, this is how we handle our contract negotiations. Normally we can give direction. And, you know, frankly, I mean. I think many of us are in this position where we've been speaking with folks on both sides and there's open lines of communication. And I certainly want to empower staff to get a deal done, which is what I would hope would be the point of the closed session. So there was a comment in regards to updating the website so that it's accurate and things like that be done in the meantime. Yes, we can do that. The first proposal was on the website. The second proposal we can put on their website or but put both of them on and how the progress has moved forward. Remember. You know, I was just kind of on that and I kind of agree with. My colleagues here that typically these type of negotiations don't occur in public. That's the reason why we negotiate price in terms and in closed session, whether it be a labor contract or a lease or this, which I think is a substantial contract. But might I suggest that instead of like updating Web sites, you know, having competing Web sites, you know, having this negotiation take place in the newspapers and on the Internet is that both sides take down their websites, stop the press releases and stop the letter writing and sit in a room and hammered out until we have a deal that we can all be happy with. I mean, that to me would be a better use of everyone's energy instead of, you know, me getting misinformation from one side. And, you know, he said she said this website, that Web site, just, you know, clamp down it and get in a room and get it done. So my concern that is, is taking which I agree with you, it's taking away, I think if that's what you're saying, it's taking way too much time. And I think that it is appropriate for council to give direction. I it was going to be on this agenda and then for some reason it was removed. But I think our public is entitled to an update and I think that we can keep it on, we can put it on the agenda, and if we don't need it, then there would be nothing to say. If we have a deal, we don't have a deal. I think we need to have a discussion about what's going on. Well, the problem with us meeting in closed session and getting price and terms is then we don't give the opportunity for the FAS board to take that information and see if it works and work it out and then come back as a partnership. And I understand. And Councilmember Ortiz pointed at the same time, I don't think that we as as a city council can really tell our citizens whether or not to communicate, you know, this but but. They have a First Amendment right to participate in the process. You know. And that that's not helpful to resolving the situation. I think we can tune out. Whether it's from one side or the other, is not helpful and it does not create an atmosphere of mutual trust and bargaining. So well, I think we can tune out some of the background noise and we'll all rise above this when we get that resolution that I think we're this close to getting. So at this point, I Madumere this was your item. Do you want to make a motion? So I'll just limit it to the first part. Direct staff to provide an update on the negotiations at the next Council meeting, March seven, 2017. On the Public Agenda. I have a second. I will second that if it means just reporting out the as usual from the closed session. Under the requirements for reporting what happens in close to. And so there's a motion in the second. All those in favor. I. I. Or sham fails. Okay. Well, still. It's eight months or a year. It's ridiculous. Let's keep going. Nine Be consider sending a letter to the Alameda Health System in appropriate health insurance plans regarding the lack of contracts covering many Alameda residents and urging them to reach agreements and creating a committee to review the issue. Providing access to on island health care for me to residents and make recommendations on how to proceed.

Adoption of Resolution Appointing Kenji Tamaoki as a Member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners.

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All right. That being said, I'm going to call the question all those in favor. I motion passes unanimously. Thank you, counsel. Our next item. A six day. Adoption of resolution, appointing Kenji Yuki as a member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. I'll move approval. Second. All of those in favor of motion passes unanimously. I'm not sure I can choose. Oh, yes, he is back. Then come on up and. Only sort of the concept of the. You. And you have to turn around so your son can take your picture to. Work. With him there. Yeah, he's. I'm assuming you're then he should come up to and get in the picture. Yeah, yeah. It's very. Scary. Take a picture of your father. Sign this. Great. Project. Six B Adoption of resolutions appointing Jerome Harrison, Karen Lucas, three Nguyen and David Perry as members of the Rent Review Advisory Committee. Speakers on the site.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all documents, including any necessary amendments, required by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and its fiscal agent Brilliant Corners, to accept and administer the 2017 Capital Costs for Crisis and Bridge Housing Grant awarded to the Health and Human Services Department in 2018, in the amount of $3,400,000; Adopt resolution to increase purchasing authority under the existing Purchase Order with Williams Scotsman, Inc., of Santa Fe Springs, CA, and execute a contract, and all necessary amendments, replacing such Purchase Order, for the design, purchase, installation and permitting of modular housing units required for the Atlantic Avenue Bridge Community (ABC) Project at 6841-6845 Atlantic Avenue (Property), in the amount of $2,500,000, with a 35 percent contingency in the amount of $875,000, for a total contract amount not to exceed $3,375,000; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to negotiate and execute any and all documents, including any necessary amendments, required by the County of

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Okay. Thank you. And then. 24, an account of Richardson's after a concert for one of his daughters. And so it's going to do it in 24, please. Adam 24 is a report from Public Works. Human Health and Human Services recommendation to execute all documents required by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to accept and administer the 2017 capital cost for crisis and breach housing grant in the amount of 3.4 million. Adobe resolution to increase purchasing authority under the existing purchase order and execute a contract for the design, purchase, installation and permitting of modular housing units required for the Atlantic Avenue Bridge Community Project at 68413636845 Atlantic Avenue for a total contract amount not to exceed 3.3 million. Negotiate and execute all documents to obtain access to the property and adjacent properties that will help complete and operate the ABC project in a timely manner and find that the ABC project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. District nine. There is a. Motion in a second. Please cast your votes.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; authorizing the Director of Seattle Public Utilities to enter into a Joint Project Agreement with King County to design, construct, operate, and maintain the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, in partial fulfillment of the objectives of the Consent Decree authorized under Ordinances 123908 and 124129, and the “Plan to Protect Seattle’s Waterways” authorized under Ordinance 124766, to reduce Combined Sewer Overflows; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda Item 41 Constable 118 588 relating to Seattle Public Utilities Committee recommends the bill passed as amended. Councilmember Herald Thank you very much. So this legislation basically approves a joint project between the City of Seattle and the King County for I think many of your following the ship Canal Water Quality Project. And so basically in this capacity, the the major provisions in this joint agreement identifies who has what responsibility, who has regulatory responsibilities, what the deliverables are, and establishes a project schedule and costs in cost sharing agreement and ensured the cost between the county and the city are shared. 65% Seattle and 35%. King County. And the you know, the relationship and the negotiations between the county and SPU have been positive and collaborative and very consistent with our water quality goals. Councilmember Bagshaw amended the legislation to include a requirement that SPP, you submit twice per year a written report on the status of this project to the Council. And again, by way of context to ship canal water, water quality project is part of our compliance with the consent degree requirements and will be fully, hopefully fully completed in the year 2024. The committee recommends approval of these agreements, this agreement. Thank you. And do you have an amendment? Councilmember Harrell. That. Oh, shoot. I have it here. I'll move the amendment to Council Bill 118588 which removes the word west from the project description in section two. So Section two will now read the director of Seattle Public Utilities will prepare and submit to the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee or the Appropriate Council Committee, a semiannual written progress report focusing on the Ship Canal Water Quality Project. Removes the word west from before ship. Is there a second? Second? Questions. All in favor of the amendment. Photo I oppose vote no. The amendment is adopted. Are there any questions or comments on the ordinance as amended? Please call the role on the passage of Council Bill 118588. Gordon Gonzalez. Harrell. I look ata O'Brien. Rasmussen. So on. President Burgess. High. Aden favor unopposed. A bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read items 42 and 43.

Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code by amending Section 10.32.110 relating to Preferential Parking District "U", read and adopted as read. (District 4)

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Thank you. Item 32. Are we on ordinances? Yes. Okay. Item 32. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code relating to preferential parking district. You read an adopted as read district for. Councilmember Supernova. Thank you. Just for clarification, one more time. This is an existing preferential parking district. One Street asked to be included in that district. The city comes back and says, okay, but we'll have to do a traffic study. That's 1400 dollars. They pony up the money. The traffic study concludes that not only is their street impacted, but two others are impacted. Only the original Street Circulator petitions and is getting the preference of parking district. So thank you for your indulgence. That'll save me answering a lot of questions later. And the parking impacts were. The residents were right. 83% of the spaces on the street were taken and 90, 96% of those cars were not registered to residents of that street. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. Okay. So any member of the public that wishes to address the council on this item here. Item 32 Sing None members cast your vote. Okay. There we go. Motion carries. Thank you. Item 32.

Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of the City of Long Beach joining the Long Beach College Promise as a formal partner with Long Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), Long Beach City College (LBCC), and California State University Long Beach (CSULB); expanding the College Promise to include a goal of universal preschool, expansion of internships for Long Beach students, and support for college completion; and return resolution for Council approval within 30 days.

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Item number 13 Communications from Council Member Robert Ringer, Vice Mayor Susie Lowenthal, Councilwoman Susie Price and Councilman Rex Richardson. Recommendation and request. Request City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of joining the Long Beach College Promise as a formal partner with Obie, USD, IPCC and CSU. RB okay, there's been a motion. Is there a second? Okay, there's a motion and a second. With that, I'm going to turn this over first to Councilmember Turanga to say a few comments, and then I'm going to open up for public comment and I'll bring it back to the council. Councilor RINGO Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for working with me on the College Promise Resolution because I think it's a very important item for not only our our kids at schools, in the universities, but for the city as a whole, because it provides an additional it closes the loop when it comes to our educational partners, when it comes to a seamless educational process where they go from the K-12 system into the community college system and into the CSU system, there was a missing item there and that was the city's involvement. And I think that pushing this forward in regards to having the city as a part, as a full partner in a college province , speaks volumes about the commitment that the city as a whole has for not only education, but for the whole economic recovery of our region. Because when we have people who are educated, when we have people who are are being trained through our internships, who are in preschool programs, who are going to the university and then going into into into the work, into the workforce really helps our economy. And and when it comes down to Long Beach, it is we are uniquely situated in terms of what we are able to do here because of the fact that we have a well renowned and well recognized school board, because our community college also has national recognition for what it's done and it is continued to do in in seamless education and in student success and in our university, as well as in providing access for success to our students. So I'm very proud to put this forward. I hope that the City Council will support this and that we can go on full board into developing a seamless education program that provides all the access for our students and for our communities to be successful in not only their their educational goals, but in their professional and and work goals as well. Thank you. Thank you. And I want to thank you also, Councilmember, you've been working on the college promise as a trustee for for over a decade. And so thank you for for your work. And you and I have worked together, I know, on this issue as well. So, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I want to thank the mayor and Councilman Ranga for bringing this forward. I think we have to really acknowledge the efforts of our mayor to make this very natural partnership a reality. Because as a as a mother of two kids who currently go to Long Beach Unified Schools, I think it makes perfect sense to have the city be a partner with the various educational institutions. And our mayor has really pushed that forward. And as a parent in this community, I'm grateful for that and I'm happy to support it. You know, we had this conversation at the dinner table at our house last week because we're looking at middle schools and thinking about where the path is going to lead. Our family and our kids know what the college promise was. And so it felt good to explain it to them and to share with them that they have an opportunity in this city that many cities don't offer children who go to public school. So I want to thank the mayor and obviously to support this motion. Thank you. Councilmember Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor. You know, I just want to take the time to think about mayor, you know, on this are in and spearheading the efforts on this program, because our students really need this boost of encouragement as well as the funding of the scholarships. You know, doing the best at this moment, you know, for our youth and at least is putting us in a real good place in their future. So I really want to congratulate you, Mayor, and also Councilman Elanga, for working so hard on this project. Thank you. Thank you. And I like that I have Dr. Feldt Williams, who is a senior member of one unified board, to say a few words. Good evening, Mayor Garcia. Members of the City Council executive staff. I'm here to support the draft resolution, the long college promise. And I do have a few remarks. As the vice president of the Board of Education for Long Beach Unified School District, I encourage the Council to approve the item asking for a draft resolution in support of the city of Long Beach, joining the Long Beach College promise as a full partner. We welcome the efforts by the City Council and the mayor to partner with us on the creation of internships for students and to expand early childhood education opportunities, particularly for families who cannot afford to pay for preschool. The college promise was first sign in 2008 by leaders from Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach to help students prepare for and succeed in college. And I do recall being at that first signing with the council when you ranga graduating seniors from our school district can receive a tuition free semester at Long Beach City College and guaranteed admission to Cal State Long Beach if they meet minimum requirements at the university. And you should know that there are thousands of students that are turned away by law, by Cal State, Long Beach, just so they can stay committed to the promise of accommodating our students. More than 5000 high school graduates have benefited from free enrollment at Long Beach City College in the fall semester and Long Beach City College and Long Beach Unified School District students have shown that they are more likely to remain enrolled at the university than other students. Each year, the College Proms provides visits to City College and Cal State Long Beach for all fourth and fifth graders in our school district. And I was there just last week as the fifth graders descended on Cal State, Long Beach. And what a moment to see how these kids really get turned on about being in that environment and what a difference it makes for these kids as they get a chance to demystify what that environment is like. And it's not just a tour. They actually get a chance to sit in on some of the classrooms and so forth. So they really get a good understanding of what's transpiring at that at that level. The college promise was described as a national model in a case study by the Washington, D.C. based Business Higher Education Forum and the Little Hoover Commission, an independent agency that recommends ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of state programs, cited the college promise as a success as a successful model, saying more. Long Beach Unified School District Students. Graduates are enrolling postsecondary courses at the City College State University. They are better prepared than their peers from other school districts, and fewer are dropping out after their first semester. As you know. In October this year, Mayor Garcia joined the leaders of Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach City College and Cal State Long Beach in signing a renewed and expanded Long Beach College promise. And we're pleased to see tonight's agenda item, which would provide additional support of this community wide effort. And we want to commend Councilman Urunga by supporting such a resolution. You are supporting an effort that has been two decades in the making. The Long Beach College promise is the legacy of our seamless education partnership that began in 1994 with our K-12 and higher education institutions partnering with businesses and community organizations to develop a world class education system. One of the results is that the Long Beach Unified School District has been named one of the top five school districts in the world in terms of efficiency and productivity. Our school district also has a long and proud history of partnering with the city. Our superintendent of staff would be happy to work with the city attorney. To assist with the drafting of the resolution to suggest the item is a logical extension of our ongoing collaborative work, which is why my colleagues on the board are pleased to recommend approval this evening. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you, Dr. Williams. And is there any other public comment on the item? Casey Anthony, thank you for for for your service. Filton and we have a motion on the floor that's been made. Members, please go to cast your vote. Motion carries six zero. Motion carries. Thank you very much. And thank you for for coming by. We are now going to move into our our other presentation that had a time certain tonight at 6:00, and that is a presentation for now. Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, who just joined us with his beautiful other half, Jennifer O'Donnell, who is sitting next to him over

A bill for an ordinance approving a Second Amendatory Cooperative Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Denver Inner City Parish. (INFRASTRUCTURE & CULTURE) Amends the contract with The Denver Inner City Parish related to third-party rentals at manager’s discretion, preventative and facility maintenance, payment of utility bills, and facility improvements at College View Recreation Center in Council District 7 (PARKS-XC00644-02). The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 7-16-15.

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Is that a provision that's in the current lease or is this a new is this an addition, an amendment that's a part? Do you know if the rental of the facility by Denver Inner City Parish is that integral to their being able to continue and to afford providing these services a college view rec center. That has one component to it. They received a grant to extend it through 2018. Thank you. And do you know if they had does this allow long term rentals? The facility rental policy is short term, so it's seasonal. Okay. It's different than our long term agreement. Okay. And do you know, do they have any tenants lined up? Not currently. Not currently. Thank you. That's all I had, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Well, ma'am, actually, I believe that is it. So we are ready for the block votes. All of the bills for introductions are ordered published. Councilman Cashman, will you please put the resolutions on the floor for adoption in the block? Thank you, Mr. President. I move that the following resolutions be adopted in a block. That would be 493 five, 25, 21, five, 14, five, 15, five, 18 and 552. It has been moved and seconded. Seen no comment, Madam Secretary, roll call. Can each Lopez I knew Ortega I black eye Espinosa. Passed. Flynn. I. Gilmore I Cashman. I. Lopez. Oh, good vote twice. Hi. Espinosa. Thank you. Mr. President. I. Madam Secretary, please Rothbury announce the results. Now nice one. Abstention, 91 abstention. The resolution had been adopted in a block. Councilman Cashman, would you please put the bills on final consideration on the floor for final passage in a block? Thank you, Mr. President. I move the following bills be placed upon final consideration and do pass in a block. That would be for 77. For 78. For 84. For 96 507, one 4443 for 70 and 501. Got them in has been moved and seconded. Seen no comments. Madam Secretary, call Ortega my. Black eye, Brooks. Espinosa.

A resolution approving a proposed Master Terms & Conditions - Government agreement between the City and County of Denver and LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL, Inc. for data products, data applications and other related services. Approves a contract with LexisNexis Risk Solutions FL, Inc. for $750,000 and for five years to provide on-call investigative database access for City agencies (SAFTY-201952993). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 6-29-20. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 5-27-20.

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No items have been called out under bills for final consideration. No items have been called out and under pending. No items have been called out. Did I miss anything? All right, Madam Secretary, if you please put the first item on our screens, which should be 485. Councilmember CdeBaca, go ahead with your questions on 45. Thank you so much, Mr. President. For 85, this is the bill for a tool that I think is incredibly important to our democracy. Lexis-Nexis is kind of the way that we can look up legal information at multiple levels of government. And so my question here is, who is this contract making LexisNexis available to in the city of Denver? Sky Stuart mayor's office. We actually have, I think, Chief Ron Thomas here. He's probably making his way in from the other room. So I'm going to have him come and try and tackle that question. Here he comes. And perhaps you can explain which components. Go ahead. If you could keep your mask on, even at the microphone. Sure, please. Thank you. I'm sorry, what was the question? So the question is, what applications are we using or what is this contract for? And who has access to it? So this is a suite of products that provide access to databases, law enforcement records, public records. It also provides crime mapping tools. And police officers have access to US city attorneys. It's unlimited access as far as licensing. So all city employees have have access to it. The Denver Police Department specifically has a policy regarding you can only you can only access it for law enforcement enforcement purposes. And so how would individual council officers be able to get access to, like LexisNexis outside of our central team? I honestly don't have the answer to that question. Does it go through or who does it? Guy Stewart might have an answer to your to that question. So I'm guessing here. But it sounds to me like you are thinking about the Lexis-Nexis functions that are more with the city attorney's office uses to do research on bills and other things like that. The police department uses it for a completely separate purpose. It's a separate tool from LexisNexis. We do have LexisNexis licenses through the city attorney's office. That is a limited number of those. But that's something I could have the city attorney's office follow up with you on who has access. Certainly, John Griffin would have access to those LexisNexis tools through the city attorney's office. But we can provide you with some information on that separate Huell, if that's what you're looking for. So our council office wants access to all of the tools within this suite if we are allowed. And so I would want some clarification. He mentioned that it was unlimited licenses and you said it is limited. So which one is it? So the LexisNexis tool through the city attorney's office is a limited number of licenses. I would have to ask Chief Thomas about this particular tool. I can tell you that for the Denver Police Department, it is unlimited licensing. Okay. So would it be available to council officers so we don't have to wait for the request when we're doing the legal research or using any of the tools in the suite? I'm sure that that could be made available. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. Anything else on this item, Councilmember? Okay. Um, Madam Secretary, if you please put the next item on our screens and that's 530. Councilmember CdeBaca, this one's also yours for questions.

Consider Directing Staff to Collaborate with East Bay Regional Park District on Acquisition and Expansion of Crab Cove. (Councilmember Matarrese) [Continued from January 20, 2015]

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He insisted directing staff to collaborate with the East Bay Regional Park District on acquisition and expansion of Crab Cove. This item was placed on the agenda at the request of Vice Mayor Matt, R-S.C.. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you to all of you who have turned up now for three meetings, three very long meetings, and it's truly appreciated. My counsel referral is entitled A Collaboration between the City Alameda and East Bay Regional Parks District, and its intent is to establish a good working relationship between the East Bay Regional Parks and the city of Alameda, particularly in light of some history and in light of what goes forward from here, not the least of $6.5 million of WW money that needs to be spent at a park or parklands at Alameda Point. And to put a closure on the expansion of Crab Cove, which the city electorate overwhelmingly supported in the 2008 election for Measure WW and my referral s that this body directs the city manager to meet with the General Manager of the East Bay Regional Parks District and following that meeting, prepare a work plan for the steps that the city can take to support. East Bay, regional parks, land acquisition and expansion of Crab Cove. And those steps will include but not be limited to those needed to settling any remaining issues. And I understand that there are none related to litigation, which is a good thing to petition the GSA to cease eminent domain activities or efforts . And that was on the Mackay Avenue Strip and to establish a City Council, East Bay Regional Parks District Board Liaison Committee, patterned after the Liaison Committee that once upon a time we had with the school district. We had with the AC Transit Board and to use that to help establish a good working relationship between this park district and the city of Alameda. And I think there's some key deliverables that I mentioned that are not feasible with timelines. I understand that. And the idea is to get the the the meeting between the city manager and the general manager of the district to happen as soon as possible so that we can kick this off and and establish interests in order to accomplish the rest. All right. And we do have five speakers on this item. Unless you have clarifying questions, I'd like to call our speakers. CNN. The first speaker will be Richard Banker, then Irene Dieter and then Karen Lucas. Thank you, Madam Mayor and council member Matt Rossi for bringing this forward. There are certainly more than 3 minutes that any one person could speak on this issue. Briefly on the Crab Cove issue, I highly encourage you to draft a letter to the GSA to not only cease the eminent domain proceedings, but to accept the last offer of the park district for that land. And. They had a bona fide offer and. I could go on and on. But let's move on to Alameda Point. At the south eastern part of Albania point there's an area that is variously referred to as Triangle Park or Enterprise Park. It's about 22 acres. It was it was a park when the Navy left. It still looks like a park. The only upkeep there has been a contract with the soccer club, but for the most part, it's fallen into disrepair. The the base reuse plan specifically referred to that as a regional park. Back then it was referred to as Inner Harbor Park. But that. It's too confusing and was abandoned as a name, but nevertheless it was to be a regional park and it's now zoned open space. There's nothing else planned for that area. It should be a park. It was a park. It looks like a park. It has a bay trail next to it has a beach. There's a boat launch right adjacent to it. City is currently has an application, a grant application to resurface the whole parking lot, completely redo the inside out boat ramp. It would be a marvelous area to have as a park. But here's one thing that hasn't been considered. It's not just the money that the Park District has. They also have money for operations. And there's a bond measure, a tax bond measure that funds operations that actually still has money in it right now, that they that is being used gradually drawn down just to pay for the periodic maintenance of the Bay Trail. But that measure, Measure C is going to be renewed next year. If that park was in the hands of the Park District, well, maybe that line item would have a bigger number on it next time. Because as good as our own recreation park department is, they do not have access to a funding stream from two counties. So that's one thing. No matter how well our rec and park director writes a grant, it's not likely to come with ongoing operations money. So that would be another benefit to working closely and bringing this park on line. Thank you, Irene. Hello again. I am here to support the vice mayor's referral. I think it sends the right message to all the parties involved. First of all, it sends the right message to your constituents. Then to the Park District. Then to our legislators. And lastly, and most importantly. To the GSA. Also. I think that. This this liaison committee can work to achieve some goals that will be best for all of Alameda Point and Crab Cove. But we need to take an assertive role in getting legislative help. And it will be up to a liaison committee to find out exactly what kind of help the Park District needs. Also, a liaison committee can also ask the Park District on help for setting up a wetlands mitigation bank because because they've also done that and it will help us pursue park land opportunities out at Alameda Point, just as Richard Banger just said. So I don't think it would hurt at all. More information again. Won't hurt. And this one, there's no cost involved. It's just time and energy. And I cannot see a single downside into this proposal. So I encourage you all to pass this referral. Thank you. This, Lucas. Good evening. My name is Karen Lucas and I am a member of the Friends of Crown Beach, the group that gathered over 6000 signatures in support of the Crab Cove expansion. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor, for putting this item on the agenda. Hopefully our city can now work in harmony with the East Bay Regional Park District. We know that Alameda is strongly supported and we also know that the Park District has funds available for the development of the Neptune Point parcel adjacent to Crab Cove. However, the city manager has shown a strong bias against the Park District and should be recused from any participation in meetings with the district. And here are some examples of the bias that he has shown publicly. On July 15 last year during a council meeting, he used the words Neptune Pointe nonsense. Here's another example. After the Park District filed their lawsuit against the city to reverse the residential zoning at Neptune Pointe, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle Chronicle, the city manager called the Park District arrogant and out of control. Another example later in the Alameda Sun, he called the park district's lawsuit. Against the city to accomplish the park expansion. Expansion. It called it irresponsible and an arrogant disregard for tax dollars. I request that you appoint a person less biased to negotiate with the Park District. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speakers, Gretchen Lebow and Susan Gallimore in that order. Thank you. Mayor and council. I can't tell. You what a. Positive. Effort this. Is to bring. Forward a resolution to Crab Cove. I was in charge of the petition campaign and it was easiest job I ever had in my life because everybody wanted to see Crab Cove become part of Crown Beach. So I am here to support the resolution that Vice Mayor Morrissey brought forward and move it along. It's the right thing to do. You. Thank you. This is Susan Gallimore. I actually live right there at Crab Cove. And believe me, it's like the delight of my life living on a park like that. And I support the collaboration. Of course, I also would encourage you to consider Karen Lucas's comments. My my comment might be a little too in the weeds. I actually didn't come to speak on this issue, but since I live there, I thought I'd throw it in. We had the the parks gave us a map of how they would be reconfiguring it if if we went in that direction. And I gather that that's still the direction that they would go in. And the other thing that we also became very aware of, and those of us who live there know this already, is that Mackay's not a city street. It's there's another term for it. And I can't for the life of me think of it right now, but it's not maintained by the city. And. Right. What's the. Tube easement? Isn't it an easement thing. Yeah. And we discovered and I know because I live there, there's no sort of regular storm drainage and that kind of thing there. So it would be really great. I don't know if it remains an easement, but we really great if when we go into this process with them, they can also think about perhaps making it less muddy there during the winter. Thank you. Thank you. At this point, we have no other public comments on this item. So I would actually like to go back to Vice Mayor, is your referral. Did you have any comments? First of all, I want to thank everybody for continuing to care about this. There was a huge effort and I think the 6000 signatures gathered very quickly showed that they the people of Alameda, are very interested in making sure that this happens and it validates what happened in the election of 2008, where this project was part of the campaign for w w a I think with regard to the comments made about who represents the city and how the city is represented in the communications and the relationship with the East Bay Regional Park going forward. I think the liaison committee where the elected board met two elected board members and two elected council members is a good model for for managing that for or setting the tone, for setting the cooperation. And I have expectations that our management basically follows direction and represents the city well in a and a conciliatory, in a productive manner going forward. And. I, I think it's important that we show that this is a critical issue to this city because it they're not there's not more parkland that's available. There's few opportunities in spite of what we've heard. And we have to make the most of it. And we have a sister agency that, uh, we, we need to, to work well with because they have a stake in Alameda and we have a stake in Alameda. So I think that the liaison committee would be at least the council members would be up to managing that. And I think our city manager would be up to managing. Member comments. I'll start with member Odie. Thank you. Also, I want to thank the the vice mayor for bringing this referral. I think it's is time we turn the page on this. You know, by passing this referral, we'll turn the page here on the council and we'll turn the page with the city manager. And, you know, hopefully the community can get on board and also turn the page. Gretchen, I remember you're the one that got me to sign right there out in front of trader joe's. So. Hopefully I was an easy one to get signed. I do want to suggest, you know, maybe a couple friendly changes if the vice mayor is open to them. We have a lobbyist in Washington, don't we? Possibly engaging our lobbyists to help assist in this matter. I think. It'd be nice if we had some assistance from our federal representatives, our Congress members office. I can speak for the Assembly office and tell you that we would be willing to lend whatever help our office could could lend. And I spoke to our state senator's office, and they said once the lawsuit was resolved, they would be willing to assist in any way possible also. So I think if we can, you know, ask our state legislators and especially our federal, because this really is an issue that needs to be resolved with our our our federal government . Now, I think we need to get on this posthaste. And I think we do appreciate the support that Attorney General Kamala Harris gave to this this project and this effort. And I think all help is welcome. So I would accept that as a mission which broader to get the support and. And. Efforts on the other levels of government that are needed to clear the path to make this happen. Member Ashcraft. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a different take on this, this request. I have no problem working in harmony with our fellow agencies in the area. This agency, however, sued this city, and I do appreciate that we have a mostly new council. Only Councilmember Desai and I lived through the litigation in the closed sessions on the on the litigation. And what I can tell you now is, yes, the case was recently settled. So recent I put in my notes that the ink hardly seems to have dried on the settlement agreement. But that lawsuit caused this city in legal fees. Six figures, somewhere in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's money that comes out of our general fund. General fund that supports things like parks in Alameda. And we tried and I will give credit to Assemblymember Bond, his office, for stepping in and trying to help with the settlement . But even those good offices, I mean. It might have. Moved the ball. A little farther down the field, but it was a long, costly litigation. And and the Park District was paying legal fees to I know they're their law firm, a good law firm. They used an expensive law firm they use. So as far as supporting the the park district's land acquisition of out there at Crab Cove, I think the city has done its part. The city council, the last city council voted to approve the ordinance. It was a great community, grassroots effort. It was very impressive. We we saw that the you know, this is what the people wanted, that open space zoning, that open space zoning, you know, might need a variance, but that's for the Park District to deal with when they acquire the land. But we have downs on the property to open space, putting ourselves at risk of a lawsuit by the developer that had the option to purchase at the time. He has since withdrawn that, but at some point the Park District is going to have to pay something or convince the federal government to give them the land. But I will remind the council and everyone listening, this was never the city's land. We got sued for land we didn't own. We did the we approved the ordinance. It is now the open space. That's what the Park District asked us to do. And I also don't think that it's the city's role to tell the federal government how to proceed with regard to its own property. GSA and the East Bay Regional Parks District are both capable of fighting their own battles. The East Bay Regional Parks District. What it does best is parks in across this county and Contra Costa County. We are very fortunate to have the East Bay Regional Parks District as the steward of some wonderful land. They do happen to be, I believe, still the largest park district in the country. And they didn't get to be that way by being neophytes. They they know how to fight their battles. I think that as far as establishing a good working relationship with the city in the park district. I have no objection to that. But that road runs two ways, and I haven't seen any overtures or indication on the part of the Park District to reach out to the city of Alameda. And I do appreciate Mr. Banger its reference to the the park out at Alameda point and I've I've gone out and seen that and there are a number of opportunities for the city to work with the park district in the future in Alameda Point and on the main island. But right now, for me, the memory of that litigation, what it cost, the intransigence and the refusal to settle for the longest time really bothers me. So what I would like to see is what sort of reciprocal agreement, perhaps, or overture the vice mayor, who, by the way, I hold in the highest regard. We go back a long ways. And I talked to him about this ahead of time because I didn't want to blindside him. But I just feel that at this point there is too much that the city I mean, we've we've done I think we've done our part at some point. Bottom line, East Bay Regional Parks District needs to find a way to acquire that land from from the federal government who owns it. We can't keep doing their work for them. And so I cannot support this council referral. Amber Desai. Thank you. I just want to begin by, uh, referring to the land area that resident Richard Bangert referred to. That is on Alameda Point near Internal High School. I'm referring to that because in the mid 1990s, 1995, 1996. We, the city of Alameda, particularly the neighbors in that area, including myself, were incredibly concerned about a project that the East Bay Regional Parks was contemplating for that area. But in a short while, by 1996, 1997, you know, we had we came out with a great agreement with the East Bay Regional Parks at the time. And it became, in my mind, a model of how we can air out our concerns and join together and move forward. I think, you know, the situation that we had with Crab Cove certainly didn't reflect how we had worked in the mid 1990s. And so I see I see nothing wrong and a lot good. And the proposal that's being put before us and. Now. Through whatever mechanism, whether it's the liaison committee that's contemplated here or whether it's through the city manager meeting, the general manager that's also contemplated here. I'm sure we will be able to iron out any details, pro or con, that gets us back onto a positive working relationship. I do think that it is the role of the. Residents of city out of Alameda as well as their representatives I us to let others including state level persons as well as federal level persons the sentiments of the community. And so I think this is. I'm fine with this. I'm. As a referral matter. So I appreciate the referral. I appreciate the comments from the members of the Council as well as the members of our public. In regards to some. Sensitive issues that were raised this evening. And Mr. Russo, our city manager, is not here this evening. However, he is our city manager and. He is part of our team and we are working with him moving forward. I was elected to represent all our maidens and we are working together and I appreciate the comments that were raised and at this point moving forward. Given that also in regards to member Ashcroft's comments, there was a caveat that I want to add that the prior council did rezone the property to housing, which then, in my opinion, led to the litigation that opened the door. And so however moving and I appreciate that, but it's my turn to speak. So thank you. At this point. We all want what is best for our community, including the East Bay region as a whole. And East Bay Parks is part of that. And I personally have had conversations with representatives of East Bay Parks. I've also attended meetings with Sierra Club and we all appreciate the park and we will be working together in regards to this referral. And also I've spoken with state and federal representatives and we there was during litigation, I'm an attorney. We all know during litigation there are conversations that occur and positions that are taken and then we move forward and that's where we are now. And I would actually suggest that we invite East Bay Parks to an upcoming council meeting and they could update us on the status of their project and then we could add as appropriate , we could meet with them in some of these items in regards to litigation. We have council that I think is actually part of this conversation. But at that point, after we. Or should we invite them? I would like to invite these sparks, let them give them the opportunity to update the project. And then at that point, the staff and council recognizing that this is post litigation, take appropriate steps. And and and I truly do appreciate the the item being brought, the referral being brought forward by Vice Mayor and I too am a friend of Crown Beach. I am one of those people that did collect signatures to support our beach. And so that's my suggestion. If I'd like to go into motion, I like to make a motion to approve the council referral as we've amended it. Include outreach to others. Federal lobbyists. State. And the referral, as I understand, is to direct our current city manager to initiate this conversation. So could you read the. I'm sorry. Whomever is making the motion, isn't it? Who's making the motion? I was going to. So could you read it entirely then? Okay. Read the entire entire referral. The motion. Your motion a move adoption of the Council referral from the Vice Mayor to increase collaboration between the City of Alameda and the East Bay Regional Park District, including the amendments adding federal and state elected officials who enlist for help. Which. So this includes the part about we requested the city council direct the city manager to meet with the general manager of East Bay Regional Park. And correct as well. Is that what you're. I don't think we have to read the whole thing. So. But there were suggestions as written. All right. Thank you. Do we have a second? I don't make motions here. We have a second. I'm going to second it with a note that the last line that talks about a February 2015 is adjusted by staff so that we can meet the notice requirements and the preparation time. If you could give us a time when that might be. Now if you can't. Well. You could inform us at some point. Sure. And I certainly can't do it now. So I'd like to recommend a path for updating you. I don't want to assume that we won't. Have seven council. Referrals every meeting. But in order to get a timely update, I think what we do is we'll get the referrals that passed tonight and will bring back updates on on when to expect reports to come back to the Council. At the City Manager Communication. So we can do it quickly. So now we have a. Second. Motion and a second. Now we can have discussion before I call the vote. Any comments before Parliament? I just want to make one comment. Yes. This is a chance to to lead this effort, because if it if it is not led, it's going to languish. And I think because that part of of our park system, even though it's not under control, is so important and future parks depend on it. I think we have to lead. That's number one. And this is not a new method and it's very effective. The the liaison committee where this the manager of both operate organizations of. And I'll go back to the school district council liaison committee was the city manager to members of council, the school superintendent two members of the school board. And that group was initiated at a time when the city and the school district are fighting each other and communicating via their posted letters from here to there and back over Bayport. And I don't know if people remember that there was a big fight over over that.

AN ORDINANCE related to transportation funding; assuming the rights, powers, immunities, functions, and obligations of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District by The City of Seattle; amending Section 3.120.020 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and repealing Sections 3.120.030, 3.120.040, 3.120.050, and 3.120.060.

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The report of the Sustainability and Transportation Committee Agenda Item 11 Council Bill 118667 related to transportation funding, assuming the rights, powers, immunities, functions and obligations of the Seattle Transportation Benefit District by the City of Seattle, amending sections 3.1 20.0 20 of the Shadow Code and repealing section 3.1 20.2 or 30.0 40.0 58.0 60. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you. I believe Councilmember Johnson is pinch hitting for Councilmember O'Brien. Thank you. Council President Harrell. So for my colleagues who don't serve on the transportation committee, when the state legislature authorized the creation of transportation benefit districts, they did not at that point allow for local jurisdictions like ours to take on the roles and responsibilities and required us to wear a different hat, as it were, a couple of years later, i.e. a couple of years ago, the state legislature changed our law to allow for local jurisdictions like the city of Seattle, to wear both those hats concurrently and did not require the separation between the benefit district and the city. So this legislation would consolidate the Seattle Transportation Benefit District into the city of Seattle, which has some real benefits for us. Simplifies administration and governance. Eliminates the need for a separate board as well as a separate budget in separate legislation. This could save us money should we go back to the ballot by not requiring us to pay for different administrative costs out of different places? If the legislation is approved today, the city would continue to account and budget for the transportation benefit district revenues as special revenue. It doesn't change the amount that we collect or we spend. It doesn't change it. And the commitments or obligations of the benefit district just effectively makes it a little bit easier for us to meet and govern as a body. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions and when asked for my colleagues approval. Thank you, Councilmember Johnson. Any questions or concerns for my colleagues? Sheng Nan, please call the role on the passage of the bill. GONZALEZ Hi, Johnson. Suarez I saw the picture. Burgess By President Harrell. I. Seven in favor and unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Adoption of other resolutions. Please read the report. For introduction and adoption. Agenda Item 12 Resolution 316 79 Providing an honorary designation of East Lake Avenue from court to place two Denny Way as Bill Hobson Way. Council Member Burgess. Thank you. Bill Hobson's memorial service is this Thursday at 330 here in City Hall downstairs in the birth of Nightline. This room, I think many of us knew Bill well and worked with him over the years. He became the executive director of the Downtown Emergency Services Center in 1988. He actually started working there in 1984. Bill was a real agent of change in our community. He was incredibly compassionate, a man of integrity who worked really hard for the homeless and those living with poverty in our city. What this resolution does is it makes an honorary designation of East Lake Avenue right in front of East 1811, East Lake, which is the award winning Housing First project that's located there. It provides home for up to 75 homeless individuals who have chronic alcohol addiction. I should mention that 1811 East Lake has been studied twice now by researchers from the University of Washington and has proven itself not only in a beneficial way to the residents of 1811 East Lake, but also for the city, the county in the state in saving significant amounts of money, because these individuals, not all of them, but many of them were very high frequent users of other services. The emergency room up at Harborview King County Jail and other services that we have been able to forego because their lives were stabilized and they didn't need to use those services. So it's a it's a great project. And this resolution allows the city to designate East Lake Avenue as Bill Hobson Way. And I really do hope we pass it because the signs have already been prepared and they will be presented on Thursday afternoon to the Hobson family and then installed soon on East Lake Avenue. Thank you, Councilman Burgess. Any further comments or questions? I will move to adopt Resolution three one. Six. Seven, 9/2. Been moved in second that this resolution be adopted. Any further comments? Once again those in favor of adopting the resolution vote i. I those oppose vote no. The motion carries and resolutions adopt and chair will sign it. Is there any further business to come for the council today hearing that we will stand adjourned and we will reconvene very shortly as Parks Board commissioners and I don't have a time for that, but 5 minutes. She hasn't been elected yet. What are we looking at? I think we're.

A bill for an ordinance concerning the Airport System of the City and County of Denver; amending and restating Ordinance No. 626 of Series 1984, as previously amended, known as the “1984 Airport System General Bond Ordinance”; concerning the Airport Facilities of the City and County of Denver; establishing general provisions relating to Airport System Revenue Bonds to be issued by the City, for and on behalf of its Department of Aviation; providing the forms, terms, and conditions of the Bonds, the manner and terms of their issuance, the manner of their execution, the method of their payment, and the security therefor; providing for the collection and disposition of revenues derived from the operation of such Airport Facilities; pledging such revenues to the payment of the Bonds; providing various covenants, agreements, and other details, and making other provisions concerning Airport Facilities, the Bonds, Refunding and Improvement Projects, and Airport Facilities Revenues; ratifying action previously taken and relating to the foregoing matters; providing other matters relating ther

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the buyers or renter source of income and under pending. Councilwoman Sussman has called out to postpone final consideration of Council Bill 705 changing the zoning classification for 5611 East Iowa Avenue in Virginia Village. I miss anything. All right, Madam Secretary, will you please put the first items up on our screen? And, Councilwoman Gilmore, will you please put Council Bill seven, seven, seven on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 8-077 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved. If I can get a second and seconded, uh, questions or comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Gilmore. I hear you didn't click that, so. Oh, all right. That's not me. Sorry. Ah. Right. Seeing no questions or comments. Madam Secretary. Oracle. Black. Brooks II. Espinosa. Flynn. Gilmore. Herndon. Cashman. Carnage. Lopez. I knew Ortega. Susman. Mr. President. I am a secretary. Please close voting. Announce the results. Sorry. There's two missing two people.

A MOTION acknowledging receipt of a demand management pilot program implementation plan in accordance with the 2017-2018 Biennial Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 18409, Section 107, Proviso P3.

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So perhaps we could have one of my SO yeah, if we could move on to the next agenda item. Thank you very much, everybody, for that discussion, for that presentation. And we will now take up our final agenda item for today, and that's item six, where we have staff from the Solid Waste Division to speak to us regarding a demand management pilot program. Council will recall that during the budget process we spent some time reviewing the issue of how to complete the solid waste transfer network. And I think that you all are keenly aware that we have a long awaited, solid waste, comprehensive plan that needs to be adopted. And some of the issues have to do with the how our transfer network builds out and whether or not to proceed to build a new Northeast transfer station. The executive budget recommended a demand management pilot project to test whether the service needs of that area could be addressed through strategies partially to address, through strategies to control demand . It's an issue we've been hearing quite a bit about, including at the regional that regional water quality, but Regional Policy Committee and in particular, there's been interest on the part of the council on how the pilot would deal with places like the Holden Transfer Station in Kirkland, which serves Northeast King County. So we had a proviso which the executive transmitted a response to. We're going to ask our staff, Mike Reed, to provide an introduction. Are you prepared? Yes. Okay. And and then I understand that the division will be presenting a PowerPoint. And so I want to ask Mike, would you please proceed with the report, understanding that we have given a little bit of short term, short change this discussion a little bit, so maybe we can just do a high flyover and come back to it at a future meeting. Thank you. I'll do this very high level again. You've noted, Madam Chair, that that that the council did approve a $2 Million increment for a pilot project for demand management in the 2017 2018 budget. And the context, of course, is, is that the the region is working to complete its upgrade of the transfer network because of a decline in tonnage that occurred over the course of the Great Recession 2720 ten. There were questions raised as to whether the full buildout was was needed. And what you indicated in the years 2013 to 2015, you you called for a review of that buildout process and the results came back, said in certain some two things. First up, that you need not build the full transport network. And in particular, the northeast sector could be served through a demand management strategy. And I'll talk in just a minute about what that what that constitutes. But secondly, that if you were going to do a demand management strategy, you needed to test that on the ground. You needed to have a pilot project to, in essence, test whether it would work in real time. Demand management is basically a tool to push transfer demand up from those hours of the day. And those are locations that have limited capacity or no capacity to those locations and hours of the day when there is greater capacity. So the executive proposed in the 2017 2018 budget a $2 million pilot project for demand management. The council approved that that funding, but also added a proviso. And that proviso said, in sum, we there are some remaining questions. One has to do with the Houlton transfer station. Does that station remain open or is it closed during this demand management process? And secondly, does recognizing that that there's a compromise, a planning process that's going on and that is expected to be concluded prior to the end of this demand management process, how do you incorporate the results of that process into that comp plan? That was the sum of the of the proviso you did provide for withholding $1 million until a report was provided back to the council addressing those those questions. That's the substance of this morning's presentation that that has been transmitted to counsel. And I should again note that there is a motion in your packets that would approve or acknowledge receipt of of that response. With me this morning is Megan Moorhead. She will she's the strategy communications and performance manager for file with the business you present the the proviso response. And also Pat McLaughlin, who's the director of the division, is here as well. Madam Chair. Okay. Good morning. Thank you. Welcome. And please go ahead. Loved it. Here talking solid waste with you. And let's go pretty quickly through this presentation. You've already heard about the budget proviso and its history. So we were asked to submit a implementation plan that says what we're going to do as part of this pilot. So why don't I just get into the recommendations for that? Demand management basically asks whether we can serve users of our regional system without a transfer station in the northeast area. Now, where's the northeast? Well, it's that kind of green upper right hand side of our service area. You can see the Houlton station. And Kirkland is the one station that's currently serving that area. We're recommending a 12 month pilot program starting in mid 2018. That's a little bit later than what you had heard when you approved this pilot during budget, because we found through our interaction with our stakeholders and partner cities that we needed more time to set up for a successful pilot and work out host city concerns. So what's going to happen? We're recommending that we suspend services at Houlton to best simulate the absence of a northeast station. That means about 135,000 transactions during our yearlong pilot will be redirected to what we think will be the Victoria Station and also to shoreline, about 90% to Victoria in the Eastgate neighborhood of of Bellevue and then the rest to Shoreline. Let's go back. We're recommending that we retain the self service recycling that's there on the the OTN site as a convenience for northeast area customers. So what does that mean? That means we're going to more than double the tons that are going into the Victoria Station and more than double the transactions. That's the number of people kind of coming across the scales. How are we going to accommodate all those extra people at the station? At Victoria, we're going to do that by extending the hours on weekdays, taking it from 4 p.m., closer to 10 p.m. and on weekends, extending a little bit in the morning and taking the evening closer to 8 p.m.. We're also trying to get people to use the station outside of the peak hours of use, and those peak hours of use are from 11 to 3 p.m.. And so the study that was conducted said we needed to double the price during peak hours to get people to choose to visit at different hours. And so a doubling of the minimum fee for self-help customers would occur during the peak periods at Victoria. They would pay the same if they used hours outside of the the peak periods. We're going to as part of the budget, you approved temporary staff to accommodate these changes in hours and the increased use at Shoreline. Our first strategy, though, would be to use the regular full time staff that would be taken from the suspension of service in it at Houlton and redirect them first to this pilot project and then use temporary staff to fill in the gaps. So part of this is measuring beforehand and then during the pilot what some of the effects are. And our regional partners have had a lot of questions about what's this going to mean in terms of the amount of time it's going to take for customers to go through our stations. Will there be queuing out of the stations, sites and onto local streets? Will there be noise? Can we actually put the amount of waste that we think we're going to see through our stations without having it pile up? What's going to happen to local intersections as well as regional highway and and road systems? The Proviso asked us to look at other options that were not recommended. Those included increasing rates at home and curtailing hours at home and or changing the mix of services at home. We felt that leaving open open except in a minimal way for recycling, would not replicate the absence of a North-East station and so would undermine the credibility of the pilot. So what's going to happen? Right now, we're talking with the host cities about what permit issues need to be resolved and the associated environmental review with that for us to actually proceed with the pilot. We'll need your authorization of the suspension of hope services as well as the peak prices at Victoria, and that would be coming at the end of this year. The haulers would need to plan new routes because now all the collection, curbside collection that's currently going to Houlton would now be going to either Victoria or Shoreline. The haulers would need to plan that route and if they needed to recover some of the costs of those new routes, either through their city contracts or by going to the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, they would need it next year to open up those contract discussions or go down to the state and talk to them about rates. Clearly, this is going to have a big impact on customers and we need to do a very solid communication plan and rollout of that plan as we move into the implementation of the pilot and during its implementation. So we plan on doing that next year and then through the end of the pilot. And currently this isn't a precise date, but mid 2018 start date is our estimated beginning of the pilot. So the final you. You were so interested in this pilot that there were two provisos related to it, the one with the implementation plan requirement we're talking about today. But there's a second proviso that requests a status report after a seven months of pilot project implementation. And so we expect to be coming back and talking to you again about the lessons learned and recommendations around around how to proceed with the pilot. And so that's the pilot project. There was a question in the proviso about how could we proceed with a pilot project on this schedule? Well, we're still trying to update our comprehensive, solid waste plan according to a schedule that would have the solid waste comprehensive plan going out to the public in October of this year. So here we've got a 2017 public review draft comp plan, but we won't have results from the demand management plan until mid 2019. So just to remind you, the comprehensive Solid Waste Plan Act is required by state law. It sets the long term goals and capital program for the regional system. It goes to action not just by the county, but also by our city partners and identifies cost impacts and funding sources. And it helps implement regional goals such as climate protection. And here are just the categories of policies that are adopted as part of the plan. You can see that transfer is one of the categories that we have to address as a regional system. And it does seek to to answer questions about what's the best combination of facilities and practices to serve to serve the transfer needs of the system. And that includes either new stations like the Northeast or approaches like demand management. So here's the comprehensive plan adoption timeline. We're working with our two advisory committees, our city oriented and our stakeholder oriented advisory committee to evaluate policy options that would go through September of this year. At that point, we would have three months of public review at the end of the year, at the end of the year, and then we go through a very prescribed state process for review and approval. Our state regulators, Washington Public Health and and ecology review the plan. After we finish public comment, then it comes back to the Regional Policy Committee and to the County Council and then on to the cities for their endorsement, and then finally back to the state. And they get a period of time where they can do the final approval. So there was a question, what kind of policy would could we put in the plan that would allow any outcome of the pilot project to be to be accommodated, either continuing demand management in the long haul or doing a new northeast station. So we gave you an example in your implementation plan of a policy that might do that using level of service standards from the Council adopted 2007 transfer plan. Other service standards could be used instead. Basically, the policy might say to to meet the future transfer needs. We would want to if we're using the 27 standards, have 90% of self haulers within 30 minutes of a transfer station have cell Paul customers make it through their transfer stations in 16 minutes or less, that sort of thing. And then if if the pilot can't reach those service level standards, then it would might give direction on moving forward on a northeast station or an equivalent alternative. I'm done. Excellent. That was less than a minute. So thank you for observing the queue. No, I gave her a one minute cue about 30 seconds ago and she she nodded at me and meant it beautifully. So Councilmember Lambert has a question. Thank you. Well, first of all, I am very concerned about this. This is where my neighbors take their garbage and I take mine when I need to. So the idea of it being 30 minutes away, I think is too long. I think too many more than enough. I am concerned about people. I know everybody's supposed to cover their loads, but not everybody covers their roads well and putting more debris on the freeways, which is also dangerous. That is a concern to me. Doubling the price and doubling the distance is also of a concern to me. And then if we decide that the community that knew when they bought their homes that there was a transfer station, there has a whole year of not having this in their neighborhood, then getting it back going again is going to cause conflict. And then if we decide that we're not going to put the new station there and the new community that didn't know when they bought their house that was going to be there is going to be up in arms. So I think we're doing a lot of things to ultimately come to some problems, and I am very concerned about those. Won't put that on the record. Thank you, Councilor, for Councilmember McDermott. Thank you, Madam Chair. Page 14 of your slide deck. How is council approval of the peak pricing ordinance in November of this year? And I'm wondering if today's motion in any way sets the stage by means or hands, builds an expectation that we are accepting the pricing numbers that were in your presentation today. My understanding is the motion. Just acknowledges it's. Not on. Sorry. The motion acknowledges receipt of the implementation plan and says that by that receipt the proviso is met. It doesn't say we endorse the content of the plan. And so you were not you wouldn't feel that we were locked in any way and argue at a later date that we had to approve or needed to approve the peak protein or the timeline. The routes. Will come back in November with the peak pricing ordinance, where you'll have the opportunity to get into the. Details. Thank you. So I will just add. Oh, we're we've reached the end here. There's no money associated with this proviso as my understanding. Correct? Actually, I believe there is a $1 million withholding until the council approves the. Just pointing out not noted in the motion language or in any of the staff presentation materials. So in the future, it's really a good idea that the motion should recite. He might have said it. But I you know, there's things going on here. It's not written. And I wish in the motions that it should be written. So with that, are we before I ask for emotion, I want to also say on the record that this is a appreciate the report. The information's helpful. And in fact, it's going to be necessary for us to engage with future requests for decisions. As as you all are aware, and I think my colleagues are aware, the Salaries Advisory Committee and the Municipal Solid Waste Advisory Committee both have expressed serious reservations about this approach. I have the I enjoy having the district where it will be hosted. And and there are strong differences of opinion within my district with regard to whether this is a good thing and a necessary thing or a terrible thing. And it should never be never be done. And those those differences of opinion are mirrored by differences of opinion about whether we should or should not build a new north east transfer station. And so it's it's a it's going to be a really challenging discussion. And I think everybody's aware of that now. The public is also aware of it. So with that, because we have withheld some money from the agency's budget requiring this report and we have, in fact, received the report, I wonder if somebody would be so kind as to move approval of proposed motion 2017 0160 with the do pass recommendation. So move, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is there a. Comment? Just clarification. So we're approving the report showed up, but not that we like what it says. We are acknowledging receipt. We're not even approving the report. We are acknowledging that we received it. And I, I feel very strongly that we did receive it. So I am going to vote in favor of the motion. Okay. Adamant about that? Yeah. I'm really, really, really. Feels we only need for one quick please. Go ahead. Councilmember. This envisions by closing voting a scenario where voting for the pilot where voting would be closed kind of permanently to see how that works. I did see in here you referenced there'll be some kind of still sample recycling and some special days, right? Maybe have a yard holidays or things. Yeah. We continue solid waste use on the site, but only for recycling orientation. Right now there's cell Paul a small self. Paul pull through area that would remain open as a convenience for the local customers. I guess if we're modeling scenarios long term, it's always been a question in my mind of whether home could be reduced in terms of its type of operation, say from our full MSW facility to maybe a yard waste and recycling facility. And I hope that as you develop final plans for the pilot, that maybe that notion might be able to be tested if there if that makes any sense, and that that's not just one council member with an idea. So anyway, I just wanted to put that on the record. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. All right. At this point, I would ask for the clerk to call at home. Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember DEMBOSKY. Councilmember Dunn, Councilmember Gossett I. Councilmember Cole. Well, I. Councilmember Lambert. Councilmember Mr. Stein. Councilmember up the Grove. Councilmember gone right now. Madam Chair. I thank you. Madam Chair. The vote is ayes, no nos and council. Dunn Excused. All right, with that, the motion carries and we will take it up. Council. I don't see any reason to expedite, but it can go on consent. And with that, we are completed with our agenda and we are adjourned.

A proclamation recognizing Carolyn Bluhm for her service in emergency management coordination for the City and County of Denver.

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Okay. I see tonight that we have no presentations and there are no communications. I'm not tall enough to see this lecture, but we do have two proclamations this evening. I am going to call on Councilman Ortega. Will you please read Proclamation three, five, eight? I would be happy to do this. Thank you. Council in proclamation number 358 recognizing Miss Carolyn Bloom for her service in emergency management coordination for the city and county of Denver. Whereas Carolyn Blum, Emergency Management Coordinator for Denver's Office of Emergency Response and Homeland Security, is retiring after 11 years of service to the city and 30 years in emergency management. And. WHEREAS, for over 11 years, Carolyn developed and coordinated what is now called the Denver Ready Program for Emergency Disaster Outreach and Preparedness Training. And. Whereas, Carolyn has encouraged engaged with several Denver commissions and agencies, including the Commission for People with Disabilities in the Commission on Aging. And. WHEREAS, Carolyn conducted over 450 educational seminars, interviews, presentations to help people in Denver and across the country to plan, prepare for, and respond to emergency events. And. Whereas, Carolyn and her team of instructors at Denver Community Emergency Response Training, otherwise known as Sert, taught basic emergency preparedness skills to over 6000 people. And I know at least two of us have gone through that training on this council. And. WHEREAS, Carolyn represented the city and county of Denver at local, state and national conferences to share the success of Denver's emergency preparedness programs. And. WHEREAS, Carolyn received her Master Continuity Practitioner Certification and National Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator certification. And. WHEREAS, Carolyn received numerous honors, including Employee of the Year by the Denver Commission for People with Disabilities Community Preparedness, hero or hero, as some of us call it, from FEMA and champion of change from President Barack Obama. 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 commends Carolyn Blum and thanks her for her years of extraordinary service to Denver, making citizens safer through emergency preparedness and community outreach in Section two that the Clerk of the city and county of Denver shall affix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that a copy be transmitted to Carolyn Glen. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Your motion to. Adopt. I move for the adoption of proclamation number 358. Thank you. It has been moved and seconded. Comments. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Madam President. I am honored to bring this forward. I have had the pleasure of getting to know and work with Carolyn, whom I consider to be a friend. I really appreciate all the extraordinary, extraordinary work that you have done in the city. You know, we do the proclamation every year encouraging people, taking advantage of the training and trying to help the public understand the importance of that. And for folks who have done that. When you are in an emergency, you just kind of go into into first gear and you know what to do. And so for people who have never done this training, they're just kind of sitting around waiting for the emergency responders to show up. And, you know, they're over at the epicenter of the incident dealing with the problem. And it's going to be a while before they come to take care of you. So the more you know and the better prepared you are, the better off you and your families are going to be. And and Carolyn has done just an extraordinary job in outreaching to communities. The work with our disabled community has been amazing as well, including all the different organizations in our city and making sure that where we have places, whether it's a group home, setting a nursing home, you know, a day facility, that that facility knows what they need to do in the event of an emergency, whether it's a tornado, a flood, you name it. They are being trained to be prepared to take care of their clients. So, Carolyn, I we're going to miss you. Thank you for your work with the city and the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. And I hope that you will stay in touch. And I just wish you all the best and good luck and good luck and God bless in your retirement. Thank you, Councilwoman Ortega. Seeing no other comments, Secretary. Madam Secretary, please call the vote. Ortega. I. Flynn I. Gilmore. I Cashman can eat. Lopez. I knew. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary. Count the votes. Sorry. One is missing. Great. Eight eyes. Eight eyes. The proclamation is adopted. Councilwoman, I take it you have somebody you'd like to do. Before bringing Carolyn up, I'd like to ask Brian Bratton, who is the director of the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, if you would mind making a few comments. Gladly. Thank you very much for this honor. We're going to really miss Carolyn. She has done a phenomenal job outreaching to our community. One of those amazing parts is that she's adapted to the changing demographics within Denver. So well, looking at disabilities and looking at aging and also looking at language as potential barriers for access into that information and has done a phenomenal job creating over 30 programs that reach out to our community in different ways, at different skill levels, at different time. Commitments to ensure that the community is as prepared as they want to be. I will say my part to that is that our success in emergency management depends upon your preparedness as counsel and as residents. At the end of the day, we can offer everything, but we need to encourage people to continue to stay engaged. We will continue and expand these operations as Carolyn departs and we bring in somebody. To try to replace her. But it's going to be a long uphill. Battle for anybody who comes after. Thank you. Thank you. So as Carolyn is coming forward, yes, whoever comes in will have some big shoes to fill. But I think any of you who saw the news coverage when we had the fire in 18th Street just about two weeks ago, she was one of the very people that was out there helping all of the families who were displaced as a result of that fire. So, Carolyn, thank you again for all your service and the floor is yours. Not quite as tall as Ryan. Thank you, Councilwoman Taylor. And thank you for the council for passing the proclamation for me. There's been a lot of things that have happened over. The last. 11 years. And 12 years ago I made a statement. I need a bigger territory. And God. Blessed me. With Denver. And it has been. A great joy and honor to serve the people of Denver. As I go out on my new journey. But I do want to make sure that in the. Proclamation. There was mention of my instructors. There's no way that I could have done all that had been done without the volunteers of this great city, to this great city. And I want to name them one at a time. If you don't or if. You will, just give me indulgence. Start with Gary Friedman. He's the one who's. Been with me the longest. He's also. DHS. Department of. Human. Services. He works for. The city. And county in Denver and donates his time. Also back to Denver, Curtis Garrett, who. Works for the Department of Parks and Rec. He also was the chairperson for the people with disabilities. I took him to a conference in Washington. And emergency management beat him. And now he's one of our. Instructors. And program. Directors. We have Lee and Patti, which are I want you guys to stand up. And as I. Center Lee, Liam, Patti. Lambert if he has stepped in. He's a. Retired schoolteacher from DHS. For over 30 years. And he has stepped. Up. Into the role of the lead for this program in the high school program. We have over there. In in Bob and Dora. And he is retired from the city public works. And if you look at us, we're all boomers. So we're really. Pushing into the aging population. So we're keeping everybody busy. And then. Over there by. Bob. Oh, that's oh. In front of Bob is my husband, who is also one of our instructors. He volunteer. He was. He he will tell you he's volun told he retired three years ago and he's and I said, you got to go help Lee. So he's here. When that's not here is Dave Cook. He helped me start. This program from the beginning. He is here. Where is he? Oh. He's over there. Okay. Dave Cook. He was he was actually. The one that when I went into the hospital, stepped up and did not let any of our programs fail for the three months that I was out. I have amazing people around me, and I can't say enough about the folks who are here. And I thank you for the indulgence. But one of the other things that. I do have to say. Is thank you to my instructors and the people who. Participate. With us. But you guys have. Got a winner. One of the best emergency managers in this country is sitting right here in this room. You are very blessed to have Ryan and to be your emergency manager here in the city and county of Denver. Being around this business for 30 years. You see a lot of characters. Yeah. I can call. Ryan a character, but he's one of the. Best. Characters you'll ever find in this world for emergency management. And Councilman Lopez, thank you for being such a support over the years. Also, he came to a class a night in 2009 and Debbie came in. You know, it's just the. Support that this city has given us. To grow is second to none. Thank you. Can we also ask the staff who are here from OEM, if you would mind, standing as well? Yeah. Thank you all for what you do. Marilyn, thank you.

A RESOLUTION relating to the Chinatown/International District; amending Resolution 31754, incorporating Filipino Town, and recognizing the important history and contributions of Filipino-Americans to the City of Seattle.

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The bill passes and the chair was silent. Just one moment. Okay. We're going to, I believe, move to the adoption of other resolutions because we amended the agenda. So I'll move to adoption of other resolutions. Please read it into the record. Agenda item 15 was Resolution 317 69 relating to the chapter on international district amending Resolution 317 54 incorporated film, Filipino Town and recognizing the important history and contributions of Filipino Americans to the city of Seattle. Thank you very much. So I think we understand the context, but for the viewing public, I'll just describe a little more as we did this morning during our briefing. This particular resolution is incorporating Filipino town in recognizing the important history and contributions of Filipino Americans to the city of Seattle. On July 31st, 2017, the Council adopted another resolution, a companion resolution to a ordinance which implemented mandatory housing affordability requirements in the Chinatown International District. And we reconfirmed the city's commitment to address issues in that particular neighborhood. When we passed our final version of the Resolution 31754, we incorporated feedback from a community member and ended up not including the term Manila town or Filipino town or anything along those lines in that particular resolution. And as I described the thing, the council was acting in good faith to incorporate feedback, but where we certainly dropped the ball was not really reaching out to many members in our Filipino community, members with incredible credibility and work for this city and socializing that idea with them when we finalized that previous resolution. Well, we listen to public testimony and many great leaders and community members came out and I'll just say, enlighten us. Should we say. And we took that and we took it very seriously. And so the resolution we have in front of us hopefully is responsive to the needs of the community. And I would like to just read some portions of this resolution. Again, the the whereas clause sort of describes what I just sort of described. But one particular whereas clause and I want to thank my staff for doing sort of a deep dove as, as I sort of requested then that they do to talk about some history that on in 2011, the city shall acknowledge the Filipino community's presence and vibrancy and contributions. When we when it helped fund a seven foot tall kiosk under the only in Seattle grant and proclaimed November 2012 as honoring Filipino Americans in Seattle, Chinatown and History Month. And again, we want to thank many members that are here today for for that work. In November 15th and 2015, the Filipino Community of Seattle Ink Day was another resolution proclamation that we passed in October of 2015. We had the Filipino American Heritage Month, October of 2013. We had Filipino American History Month, October 19, 2013. Filipino Youth Activities Drill Team Day on February 4th, 2012. Filipino Veterans Memorial Monument Day and October 2011 Filipino American History Month. November 5th, 2007 Filipino American Community Community of Seattle Day. In October of 2010, we had Filipino-American month and Resolution 3037. We honor the bravery and sacrifices of Filipino American soldiers who fought during World War Two and in Resolution 30808. It was a resolution support of the Filipino Veterans Equity Act of 2005, and in resolution 3130182, we honor many of the contributions of Asians and Pacific Islanders in our community. And all of this is embedded in this particular resolution. We're sort of trying to clean up what I think was a mistake, only to reiterate the fact that it is our responsibility, our duty to constantly use our history, I think, and the great contributions of many demographics in this this particular situation, our Filipino community to talk about what strong partners we have, what bravery and what commitment we have from this community is that makes make us all better. So we did drop the ball and we try to act feverishly and with commitment based on your leadership as partners with you. And hopefully all of this is captured in the resolution. And again, we've circulated and worked with you and certainly my honor to present this resolution for a vote in consideration this afternoon. Any further comments or questions or concerns from any of my colleagues? I'll relinquish the mic if anyone like say anything thing. We're a little rusty, so it's a little Mike Shea, so we're good. Okay. Having said that, I will. Moved for adoption here. Those in favor of adopting the resolution. Please vote i. I. Those opposed vote no. The motion carries and the resolutions that and Cheryl sign it very much. Okay, let's go back in order here and please read the first agenda item. The second agenda item, rather.

Recommendation to approve the use of Sixth Council District Fiscal Year 2015 one-time infrastructure funds in the amount of $56,000 to fund community improvement and community engagement activities in the Sixth Council District for a one-year period; and Decrease appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Public Works Department (PW) by $56,000, and increase appropriations in the General Fund (GP) in the Human Resources Department (HR) by $56,000. (District 6)

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Communication from Councilman Diane Andrews recommendation to approve the use of six Council District Fiscal Year 2015 one time infrastructure funds in the amount of 56,000 to fund community improvement and community engagement activities and decrease appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund in the Public Works Department by 56,000 and increase appropriations in the General Fund in the Human Resources Department by 56,000. District six. It's. Mentioned by Councilman Andrews and a second by Councilman Austin. Councilmember Andrews. Yes. Thank you. You know, since I've been in office, we have seen, you know, a lot of positive changes within the district. You know, with all the tasks that we have completed, we still have a lot of needs. And I would like to engage the City Workforce Development Board, who has been instrumental in fixing a lot of the problems from reducing unemployment to removing blight and to assist with continuing this challenge. And I would hope that my colleagues will. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Andrews, I wanted to thank you for taking this step. I think it's very important and appreciate that you're making this move. Is there any member of the public that wish to comment on this item? Seeing None members cast your vote. Motion carries nine zero. Okay. We have taken item 34 and 35. And. New business. What is this first thing? Let's try. Okay. This is the opportunity for any member of the public that wish to address Council on items, not agenda raised. Seeing new members of the audience wishing to speak. I will go to new business from Members Council Member Richardson.

Recommendation to receive the application of AI California, LLC, dba Aldi, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License, at 4580 Atlantic Avenue, determine that the application serves the public convenience and necessity, submit a Public Notice of Protest to ABC, and direct City Manager to withdraw the protest if a Conditional Use Permit is granted. (District 8)

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Motion carries. Item 19 Report from Police Recommendation to receive the application of Aldi for an original application of an ABC license at 4580 Atlantic Avenue. Determined that the application serves the public convenience and necessity. Submit a public notice of protest to ABC and direct City Manager to withdraw the protest if a conditional use permit is granted. District eight. Councilman Austin Yes, I am very excited about this new development. I'd like to welcome the very first Aldi to Long Beach. It'll be located in the big Knowles or just next door to the biggest we no shopping center. This is actually one of three new grocery stores coming to the eighth District this year. This conditional conditional use permit for this Aldi is scheduled to be heard before our planning commission this Thursday. So while the City Council must vote to protest the ABC license this evening due to a lack of a copy, the protest may be withdrawn very shortly if the CP is granted it. And so therefore I would ask for your approval of the staff recommendation. Thank you, Councilmember Mongo. I support the new development. Thank you. So any member of the public that wishes to address Council on item 19. Seeing None members cast your vote. Motion carries.

Recommendation to request status from City Manager regarding the next steps in moving forward with the rebuild of Basins 2 and 3 within the next 30 days.

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Motion carries nine votes. Thank you. Item 13 Clark three. I am 13 is a report from the Office of the Council Member Gary DeLong and Council member Susan Lowenthal with the recommendation to request a status from the city manager regarding the next 12 steps towards moving forward with the rebuild of basins two and three within the next 30 days. Mr. DELONG. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. City managers, you know, I'm very concerned with the current status of the rebuilding. And looking at some of the comments that have come into tonight's council for me, I just thought I'd share a couple for the audience. And I think it reflects my concern is that here's what it says slip renters have paid fees while being told a portion of the money will go to the rebuild. They've done their part. Older voters are having trouble negotiating wobbly and broken docks in Basin two and three employees are exposed to injury. Here's another one that says I've been a slip lessee for 27 of the last 36 years. These stocks are unsafe. I'm 72 and just this last summer I fell after tripping on a protruding nail. Many have been injured on my gangway. A red cone has been placed in a spot where the dock is particularly damaged. Another one that says the current state of the Alameda Space Marina Basins two and three is a disgrace to the city. It calls itself the aquatic chapter. The world actually just of America, not the world. Yet this marina should be the pride of the city. It serves all kind of boaters, from elite yacht racers to the occasional weekend cruisers. And there's numerous they basically all say the very similar things, which is the docks there are falling apart. And I guess I'm very concerned that for months now I've been hearing that the staff is looking at it. We've been running some financial analysis, but I know that I haven't seen a plan yet. I know that the current contractor, Bellingham Marinas, is close to finishing where they are. And it's my understanding we do not have a plan to keep them engaged. And there will be significant financial penalties through demobilization and remobilization, as well as if we don't dredge under the existing permit, it could cost millions of dollars or perhaps as much as $14 million extra. So I don't know if you have any comments now on how you can keep this project moving, but the formal request is to have a plan within the next 30 days. The city manager. Thank you, Mayor. Councilmember DeLong, just to point out that this is an extremely important project to the city. As everyone knows, we completed the Shoreline Marina recently and also the Rainbow Harbor Marina recently with the Marina Funds and also the Department of Boating and Waterway Loans. Right now, we're in the process of completing the Alamitos Bay Marina after three of the seven basins. We are running into financial issues, there's no question about that. And we're working right now with our finance department and our Marine bureau and Parks and Recreation Department to see about coming up with the solutions for these things. This basically comes to us with the termination of the Department of Boating and Waterway Loans. That program no longer exists. So while we're looking at the finances, we definitely want to make it clear to the boat owners and also the city council that we are coming up with a plan to take care of the dredging. I think that's critical to take care of the dredging before we lose our permit and deal with that. We're also looking at doing the utility work that's necessary with Southern California Edison and other things that we can do with the funds that we have while we put together a plan to take care of some of the issues that you brought up in some of your comments. Well, if we can be just a little more specific, so what can we do? I mean, today, immediately, what are we prepared to do to continue the project moving forward? And I understand you can't commit to the entire project being done tonight, but what can you commit to to keep this moving forward that we don't come to a standstill in the next few weeks? Our hope is not to come to a standstill, but we certainly are plan to come back as the council's requesting with a report in 30 days. And do you anticipate that report will have a plan of action that will continue moving forward? Because I don't want to do is come back in 30 days and say, well, you know, I guess we just can't move forward and there's really nothing we can do at this point. And we'll just have to let the contractor go. We will have a plan of action. I can't guarantee that it's going to look to the outcome that you're looking at, but we will have a plan of action to continue this and get this project done. Well, I know that is my understanding that two of the next areas are there's about $900,000 and some city work, as well as some landside utility work. I mean, is there any any reason why we would not continue to move forward with that portion? Probably not. Those are things we're looking at right now. But I don't want to make a commitment until we look with our finance department and also with the Parks and Recreation Department. As you know, there was a very serious audit done by the City Auditors Department about two years ago to guarantee that this project goes forward without touching the general fund. And those are things that we want to make sure that we maintain. True to the city council on. And and how quickly do you think you can come back with a recommendation within. 30 days. Any any sooner than that on anything for. You. We certainly will try. We definitely are close to coming up with solutions on dredging and things like the utilities that you're talking about. But some of these are really high ticket items to come in and take care of. An entire basin. And those are things we need to look at and work with our finance department and how that can get funded. Well, since I know you've been working on this for for a number of months, do you think it's likely within a couple of weeks, perhaps, you can address some of those things that you just mentioned and it might take you 30 days to come back with the whole plan. 30 days with the whole plan will address what we can. But I don't want to come back to you in two weeks and disappoint you that we don't have a plan yet. I'm saying 30 days and we'll respond to what you're requesting. Okay. And I guess what I'm saying is, if if you can identify it as a couple of the smaller things that could be done in the next couple of weeks and make a decision on I mean, I'd certainly be interested in moving forward as we've waited for a full plan. We'll work on that. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Mr. O'DONNELL. Thank you. And I. As a regular user. Of the marina, I can attest that those basins are in serious need of a reconstruction. There's nails everywhere. There's boards popping up, there's cones and places that you have to walk around. So, again, they are in need of repair and I think that's been made pretty clear. Can you check on this historically? My understanding is that maybe even 20 years ago, this is back when I was at the Marine Patrol, but about 20 years ago, there's a transfer from the Marina Fund to the Tidelands Fund. I think it's from Fund 39 to fund 36. Those are the numbers used back then. I don't know if those are the same numbers used now. I thought there was a transfer over to the title inside the beachfront site because oil had dropped so low and it was a loan and I don't know if it was paid back, but it was a loan of some significance. Could you check into this? Certainly will. I'm looking at our finance director. Multiple many million dollars. Certainly. We'll get back on that. Absolutely. And I know where I'm going with this is there's a potential for that that beachfront fund to pay back the marina if that situation does, in fact, exist. But with interest. With interest, according to the mayor. Yes, sir. Mr. Johnson. Well, thank you, Mayor. And I think everyone on this council and I'm sure everyone in the audience, you. Know, wants to get the work done. But we all know how serious it is to have hazards and so forth. But can you educate me real quickly? You said there were some cost problems. Has this project been going over budget? Is that the issue and maybe some unexpected challenges? Or what are the challenges that we that we're facing so far? We'll put that in the report. There certainly are some cost overages that we're taking a look at before we respond. Okay. Well, I think it's important for the public to know that we all want to get this done. It's critical we get it done. But it's sound like there's some. Facts are getting you know, getting in the way. And, you know, the facts are important in the conversation. I want to make it clear there's no facts getting in the way. There is lack of funding getting in the way. So that's what we're looking at. Right. But I mean, I think the fact is we've gone over budget, whatever it is. I mean, I don't know what the answer is, but I mean, I think those are facts as is a measure. Thank you. The fact that we have a lack of funds. Mr. Long, have you made a motion? Yes, I move the recommendation. Second, Burton seconded. Any member of the Public Trust Council on this item, please come forward. I know a lot of you are here for this. I would ask you to do the best you can to summarize your comments. Good. Very good. You succeed? Yes. Longtime supporter of voting dynamics. But to die for this debacle was cast seven years ago when this was started. It was a nonstarter. It was unbundled from day one. It was a smoke and mirrors. You're on the hook. You made a very. Dumb decision when you went with the most expensive contractor and the only one on the West Coast. It's like buying a car. From a dealership. Who's going to be the only one that services it, that 16, 2000 miles away. Who do you think is going to pay for that? This is unwinnable. One of the things that you've got to work out and get done fast. Mr. Mayor. Is those Cal 37 boats of your buddies in the Long Beach Yacht Club have to haul ass out of there and they should be factored into bass in three. And the clock is ticking. If you were watching the Olympic Games that you at the IOC, the USOC, will announce when they're going to pull that trigger in terms of bidding. If that's the case, they will be here sometime within the next six or seven months. I can guarantee you with almost absolute certainty. Unless those slips are vacated, taken out of their. It can save time, but not to burn out unless that happens. The chances of Long Beach and Los Angeles getting the Olympic bid. Our next anil anastasiou discuss four because Macy's doesn't eligibles. I don't want to repeat what I outlined before, but absolutely central to the US getting that bid when I say our Southern California. They have unfettered areas for training. It's not ten years from now or 2024 when we're going to have the games. It's the run up to that to create the buzz to get the people here. Period. And that window is closing very fast. And if not, the legacy of the people sitting up there in the blue jackets who own those boats. We'll go down in history as ones along with Bob Foster, who crossed Southern California, the next Olympic bid. Thank you. Thank you. All by myself? Yes. Next large party. I knew you were a powerful guy. Next to me for everything. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Mr. Mayor and council members. Thank you for hearing us. I represent the Boat. Owners Association. The Long Beach Marina. Boat Owners. Association. I'm the president. This is our. Message. Rebuild the docks. Now we have a. Second message. To follow up after I mention a few reasons for that. The rebuild of these. Marinas has been delayed over. And over and over again. There's always seems to be some problem cropping up that prevents the acquisition. Of financing for. Getting the work done. Right now, we understand that if this project is delayed. Much longer, it'll incur an additional $17 million. Cost. For the city. And in our opinion, that seems to be pretty poor management of. Sydney City resources. The second thing, as. Has been pointed out, the old docks are unsafe and the city is going to see some lawsuits. Arise from that, if not. Already. The third point is our slip fees have already. Been increased with the understanding that that increase was needed to facilitate the acquisition of financing. For the completion of the marina. We've done our part. Now it's time for you guys to do your part. Keep in mind, voters are voters. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening again, Mr. Mayor. I rise as Commodore of the Association of State, so I need every name again. I'm erratic. I rise as Commodore of the Association of San Pedro Bay Clubs. My organization represents the racing interests of the clubs from San Pedro down through Huntington Harbor. In our marina, there are five yard clubs that are part of our association Long Beach Alamitos Bay SEAL Beach Yacht Club. Even though we're SEAL Beach Yacht Club, we are in Long Beach Navy Yacht Club of Long Beach and Little Ships Fleet Yacht Club. Together, we hold over 100 races per year. Some world class events, such as the A Congressional Cup, some are weekend beer or weekly beer can races on Thursday, Wednesday night and Thursday nights. And I want to impress upon you how important it is that this rebuild take go forward. Again, we build ourselves the aquatic capital of America. If we can't continue to attract world class racers, we can't continue continue to attract additional boaters. If our basins two and three are basically second class citizens to the docks that have already been completed. Thank you. Have a great evening. Thank you, Mr. President. Next, please. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Council people. My name is Carl Cunningham, past president of the Long Beach Marina Boat Owners Association. I'd like to point out that we are really not complaining about the management of the Marine bureau. We're not complaining about the maintenance of the you know, the maintenance people. They do a yeoman's job. They're working all the time, literally. And just to give you a little flavor of what it's like on the gangways. By the way, gangways are the wide ones. Fingers are the little narrow ones. The boats are in between. I was walking down the gangway one time and I was one of them that got a nail, the nails sticking up about that big. I was at night and I didn't see it. Bam, just absolutely flat. And the problem with that is it wasn't just so much falling. Of course I didn't. So it wasn't so much falling. But when you hit those gangways, they're full of splinters and sort of splinters. That's what really got me more than anything else, which was a real problem. But tonight, as I was coming over here, I'm a little bored. I noticed on the I'm on Gangway 29 over on Gangway 28 there was a finger where the at the end of the finger there were no boats attached to it was completely in the water. It had the float had gone. And I just had a horrible sort of a child on a tricycle, you know. Got away from mommy. Going down that finger and into the 60 degree water. And I don't even want to go there. You can imagine what that lawsuit would have cost the city of Long Beach. I mean, there's you know, there's no gates to stop anybody from going on to the gangway. So I urge you to really consider the fact that as it was already brought out, we're looking at 17,000, 17 million penalty, if I'm not mistaken, if we delay this project we've already. Paid, we've. Had our slip fees increased again with the promise that this was going to take care of the marina. Rebuild. And we've only got to double, you know, number three. And number two. And so we would certainly like to see that move forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Council people. My name is Robert Vet. I'm a Long Beach resident and a member of the Long Beach Marina Boat Owners Association. I rent a slip here and I'm giving you a message from one of our members who is in Peru. He's saying the remaining wood would gangways and a beam continue to deteriorate at a pace that the maintenance department cannot possibly keep up with. Case in point two hardworking men from the maintenance department worked on the gangway of my slip for four days, attempting to raise the dock. That had sunk to the point that the bottom of the wood supports were below the waterline as they would reinforce and install the new wood boards. In one area, the wood immediately next to it would collapse, its dry rotted as it could not support the new strain that the new boards were adding to it. What started as a small repair kept extending to a larger area, and they also had an additional flow to assist what was somewhat in floating the dock. After the work was done, the gangway is better than it was, but it's still by no means a permanent repair that will last a long time. The same area has been repaired before. Also, this repair causes strain on the finger directly across the way, to a point that the old finger could not be repaired and a new one had to be installed. Three weeks later, the float on the finger on the other side of the new one sunk and the maintenance crew pumped it to refloat it. Time will tell how long this will last. This scenario goes on daily at Basins two and three, as you can clearly see. The base support structure has totally deteriorated that it can no longer support the attempts to refloat the docks. I have great respect for this maintenance crew working on the docks for their perseverance and creativity in attempting to keep these old docks afloat. Alfredo Fernandez. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, we. Mr. Mayor and Honorable Councilman. Councilwoman. My name is Roger Gripe. Unfortunately, I don't live in the city of Long Beach, but my second home and my boat is here in District three in Alamitos Bay. I've been a boat owner and had a boat in the marina for 17 years, and I've seen the docks just completely deteriorate in Alamitos Bay while downtown was rebuilt. And and we do have, I believe, based on one base and four have been completed. I, I don't have a vote in this city, but I am on the advisory board for the Long Beach Rental Boat Owners Association, as well as a Vice Commodore, one of the local yacht clubs here. And I don't have a vote here. I'd surely be there at the polls. But if the need comes, I would hope that I could probably enforce more, more votes that I could provide if I did live here. But nevertheless, you've heard the reason for the rebuild, and I'm not going to repeat those. It takes too much time and we don't need to do that. But I would urge you to give serious consideration about rebuilding these docks they needed. My wife stepped on a nail about three weeks ago, and thank God it didn't go all the way through the shoe, but it went almost three quarters of the way through, and I'm glad it didn't puncture her foot. We've also had deaths due to individuals falling off the docks and drowning and not being able to come back up out of the water. These are issues that could definitely cause the city some liability, and the city would be very wise to take that tidelands money and use it as backing to acquire loans to to get the money that's needed to rebuild this marina as soon as possible. Thank you very. Much. Thank you very much for. Good evening. My name is Dr. Phyllis Roe. My husband and I have a boat in the Alamitos Bay Marina Basin to dock 15. First of all, I would like to thank Mr. DeLong for his strong support of the Marina Rebuild. And we'll be looking to you for leadership on the council. My husband and I have had a boat in the Long Beach Marina system for over 20 years, and as the others have said, we have seen the continuous increase in our slip fees and decrease in the in the services that are provided and the and the the docks. On January 23rd, I sent an email to each of you inviting you to take a walk on our gangway so that you could see firsthand the condition, the unsafe condition of our gangway. And I'm just wondering if anybody did that. If not, I invite you again to do so, so that you can see what we're up against here on this dock. However, when you do so, please go in the daylight so that you don't trip over nails and and protruding boards and wear some sturdy shoes. In the email, I referred to a nail that I had removed because I almost tripped on it this summer. It was in the middle of the gangway. I went to our boat to get a hammer and I tried to hammer it back in. It would not go back in, so I took it out. This is what it was protruding at least half way. This is what the people have been talking about. I've been thinking about what we could do to influence Long Beach, to be responsible in this regard. Some of the ideas that I came up with as a dock walker, I can inform everybody about our efforts. The problems that you've identified. I can suggest that we all come together and withhold our slip fees until something is done and the quality of our docks are improved. I could I can recommend and we are looking into this that we move our boats so to a more safe marina. And I certainly am going to look into other strategies and see what other people have to say. We don't want to start a Boston Tea Party in Long Beach. We would like you to recognize your responsibility to your constituents and use your power to eliminate this nautical slum. One other point. I've heard that funding is the problem. We all know that the marina is a cash cow. I would like at each of the meeting's monthly meetings of the Marine Bureau that a report be given by the interim or acting director of the amount of funds that are brought in monthly. The disposition of those funds and the progress on the marina rebuild. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, can I ask you a question? You may. Excuse me. What is the monthly meeting that you're referring to? The Marine advisory or the commission? Okay. I guess I'm going to ask course for staff. Is there any reason why you couldn't provide that information to the Mac and the public? I think they provide it regularly. I excuse me, I was at a recent meeting and someone asked for that information and it was not forthcoming. All right. Whatever. Follow with my office and we'll figure it out. Okay. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening, Mayor Foster Councilmembers. My name is Jerry Garcia, and I am here to. Ask you to please make. Sure that the remaining basins are completed. My friends and I work very hard to maintain a boat in one of the basins that has been completed. But we think it's fair and only fair that the remaining basins are also completed. Boat owners, big and small, all deserve safe docks. If these were city sidewalks, those would be repaired. And the fact is that those docks are the city sidewalks. For. The visitors and guests that come to our boats. So in their current condition, we've already heard that they are a dangerous liability for our city. And as you've heard, the cost for our city, it's something that we just can't afford. If we put this off. When the slip fees were raised, we were promised that these fees would go towards the improvement of the basins. And so with that said, when I please ask you to make sure that this goes through. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Good evening, everyone. My name is Mike Nichols on it. And I lived in the once thick corona. And I work at a nonprofit. And my friend and I saved the money for 15 years to get a little boat. It was a dream. And although we are lucky that our boat in one of our basins that have been repaired, we hope that we hope and pray that the other basins will be finished and expect it. Also, the docks are very, very dangerous and they will be so unfair to cut the other basins out. Please finish the repairing. Our marina, please. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Foster. Ladies and gentlemen of the council, my name is Rectory. I'm the chairman of the Marine Advisory Commission for the City of Long Beach. You've heard all the impassioned pleas and the details about the deterioration of the Alamitos Bay Marina. That's well documented, and we don't need to go into more detail here. But what I would like to do is go on record before this body is saying that your Marine Advisory Commission has been a proponent of the rebuild since day one. We've been involved in every stage of the project, every phase of it, looking at the finances, looking at the physical work that's being done down there. And we continue to be a proponent of the rebuild. We we absolutely would hate to see any form of delay or certainly no stoppage in the process as it goes forward. So we just want to go on record as saying that we are in favor of the rebuild and we'd like to continue to see it go forward. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Can I ask Mr. Drake a couple of questions? Thank you. So tell me, on the Marine Advisory Commission, have you always been under the impression that this, up until recently at this project was moving forward? Well, yes. I mean, it was approved three or four years ago. I mean, the project has been moving forward in a steady pace, beginning with Basin four and then moving to Basin one. There were funding available for the first phases of the project. We knew from the get go that there would come a point where additional funding would have to be acquired for the next or subsequent phases to be instituted. That was never a secret. It was always out there on the horizon. I think now the funding mechanisms are going to have to be discussed, and that goes back to the city managers statement about coming back with a program to move it forward. And what was the Mack's understanding of what those funding mechanisms are going to be, and was that ever discussed at those meetings? It was discussed in generalities, but never any specifics. I believe that there has been some consulting work done on how the different issues might come to pass. Nothing has been released yet, as far as we know, as far as the different alternatives or alternatives available to the council or the city, as far as how to fund the project. So. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Thanks, Mr. King, please. Mayor Foster City Council members in the city. I am Francis, Emily Tyson Harris and I reside in District one and I kept hearing the language of me say when I served on Cape Cod, there was a concern regarding this sensibility of Alameda to spay dock. And I'm just want to find out if the docks are remaining. Do you now can you you may not be able to ask me directly, but there was a concern about it not being accessible, making the the sensible so that persons with disabilities have the opportunity of riding on these chances. Water, taxi. And so I was looking in the book and I can't determine whether or not has it been completed and not completed. Are these two docks one of them, one of the docks that needs to be made accessible? Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. West, would you please give Ms.. Harris that answer? Yes. All of the new docks are accessible. Will be accessible. I have we'll have to get back to you on what the existing ones are. Would you also like Cape Cod now as well? Certainly. Thank you very much. Thank you, Miss Harris. Any other public comment? We've got some customers have a question. But before we do, Mr. Watson, I would know. I would like to I'd like to have a thorough sort of chronology or history of, you know, exactly what happened. Do we embark on this knowing that we were going to have to have other funding sources? And what was the likelihood of that and what was the wisdom of that? I'm really if people have been charged in anticipation of having capital improvements and now we are unable to do so, I want to know exactly what happened. Thank you. Mississippi governor. Mississippi. The mayor. Well, and Pat, is this possible that tidelands funds can be used perhaps as the guarantee if we bonded against on the slip, these. Tidelands funds can certainly be there. The city finance director would recommend not bonding against Highland Funds, but title and funds can be. On those funds. I know that. But you can bond against slip fees. But the I think we could raise less than $10 million bonding on the existing slippage moratorium. So we could proceed on this if we utilized the timelines funds. Tidelands is an eligible eligible expenditure. Yes. Okay. Well, I would hope that we look at that. The other thing is, I would hope that we would get some kind of accounting of the slip fees. I've heard this from numerous boat owners who live in the fifth and have slips down there that they've never really seen a public accounting of all the fees that have been collected. So I'm hopeful that we could get that. I think that certainly has been provided will provide that again. I do want to highlight that regarding the Tidelands funds, again, any expenditure over $100,000 needs permission from the State Lands Commission. Well, I understand, but my understanding is that cities that have timelines have used it for marinas as long as they're publicly accessible. And then the question for city attorney, both in Mr. de Long's council agenda item and in numerous emails that I've received, is the issue of potential liability. Is it possible through your office that we get a risk assessment that because I think obviously, if I'm hearing this repeatedly, that people feel that they can be injured, something desperate in a battle is going to happen. I think it would be helpful if we have some kind of risk assessment that might help us move, you know , in a faster direction and pinpoint exactly what needs to be fixed immediately. We can get you an assessment. Yes. Thank you. Mr. DeLong. Thank you. How much? And surplus the right word. But how much extra cash flow to the marinas generate today? I guess I've heard numbers to $3 million a year. I could provide that information in the report that you're asking for, but I don't have it at the top of my head. No. Mr. Chapman here. Georgia John. Mayor, council member, council members long it generates about $3.2 million annually. So 3.2 million extra after you cover your cost of running them. Well, that's about it. Yeah. Okay. And then since it's been doing that for some time, is there a reserve or is there a fund? Balancers. Every penny been used for the existing basins or what do we have set a set aside of that $3.2 million annual surplus towards the future construction? I believe most of it is being used to pay back DBA loans. And recently we used some of the reserves. To actually do base and five. With cash reserves. Okay. So what is our cash reserve now in the Marina Fund? You know, approximately, I think about. 2 million right now. Okay. And what's the loan balance of the DBA loans that we have? I think it's about 46 million at this point. I have to double check. Because the city has devolved loans for both. Shoreline and Base four and Basin one. Great. Thank you. Okay. Well, I appreciate the information. I look forward to getting the report back. I tell you, I think that, you know, certainly, you know, I apologize to the boat owners in the situation we're in. It's it's certainly been a surprise to me. I always thought that we were, you know, on schedule. We were moving forward. It was going to happen. It's like I said, it's been a surprise to find out that we haven't got the funding completely locked down. I know that. And a recent tour I took of the docks, it's just shocking to me that the dilapidated condition they're in and hopefully in the next 30 days, we'll get a solution to this very thorny problem. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we have we have a we have a motion in the second members. Cast your votes on item 13. Motion carries nine votes. Yeah. Thank thank you all for coming out, by the way. I appreciate it. Thank you. Just as a courtesy, we'll move to item 17 before 14 because some young people waiting here. So item 17, GREGORY.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute a Fourth Amendment to Contract No. 34342 with Plenary Properties Long Beach, LLC, of Los Angeles, CA, and any other documents or agreements necessary, to address COVID-19-related impacts to the Civic Center Project and to allow for the completion of Lincoln Park construction and the demolition of the old City Hall; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute an amendment to Contract No. 33444 with ARUP North America Limited, increasing the contract amount by $180,000 for additional services associated with support of the Civic Center Project Phase II and Lincoln Park operations, in a revised total amount not to exceed $11,461,545, and extend the contract term to February 15, 2023; Increase appropriations in the Civic Center Fund Group in the Public Works Department by $1,250,000, for the revitalized Lincoln Park, offset by a transfer of revenues from construction and development funds totaling $1,250,000 in the Development Services Fund Group in the Development Services Department; Increase appropriations

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Thank you. Item 14, please. Item 14 Report from Public Works. Parks, Recreation and Marine. Recommendation to execute amendments to contracts with winery properties. Long Beach and Arab North America to address COVID19 related impacts and for additional services associated with support of the Civic Center Project Phase two and Lincoln Park Operation District two. Okay. Let's kind of briefly go to this presentation, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This is an exciting project we want to talk to you about. Want to show you the kind of updated design for the Lincoln Park that is part of our public private partnership. It is the last major piece of the public improvements that needs to be done for that agreement. And we're getting pretty close to moving forward to getting that started. So we'd like to go through that for you today and then also talk to you a little bit about the next steps for the demolition of City Hall and then hopefully the subsequent private development that will come on that site in the pending future. The Eric Lopez will give a staff report. Thank you, Tom. An honorable mayor and members of the city council. We're ready to proceed with construction for Lincoln Park and the demolition of the Old City Hall. Next slide. We've worked really hard on the side plan and on the different activation elements for this park. We're going to be providing opportunities for for dog owners at the new dog park. There's going to be a playground, a field, a basketball court, fitness equipment and an outdoor reading room and other elements focused on activation. Next slide, please. Shown here on the screen is a rendering of a nighttime shot. We've designed this park with the ability to be. Activated as. An 18 hour park. We know that. Costs money and we're working hard on the operations and maintenance plan and will be returning to council prior to the end of construction on on that on that plan and on that strategy. But we wanted to really make sure that this park had something for everyone and that it could be active not just in one element, but in multiple elements at the same time, and that it would have the opportunities for special events and that there would be synergy between the new library to the north and and the adjacent a park. And in the future with the block development, we're looking for connections. To the West as. Well. Next slide, please. This is the view from the. From the front, the corner of Ocean and Pacific, and it shows one of our art components. To the left, you can see the library. In the back, you can see the activity within within the park. This is one of a couple of renderings that we will. Quickly show you. Next slide, please. She has a rendering of the playground at at nighttime. This is just a rough rendering we're still working on on refining some of the color elements to to make it pop. But we're really happy about the effect. During the nighttime and really making this a a. Lively. And cool place for people and kids to to play and just interact at night with with their families. Next slide, please. We've identified multiple locations for public art in addition to the two, the Lincoln Memorial and the reading area, and to the link in our piece on Ocean Boulevard. These to our areas shown in this slide are going to be areas where we're going to be focusing on working with our arts communities to really develop sculpture art that can really help with the what our goal of activating the space and making this an iconic area. Next slide, please. We haven't designed the art, but we have developed the size and the scale and we want this to have a wow factor and this as well as we're ready to go through this process of developing the design of these sculptures. And we really. Want to. Work with our. Local artists to help them take a lead role with this component and really help us make this park great. Next slide, please. This is the view from the corner of Pacific of Ocean and Cedar. And you can again see the sea, the library in the background, see the playground and just different elements, different areas for people. To to. Interact at. Next slide, please. In addition to proceeding with construction of Lincoln Park staff, is proposing to proceed with the demolition of the Old City Hall concurrently. Like in other areas within our organization, the COVID pandemic has negatively impacted the Civic Center project. The sale and development of the MID-BLOCK has been significantly delayed, which has caused problems at the at the site. That early demolition would. Help us address. Next slide, please. This concludes staff's presentation. And we stand ready to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Lopez, before I turn this over to Councilman Allen, I want to make just a couple of brief remarks. This is, of course, going to be just a a spectacular park in the city of Long Beach. Really impressed with the work that the architects and the designers and our public works team put in place for the park. I want to just also just share one. I absolutely love that the. But the designers of the park really kind of took this idea of building some kind of special moments and spaces in the park of significance. And I think that speaks to the opportunity for those large art pieces and really to that just amazing piece that will be the the Lincoln Penny. And I imagine that that that a piece like that done the right way will become an instant overnight hit from an art perspective and the way that you connected that to the idea of Lincoln Park. Yet it also harkens back to the idea of of of the bike and of of of what was there before and the penny arcade. It's the whole thing, honestly, is amazing just the way that at least that's what I interpret from that Penny and the Lincoln on it. So I think it's just it's just pretty phenomenal. And I can guarantee you that you're going to have an endless stream of Long Beach residents and visitors posing in front of that large penny, taking endless pictures. And, you know, it will be a probably one of our most Instagrammed moments and sites across the city and so very well done on the park. Look forward to seeing it completed. And I just I love the attention to art that was placed in the park and the history that that that Lincoln still is spoken to at the park as a as a, you know, obviously. One of the greatest presents that we've ever had here in our country. And so thank you for still continuing to honor President Lincoln, which I think is really important and in a very unique way. Councilwoman Allen. Thank you, Mayor. I was so excited to get the report on Lincoln Park. And as you all see, it just has something for everyone. I love, love, love the playground with the black lights. And I can just see that there are going to be so many kids that are going to enjoy that. And the basketball courts. I love that. I was literally cheering. I love basketball courts. In fact, I was down at the I don't want a parallel like basketball courts over the weekend. And it's just so wonderful to see the families and children, you know, engage down there. And they even had some of the break dancers with music. And it just remind me, you know, back in the days when I was in high school here at college, just what these parks do and how they bring people together and create, you know, community. So I'm just so excited about this. Lincoln Park is going to be a gem. And our city, the planners did such an amazing, just amazing job on this. And I just cannot wait to see it completed. So thank you so much for this report and just I really appreciate this and excited about it. Thank you. And councilman's in the house. Congratulations. Council member Alan on this amazing park. I'm so excited. Of course, reactivating this green space in downtown Long Beach is going to be phenomenal for all of our residents, including the First District residents. So I can't wait to see you support this item. So again, congratulations. Thank you. And Councilman Allen, there was a motion. Yes, Mayor. That was a motion. In conference in the House. That was a second. So. Okay. I do not think I see public comment on this item. So with that, was there a roll call vote? Councilwoman Zendaya's. Councilwoman Ellen. I. Councilwoman Pryce. I. Councilman. All right. Councilwoman. Mongo. I as woman Sara. I. Council member oranga. I. Councilman Austin. I. Councilman Alston. I Vice Mayor Richardson. I. Motion k.

Recommendation to receive and file a list of the recommendations compiled from the Medical Cannabis Task Force.

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She took communication from Councilmember Urunga, Vice Mayor Lowenthal, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Richardson. A recommendation to receive and file a list of the recommendations compiled from the Medical Cannabis Task Force. Councilmember Wrangham. Thank you, Bear. Basically, I want to thank my former colleagues, council members, who with the Andrews and Rex Richardson for sending on to this. It has been a nice long process for the the task force has been working has done its job. It has it has a series of recommendations that are coming here to us. And I would hope that my council members would approve receive a file of this item. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. I don't have any comments at this point. Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. I'm going to urge my colleagues to vote against this item. I appreciate Councilman Yanga bringing this forward, but I have a few points that I just want to share with my colleagues and ask you to please keep an open mind regarding the points that I want to make. First of all, I read the agenda item. And just as a point of clarification, Mr. Mays or the city clerk who I know has been at every one of these meetings, these task force meetings. Are these recommendations or are these just topic items that all the task force members were able to put on this list? Councilwoman Price I'll try to answer. And if I say anything incorrectly, if the city clerk could jump in the way and I have been to every meeting except for one, the way this has worked is initially the task force had engaged speakers to come down and talk about various subject. And as those subjects were discussed after maybe three or four meetings, I think we were into it. It was decided to more or less keep a running tab. They would vote on issues that later they would come back and then make formal recommendations. So basically it was a running list. I would characterize it as a running list of topics, but no actual recommendations other than defining the topics have been passed. The plan was the task force self committed to trying to end the process on July 29th. What would have happened last Wednesday night had we not had the emergency situation in the downtown area, is that we would have started going through the list of recommendations, the list of topics. There are approximately 45, some of our double topics, approximately 45. The plan was to go through them one by one, have a discussion on each item, and then hopefully get a motion and ultimately a clear, concise recommendation back to council on something. So from my perspective, none of those are actual recommendations, but just topics. Have the task force members voted on any single one of these recommendations or. I'm sorry, running list of topics. Not. Not that I can recall that they voted to formulate a recommendation and start compiling a list to send that back to council only. Topics. Okay. And the reason that I that I asked that question is so we all. Other than Councilman Supernova, who is not here but the rest of us actually selected members of the community. I believe most of them are residents of the city of Long Beach to serve voluntarily on this task force with the commitment that we made to them that their work was going to be meaningful and that we were going to consider their efforts, and that at some point they were going to get to vote or at the very least offer some sort of closing remarks to the people that they've been serving with since April. Is that when they started their service in April? Or that when they first met. If I recall, I think the first meeting was maybe the first week in April. Okay. So but it is am I correct to assume that the task force members believe that at some point they were going to get to either vote on recommendations that that that this process was designed for them to at some point get to vote on a recommendation? Exactly. There was so much material to cover, it was sort of impossible to keep your thoughts collected without keeping sort of a running tab of issues that became apparent as different speakers or written material was provided to the task force. And at the time that we created this task force in February of 2015, we had not yet received from the city staff data and information that came to council and through the task force in the form of two memorandum provided by various departments in the city. Is that correct? That's correct. And I think we did receive the task force did receive the second memorandum approximately June 4th. And so the task force, where they provided copies of the information that we were receiving in terms of fiscal impacts, regulatory impacts, those kinds of things. Were they updated with that information? Both of the memos that the city management prepared were provided to the task force as soon as, you know, at the next meeting after the document became public. Okay. My concern with this item and I think I, I understand where it's coming from and I appreciate the intent behind it, which is to to move the process along. And I completely get that. I understand it. I, I respect that position. Certainly nobody wants and I'm sure the members of the task force would be the first to say they don't want to serve an indeterminate term on this task force, that they're hoping that it comes to an end at some point. So I appreciate the intent behind it, but I believe that getting involved at this juncture, when the task force has one final meeting set that they're hoping, well, they had two meetings. One was canceled as a result of the power outage, but that they have a date certain on their calendars. These are citizens in our community who have active lives, who have families, who have things, who have these dates on their calendars. I know for a fact that at least one member of this task force has rearranged their family schedule, vacation schedule in order to be at this meeting that they had contemplated to be the last and final meeting. I think it sets a bad precedent for us to get involved and basically call a list of items that they've put together, recommendations and call it a day. I think it sets a bad precedent for our future engagement of the community in terms of citizen advisory commissions. I think Citizen Advisory Commissions can be a very helpful tool because these people serve their time to weed through the data and figure out exactly no pun intended there. Figure out exactly what it is that they think are best for their best recommendations for their cities as as residents of the city. And we rely on them. So, you know, this the the medical cannabis task force that we created has been working on this for months. I believe it's only fair that the process continue or at the very least, each task force member be provided an outlet where they can contribute their thoughts and a final meeting or a final to meetings. The recommendations provided have not been voted on. They are simply a list and the task force members do not feel that these tentative recommendations are representative of everyone's views. In fact, if you look at the list, there's a recommendation on there that the city's current ban continue and another one that says we should wait until 2016 to see where the initiative process goes. And then there are actual land use recommendations. So the the list isn't even consistent in terms of its theme or its direction to council. This is a very controversial topic and the task members varying recommendations are a testament to that. If we receive and file the recommendations today, we will be shutting down the task force without even giving them an opportunity to share some closing thoughts and viewpoints with one another. They are a committee that has been working collectively, hand in hand to the best extent to that, to the extent that they can to do service for us. And I think it would set a very bad tone if we were to end that service without at least giving them an opportunity to close the process in the way that they deem fit within their dynamics. So I think you guys, my my colleagues for listening and I urge you to vote against this in the spirit of the future commissions and task force that we're going to create and and request the assistance of our colleagues and our residents to help us move forward. So thank you. Thank you. Can I get one clarifying question? Because, I mean, I thought that I understood the need to start to consider your anger. The item in front of us wouldn't preclude the the committee from having another meeting that I think they're going to have still in July. Is that is that correct? The next meeting is presently scheduled for the 29th. There's nothing on the agenda item that would, if it were passed, would disband the committee directly. The the only I think the thing that needs to be avoided is doing something that causes confusion in the community, in the sense that if the community believes that these are recommendations, and I think clearly they are not at this point recommendations that would cause some confusion either now or later when this is ultimately addressed by council. And I would because I think I know and I understand having had a few conversations. I understand the the both the urgency and the need to allow the the committee to try to have an opportunity to come together and give either recommendations or some type of some type of ideas to the council. So I just wanted to ask Councilmember Turanga, was it your intention to have the committee have at least one other meeting but then still have the recommendations come the council soon after that? I understand that was your original intent. That is my intent. And in fact, they could have had a meeting because it was a meeting that was canceled. So if the task force had already identified a a date when they were going to conclude their work and that was the 29th, then fine. They can they can make up that meeting that they lost because of the outage. And so they can have another another meeting or two if they so wish to have it, and then bring it back as recommendations in August. So I think I think setting a time certain of having this come back to the council in August would give the flexibility to staff to schedule that in August. And that way we obviously have a variety of meetings in August, but we would be able to schedule that with the rest of the calendar so that at least both the community and the task force know that that their you know, if the maker wants to craft the motion this way, that their work is coming to the council in August for the council to actually deliberate. So I don't know if I want to make that motion, maybe a little if you're willing to accept that. I accept that as a motion. Okay. So the motion with the slight friendly is to receive and file these recommendations that would come to council in August. But there's still going to be conversations and other recommendations are going to come forward, I'm assuming, if this group meets again. So at least that's where it's at right now. And we'll see where where the council is on that. Councilwoman Mongo. Thank you. I, too, want to thank the city staff, specifically the city clerk's office and Mike Mayes for the work that they've done on this. And the commissioners are the committee members that we've each appointed. I have been thoroughly impressed with the depth and the breadth of knowledge that they have digested in such a short period of time and the types of discussions that they've had and the considerable thought that has gone into this. And I do not want to delay. I want the citizens who have volunteered their time to be appreciated and have closure. And I want to thank my task force members for having done an excellent job. I would, however, state that considering and I don't have a August vacation. And so I hope that people take this as a genuine desire for all of my colleagues to be present for the discussion. And I know that in August we have council members who are going to be absent from certain meetings. We actually have two August council meetings because through a motion from Councilmember Richardson, myself and Leanna, we are celebrating neighborhood night out in our communities for citizen engagement and we are dark the last Tuesday of the month. So I would only ask the council member to make a date certain of September 4th, the first meeting in September. The first meeting that we know all council members are present. And again, I mentioned this is not for myself. I am not. It's September 1st. Thank you. I am not taking a vacation. But I do feel it is important that every councilmember be here, you know? Right. September one. Wonderful. Thank you. I appreciate it. Just let's be very clear. So our last meeting in August. I think right now. Right now, the friendly ask from Councilman Bongo was to actually set a date, which was September 1st. First. And I think right now, as it stands, Councilmember Urunga has said by the end of August, which is different. And so I think it sounds like you're sticking with your initial last, which would be the last available meeting in August. Okay, so that's the motion on the floor. Councilmember, your Enga. It gives. I'm sticking to my motion the end of August, which is the same. If you go to September 1st, it gives another two weeks. So it gets extended even two weeks even further. So I can't I can't accept that that that amendment, because it just prolongs it even more. So let's let's get done with this task force. Okay. So the motion is, is for the end of August. Councilwoman Pryce, or did you just go or was that. No, I still have the floor. Sorry. Cleared out. Let me go back to Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I'd like to make a substitute motion that we have a date certain of September 1st so that all council colleagues can be a part of this very important decision impacting all residents of the city of Long Beach. So there is a substitute. I think it's a substitute. Substitute motion, right. Or is it just a substitute? Okay. That's just a substitute motion to have the date certain for September the first that it would come to the council. And I'm assuming and let me ask this question to Mr. Mays on the date that the recommendations will come to council. Would the council be able to make any policy decisions that date? Would it be agendas for policy decisions? Well, it depends on how it was agenda is actually but in theory you could we have a draft ordinance that was prepared at the direction of the planning commission. You could use that as a starting point and you could go through there the task force recommendations and vote to, for instance, include certain things in a draft ordinance . But we would have to bring a draft ordinance ordinance, an amended draft ordinance back to you eventually anyway. That. But. But the council could give you policy direction at that meeting. Absolutely. We'd like you to do X, Y or Z. Okay. Yes. All right. Okay. So the subject of motion is September the fourth. It first. I'm sorry. September 1st. Councilwoman Price. Thank you. I want to thank my colleague, Councilwoman Mango, for requesting the September 1st date. First of all, we're going to be going through some pretty heavy budget discussions in all of August. And realistically, given the study sessions that we have and the PSC meetings that will be there, I think this is an item that I understand two weeks seems like an eternity, but I think that it's important that we give the the the subject, the weight and time that it deserves. I would be requesting first of all, I have an issue with the wording of item 34 because I believe that legally the term recommendation is inaccurate. And so I don't believe that item 34 is legally accurate as it's currently worded. So, Mr. Mays, do you have any concern with the use of the term recommendations? I'm not sure I could say it was legally inaccurate, but it is inaccurate as a reflection of where the task force is. So it is it is not an accurate reflection of the task force because they, in fact, have not made recommendations to this council. It is a list of topics to be voted on in the future. Okay. So, you know, I think that that we may want to correct the wording there if that's important to any of my colleagues. The second is point that I'd like to make is in February when we voted on this, I voted against it because we put forth a timeframe for this task force that was. Completely. Unrealistic. And that's why I was the sole vote against the the item, because the task force that we created, we had a very short turnaround for them. And yet we were asking city staff to come back with financial data, regulatory data, land use data, public safety data, and still expecting the task force to come back. And at a specific period of time, that was not realistic given what we had asked city staff to provide in terms of data. So I understand that we we believe that there are folks who are here in the audience who deserve a swift resolution of this issue. I get that. But I also want us to be cognizant of the fact that our burden in regards to this item grew, as did the work for staff and the workforce for the the workload for the Commission. So we have to be realistic of that. I understand we want to rush it along. I would request of my council colleagues and I cannot imagine a scenario where my colleagues wouldn't go along with this request, is that I'm going to be out of the country on August 18th. I've communicated that to my colleagues on the BSE and and for whatever reason, it seems important to at least one of my colleagues here to have the meeting on that night. This is an issue that's very important for our city. I was in Washington, DC testifying before the National Highway Traffic Administration last week as a subject matter expert on the issue of of medical marijuana and marijuana in general in regards to traffic safety. It's an issue that I've been very involved in. And if my council colleagues feel that it's important to have all of us here for issues that have affect our city, that applies to all of us equally. So I just I really don't even think that that's a subject of debate. I'm asking my colleagues for some consideration. So. Thank you. And I know I will say that I know one major on major issues that have come before the council, including this one in the past, there has there has been deference to ensuring that you do have a full body. And so just to make that note, Council Member Austin. Okay. It just seems to me that we're quarreling over a week or two and and if if it will generate consensus here to to to get us and get the ball rolling. I think it's not really worth the fight. I will support the motion in front of us right now to move this to the September 1st. That makes a lot of sense. I'd like to have some time to debrief with my my appointees on the task force. And a lot has been said about it has been brought up already. We are going into a budget season. Time is going to be very, very limited. And so with this issue, it is a complicated issue. Clearly, there isn't a lot of consensus even on the task force or agreement on the task force on much of these issues. There's no reason to believe that this council is going to get there either. But I'm willing to take that on in September. That's it. I thought you brought up Councilmember Price, brought up the timeline for the task force, and I was going to ask the question. But did we ever establish. I don't recall that. But was there a specified timeline for the task force to actually work? I think originally there was a timeline. I don't recall exactly what it was early on in the process. The task force asked that we send a two from four memo to the council indicating that because of the complexity of the issues and the number of speakers that they wanted to engage to inform themselves about the entire topic , that it wouldn't be possible. That said, there were some weeks where they met, you know, every week, most often because of their schedules. There were so many on there. They met every other week. So they have been working hard. Each meeting was, I would say, at least 3 hours if not 4 hours long. So they have been putting a lot of time into it. Thank you. Well, I think we do need to figure out how to to recognize the efforts of these citizens who've been putting a lot of time in to to assist this council in our decision making. I also just want to go back to the word recommendation, because the item is a recommendation to receive and file a list of the recommendations compiled by the Medical Cannabis Task Force for the next council meeting. But when I go back to the agenda, I look at the agenda of the actual medical cannabis task force. There. One, two, three. Everything starts with the recommendation. And how do we. How do we. How do we separate that from. From. Mr. Mays, how do we separate that from not sending the wrong message? Maybe the correct motion would be to receive and file the list of topics contained in tonight's agenda item rather than refer to them as recommendations. And again, I if I could ask. I will ask the clerk who's been attending the meetings if I'm mischaracterizing it in any way. It was always my understanding that we were compiling a list of topics and that. Starting well last week that they were going to vote on those topics and formalize recommendations that would come back. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. So. I guess the the for the the I guess the motion on the floor would it be in order to offer a friendly amendment amendment to to to characterize it as the city attorney has? I believe that is absolutely necessary. Thank you. Absolutely. All right. Thank you, Mr. Mayes. Thank you, Councilmember Alston. And I think I know. I'd like to add that I think that comes from your anger and I know this is an item that he brought forward, I think is amenable to just accepting the September 1st date as a as a friendly amendment just to bring consensus and move on here. So if I don't know if the if the maker of the substitute motion would be willing to essentially let the councilmember set the September 4th date with the change of the wording of the recommendation September 1st date, we're okay with that. It would be essentially the same. The same motion. Yeah. Okay. That way he has still his item that he's moving forward. So. Okay. So there's a motion on the floor which is contrary. Ringo's which is to September 1st have have the the issue come back. By then, the the committee obviously will have met before that. And we're changing the wording of the word recommendation. Let's you know, we have still a long agenda in front of us. I'm going to keep going through the speakers list by Samir Lowenthal. Thank you. Just quickly on the word change of the list of recommendations. What was the word that he changed it to Mr. Mays? Because all of. Mr. Mays. All of their minutes referred to them as tentative recommendations. A list of topics of topics. Okay. Is what I indicated. Maybe somebody has a better word, but that's really what it is. That's fine. That's fine. That's why I'm thinking. Mr. Mayor. Councilman, your income. Let's get some clarification here. What was sent to us. In its present form, says recommendations. Obviously it was mischaracterized because it should have been sent to me as topics. So my motion here was based on what I received. So that's a mischaracterization. Not my problem. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. So what's happening on September 1st then is still the same. I want recommendations on September 1st, not topics. So if there's a change that needs to take place here is to correct this, um, memo that says recommendations and revise it to say topics. But my recommendation to come back on September 1st is still to come back with recommendations. So that's the st that stays. Is that correct? Yeah, I think that's correct, Mr. MAIZES. Yes. Okay. That's correct. That's excellent. Counselor Richardson. And then we're going to hopefully vote. Yes to hopefully, hopefully vote. I just want to say how how pleased I am to see after all that discussion, we've landed on the same thing. And I just also want to say I also want to say that there's only two meetings in August, and the 18th is my birthday. So give me a break. Let me repeat. This, man. So, come on. I want to be here till midnight on the 18th. September 1st. I know. That's why. Okay. Here we go. So next up, a have public comment. Is there any public comment on the item? Please come forward and we're going to go to a vote. Good evening. I'm Jack Smith. I live at 50 Elm Avenue in the second District in the East Village. I was pleased to be appointed to Vice Mayor Cecil Lowenthal to the task force. We've been working on this a long time. A couple of quick answers. We always creating a list called tentative recommendations. And we were very, very, very careful every step of the way to make sure those were tentative recommendations with the idea that would be going through those tentative list, that tentative list, and then finalizing those. The document you're considering this evening is not a report. It is the agenda for the July 15th meeting at which we were going to be taking up a number. The full list of tentative recommendations. Now, at the July 1st meeting, there were three recommendations that were approved. They are not on this agenda because they're in the minutes of the July 1st meeting. So this list that you are looking at is not a complete list of all of the tentative recommendations because three of them were actually approved. Those three were to be approved. I mean, they were voted on and majority one to review unequal cultivation sites through long throughout Long Beach, you create equal sites in each district. The businesses cultivating and sales would be allowed in any location, not zoned as residential and not within specified buffers. And three, there be a maximum of three collectives per district. Now the minutes of July of the July meeting may have a slightly different wording for that, but that's what was that's essentially what it was. At this point, I guess it's possible that it's irrelevant whether they are finalized. I mean, what you're what the motion is asking to do is even file a document that is not finished. If you were to set a date certain for us to finish our work, that makes sense. But it makes no sense at all for you to get this list of tentative recommendations in any way thinking that this is what how the task force stands. Now, just because I'm here, I'll give you my list of tentative recommendations to eliminate print advertising, the amount of crime be considered in the areas where the business is applying to locate maintain 1000 foot buffers between the businesses and no two businesses can occupy the same site. All applicants pass a complete background check. May I see my clock, please? Applicant City residents of Long Beach for two years prior to the approval of the copy, the transfer of ownership not be permitted. Any change of ownership requires a copy testing be done by a third party qualified lab safety standards on the ordinance to be the minimum state's safety standards. At a discussion of the location of edible production and an annual regulatory fee assessment, be on it and specify an application fee. My I would expect there's about 850 applications that we'll expect to have to process for this. So. Because of my first comments. I don't get the race. But remember that what you're reading now is a list of items that each person on the task force put forth. Without discussion of the task force. They were tentative list anything item could be put on there. Only three were approved. I would suggest that you have got to even file. You just set the date certain. Thank you. Very much. Next week, please. My name's sophomores and so I'm a resident of the second district and I actually used to work for you guys. I'll be very brief because I know you all are very exhausted. This has gone one way too long. And I'll just say this. You've run out of time. You've had since 1996 to pass a workable ordinance, and you've had seven years since. It's been a primary issue within the city of Long Beach. Three of them, four of them, members of this body have been here through the entirety of their entire terms, dealing with this one specific issue. And what has changed? Nothing. The law is mostly the same on the state level. You guys have waited entirely too long to be able to pass on that to be workable for this entire community. You shifted the burden on to this task force, which has also come to the same conclusions, which is there's a lot of disagreement about this issue. Every time this has gone before, the people, the city of Long Beach in a ballot initiative, it has passed in dramatic numbers. And if you fail to do something that actually serves the community by either pushing this off or accepting the city manager's proposal, which is an unworkable, basically lawsuit bomb, then what you'll see is an either another ballot initiative or you're going to see every single piece of your work preempted by state or federal government. Once they actually manage to pass something. So please don't delay this any longer. Either set it, either follow a jack as recommended, set a date certain receive and file these with these preliminary findings that you have right now and do your job as legislators and pass something to benefit the community. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please look to the last speaker and then we'll go to the vote. Oh, we have another speaker play, please, with two more and then last two speakers. Please someone. Defer. Jeff Abrams I defer to Adam because Adam Hejazi has direct knowledge of being a member of the task force. But I would just like to ask you, council members, to consider the fact that I don't know that it's a topic continue the ban. I don't know. That's a topic per se. I think that's a recommendation, and that is something that you're going to see in this list, which talks about hours of operation and security concerns and ban it at the same time. That doesn't seem to be a qualified consensus from a task force. It seems like people saying yes and people saying no. Frankly, the conversations devolved into medical marijuana. Yes or no? In a lot of cases. And I found that pretty appalling, given that the science is very clear now. And we have to remove the mindset of 1915, 1916, 1917, 1980, 1990. Because every day you're looking at the same information. If you read newspapers and if you read magazines, you listen to the radio, watch TV. You're listening to the same stuff that I am. And that is the L.A. Times. About two weeks ago, the staggering suicide rate of veterans, the staggering 22 per day. Could they be helped by medical marijuana? Possibly. Who knows? But at this point in time, you certainly can't get it in Long Beach and certainly not in a in a manner that's what I call safe and dignified . Our veterans who are struggling are already made to feel criminal in trying to secure the product, procure the product. I spoke to Chief Luna directly at a town hall meeting not too long ago because I did want to ask him about all of the negative interactions that vets will have with the Long Beach Police Department. And these are the same fellows and ladies. Six times more women are killing themselves than the national average. I just asked him, how are we going to mitigate all these negative interactions with vets? These a lot of these fellows are homeless. It's a sad situation in Long Beach. And I do believe that the veterans, aside from M.S. and ALS and IBS and Crohn's and a whole malady, a group of malady that are just horrifying. This is an un-American effort to deny veterans who are suffering with PTSD. A naturally occurring herbal medicine that has been used for thousands of years. When I tell you that Queen Victoria used this for PMS, I plead. I ask you to Google it. I learned many, many years ago, 40 years ago in Jamaica that this is a cure all for so many things. And the fact is true, Western medicine uses a pill. They prefer herbs. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next, our final speaker. We're going to vote. Good evening, Honorable Mayor. City Council. My name is Adam Hijazi and I'm a task force member. First off, I wanted to thank Vice Mayor Lowenthal for her appointments. Second of all, I wanted to thank all the council members for having this process and deliberating with a wide spectrum. Of individuals that have different concerns. And honestly, it's been a educational process. Being a previous legal. Operator and just learning a lot from different. Aspects that have come up. So also I wanted to thank the. City attorney's office. And the city clerk's. Office. It was another educational figuring out. Robert's Rules of Audit. And I also want to thank Jack Smith because he pointed a lot of that out to. During that process. Hopefully, we're we're happy to see some sort of date that come into. Place that September 1st will. Actually come in and. Recommendations. And we look forward as. A task force to provide those recommendations to you on that date. And, you know. Just one last thing. To consider is that the urgency. From among a lot of reasons. Is. To has it been safe access in Long Beach for the last three years. And hopefully we can bring back safe access to these patients. And a model that can actually work and will be a model for up and down the state. A lot of people are looking towards Long Beach, other cities, not just individuals. So I wanted to thank you guys very much for the opportunity. And have a good night. Thank you. I have I have one more final council comment, which is Councilman Price. Thank you. After hearing public comment, I'd like to make a substitute substitute motion. I am moved by the comments of resident Jack Smith. So I would like to recommend that simply this that the medical marijuana task force complete their service to the city of Long Beach by August 21st, 2015, in order to provide time for council to debrief with the members and have it on their September 1st council agenda. My recommend, my my substitute motion includes just the time certain for the completion of the task force. It does not include adopting or receiving and filing any topics, recommendations, suggestions, tentatives, anything like that. Because after hearing from Jack, it seems to me that there may be some recommendations that aren't even included in this list, and I don't want to receive and file and bring anything into our record that doesn't represent any official actions by the task force, because I really don't know what the benefit to the city would be of receiving and filing and bringing it into the record. So my substitute substitute is complete their service by August 21st, 2015, in time for it to come back to council on September 1st for policy action. Second. There's a motion and a second, Vice Mayor Lowenthal. So, Mr. Mayor, I'm not quite certain how that is in the spirit of Councilmember your anger's motion different, or that had it been offered to him, he would not be amenable to that. I think we have a long history on this council with this issue and. Jack Smith, who is my appointee, has forwarded the remainder of the recommended the list of topics for consideration. I believe it's part of the record. And so I in the spirit of collegiality, I would urge the maker of the motion and the secondary of the motion to offer that to member your UNGA. Because I don't believe in the course of our conversation that I witnessed any disagreement there. Sure I. Shall. To impress? Absolutely. I'd offer a friendly to Councilman Urunga to agree to set the time, the date certain, but to not receive and file any documentation from the task force. September 1st is the date that I think I put forward, and that's the date that I would want to receive the recommendations if it is appropriate to direct the task force to finish its work on August. 21st, 21st, and that's fine with me. But are you amenable to the part about not receiving and filing this document that was mischaracterized? Apparently, I mean, clearly to you. So, yeah, it was mischaracterized. Yeah. But at the same time, it was also you know, I was also informed that it would be part of the part of that record anyway, so it could go either way. Okay. Would you be amenable then to not receiving and filing it in this body, knowing that it's a part of the official record for that body? Okay. Thank you. Okay. So the there is no substitute substitute on that. Councilman Andrews. Yes. I would like to ask one question. I'd like to know what the other. Well, we have another individual who's who's on the task force. What was his decision on that? We have two people on the task force. Then in the soup. So what would. I would like to get, you know, both. So I think they had. Because this is just we can't just take one person's word for it. We got two people on a task force. Yeah. Well. Yeah, they're going to come on. So I think we had public comment and you know, they weren't they didn't speak. So what we have right now is a motion on the floor. And and I actually think and I heard from Rank City attorney that, uh, Councilman Fresh's motion would have been a substitute motion. That is correct, because the. Okay, so there is there right now there is nothing but a main motion on the floor. Correct. Just Councilmember your rank is motion. Correct. So that is queued up right now. Please cast your votes. A councilmember during his motion is for this to come back on September the first for the committee to complete its work on August the 21st first. And that recommendations would come at that time to the Council for Policy decision upon. September. 1st. Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Mayor, we're not receiving and following the recommendations. I think there's little. That's correct. That is correct. Thank you. Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you. Motion carries nine zero. September 1st. It is moving on to the next item. You can. You can. Yeah. It s at me. I can. We just people. Right, Madam Clerk. Item number 22 Report for Financial Management Recommendation to approve the Fiscal Year 2015. Second Departmental and Fund Budget Appropriation Adjustment Citywide.

Recommendation to Accept the Fiscal Year 2013-14 Audited Financial Statements and Compliance Reports. (City Council/SACIC) (Finance 2410)

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So moving right along. Every financial report, every audited financial statement contains three main sections. Next one to the introductory section, which is just a summary of our organization in the context of the results. The financial section, which first of all contains the independent auditors report, which is their opinion, and we always want to see that they give us a clean opinion, that our statements are fairly presented. And the second part of that is the management discussion and analysis, which is a context for all of the results and then the statements. And they are presented in a variety of formats. And if you've looked at the reports recently, we follow all of the required generally accepted reporting requirements. So it doesn't look like just in the quarterly financial reports that we give you, but it's done in a variety of fashions. Excuse me, government wide is summarizing those funds which operate to provide services and business type, which are the enterprise funds of which we have only one now with their net position, which is assets and sources as well as liabilities and uses the major funds which are the individual funds, including their budget, the actual position with fund balances . So there's a variety of ways that we look at all of our. Financial resources. The next part of it is the notes. Notes to the statement which detail the historic information and provide a narrative description of specific items, including assets and long term liabilities, pensions and OPEB, other post-employment benefit liabilities. So if you really want to know more about those issues, you can read the notes and you'll get a lot of detail. Other funds include the non-major. They're smaller in size. They don't have as much operating impact. Internal service funds, which do have impact in that they operate with the operating funds and fiduciary funds, which are things that we do in trust for other people or other organizations. The final section is the statistical section, which which presents financial trends, revenue capacity, debt capacity. I put debit debt, debt capacity, demographic and economic information and other operating data. It is important to note that this is not audited information in the statistical section. It's what staff, supplies and provides. And we rely on other resources and other agencies to give us information as well. So finally, what are our results for this past fiscal year 2013 and 14? So all funds grew as revenues increased and expenditures were contained. So it's true overall for all of the funds. Some of the financial highlights, our net position is $402 million, $23 million of which or 5.7% is unrestricted and available for use for future uses. Governmental Funds Combined Fund balance of $95,000,000.20 $9 million 30% is available for other uses, the reserve policy has is 20%. It actually came out to be 40% at the year end. Subsequently, five additional percent has been at three and a half million dollars was added to the reserve as an exigency reserve. And in addition, we added another $3 million for deficiencies and other long term obligations. So we've reduced that 40%. Debt increased by only $289,000. This increase due to the fluctuation in debt service schedules. They're not all even in the state, just the same all the time. One of the final pieces that the auditors perform is called the Memorandum of Internal Controls and Required Communications, and this report is required under generally accepted auditing standards. And they reported two significant deficiencies. The first first deficiency was is being worked on. And that has to do with continuing disclosure. We did not fully meet the requirements by not timely filing all of our reports. We have contracted with a company DAC Bond to maintain and maintain timely quality filings. One one deficiency was resolved and that had to do with the administrative access controls to our accounting system. And we with the movement to the cloud system are able to more finely tuned those controls and maintain better internal controls. New pronouncements by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board will require that we present the pension and OPEB data in new formats, and we are working with consultants already in order to begin formatting that so that the auditors will have that information in the format that they need. Finally, we have compliance reports. You see in the exhibits attached to the report that there are a lot of smaller reports. These are compliance reports required by either granting agencies or other parts of the state government. We all of the data comes directly from the Kafir and is presented in the compliance reports and perhaps in a little bit different format as required by the granting agency. And that's why we have these separate compliance reports. All of these reports, the audit, the memorandum of Internal Controls and Required Communications and all the compliance reports are posted on our website and are available for everyone to read and query. I'd like to introduce Ms.. Grace Zang from Mason Associates, who has kindly come and kept kept me company this evening and is available to answer any really technical questions that you might have about the audit report. Ashton's. Well, I'm going to ask, is Adam here? I'm going to ask a general catchall question. Is there anything that, however you so define it that's substantially different in the way in which the report was prepared as substantially different from the way in which reports were prepared in the past? And you need to speak in the microphone up here. Prepared this year with last year. Year before. Yeah we have been the auditors for multiple years and I am not the in chief partner. On a job. I'm just representing Catherine. Now, based on my knowledge, there is no, um, we have been consistent in our reporting approach. And in other. Words, except for whatever the state says that you have to report now, the methodology, data sources, the way in which the data is treated for the most part is the same as before. Yes. Okay. That's my catch up basket. Okay. And I'd like to share that. As far as I know, this presentation was not online. I don't think it was part of this packet. No, the presentation is just a summary of what was in the staff report. So no, the present the the powerpoint was not online. Okay. So if the PowerPoint could be added to this and some PowerPoints were included, so then we can see them in advance. And that is my preference, if at all possible. And actually it to me it's an aid and I'm sure it is to our community of it's possible to include the PowerPoints in advance. And there was a comment and yes. Also the there's information in PowerPoint. I think the staff report it. The CAF are the one that jumped off the page to me is the 40% versus 20%. Or if it's not in the staff. Oh, that's the first time I saw. I think that came about as I was preparing this and Miss Warmer Day and I were looking at the analysis of what what the results were and we said, oh, look at this. This is an interesting fact that we didn't know when we would just have a report. If you can come back and tell us what that really means. Why? Why is there that disparity? The disparity? I mean, why why is it so much more. Why it grew was because the revenues increased and the expenses didn't. And it it was already at 30 or 35% in prior years. And so what we gained in this particular fiscal year then added it and brought it up to the 40%. If I may if I may, in a nutshell, we predicted revenue growth of under 3%. We got 3.6% in one year that went into the reserves, the extra. Then last year we closed at 8.1%, having projected about 2.9. That all went in reserve as well. And at the same time the labor contracts began to bite into the employees paychecks by taking more out for health care, taking more out for pensions, all of that. So there was there were cuts and costs happening the same time as unexpected growth in revenue. And hence, you ended up with a, you know, double the policy in terms of where we are, which is, you know, not a bad problem to have, but it shouldn't be confused with the solution to the long term problems that still loom over the city financially. That's why the word unrestricted. Is I mean, it may be true, but it's not. Right. Well. A a part of that is unrestricted, but a part of it is restricted by the actions that the previous council took to restrict those that. A $3 million. I mean, it's unrestricted and restricted or technical terms for the for the auditors and the accountants. It doesn't mean that anybody should look at it and say this money to general fund is not the only fund. There's a lot of other funds that we manage. One of the things that is changing, however, over the past several years is that pension and other post-employment benefit obligations now must be characterized, according to Gatsby. In the past, you didn't even have to put those on your balance sheet. Now you do. I think that kind of application is really important for all the people who may be watching of us to understand the budget that's coming at us a year in calendar year to see what our position. I appreciate that, that explanation. Late hours. And I hope that you will be repeating it that, you know, at another meeting, because I can. Tell you I have my notes right here. Lisa, thank you. Well, there will be a systematic approach to the Council regarding the budget beginning in March and working our way through March, April, May, June to get to a two year budget resolution in early June. So as that happens, these issues will be decanted in significantly greater detail. I like that. Gather member data just quickly. Something like a $29 million budget that amounts to 40% of a 40% reserve, I mean, is absolutely great news with Capital G. I think the key thing for purpose of the public is to understand what's the the key components that's driving it. For example, my understanding is from what former Mayor Mary Gilmore told me, is that a key a key component of that tonight, what contributed to the $29 million reserves is a one time sale of property transactions that generated some level of of of extra taxes that we had not initially calculated, though, that that went to the good . So so I think that's what we're getting at is whenever there are these big things that we all want, there are great. But also one other big things that are not so great understand. What are the key driving elements. Yeah. Thank you. And, and we've already discussed those issues for the budget we have. Yeah. And it turns out that in the last revenue report when we announced the 8.1%, we broke it down into these are one timers and these are ongoing and thank you for bringing that up because the the one time events can't be counted on for up. And I think that's one of one of my council referrals. Principal I'd like us to discuss. Actually get to that for. Any other member comments. I'll move. Accepted. And I'd like to make a comment. Oh. So I was at a conference for mayors and new members. Member authority was also there and a slide was presented in regards to Alameda County City's unfunded OPEB liabilities as a percentage of their general fund as of June 30th, 2013. And and I want to share this as part of this discussion that showed Alameda, those cities ranged from 7% to 140%. And the city of Alameda was the 140%. And I think it's very important that we share that as part of this conversation, because we were talking about. I mean, someone paying attention right now on TV could think we're doing actually very well. And then we have this other issue that is very contrary to that that we will be discussing as we're moving forward. I wanted to add that in your motion now. Yeah. I would move recommendation to accept the fiscal year 20 1314 audited financial statements and compliance reports. All those in favor I oppose. Motion unanimously carries. Thank you. Now the next item meeting. So we will now adjourn that so we can hop to the. Yes. I'm sorry. Madam Chair. Just a point of clarification on the item. At three A. Is the joint meeting. And we cannot continue that meeting until tomorrow night's meeting because it wasn't noticed as a joint meeting. So that one will have to be deferred until the next meeting of the joint body. And is staff that you're okay with that they'll still care. All right. Thank you. So's council. Most of you are okay with that. So then we're going to have that item come back. That was three. We'll come back. We're going to adjourn that meeting and re adjourn go back to that now reopen our general meeting. And the next item was 66. K is the one that you'd like us to address. Six K is. Recommendation to authorize the city manager to execute a professional services agreement between the city and AFRINIC, Brian Day and Company for two year. For two years with three one year extensions for a total. Amount not to exceed $750,400 for independent audit services. Any questions? Yes, I would just make a comment that not only and I think the point was well stated in the report that it's not that the current auditing firm has done anything wrong, but they've been our independent auditors for 24 consecutive years. And sometimes it's just good to get some fresh thinking and new blood in. And if we do approve this contract, we will actually be saving $32,725 over a five year period compared to the previous fees charged by the previous firm.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA); rezoning certain land and modifying development standards throughout the City, implementing MHA requirements, and modifying existing development standards to improve livability; amending Chapter 23.32 of the Seattle Municipal Code (SMC) at pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 203, 205, 206, 208, 215, 216, 217, 218, and 219

SeattleCityCouncil_03182019_CB 119444

Agenda item for Constable 119444 relating to mandatory housing affordability, rezoning certain land and modifying development standards throughout the city, implementing major requirements, modifying existing development strategies to improve livability. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. So, Councilmember Johnson, you have the floor. I'm aware that there are I believe there's four amendments. And so I'll just sort of let you lead us through the amendment process you have it right now with regarding the base legislation. Thank you. Council President So this is the main citywide image legislation. The previous bill adopted the comprehensive plan changes to incorporate changes related to MJ. This is the implementation bill of the citywide zoning changes in the 27 neighborhoods. There are three amendments proposed. I believe Amendment one is a substitute version of the bill that reflects technical and clarifying amendments to maintain consistency with other parts of the legislation, including fixing typos and drafting errors to ensure the code language is consistent with the council intent. It retains some provisions of the code related to incentive zoning and adds language, clarifying that the requirement to dedicate 5% of energy payments to homeownership projects can be dedicated over multiple years. So in order to effectuate those changes, I would move to amend Council Bill 119444 by substituting version D nine for version eight A and by substituting version four for version three of attachment one and by substituting version four for version three of attachment two as presented on the agenda second. Okay, everyone follow that councilman words. Could you repeat that, please? Okay. This is just sort of a technical amendment to incorporate the changes described by Councilmember Johnson. All those in favor of the amendment, please. What I, I oppose vote nay. Okay. We have an amendment, the first amendment. So we had a couple more accounts presented. So this next amendment, Amendment two, would amend attachment two to remove areas that were studied in the university district. This from the city wide image bill. It would also remove a requirement for upper level setbacks along the AV, giving that no zoning changes on the AV will be part of the legislation. Those reasons in the district are going to be considered as part of a separate council bill that was introduced in today's introduction for calendar. So I would move to amend the Council Bill 119444 by amending Section 50 by deleting 23.40 7.9..3 and by adding a new map age to attachment two as presented on the agenda . Very good. The moved in second amendment number two has been moved to second. And any further comments, all those in favor of amendment number two say i. I. Although the polls say nay the I passed it to amendment number two is passed. So this next amendment, I'd like to turn it over to our colleague, Councilmember O'Brien, for an amendment related to the Phinney Ridge Greenwood neighborhood. Great. Thank you, Councilmember Johnson. This is references amend Amendment five. I'll move it and then I'll speak to it. I moved to amend Council Bill 119444 Attachment two by substituting version five for version four of the reference map and by adding a new map, a I that excludes a site located at 7009 Greenwood from the zone as presented on the Distributed Amendment 5/2. Moved in second to pass amendment number five comes from Brown. I'd like to explain a little. More about thank you. This refers to a project that's going through a contract zone process. Colleagues, you may recall last year we proved that contact free zone as part of a quasi judicial process. Most of the contract reasons I believe that are currently underway have been excluded from the maturity bill to allow them to be the additional height and the affordable housing requirement to be required as part of those negotiated deals. This this particular parcel was actually left out of that pattern. So this would put that back in here. The the project is still quasi judicial. It has our decision last last year has been was appealed to the superior court and that has since been remanded to us just last. Last week. So we will be likely taking something up in the next few weeks by excluding it from MHRA with that allows us to continue to do is to address the affordability and height changes along with other design standards that we previously had addressed in the property use and Development Agreement. And my recommendation would be to continue down that path, since that path is what we've been exploring to date and I think makes the most sense for this particular process puzzle. Very good. Thank you for that explanation. And any other comments on amendment number five? All those in favor of amendment number five, vote i. I. Those opposed vote no. The ayes have it. Councilman Johnson, do you have any other amendments? Just one more. This amendment, Amendment four, went out of finding of fact, which would recite the background and legislative history related to images implementation. Describe the planning and context for the rezone and implementation of energy and the zone area and address the relationship of the ordinance to RTW. 36.7 .54 Amendment four as shown in attachment E of the Central Staff Memo. And this would again just add some findings of fact. So I would move to amend Council Bill 119444 by adding a new Section 124 which adds a new attachment three funding as a fact as presented on the agenda. Second has been moved and Second Amendment number four has been moved in second hand. Describe it, Councilor, and just any further comments. All those in favor of amendment number four say I buy those, oppose vote, no emotion carries and that amendment is approved. Council President I will now defer to others that might want to make closing remarks and I'd ask for the privilege to close out those closing remarks before we take final action on this bill. Absolutely. So we have an amended counts bill, 119444 and within it comes from would like to speak on the. The the overall amended legislation. Now. I'll outwait you. This would be the time. So, Councilmember O'Brien, please lead us. Thank you. Councilmember Johnson, I want to start by thanking you for your leadership and your dedication to this quite thorough process over the past few years. And I appreciate the remarks he made. And so many people, both city staff and citizens, members of the community who live and work here, have worked hard on this. There's a lot of work and compromise that's done. I want to just speak to to my involvement of this around affordable housing, which goes back even a few years prior to that. In the spring of 2013, the city was considering up zones to South Lake Union. And as part of that process, we had previously received a report from a consultant who did some analysis on the incentive zoning process at the time. And that report pointed out that we could charge higher fees for incentive zoning at the time without impacting the amount of housing that was being built or other construction that was happening as a result of that process. There was a lot of deliberation on the floor at this time, ultimately resulting, and my recollection was a54 vote to increase the incentive zoning and the amount re the amount of the additional housing we required was limited by the analysis we had done in the ability to get to five votes on that. But simultaneously, the Council passed a resolution, resolution 31444 in May of 2013 that passed unanimously and established a work program for us to upgrade update our city's affordable housing incentive program. From that, we went and hired consultants three different sets of consultants who worked through to 2014, ultimately releasing reports that talked about a linkage fee program . And in October of 2014, the council passed Resolution 31551, indicating their intent to pass a linkage fee program. Our program outlined different tiers similar to the legislation we see today, high, low and medium tiers and different levels of requirements for affordable housing at that point. The soon to be new mayor, Mayor Murray, I guess he was the new mayor at that point, formed his own group to come up with a counterproposal. And I'll tell you that personally, I was committed to the linkage fee program because it produced significant number of housing's, significant affordable affordability levels. And in the back and forth, I said I was continue to be open to new proposals if they produced more affordable housing at deeper affordability levels. And the agreement that Mayor Murray brought forward back in summer of 2015 was the program that we are looking at today. Now, that program, the commitment was to pass that 18 months ago. That has been delayed significantly for a variety of reasons. But I'm really thrilled that we have a comprehensive program today, that I have the support colleagues, current and past. It's been a pleasure working on this with all of you. I'm really proud of the piece of legislation we have today. And again, Councilmember Johnson, I want to just reiterate the amount of work you've done in the past few years to get us where we are today. It's no small feat. You were not on the council when I remember Councilmember Murray said, we will do this and it will require up zoning in every single neighborhood. And I said, I do not know how that will happen in that timeframe. And frankly, Councilmember Johnson, we wouldn't be here without your leadership to get us here. And thank you for that work. Thank you. Okay. Councilmember Beck shall. Thank you. A number of people have already been recognized by my colleagues, but I also want to say that there are people that are hiding in the back. FELDSTEIN You got us started. Thank you, Steve Walker. I think you were there as well. And I appreciate that. There are so many. Emily Alvarado, you're back there as well. This has been a long journey, as Councilmember O'Brien said, we got started on this really very much in the beginning of our terms. At the beginning of 2010, people were talking about this. There were some fisticuffs at that point. And we've really made a lot of progress here. We all know why we're doing this. We're trying to link getting more affordable housing to keep up with the growth. We've had thousands and thousands of new jobs in our area, which is great. We need thousands and thousands. In fact, we'll be talking about the number I think is 244,000 across our region is what we're going to need. You're going forward. I regard this as a very important drop in the bucket. Frankly, we've done some great things, but there's something about this process that's made me grumpy. And I'm going to tell you about that in just a moment. But again, I want to acknowledge Councilmember Johnson. Thank you and your staff, Amy, who's there? Noah, Jerry and our council central staff. Thanks to Ali Pucci, Kyle Freeman and Lish Witz and Eric McCarney and Yolanda Yau. Thank you all because you've made a huge difference. Now, here's what here's where I am. Yesterday in Seattle Times, Councilmember Johnson wrote a pro article I thought was great, explained why we're doing what we were doing and the number of times that we have been meeting. You've already heard a lot of that. I don't need to repeat it all. But here's what's made me grumpy. There have been so many things that have been said on the con side of this that I just think have gotten in our way and repeating untruths over and over again simply doesn't make something. So at the beginning of yesterday's Seattle Times con article, it said, Railroading neighborhoods is not the way and the dictionary definition of railroading. We all know what it is. It's to force somebody to do something or to force an action especially quickly. I don't think four and a half years worth of meetings and 200 community engagement meetings and 20 meetings of the select committee in any way qualifies. We also have reached a point where there's things have gotten conflated, and I want to acknowledge something that I think is really important. I personally supported up zoning in that our downtown, my neighborhood years ago. I feel that across our city and certainly across our region, we have need we really need to be making space for our kids and grandkids. My kids want to come here and it is a struggle with a college education to be able to afford something . And it's so difficult if you are behind the eight ball in any way. So I want to say thank you to all of you who have shown up over and over again and block by block with the 80 amendments. But here was a statement in yesterday's paper. This is this will eliminate all single family zoning. Nothing, nothing could be further from the truth. We are going to be retaining 94% of single family zones. That's remaining short of 6% of single family zones is going to be changed to our MHC. But that's existing and proposed. Urban villages and thousands of units are going to be added for rent restricted units across our city over the next decade. We have heard complaints, pro and con, about the in lieu fees. People said you don't do enough. People say you do too much. But what we know is that thousands of units are going to be added. The in lieu fee allows us to leverage the money that the city puts in. Three really great examples and I want to say I think Daniel Beekman is here. You've done some great reporting on this and the three items that you brought up were our three projects, the Liberty Bank building, where we're leveraging almost 3 to 1, the Hirabayashi Building in the international district, almost 5 to 1. We're leveraging in the Arbor a court in the U. District, almost 6 to 1. This is going to make a huge number of difference. Another argument that was brought up in the con side of the article yesterday is that we are eliminating single family housing regulations and we're going to have a new legislation today that is going to destroy all of this. The two legislation isn't even part of this today. The hearings are going to start next week. The changes are voluntary. It's going to allow people to make right size choices for their families in the properties that they have owned, in some cases for decades. So also there was some, I think, misstatements about the planning commission not liking these ideas. What we hear is that the planning commission all along has been consistently in favor of both what the MHRA is doing today and the prospective EU legislation, which isn't part of today. So please, let's try to get this straight. And lastly and I want to say, as one of the people that was charged with being a lame duck politician yesterday, I am anything but a lame duck. And my colleagues over here who are also been working so hard, you will see us working through the end of this year . We have been working on this for five years to vote today, and I am actually as pleased as could be with the amount of work that has gone into this and the hard work that you have demonstrated. I want to say. Councilmember Johnson, say say thank you to Katie for me and the girls, the number of nights that you have not been home. But working on this, we are working hard. We are dedicated to making this city as wonderful a city as we possibly can for everybody that is here, people who are coming irrespective of income. So to my colleagues and to all of you who have been part of this, many thanks. Thank you. As I said. A skater. Thank you very much, Mr. President. And thank you, Councilmember Bagshaw, for those words. I think this is such an exciting day. Councilmember Wise and I were over here talking about the amount of work that has gone into making this vote today possible. So thank you. Because today we're able to vote for a more inclusive Seattle. Thank you for helping to respond to Seattle's growing population and the housing crisis. We know that change is inevitable, but change and development is happening right now and it's happening over the last few years because we haven't been able to include MJ. It has not been the change that many of our community members have wanted. In fact, much of what we have heard in terms of concerns about MJ haven't had anything to do with MJ at all. In fact, what they've been asking for are things that we are now able to say are on the books such as child care and new buildings, such as health care clinics and new buildings such as set back. So there's greater green space, such as the ability to make sure that we have more pedestrian zones. These are things that you have wanted to do, Mr. Chair Johnson, for a very long time and have been stymied and today were able to take the steps to make sure that development is done right, that MJ ensures that we grow, and as we grow, we do it more inclusive. MJ now requires, because of the amendments that this Council has put forward, because of the feedback that many in the community have asked for, not just affordable housing and income and rent, restricted housing, but creating more homes overall. And it includes the vision that you all have put forward after years of making sure that it's not just homes that we are building, but we're creating truly inclusive units or buildings. We're talking about buildings now are transportation centers, child care centers, open spaces, grocery stores. This is what we need to thrive in our city, not just survive and have a home to go from place of work to home. We want communities that will be thriving centers and through MJ, we have begun to build the building blocks of what a truly inclusive Seattle and neighborhoods look like. This helps make sure that as we're developing, we're meeting the needs and the values of our community. I was really excited to work with Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez as we worked on creating inclusive space for child care facilities. This is the number one thing we hear of not just from families who need childcare, but from business owners who say that their workers have to commute 90 minutes, 2 hours to get to their homes and their kiddos place of childcare when we ought to be able to create affordable housing in the city that includes childcare. This is why I'm really excited to vote today, because we've included setbacks and additional greenspace. We've included opportunities so that we're creating healthy pedestrian environments so that people can really commute on foot or by bike or by scooter or by bus and have the opportunity to have a healthy environment. I'm really excited today because we've included additional commercial space on the ground floors and we've included set back so that people can have seating areas outside. We know that small business owners need affordable places to start their own businesses, and right now they're getting the size of a unit that's good for the next five years when we really need the size for the next two tacos. Like my family started 60 years ago in a small hole in the wall. We need small commercial spaces that are affordable so that people can truly get out of generational poverty. We know that this is not about buildings. Today we're making a vote about people. We're taking a step to make sure that we can actually live our values. And Councilmember Johnson, I want to say thank you again so much for your help to champion this through here. I've only had the chance to work with you on this, specifically sitting on council over the last year and a half. But I know many in the audience have had the chance to work with you over the last few years. I want to thank your staff as well for their intense work on this. You already mentioned the central staff. I want to thank my staff. Erin House appropriately named in the back for fighting for additional affordable housing and my former staffers as well. This is really an incredible process here is of intense policy development, extensive community engagement, the most extensive earth analysis ever conducted on Seattle's land use policy in our history, a legal battle that lasted an entire year. And even though we struggled through some of the amendments and I didn't end up supporting some of those, what you have today is a comprehensive package that includes the vision directly from the community involved and what's happened in the meantime, since we've waited for for five years now to actually pass this legislation, we've seen that people have been displaced. People have been pushed into the streets. Our community members have had to leave the city because there's not enough affordable housing. We have seen because of the delay, upward pressure on the cost of housing, because we have failed to be able to create enough affordable housing. We haven't rezone to create the density that we need to not only respond to those who are coming, but to create the affordable housing for those who are here. I talked to the firefighters the other day that said, you know, I do want to make sure that we welcome new folks that are coming. But I'm concerned about the folks who are here. We're not building enough affordable housing like. Remember, Bagshaw said. So that our kiddos can afford to stay. Or that we can take care of our elders in place in the city. The consequence has been that there's been a dramatic increase in the cost of rent, and we know that a $100 increase in the cost of rent equals a 15% increase in homelessness. In fact, the Chamber of Commerce, thank you for testifying today. Your own report said that there was a 96% correlation between the cost of housing and homelessness. This is part of our response to the crisis that we see every single day. And for the folks who are asking what we are doing and how we are trying to respond to the crisis of housing and homelessness. This is one element. But we've been delayed for years, and today we finally get to move forward. Obviously, we need additional housing, shelter and health, but this is one component. So we're going to continue to work collaboratively, aggressively, collaboratively with our friends at the state and the regional level to make sure that we're building affordable housing, that we get additional funding in place to create that housing, and that we get the zoning changes that we need also at the state level to match what we haven't been able to do at the city level. I applaud Representative Fitzgibbon, a Senator Palumbo, Representative Gregerson, Representative Macri who are really working hard to try to lift that floor at the state level. And I am I'm sad that we're not actually having a conversation about city wide changes. I think that is the next conversation to have. I think some of those amendments that we were talking about wouldn't have been so challenging for me if we were talking about larger changes that really create a more inclusive Seattle. Well, again, this is just an effort to look at 6% of the single family zoning in our in our city. And I want to pass out again for the viewing public and for our colleagues here that this is an effort to truly right the wrongs in our city. What we have done over the last few decades is we have zoned our city backwards. We have actually expanded the amount of land that we have included in the city for single family use. Now we have two thirds of our residential area throughout the city of Seattle that is included exclusively for detached single family homes. Basically blocking or prohibiting the type of apartment that I currently live in a 1902 beautiful brick building, as you've heard me talk about before, only four storeys high that has eight units in it. We are prohibited from building that kind of gentle infill density because we have actually scaled back. So as we talked about before, we are trying to actually look at the fabric of our city, look at the history of how we've created an inclusive city in the past and try to right some wrongs. In the 1920s, as the Housing Commissioners Seattle Planning Commission report said, some residential areas began establishing racially discriminatory covenants to prevent people of color and other ethnic and religious groups from buying houses. In 1923, Seattle's first zoning ordinance is passed, which establishes two residential district. One allows detached single household structures, and the other that allows apartment types. These are the types of historic wrongs that we're trying to correct today. The report goes on to say Seattle's popularity and existing zoning is resulting in the construction of large, expensive homes at a time when more people need more affordable places to live. They say this is not just an issue of addressing the legacy of discriminatory housing and land use practices. It is about building an equitable Seattle for the present and future generations. So today, I think as we've talked about before, this is our effort to try to right some of those historic wrongs. But again, it's just the beginning of that effort. We're going to continue to work in my committee, and I believe in the planning committee on greater inclusive opportunities, homeownership opportunities, which we just amended today, so that more folks can actually have the chance to live in the city, to thrive and not just survive. Thank you so much for all your work on this. Thank you, Katherine. In the state of. Thank you for those words. Okay. A cancer herbal. Get my stuff together here. So I want to just underscore a little bit of what we heard in public comment today. The history of this legislation dates back further than than five years, further than 2013. It actually dates back to 2007 when the city started passing incentive zoning programs throughout the city. And many people at that time, when we were doing incentive zoning, that's when not when you provide the up zones and then require the the housing affordability requirement. It's when the additional zoning capacity is available. And in exchange, the developer invests in affordable housing even at that time in 2007. Many of the people in this room today, including the Housing Development Consortium in Puget Sound Sage, were advocating for a mandatory program so that we could capture an increment of the value of additional zoning and devoted to housing. That call from committee members and former councilmembers then helped pave the. Way for where we are today. I am going to share some of my concerns, but it doesn't. It shouldn't be interpreted as lack of support for inclusionary zoning. My concerns are based on what's happening in high cost cities across the country, including cities that have inclusionary zoning. We all see the same problem the lack of affordable housing. But we have disagreement on the impacts of our approach to deal with that lack of affordable housing. I don't believe it's just fear of change. I believe it's legitimate concern that this bill won't raise enough affordable housing. And too much will be torn down to make way for new buildings that are actually out of range of most renters to afford an average two bedroom apartment in Seattle. Two workers need to earn $20 an hour, or one earner $40 an hour. A recent study cited in the Seattle Times reports that 85% of new housing built in this region is luxury housing. With this legislation today, we're going to we're going to shift that a little bit. We're going to it's not I probably won't be 85%, but it's still a lot of housing being built for folks who can't afford to pay their rent. We talked so much about making it possible for people to live where they work, but are we making sure that low income people will also be able to live where they work? We refer every day to the. Thousand people a week. That moved to this. Region. But as Councilmember Mosqueda mentioned, we don't talk enough about the people who have been pushed out of Seattle. Heck, we don't even count them. I wish. I wish the affordable housing contribution was more 5 to 11% of units as well as the payment in lieu fees does seem low when compared to other cities. But to my knowledge, no other city ensures inclusionary zoning in all residential and commercial development. So I'm hoping that the comprehensive nature of our bill can counterbalance that the developer obligation per project seems rather low. We've also heard concern about the division between performance and pay in lieu. As you know, we've set the. Goal for the the. Split between number of developers who pay in lieu and the number of developers who perform. As a as a goal, a 50. 50% split. I think we've included in this slide, I know that we've included in this legislation an amendment that requires us to monitor that and to make adjustments if we're not hitting that goal. And then finally, as folks have testified today, I will be continuing deliberations around a bill that would help address and help protect existing housing that might otherwise be redeveloped. And I would really urge the folks up here with me today, as well as members in the public, to take a look at what's happened in California, in the state legislature. Over the last. Year or so. Last year, Senator Wiener had a bill called Senate Bill 82 seven. And this is a bill that statewide would require all municipalities to do high density development in certain areas, areas like transit areas and within certain watersheds. That bill did not get the support it needed last year because of the concerns of what I refer to as, you know, people who think of themselves as urbanist, but I think of them as social justice urbanist. They are people who are really concerned about just opening the floodgates to development without having measures in place to protect existing housing tenants, organizations, the local Sierra Club, local mayors. We're all really concerned about the impact of this bill. So there's been a new bill that's been brought forward this year and it's called Senate Bill 50, and it's got enshrined in the bill itself a prohibition against using this new authority in areas where there is any housing development. It doesn't make a distinction for affordable housing development, and it actually requires a look back for seven years. So if there has been housing in that location for seven years, and that's that's a that's one way to make sure that landlords don't use other unfair ways of moving people out of out of buildings in order to redevelop them. And as a result, everybody's coming together and supporting it. And so I really think it's really critical that we look at what other cities and states are doing to address this problem. Because, you know, again, simply. Building more housing and earmarking a small amount of it to affordable housing is not sufficient to address the growing need in cities that have extremely high costs of housing. So I look forward to working with my colleagues more on that in the upcoming weeks. Thank you. Considerable. Because were. So what was it like to speak. To. The first one when she hands gone up? Thank you, President Harrell. I thank the tremendous amount of work that was done by city council central staff on this. On the whole body of work that is represented by the mandatory housing affordability legislations. I grew up in Mumbai, where my family lived in a 450 square foot flat, which was the only affordable housing four available for working people like my parents. I think density is a good thing for cities and metropolitan regions, both for affordability and for sustainability. That is why I am glad to be voting in favor of this legislation. But. It is also my duty to point out the affordability that will be generated through this. Has been described in inaccurately grandiose and greatly exaggerated terms by many of the elected officials. What will be implemented is small, affordable housing mandates on the big real estate speculators and developers who have driven up rents and other housing costs and who are directly responsible for displacing and evicting tens of thousands, or maybe even if you add up hundreds of thousands of our neighbors. The affordable housing requirements in this legislation are totally insufficient to even prevent Seattle's hemorrhaging of affordable housing, never mind actually bringing rents down. However, it is better than nothing and I support every single affordable home we can rent, as I have always said. It is important to remember where MJ comes from and not the Chamber of Commerce's version, but working people's version of where images came from. In 2014, after a grassroots movement won the $15 an hour minimum wage. It became clear that the next big struggle would be and would have to be over the accelerating loss of affordable housing in Seattle, which and the laws had started ballooning in 2010, even though it happened long, it had started happening long before then. To solve the affordable housing crisis. Our movement knew that we would have to fight. And we still do have to fight for a major investment in social housing, which is publicly owned, affordable housing paid for by taxing big business and also for city wide rent control. To undercut that movement that had just begun. Seattle's biggest corporate developers and former Mayor Ed Murray of the Democratic establishment launched the so-called Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda Committee, otherwise known as the Holler Committee. On that committee were some affordable housing advocates, but also big developers. And in the end, as these things go. When you bring. Corporations to the so-called table. The corporations will be given a virtual veto on the recommendations of the committee. At that time, the city council that passed a resolution, as Councilmember O'Brien mentioned, supporting linkage fees, which is basically a type of impact fee that would have required all developers in the city to pay towards affordable housing. The big developers on the whole are committee vetoed that. They vetoed rent control. They vetoed any taxes on big business to fund social housing. MJ came out of the committee because that was the only thing that big developers were willing to accept. And the reason, simple reason that they were willing to accept it is because it is so limited, so very limited in what it accomplishes for affordable housing and it has zero impact on their ever expanding opportunities for profit. MJ was delayed for years during the development boom and as a legal mechanism is extremely limited, especially in how it is done in Seattle. On how much affordable housing it can generate. But big developers scored their biggest victory through the fact that when Hala was brought forward, they were successful in disorienting the movement for rent control by getting affordable housing advocates to well-meaning, affordable housing advocates on both sides to fight each other over whether the zoning changes will result in more or fewer affordable units. Some excellent affordable housing advocates have subsumed their demands into the support for the energy hub zones binding to Seattle's population growth, and suggesting that the market will bring rents back down once developers are encouraged to build enough zoning. Let me be very clear. As an economist, there is zero zero evidence from anywhere, anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world that that would prove the hypothesis that you led for the for profit market, expand construction, and at some point in the future, rents will come down. There is no such case. I. I if you can. If you can find out. Show it to me. And I'm happy to. I'm happy to correct my position. But my position is based on hard evidence that there is nothing no no hypothesis of no such hypothesis has been proven. Rents don't go down because forward profit development continues. There is no such case in the past and I doubt that there will be in the future. As a matter of fact, at the same time, you know, just to give you a snapshot, since 2010, construction has boomed in this city. At that same time, rents have skyrocketed by 69%. Housing has not become more affordable. Affordable, it has become less affordable. And at that same time, the same time that people are being evicted from their city, you know, economically evicted because they can't afford the rising rents. There have been double digit vacancy rates in many neighborhoods. Why is that? If there are empty apartments, then why aren't people moving into them? That's because they can't afford. And so let's not let's not buy into fake and mythical supply side arguments by neo liberal economists because there is no evidence to support that that that idea. It is true, undoubtedly, that we need more housing. Absolutely. There is no question about that. But what we need is affordable housing. And the for profit market under capitalism is not interested in producing that. So it is no there's no point in holding our breath that someday the for profit market will make housing affordable. As a matter of fact, Mike Rosenblum of the Seattle Times has already said, and I'm quoting him, because I want to quote a non socialist who said that it is, it is, you know, it is, it is. You know, it's imaginary thinking, medical thinking to think that rents will come back down because that has never happened. What is happening is real estate, speculative speculators getting a better return on their investment, building luxury units. And by luxury, I mean not necessarily high quality. I mean, they may or may not be, but what I mean is expensive units, units that are out of the reach of ordinary working people. Seattle has been the construction green capital of the world. And at that and during that time, rents have gone down and the MJ payments that this legislation will require of developers will be available to build publicly affordable housing. Yes. So some publicly affordable housing will be will be the result of this, a major, but nowhere at a scale sufficient to address the massive need. And not to mention that there is no accounting, there is no statistical accounting of market available, affordable homes that are going to be lost in the same process. And again, to be precise, market available, affordable housing is going to be a major or not a major because of the for profit market. It is not because ah, despite a major, it is because of the for profit market. And to the extent that a major state to the for profit market, it has the same limitations and failures. The Regional Affordable Housing Task Force recommendations that will be voted on in today's meeting show that 156,000 affordable homes are needed to meet the city, meet the need countywide, and the need is 244,000 affordable homes by 2040. This is an official study by King County. The couple hundred each year built by Seattle will literally never solve the problem. The problem will keep increasing in size. Working people will keep getting this place, and Seattle will continue to be a place where only rich people can live. And that is why we need massive policy, you know, and bold, bold policy to fight like rent control and taxing big business, to have a massive expansion of social housing, which is publicly on permanently affordable housing so that people, working families, no longer have to remain at the whim of for profit developers. And so I think that, you know, when you look at every piece of evidence, it shows that MJ is not far from the solution that we need. I will be supporting it because I support density. But I want to be very clear our real fight for our movement. If you are interested in fighting for affordable housing for yourselves and your neighbors and other working people, then we need both. But we need to fight for rent control and social housing. Affordable housing advocates are correct to warn that, and I just want to clarify that for profit development is not going to solve the affordable housing crisis . But we should also I don't agree with opposing the MJ zones either, because it's not you know, it's not the main problem here. The main problem is the for profit market. At least with the MJ, the developers will have to pay a small amount towards affordable housing. And as I said, I want a for every affordable home we can win. And that is why I have and continue to support the image absence. But at the same time, it is crucial that we now as affordable housing advocates, we avoid falling into the corporate rat trap of thinking that this is any kind of fundamental solution to the massive affordable housing crisis in Seattle. A focus on MJ has been used to disrupt the most impactful demands of the affordable housing movement. As I said, particularly social housing, by taxing big businesses like Amazon and rent control. And I can guarantee you big business is not going to support either of those demands. And you know what? That's a rule of thumb. If big business does not support it, you're probably on the right track to do something good for ordinary working people. So I am glad to be voting yes. Yes on this legislation. I vote yes because it will you know, it is pro density and I and I favor density. And for working people, I vote yes because it will help raise some funds for affordable housing. But I am also glad with this vote that I and I hope that now affordable housing advocates can and will focus on the real fight, which is for rent control and for taxing big business, for massively expanding social housing. Thank you so much once. Councilmember Gonzalez. Thank you. So before I give my remarks, I just wanted to thank approximately 75% of the city of Seattle staff who worked on the mandatory housing affordability legislation over the last four and a half years. I really appreciate all of the work that our staff across the city family has contributed to getting us to this point today . I hope that you all are proud of the work that you have done. And and I hope that you hear from us up here that we're proud of the work that you have done and indeed spent a lot of time away from your own families and friends to dedicate yourself to this work. So thank you so much to the entire city family for all of the work you have been putting into this and all the sacrifices you have made both in the in the Legislative Department and on the executive side to get us to this point. So. As I usually do in my tradition, I'd like for us to thank the city staff with a round of applause for getting us this far. And. Council President Harold colleagues and members of the public. Today is a significant day. After four long years of legislative, legal and community engagement processes. We have arrived at a place where I believe it is time for us to say yes to more density, yes to more affordable housing, and yes to more neighbors in 27 additional neighborhoods throughout the city of Seattle. For some, this mandatory housing affordability legislation goes too far. For others, this mandatory affordable housing legislation does not go far enough. So let's chat a little bit about that dynamic. Contrary to the name of the Select Committee on Citywide Energy, this legislation is not even close to citywide. There are approximately 127 neighborhoods in the city of Seattle. This legislation only relates to 27 of those 127 neighborhoods, impacting a total of only 6% of existing areas currently and strictly zoned as single family homes zones adjacent to existing urban villages. That means that even with the passage of the mandatory housing affordability legislation, approximately 60% of the city of Seattle is still under the cloud of exclusionary zoning laws. So let's talk a little bit about this city's history with exclusionary land use and zoning laws across the country, including right here in Seattle. Racially restrictive housing covenants became common in the 1920s. Those covenants were challenged in the courts. And in 1926, our U.S. Supreme Court put a stamp of approval as a stamp of approval on those racially restrictive covenants. Layered on top of these covenants were financial lending policies that prevented the sale of single family homes located in a racially restricted area from being sold to a nonwhite person. This is how redlining came to be in Seattle and across the country. According to our own City of Seattle archives, a typical racially restrictive housing income covenant reads as follows No person or persons of insert your race, blood, lineage or extraction shall be permitted to occupy a portion of said property, except a domestic servant or servants who may actually and in good faith, be employed by white occupants. Check your deed of trust. That language is still there. The effect of these widespread, racially motivated practices is still felt in every major city across the country today. In Seattle, it meant African-Americans, Native Americans and Asian-Americans were prohibited from living in neighborhoods outside of southeast Seattle, the Central District, and the international district. Meanwhile, neighborhoods like Ballard, Broadmoor, Green Lake, Laurelhurst, Magnolia and Queen Anne were historically off limits to people of color. 22 years after the Supreme Court said yes to racially restrictive housing covenants in 1948, the Supreme Court held that these covenants were not enforceable. It was not until 1968, an additional 20 years later, that the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed and that law prohibited, quote, discrimination of sale, rental and financing of dwellings and other housing related transactions based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, close quote. This law officially made the use of racially restrictive covenants in housing illegal 1968. And in 1968, the city of Seattle followed suit with the passage of the Seattle Open Housing Ordinance. After a hard fought grassroots civil rights movement that spanned from 1959 to 1968. So let me be clear. I'm not calling anyone a racist. I am, however, calling out the reality that we are living in a city that has a history of implementing and preserving housing laws, design designed to keep certain people out of certain areas of the city. And as a policymaker, it is my duty to understand this history and to support legislation that will begin the process of dismantling exclusionary zoning laws that are historically rooted in the intention to exclude people who look like me from owning or living in a single family home. I acknowledge that these covenants are no longer enforceable, but the vestiges of segregated Seattle surround us. The question is, what are we willing to do about it? Seattle is home to some of the richest people in the world. I don't have to name them by name. You know them. But that prosperity is not equally accessible to all. Equitable access to home ownership and housing stability is not a reality for many in our city, and this is in part due to increasing income inequality. And this makes it harder for everyday people to afford to live in the city they work in. People are housing insecure or experiencing homelessness, in part because we have a housing shortage crisis, especially for our residents that are that are in the extremely low income category. According to a National Low Income Housing Coalition report released just last week profiling the housing gap in Washington. Across the state, 234,362 renter households are extremely low income, and 71% of those renter households are severely cost burdened. Across the state, there's a shortage of 165,345 affordable and available rental homes for extremely low income renters. Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue are experiencing the brunt of that shortage, with an estimated shortage of 89,000 affordable and available rental homes. Increasing development capacity is just one policy tool available to this City Council. To address the housing gap for people across the income spectrum, we must build more affordable housing and market rate housing to meet the demands of the people currently here and those that are still coming here. This mandatory housing legislation is one tool in our toolbox to both incentivize the construction of affordable multifamily housing or capturing precious and limited dollars to provide our nonprofit housing developer community the tools they need to meet the demand to construct more affordable multifamily housing throughout our city, and especially in neighborhoods of high opportunity. This legislation, in my mind, does not destroy neighborhoods. This legislation will enhance neighborhoods by creating a path for families, workers, students and others to call our urban villages home. I want the thousands of Jessica's marlins, Natasha's, Laurens and Mats to be able to call Seattle home. For four years, we have listened to concerns regarding livability by taking into consideration issues related to bulk and scale and consistent with the environmental laws and where it makes sense, make those modifications into this proposal. So what we have before us now is the policy that not only impacts a total of 6% of single family home zones , zoning around the edges of existing urban villages, and increases development capacity within those proposed boundaries. This is good for Seattle. In 2010, I rented a condo in the West Seattle Junction, Orange Village. In 2011, I bought one of the few condos on the market, literally at the end of the block where I'd been renting for a year . It seemed like a miracle. It still seems like a miracle to me. Would it be possible for me to own a small piece of the junction and call it my own? I was thrilled then, and I'm still thrilled today to be able to call Seattle and The Junction my home. Every morning I catch the 55 right in front of my condo building, or I can walk a block to catch the sea line or the free shuttle to the water taxi. I live within two blocks of multiple grocery stores Safeway, QVC, Trader Joe's. My husband, he's a service worker. He works in a restaurant. He serves expensive food to people in our neighborhood. He makes minimum wage plus tips. He walks 3 minutes to get to work and sometimes takes his bike. We get to enjoy bike rides to Lincoln Park or down to Alki. This is the Seattle that I want to see built. It's the Seattle I believe we can build if we do it together. It is the Seattle that I think is possible for far too few people. And through this legislation, we take a step towards allowing this to be an opportunity for more people in our great city. DeLay doing nothing, stopping development. All of those things take us backwards, not forward. All of those options ask us to pretend as though growth will magically stop or delay. Today we have a chance to move, finally move forward as one unified city and as a Seattle that can be for everyone who chooses to live here. So today, I look forward to voting yes for the mandatory housing affordability legislation. And I want to express my deep gratitude for the leadership of Councilmember Johnson and for the sacrifices that your family has had to make in order to allow you to lead this city council and our entire city through what has been an exhaustive and intensive process to put forth in front of us as your colleagues an opportunity to correct some of those historic wrongs and to make space for new neighbors and new families. So thank you so much, Councilmember Johnson. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Councilman. Or worse. Thank you. Council President. I'll be brief. I just want to say that I will be voting yes today. And I want to thank Councilmember Johnson for all the hard work. A lot of these means have been contentious, difficult, emotional. We've had them all over the city. And I'm glad that we're coming to a close. And thank you, Councilmember Gonzales, for reminding us of what our what what the history was of how this city was deliberately planned. And I'm glad we're moving forward in an enlightened way and in a good way. I want to end this on one note with words Councilmember Johnson left us with when he asked us the question, who is this city for? This city is for all of us. Every one of us. Long after I'm long gone. And my kids, who are 28 and 25, have children and I have grandchildren. That's what we're looking at today. And is it perfect? No. Do we have more work to do? You bet. We'll learn more about our neighborhoods and the density and when light rail comes in. But I just, again, want to say thank you, not only to staff, but again to Councilmember Johnson and all his hard work. The times that he's been in my office, the times I've been in his office, the times we talked about amendments. And I can just say that I'm really proud of my city today. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman, where is. Councilman Johnson would like to close debate. So I want to say how grateful I am colleagues for those very kind words. This has been a labor of love for many of us, and I am proud to have helped shepherd this important piece of legislation across the finish line. For me, the idea of a major is a simple one. We want to give everyone in Seattle access to neighborhoods with great parks, reliable transit, outstanding schools, green playgrounds, affordable housing, quality groceries, robust infrastructure, and a health and sustainable environment. And passing image begins the job of creating that universal access for people throughout our city. Two years ago, we passed some specific images of zones. They're working. They're generating thousands of new units. And in 2018 alone generated more than $13 million for affordable housing. If we've been able to implement the program a year earlier, we would have been generating $90 million for affordable housing, affordable housing that at a time when we desperately need it. Where Steve Walker would desperately love to be able to fund more of the bellwethers and the Merce's and the Capitol Hill housings of the worlds who want to be building more of our affordable housing units all throughout the city. But now, by taking the zones citywide, we're starting the process of dismantling walls around our neighborhoods that have given exclusive groups so access to the resource rich communities around our city. And as Councilmember Gonzalez so eloquently reminded us, the hard data shows us that that privileged group has been predominantly white, and the ugly history of redlining and racial segregation shows that that exclusionary approach was sometimes intentional. It's out of sync with Seattle's values. And so I think this is a city wide zone for citywide equity. Yard signs around our town say that we're a welcoming city and we don't support walls, while zoning is both a metaphorical and a literal wall around our communities. And today we begin to take those walls down. Given the broad consensus we've reached on MJ, it's clear to me the council is poised to create even more city wide equality. Cities such as Minneapolis are already eliminating their exclusionary zoning altogether, and our city needs to take a look at that policy. As the councilmembers shepherded this legislation across the Council finish line. It's my sincere hope that today's vote is a vote not just to embrace growth and a proactive housing policy, but a policy that's intent on undoing barriers to universal equity, a policy that's intent on allowing more and much more housing for everybody in our city. Throughout this process, we've talked about allowing more housing in Seattle's transit rich neighborhoods, in our asset rich neighborhoods and in our resource rich neighborhoods. But today, by passing this legislation, we're recognizing that there's something more important than transit rich neighborhoods and resource rich neighborhoods. It's housing rich neighborhoods. The only way for us to create that universal access to housing is by building a housing rich city. And that means allowing a wider variety of housing types, such as townhouses and mid-rise condos and low rise buildings. Buildings that are known as missing middle housing can really help ensure that Seattle values, like inclusion don't ever go missing. So let's simply stop talking about moving people to transit rich or resource rich neighborhoods and talk instead about giving people housing rich neighborhoods. Because a housing rich city is a city that welcomes multifamily housing, not a city that's wary of it. A housing rich city is a city that supports multifamily development. Not a city that's segregated housing rich cities, a city that shares its neighborhoods, and not a city that sequesters its neighborhoods. And mandatory housing affordability is the first step in establishing a housing rich Seattle. And I believe that housing rich Seattle is adjusts. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you, Councilman Johnson. Okay. I think we are ready to vote. Call the role on the passage of Council Bill 119444 as amended. By Shanghai Gonzalez Herbold. JOHNSON Suarez must get a high. O'BRIEN So on. President HARRELL All right. Nine in favor, nine opposed. But that. Was. No sense. Please read agenda item number five, the short title.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Seattle Public Utilities; accepting an easement situated adjacent to Seward Park granted to The City of Seattle for construction and abandoning-in-place of horizontal construction tiebacks; placing the easement under the jurisdiction of Seattle Public Utilities; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda Item 19 Council Bill 118575. Relating to Seattle Public Utilities, excepting an easement situated adjacent to Seward Park granted to the city of Seattle for construction and abandoning in place of horizontal construction tiebacks, placing the easement under the jurisdiction of Seattle public utilities and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Bancroft. Thank you. You will recall last year we all worked assiduously to get a combined sewer storage tank sited, and the choice was at Seward Park. After looking at a number of different spaces, what's required is a tieback easement at the base of a slope where we've got a private property up on top. And the property owner has granted Seattle Public Utilities a tie back easement for 26,472. It is underground, but it will allow the project to proceed and we recommend approval. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the roll and the passage of the bill. Back shot. By. Gordon Gonzalez i Harrell. Licata, I. Rasmussen and President Burgess seven in favor and opposed the. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item 20.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $576, offset by First Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department for the 2020 Día De Los Muertos Celebration; and Decrease appropriations in the Special Advertising and Promotion Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $576 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

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Okay. Thank you. Let me do 15 and 16 together briefly. I am 15 is communication from Councilwoman Sunday has Councilwoman Allen recommendation to increase appropriation in by $576 for the 2020 DIA de los Muertos celebration and item 16 is a communication from Councilwoman Sunday has Councilwoman Sara. Recommendation to increase appropriation by twins for the 2020 holiday Posada virtual celebration. Okay. I have a most of my concerns that they have since second by Councilman Allen. I don't think there's any public comment on this. Correct? No public comment. Okay. Unless the objection will go to a roll call, vote on these items. Councilwoman Sun has. Hi, Councilman Allen. Hi. Councilwoman Price. Councilman Sabina. Hi. Councilwoman. Mongo. I turned to them in zero. Nine. Council Member Ranga. Yeah. Councilman Austin. That's when Austin Vice Mayor Richardson All right. Washing cars. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and do item 29, please, briefly.

Recommendation to request the Mayor, City Manager, City Clerk, and City Attorney to review best practices for streamlining City Council Meetings and report back on their findings within 90 days.

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I want to acknowledge all the representatives from the Port of Long Beach. We have the H.R. director and finance director and another director. Thank you for being here this evening. Moving on to the next item, I'd like to take item number 28. Yeah. Item 28 is a communication from council members who panel recommendation to request the mayor, city manager, city clerk and city attorney to review best practices for streamlining city council meetings to report back on their findings within 90 days. Okay. There's a motion on the floor. Mr.. Council Member Supernova. Thank you. Keeping in the spirit of this agenda item, my comments will be brief, concise and streamlined. I'll just read part of the discussion for those of you who can't see it. And that is in over the past year, one third of our council meetings lasted six and a half hours or more, concluding at 11:30 p.m. or later. Discussion of important public business in the late hours of long meetings diminishes public participation. So what this item does is it? Asks the mayor, the city manager, city clerk and city attorney to examine best practices for streamlining meetings by concerning what other municipalities or government entities have implemented. This may include, but is not limited to setting a meeting curfew, tracking time and setting time limits for council members. Comments adding structure to the public comment process, receiving staff reports prior to the meeting and closer adherence to parliamentary procedures. And we also have a guideline. It's part of our city charter for how these meetings are conducted. And in fact, that is number 2.03.0440. The order of business and item be their list at the rules of parliamentary practice contained in Robert's Rules of Order shall govern the Council. Also, just so you know that the things we do the Council meeting, for instance, I'll just take an example of the moment of silence that's dictated by this document. So in order to remove that, not that it saves a lot of time, I think that would save 10 seconds per council meeting. Symbolically, it might be great to remove, but it is required by by the order of business. So with that, I would encourage my colleagues to support this. And thank you. Councilmember Michael. I look forward to the opportunity to hear the stuff, recommendations and the community's input on opportunities. I know that many of my constituents feel frustrated when they come to council meetings, and the item that they're looking to speak on isn't heard until 1130 at night. They oftentimes go home and we often have agenda items that impact young people, and those agenda items aren't heard until we pass their bedtime. And I think that there are opportunities for us to be more transparent and to ensure that when the community wants to engage, that it's done in a meaningful way at an hour that is reasonable for the community. So I look forward to hearing the options. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. I yes, thank you. And I think Councilmember Super and offer this item. I agree that our council meetings are very long. I think a couple of things that I would like to to highlight as one definitely understanding, you know, the process with Robert roles that all of us on this council, including city clerk and city attorney, that we're all under the same understandings and process and making sure that we try to keep our agendas in the same format as they're presented publicly. I also really like the point that was noted around making sure that we have reports earlier. I know that that might be a little difficult for some of us, but being able to have those reports early where we're able to digest them, ask questions on Monday and Tuesday, instead of actually being presented at council with a report, it's difficult sometimes to digest them while also engaging in a debate about it and then being required to vote on it that same time. I, you know, like today we had some hearings, I think, exploring options. For us to have hearings moved up earlier than 5:00 would be a great option. I know that some conversations have been held behind the dais around supporting the committee process. If we do have that conversation around supporting more items going to committee, I would ask that staff also provide us with a report on each committee and how the city has been represented on those committees. For example, bossy. How many people from the seventh District have served as chair on the bossy for how many years? And making sure that we're able to, if we implement a committee process, that we're making sure that it's equitable across the entire city. But I think that this is a great option for us to recognize that we are a big city of half a million people and we take on big items. And it's time for us to really address how we run our meetings and how we make sure that they're accessible to everybody. And I realize that that is a difficult conversation to have after what we just went through, but I think it is an important conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Councilman Austin. So. So, first of all, Councilman Super I think you're right on that. We need to have this conversation. And, you know, having participated in council meetings have been someone who's somewhat been a little long winded at times. I'll say I think there is more that we can do, but I think we do need to acknowledge that the count, the purpose of the council meetings and the structure that we have them, the purpose is for the public and it's the public's opportunity to see us at work and and for them to engage in this process . And so we need to always keep in mind the community that we have and the fact that we, you know, that the great majority of our community is working families and they work and they don't get home a lot of time. A lot of times we don't work in Los Angeles and we have traffic in Los Angeles. A lot of people do not get home until, you know, 7:00. My wife, she works in L.A. and she gets home every day around 630. People pick up kids and all those things. And so I think we need to make sure that we keep keep our families, our working families in mind as we talk about as we have this conversation. Then if I think about was your statistics 7 hours, seven a half hour or something like that per meeting was seven a half. Councilmember. Well, no, I'm violating Robert's rules if I answer that question directly so that the whole point here is we have a structure to these meetings. Yeah. The time it took you to. Say so, my point about adhering to Robert Robert's rules is that these the it gets conversational. That takes up time. The time is written in the document. I see. I think sometimes the best public policy takes place when people have an exchange. And I don't want to sacrifice quality policy with with. But it's fine if you don't want to answer the question. But I thought I heard was seven one half hours. If we have if we can't if we have the last meeting of the month cancel and we have three meetings. So that's 22 and a half hours that we typically use on average to get through the amount of work that it takes to get to get through them out the body of work in one month. 22 and a half hours on average. So if it's 22 and a half hours, one way that we can you know, one strategy is to spread out the work a little bit. Right. There's nothing that precludes us from having the fourth that fourth Tuesday of the month or having that last Tuesday, the month having a council meeting there. So I want to make sure that we as we have this conversation, we keep that on the table as well. Do I want to sacrifice another Tuesday? No. I know that we have a lot to do. I know that, you know, this is this is, you know, a working council. I understand that. But the reality is there's only so many so much in terms of pie. So either we grow the pie or we slice of the pie and give people less. And what I don't want to do is give less to the public unless it's a way that's vetted out and they have a part and a part in that process. The other thing I would say, the consideration I would just give the staff is I know the motion says to include city attorney, city clerk and city manager and the mayor. I think we should include the public in some way in this conversation. So the motion as it is, doesn't preclude us from doing additional outreach. But I think we should figure out a method to engage the public in this conversation if we want to buy in. And then in times in terms of sort of timing, I think it makes sense. And, you know, I've had this conversation with the mayor. I think it makes sense to go ahead and try to have this process wrapped up, wrapped up by the time we move into the new city hall, because that's a good opportunity for first, you know, have a hit the reset button and start fresh and just have one standard as move into the new city hall. So those are some my thoughts and a thank you. Thank you. I'll just take this opportunity to just be brief. Understanding the spirit of this item and what it would council member supervisor seeking to accomplish. I certainly support it. I think, you know, we need to be looking to become more efficient with the public's business before as we we do the public business here. During the city council meetings, our meetings do run long on. And there's probably many reasons why that that that is happening. But there's one great thing about this city, I think, that distinguishes us from many other cities, and that is our robust public participation process. And I don't want to do anything to damage that. I think we have more civic participation, more. I mean, our council meetings are packed week after week after week. And so. But I do like the idea of looking at other public agencies and how meetings are run. For example, in L.A. County, I know for the county it's run much differently. The city of L.A., other, larger, larger public agencies that don't have as much public participation, but still are managed and or comparable amount of public participation, but they manage to still run meetings efficiently. And so I'm completely in favor of this. And I think the larger conversation, the conversation that we will have in terms of getting it to the meeting, this is when this item comes back from staff with recommendations. So I'm happy to support. Councilmember Pearce. Thank you. I forgot to mention, I'm not sure if everybody has this letter yet or not, but there was a letter that I received today in support of this item, just asking for a couple of recommendations. I believe this is a small group of local organizations Cal State, Long Beach, Legal Aid Lane, Long Beach, Forward and Walk , Long Beach. That all want to be a part of the process as well in exploring how we can make our council meetings more streamlined, but also ensuring that there's maintaining community engagement in the process. So I just wanted to mention that and say that I hope that that report, when you bring it back, has included conversations with these organizations. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Super Supernova. Okay. Just a point of clarification. The agenda item asked city staff to look at this. Any member of the public can submit anything anytime over the next 90 days. If anyone would like to Google streamlining council meetings, there's a good starting point. You can look at what other municipalities have done. It was mentioned moving into the new facility. I think Palo Alto. One municipality was considering a timer clock for council comment. So that would be a piece of hardware that would be mounted on the wall. I assume, you know, like an NBA 24/2 clock as the councilmember speaks. So those types of things we'd like city staff to explore, but I don't want to. The item doesn't preclude anyone from the public sending a memo to my office or anywhere else or to any of these entities here. The one point about it was mentioned, the letter we received today, I think it was at 2:05 p.m., so it was kind of late. We started with a closed session today at four that mentioned additional council meetings or as I mentioned here on the dais was we have so many hours of work to do, so let's look at other meetings. I think that's counterintuitive. If you if you look at the option of adding meetings, you're not going to work on efficiency of existing meetings. And that's the focus of this item, is to look how we can streamline the existing meeting structure and not we're look at best practices, but the item does not include adding additional meetings. And thank you. Next up, we have Councilmember Urunga, then Mongo, then Gonzalez, and then we'll go to public comment. Thank you. Got to remember us, too. This is sort of deja vu all over again because many years ago, the reason we have the meetings where we have them now and the structure we have right now is because of the concerns raised by the community in terms of the city council not being accessible about transparency. Meetings were held during the day starting at 2:00 in the afternoon with hearings and committee meetings and and then starting the council meeting that at four, I think it was two or three in the afternoon. So we are here because of the review that was done before and this this this meeting that we have now a result of that. However, I am supportive of the fact that we should revisit where we're at. I mean, I can see time now to look at our efficiencies as we are currently so that we can make even more refinements. But I think that anything that pushes meetings out or adds meetings or makes them even earlier to where the public is not going to have access to these meetings, I think would be, as you said, counter-intuitive. So let's keep that in mind as we move forward with this and looking forward to what the what results. Councilmember Gonzalez. Yes, thanks for bringing this forward. Council Member Super. And I think it's a great item. Anything we can do to be more efficient. So a couple things that have not been mentioned is I'd like us to just think about in this research the the preplanning of holidays and days that we remove off of the the council calendar just because, you know, there's a lot that we're like, for instance, after the budget, we usually have a day off Thanksgiving, Christmas, so perhaps we could be a little bit more strategic and in how we're removing those off the council calendar. Of course, we don't want to be here during Christmas or Thanksgiving, but the days surrounding that would be something to think about. And the only reason I think that the the group had put together an extra day like Dark Tuesday and I had to explain this to council member super not is because we have additional duties. So many of us are on committees, state, federal legislative housing committees, etc. study sessions that we have, charter amendments that we're going to do, a study session, etc., etc., etc.. And so that may be a good opportunity for us to use the Dark Tuesday for those specific meetings. So that's one thing I'll mention. Other than that, I think this is great and I look forward to it coming back. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Longo. Thank you. So just to kind of align with Councilmember Austin, I'm sorry, Councilmember Richardson's comments on the previous agenda item, there's always a lot of input from council members and that's great. But unless it's a component of the friendly amendment of what's being considered, I, I just wanted to kind of throw that in there. And so while I appreciate the idea of a stop clock, I always appreciate staff's responses. But I know that kind of a component of a stop clock is also if I ask a question, how long does it take staff to respond? And that can be a part of the whole dialog. And so one of the other components could be perhaps a number of questions before reviewing. And I really appreciate the Dark Tuesday because when big items are coming, it's a way for community meetings to happen and for us to talk with the community. And it's often difficult to get these chambers, as Councilman Gonzales said, for our committee meetings and our structures where we have the public coming in. And so I know that in looking to offer opportunities, it's great that anyone can come and speak for 3 minutes at the dais, but to have a real dialog with the community, there have to be dates for that. And one of the other dates that I would comment on is I know Councilmember Durango and I consistently want to be able to be able to be out in the community for neighborhood night out. Our communities consistently ask us to be there. It's a time when they have the ability to ask questions that are already gathering. It's a national day, but yet every single year we have to struggle to either get it on an agenda and by then it's too late, or when we want to ask for it, we're not sure what the agenda might be and if there would be something time sensitive. And so I really appreciate this agenda item. And I think Councilmember Suber not for his step forward on this. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. So just a few more thoughts. So one, I think another way. So if we say there's only so much PI, if it's 22 hours on average, we spend on and through three meetings we do have. And thank you for bringing it up. The committees. The committees. I mean, we should take a real review at the committees. Which committees are not like how much work is on the docket in committees, how much stuff, how many people don't call or utilizar committees when they should? Right. And if people utilize those committees, maybe they've set out some of their ideas. Or if we created the process that if there's a fiscal impact, it has a committee review first. It could it could potentially vet out some of the some of this work. So the council meetings are more are are less of a proving ground for new ideas, but rather we use it to to improve things. So that's something we could we could think about. Additionally, I'd like to just have a little more specificity on how we how we plan to engage the community. So and I'm going to pose this the city staff since apparently. Well, first, let me ask, is there is it against Robert's rules or order any any process to for us to speak to the maker of the motion or ask for clarity or anything, and. You're supposed to go through the chair. So you're not under rubber rules. You're supposed to ask the chair, and then it goes to the member of the committee. If you're not if the chair doesn't do that. Okay. Yeah. So I'm going to ask city staff. So how would we I just want to and I don't want to belabor this, but I do want some clarity before I cast the vote today. How would we plan on actually getting input from the public on this before we make a decision? Well, as the motion stands right now, we would do what staff would normally do, which is do some research. We would bring back a report and then that community input would really happen at the council stage. So we would certainly take community input. We would be providing a menu of options and some recommendations. If you wanted to amend the motion to actually include a robust public outreach method, it could be anything from, you know, just having it will collect input from anybody or we'll have a survey or we could go out and do full blown meetings. So I think the more work you do, the longer the item would take. Sure. And and I think moving into the new building give us gives us roughly a year or a bit less. I would offer a friendly than that. We and I don't want to belabor it, but I want to actually have a meeting. I would like a meeting. And you should be inclusive of those those individuals who submitted the letter, as well as common cause because they've consulted our city before on good governance measures just to see if there's any ideas that the when the first time the council sees it, any good ideas that are out there. I like the conversations about I like one idea, for example, that when you submit an agenda item. Excuse me, Councilmember. I just want to be able to speak clearly, make sure my ideas were recorded. So, you know, like, one idea I think is good is when an agenda item is placed on the agenda, there's a time request on how much time you're requesting for, for debate. I've seen other agendas do that, and it actually allows you to sort of predict how much time you're going to spend on it. Then the council gets to make a choice whether you want to spend, extend the debate or continue with what's approved sort of proposing the meeting. So that's just a suggestion. So that's my friendly to the maker of the motion. Can we have as they conduct outreach, can they also meet with some of the community stakeholders in common cause? I think what I said previously, it was wide open for anyone to submit anything to city staff. Mr. Parkin, is there anything in my motion, this, my agenda item that would preclude the public from contacting you on this? There is in the motion, as I understand it. No, there is nothing that precludes the public from sending their comments or suggestions to city staff or to any of the council members or the mayor. So that's a no. Then it's a no. Okay. Subs to motion the motion as written. That includes community part one meeting for community part partners, including Common Cause I myself through motion. It's been moved and seconded. Councilmember Mungo. Did you call? Yes. I'm sorry. I appreciate the comments in my support of this item. One of the things that I think is really important is that there's an equal footing for anyone to have input. And one of the things that I would potentially encourage would be that perhaps the city clerk has a specific designation on emails that all come in related to it. I know that one of the challenges sometimes is we'll know what items coming two months out and people want to provide comment. However, until the items agenda is the e-com, it can't be there. And so even with Councilmember Supernova's original motion, if people wanted to make that comment for it to really be filed into the record in the most efficient way, for us to aggregate that and give access to us as a council of what those comments are, because they feel like it's really important that we are able to read those when considering this item as it comes back in case staff does not fold that in. So what I'll do is I'll make a substitute substitute motion that we reach out to the community through insight will be Twitter and Facebook posts that let them know that the council is looking to better include the community in the dialogs related to council agenda items and provide an email address where all public comment could be gathered so that we as a council can have that as an aggregate provided digitally when the report comes back. That work. Great. I'm sorry that this second or. There goes the vice mayor. Not present. I second. That. That's crazy. So the second will be by Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. Perfect. Trying to bring everyone together on one thing. So this is something the city clerk has done for us in the past when we know an agenda items coming, but we don't have the AECOM an option. And so I guess we would maybe say anyone who emails the city clerk with the subject line streamlining council meetings, all of that would be aggregated so that we would all have that available to us. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. So we still have three councilmembers cued up in the interest of efficiency. We still have public comment on this item. Councilmember Arango. Well, very briefly, I actually and this is part of the discussion that we're talking about at the super and I want Councilmember Super in Dialogs Alliance and that's good. However, I think that in addition to this, this built in efficiencies using Robert's rules for parliamentary procedure. And I think that one of the things that we should be including in this is also a training, if you will, by my parliament, by certified parliamentarian and Robert's Rules of Orders and how you can use those to make a meeting much more efficient. And I think that none of us what I have, but many of us have not been officially trained or no Robert's Rules of Order. I mean, we I think a lot of us have been sort of learning parliamentary procedure as we go along, and people in the audience have been learning about Robert's Rules water. And as we go along there and but nobody has actually received a training. Let me rephrase that again. I've taken it. But we need a parliamentarian to come in here and let us and actually show us through the ropes of using Robert's Rules of Order to make the meetings more efficient. I can train you, sir. Just kidding. Councilmember Pearce. You're doing a great job chairing the meeting. Councilmember Austin, by the way, I take training from you any day. I just want to concur with that. Is that the the process of us always asking the city attorney for tips on Robert's rules, I think is stalls us a lot of times. And I come from consensus building and grassroots organizing. We don't use Robert's rules. You know, I never chaired on a Democratic club or anything like that. I just I cued up not to make that comment. I queued up to say that the reason why I think it's important to highlight organizations that we want the staff to work with is not because not anybody can email the staff and ask to speak. It's because history shows that not everybody has been invited to be a seat at the table. As somebody that was working in nonprofits for ten years before being on this council, I know many times and we had asked to have a seat at the table and we didn't. And so that is why we ask for it. It's not because it's not accessible for somebody to send an email, but we there are people out there that work on this stuff that are experts and that engage with this council often. And I think that it's important that we include them. So I hope. Councilmember Super. Now that you will accept out that substitute motion. Thank you. Great Council member supernova. Thank you. I just want to direct everyone's attention to an item I placed on this item. That is the fiscal impact. We did the legwork on this. We went to city manager, city clerk and city attorney and asked about staff time. This is something had been brought up in previous council meetings. So if we expand this item, I have to go back and ask staff if there is an impact on staff time. Otherwise, it's not the same item that the focus here. I hate to call it narrow because it was wide open. Look at best practices anywhere, but it was did and did not include reaching out to the public. Okay. So I was saying that anyone can do this. But my question is basically going back to I was speaking to the substitute substitute. Is there an impact on staff time or a fiscal impact to add this item? So for the substitute substitute motion, adding a inside Long Beach and doing some Facebook and social media that's, you know, can be done, you know, fairly easily. We've done that. In the past. You put it out, that would be pretty low impact on staff. To put that question out, we would aggregate the responses and bring those back and those would help inform staff recommendations. Going beyond that to do meetings and others, that obviously is a little is a higher level of of work. So we believe from the substituted service to motion, we could accomplish that fairly easily. Okay. So if the maker of the motion agrees to that, that I would support that, that there is no additional fiscal impact. I really appreciate the comment because I'm very. I would want to send it to committee if it had an extended fiscal impact. And one of the reasons why I specifically talked about setting up the email address was I know that in prior times we can just click those select all turn into a PDF and you're talking about minimal stuff, time variance. And so I think that the fiscal impact would be as close as it could be to the original motion, and that was my intent. Thank you. Public comment, please. Very good. You click as the address. I support this 100%. The same way I support Councilperson Price and her positions on things. We do need efficiency and all we have to do is look back at what happened. A few dealing with the the hotel issue and the panic button. Some of the people, particularly the one that doesn't know enough that you shouldn't fish off the company pier or the two council people from the eighth ninth district that the D that support the deviant. Snoop Dogg. All right. Clearly. Didn't don't do their jobs correctly. That whole debate we had on the discussion, the hours it took relative to the panic button at the council, people done their job. There would be no need for that lengthy discussion. You've got a staff. You've got a telephone. All of that should have been worked out. Worked out publicly with your people. Then you bring it here. The public doesn't need, although it was very instructive to show how incompetent. The Councilperson for the second district and the two counsel to the council, Austin and Harrison. Are and should really be. Removed. If we want efficiency, you can set up all the rules. But when you have clowns like that, you're not going to get the efficiency. So I have clear confidence, as I said in the Council on Supernova and Super and Councilwoman Pryce as. And I've got great confidence in our vice mayor. I only wish. I only wish he would. If our mayor had the decency to recognize that his career is over and that by late spring he will be in prison, he should be resign now and let our good vice mayor take over for the balance of the year. But it goes back to again the council. People have to do their own job. When you come here, you should have done all your homework. And you're not doing it. What you're doing. I do not. Well, I do know what you're doing. So thank you again. It's a commendable idea and it should be implemented. Thank you. I just feel. Thank you, Mr. Good here. You had 20 seconds to spare. Thank goodness. I'm Karen Reside, president of District one. I come frequently to the council on meetings. Thank you very much. Council member super north. This is long needed this discussion. One of the things that I really would like to recommend and. The previous speaker. I think it's an example of this. We limit the number of times that people can come up and speak and waste our time. That's really a critical issue for me. I, I believe that all the city employees and all the council members work really hard and they do the best that they can with the tools that they have to work. I don't know if full time council can be on the table at this point in time, but I think that's something that our city is growing to the point where we really have to seriously look at. And I believe education. Lots of people come to the council meetings and they don't know what to expect. There are some very limited instructions on the agenda. It doesn't help people understand what it is that they need to do in the process. And they get frustrated and upset because the council members or city staff can't answer their questions. They don't understand that's not allowed as part of the process. So people need to understand the process better. And really, I think there are better ways to put the lovely PowerPoint presentations that parking districts CVB. All those presentations that take a large amount of time and have a large amount of staff in the audience, and I don't know if they're on the clock. I believe that those would be better if they were put on the website where people could view them at their leisure and it through their choice. So I see a number of efficiencies. We look forward to the opportunities to submit comments and we'll have a have a discussion of it at the Gray Panther meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Finally, these people. It's way more so again, why she's sitting there talking about limiting the times people could come up here. I don't understand why why we sit there listening to say the same thing over and over again. I feel like Yasha have a timer. We have a timer where we only get 3 minutes and some people don't even use theirs, which always sit there and linger over for 15 or 20 minutes, going ping pong back and forth and all this stuff. And it's okay. Yea, the ones that waste the majority of our time which are comments or notions or do we do this? Can we do this? I don't know. That's your position. That's your chair. I just come here because I'm part of the community and I just want to know what's going on or different resources that pose to be out here to help me where I don't have to come cry to y'all about the issues I'm having are not in place. So if it was more structured and y'all will really manage them more and make sure that everybody is on top of their job, doing their job. But y'all could do your job. It'd be better. But just like y'all drag your feet, they get to drag their feet. They get to slip people underneath the rug. They get to push it to the side. In a way, y'all cancel city council meetings and then way then don't have one. So is a lot of things that can be changed or, you know, done differently. But it got to be some give and take. And Jackie bringing up all the new building. A new building. Yeah. And all of that sort of new building. But I don't hear anything about the new park. I don't hear anything about how you guys are going to help all the thousands of homeless people. They used to at least get help at that part. I haven't heard one time y'all say anything about that part, but I heard John say building at their building. At the building. At the building. That's it. It's not about the people. It's not about the community. It's just. Let's see how we going for Dangote is money. Let's go sell this property to this owner where they do a you know what, a gated community. At the end, they had to pay $3 million to upgrade the park because you guys didn't have the funding. Their job was that every they wondered about the riverbed. Come on now. I do do my research and I do read and I'm very educated budget and saw a lot of people there is not even trying to know all this. I don't care about which I do. I'm a mother. I'm trying to be a mother. I'm not a politician. I have a good. Thank you very much. And I appreciate the robust conversation around this and look forward to it coming back in 90 days. Please cast your votes. Misses the vote on the substitute substitute. On the substitute substitute, yes. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you very much. So next, we're going to take item number 30 and then we will go to public comment and then the rest of the agenda.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing, and grant an Entertainment Permit with conditions on the application of On the Rocks Bar and Grill, 5755 East Pacific Coast Highway, for Entertainment Without Dancing. (District 3)

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Okay. Okay. We also have two fairly quick hearings that we have to do. So we'll do those before the agenda items and they should go by pretty fast, the first hearing. Madam Clerk, can we please read that hearing? I am one is a report from Financial Management Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and grant an entertainment permit with condition on the application of On the Rocks Bar and Grill, located at 5755 is Pacific Coast Highway for Entertainment Permit without dancing district three. And it does require an an oath works. Of those wishing to testify, please stand up and raise your right hand. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the court now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God . Thank you. Mr. Modi could take us away. Thank you, Vice Mayor, for this item. We will have a staff report by Bret Jaquez, our business license officer. Good evening, honorable vice mayor and members of the city council. Tonight you have before you an application for entertainment without dancing for on the Rocks Bar and grill located at 5755 East Pacific Coast Highway, operating as a restaurant with alcohol in Council District three. All of the necessary departments have reviewed the application and have provided their recommended conditions as contained in the hearing packet, as well as the police department stand ready to answer any questions council may have. And that concludes staff's report. Thank you. Do we need to go to the the applicant before we go to public comment? No. Okay. Any public comment on this item saying none. We're going to close it and bring it back behind the rail. Councilwoman Price. I think there is someone who wants to speak, but maybe he didn't know. Sir, are you here to speak on the side? No, he's on the next time answering questions. That's your on the next item, I believe. Oh. Next item. Okay. Thank you for the presentation. I ask my colleagues to support this item. This has been a very welcomed addition to the third district in terms of a business. They're responsible business owners. And my family and I visit there often and have found them to be very cognizant of the issues and the surrounding community. So I'm grateful that there will not be dancing here because that probably wouldn't be appropriate for this location. But I do welcome the live music and wish them the best things. Thank you. Councilmember Pearce. Councilmember Mongo. I'm very excited to have this joining the Long Beach area. A lot of the neighbors actually in the fifth district used to drive to their other location. And so we have taken up a new love for the third district in that many of us go over there and visit. And I've been so fortunate as to also run into other council colleagues and enjoy the food there. So if you have not had the opportunity to visit, please take the time to go to On the Rocks Bar and Grill off of PCH if they receive approval tonight, which I hope they will. Thank you, members. Please cast your vote. Every. Councilman Andrews motion carries.

City Council motion and declaration of City Council intent to reject Initiative No. 134, relating to voting in city primary elections and placing Initiative No. 134 on the November 8, 2022 ballot in conjunction with the Ranked Choice Voting measure (Council Bill 120369), a proposed alternative measure on the same matter.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk. The motion carries and the clerk file will be placed on file. Let's move to item number two with the clerk. Please read item number two and to the record agenda. Item to clerk file 314498. City Council Motion and Declaration of City Council Intent to Reject Initiative Number 134 Relating to voting in City Primary Elections and placing initiative number 134 on a November eight, 2022 ballot in conjunction with the ranked choice voting measure, which is Council Bill 120369, a proposed alternative alternative measure on the same matter. Thank you. Councilmember Lewis, I believe you have a motion. I move to approve and file clerk file 314498. Thank you. Is there a second? Second? It's been moved and seconded to approve approve clerk file 314498. In Casper. Lois, you are the sponsor of this bill. Can you please address this item? Thank you so much, council president. Appreciate the opportunity. I want to say at the front that. In this entire conversation. I don't know that there is necessarily a fundamental need to change the nature of our elections in Seattle with districts and democracy vouchers. We have competitive elections where young people and people of color are viable candidates. I, myself, as the youngest council member, can personally attest to that. But the question has been called. And we are here. In City Hall to discuss whether there should be measures that are advanced for the people of Seattle to decide whether the system of our elections is or is not appropriate and should. Be changed. The proponents of Initiative 134 have forced that question, and I commend them for it and commend them for their organizing. And I'm not going to use my platform today to disparage their proffered alternative approval voting. Beyond some comments I will make later about the limited adoption of approval voting. But rather, I'm. Bringing this proposal forward today to give voters the choice to choose the election reform that is more broadly adopted across the United States. The approval measure voting before us is conceptually new and sparsely adopted in the United States. Only Fargo, North Dakota and Saint Louis, Missouri used this system, and we would be by far the largest jurisdiction in the country to use this comparatively novel way of conducting elections. By contrast. Several know a couple of United States States, Maine and Alaska use ranked choice voting. And it's much more broadly adopted, as do the municipalities, bearing more similarity in size to Seattle, like Oakland, California, Oakland, California, New York and San Francisco, California. In total, more than 30 American jurisdictions of all sizes have adopted some form of ranked choice voting. I'm not going to go into detail in explaining the mechanics of the choice voting proposal. I think Whish-Wilson did a serviceable job of that. But I will just talk a little bit about some of the attributes of ranked choice voting that I do find appealing and that a lot of advocates in our community have proffered and found appealing over several years of organizing to adopt this alternative method of conducting elections under ranked choice voting models, candidates need to demonstrate strong and broad appeal to be successful. Polarizing candidates have a more difficult time of securing first place preference showings and fade in support as votes are reassigned in multiple rounds of assigning the vote. It is important to note that the principle of one person one vote still applies with ranked choice voting at the end of any reassignment of preference. Only one final vote remains that as tallied, reflecting the voter's use of their franchise. In practical terms, ranked choice voting greatly enhances the discourse of our elections. And I'm going to digress just for a moment to summarize a what I thought was a really enlightening social media exchange a couple of years ago from our miserly, our county council colleague across the street who has similarly advocated for King County to adopt a system of ranked choice voting, council members actually gave an example that all of us as candidates can relate to that if you go out knocking on doors and you talk to one of your neighbors, especially in a crowded primary, and that neighbor says, Oh, sorry, I'm not voting for you, I'm voting for one of your opponents. They're my friend. They're my neighbor. That's who I'm going to vote for in this election. Under our current model of voting, that conversation ends, but under ranked choice voting, you can stay at the door and say, Well, you can rank me as a second preference. So let me talk a little bit about what I want to do. Let me talk about what my issues are. Let me talk about how as a member of the city council or as a mayor or a city attorney, I can respond to your issues and let me more importantly, hear what your issues are and how I can set my priorities to address them. The conversation doesn't end the same way it currently ends in our one vote and it's over primary process, as I alluded to just now by referencing councilmembers, Hawaii's interest in this and the process that King County has been pursuing over the last couple of years with several King County Council members , not just council members ally, it's very likely if I were to predict and get out my crystal ball that King County will at some time in the near future adopt some form of ranked choice voting. There is significant momentum and significant support for a proposal like that. We got close to having a King County measure that was going to be put forward this year, as from what I can tell from the public discourse on that issue. But they decided to wait for another cycle. I do just want to raise as a potential issue. It is possible, if approval voting were to be adopted, that king that Seattle would have a non-conforming voting system to our umbrella jurisdiction in King County. I do just want to raise that possibility of a future where approval voting is what is adopted instead. That is not necessarily a reason for the voters to not do it, but they should have a potential choice on the ballot that has a stronger chance of being adopted by the umbrella jurisdiction. And that is more in line with what state voting reform advocates have proposed and supported as a long term alternative to how we conduct our elections. I also just want to address that it is totally proper and is a totally clear charter power of the Seattle City Council to put an alternative on the ballot when a initiative gets the proper signatures to qualify. This is something that the Seattle City Council has done in recent history. I was not on the council the last time those deliberations were conducted, but my colleague, Councilmember Stewart, was, and perhaps she can discuss that process. I know that Councilmember Herbold and Councilmember Peterson were legislative assistants at that time, and Councilmember Peterson was actually a legislative assistant to the council member who adopted that alternative. And maybe he could speak to that process. I'll leave it. To them to discuss if there is any first hand experience that might be helpful to us from 2014. But I just want to offer that that process that involved a preschool measure offers similarities to the question that we're faced with today. The extent is of that similarity is something we can reasonably disagree on. But fundamentally, the council faced a similar question in weighing Councilmember Burgess's alternative. Should the voters of the city in facing a question to programmatically respond to a demonstrated need in that case preschool? In this case, the method that we conduct our elections have an alternative option that proposes to solve the same problem with a different method. That's why the Council has a clear charter power to exercise its authority to send the voters an alternative. If we deem it is appropriate for the public discourse in the city, there is nothing unusual or untoward in our decision to exercise it. Indeed, there is strong and demonstrated public support for this ranked choice voting alternative. We just went through a public comment session where two times the number of people called in supporting ranked choice voting as called in supporting the approval voting alternative. That proves this is an appropriate question for the voters to be the final arbiters of whether this is something we should or shouldn't do by electing to not put this proposal on the ballot. We are, in effect, depriving the people of Seattle of the chance to make the final decision. I want to give some thanks and allow my colleagues opportunities, too, to weigh in to our city clerks for queuing up this process to duly consider this alternative proposal. I want to thank Liz Whitson on Council Central Staff for doing a really excellent job of putting a proposal together that is representative of the ranked choice system that we see in lots of jurisdictions around the country and indeed around the world. I want to thank Council President Suarez and her chief of staff Brendel for really being excellent collaborators and in setting up the process and going really far in a way to be accommodating and making sure that we had everything lined up to give this due consideration. And I really, really appreciate the the clarity and the skill and flexibility in making sure we could do that and give ample opportunity to the public to weigh in now in a couple of public comment sessions. I also want to thank my chief of staff, Jacob Thorpe, for really shepherding this process in my office. And with that council president, I will turn it back over to you to facilitate the discussion so you. Can up a little bit. So I open up the floor of discussion and Councilmember Lewis, I remind me to come back to you if you have some closing remarks or if you want to close this out. So with that, the floor is open. All right. Elsewhere, herbal. I was deferring to other folks might want to speak first, but somebody who worked for a brief time in radio on the air makes me uncomfortable. So I put in here. So as the sponsor ably described as voting is used widely across the U.S., I have a different count of the number of jurisdictions . But we can we can take that up at another time. The number I have is 52%. It's in local jurisdictions where candidates in order of offense allows for more nuance in voting, removes that question that I know we have a lot when we're voting, which is should we vote our conscience or should we vote for the candidate most likely to win, even if it's not your first choice? Well, voting does not offer the. Same level of nuance. And instead of ranking candidates, you only vote for those that you are the means. By voting for more than one candidate, you are voting equally for each. Even if you have a strong front for one of the candidates. I want to quote Jasmine Smith, the former Washington boss who recently wrote, If Seattle were to adopt cutting, it would be the first major city with a majority white electorate to use this system. A scenario that risks giving white voters an outsized voice in determining election outcomes at the expense of voters of color. Some have said that adding an. Alternative option to the ballot is influencing the outcome of the election. Council is not interfering with the initiative process. The initiative process explicitly grants the Council the authority to add an alternative in the ballot design. The initiative process says if our city is going to consider an alternate voting system by initiative, we can allow a vote on both approving voting and ranked choice. Voting is our responsibility. Anchor voters have the ability to choose a voting system that they must support. Appreciate the sponsor bringing this forward and appreciate as as the sponsor said. Council President. Madam. Madam President, your flexibility and allowing us to to have this discussion. Thank you. Councilor Herbold, Councilmember Mosqueda. Thank you very much. Madam President, just give me the sign of my Internet is unstable. I'll be brief. I really appreciate the dialog that we're having today, the dialog that's been brought forward and initially nationally initiated by Initiative 134 proponents and those who are seeking to add ranked choice voting as an alternative to the ballot. I want to thank Councilmember Lewis for his work with the staff members. And he noted to really provide an option, an option for voters. And I wanted to echo some of the comments from the sponsor. And Councilmember Herbold. Sending an alternative to the ballot for voters to choose is not precedent setting. Council member Tim Burgess spearheaded this effort less than ten years ago to offer voters the alternative regarding child care that council member Lewis noted This is an initiative about excuse me, this is a question to voters about engaging in our democracy, and there is nothing more democratic than giving voters a choice on something as consequential. I have friends who are supporting both policy approaches, folks who similarly want there to be more engagement and more options. And I think it goes to show that there is a long and deep standing interest in broadening out options for voters to cast their vote for a candidate who really represents them. Proponents of each approach will then get a chance to talk to the voters, and the voters will get to weigh in and make the decision. Seattle has been on the cutting edge of voter reform in our country. Other jurisdictions continue to reach out and ask about how our local elections work. They are very excited to learn more about the democracy voucher program and our election transparency laws. We are on the national map for the ways that we have improved voting and voter access over the years. And now with this option, voters will get the chance again to decide about how we will continue to amend how voters can engage in our local election. I'm going to be voting yes, and I really appreciate the dialog today and I know that there will be much more dialog to come throughout the next few months. And again, thanks to everyone because this is really about increasing voter turnout and increasing voter options. And I think the conversation is to come and will will continue to evolve over the next few months with both options. Thank you. If you council members want. Thank you. I will be voting yes to a ranked choice voting option on the ballot alongside approval voting. Democracy means much more than simply having the ability to vote for a candidate. How the votes are structured can have a big impact on the ability to have a democratic debate. To win support prior to the vote has the biggest effect. And the reality is big business and the super rich on most of the forums of that debate. In Seattle, they owned the Seattle Times and the TV stations, and they use those media to blatantly promote their own interests. There is a limit to how much struggling working people can donate to an election campaign, but there is no limit to the spending of corporate backs which are used by the wealthy. For example, last year I faced a recall election which started less than a year after I was reelected in 2019. The signatures required to put the recall on the ballot were selected by paid signature gatherers. With enough money, anything can be put on the ballot. In fact, the Seattle Approves Ballot initiative before us today was put on the ballot by paid signature gatherers from essentially true deep pocketed donors. When we consider the structure of elections, we have to consider not only how it might work in a hypothetical, hypothetical, apolitical or neutral world, which we all know does not exist under capitalism, but how big business can use their resources to take advantage of any system in reality. For example, in presidential elections, the two party system is used to pressure voters to accept the so-called lesser evil. As a result, American working people have never had the option to vote for a presidential candidate in the general election who actually represents our interests, who supports progressive measures like single payer, universal healthcare, which the overwhelming majority of working people support. The two party system has been used ruthlessly by big business and the party establishment for decades to disrupt all efforts to create a new Worker's Party and to stamp out challenges from left populist candidates like Bernie Sanders in Seattle. The current doctor primary system has been a relatively good electoral structure, given the fundamentally undemocratic nature of elections under capitalism. It offers candidates to win often win support on the basis of our program without being immediately drowned in lesser evil arguments and bears similarities to what are called runoff elections in other countries globally, allowing a greater opening for third parties and independent candidates than many other structures. Approval voting would be a major step backwards. While it is being presented as more democratic, it would in fact give even more of an upper hand to big business by filling the ballot with well-financed brand candidates who ostensibly stand for nothing and attacking working class candidates with smear campaigns reinforced by corporate media and big business PAC money. They would be in a much better position to control who can make it onto the general election ballot. But there is far higher voter turnout and to block working class and socialist candidates from the outset. Approval voting makes no distinction between whom a voter really wants to win the election and whom they merely do not actively oppose. But that lack of opposition is strongly influenced by the forces in society who control the debate. Big business candidates rarely campaign openly on their plans to maximize the profits of the wealthy at the expense of workers. Instead, their campaigns have empty slogans and slogans and pictures of their families in their fancy ads talking about how they want to address homelessness, crisis, make Seattle affordable, and keep our communities safe. All this is a coded way to make it very clear they will be loyal to the political establishment and corporate interests. They will not mention rent control, taxing Amazon and other wealthy corporations to pay for the housing. We need real measures of police accountability or concrete steps to reduce the deep inequality at the root of crime in our neighborhoods. Approval voting is a scheme to drown out establishment voices in a sea of pro-establishment candidates. In this process, the goal of big business is to deny voters the opportunities to have any real alternatives. Ranked choice voting is significantly better than approval voting because it at least gives voters the ability to prioritize who they actually want to win the election, rather than lumping everyone together into a general category of approval and drowning out the differences. However, I think ranked choice voting is still less democratic than our current primary system, which, as I said, bear similarities to runoff voting in other countries. Socialist Alternative has had experience with ranked choice voting in Minneapolis, and we have found that the political establishment can use the ranked choice voting to game the system and prevent third parties from gaining a foothold. Candidates recommended supporters formed a list of second and third choices when a socialist candidate looks like they may win the election. The political establishment throws well-financed additional candidates into the race who can get the second and third round votes of both. And more conservative voters such as the Socialists and come in first place and Bush and get drowned out in later rounds. Essentially, this allows the political establishment to pull the votes of several candidates campaigning to different demographics. This is only possible because they have the money to run several candidates for the same position, but it can have a big impact in 2017. Socialist Alternative Run. It ran a candidate in Minneapolis who has the most first choice votes but was eventually knocked out of the race by the Democratic establishment. To do just this kind of boat pooling while ranked choice voting is significantly better than approval voting. I do not support changing the go to primary system either of them. The reason the current primary system is being challenged is precisely because it has been successful, independent and third party challengers and victories that have disrupted the status quo and the Chamber of Commerce of the wealthy of this city are fed up. However, I do support putting ranked choice voting on the ballot. I think voters in Seattle should have the Democratic choice to vote for ranked choice voting if they prefer, not just approval voting, which has had lots of money behind putting it on the ballot and not for no reason. Elections in the United States have always been heavily weighted against working class third party candidates. Despite the Socialist alternative, rank and file workers and union members and community activists have been able to win four elections on the basis of fighting for working class demands, like the $15 an hour minimum wage, the Amazon bags, renters rights, and standing with working people. With a strong enough movement behind us, regardless of which electoral system is adopted, that will continue to be true, which is that working class people can win victories if we have a movement building approach based on strong demands. But we should not accept attacks on democracy lying down either. I will be voting yes. Thank you. Thank you. So what she has Premiere Louis. Do you have some closing remarks before I make a few statements and then we'll move to about. It looks like there are a couple of them. They just showed up. Thank you. Did not you guys have a little bit quicker there? So Councilmember Nelson and then Councilmember Peterson. Councilor Nelson. I'm sorry. Please move on to Councilmember Peterson and then I'll go. Okay. Are you ready, Counselor Peterson? Go ahead. Thank you, counselor. President Juarez. Let's see. Well, to provide more options to Seattle voters, I'll support Councilmember Lewis's proposal to add the ranked choice voting to the ballot. In that way, voters will have three choices. Initiative 134 Ranked Choice Voting and the current system, which already includes major election reforms such as democracy vouchers, easy to use mail in ballots and extended voting periods. As I understand it, this afternoon may be our only opportunity to address these complex issues officially before they become external campaigns. So I'd like to present an additional and somewhat skeptical view toward all of this. This is just about elections for nonpartisan offices in city government. And right now, the top local government concerns of people in Seattle are increasing public safety and reducing homelessness. If either of these two new measures is enacted into law, will they really increase public safety or reduce homelessness? I'm not so sure. I'm afraid that no matter how much we tinker with the local electoral system in Seattle, which already includes robust reforms, there is no easy fix to guarantee that will generate more candidates for city government who are qualified for city government, who adequately appreciate what city government does, who will be responsive to their constituents , and who can deliver on the basic requirements of our city charter. And so while I'm supporting adding more options to the ballot, I don't think either option will solve the problems facing Seattle today. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Peterson with that, Councilmember Nelson. And Q Very much so today. I'm not going to take a stand for or against approval voting or ranked choice voting. I am taking a stand for good governance. And so for the viewing public initiative 134 which would replace the way the city of Seattle officials are elected with a new system called Approval Voting Initiative 134 gathered more than the required minimum 2000 26,000 signatures to qualify for the vote. And it is standard practice for council to just send that measure to the ballot. In ranked choice, voting has not qualified for the ballot. Instead of running an initiative, advocates opted to persuade us to advance the proposal by sending it to the voters as our preferred alternative, which we've done only twice in the past 20 years. And so here we are about to vote on changing the way Seattleites elect their leaders. And before doing that, we should first identify the problem we're trying to fix with our existing system transparently deliberate on potential solutions, consult experts, and conduct extensive constituent outreach just like we would on any other important issue. And we haven't done that. This is our first meeting, our first public meeting on the matter. And Councilmember Lewis brought up the the last time that we sent an alternate to the ballot, to the ballot. And, yes, we do have that authority. And in that case, Councilmember Burgess had been developing his preschool program for months. And so that is that's not the same. I don't think that the situations are are equal here. So I don't know if approval voting is better or worse than ranked choice voting or even what's wrong with our current system. But I do know that we're about to take five. If we take five votes to send an alternate to the ballot, that could that could influence the outcome of the election without a lot of public discussion on our preferred alternative end. And and and I think that there's a better way of coming to these kinds of decisions. So I think the council should just get out of the way, send I 34 to the ballot and let the voters decide in November. If you. Councilmember Nelson, Councilmember Lewis, do you want to make any statements before I say a few and then we go to a vote? Yes. Thank you, Madam President. I'll be I'll be very brief. But I think there might be a few things I could say to respond to the concerns raised by Councilmember Nelson, which, you know, I completely respect but disagree with. I think it's perfectly within the right of the council when facing a question like this, to have the people of the city be the final deciders, as we do have a very strong and representative movement in the city towards ranked choice voting. This is a election option that, like I said earlier, has been has had the benefit of an extensive parallel process over at King County. They did inform the process that we are proposing to send to the voters. A lot of the potential issues with administering the change in election type can be accommodated with the timeline that we have assigned the ranked choice voting under this measure. I don't know if it was made clear in Fisher's presentation. If passed by, voters would not go into effect until 2027. And part of that is, is the to give King County elections the space and the time for the rulemaking and the implementation that goes into any kind of significant, major change. The people of the city who have really reached out and advocated for a model like this, I think shows that the best way forward is to let them make the final decision. As I said in my comments earlier. I think this discussion has gotten to a point where we run a risk of making a more undemocratic decision by depriving the voters of making that choice based on the movement that's turned out for this. And in essence, there will be a proxy vote where voting no on approval voting is going to be reflecting a yes vote for ranked choice voting anyway in terms of how the question has been framed in the minds of many voters in the city. So for those purposes and the reasons that I stated in my opening statement, I do think this is an appropriate action for the Council to take. The people of the city are going to make the final decision, as they rightly should. On whether we should adopt this and this gives them the opportunity to do so. And you have to remember, Lewis, I don't make comments about how severe. Louis You raised a really good point and I actually had thought about sharing this as well. US going to a district system, seven districts and us having democracy vouchers has expanded the opportunity for many people to run. Otherwise it would not run. And I think Councilmember. Councilmember. I was in Saint Louis, but Councilmember Peterson mentioned about mail in ballots. So I don't think that either approval voting or ranked choice voting is going to fix some of the issues that Councilmember Peterson brought up. But I will say, this is kind of maybe turning the mirror on ourselves. I'm always I'm always a little bit suspicious when people use communities of color as a reason to pass any type of initiative bill proposal, because I don't think we can look away from the fact that six of our nine council members were either legislative aides or worked in this council in some way or were meant were mentored by a council member. And I'm not taking anything away from my colleagues that fit that description. So I just want to be clear about our choices. And my main concern is increasing candidate participation is getting more candidates that haven't had the opportunity to benefit from such a pipeline. And that's just that's just my observation. And again, I don't mean to cast any aspersions against my colleagues, but it is indeed a fact. So that being said, I think we should just go forward at this point, Madam Clerk, and. We'll just call the role on the approval and the filing of the court file. Councilmember Herbold. Yes. Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales. Councilmember mosqueda i. Councilmember Nelson, a. Councilmember Peterson. Hi. Councilmember. Yes. Councilmember Strauss. Yes. Council president was no. Eight in favor, two opposed. Thank you. So with that, colleagues. I'm sorry. Sorry, Madam President. I thought I heard eight in favor to oppose. Seven of favor, two. Opposed, is that correct? Yes. Seven. I'll be very sorry. I'm sorry about that. I didn't catch the math either. So it is seven two and it passes, correct? Yes, it does. Okay. So the clerk file is approved and filed. And will the clerk please affix my signature to the motion and declaration of the City Council Intent? So with that, since this file has passed, we will move on to item number three, which is also Councilmember Lewis. But the clerk please read item number three to the record.

Order for a hearing on the importance of census and demographic data and the consequences of an undercount. Remains in the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology.

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Counsel. Relevant. Please add the chair. Dark 0381 will be referred to the Committee on Planning, Development, Transportation. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 03820382. Councilor Breeden offered the following order for a hearing on the importance of census and demographic data in the consequences of an undercount. The chair recognizes counsel Brett and counsel Brett. And you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a hearing order on an important on the importance of the census and demographics and demographic data and the consequences of an undercount as policymakers in municipal government. We like to say that we make data driven decisions, but we all know that the 2020 census was considered significantly underfunded, highly politicized by a former president, and was conducted in the midst of a pandemic and as a result of seriously undercounting black and brown communities across the country and certainly here in Boston, in addition to the 40% decline in Alston Bryant's group for this population. So in January of 2626, the council already voted to adopt docket numbers 0203 in order for the city to submit a count. Question Resolution Operate operation the formal and legitimate process for government units to challenge our census results. So however, I say this hearing order to discuss the importance of census and demographic data beyond just the decennial census years and explore how we can better integrate demographic data as metrics and indicators across all aspects of city work and programs. All of this data is essential to guiding our decision making and planning for the future. The important work of population estimates, projections and demographic interpretations happens every year and every day. As we know, the election department conducts an annual residential listing, which is what some decision making is based on. However, there are additional annual programs in the sense of programs of the Census Bureau, which would significantly impact Boston over the next decade. If we do not connect correct the inaccuracies of the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau conducts an annual population estimates program, a program collecting, using, collected, using population basis, which will be determined by the results of the 2020 census and takes into account population changed and change, including deaths, births and migration. The city of Boston has a record of successfully disputing estimates in the count in 2005, 2006 to 37 22,014, with the city's official population estimates been revised with increases between 5000 to over 35,000 residents at a time. Any change? Just want to state that any any changes are in correction of the numbers will not influence our discussions regarding redistricting or representing within the city. There is also the Census Bureau's housing unit estimates, which also uses the 20 census 2020 census population based on factors the Boston's reported building permits and new residential construction. So really, in essence, I anticipate that this hearing would be an opportunity for us to discuss the ramifications of the 2020 Census undercount and how it impacts all of our city departments. Revise updates for the Cities for our cities, challenge to the count and hear from our city departments, current practices and from demographers and policy experts on how to use the demographics and demographic data to inform our policymaking on city programs in general. So. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Counselor Braden. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? Would anyone else. The chair recognizes Constitution and Constitution. You have the floor. As an Flynn, I just rise to say, to add my name and to say that I support this hearing order. We know that with undercount, it's really affect immigrant populations oftentimes who are afraid to answer census questions, especially under this past administration. We know that it affects transient folks, those who are under house, black and brown folks, and that this undercounting is directly tied to federal funding. Right. Seeing, seeing and realizing a decrease in funding at that level. And so I 100% support this hearing order so that we can get our numbers right, so that we can get the funding that we deserve, our neighborhoods, and for our black and brown and immigrant communities. Thank you. Thank you, counsel. Illusion. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? I also wanted to I also wanted to state that during the census count, there was a lot of tremendous work from various neighborhood and civic groups, including the Chinese Progressive Association, the Council Square Tenants Association, the NAACP in Boston. And this during this count, the census count. It happened during the pandemic. And a lot of the a lot of my constituents weren't answering their door by their phone, especially in the AAPI community here in Boston. So I just want to say thank you to the Council of Great and the important work that you're doing on this on this issue. Would anyone else like to? Would anyone like to add their name? Please raise your hand. Please add Councilor Arroyo. Councilor Bach. Councilor Edwards. Councilor Fernandez Anderson. Council. Borough Council. Lucerne Councilmember here council. Murphy Council. We're all please other chair docket 0381 will be referred to the committee. I'm sorry. Yeah. Docket zero three will be referred to the Committee on City Services and Innovation Technology. Mr. Clerk, please read Docket 0383.

AN ORDINANCE approving the King County Regional E-911 Strategic plan and establishing the King County regional E-911 advisory governance board.

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We'll take a look at that. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? All right, Jeff, thank you very much for covering. And we will take this up again at our next meeting. We'll move on to item seven, which is an item to approve the enhanced 911 systems strategic plan. The enhanced 911 system is a really large and complicated system, and it's a very critical system. It's what people rely on when they call for emergency help. It's comprised of 13 public safety answering points or piece ups, as we have all learned. And they all they're necessary there behind the scenes, but they're necessary to answer 911 calls and dispatch the appropriate help. This plan has been in motion since this committee and the Regional Policy Committee established the work program in 2015. So today we come to the culmination of a great deal of work over a long period of time. The Regional Policy Committee approved this item at its March 7th meeting and it is now before us for approval. I will say when we started this work, I know it was very contentious. It happened before I came on the council. But one of the very first things I was invited to after being elected was a meeting of some of the 911 folks on the east side. And they told me at that time we were really worried. This was really terrible, but it's going a little better now and it just went better and better. And we've really all come together. It's been it's been great to see how hard work and patience and working through issues can really pay off. And that owes a lot to the folks sitting in front of me right now. I'll introduce in a moment. So there's been a tremendous amount of work and we're now ready to move forward and tackle the issues of the E911 system together with all of the piece ups. So with that, I'm going to call on Lisa Kay to brief the committee and then introduce the panelists who are here to walk us through this decision point today. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Lisa K Council Staff. Today, I am honored to be joined by the co-chairs of the planning group that led the staff work on the proposed plan. Kathy Lombardo, who's the interim manager for the E911 Man program, is to my left. To her left is Laura Ueland, who is the executive director for Valley Communications, one of the public safety answering points where I'm going to be calling them piece ups. And then Tom Connie, who is the deputy director for the Department of Executive Services. He was also co-chair of the Finance Task Force for this work. As you mentioned, Madam Chair, proposed ordinance 2018 0069 would approve the King County Regional E911 strategic plan, and it would establish the King County Regional E911 Advisory Governing Board. My staff report begins on page 113 of your packet, and the plan itself begins on page 127. The substitute version of the ordinance before this committee today was approved by the Regional Policy Committee, as Councilmember Belden, you mentioned. It adds a requirement for an annual report to the Regional Policy Committee on implementation of the plan's recommendations, and it also corrects a typographical error. Council members Baldacci, Dunn and Lambert served on the 15 member leadership group for this planning process, which also included elected officials and staff from Sound Cities, the city of Seattle, the county executive , the sheriff, a fire commissioner, and two of the piece ups. You'll find the complete list of the leadership group, the planning group and task force members on page 365 of your packet, which I think is the last page of your packet. Actually, it's not the last page of your packet, said the Regional Policy Committee. There's more. With the chair's permission, I'll keep the briefing at a fairly high level, given that this committee has had past briefings. If you want more detail, just feel free to interrupt me or you can ask at the end. Okay, I'll start with a short introduction to E911 recap the genesis of the plan that's before you today, and then summarize its major elements. So a911 call that's placed within King County today touches at least five major telecommunication systems from the time the call is placed to when eight is dispatched. You can see a general illustration of the system in FIG. one on page 271 of your packet. So, for example, a person in King County uses a private telephone service provider to make a911 call on what's called the public switched telephone telephone network. The private service provider routes the 911 call to the State Emergency Services Network, which is called the S9+. The state then routes the call to the regional E911 system, which is managed by King County's in an on one program office. The program office then facilitates the call delivery to the correct peace up staff at the Peace Up, then answer the call and dispatch appropriate search resources. And keep in mind that call, answering and call dispatch are two separate functions within a piece up. That'll come up a little bit later in this briefing. Knowing those five steps is important because the strategic plan before you today applies to just a subset of that complete system, just the county's program office and the call taking functions of the piece ups. So two of those five steps are addressed in this in the system plan. Those two functions. Are funded by a 70 cent monthly excise tax assessed per telephone line. The call dispatch functions are separately funded by the local agencies served by the World Peace APS and King County, which are listed on page 114 of the staff report . There is a 13th piece app, which is the test piece app, which is used to do trial runs of new technology before it goes live. It's pretty important to get it right before you incorporate it into the system. So the system was relatively straightforward when we all had the same kind of analog telephones, but that's been changing, as you know. And the federal government launched an initiative some time ago called Next Generation 911, which I'll be calling New 911 to modernize existing landline based technologies and upgrade systems to support wireless and other emerging technologies such as text, photo and video transmission, so that they can be used with the 911 systems. Today, Washington State is in the midst of upgrading its emergency services network to support these additional energy 911 functions that upgrades called sign up to. And it drives some very significant local changes. Basically, if the county and the peace apps want to fully implement the new 911, I'm getting into too much detail. Mr. DEMBOSKY Here, you're like. Well. You know, it's an important item. Don't, don't don't be self-conscious about the level of detail. Just keep going until until instructed otherwise. Variances in the work you're doing and how we can accelerate the enhanced 911 deployment because it's so vital to get responses to folks. Frankly, oftentimes in DV situations, in crisis, where you can't get on the phone. And so we've had an interest in the. So I think I'm paying close attention. I didn't mean to. So I wasn't sure how to interpret your concentration. All good. In any case, if the county in the piece helps want to fully implement what the changes that the state are going to make available with their I net two, then the program office and the piece ups have to implement and support compatible systems. That local implementation, as you know, has been a challenge both in terms of how to best keep up with that technology, which is just changing so rapidly and how to pay for the new systems because it will be more expensive than what we're doing now. Unfortunately, neither the federal nor the state government has provided any local funding for that new 911 initiative, and King County's forecasts for some time have shown that projected system expenditures are going to outstrip revenues, leading to a significant deficit. And I'll get to that a little bit later, too, in this context. Then the County Council, in collaboration with the Regional Policy Committee, approved an ordinance in October 2015 that resulted in the strategic plan that was before you today. The plan was unanimously approved last November by the Multijurisdictional Leadership Group for recommendation to the County Council. It addresses three major areas governance, technology and finance. And I'll go over those briefly for you. I'll start with governance. The plan recommends and the ordinance establishes a new regional advisory governing board with specific roles and responsibilities and a decision making and appeal process. You can see the details for that on page 116 and 117. In your packet, the governing board would be advisory to the nine month run program office, would have 12 voting positions, one for each piece up and operate by consensus as much as possible. In the event that a vote was needed, a positive vote has to meet two thresholds approval from 40% of those present and from piece ups representing 60% of current call volume. The plan also provides a detailed process for decisions and appeals in the event that the Program Office and or the executive don't agree with a recommendation from the advisory governing board, you'll see a diagram for that on page 146. And if you want to see a verbal explanation of that, that's on page 117. And I can walk you through that if you have questions about that. Moving on then to the technology recommendations. The technical technology plan identifies extensive performance measures and targets associated with strategic objectives and actions. But most critically, the plan identifies a path forward for an energy 911 based on a process to implement a new single platform system architecture while monitoring the assumptions that support that preferred option. This moves the core elements of the 911 system infrastructure from each individual piece up to a single host platform that will have three or four nodes. The task force found that compared to directly connecting each of the 12 piece ups to the state's I net using the single platform architecture but provide increased security. Be more fair and equitable with increased capacity to manage call volume surges would make more capabilities available, provide greater interoperability and provide for common management solutions. The major drawback is that single platform architectural will likely incur new networking costs of about $700,000. Per year to connect the platform nodes to each of the piece ups. That cost wouldn't exist if the USA network was directly connected to each of the 12 piece ups. Assuming that the state didn't change its current funding commitments because several of these assumptions, as I just mentioned, the technology and that is the changing and the costs are a little bit in flux in terms of what the state is going to pay for. The leadership group put a very strong caveat in the plan that any additional information that emerges during the RFP process for the single platform provider could modify the preferred course of action so that there are some steps in here that would be that would raise red flags if this decision needed to be revisited. Turning next then to the finance recommendations, the consultant in the Finance Task Force developed a first time ever financial model of the regional E911 systems revenue and expenditures, with a lot of help from the piece ups in the program office. The new model provides a financial baseline for the system and projects, and the bad news is it projects a negative fund balance starting in 2023, which is a few years later than had been estimated previously. However, using the model, the consultant was able to develop and quantify estimated impacts of changes to revenue and expenditures that could be implemented to eliminate the forecasted deficit. Those are listed on a page on page 119. So as you can tell, there are some pretty big decisions that are still remaining to be done. This plan provides a framework to make some of those decisions, and it has a high level implementation timeline for specific governance, technology and finance actions. So you'll see that there are key milestones for formation of the Regional Advisory Governing Board. The target was first quarter of this year to complete new contracts between King County and the peace ups. By the end of this year. To connect the state air, sign up to to King County by the first quarter of 2019 to execute a new contract, to develop that single new platform, new single platform system architecture by the third quarter of 2020 with a project with a system in place by the first quarter of 2022. And then also, very importantly, to identify any potential expenditure reductions and implementation of any new revenue sources by the end of 2021. The new the new Advisory Governing Board will have significant involvement in working with the program office to meet these milestones. Council's primary involvement will be through the budget process and also approval of the contracts that the executive will negotiate between the county and the peace ups. That completes my report. Madam Chair and I and my cohorts at the table here would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Councilmember Lambert has a question. Thank you. I don't remember on page 121, I don't remember that we had talked about the egis to connection to King County taking. Was that five or six quarters and then the contract for King County? Is that what we had agreed to, that it would take that long? I'll ask Cathy Lambert. I'm sorry. For part of the other. Yeah, the other capital. Yeah. Sorry. By the way, Cathy Lombardo, program manager for 911. Could you repeat the question? I'm sure I'm just looking at the implementation timeline and looking at how long it is between areas. Yes, I know that two connection to King County in the contract for the system architecture executed. So it goes from the first quarter of 2019 to the third quarter in 2020. Well, those aren't dependent. Well, they are dependent on one another. But the actual contract for the platform has to we have to go through an RFP process. We have to actually design the system first and then develop an RFP to actually implement the project. So those two, while the LSI Net two is required for the platform, they're not. I think you're thinking about them differently than maybe you need to be thinking about them in terms of the implementation for the platform versus Eastside. The two are. Separate. They are separate. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. I got that right. And the other questions, what would you like to say? A few words, how you've come to the end of a long process. Surely somebody would like to say something. You want to start? It's not required. But I was Tom County, deputy director of the Department of Executive Services. I just want to remind you of a couple of quick points. One, before we forget about it, I've got to say, Lisa, thank Lisa for a contributions to the process. She was steadfast, insightful and impactful through all the time we were going through this. So thanks again from all of us in the group and as. As a reminder, we have moved the E911 man program office. The council did that to case Haiti over the past year because increasingly it really is a technology platform delivery service that is kind of the regional function. And this is this is a case where the process we've gone through, it's been long and a bit arduous, but the process is as important as the strategic planning product you see in front of you. This the process and the plan give us it has put the program in a position to adapt it to what is clearly an evolving kind of technology world. So you're saying that to the specific kind of definitions of what, next year 911 means there's still a lot of things that are not completely defined that we're in position now to more flexibly and transparently kind of meet the challenges in front of the system. So I appreciate all the efforts. Laura mullins, executive director of Communications Center. And I would echo everything that's been said so far. This has been a long, arduous process, but it has been role defining. It is it is a new reality in King County for the peace efforts. This process has elevated the attention to the King County Council and beyond. So we have attention and your support has been tremendous. So thank you for that. This is a technology, world and environment and the peace efforts support did support the movement to create. But this is also a people job and this is a people world. People called 911. They want to hear a voice. They want to know that something's happening. So the peace efforts, while we support that, we are also very cognizant of the relationship that is required to deliver. The nine on. One service. And we have a fantastic foundation through this process of strong relationships. So if nothing else, I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for all of it. But this has redefined the relationship among the county peace efforts and it's fantastic. Great. Thank you. We've come a long way, baby. And I'm going to just use the phrase creative chaos, and I'll tell you why in a second. But with when you have creative chaos on my mind, you come up with a much better solution than you would have ever had when you started separately. So recently we've been talking about some things internally and with several other piece of directors, and we have this constant debate about people and and technology not versus technology. And we actually have, I think, competing, sort of chaotic roles. The county is responsible for a technological solution. The piece that directors are responsible for people, but so are we. But at our base and at our core as King County, our responsibility is that technological system that enhances the ability of the peace of directors and their their folks to actually contact or connect with people in the community when they're at their worst days ever. And so from that vantage point, that creative chaos is going to continue. But we have a framework now, I think, for working through that. And we yeah, we've come a long way, baby. I guess I'll close the same way I started. So it has taken a really focused and flexible approach from all the folks at the table. There was a lot of expertize around that table, but also a lot of history, and that can be some of the hardest thing to overcome. And I'm just really impressed with how you all did it. So congratulations to you and thank you very much for the hard work. I just have two quick one comment and one question and then maybe we can move to action. My comment is to Lisa. I just want to thank you so much for the very clear and simple description of the appeals process. You may recall I was concerned about how complicated it was for quite a while, and I get it now. And that's largely due to I know how hard you work to to be able to explain it in a way that an average human being could track. So thank you so much for that. And the second question is about the ten year financial plan. It's good news that the the date at which our projected fund balance will go negative has been pushed out by quite a few years from where we were, but we still need to work on it. How will that process come back here? Will that come during a budget cycle? Will that be a report? Is there a particular plan for that to come to council? So I'll give you a preliminary answer and then I'll probably turn to Tom as the finance chair or if Laura wants. Anyhow, I think it's going to come to you by way of the budget. And you may see some some initial numbers in the upcoming biennial budget proposal as some of the groundwork is laid. You'll also probably see some of it. You may see some of it depending on what the content is that's going to be in the contracts that are negotiated with the piece ups. But Tom, did you have any other thoughts. Out of the one thing to add in the Regional Policy Committee if there was an addition of an annual report back to that committee? So as part of that report, they'll be a touch back to see like, okay, so what is the financial position of the fund right now? Great. Okay. Thank you all. We'll look forward to following along with that. And I would that I want to ask Vice Chair Lambert to move this put this item before us for a vote. Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to propose ordinance 2018 0069.2 of the Dew Point recommendation. Okay. Final comments. Questions. Council Member Tomasky. Bingaman Chair I just want to add my words of appreciation and respect for folks coming together. It's a different presentation than we had when. This first started. And I think it's a it's a credit to the peace gaps in your leadership, but also to the county and its willingness to listen and respond as a kind of regional government and a convening entity, as well as a service provider. And I think we can take some lessons from this experience. It's very impressive that you've worked together to come up with a governing structure, and that will help solve the problems that will come up and the challenges that will come up on a on a going forward basis so that things don't bubble over. Right. And that's just really impressive. I know that probably took a lot of work and and discussions and compromise. So I just wanted to commend commend you all at the county and out in the field that do this work. Nicely done. And to you, too, Lisa. Thank you. Okay. Did you say something, Councilman Leonard? So thank you for having served on the committee. I got the privilege of seeing all those balls in the air, and they actually didn't fall on anybody's head, which was a good thing. And it's largely because of all of you at the table being willing to jump in to creative chaos. I love that term and being able to be really clear about the the different issues that we were dealing with. And there were many of them, for instance, what the state was doing and all the different variables that we not rush because we didn't know what was ahead and making a decision before we knew some of the variables. Coordinating with all those piece ups. And they had very different opinions about almost everything, including whether they really want to talk to each other. It was interesting to watch the body language. The first couple meetings, it looked like the Hatfields and McCoys coming together. But by then, you would have thought it was a family reunion of people who loved each other deeply and dearly. So that didn't happen by accident. And so I really appreciate the work that you did to make that happen. Dealing with the revenue deficits and what year that was going to be and inconsistencies across the county where certain groups want to do certain things further and faster because of enhanced 911 and and all these things that were shiny but not capable and trying to hold back the shiny, fun, exciting stuff to the realities of getting the basics done. So there was a lot that went on and I really appreciate all the work where we are now, the committees, the governance structure. And this was not that easy, left over three years. And I'm sure both of you actually, I'll take your word, are tired. But you have really made a huge service to this county and to the protection of everybody. I had to call 911 this morning on my way to work because somebody was smart enough to cover their loads. And there was actually a a lawn mower spreader in the middle of the lane, which is strong enough to do some really bad damage to somebody. So I thought about what privilege it is that we have in 911 and the work that you have done. So I just want to say thank you. And to Lisa, you didn't pull out your hair. You had to staff each one of us. And in the beginning, this was even more complicated because we hadn't landed any place. And so thank you for being able to continue that they were making. Yeah. And I also have I have the list of thank you here as well that I will I will say as part of the getting there, there were some really big decisions around governance, finance and policy that were around technology that were all not clear at the beginning. And they all had to be worked through in great detail. So I just want to call out the co-chairs of those. The Governance Task Force was co-chaired by Diane Carson Carlson of King County and Stacey Ellick. The Finance Task Force was co-chaired by our own Tom Koni and Marilyn Beard from Kirkland. And the Technology Task Force was co-chaired by Sheila Picard from Bellevue and Bill Kehoe, our former I.T. director. And they all really had a big ship to steer in to bring this all together. And then I finally want to say to Kathy Lombardo, you came out of retirement to help us and that you didn't have to do this. You could have been on a beach somewhere. And I understand you're going back into retirement now once this is once this is put to bed. So thank you so much for bringing all of your energy and smarts and patience to this process. You did a fantastic job. Thank you so much. I will also again thank Lisa K.R. Council staff because having three council members with varying degrees of engagement and understanding and knowledge and interest is always a challenge. And you were our bird dog on this and you really watched it very closely, made sure that the council's needs and interests were met so that when it came to this point, we can have, as you see, a very strong level of support for the final product. And that doesn't happen by a. That happens with a lot of hard work. So thank you. Okay. Did you want to say something? They did. I just wanted to thank my own staff. And you might want to think your own personal staff. April Sanders, who worked really hard on this and was on one of the subcommittees. And I also want to know if we can put a tracking device on Cathy Lombardo so they can find her. And I think the next time you need to. Check out the nearest Alfa Romeo dealership. You'll find her there eventually. Yes. No, I will. Thank my own staff. Krista Commons. And who put a tunnel to my chief of staff who put a ton of work into this and was very, very instrumental on the task force that she served on, but also kept an eye on equity and how we were making sure that we were including people who we might not be thinking about in our customer base. So thank you for that. All right. With all the thanks and the Academy being thanked, maybe we're ready to move to a vote. Would you please call the roll? Thank you, Madam Chair. Councilmember Dombrowski. Councilmember Dunn. Councilmember Garzon, Councilmember Commonwealth I. Council Member Lambert I. Council member McDermott. Oh. Council member of the Grove. Council member upon return. Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the vote is six eyes, no no's, three excuse. All right. If it is acceptable, let's expedite it and put this on consent. That way it can be approved before Cathy leaves. And you can take that with you can take a copy of the final ordinance with you. All right. Thank you all very much. Great job. All right. Our final item today is a briefing from the county executive on the executive's office on the employment program called Investing in You. As we all have discussed before, the executive has placed a focus on the county as an employer and investing.

Recommendation to request City Manager to authorize the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine to conduct a parks facilities and recreation programs analysis report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public-private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services, and report back to City Council with progress update within sixty (60) days.

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Item 40. Communication from Councilwoman Mongeau Councilmember Super Nine, Councilman Andrews and Councilmember Richardson. Recommendation to request Parks, Recreation and Marine to conduct the Parks, Facilities and Recreation Programs. Analysis Report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services. Councilwoman Mongeau. Yes, I'm very excited that we have heard from the community that there are so many opportunities for our nonprofit partners and our community groups, whether it's Friends of the Dog Park or any other group, to step up and provide a proposal on things that they believe would be of value to the city. And so there's no better way to move the city forward than through partnerships. We've done that very successfully in many ways, and I'd like this to be an open door for our Parks and Rec department to see where those opportunities are, see where we can move the city forward, see what partnership opportunities are available to provide a better opportunity for our youth and our summer programs and our youth throughout the year. And I look forward to seeing the great proposals that come forward because I think that this is another form of really embracing the community and their input. Councilmember Supernova. No comment. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes, I'm very excited about signing on to this item to discuss the new ideas, possibilities for our parks. Because at this point, we don't have or know any other options. But this will allow us to open doors to see how we can utilize the space. Thank you. Councilmember Richardson. Thanks. And I rise in support, exploring opportunities. And I just want to make sure that I'm aware of, you know, like, I want to, like, supplement work that city employees are doing. I don't necessarily want to run any prop issues. But I do think there are, you know, with some of our existing contracts like Azteca and things like that, you know, we always hear about how much the workload is on Azteca to take on things like, you know, additional medians and additional parks that are brought in and dog parks, things like that. So I think we do have to think about innovative ways to supplement what's what's already there. I also want to say, you know, you know, I think that we should also explore, you know, at some point a pilot of, you know, we need to revisit our ability to do, you know, commercial sort of vendors and things like that in the park as well. Since we're looking at different partnerships, I think it might be some interesting revenue generators for some of our youth programs. Thanks. Thank you. So any member of the public that wish to address the Council on item 40. Vice Mayor or member of the Council? Just a question on for the maker of the motion, I believe when she was speaking, this appears to request a report. And then I heard you say request for proposals. I'm not sure on what the action items are requesting of staff. It's for a report they can come back with whether they want to do requests for community input and how they situate that. I think that we've had lots of dialogs about things that community groups have asked for, but only Parks and Rec can really know and understand their needs and the stuff support that they have available to put together whatever will come back in the report. Yes. Summers, I do want to. We will try to be as responsive as possible that the 60 day period right now, it's just we're hitting our 100 days of summer. And we definitely will come back with a report or two from for within the 60 days. But I'm not sure we'll be able to fully address everything that is in the agenda item within the six days through Parks and Rec in the middle of summer. But we definitely will come back with where we're at within 60 days. So I think that we had originally planned to try to get this on the agenda earlier in the year. So with that input, I think that all amend my motion 120 days so that be helpful. Certainly we will come back as fast as we can. And again, we recognize that a good and thorough report is more important than a quick report. So if council member super open to it is 120 days work. Wonderful. Let's do that. Thank you for the comment. It is summer and it is busy. And Parks and Rec is the busiest of the mall during this time of year. Can. Sir. Any member of the public that wishes to address council. I'm sorry, Councilman Austin. Yes. I just need some some clarification. I think this this sounds very. This is an interesting proposal and very innovative. And so I think the council members who brought this forth, including Councilmember Mongo, but I need to just get some clarification before I vote, because Councilmember Richardson did raise a an issue regarding Prop IL, which is significant . And we've been down that road very just recently with the agenda item. Before this, we were talking about, you know, our our our ability to improve our management of contracts. But what specifically are you looking to achieve here? Because as I read this, it says, develop a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals to benefit community programs, facilities and services. What specifically do you have in mind in terms of community programs, facilities and services? So I think that in the 22 months that I've been a councilwoman, I've had many different neighborhood groups and parks and rec groups come to the table and say, we would like to help and there needs to be a process by which they're provided that opportunity to assist. So an example might be that within the the Little League Baseball program, the Little League Baseball Program does a mini sponsorship where they are able to sell advertisements that go up on the baseball fence that's owned by the city. But soccer came to the table and said, We'd like to help raise money for the city and we'd like to have a sponsorship role, but you can't really put advertisements on a goal. Those are one of many. Councilmember Richardson mentioned Azteca. There are medians that need to be supplemented and maybe either a Job Corps program or a youth program that could help supplement new corridors. I mean, anything is possible. And I know, like myself, Parks and Rec has heard a gamut of opportunities and ideas, and I think that they know areas that they are having the most. I think it's really a pairing between where's the most need and where's the most interest in either volunteerism or sponsorship or any kind of public private partnership available. And I think that they know that best and it could really be arrange the cap program with your earlier today I'm Derek Simpson does a lot of job programs that would be possible to supplement Azteca or pick a corridor that we could utilize some of our needy areas to supplement nonprofit programs. But I really think that that's for Parks and Rec to develop a process by which community partners would be able to engage and have that dialog because they know best what they can provide. And then we need an evaluation tool because we've talked it at community meetings where there might be five or ten really great ideas in a room. But we need to concentrate our efforts on the highest return on investment and the greatest. Ability to get a program off the ground. And so it's really a pretty open request for a report back considering all the input that they've received. I know at least at my community meetings they received significant input and then we would go from there. Do you envision contracting out existing. No. Positions? No. I just want to be be very clear on that, because there are a lot of words here. You. If you request Park Wickham is the Marine to conduct Park Facility and Recreation Program Analysis Report to inform the development of a pilot program designed around new public private partnership proposals. Right. So Pop Warner came to us and said, we have a facility in the park. It's a snack shack. It's terrible. It's not really the city's responsibility. What can we do? But there's no structure of. We'd like to donate this much money and. Do we pull the permits? Do they pull the permits? And it's just kind of messy right now. And I think that Marie has a significant expertize on this. And so I think that she would be able to bring back a way for us to work through all of the people who want to help and be supportive and work through that process. Well, to the extent you your motion and your item seeks to help streamline processes and make us help the city do business smarter. I am supportive of that. But I just want to be very careful that we don't go down a slippery slope and of course, invoke unintended consequences. Was was your your thought for the report coming back in 120 days for Parks and Rec to give us some some ideas or to give us something specific? I think that's within the context of the information. They know they could probably come up with a couple of ideas. But I believe that they would go through a process that would solicit additional community input. And what that looks like would be what we would would like to hear back from them. So an example is there's a question of. Over the years. We've always done it that way, where baseball has always been able to sponsor field sponsors and raise money and put advertisements on a fence. But soccer's never had that opportunity. And then the police foundation was able to sell bricks. But then the nonprofits that support the dog park haven't. I mean, it's very it varies so greatly through the years that we need a process. And Marie has a level of expertize and working in this area. And I think we should trust her to bring back a comprehensive report at which time we can evaluate the direction we would like to encourage them to go. All right. Thank you very much for clarifying. Thank you. Mr. City. Attorney. Vice Mayor. Thank you. I was just wanted to follow up on councilmembers because I believe from what I was hearing, I was concerned also with the possible proposal or meet and confer issues that a report like this can raise. And so if this is staff evaluating the current process and maybe where they can improve on efficiencies and comes back with recommendations at that point, you may start looking at proposal issues or meeting confer issues with staff and I'd like to avoid those if possible, prior to coming back. We are not looking to outsource anything that's currently offered. We're looking at finding ways for nonprofit organizations to partner and grow anything in our city, whether it's support of our park programs, our archery programs, whatever it is to support growth and extend services and or facility maintenance, I mean, whatever it is. It would not be any outsourcing of any current. City work. And I know and I just want to say that I actually don't think this needs to come up. We had 3000 people volunteer in the parks last year and painted equipment that hadn't been painted in 40 years. And if if we as a community can come together and volunteer in any way, we should embrace that. We are not looking to eliminate or outsource any city work. I would just say the volunteer work is completely different than private partnerships. Right. And so I think that's where we need to just be very careful. I'm going to support the motion because I'm interested in. Hearing the information back. But I just want to be very cautious that we don't do anything that we we don't intend to do here. I would be very surprised if the director of our Parks and Rec program brought back proposals that would put us in that position. Councilmember Richardson. Thank you. I understand loud and clear where Councilmember Mongo wants to know, wants to go. And it sounds like the city attorney knows how to tread this water without crossing a line. And I think I think, you know, I think there's a way we can get the information that we're looking for here. And I want to you know, I brought up just a little while ago that I do. Since we're talking about public private partnerships and I was working on an item later and we talked about doing an item, but I'm really intrigued by some of the work like at Harvey Milk Park with the improvements, they're going to put in some kiosks. And I'm just interested in in learning more about how we can improve on our public private partnership with respect to vending in the park. So I'd like to just ask that you include that in your. Absolutely would love to add in the word vending. I hope that that would have been considered, but I'd love to call it out. I think that's a great idea. Thank you so much. Thank you. There's been a motion and a second. Is there any member of the public that was to address council on item 40? He's come forward. I had to laugh a little bit about the I. Nomenclature was used to describe the proposal. It's not a new proposal, and it's always been. Acceptable for. Pub for corporations to submit ideas where the public can help serve them voluntarily. It's just a request for volunteers to work for nothing but to get the wonderful feeling of accomplishment that it brings to them, and more importantly, to all those that they favor. The thing being requested is ideas that would make. Make public enterprise grow, and that's always been available or maybe should be made by the mayor calling them up on the phone or staff and asking, Hey, is there something we can do to help you out? That's all that's required. That new. Are you coming forward to speak? No. All right, members, please cast your vote. Motion carries. Okay. Are we at new business? What is the item? Announcements? Yes. Announcements. Council member Andrews. Yes. I like to give an update on one of my staff members, which is down Isabel today. At about noon time, my staff member was seriously attacked today and struck in the head. And for a moment she was unconscious. Our thoughts and prayers will go out to her and her family, and we wish her a speedy recovery. I would also like to take this time to thank the longest fire department for their excellent care and as well as a quick reaction by the Long Beach Police Department. We hope that we can find justice for her and violent act will not go unpunished. That was Isobel. That was my new staff assistant. And we'll quickly I'd like to go over my announcements. I'm happy to announce that the annual Six District three summer events in Long Beach, they start on June and run through September. But the first put two tonight to a two night at the museum there. There's a lot of family fun. For more information, please call my office and please join me for the free movies in the park and an outdoor movie experience future movie pan on Wednesday, June 29th, starting at Dusk and Mac. Others Park 1321 East Anaheim Street, Hotel Transylvania two on Wednesday, July 13. Start two deaths in Mac That's it Mac. Right, I park. So please, for more information, please call my office. Thank you very much. Thank you. Councilman Andrews and I failed to call for the second opportunity for public comment on nine agenda items. Did you want to come forward and make public comment? Thank you. Thank you. You're here. An honorable city council and mayor. This is a little bit off of Long Beach, and I wouldn't normally do this. But I was wondering if we could please say a little prayer. We're a little SEAL Beach, California.

A RESOLUTION related to the City Light Department; adopting a 2023-2028 Strategic Plan Update for the City Light Department and endorsing the associated six-year rate path.

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A report of the Economic Development, Technology and City Write Committee Agenda Item one. Resolution 32056. A resolution related to the city write department adopting in 2023 through 2028 strategic plan update for the satellite department and endorsing the associated six year rate path. The committee recommends the council bill be passed. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Councilmember Nelson, the floor is yours. COSAT Nelson. One moment. Please. Okay. Item number one. So if you can hear me first, I'd like to give some background. Resolution 32056 would adopt the City Lights 2023 to 2028 strategic plan and endorsed the associated rate path. But by background, I went to explain that the disruption of the pandemic in 2020 interrupted the expected update of City Lights Strategic Plan in rate path. In recognition of the economics due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The executive did not transmit and council did not take up rate setting legislation during 2020. In 2021, Council approved rates for 2021 and 2022, and they were effective in April of 2021. So in differing from regular practice, City Light proposed in council adopted a five year, not a six year strategic plan for 2022 to 2026. So now in 2022, City Light has proposed a 2023 to 2028 strategic plan starting there, the the normal two year cycle of planning and rate path determination and rate change adoption and because only one year has passed since the adoption of the previous plan. City Light characterizes the 2023 to 2028 plan as an update rather than a wholly new plan. So what we have before us has been approved by the review panel and unanimously passed out of committee last Wednesday. HSA and Wilson. Are there any comments or questions regarding this or Councilmember Nelson? Casper Peterson. Thank you. Council president. The resolution approved last year Resolution 32007. Scheduled electricity rates to increase by 3.8% in 2023 and by another 3.8% in 2024. But City Lights resolution before us today is asking the council to increase their rates by a higher amount, 4.5% in 2023 and another 4.5% in 2024. I appreciate all the hard work she does. I appreciate the thoughtful rationale for the utilities proposal, consistent with my comments on substantive changes and rate increases that I have communicated to my constituents. Though I'll be voting no on today's resolution. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Peterson, is there any other comments customers want? Thank you. Guns have proven worse as I've done previous years. I will be voting yes on this legislation approving Seattle City Life Strategic Plan. It accurately analyzes what resources city will need to continue its important work. However, as I've said in previous years, also, I would not agree that working people who are now facing punishing inflation should be asked to pay any rate increases. Instead, Seattle should be increasing the rates on big business. For that reason, while I'm voting yes on the strategic plan, I intend to vote no on rate increase legislation as long as it continues to put the burden of those rate increases on working people. Thank you. If your customers want this or any other comments or concerns. All right. I have some closing comments. I was just going to do that comes from Nelson. So why don't you go ahead and have a closing comments before we go to a vote? Well, I do want to acknowledge Councilmember Peterson's historic knowledge. I really appreciate that you have that perspective coming into this year's vote. It's true. We're talking about a 0.7% increase from what was anticipated to be the 2023 rate increase to what is actually proposed in this plan. And I just wanted to explain a little bit about what's behind that. So City Late developed the average rate for 2023 by including inflationary costs from 2021 in 2022 that were not included in city lights, operations and maintenance budget for those years. And in addition to that, the the inflationary adjustment from 2022 to 2023 is a significant driver. So, you know, right now, the the inflation is anticipated is the current projection is I believe it's C 7.8. And when that last plan was adopted, the projection was 5.1. So that is a significant driver. And also it's noted in the report and I want to make clear that the people watching this know that City Light makes plain that the annual increases of the proposed rate path fall short of anticipated inflation in cost going forward. So they are absorbing some of the the higher than usual inflationary costs. And in the past two years, just for an example, some of those cost increases when it comes to city lights cause steel, aluminum and copper increased 70 to 80%, conduit 33%. So that those are the sorts of things that they're grappling with. And two councilmembers once point many people lost their jobs and it is but city light didn't turn off people's did not close accounts in they are currently operating under $44.7 million in arrearages. So I acknowledge that I acknowledge Councilmember Peterson's concern, but I, I ask for my colleagues support of this plan. I think that what's most important is really what's going on in the pocketbooks of of Seattleites and actually the city late reports that actual rates in 2023 to 2024 will be slightly lower at 11.4 cents per kilowatt hour compared to the anticipated 11.4 $0.09 per kilowatt hours. So actually, it's lower than anticipated, and this is because of the lower than anticipated Bonneville Power Administration pass through cost. So that cost that we all that also factors into rates is lower. So anyway, like I say, I ask for consideration of these issues as we as we go forward for a vote today you. To me also I would apologize to quickly to Councilor Nelson for closing remarks. And then I saw Councilor Maceda and Councilmember Strauss had some comments. So, Councilmember Nelson, I'm going to allow Councilmember Strauss and Councilman Rosetta to respond. And if you want to respond again, I will give you that opportunity. Councilor Mosqueda. Thank you, council president. I want to underscore some of the things that are my colleagues have also said today, echoing what Councilmember Salinas said about a more progressive rate structure. That's something that I also worked on in 2018 and 2019 after taking the helm at City Life. I know Councilmember Peterson has raised concerns about the impact on some of the smallest rate payers as well. And he and I had worked on utility discount program and really trying to push and move towards a more automatic enrollment for utility discount programs over the last few years. Much appreciated that Seattle City Life is taking some steps on the utility discount program and moving towards what I hope will be more auto enrollment. But I just wanted to bring up the longstanding desire to see a more progressive rate structure here and underscore some of the points about needing to see that in the future. I also think that as we look to maybe codify some of the things that have made it easier for some of our community members who've been hardest hit by COVID, one of the things that we have done is, for example, waive the design review for affordable housing. But what affordable housing folks have really said to us is they also want to see the utility hookups cost be waived. So I will be voting yes for this strategic plan today. But as we think about, you know, how we strategically plan to address the hardship that has been worsened by COVID, a more progressive rate structure, auto enrollment and utility discount programs, and making sure that we're waiving utility hookups for affordable housing would be policies that I know that there would be shared interest for on this council. With that said, I will be voting yes for this and look forward to those future conversations. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Castro Mosquito. Councilor Strauss. Thank you, Council President. This is. Apologies. I didn't mean to take the last word. After Councilmember. Nelson speaking. It made me think of some questions. Councilmember Nelson, can you help me remember? We did not increase city the scale. City Light did not increase their rates in 2020 and 2021. That is correct. And so I just in the two hardest years that we've seen in many in a long time, city Light did not increase rates at a time that they could have. With that understanding, wouldn't it be true that these rates are less than we could have experienced much higher rate increases? And when we look at if these increases have been spread out over two years, it would be much less than what we're asked to vote on today. Is that correct? I think that is a logical observation. And I have to say that that is partly why I gave that background. And you're just cutting to the chase much better than I did. Thank you. Just wanting to highlight that point. Thank you, young president. Okay, sir. Anyone else? Before I let Councilmember Nelson say anything in closing, in response to the last two comments we had or anything else from you. Councilmember Nelson. Again, I appreciate my colleagues engagement. I want to make sure that the public is aware that we are not voting to increase rates right now. That conversation will begin on August 10th in my committee and continue to the following meeting. We will have a possible vote on September 14th, so there is time for my colleagues to ask city late questions or our central staff can he before that as well. So right now we are we are approving a rate path based on some of these factors that I've just that I've just outlined. And so bottom line is that if inflation is going up faster than we thought, that's driving cost increases. We're not. Those aren't necessarily reflected in the rates that we're endorsing in this rate had we have not increased rates in the under normal schedule. And in fact, the decrease in the amount that we paid Bonneville Power Administration does help reduce those costs. So thank you very much for those last words. Thank you, Councilor Nelson. And Customer Support. And Councilor Petersen, thank you. As I know, you were former chairs of Seattle City Light in which I sat on those committees and we should note that this did pass out of committee 420 with no opposition. So with that, Madam Clerk, can we please call the roll? Councilmember Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Morales Yes. Councilmember Mosquera I. Councilmember Nelson. I. Councilmember Petersen. No. Council members want. Yes. Member Strouse. Yes. Councilmember Herbold? Yes. Council President Waters? Yes. We didn't favor one opposed. Thank you. The resolution is adopted and the chair will sign it. Madam Clerk, can you please affix my signature to the recently passed legislation on my behalf? Moving on on the agenda, item number two. Well, Madam Clerk, will you please read item two into the record? And Councilmember Strauss, the floor. Yours. The Report of the Land Use Committee Council Agenda Item two Council Bill 120313 An ordinance relating to land use and zoning defining the addition of a single development that includes residential uses at a community or technical college located within an urban center.

Recommendation of the Personnel and Civil Service Committee to receive and confirm reappointments to the Harbor Commission (2 reappointments); and Water Commission (2 reappointments).

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Actually, I just got the new updated schedule. If the council doesn't mind. I'm sorry, I just saw it. We're going to take one item before this. If you don't mind, I apologize. We're going to take item 22/1 so that we can get these folks, our commissioners that are waiting. Moving on. And then we'll go up and then we'll move on to item 23. Then we will begin the budget process with Vice Mayor Lowenthal. Okay. So item 22. Communication from Councilman Austin, Chair Personnel and Civil Services Committee recommendation to receive and confirm re appointments to the Harbor Commission and Water Commission. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And it is my pleasure to announce that the the Personnel and Civil Service Committee did meet last Tuesday and made recommendations to reappoint the following individuals to to the Harbor Commission, Lou. Ann Bynum to an at large seat. Doug Drummond to an at large seat as well to the Harbor Commission. And on the Water Commission, we'd like to reappoint Arthur Levine and Harry Salts, cover all our outstanding standing residents. All have contributed to our city, both as commissioners, but also in their private lives as well. And so I recommend. Approval of the committee's recommendation. I so move. Okay. There's been a motion and a second to approve Councilman Richardson on price. Just want to congratulate our commissioners. You're doing an excellent job for us and at least two of you are residents of the third. So I thank you for being active members of our community and for your service on the commissions as well as and so many other things like Councilmember Austin just mentioned. So thank you. Thank you, Councilman Andrews. Yes, thank you, Mayor. You know, I'm very impressed with vote of the individuals, Lou. And and the job that they've done as leaders is really impeccable. And she is a great role model. And I feel that Long Beach is so lucky to have her on the Harbor Commission. And Doug Drummond has been one of the greatest leaders as well, and that Mr. Drummond is doing just as almost every event that I've had in my district, you know, which is makes it very, you know, exciting for the individuals, you know, from the sixth District that we do have, you know, an individual in the harbor department that is really in favor and they are with our community. So I really want to think that and Mrs. Suzanne and all the rest of the individuals from the Harbor Commission to let you know that we are really, truly behind you. And we hope you continue to be, you know, behind us. Thank you very much, Doug. Congratulations to both you and the way. Thank you. If we can just please have any public comment on the item. Say Nonmembers, please go ahead and cast your votes. And of course, I want to congratulate you all. I've already done it in person, but congrats again to our re-appointed commissioners as they continue to serve. Everyone's locked up waiting for one workout. There we go. Motion carries. Thank you. Congratulations again. I look forward to to the service. Now we'll be moving item to 23 before we go back to the to the budget process. Thank you.

A RESOLUTION supporting The City of Seattle’s proposal to be a host city for the 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup.

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Okay. We're going to move to the adoption of other resolutions and please read the agenda number seven into the record. At Jeanette and seven resolution 31731 supporting the City of Seattle proposal to be host city for the 2026 Federation Transit the Football Association World Cup. As swimmer Johnson. Thank you. Council President. I'd like to thank those of you that stuck around for this. If we're successful in 2026, you'll be able to say, I was there when the city first took a baby. Step forward to making it possible for the city of Seattle to host the World Cup. The United States as part of a three country application called the United Bid, with Canada and Mexico to bring the World Cup to North America in 2026. Seattle is currently being considered as one of 32 potential cities that could host World Cup. That list of 32 will be winnowed down to 12 eventually, as the 12 selected cities would then host each of four teams that would come to the U.S., Canada and Mexico for that 2026 World Cup. The resolution today supports the city's proposal to to be on the list of 32 considered candidate cities. We've got a great long history here in this city with our current two professional sports teams in the Sounders in the rain being very competitive at the national level, with our players being consistently called up to be part of the national team. And with more than 125,000 kids participating in youth soccer, not only in the city but throughout the region. Our support goes back to the, you know, early to mid seventies with the first iteration of the Sounders. And we've got really wonderful examples of both men and women being pioneers in this field with folks like Michelle Akers and Casey Keller being inducted in the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Hosting the World Cup, of course, is would represent a tremendous opportunity for us, but as was brought up a lot during council briefing, also would represent some opportunities for improvement, particularly as it relates to FIFA's reputation around workers rights, human rights and other issues. I think it's a great opportunity for us to show that we can be successful at bringing the World Cup to a place that does prioritize workers rights, does prioritize human rights and the rights of every citizen and resident, regardless of citizenship. So I'm happy to answer individual questions folks might have, but hopeful that we will adopt this resolution today to take a baby step forward in the application process that could potentially one day yield to Seattle hosting a World Cup in 2026. Thank you very much. Before we discuss it much further, I believe Councilmember Mosquito may have a substituted version she'd like to talk about and possibly men. So, Councilmember Skater, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. I would move to amend resolution 31791 by substituting version two for version one B. Second. We'd like to discuss the changes. Yes, thank you, Mr. President. And thanks to the sponsor of this resolution. As folks know, I'm very interested in making sure that we both highlight the beauty and benefits of the city and that we continue to promote ourself as a sports champion. I have also had the benefit of being able to participate in the World Cup going to Brazil a few years back. I am very supportive of the effort to bring the World Cup to our city. But I also want to make sure that we continue to advance the rights of workers. You mentioned in earlier testimony, the testimony we heard was that protecting the environment is paramount. Protecting human rights and workers rights is also paramount, as Councilmember Johnson mentioned. And I think with the resolution you see in front of you, it underscores that we have been a leader in labor protections in the past, this council passing sick and safely raising the minimum wage, our community as a whole, passing initiative. 124 And while I'm interested in making sure that we are able to attract the World Cup to this area, I also want to make sure that we lift up protections for workers investments in our community, protect construction workers, hotel workers, restaurant workers. And I think we have the opportunity to do that with the World Cup coming here. So this amendment basically just makes it clear that we're sending a clear policy statement, that it reminds us that we don't lose sight of the broader goal of advancing worker protections while ensuring that businesses can thrive and that our community thrives as a whole. And it directs resources into making sure that we're investing into programs like Housing and Anti Displaced. And strategies. As opposed to what we've seen in other countries. We have the benefit here of having infrastructure already in place, creating a world class arena. That means that we're not displacing folks. But I also want to underscore the importance of as we create infrastructure to bring folks here, as we housed them, as we put them into our union hotels that we're reinvesting in, making sure that the services meet our community needs, not just those of the investors for FIFA. I appreciate Councilmember Gonzalez's comments this morning of wanting to make sure that we do it different here in Seattle, different than what we've seen in the past when it comes to investments in past World Cups. And I think we're on the way to do that. So what you have in front of you is a friendly amendment, I think the sponsor of this amendment for allowing us to put this forward to the mayor, for putting forward this amendment as a whole. I think the labor community for their interest in making sure that we have good living wage jobs, benefits and training programs. And I want to say my commitment is to also making sure that we're not displacing folks that are investing in our community. And I think having this resolution move forward is a good first step to looking holistically at the benefits of having both the World Cup here, but also looking at our community needs first. Very good. So the first vote will take us just on the amendment. And so as we have just the amendment on for any further comments about the amendment, which is a substitution. So it's been moved to substitute version two for version one because they're second. All those in favor of the amendment. Please vote I. I opposed. The ayes have it. We have a two minute version. Either one else like to talk about the amended resolution we're about to pass judgment. Councilmember Herbold. Thank you. So whenever we get legislation that refers to a previous piece of legislation, I like to take a look at what that what that says. And in this instance, the resolution before us refers to requirements set forth in resolution 30340. And that was a resolution passed in 2001 in the wake of a much larger event, the WTO. And that resolution identified a process for the city acting as a potential bidder for to be a host city and other types of events. And there are several things that are contemplated in that process that even though this resolution says we are we're going to use the requirements set forth in Resolution 30340. As I read that resolution, these are things that are supposed to happen before we submit a bid. I've heard that there's a January 19th deadline. I'm not sure I understand what that deadline is, because I've also read that we've already submitted a bid in that in October 4th, there was an announcement that 32 of 41 cities that have submitted a bid have moved through that initial process. And perhaps this is just a further another bid to further winnow. But my concern is that there are a number of things that we. Are. Required to do as as it relates specifically to cost recovery and protecting the city's liability, that I'm going to support this resolution. But I really hope that we are committed to doing these these these actions that I believe the city is actually supposed to do before we pass a resolution like this. And so some of those things relate to asking CPD to make an evaluation of what the overtime costs are estimated to be. And if it's if there are overtime costs that are estimated to be more than 3% of its overtime budget, it's considered to be a major a major event. And in that triggers some some additional steps for for the city. There is language actually in FIFA document called the overview of government guarantees and government declaration, specifically including a section on government guarantee, safety and security that says in order to achieve the best possible security environment for competition, the government is requested at its own cost to assume full responsibility for safety and security at the competition and competition related events. These include developing a security strategy and concept in close cooperation with further state, regional and municipal government, law enforcement and security authorities in the host country. Host countries implementing the necessary security measures and assuming liability for safety and security incidents. And I understand that there has been some. Some movement towards allowing cities to accomplish some limited or hopefully more than limited cost recovery. But given that this is something that our own city auditor has recently identified as an area where we need significant improvements, the city recovers on average 27% of CPD wage costs for permitted events. This is an area that I am hoping that the city does more work on before taking the next step on submitting its bid. Good for you. Very good. Comes from her about any other questions or concerns going forward concerning Gonzalez? No questions, but I just want to reiterate what I said at this morning's council briefing. I want to first thank Councilmember Herbold for being very diligent and going back and looking up that resolution. I appreciate that. I think that those are very good points and sort of dovetail nicely with the concerns that I expressed this morning. I am also going to vote in favor of this resolution, but not without saying on the record that I have ongoing concerns about FIFA as an organization. And those are no secret to the general public in terms of what those issues are and are very well documented in a bunch of sports documentaries that sometimes I spend time watching on the weekend with my husband. But I think that there are real concerns about their business practices, not just their labor practices and human rights practices , but their business practices as a whole. And I think that the resolution that Councilmember Herbold has referenced in her comments highlight why it's important to have those accountability principles in place and to make sure that they are. Vigorously applied as the. City moves forward in expressing even even in just expressing its interest in being a host. I think it's important that folks understand what they get if they sign up to do business with us in the in the city of city of Seattle. So hopefully the organizers here hear us loud and clearly on that point and and that we can proceed in a way that will be successful and that will truly show that things are done differently here in the city of Seattle. Very good. And it's okay that you're a Bryant Gumbel fan. We won't hold that against any other further comments or concerns. And I really appreciate the comments made by our colleagues. And again, we're not going to this blindly, both from a human rights standpoint or from a fiscal standpoint. So thanks for bringing it forward. And if there are no further comments. It's a resolution. So I'm going to ask that those in favor of adopting the resolution, the amended resolution, please. But I. I. All those opposed vote no. The motion carries and the resolution as amended is adopted and the chair will sign it. Can we have one other resolution with the clerk, please, that went into the record.

Recommendation to Approve a Commercial Streets Two-Year Work Program to Improve the Park Street and Webster Street Striping Plans; Improve the On-street Parklet Program; Maintain the Alameda Avenue Street Closure; Resume Pre-COVID Parking Management, Fee Collection, and Enforcement Activities; Adoption of Resolution Approving Precast Concrete Traffic Control Safety Barricade Standards for Parklets; and Adoption of Resolution Amending the Capital Budget by Transferring $630,350 in American Rescue Plan Act Project Funds from Capital Improvement Project (CIP) C90300 to Commercial/Slow Streets CIP (C12100) and Increasing Appropriations for the Commercial/Slow Streets CIP (C12100) by $630,350. (Planning, Building and Transportation/Public Works 310C1210)

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Take a breath. And the reason we have long titles is that we can get all of our city staff in place. Councilmember Desai, you have your hand up. Yeah. Just quickly as a point of order. Well, not really. One where I had inquired as to the city attorney if I have to recuse myself, since my house is close to Webster Street and have been informed that for a variety of legal reasons that I actually don't have to recuse myself on the matter of the commercial street . So I, I just, I won't pretend to, to tell those legal reasons. Ah, but if the city attorney would like to add more. Great. Thank you. Sure. Mr. Chan, city attorney. Sure. I'm happy to share. I'm an American council member. So the the FTC in recent years have loosened the public generally exception. One of the additional exceptions has been, I guess, enhance in favor of participation is one where there are limited neighborhood effects is what it's called. And in that case, when the city undertakes public safety or street improvement or nuisance abatement or any or street work, and either a 5% or more than 50 residences are being affected. The public generally exception would apply, and in this case, the public works director had informed me that more than 50 homes are adjacent to the proposed work. And in that case, we have advised Councilmember de SAC that he is not required to recuse for this item. Okay. Thank you for that. All right. So, Staff, welcome. And who's going to lead out, Mr. Ramesh? Yes, I am going to lead off. I'm going to be joined by Rachelle Wheeler, who's sharing her screen while we are here today. We are here tonight to introduce our recommendations for the next two years of your Commercial Streets program. You started this two years ago in response to the pandemic. We received a newspaper article today from one of the friends of Alameda reminding us that this is not a new conversation. What you see here is a front page article from 1972 Alameda Times where they're talking about what should we do about Park Street? So this has been a multi departmental effort planning, building, transportation, of course, with Rochelle sort of leading and coordinating the team. But it couldn't have happened over the last two years without public works, without your city attorney's office, without a ton of work from your economic development department. So we've all been working on this together. And of course, we have two other really important team members, downtown Alameda Business Association and Webster Avenue Business Association, who are both here tonight. So before I turn it over to Rochelle to present the staff's recommendations for the next two years for this program. I'd also just like to say that the executive directors from both the business associations are here tonight. They would love to follow speak after the staff presentation. If it's possible to give them each four or 5 minutes, that would be great, but I'll leave that up to the council. I know you have your rules of order. So with that, let me turn it back over to Rochelle. Rochelle, why don't you complete the staff presentation for us? Welcome, Ms.. Wheeler. Thank you so much. Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members. The commercial STS program was created at the request of our commercial districts over a year and a half ago to help the businesses and our communities safely get through the incredibly difficult period of the pandemic. And in partnership with the Business and Improvement Association, staff developed a five pronged commercial streets program. One was the reconfiguration of both Park and Webster streets to make space for Parklets. Two Streamlining the Parklets permit process to allow for outdoor dining and retail. Three Converting parking along the commercial corridors to short term spaces for quick pickups, for allowing for private parking lots to be used for outdoor commercial uses. And five the closure of portions of Alameda Avenue off of Park Street to allow for outdoor dining and gathering. And this package of programs was endorsed by the City Council in May 2020 and later extended by the Council through October 2021. But the end of the program quickly nearing. Staff undertook a full evaluation of the program over the summer and found that this program has really been essential in helping many businesses survive the pandemic, the business and the overall commercial district. The businesses are still very much in recovery mode today and continue to need support. The pandemic is still influencing how people dine and shop, and the need for outdoor dining out at speeds along Park and Webster streets have slowed, which is beneficial for safety. There has been no increase in collisions that we've seen so far. Through a community survey, we found that about 60% of respondents support this program, and we have planning efforts underway for walking, biking and transit, which will be looking at plans for these commercial corridors. With this information and more that was described in the staff report, our staff recommendations are to approve a two year extension to the Commercial Streets program, adopt safety barricades, standards for parklets, and to allocate American Rescue Plan Act or ARPA funds to implement the recommendations at a cost of $630,350. More specifically, the recommended two year extension is to do the following on Park and Webster Streets to retain the existing striping for the next two years. Immediately, though, we would make needed improvements to the parking bollards and striping in order to more efficiently and effectively provide on street parking and to improve transit speeds along these streets by removing bottlenecks. Over the next two years, staff would develop and bring recommendations for final configurations for each of these streets, including a process of community engagement for parking. We recommend the city reestablish the pre-pandemic parking rates and time limits for on street parking along Park and Webster Street, while also retaining some short term parking and adding parking for people with disabilities. And we also recommend the city reestablish parking enforcement as soon as feasible to ensure an equitable use of available on street parking and to strive to achieve the Council adopted policy of 85% occupancy on any given block. We're recommending the city maintain the closure of a half block of Alameda Avenue, which was closed to provide outdoor space for dining and gathering and is maintained by the harbor. This closure would remain for the next two years or until Adobe are no longer wants to manage the space for Parklets staff is recommending and extending the PARKLET program for another two years by issuing two year permits to those parklets that would like to remain and to any new ones. The two main issues that we see that need to be addressed with this extension are esthetics and safety. The city's role in this will be to include higher esthetic and safety standards as part of the permitting process in order to improve the look of the commercial areas and safety for those using the PARKLETS. Also to address these two issues, staff would replace the existing water, fill barriers as seen in the middle photo here with new decorative concrete barriers that would form a solid line along two of the three sides of each parklet, including the roadway side as described in the safety standards included in the resolution. The lower right image shows the concrete barricade design type that we would use, which would be stained most likely a green color. The cost for the city to purchase and install barricades for 30 parklets is $323,000. Parklets for the for the businesses with parklets, they also have an increased responsibility instead of just an encroachment permit. They would sign a license agreement with the city. And while initially all parklet fees were waived by council, businesses would be asked to pay a 20 $400 deposit to cover staff costs to approve the parklet and inspect it. Businesses would have three months from now until February 3rd to submit this package, and once approved, they would need to make any upgrades to the PARKLETS to meet our new safety and esthetic standards. Finally, they would need the businesses would need to pay any increase in costs for higher insurance level, which are being levels which are being proposed to reduce the city's liability should a collision occur. The current standard is 1 million per occurrence and 2 million aggregate staff are recommending a 2,000,004 million policy for all parklets except those within 50 feet of corners, which are at a higher risk. And so would need to have a $5,000,005 million policy. And make these recommended changes. The budget request totals $630,000, insert 300, the $630,350 for a two year extension to come from ARPA funds. This includes the 323,000 to cover the costs for the concrete barricades around Parklets. $157,000 to maintain an upgrade. The street parking $150,000 to do the long term planning for the street designs for parking Webster Streets, including with community engagement and the final line here show in Orange reflects an option which is not included in the total cost for the city to pay the businesses, the incremental increase in costs for their insurance to meet our new insurance requirements. The city could issue grants to businesses or the base for this, and it's hard for us to estimate the total cost, but we do think it would likely be between 30 and 40 $50,000 and would also come from ARPA. So in summary, our recommendations are to approve the two year extension of the Commercial Streets program, adopts a new safety standard to guide how to install the barricades we purchase allocate funds from ARPA to cover the program costs. And finally, we know you'll be hearing from the business community about the insurance costs. And so staff are asking also for direction on this issue. Thank you. She? Thank you, Miss Wheeler. And look at that. You came down with one minute and 29 seconds. So you okay. And you mentioned Mr. Thomas mentioned that both of our executive directors from both Downtown Media Business Association and West Hall made a business association, would like to make comments. Would that be as like a continuation of your presentation or during public comment? Help me understand. I think it would be great if it would be possible to hear from the two directors. They are really partners in this program with us and I think they have very specific concern about some of our recommendations that they'd like to talk. To you about. Okay. So let me pull the counsel. Counsel, this is one that, if I recall incorrectly, if we have a vote of four individuals, we could take some more time to hear from our two business association directors. What I would like in a motion, if you're so inclined to make a motion, is how much time should we allocate to the business directors? I, I would not make it as many as 10 minutes the piece how. They, they each think they can do it in less than 5 minutes. All right, Councilmember. Not quite. Yes. Here's notes as they already have. Three, I'm happy to as they're speaking on the behalf of many, many business owners, and I don't see them all here. I'd be happy to give them 5 minutes each. All right. Is that. Is a motion that the. Motion and Councilmember Spencer, I saw your hand go up. Would that be a second? Yes. Okay. We've had a motion. We've had a second. We're not going to take time for discussion because this is about extending time. May we have a roll call vote, please, Madam Clerk. Some British I Herrera Center. I know. Quite well. By. Mayor as Ashcraft High. That carries by five eyes. All right. Thank you. So do we go alphabetically? How do we? Miss Wheeler, who are we going to hear from first? Oh, I'm actually not sure. Sorry. Okay, we. Ready? We are, Cathy. Ready to go. We can put. All right, so we have Ms.. Weber. Miss Kathy Weber is the executive director of the Downtown Alameda Business Association. Welcome. We I'm sure we'll see her any minute now. And of course, that's Darva. That's the Park Street area. There she is. Greetings. Hello. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor. Council member city staff. I'm Kathy Webber. I'm the executive director of the downtown Alameda Business Association. And it was at the business district's request all those months ago that the Commercial Streets program was put into motion, and we hope it will continue. The street reconfiguration parklets Alameda Avenue have provided positive benefits to our business districts and given us an opportunity to rethink how we interact with public space as a community. And to be sure, this conversation is not simply about 27. Individual parklets. It is about the vitality and the vibrancy of our entire business districts. The benefits are felt beyond the parklets it's stopping to get a book on your way to dinner and grabbing a gift after enjoying lunch. They have helped us rebuild a sense of community and we hope to establish a long term parklet program with design, safety and fee. Guidelines that we can rely on as we're moving forward. Safety is a shared priority and we look and support the installation of the decorative concrete barricades. They'll offer an added level of safety, create a unifying look, and with the enhanced safety that the concrete barriers provide and paired with our district wide umbrella insurance policy, we are asking that you reconsider the increased insurance coverage or that you create a fund to offset these increased insurance expenses. Depending on carriers, these increased costs will vary, some doubling and others more so that there will be increased. Cost incurred by our businesses. In one instance, it will cost a business 70 $500 over the two years for the additional insurance alone. And when you add permit fees, it's nearly $10,000 to continue in a program that was designed to help businesses. And I don't think that. That is anyone's intent. To help streamline this process. We can assist and work one on one with our businesses and. To help with help the city navigate the administration of that. We're here to help you help us. And we are eager to look at parking, usage, needs, signage and work with the city to reinstate a much needed parking compliance program. Businesses are still in need of support and our road to recovery is just beginning. And it has been said that you invest in what you value and a vibrant, lively business districts are vital to our community and your investment in the program will pay dividends far into the future. And I do want to thank again Andrew Thomas and Rochelle Wheeler and Russ Thompson and all of the Commercial Street's team for getting us to this point. So thank you very much. Thank you, Ms.. Weber. And actually, Mr. Thomas, may I just take a minute and ask you to introduce Mr. Thompson, who's on the screen? Yes, I am so sorry. Yes, Mr. Thompson, Russ Thompson is our acting city engineer. I think that's his correct title. But whatever his title is, he's been instrumental in and helping this program really come together over the last year and helping us think about how to move forward over the next two years. So any any actual technical tough questions, ask him. They get to him. Thank you and welcome. Mr. Thompson, was there anything you wanted to add about this program? No, I'm just here to answer any questions. And it's been a long process to get to this point. You know, I think my title as a previous interim city engineer who we know now, Robert Mansell's in that position. So I'm here still supporting public works in whatever way they need. Well, we're happy to have you. Thank you so much. And stand by for this. Tef technical questions. I see that we are now joined by Linda Asprey. Linda is the executive director of West Alameda Business Association on the west end of town. Welcome, Ms.. Astbury. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor and City Council. I'm Linda Asbury, as you said, executive director of the West Alameda Business Association. Our parklets are so important to the entire district for every one that comes to a parklet and they eat or there's sometimes some shopping, they I see them. Then they're going off to other spaces. They're going to the new thrifty kitty. You know, they'll come for lunch and they're doing that. So it's far beyond just the parklets. Our mission is to keep Webster safe, clean and inviting, and the proposed cement barriers will do that for enhanced safety. What we do want to cover is the insurance cost. I know Kathy got some quotes. I've got some quotes. It doubles their insurance to meet that new threshold. And coming we're coming out of recovery. And I suspect many of them are trying to catch up from last 18 months of the shutdown. So we're in the recovery mode and any cost that we can not put on to them so they can survive is so important. So I much could have a much quick talk quicker than Kathy, but that is what we want. Thank you for your consideration and concern. Continued support, Val and me, just business districts. And as Kathy said, we are here to help you on this whole process. Thank you. Well, thank you for your remarks. All right. My goodness. I don't think they even needed the time. We a lot of them, but well-said, everyone. So, Madam Cook, do we have public comments on this item? We do. We have three so far. Okay. Four, five, the other here. They keep coming in. So before we go to our public comments, were there any clarifying questions council wanted to ask or should we go straight to our public comments? We will go to our Councilmember Knox White. And I'll just ask this this quick question. I'm just wondering for prior speakers and whatnot if we can quickly get an answer to if we are going to put in concrete barriers, which are essentially, you know, built for freeway speeds to keep cars from crashing. And why are we also then going to ask businesses to double or even quintupled their insurance rates if we're making things safer than they currently are? We're right now we have sidewalks all around the city that have six inch curbs that people can crash off and whatnot. Okay. Who wants to take that with you, Mr. Thompson? Mr. Thomas. Thompson and Thomas? Hmm. Yeah. I was going to see if I could ask city attorney Shan to help me out with this one, if that's okay with you. Even more than happy to. We've consulted with our insurance carrier, the city's insurance pool, with respect to what are the appropriate levels of protections for outdoor dining spaces on streets. And as you can imagine, there is a wide range of uses in the Bay Area and in California and really nationally. The our carrier had informed us that their recommendation was to deploy concrete barriers and their recommended insurance limits were to five and five. And I understand that. And I believe the minimum they recommended was the two and four limit. And I believe staff struck somewhere in the middle by recommending the two and four limit for middle of streets, and then the five and five for the more potentially more risky areas, which are the intersections at the five and five location. And part of the reason for some of these requests have to do with the the uncertainty around what liability might result with respect to sidewalk collisions that might occur. As a matter of example, we the the carriers have pulled a number of recent verdicts on sidewalk collections, not with respect to outdoor dining. And some of them go back as far as 2007 and the range of verdicts on essentially cars jumping curbs or and resulting injuries resulted in anywhere from a $1.3 million verdict to a over $10 million verdict with a number and with a few in the four some million dollar range. And I think that may have informed their recommendations for the five and five. Hey, Councilwoman Marks White did that. And that's it's a bid right now. It's because the insurance companies are suggesting it, not because it's. Yeah, okay. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Right. And and based on jury verdicts as well. Okay. And Mr. Thompson, did you want to add anything to that? No, I think that's the crux of it. Just I did want to and we've talked about this at a staff level, is that concrete barriers are not an insurance policy. They don't prevent injury, but they are a step up and definitely provide more protection than the waterfall barricades. And so we're just trying to elevate, you know, the safety level along the streets. Thank you. Okay. Other clarifying questions. Counsel for her, Spencer. Human error. So other jurisdictions have required the concrete cross this entire time and but from the picture. But you all are proposing it do the do this cement. Barricades, if you will. Do they connect with each other like the cranes do? But they're not Carol's son trying to figure out why we're not doing Carol's. Right. So these these are vehicular traffic barricades made for that purpose. They are decorative. So, I mean, you could have good interlocked cranes like you'd see along a freeway construction project out there. But this was used in other jurisdictions and it has a little more of a decorative lot because there's not a huge cost difference. And these come in four foot segments, so they're a little bit easier to manipulate in the place. So those are some of the factors that went into our recommendation, but it was mainly a decorative work. I understand. And I think Mr. Miller wanted to just add something to that. Yes. There. I would just add and correct me if I'm wrong, Russ, but I think these these four foot long barricades do interlock and they connect. And the and that per the standard that's included in the resolution, they would they would not look like that picture I showed where we just had a couple of water filled barriers that would be a solid line of barriers along the roadside and then along kind of what you would think of as the oncoming side, it would be completely solid. But the concrete, interlocking concrete barriers. Tell them, Harry Spencer, go ahead. I want to make sure, though, that they do provide similar protection to the crowds because that's why this is being proposed as safety. And as much as I appreciate decoration. Then I want to make sure that, yes, in fact, this speaks to the how how do they compare for safety purposes to the crowds? Who would like to take that? Mr. THOMPSON. I'm thinking. Yeah. So again, they're they're made for that purpose. And after we reviewed it at the low speeds that are existing along the street segments that these there are £150 apiece. And then they do get connected with a cable system, interlocks them. So they're secure and they're they're made for this purpose. So we feel comfortable that this is a suitable safety enhancement. Thank you, counsel for her, Spencer. I appreciate that you feel comfortable, but is there no data that actually speaks to what force these can endure versus the carriers? I didn't have real data that says that they are the same or. I don't I don't have it with me tonight to provide to you. But there is there is data out there for these types of systems that exist. And we did review some of that. I have a suggestion. We're going to take public comment, perhaps forward. We're taking public comment. People could avail themselves of the Internet or whatever accessing files and get an answer to that question. I would think that that wouldn't be too difficult to do. Any further clarifying questions, Councilmember Harry Spencer, before we get to our public comment. Thank you and I appreciate your comments there. Thank you. Yeah, we'll get that answer. Any other clarifying questions for council? And I'm not seeing any. So let's do public comment. Okay. And we have six speakers. Okay. So that means. Everyone gets. Yeah they'll still I'll get 2 minutes and then if somebody I mean 3 minutes and then somebody else raise their hands, it'll go down to two. So the first is James Johnston. All right. Welcome, Speaker Johnston. Hello. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six lanes were dedicated to the automobile on the so-called Park Street before covered for traffic into parking. You know, I thought it was. Better named Automobile. Street than Park Street. There was only a relatively narrow. Sidewalk that could not accommodate. Businesses and no bike lanes. Not much in the way of greenery either. It's an obsolete design, relatively hostile to anyone, not an automobile. The Bay Area is well known for its usually fantastic weather and I love spending time outdoors. And what's more, like it or not, COVID is here to stay. Breakthrough infections and long COVID. Will always remain a risk, even with vaccines. So redesigning and improving the concept of parklets is a good idea. And I encourage council to it, at least at minimum, follow. These staff recommendations. However, in the long run, I suggest we bring the. Park back in Park. Street. It's terribly missing and let's dream big. And completely. Transform the street. Into a park. Let's build some more elaborate landscaping that makes the place feel like a park. Imagine more trees, native vegetation. Hearts, gaping. Fountains and so on. Let's have first. Class protected. Bike lanes and wider sidewalks. And very importantly, let's allow all of the businesses to expand outdoors onto the street with permanent and attractive dining and shopping facilities with first class outdoor facilities for these businesses to use that feel like they were designed for that not tiny parklets that fit in the shadow of automobile infrastructure as if. It was an afterthought. And suffer from loud and dangerous automobiles that spew toxic exhaust gases only a few feet away. This whole debate about insurance and what would happen if a car hits a parklet would be. Moot if we didn't have them there. So, you know, to help make room for this, let's close the road to private automobiles. If San Francisco can do it on Market Street, why can't we busses only if even that use other roads to get around and off the island. But not this one. If someone needs to drive to this area, we have a big parking garage. We don't need gratuitous amounts of street parking. Let's give that to our businesses permanently and in an attractive way. So I. Encourage council and staff to. Pursue this ambitious, ambitious vision for the future and come up with some really amazing plans over the next year or two. And let's completely transform and rebuild Part Street for the better. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker. Marilyn Rushman. Good evening, speaker. Amen. Hello again. I actually am one of the 40% who do not care for the current commercial streets. I do not go near Park Street anymore. The traffic is horrible with one narrow lane each way. I see the only benefits of the parklets is for outside dining, whose popularity is surely going. To decline during. The winter. I think that the 600,000 ARPA money could be much better spent on, say, the FDA office pilot program. Thank you. Thank you to our next speaker. Zach Bowling. Good evening. Speaker Bowling. Hi there. Can you hear me? Yes, fine. Awesome. Yeah, I'm a big fan of road diets. I've probably said that before. I think. I think the of situation that we've got on Webster and Park are great additions to the city. I do have concerns around biking infrastructure because we do ban bikes on the sidewalks in our commercial areas in front of our stores. So we really don't really have a place to ride anywhere near there in any kind of safe way. In the current configuration, one of the ideas is thinking is we do have at the end of a policy, the Memorial Parkway. At the very end, we built that shared space. And I know some agencies probably get a get upset that we're converting like a hub and a state Highway 61 into a shared space. But I think we can make the case that that kind of infrastructure of having a pedestrian friendly space and moving cars off of those two roads predominantly, but using it for like local traffic or deliveries would make sense. But thinking about that on the barriers, I was also thinking concrete barriers there. People already complained about the 71 barriers, the white ones. I'm not a fan of the white ones. I know they're more reflective, but they just you see scuff marks. I'm more of a fan of the 72 that we have them on on Otis. They're they're a little bit more fancy, for lack of a better term, and they look a little nicer. And I think the brown ones are a little bit better. But if that's being considered, instead of having if we can get people to drive slower on that street through just behavior modification of changing design elements, shrinking the road's any way possible to get people to drive slower? Do we really need to go up to concrete barriers also reducing some of the width of that space and if we could replace that with other bollards that could be used instead of a concrete barrier. I know it's temporary. The 7270 ones are really good for that kind of temporary infrastructure and they're very inexpensive. Those are some of my thoughts. I think if we can improve the biking situation on both of those roads, I think it would make it a better interconnect with the rest of the community. I think I'll leave my comments there. So thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker. Herman Reid. Good evening, Speaker Reid. Good evening again, Madam Mayor, and city council members. I do appreciate the city staff's report and I and I strongly support our local businesses. I am a bit concerned, however, how the reduction of lanes on both Park Street and Webster Street may affect residents in the event of an emergency evacuation. And I'm wondering if the city has considered this this impact in there and if there is some some plan to address that. I do support the closure of Alameda Avenue, but I think that more investment should be made to beautify the area and perhaps create a structure of some sort. Like we like some structures that you see in Europe and maybe where it could serve as a farmer's market, as well as the picnic tables that are and that are utilized by Alameda High School students. And with some additional creativity, the space could be very flexible for multi uses. Thank you. Thank you. Our next. Speaker, Aaron Miller. Good evening, Speaker Miller. Just done meeting myself. Hi, guys. I am I am very frustrated in your and in the city's response to cars. I'm 72. My husband's 77. He can't he can't ride a bike. I'm not riding a bike. We're all going to be driving electric cars in the near future because it's mandated by the state. And so this environmental emphasis on cars to me is very misplaced. I have not spoken to one person that I know who is in favor of what's going on in Webster and Park Street as far as the striping. It's a disaster. You can't park. I always I have a four year old granddaughter. I always frequent a toy safari. I do not go to Park Street anymore. I go to Target over on West End because I can't park there. I I'm surprised that the businesses are supporting this on both Webster and Park Street because I read the results of the the traffic and Webster, the average traffic reductions are down. How can that help the businesses? Park Street right now says that the traffic isn't down, but it's slower. But it's slower because it's an obstacle course. I go to rise, ladies. And he is he was very upset. His two parking spots in front of his business were taken away. He had no choice. He now has a parklet there. He did not want a parklet there. He wanted the parking spaces. And what is he going to do as a gym owner with his parklet? He's built it. He had to pay for it. He's now got to insurance costs. He didn't want it. So I get it for restaurants. I totally understand it for restaurants. They needed it during the pandemic because no one could eat inside. It was mandatory. You had to eat outside. I totally understand that. And I know that some people are more comfortable still eating outside. But but to disrupt the business districts on the two main business corridors that we have I think is just really wrong. And again, everybody I spoke to, I looked I looked at your survey. If you look at how many people actually answered that survey, it was all the people who were interested in it's bike Alameda. It's all the people who want it to be that way. But it's a very, very small representative of what this town is. We've got 80,000 people and what, 2000 people maybe answered that survey, and I think they all had an agenda. So I just really want to represent the people who are not being represented today. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker. And we now have two more speakers. So we are over the seven or more limit, so to speak. Your time will go to 2 minutes and the next one is true. Dara Abrams. Good evening. Speaker Dara Abrams. Hi. Good evening. Andrew Dara Abrams here. Speaking both as an East End resident on Calhoun Street and also a co-owner of a small business park in Blanding. So I want to thank city staff and the business districts for acting really quickly, really creatively over the last 18 months. Lots of cities around the Bay Area in the country have done similar programs. But I think it's to almeida's credit that Alameda has done an above average job and is now in a position to consider what to make permanent. So I can say as a resident that walking to Park Street with our two young kids, it's a more pleasant it's a safer experience. Would love to make permanent some of those improvements. As a resident, you know, also. Walking with we. Were not in a a line of business where we have our clients coming into the office. But those of us who do work out of the office certainly appreciate being able to also walk down, park, use a parklet and so on. The I you know, I will you know, I think it's worth acknowledging that the experience for drivers has changed. And now I walk, I ride a bike, I do drive as well. And so I do hope that part of making these changes permanent, that some some work can be done to improve signal timing and intersections for cars , signage for folks who just want to find a parking lot and ditch their car. And I think actually through through making these permanent, the the the quality of the experience can be improved for people no matter what mode they're arriving by. And finally, let me just point you all to bike ped informed from University of North Carolina and Nak Doh staff members already know this, but there's a lot of info on here. I think. Thank you for your time, Zach, and we'll go on to our next speaker now. Jim Strelow. Good evening. Speaker Stellar. Good evening. Not all businesses support this program. Your program picks and chooses winners. While there are many businesses that are losers, some businesses have lost parking spaces. More importantly, loss of visibility to some businesses hidden behind the temporary parklet structures where their entrances or signage has been blocked. Some businesses were closed. They could not even open their doors due to county rules because of touching prohibitions such as the tactile galleries, gyms, bars, etc.. So businesses need deliveries, particularly day shipments. Amazon, FedEx and disabled need access. So do not restrict vehicle use. Now, the question I know you don't answer questions about will the county increase tax rates for businesses who are taxed by square footage of usable space? And then now, since the city is going to be paying for insurance, will the city pay for increased county taxes based upon square footage usable space ? Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker. Ginny Sanderson. Good evening, Speaker Anderson. Good evening. I find myself in an odd position. I'm actually disagreeing with my friend Marilyn and somewhat agreeing with Carmen Reid. I would like to see a little bit more build out of Alameda Avenue right there. I felt like that was a useless street beforehand. You know, something a little bit more robust. Infrastructure would be great. A farmer's market would be amazing. And as far as I understand, nobody is quite getting rid of cars on Park Street right now. But, you know, maybe someday in the future, that would be great. Perhaps we could have a trolley system like they're implementing out at the point to kind of ferry people up and down it. I understand the businesses need deliveries. But I you know, prior to the pandemic, it was just all cars, all parking. And I would like to see a little bit more pedestrianized I agree with Zach and other other speakers about bike access. I never ride to businesses over there because I can't. There's hardly any bike parking and it's just not safe to ride on Park Street the way people drive. So I just want to say that I, I support keeping the parklets I as far as I know. I don't understand why someone was forced to build a parklet. Those are public spaces, not their spaces specifically. But perhaps I'm misunderstanding the implementation of Parklets, but that's not my understanding. Anyways, yeah, I just fully support keeping this system and keeping it safer for pedestrians. Thank you. Our next speaker. Ron Mooney. Good evening. Speaker Mooney. Good evening. How are you? Well, thank you. Great. Mayor, council members here to support the staff report and the work that our association and WADA has put in to do this. Very excited to see a continuance. We have other members that are looking for this longer term vision and then they both are planning on improving their parklets and looking for a few more applicants to come in. And as I think everybody knows. No business was required to build a parklet. Everybody that wanted to applied, including the mentioned one. But more importantly, I am so happy that Park Street is slower. I have to say living on Park Street, having a business on Park Street, it is so nice. I would love to see it drop down to 20 miles per hour, but I think that's a discussion for the next over the next couple of years. So I'd love to see the supported in having parking compliance put in place is another important thing. I'll just remind people we have a fantastic parking garage and as I walk cooky around I've yet to see it under 100 places available. So there's always spaces available in one of the city. Lots in the core of the downtown and also. But it's been reduced by five blocks to one lane to two lanes or 2 to 1 lane. It's five blocks. It's not that huge. And I just would love to see it extended. I know that's not in the works, but we'll see how it goes. So support the staff report. Thank you. Staff and council. Thank you. Our next speaker. And that's our it'll be our last speaker. It's Denise Trapani. All right. Good evening. Speaker champion year. Good evening. Thank you, Mayor and council member. My name is Denise Trapani. I'm the board president. I walk alameda and I just wanted to provide our enthusiastic support for staff's recommendation tonight to continue the Commercial Streets program, even though the original program really didn't do much. Honestly, for biking and walking, it was needed for our businesses to survive. But in terms of pedestrian and cyclist, other than some bike corrals, there really wasn't much done for us. But what it did give us was a chance to really reimagine what our business districts could be like. And I think using this time the next couple of years to continue the analysis and to continue to have the conversation about what this could look like. I mean, just tonight, we've heard from closing them to, you know, closing them on weekends to just all these types of different modifications. This planning work takes a lot of time. And what I would hate to do is go back to a configuration that we had before, put people through that change, and then come up with a better, more robust design and then have to go through all the work again and the change for folks to get used to the final configuration. So let's use the next couple of years to continue the conversation and do the analysis and the work and get the design right by continuing this program. Thank you. Thank you. And Madam Quirk, you said that was our last speaker right there. That was our last speaker. All right. So with that, we will close public comment on item seven B and we will open it up to the council. All right. Who would like to go first? Councilmember Knox. Right. And nobody else raise their hand. I'm happy to go first and that's fine. So thank you to staff. I think this is very exciting. The staff presentation reminded us that we started this in May. I think during that conversation we had a conversation about how well, first off, we thought we were coming out of this thing a lot earlier by COVID, but we all said we're talking about how this could be back. Back at that time could be the beginning of how we start thinking about our business districts and the changes that COVID is going to write and the fact that we're going to have more work from home folks in Alameda looking for places to have lunch, etc., and that we're going to need to rethink public space. And I think that chamber event the the economist who came out that was his prediction also for the future. So I think that approving this and moving forward is very important. You know, I'm going to I'm going to I'm not going to spend too much time on the whole design and what the insurance companies want. It is true they are looking at jury jury awards as a jury awards for people jumping curbs in specific instances and not for running into kiwirail. And I do think that we are probably being based on what other city, a lot of other cities are doing, exceedingly cautious and exceedingly risk averse. And I think that that is fine for the city to do that. But if we're going to, I think we should also then take on the burden of covering the the delta between the what folks are currently paying for for their liability insurance and what we would be requiring for the future of liability insurance. I think also that instead of looking to just do what those parklets that are out there right now, we have striping on just a few blocks in both of our business districts that have been striped to allow for public space, parklets, etc.. And I think that we should look at actually just putting the K rail or whatever we're going to call that, the decorative cement barrier that is equally as good as K Rail, the length of all of our streets and really create that space to make that space so that if somebody six months from now wants to create a parklet, we're not then going back out and readjusting the existing K rails that are around some of the parklets and whatnot, and really rather just that that space is going to be dead space. One way or another, it's not going to be a parking space between the partnership, between the parklets because we've striped it. So so let's just really, if we're going to require carry ons instead of real stops, let's, let's just do that. My guess is the incremental cost of doing it once and doing it the full length and really supporting our business community and thinking giving them easy flexibility for the future would be well worth it and I think would actually lower hurdles to other businesses as we're coming out of this, opting to step into these spaces and make them more active. I'm not quite sure. So we're proving that, I guess there's language about improving the Commercial Streets program for two years, but I really see the only place in any resolution that we're that we're doing that that really relates to just extending the temporary permits for two years. So know I think we should do that. I really appreciate that. Staff has in other presentations I've seen really talked about the iterative nature of what this is going to look like as well, how this will give us the opportunity to kind of see what's working and make changes along the way. And then two years from now, when we're looking to really make a more permanent decision, we can we can put those in place at that point in time. But really, I'm just here to say thank you to for all the great work. I'm really looking forward to seeing this. Like I said, I would really like us to at least our staff to come back with either to move forward with a cost for putting up the barriers, the length of each of these these blocks so that we have a uniform each uniform block. And it's not these weird in and out, you know, every every 60 feet there's a new parklet with with with concrete barriers. We can ask them to come back or we can give the direction to just do it right. What I would say, do it right the first time. So thank you. And. Thank you. Councilmember knocks White Castle her desk. Well, thank you. You know, I think it's because of the Parklet program and the street reconfiguration. Businesses on Webster Street especially were given a fighting chance to survive through this incredibly difficult time. And, you know, all you need to do is during the daytime and sometimes even in the evening, early evenings, there is a certain liveliness on Webster Street that I have just never seen before. And, you know, as I said from the outset of this thing, you know, I live practically close to Webster Street, so I'm there all the time. And I think I think the success of this this program speaks for itself. You know, the the flip side of this is it slowed down traffic on on Webster Street. That's true. And, you know, I mean, but is it a bad thing that their cars are now traveling 25 miles per hour instead of 33 or 34 miles per hour on what had always been kind of a narrow street anyways. I mean, I get the concern that residents have raised about, you know, the ability of vehicles to transit through Webster Street. But you know, what I'm seeing in Webster Street because of the Park Parklet program and the street reconfiguration is a certain liveliness that just far outweighs the downside of slower traffic. People just seem so much more excited about what's the street, you know, local residents who live nearby, they're always like counting all there's going to be a restaurant opening pretty soon, you know? Thank you, Leslie. A neighbor or. Oh, look, there's a new coffee shop that just opens, like you said, your coffee shop. And thank you. Continuing coffee shops with Miguel and Monica and Bob Echo there on the corner. And it's just I just I like what I'm seeing in terms of the other commercial streets. And, you know, I'm a West End guy, so that's why I'm, you know, talking on and on about Webster Street. Park Street looks great, too. I'm just kidding. It is so. So I'm in favor of it. I think the other thing, though, I'm not a fan of of the neighborhood. Blocked off Slow Street program though. I think we're out of a. Councilmember days like if I could ask you to and I think it'll make the city attorney happier if we could just confine our remarks to the agenda item. No, this isn't the residential streets. This is. Commercial. Oh, the commercial. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Good idea. Oh, well, in that case, yeah. Well, then, yeah, I think I said. I said my piece. Thank you. All right. Thank you. I was going to ask vice mayor of L.A., Councilmember Spencer, vice mayor of L.A.. So I think, you know, I'm in support of continuing this. I think, you know, it's one of the few ways that we see a lot more people out and about is by having these parklets on in our commercial districts. And I think that it's really helped businesses. Many of them have invested time, money, resources in terms of these setups. And I think we we should continue it. I would like to see, you know, when we erect the structures that they're erect, the barricades that they're erected in a way to Councilmember Knox White Knight Point, that we can we can add parklets or change them as needed where it's not going to be a huge construction issue. I also think that our our parklets have created a really nice sense of space in our business districts, especially on Webster Street. We don't we don't drive there. I live a few blocks away, you know, and I walk over with my children. I think in my family, I think it's you know, we've we've made our business districts much more welcoming to folks to come in in a number of different using different types of modes, whether it's walking or biking . And and for folks that are driving, we certainly have a number of parking lots at both business districts that are being utilized and they're being well utilized in parks. In terms of Park Street, that parking garage certainly has much more capacity, but I think it's really opened up and made these streets much more welcoming for folks that are traveling by foot. And the pandemic is not over yet. So we keep talking about recovery. But, you know, we last year saw a huge COVID surge starting at Halloween that took us through the winter. And so I think it's important to be focused on recovery, but also focused on continuing safe practices and opportunities for people to socialize in a safe way. And that's what we can do through these parklets. Thank you. Cast over her, Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. I want to get back to the survey. It had I think it was about 1700 respondents, but there seems to be inconsistency. Yes, 1759. Inconsistency in regards to surveys that the city is putting out, that sometimes it has demographic data, sometimes in regards to like age and race. But I didn't see that included in this survey. And it did say, do you live in Alameda? Or what is your connection to Alameda? And I don't know. It was a very high percentage was living in Alameda, which is great. But I don't know if there's a way for the city to know that these respondents actually live here or if they are unique response respondents. And I think it's important for the city to come up with a consistent way that we survey, because it is you know, we have 1759 and then we're looking at that, too, if if we are looking at that to impact how we vote and, you know, using it, then I would like us to figure out. How how how does the city do surveys? And I think that sometimes we ask for demographics. Sometimes we don't. But I do think it's important that we try to ensure that these are our immigrants in some way in the city. You know, asked for the address of where they live. It doesn't, of course, if there's a way to do it. So, of course, is that part is always kept confidential. But I want to make sure that I'm hearing actually from people that really are Algerians. So I wanted to share that the turning lanes and middle line impact up because we've lost those now. Right. And so things traffic does get backed up. So, yes, I agree it is slower. But in deliveries and the busses we have, we have all of that happening. And I want to make sure. So first for me is safety. When this issue came before. Earlier, I had I had concerns about not having the crews. And so I'm happy to have that. But I do want to make sure that whatever this alternative is, that it is, in fact, as safe, because that's actually the purpose of what it's about. And I think it is very important that if we're going to be offering outside space and I'm also one of those I, I still believe safer outside. So I, I do like the idea of offering these spaces, but I think it's incumbent upon the city to actually be as safe as possible. So and so, you know, these are some of my concerns and right to make sure that whatever we're using is, in fact, as safe as the kiwirail's. That has to be the priority for me. I want to make sure that in regards to. These are our main roads to get out of town. If we have to, we need to evacuate. Do we have a plan? Paradise, sadly, had two lanes. And that's what we're down to at this point. So I think we do have to make sure that these are safe to evacuate if we need to do that, but also for emergency vehicles. Where do they go? And traffic and the impact on the alternate streets that you can see right off and eighth and constitution is completely backed up all. The way. Down. And it's not just on weekends. It can be any time all the way down. I went to one out on Webster Monday night and it was all the way down to the water. So I think we're seeing a lot of cars avoiding Webster and that's what we hear as well as part. And then we have to figure out how to make these alternative streets, be aware of the traffic. Then they have to accommodate and not just focus on. Park, Hagen, Webster. How do we make the other streets safe also to make sure that we're not just shifting and creating problems on our other roads. But it's obvious that people are going to be. Broadway on the park side. So and then, you know, to address where do our fireplace go? Then how do we get out of the way? For those of us that are in cars? I think, you know, we've heard from bicyclists. You do see bicyclists on the sidewalk. And how do we come up with like this is a two year plan. A two year plan is actually a long time. I feel like we should actually if I personally would prefer holding back at this point, keeping it the way it is for another 3 to 6 months and see how do we address these issues that have been raised to make sure we're doing it safely for all users there. But I'm concerned that we're doing this for two years and in fact, we're going to be doing it permanently. And we really haven't addressed the the concerns of bicycling, which really should should be addressed that we're. You know, it really should it should be addressed for all of our users. I do agree with you, two Avenue. I think that was a great idea to close that to car traffic. And I think we I love that. I will agree with Carmen Reid's comments, suggestions to make that area more useable. The insurance costs that I, I do support the city attorney's office of adding the K rails as well as requiring additional insurance. I am concerned about how our business is going to be able to pay for that, though. And I'm also concerned in regards to this is a chunk of this is going to be ARPA monies at least. And I don't know if it can be ARPA money for two years and staff can address that. Mm hmm. How are we funding that for the two years? And then if and if, in fact, we're using $630,000 of ARPA monies for this, and I don't think the additional 40,000 or whatever for the insurance to support the businesses really makes a difference at that point. So I would think we should include that from the ARPA monies, if we can, to make to make this work. But I am concerned that we're not really addressing the safety issues. And I do want to hear about, you know, are these barriers really going to work? Because they really should be. Thank you. Thank you. And Councilor Spencer, I did want to come back to our technical experts to ask, so did you have a chance to look into the question that Councilmember Herrera Spencer asked earlier? Mr. THOMPSON. Yes, I did. So there's you know, Caltrans has research available on it. Caltrans Division of Research and System Information has published documents on K rail and temporary concrete traffic controls. F each way, the Federal Highway Administration has portable concrete transition plans, research barrier guide and the ASTRO also has a roadside design guide that has the full research . And, you know, there's a multitude of guardrails, k rails, concrete blocks, you know, water field barricades. It's a very wide range of products. And so this this is, you know, it can without getting into the weeds of that, I mean, this is definitely an upgrade from the waterfall barricades where we saw a collision a few months ago , where the water filled barricades do slide, you know, more than what we anticipated. And so I think these concrete barricades will definitely provide a higher level. And it's a wide range. And I want to emphasize that putting up even Caltrans freeway style highway barricades does not guarantee that a car collides with it. And, you know, something bad happens. But it's it's a oftentimes you hear things about reasonableness. You know, when you what extent did you go to and was it reasonable? And so. Some cities do nothing. You know, some cities require for Caltrans highway trails, you know. So we are, you know, on that spectrum. But towards the K rail and the fence. I heard your comment about is it as safe as Kitty Rail? And my answer to that would be, you know, 25 foot long, heavy, interlocking rails would be safer than what what is proposed. Again, it's a continuum. We're trying to be reasonable. And I think at these low speed locations, the traffic data that we have shows very low speeds in these areas. But these are an appropriate concrete barricade for the situation. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Counsel for Harry Spencer. Okay. So I appreciate that answer. I, I know other counties and cities are requiring the crowds throughout the state, and, and I don't want to compromise our safety. Sally there have, in fact, been at least one death I'm aware of. We were fortunate. It hasn't happened here, but we have had accidents. And you're right, we've had so so I. I don't think it's appropriate to compromise our safety. I think we we need to do what everyone else is doing. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So I will go last with my comments. Thank you so much to staff and members of the public and council colleagues for all of your comments. I am a fan of the reconfigurations, but I also want to recognize and we heard this evening there is a range of opinion and so we need to take that into consideration. I think we're doing some of that by changing the parking, you know, the 15 minute limited parking times and making it a little easier for people to get to Park Street. I would also repeat what I think Vice Mayor Vella mentioned, that if you're coming to Park Street by car, we do have the Civic Center parking garage. I think people forget about it. It almost always has spaces available. And as has been noted, there's a little marquee at the entrance and you can see just how many and the rates are really reasonable and I think we don't charge after 6 p.m.. So remember that I'm a bicyclist, my husband's a bicyclist. We ride up to Park Street, we ride all over the island, especially on the weekends. I do. Sometimes I ride to city hall for work. I don't go down Park Street and I don't go down Webster Street, but it's really easy to get around if you just go one parallel street over. So for Park Street, we've got Oak Street that has SROs all the way down, and it also intersects a couple of our slow streets, San Jose Avenue and then Pacific Avenue. And you again are just one block over from Park Street. So you can ride up or down Oak Street and then just turn at whatever your side street is where you need to go. We've always found places to lock up, you know, across from the Almeida Theater and all along Park Street and Webster Street, there's parking. In fact, I was just on Webster on Sunday. It was Halloween and the kids were out trick or treating. It was sweet, but they've put in a nice row of bicycle parking by parking at no. Miss Wheeler knows what intersection that was. I think it was maybe Haight and Webster or wherever I was. But anyway, so, so just think in terms of don't be afraid to ride park. Just think in terms of an alternate route. And you know, once upon a time and I hope we're still publishing it. Bike Work. Alameda I think I collaborated on a great map of the city and bicycle rides that probably we do need to update it because, well, new streets will be opening soon, you know, with some of the work that's being done on the northern waterfront. So anyway. But let's also find a way to to realize that people have different abilities and different comfort levels of getting around. And we do want to make the downtown districts welcoming for all, which is what I love about seeing walking down Park Street, walking down Webster and seeing the people just out enjoying being outdoors. It's a time to be social and yet feel safer when you're outdoors. And so I think it's something worth continuing. My two criteria are safety first, but I'm satisfied with what our staff has talked about and then esthetics. So I do expect I know there's going to be a staff level design review. I expect Parklets to also enhance the the the visibility of the street or the the the streetscape. So I don't want to. See. Parklets that are kind of an eyesore. So just set that bar high. It just makes the downtown more attractive. And I was really happy to hear from Ron Moody because not only are they he and his family business owner on Park Street, they are not the owners of a restaurant. They're owners of a retail shop. Daisy's And so one thing I've been concerned about is, you know, do these parklets hamper the the ability of some of these retail businesses that also had had to limit their indoor capacity? One creative thing that I know that Daisy's did is they put in a little parklet outdoors because sometimes they have a pop up event or some sales event, but I believe they share it. After they closed in the early evenings, they allowed the restaurant next door, which is Burma Superstar, to use their parklet as the place where the DoorDash and the Uber eats. Delivery people can come. So there's a lot of nice cooperative ventures, I think, that are going on, you know, shared spaces and whatnot. And then let's see the, you know, the farmer's market that's been talked about for a while, enticing idea and. Alameda Avenue. Just remember, for those of you who go to the farmer's market on Haight Street on Tuesdays and Saturdays and CALS everyday said knows this. Those farmers that they have to or the people bringing the produce, they've got to get there with their trucks, with their vans. They've got to park somewhere. So, you know, staff will take that into consideration in thinking of what we're going to do next with that space. But I think that it would be a shame to discontinue the program now because it takes a while to get used to anything new. I think we've gained a lot of insight, lessons learned, what you know, how could we treat this to make it better? So I would actually like I don't mind funding the project for two years. I would like a check in with the council in a year from now just to see, you know, with implementing these changes that have been suggested, where, you know, where we are, how the businesses are feeling about it, how respondents are feeling about it. We could do another survey. So I would I would suggest that. So I believe we've got a couple of resolutions we need to pass, Madam Clerk, or. And our city attorney. We can do those. Well, do you want us a motion? You can. Great motion. All right. Councilmember Knox. What? I believe I saw your hand somewhere in the air. Did I? Yes. Yeah, I'd love to. I'd love to try a motion. I'd like to move that. We approve the commercial streets to your work. Work plan with direction to to return to council with a with the costs for the proposed concrete barriers in all locations to approve the precast concrete traffic control barricade standards as as as the standard . And and hold off on the on approving the money because I think we should come back as well since we're having to move money from one place to another that we will need the full cost in order to be able to do that. But so I'm sorry, help me understand hold off on the money. That we can't approve the money because we don't have the cost. So as far as the transferring. Well, that's the capital budget plan. Are you? Yeah. So essentially, they would have to come back with a capital budget plan for for approval unless somebody has a way that we can move forward with moving them, not knowing the exact cost. So you want. Okay. Help me understand, if you would. You want your proposal to be costed out and included in the budget proposal. Right now, there you have given us a proposal on the costs and are asking us to transfer those funds based on that cost. I would like them to come back with a slightly different plan that that uses the I'm going to call it Carol. I know it's not Carol. The concrete barriers. Identified Gabriel on all and all the area, all the striping, so that each block is fully railed so that we don't have individual spotty broken teeth along along along each of our business districts. So I don't believe the cost is going to be that much more. But given that we don't know what it was, I would ask staff to come back and come on content with with the with the budget request. All right, there's a motion to have a second. Also. I do have a question of whether staff can can bring it back just as a budget request. The Budget request on consent or if it would need to be fully agenda go. Okay. We've had a second and then we have a question from Seth, but I think we need to have a discussion about whether that's the direction we want to take. But let's go first to staff who wants to address whether we can just bring it back on consent for budget item. Oh. That's Mr. Levinson's question. Yeah. And the city manager Eric Levitt has said that. Mr. LEVITT. Yes. So you could bring if you decide to, to narrow to the budget request, you could we could bring that back if that's what the council monitors do. All right. So we have a yeah, Tony. So Councilmember Desai, you have your hand up your muted for you partly. Media question for staff does staff have any comments with regard to the way that the motion is is framed, particularly with regard to any possible cost above and beyond what's already kind of estimated? Yeah, I think as I understand, you know, what we did is we looked at the fact we assumed about 30 parklets we looked at and then Rust did all the heavy lifting on this kind of assume looking at where the existing parklets were thinking it might happen two or three more. But basically what we've got is essentially protecting each parklet how many how many barricades would we need sort of wrapping each parklet at least on two sides, what Councilmember Knox White is suggesting as well. What about a different approach instead of three or four parklets on a block each individually wrap, what have you just did? A continuous line of barriers and my my sense and Russ jump in here if I'm wrong is yes if what we'll have to do is we'll have to come up with a new barrier plan for the blocks, which won't be hard because it's going to be a continuous line just on the blocks where we have parklets on and the reduced language. And it will be an incremental increase in the amount of. Barricades we will need to purchase. I don't think it's going to double the amount. I think it's going to increase it. But. Russ, do you do you think. Am I right about this? Mr. Thompson I don't want to weigh in. I also think there's other things we're going to need to do. We're going to need gaps between those barricades so that people can go from the park cars to the sidewalk. We also want to get in some space for, you know, transit to be able to pull over. So, I mean, there's it's not going to be necessarily one long contiguous row is what I'm thinking. Councilmember Cost. But the cost will go up. Back to Councilmember de SAG and then I'll go to you, Mr. Thompson. Okay. Thank you. So the follow up question is so as I'm understanding the motion that you're going to come back to us. Is that correct? Councilman, you're not quite that. I was going to come back to council and then we'll make it. Well, I mean, we're like approving the concept, but the the final cost of which we will make a determination when you come back. I think that's the motion. Yes. Okay. Okay. So I'll get Mr. Earthy, Mr. Levin and Ira. Mr. Thompson, you had anything else you want to add? Just quickly. Yeah, go ahead. And then you. Mr. Levitt. Mr. Thompson. First. Okay. So the price that we included in the staff report was based on the roughly the existing number of parklets and protecting them in accordance with the detailed parklet barricade detail. So it was not to create, you know, long lengths of unoccupied, you know, security, unprotected park, whether it was just for the parklets that exist. So that's a little different than I think what I'm hearing from Councilmember Knox White is that we want to make some kind of a uniform corridor for potentially unused parklet space. So that's not the way that cost was calculated, as I'm saying it was. Yes. Thank you. Okay. And Mr. Leaven in the back to you Councilman de so. So I guess I would recommend an alternative approach might be to approve the funding from the ARPA if if the council wants to move forward, approve the funding with GA. But with the direction to bring back this alternative approach, I think it won't be doubling. I would agree with Mr. Thomas and we'll be doubling to bring back the alternative approach. And then at that point the Council could go one way or the other. That way we could start to design it and we could start to have it start to be implemented, and then that we would come back relatively quickly with that alternative approach so that we can move in one direction or the other. But you you could appropriate the funding now being recommended by staff because I don't think it would be less than that. I think will be a minimum of that. I'm happy to amend my motion to. Okay. And we haven't had a chance. Okay. Let let us get to the discussion. We'll go back to you for amendment, if that's necessary. Councilmember Desai, did you finish? Because I wanted. To I think the city manager, Levitt, laid out a reasonable and it sounds like Councilmember Knox fight. Yeah, I thank you. I, I actually couldn't support that proposal at this time. I think let's work with what we have if we are going to increase the cost of what we're spending rather than this. Long. Line of concrete barrier corridor for parklets that may or may not come about in the future. Why don't we use that money to help pay and underwrite the insurance costs so that our businesses aren't burdened with that? But I just I think that it's it's a little more complicated than, as Mr. Thompson just noted, and just putting this long line of of barricade down all the blocks that have parklets now, because you do have to have some openings to to get through. And I think I just think that we we can always add to it. But I think at this point in time, we're probably spending enough ARPA money and let's, you know, we're trying to make adjustments to this existing program. So anyway. But back to Councilmember Knox White for you. Did you want to. I like I said, I well as a councilmember her expenses Hancock's of the. Park. Oh, I'm sorry. I looked down for a minute. Councilmember Herb Spencer. I just wanted to point out that the resolution speaks specifically to Carroll, so we're not going to do that. I think it should be clear that we're not doing that, but we're using a lower standard. And then I would be concerned about giving up even more parking. And if you have a continuous line, thanks. Thank you. Okay. So is. Well, I believe the resolution, if I'm reading the same phrase, talks about this would be I'm on page one the last whereas before the now they're. At. Their for be at resolve. Whereas the installation of continuous precast concrete safety barricades, parents, creoles or equal are commonly used and accepted as a means to separate living vehicles. So maybe I don't need to toss that one to the city attorney. So then any further comments, council scene and back to you. Councilmember Knox Way I was simply going to just amend my, my, my motion to what the city manager recommended if if vice member was going to support. Okay. So to recap that was to to go ahead and approve the. Current funding and give direction to return with the alternate, the alternative and any additional funding request for further consideration. Thank you, Madam Seconder. Vice Mayor, would you consent to seconding that amended? Sure. Okay. Any further comments seeing then? May we have a real cover, please, Madam Clerk. So everyday. Yes. Please, sir. Spencer. No. Not quite. Yes. Vella? Yes. Mayor Ashcroft. Yes. That motion carries 4 to 1. Okay. And now we need the resolutions, right. No. I think the Russian. Government expert is. Saying that we could have proven adopt all at once. I'm good with that council over not. I would just I was trying to I did have a second motion I want to make I wanted to make a motion to actually for the city to cover the differential and the insurance given the high standard of protection that we are providing at the at the parklets that the differential between what they're currently paying and what we are required are requiring them to cover. I'd like to see the city cover that. Um, do we have a second for that? Councilmember Spencer. And secondly. Yes. Happy the second. I was about to read lips there. But yes, thank you. And I will just it's more of a question that a comment. Is it possible I realize that the business owners carry insurance now, but is there possibly something that can be done or perhaps staff to look into doing something about a purchase on a, you know, on a group basis there might be better rates or I'm not an insurance expert, but I'm sure staff will look into that. So we've had that motion by Councilmember Knox White, seconded by Councilmember Harry Spencer. Madam Quick, may we any further discussion? No. Both Mayor Vella has a hand. Oh, you did? Okay. Sorry. I just wanted to. To hear, hear back what the motion was. And from the maker of the motion. And the maker, the maker of the motion says to talk about it, talk about myself. But does he. Mean. The motion was for the city to cover the differential between current insurance coverage rates and any additional coverage the city is requiring? It's different on different, different parklets. So I'll leave it at that. And so if we can if they can find a way to save everybody money, great. Doesn't preclude that. And you can. That's fair. I just wanted to make sure that that motion would allow for city staff to look into the mayor's suggestion of some sort of umbrella plan or something. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. And Mr. Thompson, Thomas gave us a thumbs up. So good. Let's have a roll call vote then. Could you please help me? Yes. All right, Spencer. I looked like. I. Mayor by mayor as the Ashcraft High. That carries by five. Thank you, everyone. Okay. We have completed item seven be whenever council members start speaking in the third person. I think it's time for a break. So we are going to take a break. We've been at this council almost 3 hours, exceeding my two hour zoom limit. So let's be back at it's 954. Could we be back at 1010? Okay. 10:10 p.m. everyone, we'll see you back. All right. Thank you. It's. And the gentleman. Good evening, good lady. Now it's 3 to 1. Right. So we have guys. A full house, I think the sea. Okay. So, Laura, are you ready for us? It's my cell phone. Okay. All right. Good evening, everyone. We are back from our break. And as we have finished, item seven and 17, I just want to check in with the clerk. We have one item that is time sensitive this evening. E. I'm sorry. I might be saying that. Seven. I think it's seven. That is right. Thank you. I'm wondering whether we might be well advised to move that up to hear it now. Do you want to just explain briefly? Yes, sir. This this item is an ordinance that needs to be introduced tonight and finally passed at the next meeting in order to have the 30 days to become effective before the end of the year. So it is time sensitive. Okay. And do I need a motion to move it up to hear it now? Sure. That would be great. Okay. Councilmember Harris Spencer. I'm happy to move seven e up to. Here and now. Thank you so much. I have a second. Councilwoman Knox White. Thank you. May we have a roll cover, please, Madam Clerk? So I'm ready. Thank I. Harris Spencer. I. Knox Light. Hi. Bella. Hi. Mayor. As yet get high. That carries by five. Okay. And I realized that I just did. That was completely no notice to staff ahead of time. But they are nimble. Is Madam Clerk, do we have the necessary staff? Let's see. With that. We. Do. Yes. Yes. We've promoted Mitchinson Hall, I believe, giving the presentation and we've got a couple more that'll be joining her. Good evening, Mr. Vincent. Welcome. And Mr.. Green. Hello. Hello. Yeah, I. We just. I know this, like we said, as the clerk mentioned, we do need to to get this done tonight. So if you're ready, we're ready. Good evening. Thank you. Just a quick point of clarification. Rob Helton from HFA Consultants is going to be giving the presentation and myself. Angela Vincent from Zero Waste Program and the Public Works Department and Mark Green will be here for questions. And also if Liz Acord and Elizabeth. McKenzie could be elevated as well. The more, the more the merrier. Yes, sorry. Mr. Cord was texting that she was frozen, but I think we're trying to get her in and then we don't see Mr. Helton, so I'm not sure what happened. Perhaps someone wants to just text him. Yes, right now, madam. Thank you so much. And I apologize for the lack of advance warning. It's just that I realize, you know, when to keep this moving so well. So you're not prepared to tell us anything about this item that. We'll get to the city staff here in a minute. Yes. Yes, go ahead. So, Ms.. Vincent, you are with the city, correct? Yes, I am. Apologize to our viewers. Yes, yes, yes. Good evening, Madam Air Vice Mayor and Council. My name is Angela Vincent. I am with the city's. Public works department in our zero waste program. And looks like we have Liz Acord and we will also be getting on Rob Hilton. From HFA consultants. This is an and proposed ordinance to comply with a state law Senate bill 1383 designed to. Divert organic waste. From infill as part of the state's climate strategy. Welcome this accord. Okay. And this accord, if you want it, I Newt and I think most people know you, but you can tell us who you are. Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the City Council and with the Court of Public Works Coordinator, with the major technical difficulties this evening. So apologies. Sir. Is that a department or a division of division? No worries. You are here now. Take a deep breath. It's all good. Do you want to introduce this a little bit? We? Sure. He went to Mr. Hilton. Yeah. I'm going to see if we can get our consultant, Rob Hilton, with an H to join in the room. And he's still not on. We we still. He's still not. As an attendee, I can't even. Could he have another name or perhaps. What we can do. Laura, hopefully you have the presentation. I think you're going to bring it up. We can have our one of our wonderful program specialists, Angela Vincent, jump in and take the lead and we'll see. If we're on the line. Let's do that. Okay, here we go. Great. Thank you all for your flexibility. So as I mentioned before, the item before you tonight is a proposed ordinance to comply with a state law Senate Bill 1383. Go on. Please go on to the next slide. Thank you. So a. Quick overview. I'll provide an overview of the requirements of Senate Bill SB 1383, California's short lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy Strategy designed to divert organic waste from landfills to reduce methane emissions. Provide an overview of the proposed municipal code updates and then summarize with our. Recommendation to council. Next slide, please. Thank you. So in summary, SB 1383 was passed in the state legislature in 2016 designed to reduce methane emissions. Landfills are a large source of methane emissions, so this law's ultimate goal is to reduce organic waste going to landfill by 75% by 2020. There is also a 20% edible food recovery. Reduction goal as well. Next slide. So SB 1383 requires all jurisdictions in California to. Adopt an enforceable, unenforceable ordinance to implement the requirement by January 1st, 2022. You can see here there is a number of items that cities are required to implement. The first one is to require recycling and organics recycling for all generators and to establish an edible food recovery. Program to implement the Cal. Green building standards, to have an enforceable ordinance, and to have to update any additional policies to remove any restrictions prohibited by 1383. Next slide. Please. So the ordinance before you has three main categories of code updates. The first one is to ensure the city's compliance with SB 1383. The ordinance is modeled after Stop Waste Ordinance. Stop Waste is the Alameda County Waste Management Authority. They have developed a countywide ordinance called the Organics Reduction and Recycling Ordinance for ORO, as it's a now referred to as. And the city has. Used that the county's template ORO as a model. To update our code to comply with state. Law. The ordinance also designates additional implementation and enforcement entities as allowed by SB 13 three to help the city comply. Then the next category of code updates is to conform with the recently approved. Franchise agreement. With ASI, Alameda County Industries. The city's waste hauler, which became effective July 1st, 2022. There's some revised definitions removal of provisions that no longer apply and adds additional requirements to the code that are in the franchise agreement, including enhanced reporting. Requirements. Related to 1393, as well as contamination monitoring requirements again to comply with SB 33. And though the last bucket of updates is to provide legal basis to implement strategy, four of the Council approved 2018 zero waste implementation plan update Strategy four is related to construction and demolition debris diversion. These code updates include codifying the California green building standards, increasing the diversion rate of concrete and asphalt to 95%, and requiring contractors to consider deconstruction and use approved facilities. Next slide, please. In summary, the recommendation to the Council is to update the excuse me adopt the ordinance to comply with SB 1383. To reiterate, cities are required to adopt an enforceable ordinance by January 1st, 2022, and failure to comply could result in penalties. The ordinance would also conform the city's code with the franchise agreement with ACI and implement strategy for related to construction and demolition debris. Of the Council approved. 2018 zero waste implementation plan. Update That includes my presentation. We will open it up to questions. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.. Vincent. Admirable job at being tossed in feet first, as it were. There. You did great. Thank you. Madam Cook, do we have any public speakers on this item? Nobody has raised their hand yet. And we do have Mr. Helton in now. Yes, I see that we do. So what council do we. Hi, welcome. Do we have any clarifying questions of Mr. Vincent or any of the staff before us? Yeah. Okay. Not see any hands up. Mr. Helton, Ms.. Vincent just did a nice job taking us through the slide presentation. What would you like to add in the remaining 4 minutes and 22 seconds? Just my apologies. I was in the middle of a identical item with another city council on another zoom and jumped over as quickly as I could. So my apologies. But it is, as was described in the presentation and Angela did a great job. As long as you assure us that we're your favorite city. But now that. I abandoned them and came right over here. Well, that's all we want to hear. Okay, so anything else? Mr. Green. Ms.. Acord. Ms.. McKenzie, anything you wanted to add? Nothing to add. I think we're ready for questions. All right. Well, I'm Councilmember Harris. Spencer. I believe you represent the city on subways. Is that correct? Do you want to lead the discussion? So make a motion or anything. I want to commend staff for bringing this. It is obviously very important and it has to happen sooner rather than later. Right. So I appreciate the mayor moving to that. I think it's critical. Obviously, our our community is extremely supportive of this work. And I am happy to move the item for approval. And I also want to thank Angela and Vincent. You did a great job, didn't she? Sometimes you don't expect to be the lead speaker, but hey, now you can do it any time. Okay, well, we have a motion. Thank you for that information. Councilmember Harry Spencer, do have a second. Councilmember Knox. Right. All right. And any further discussion, council. CNN, may we have a roll call vote, please? Rotation? Yes. Herrera Spencer. I knocked. White. With appreciation. Staff Yes. Melissa Yes. Mayor As the Ashcraft and ditto. Councilmember Nice words. Thanks. Yes, I guess I'd say that's unanimous. All right. Well, thank you, counsel. Thank you. Staff and consultants, everyone, for for doing this work. And then we look forward to the second reading next meeting. Correct? Adam Kirk. Yes. It will come back on consent. I think it's perfect. All right. Thank you so much, everyone. All right. So now we will move back to what will we move back to? Is that seven.

AN ORDINANCE proposing the position of King County sheriff be returned to an appointed position with a requirement for consideration of community stakeholder input during the selection process, and with the county executive being responsible for bargaining with the department of public safety's represented employees; amending Sections 350.20.40, 680.10 and 890 of the King County Charter and repealing Sections 645 and 898 of the King County Charter; and submitting the same to the voters of the county for their ratification or rejection at the next general election to be held in this county occurring more than forty-five days after the enactment of this ordinance.

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Thank you. By your vote, would you pass recommendation to motion 2020? 240 will expedite that to full council next week. The next item on our agenda is proposed ordinance 2020 205, which would submit to the voters an amendment to the county charter to reestablish the county sheriff as an appointed position. Nick Bowman will brief us on the ordinance. We also have a presentation from Keenan Williams and David Heller from the Charter Review Commission. Their presentation is not in your packet but was sent to members prior to the meeting and I hope that Mr. Bowman can tell us when the email was sent, because I know I don't have that at my fingertips without Mr. Bowman. Nothing like setting you up. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I believe the additional materials were sent out yesterday, so let me pull that up for you. Yes. They were sent out yesterday at 8 a.m.. Or this morning I'm sorry, this morning at 8:58 a.m.. Thank you. All right. All righty. Good afternoon. Council members, for the record, Bowman Council Central Staff. The materials for agenda item 11 begin on page 75 of your proposed ordinance 2020 0205. I would submit to the voters of King County an amendment to the County Charter to be placed in the next general election, which would reestablish the county sheriff as an appointed position. Under the amendment, the county sheriff would be appointed by the executive and confirmed by the County Council. Imminent would also designate the executive as the bargaining agent for the county related to any collective bargaining negotiations with representative employees of the Department of Public Safety, also known as the King County Sheriff's Office. For a bit of background, from 1802 to 1969, the King County sheriff was an elected position that operated more or less independently of the three county commissioners who exercised both legislative and executive power in November 1968. The voters of King County approved a home rule charter which replaced many quasi independent elected officials, including the sheriff, with appointed positions subordinate to the executive. For the next 25 years. The top law enforcement officer in King County was appointed by the executive as the director of the Department of Public Safety as the sheriff's office was issued under the charge in May 1996. Proposed ordinance 90 5755 was adopted by the County Council. This ordinance submitted to the voters a charter amendment to establish the county sheriff as a nonpartizan elected official with a four year term. The ordinance maintained the Department of Public Safety as an executive department and also maintained a civil service employment status of the department's employees. In November 1996. Charter Amendment number two Establishing a King County sheriff as a nonpartisan elected official was approved by the voters with 57% voting yes. In November 1997, Dave Reichert, Evader, a veteran of the county police force, was elected sheriff. There have been a total of five elected sheriffs against Sheriff Richards first term in 1998. Turning to the ordinance before you, as I said, proposed ordinance 2020 0205 would submit to the voters an amendment to the King County Charter, reestablishing the county sheriff as an appointed position. And this would be placed on the ballot for the November 2020 general election. As an appointed position, the sheriff would be appointed by the executive and confirmed by the Council. The proposed amendment would also establish the executive as the bargaining agent for the county with respect to collective bargaining with represented employees of the sheriff's office. Table one starting on the bottom of page 76 of your materials, provides a crosswalk of the changes to each charter section under the proposed amendment. In the interest of time, however, I won't go through each of those unless you would wish me to do so. Okay. If not hearing no desire to hear that, I just I'll move on quickly to cover the general election timing requirements in order to place this November 3rd ballot and effective ordinance must be transmitted to the Elections Department by August 4th. Therefore, the last regular council meeting the council meeting date for adoption is July 21st, 2020. August 4th 2020 is the last special council meeting date to adopt this ordinance as an emergency. There are amendments to this item and if there are no questions to the underlying ordinance, I'll move on to those. Eric. Yeah. Okay. Amendment S-1, which is found on page 85 of your packet. Would make several technical and substantive changes to the proposed charter amendment. First, the state of the sheriff's deputies shall be prescribed by ordinance rather than general law, and removes the language prohibiting the sheriff's office from being abolished or combined with another executive department and from having the department's duties decreased by the County Council. Second, it would require the executive and the Council to consider stakeholder input before appointing and confirming a sheriff, and that the stakeholder process shall be prescribed by ordinance. And third, it would make technical language and phrasing changes as recommended by the legal counsel, by legal counsel's legal counsel . And there is also Amendment T one, which is on page 91 of your packet. And this conforms the title of the proposed ordinance to the changes made by Amendment one. Lastly, I just wanted to note that proposed ordinance 2020 0231, which is the next item on today's agenda, would establish the duty sheriff and the structure and the duties of the King County Sheriff's Office by County Ordinance. However, this ordinance would retain the county sheriff as an elected office. Therefore, in the event the Council were to adopt those Ordinance 2020 0205 and proposed Ordinance 2020 0231 there would be competing charter amendments on the November 2020 general election ballot one which would establish an appointed county sheriff and one which would retain an elected county sheriff. That concludes my staff report. As the chair mentioned on the line today, our charter review commission members Ken Williams and David Heller, who I understand will give a presentation on the Review Review Commission's decision to recommend both charter amendments. Mr. Chairman, that's a procedural question. You're a council member about this. Thank you. And it might not be appropriate at this time, but let me put it on the table. I guess I don't fully understand why we need to make these two proposals competing. Why could you not have one proposal that addresses the method for appointing or electing the sheriff and one that addresses how you change the duties of the sheriff? That seems so much cleaner to me. And so what I'm concerned about is it listening to people talking. It seems to me that there's going to be a fair split opinion on the question of whether you elect or appoint the sheriff. And if you merge the two topics together this way, I think we're likely to lose both of them. And I would really like to see the second one pass. So is it possible to keep them separate? Can we do that today or when we get to full council? That's my question. Chocolate and peanut butter. Can we separate them? To great taste. The taste. Great Tibetan beauty. Then you either get chocolate and peanut butter or neither. I want the chance to have at least one. It's just absurd with. I was going to ask if you can respond to that with more than a advertising jingle. So with the way the tickets are currently drafted, it would set up a competing ballot. Measures were adopted. Now is obviously a policy choice of a council. Which ordinance? If you want to adopt one or the other. My note only if all are adopted and both questions are provided to the voters. Is there any reason why they need to be drafted this way? Well, I think I'll let this ask. You might have an answer. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt you. Councilman Mickey Mouse. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilman Belushi, I think your point is well taken. I believe that the reduction of duties as and have been established by ordinance this this proposed amendment that's coming later was developed maybe after the election of the sheriff won. And what I would suggest. I think you're right on and was thinking the same thing. That if it advances to full council that we should remove that alteration of duties language from the appoint the shearer amendment and have that be a separate standalone item to determine if the voters want to pick and choose. They may choose. They can then adopt them both. They would not be competing, or they could adopt one or the other and they would not be competing. So I would pledge to make those changes affordable council. If we advance this out today so that they would integrate together, and I believe that's entirely possible and makes much more sense. I think it's just a timing issue, developing the second one by other members. Yeah, that all makes perfect sense. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think it's also clear to the voters they have a yes or no on X and a yes or no on y is much easier than competing, I think always confuses people. Thank you. I'm pretty sure I think that most of the if I could just one more before we're going to just resolve one thing I did want to include in this writing them was the notion of establishing a consultation process with interested stakeholders in the appointment of a sheriff. And that that's important. But I think. Hello. Oh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Councilmember Banducci, I fully agree with you that they should be two separate things, and we actually tried to work on that. But maybe, Nick, can you talk through some of the challenges of separating them? You know, when when I tried to talk through that, it sounded like, you know, the scope of one amendment would capture the other change. And I'm trying to explain it in the right way. But basically, there is no way to do a line item amendment to just the specific sentence you want to remove. You have to change the whole section. And that section encompasses both changes that we're trying to make. Did I describe that right? Well, I won't I won't way too much into the legal without legal counsel coming to save me. But what I will say is that the where the meaning become, where the amendments would become competing is strictly that one ordinance has the sheriff being appointed and the other ordinance has of being elected. And so despite what else is in the ordinances, those two are in direct competition. And so in particular, if both ordinances were put forward on the ballot, which would set up the competing amendments. So if I believe I understand what happened, she was asking, is it could we separate or could you all ask me to draft something to separate the question of the sheriff's duties, separate from the issue of whether or not they are appointed or elected? The answer is yes. Okay. Thank you. My understanding was that there was an issue with doing that. But we can talk to our legal counsel after this. Up the grove as a member of the Grove. Thank you. I was just going to echo councilmember off allies and then I had received similar feedback from legal counsel on this exact question. So I'd encourage us to and I want the same resolution that everyone else has suggested here. Thanks. Thank you so. Mr. Bowman, you have you returned to our charter review commission, correct? That's correct. And I also just wanted to say that we have Undersheriff Gary Colton from the sheriff's office here to answer questions as well. Remember you. Did you explain to me a little bit more on page seven? I've been under the influence of Section one. Exactly. What does that mean? As I read it and a general view all across the state, you have a sheriff's office that cannot be abolished or combined with any other executive function. If we take that out, then are you saying that the sheriff's office could totally be abolished and also it could be embedded in some other organization that says. Also general law referred to in some parts. General law refers to state law in general, which is RTW 3628. So those are the duties that are listed in state law for county sheriffs and which the charter that refers to as the general duties of the sheriff and their deputies. The line specific to the charter, the King County charter states that the sheriff's office shall not be to be combined or abolished with and abolished or combined with another executive department, and their duties shall not be decreased by the County Council. Removing that as my understanding, the intent of the sponsor would allow the Council to determine what the duties of the sheriff deputies are, as well as the structure and duties of the Sheriff's Office. If there was a proposal to completely abolish the sheriff's office, then back then this might or might. I would say that would require legal review and the rest of it might allow that. I think the other aspect of it is the if certain duties that are done by the sheriff. Now, if the council chose to have a different department do that, there is a barrier in the charter right now to doing so, and this would remove that barrier. When I read that it is a glass breaking great shot. And one of the things that I've always thought about government is providing for the peace and safety is the number one value. And so how would that fit with the other duties of being a local government? I don't know of any local government. I've never heard of local government didn't have a law enforcement branch. So how would we comply with the basic duty of a local government? Not thinking regional government. Right. I'm talking about local government. I wouldn't be focusing on a local government duty. I'm sure there must be some other RTW that requires local governments privately service. Hello. I got you. Well, I guess I don't want to go, because I don't want to go down to the hypothetical, as there is no proposal before us to abolish the sheriff's office. And I would not deem to figure out in my, first of all, what the wisdom of the council might be in the future. But yes, but you don't write a love that opens a huge trap to go into and not realize you're doing that. So I think it's important that we look at what the potential ramifications of this are. So. Okay. And so anyway, answer was yes. That is what it says. And I have very big concerns of the idea of what that means as well. And if that falls in with the municipal code to be providing local services such as the chair, if you. But Pedro, I understand that our legal counsel, Kendall Moore, would like to make a comment, but was having trouble being unmuted or being recognized. Kendall. You're unmuted on the Zoom feature. Can you hear me? We can. Super. I just want to point out that. That there are distinctions between the. A striking amendment offered by Mr. Dombroski and the. Proposal by Mr. Zala that that go beyond just the difference between if one is appointed and if one is elected. So what I what I was hearing from Councilmember Balducci is. And correct me if I'm wrong Councilmember is could we have a choice between is the sheriff elected and appointed and then a separate charter amendment on the the duties. And I think that's what I was asking. And I heard Councilmember Tim add that he also was trying to include in the selection of the sheriffs and a process requirement of including community, which I support. So it seems like you could take just the two topic areas and separate them in the best interests of the voter you can. There would just have to be concurrence on the what I'm going to call the duties portion of the. On the. Charter amendment. So this would kind of be bifurcating those issues. Because right now the the charter review. Version only changes that the sheriff will be elected. That's the only thing it does, really. I heard a fair bit of support to keep the chocolate and the peanut butter separate, so perhaps we could try to find a way to do that. I don't think this will not be a Reese's peanut butter Reese's fan. We all are. But I hope to be more s'mores numbers. Hello. Thank you for asking to be recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Kendall, I just want to clarify one more time. There is a way of having proposing a charter amendment that addresses appointment versus election that is silent on the duties. And then separately, there is a way to have proposed a charter amendment that is fully silent on elected versus appointed, but removes the duties section. Is that right? We can have two separate ones that are silent on both issues and don't require us to implement the other thing. I think. Yes, you can do that. Your the the concern I have councilmember is yours does not do does not go as far as council member Dombrowski is striker. With regard to removing the sheriff as the bargaining agent as an example. So there would have to be some agreement as to what's in the what I'm calling the duties charter amendment versus the whether the sheriff is elected or appointed. Oh, but I think I think it can be done. Look. I'm happy to connect with anyone on this to try to resolve this. Thank you. Thank you. We've identified a concern. A number of members have an interest in separating the two, and we're in the process of introducing Mr. Williams and Mr. Heller from the Charter Review Commission to speak to the their recommendation of the Charter amendment to make the Sheriff appointed. Mr. Heller. Mr. Williams. I turn it over to you. There are two. Good afternoon, Mr. HILLARD. I believe that's you speaking. We have to go. It's Mr. Williams speaking. Mr. Williams? Well, we really hope all your audio is very garbled, and I suggest you turn off your video. We don't hear you at all now, Mr. Williams. Oh. Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams seems to have frozen up. And may now be logging out to log back in. Mr. Heller, would you be prepared to take in? I can start. Thank you. So we prepared a PowerPoint, which I understand was not sent to the council until this morning. I certainly don't want to read it to you, but I would urge everyone to take a look at it. It. It lists some of the reasons why we did what we did. I want to start by telling the council that we studied this issue for more than a year. It was not something that we did lightly or precipitately. It is not targeted at the current sheriff or any sheriff. It was the view of 21 of the 23 members of the commission that this structural change should be made. And I've heard a lot of public comments about a power grab by Seattle. I don't live in Seattle. Mr. Williams doesn't live in Seattle. There were commission members from Seattle and there were commission members from outside Seattle. The first concern that we have and none of the proposed amendments seems to address it. And let me just say that the commission did not studies proposed amendments, so I can't speak for the commission about those amendments. But the first concern that we had is that we believe that changing the sheriff to an appointed position is, in this case, actually more democratic than what we are doing now. The reason is that the percentage of the county population that is in unincorporated King County and must be policed by the sheriff is 11%. So the voters of unincorporated King County, when it comes to choosing their sheriff, are outnumbered by a factor of 9 to 1. Even if you include the people who are being policed by the sheriff voluntarily through the cities that have contracted with King County for police services, it still only represents 25% of the population. Three quarters of the voters in King County. Are not being policed by the sheriff. And under the current system, those folks have the ability to impose whomever they want to be sheriff upon the people whom the sheriff actually polices. We don't think that's democratic. On the other hand, seven of the nine council members have at least some unincorporated King County in their districts. So we believe that the input of the Council on who gets to be sheriff would. Be more democratic and would enhance the input that the unincorporated areas have. A lot of our PowerPoint shows, graphs and lists of populations that illustrate that point. David, this is Kim and Williams. Oh, you're back. Hopefully the chair. The chair can hear me. Yes, I've been listening to you. And thank you for filling in on that first part for me. One of the things that I wanted to point out is that yesterday there was a town hall, and during the hall, Councilmember Lambert had expressed some questions and concerns regarding qualifications. Right now, you don't have the ability to determine the qualifications of the sheriff by those members of the county council that represent the unincorporated areas would be able to weigh in, at least we envision them weighing in during the proposal, much like you or is appointed, reflects the values and quality of the sheriff that you want, who's going to be also policing, primarily policing the unincorporated areas. We think that that's an important factor. The other question would be because it does allow you a little bit more oversight in the situation. Councilmember Well, did she basically summarize this was sort of an ultimately a choice between who actually sets a policy for policing. Is it going to be the executive and the county council or is it going to be the sheriff at that point? I think part of what we were hearing in the comments yesterday, as well as the comments today, is that there is a small disconnect in the electorate in the county believing that they are the only ones that vote on the sheriff when the reality is, as Mr. Heller stated, was that the largest voting blocs in the county come from cities who do not have their primary policing. As far as the sheriff goes. Thank you for letting me interject, David. Oh, sure. Do you want to go on or do you want me to resume? Sure. Sure. Once you go ahead and resume. All right. I'll let you take the lead. Okay. Thank you. The second issue that concerned us was flexibility. And as Mr. Williams pointed out, he did the part of the PowerPoint that has a picture of Russell Wilson. It's not a great idea to limit your candidate pool. And someone pointed out that there are 3 million people living in or almost 3 million people living in the Puget Sound area. Mr. Hiller. Yes. If it helps you. We do have members did receive a link to and would have access to the PowerPoint you're referring to. Oh, excellent. All right. Well, that number does help members. That was the PowerPoint that Mr. Bowman's that was sent. What was it? 858 this morning. It's 848 this morning. And it has both a PDF copy and a link to a browser copy of the PowerPoint that the. You can certainly go back and use more material. The picture of Mr. Wilson is on page 14 of the the last page of the PowerPoint. That is the single attachment to that email. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So Mr. Williams likes football. I like baseball, and I see that almost everything in life ultimately comes down to baseball. Someone pointed out that we have millions of people who live in the Puget Sound area. Surely we have a big candidate pool here. But as Bill James, the guru of baseball statistics and sabermetrics, pointed out many years ago, the population of Kansas City is approximately the same as the population of London in the 1600s. But Kansas City has not produced even one William Shakespeare in all the years. So the fact that there's a lot of people here doesn't necessarily mean that the right person is available. And again, it may be that the current sheriff is the right person. But if at some point the council and the executive believe that there needs to be a change in who is the sheriff? Why would we restrict ourselves to someone who's already in the office? And since we acquired an elected sheriff in 1996, no one has been elected to the office who did not come out of that office . Sometimes you want to promote from within, but sometimes when you want to change a culture, you need to bring someone in from the outside. That's really not an option that's available under the current system. And connected with that. One of our concerns was the election process and the divisiveness that it can cause sometimes where you have a competing either an insurgent candidate or if the office is open and you have two candidates running for the open office and something that it's in the power point, it just came out. So we stuck it in right at the end of the bottom of a page where it's kind of squeezed in. There was a situation in Missouri where the sheriff was gone and there were two people running, one who was a deputy and one who was not a deputy and the one who was a deputy told the other deputies, If you don't support me, you will lose your jobs. And this person won the election, fired the deputies who hadn't supported him and the deputies who hadn't supported him, sued. And the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, a federal court in the Midwest, just came out with a ruling that the sheriff could not be sued for suing the deputies, even though he had blatantly told them that they would be fired if they didn't support him. And I found that kind of shocking. But that's least that's the law in the Midwest now. I'm not, again, suggesting that anyone who is or has been sheriff would do such a thing. But I found it worrisome and troubling with respect to the current situation. We came out with our recommendations a year ago or last year, rather, before either viruses or the current protest wave had occurred. But we were concerned about bias policing and use of force in all police departments. There's certainly been a lot of publicity about the Seattle Police Department, but I don't believe that any police department can be assumed to be immune from those problems. And we hope and believe that the current sheriff is taking steps and that those steps will be good and appropriate to start changing some things. But if at some point, some sheriff did not make some of the changes that the executive and the council believed were necessary, then it might be appropriate to change the sheriff. And in the current moment, when something that has been going on literally for centuries may finally be being addressed. We believe that the council and the executive would want to have at their disposal every possible available tool that it might need to use to help to address these problems. And this would provide a tool which would allow you to address the problems. The last thing I wanted to mention. With respect to one of the proposed amendments. And again, I can't speak for the commission because the commission didn't ever study it. I have a couple of questions about it. I am a lawyer, but not in the field of municipal law. If you have an independently elected. If so, I merely pose the question if you have an independently elected official, if the sheriff remains elected. Would the county council be able to instruct the sheriff in policing policies or would that not be legal? I don't know. But I posed the question, and the only thing I wonder about related to that is what would the enforcement mechanism be? We have had a situation where, at least according to the Office of Law Enforcement Oversight, there's an ordinance that authorizes Oleo to issue subpoenas. And according to some people at Oleo, the subpoenas are not honored, even though it's the law. So what's the enforcement mechanism if you have an independently elected sheriff and the county council? Issues are an ordinance requiring something to happen or something to not happen. I don't know how that would work, but I think it would be something to consider. In any event. As I said at the beginning, we studied this extensively. We came to the conclusion that this was a structural change that should be made. It enhances democracy. We believe it improves accountability and the the quickness of accountability, if quick accountability is necessary. And and this is why we proposed it to the council. I will turn it back over to Mr. Williams if he has anything to add. And the only thing I will say is after that, if the Council has any questions, we would be happy to try to answer them. Thank you. Thank you, David. A couple of things that I would like to point out on our PowerPoint beginning on page six. It actually shows what has happened to the population of the county in the last few years. First, first, you'll see that in 1976, 74% of the county lived in cities. Now that is down to now that 89% of the population lives in cities. I also if you notice, if you look at the decrease of the population of unincorporated King County, that continues to decrease. On Pages nine and excuse me, they slides nine and ten. You'll subtract cities that are being served by the sheriff. But again, those are going to decide who they want to have as their chief of police appointed. And they follow they follow a couple of phone calls. Finally, I guess I would like to point out the fact and use my last slide of my presentation with Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson. And I look at a sheriff as a professional and someone that we should be able to do what you should be able to as elected officials, select the most qualified person regardless of the location. We have a lot of baseball players, football players, whatever, throughout the Puget Sound region. Yet even at the college level, we always look for the best. The eye is the most talented and most importantly, in former Coach Peterson's view, there is what he called the okay, he's our kind of guys, the right fit that Pete Carroll describes to look elsewhere. We are a world class county, and being a world class county means that we are part of a world. And they love our organization. And so we have to be able to look around the world to find the person that's going to be the best fit. And it's going to reflect the values and policies that we wish to incorporate only by having an elected and appointed sheriff. Will you be able to do that? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for not only your presentation today, but for your work as a member of the Charter Review Commission. Both of you. Mr. Bowman, any further, anything further from a staff report perspective? Sir. Counts as the prime sponsor council member Dombrowski. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Here's what I would suggest we do. I'd like to move adoption with a do pass recommendation of the ordinance to send it to full council. I would suggest that we hold on the striking amendment and refine that to take out the duties language. I would want to bring that forward with the stakeholder process at full council and that we do the duties issue in the separate charter. So I do move adoption of the recognition of ordinance and the basis and rationale for it has been set forth in the town hall and by the commissioners today and in the hour. I will not give a speech in favor. Councilmember Dombrowski is moved that we give a do pass recommendation to ordinance 2020 205. Further discussion. Now the question for legal staff. Council member Lambert. Thank you. So earlier when the gentleman was speaking, I think you completed two issues. You said that the ordinance says that the only director will have the ability to subpoena. And that is accurate. And the statement that it is not happening is also accurate. The thing in the middle is that it has not been bargained. And there's been years of discussion about that for a number of reasons that have come forth why that has not happened. But the subpoena power we've had for as long as I know and it has never been used. I've been on the council. So I think the part that was not said is that it is bargained upon and it has not been bargained. So it's not a matter of a problem with either one. It's a matter of bargaining situation is what it is for a variety of reasons. So I wanted to point that out legally and then object or of the hand at the very first. And the very first thing where it talks about this will be impartial and not aided by politicians. And I'm not going to look for an answer on this because it's kind of recoverable. But in watching the news in the last couple of weeks, the idea we've had a appointed chair I'm sorry, an appointed place to stand before us and say she doesn't know or made the decision that the briefing was going to go away and. And many decisions were made very politically. I think that we've seen it played out where the statement on first line of number four hasn't really worked. So I just want to clarify that there's a couple of things in here that are completely. Well stated. So anyway, those are my comments. Thank you. Thank you, colleagues. Further discussion on the motion before us council member up to growth and Mr. Chair at our committee of the hall meeting we had was out yesterday. Time flies. I think I kind of laid out the lens through which I'm weighing my decision on this, and it really is whether or not it's going to help or hurt our efforts to deliver justice for black, indigenous and people of color. Help ensure public safety. Help us address institutional racism throughout the criminal justice system. And. I see a lot of opportunity with this. My jury's out a little bit, but I think. Even if we're going to be successful in advancing an agenda that has been really developed by the community, we are going to need every tool at our disposal and I think it is we at least need to keep this conversation going at this point. So I'm supportive of putting this on the ballot so that we can continue to have that discussion. And I'm going to continue to do my, you know, analysis and understanding of getting my head around. To what degree will this help or hurt? But I, I think it is important for this to move forward, and I would encourage placing it on the ballot. Thank you. Councilmember Banducci. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I. I have a lot of thoughts about this. And I said some of them yesterday, some of them were quoted again today. The the there is definitely the possibility that you can switch from one method of selecting to a to another and find that you have similar problems or even the exact same problems in slightly different ways. There are pros and cons to either method of selection, and today's been fine because I've been going down personal memory lane on a number of these topics. This one is the one where I remind everybody that I've served as both an appointed head of a criminal justice agency and as an elected official. And there are pros and cons you are. You can be stronger in some ways on hard public issues when you elected with a term of office than you can when you're appointed. However, in I am convinced and listening to the presentation yesterday and today that the Charter Commission get a great deal of deep thought and has a really strong set of recommendations and rationales for those recommendations. I am also convinced that we're in a moment now where people are looking for change. And that can mean I mean, even a change that could be more neutral or isn't guaranteed to have the policy outcome you want shakes things up in a way that enables you to to try. And I think that we owe it to the advocates and the folks who want to try to make try to drive transformational change in public in public policy. They have the opportunity to vote on it, and so does everybody else. And so I am supportive of moving this out with a recommendation to put it on the ballot, as I am with the next one. And then we have the ultimate Democratic debate over what to do and the people decide. And I think that that is correct and fair thing to do. So I'm going to vote for this. I'm going to vote for this measure today. Thank you. For the debate. Seeing Mr. Bowman with Councilmember Dombrowski not moving the striking amendment. There is no amendment or title amendment in order. But I think that if yes, then Madam Clair covered, as you recall, the role. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Council member WG. I found about 90 minutes. I remember Dimasi. I don't remember to ask you about the council member. Done. No. Councilmember Dunn votes no. Councilmember Caldwell's. I don't remember. Colwell, but I can't remember. Lambert. Oh. Council member, Lambert. No amount of snow comes out of the ground. I can't remember off the ground, but I can't remember if I'm right there. No. Councilmember Yvonne, right. There were votes now council members online. I also. Members. ALL Hello? Votes. Yes, Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. Votes. I'm. Mr. Chair. The vote is six eyes. Three numbers are your vote. We have given a do pass recommendation to ordinance 2020 205. We will expedite that to full council one week from today. On the next item on the agenda is the ordinance 2020 231, which which would submit to the voters of King County a charter amendment.

Adoption of Resolution Approving Tentative Map Tract 8534 and Density Bonus Application PLN19-0448 to Subdivide a 1.29-Acre Property into Twelve Lots Located at 2607 to 2619 Santa Clara Avenue and 1514 to 1518 Broadway. (Planning, Building and Transportation 481001)

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So yeah and you know for a forever the late Mr. Murphy was certainly concerned about measure a so I think having this project move forward, I would I would think that that he's probably looking down and saying finally. But, you know, that perspective on this project notwithstanding, I do have some concerns about this project. And the concern is this is that this this project is taking advantage of what's called the density bonus ordinance, which is understandable. But I think it's taking advantage of a density bonus ordinance in ways at least the way that the project is currently characterized is taking advantage of the density bonus ordinance in ways that don't meet. The reason why we have the density bonus ordinance in the first place and we have that in the first place, is because the the idea behind the density bonus law is that the building, the construction of affordable housing is so exorbitant such that in order to assist, in order to encourage the development of affordable housing and this project would have a to very low income housing housing in order to encourage that. State law and local law, which has accepted the state law, allows developers to build an additional amount of units on top of what non density local rules allow. So but, but when I look at this project though, there are not the way that is characterized right now. They're not building, they're not constructing very low income housing. What they're doing is they're saying because the Murphy area, the project area has 22 existing residential units right now there are 22 existing residential units. So what they're doing is saying is that two of the existing units will be designated as very low income housing units. And so they're not building two very low income housing units. They're rather designating two units that are already there. So there is no actual costs that are being borne by the by the the developer. Certainly they want to build nine market rate unit houses. So so I understand that. But in order to qualify from my reading of things, in order to qualify for the density bonus, they would have had to have experienced the triggering event that requires them to to, to, requires them to experience before having the getting the bonus and the triggering events is experiencing some kind of costs that's associated with the building of of affordable housing. But because they're not building affordable housing, rather the rather they're designating two units that already exist as very low income housing. I don't see how the project as currently characterized meets the density bonus. Now that's the first part of it, but if you do it in another way, you can actually do the project where you can still come out while my math is 11 actually. But, but let's just accept that nine you can still build nine units if you just simply have the two very low income units as part of the new construction. So two out of the nine oh could be very low income. They have to be newly constructed. My my math is that they're actually eligible for 11, but if they want to go for nine. Okay, that's fine. So if they went that route, I think I think the density bonus law would certainly kick out. So, Mr. Desai, I can remember dislike I, I can see why you pulled this. I'm thinking what might be useful to the entire council and the public who's trying to follow along is to get a brief staff report. I see that we have magically on screen have appeared are planning building and transportation director Andrew Thomas in the fabulous related Tampa Bay City Attorney's office have been working on this project. Let's have for the benefit of all of us that staff report it can be abbreviated and then we will come back to your clarifying questions and probably those of other council members in any public comments we have. But before you go too far into your concerns, I wanted to just have a chance to to allow staff to give their report. Yes. If I could just say for 10 seconds, though, and I also have apprized staff of my concerns also. So they're they're very well aware of how I'm framing my concerns. Thank you. That is only one of my concerns. But you've got nine more seconds. Go ahead, don't you, then? Very economical. You've got 5 seconds left now. We have more time of your clock. Okay, Mr. Thomas, may we hear from you and Ms.. Chan? Chime in whenever. Whenever you deem appropriate. So please. Thank you, Mayor. As the Ashcraft. Can you hear me? Yeah, that's. That's good. Here you go. It's a 1.29 acre parcel. It has 22 units already on the land occupied within 11 buildings under state density bonus. This project could actually get up to 35 units. In this case, they are only asking to build nine for a total of 31, the nine plus the 22 that already exist under state density bonus . If the developer makes two units available for very low income households. And what that means is a permanent deed restriction. So essentially what they're doing is council member they Saugus. Correct. They're taking two existing housing units that already exist but are market rate with no caps on on permissible rent. And they will be they will be deed restricted to be affordable to very low income households in perpetuity. And that will be managed and supervised by the Alameda Housing Authority. So they could actually do as Councilmember de Sau correctly pointed out, they could do more than nine units, but in this case, they've chosen only to do nine . So they do qualify for the density bonus and you don't have to build new units for those very low, you just have to make. The two units available to. Very well with that I'll. If I'm available to answer any questions I think Selena chan would like to add. Is Ms.. Chen. Just go ahead and mute. Thank you. See you. You as well. Good evening, Mayor. Council members. I just wanted to clarify. State law requires a deed restriction for the two units for a minimum of 55 years. Andrew, are you aware? I can't remember off the top of my head what our inclusionary ordinance requires. But if it's longer than 55 years, then obviously it would be that that longer term. But yeah, I just wanted to make that clarification. I can't. Hear. What was the clarification, Andrew? Is our city. So state law requires a 55 year? Yeah. Under state law, it's a 55 year deed restriction. The which of course, they will have. The way it works here in Alameda is that it's a rolls. So essentially when the when whenever it changes hands or the tenant changes, it goes for another 55 years. So essentially an Alameda ends up being sort of in perpetuity. Okay. I see how you're using in perpetuity. Okay. So so every time there's a new tenant, we just set the clock back. The. The. But in this case, I mean, the key point here just in response to Councilmember De Sox question, state law does not require that it be than two new units. It can be provision of just two units. Examples under state law, for example, you can get a density bonus under state law, even for a condominium conversion of an existing apartment building. So the concept of making existing units affordable to very low or low income households is something that's embedded in the state law itself. And I might observe that it is one of the most economical ways around to provide housing to very low income category because it doesn't require any construction. From from SAP's perspective, we also like this approach because it's to two units immediately into our affordable housing. Cool. We don't have to wait for them to be constructed. It's also in this case. So an effort was made to identify existing tenants who were already in the units who already qualified. So we will not be displacing anyone as what as well. So it's in this in this particular case, it's working out quite nicely. Will these units count toward our Rina requirements? Yes. All right. Thank you. Back to you, Councilmember De. So did you have further concerns? Okay. I'm sorry, what did you say? I just said let others matter. Okay. Very good. Okay. Does anyone, madam, click. Do we have any public comment? We have one speaker. When? Speaker. Okay, before we hear our public speaker, did we have any other clarifying questions from the council? Councilmember Spencer. Thank you. Dr. Thomas, could you clarify the two existing units where the tenants are going to carry through what those units are like? How old are they for? Are they one bedroom? Can you describe the two sustained units? Yes, I believe they're both one bedroom units. The final the way this the way that the entitlements are structured, the property developers and owners need to execute an affordable housing agreement with the city of Alameda before they do the final map or pull a building permit. So all the details have not been fully negotiated yet, which is standard at this stage of the game. But I believe and I can get confirmation on that during before hopefully somebody will text me the answer to that question. But I believe it's to single family homes. I mean, excuse me, two, one bedroom units that are being proposed. All right. And could you also speak to the parking of it's going to be at this development. Yeah. Founded the the the applicant in this case was eligible for. Yes. It's two one bedroom. I the magic of text just arrived. So there's two one bedroom units. In this case, the developers were eligible to waive the parking requirements under state density bonus, but they chose to provide two parking split and maintain existing parking for all the 22 units. The existing parking supply of the exists for the existing and then for the new nine units provide two spaces per unit. Okay. And were there any concerns from the neighbors, any letters from the neighbors or opposition from the neighbors? I believe we received at the planning board, we received a letter from one of the existing tenants who was concerned about the. Who is concerned about the loss of the tennis courts as far as areas for recreating the nine units are being built on basically on land that had been developed by the former property owners, the Murphys as well for two tennis courts and and a basketball court. So that's where the nine units are going there in the interior of the block. They're not facing the street, so they're behind the existing homes. And one of the tenants was concerned about the loss of those tennis courts. The planning board and the applicants work together to make the new common open space. There are some internal courtyards and and and common areas for tenants to to recreate and have outdoor space. And that space will be available to the tenants of the existing units as well. And do you know if any of the new units will have balconies or outside space for just their family? Yes, they will. Thank you. Okay. Any further? No. Okay. So if there are no further clarifying questions from council, we have one public speaker, is that correct? Ms. WEISBERGER. Now we have to. Now. We have two adjacent public speakers have to attend a bid of 3 minutes each. So let's have our first public speaker. Zach BOLLING. Good evening, Mr. BOLLING. I just quickly now, I followed this project through a planning board, and I like this proposal a little bit better than some of the earlier designs that were put up, and that. It's a great use of some underutilized space, these two. Tennis courts underutilized. And to put housing, there is a good boon for us, especially with our our arena allocation that we have to deal with, which is something that is staring us in the face that we have to deal with. These units are going to help in any way possible and the two affordable units will are greatly appreciated. And that's what I think. You and Speaker. Jay Garfinkel. Mr. Garfinkel. Hello. I would ask you to clarify. Are all of the existing units owned by a single party? Well, the they are. And so the developer doesn't have to specifically buy or pay for the two units that are going to be converted to low income. That's one question. The other is, will this count as nine market rate and too affordable for the Reno County? Thank you. Thank you. Chris, this is public comment, not Q&A. But I think the. Answer. Is, well, if you Mr. Thomas, if you wanted. Yeah. Just real quick. Yes, we will get for the arena. We'll get nine new units plus two new. Not they're not new units, but two affordable units which were not affordable prior to approving the project. So. And then the applicant all the all the the 22 existing units in the 11 existing buildings are all sitting on one large parcel. This is a tentative map. So what this is doing is it's creating 11 parcels for the 11 existing buildings and then a 12th parcel, which is the tennis courts parcel, which will be the nine. The nine townhomes will be on the 12th parcel. Thank you, Mr. Thomas. All right. We've had public comment. We've had, I think, council questions. Do we have a motion? Councilmember Knox. Slate I'm going to make a motion and I'm going to watch his head when he starts shaking his head. No, I'm going off. So I'm going to make one comment as I'm making my motion. My motion. My understanding is we are approving a tentative map of the density bonus application, and neither of these are tied to the development plan that was made that has been approved. And that actually we can't say we don't like what the project looks like in denying either one of these things that they are a separate thing. So given that this is almost ministerial, we just have to find that our staff, professional staff, legal and planning have reviewed the density bonus application correctly and come to the proper thing. I'm going to move approval to density bonus application and the tentative map as proposed by Salkeld. All right. We have a motion to have a second. Vice Mayor. Bill, I see your second. All right, we've had a motion, a second matter of May. We have a roll call vote, please. Councilmember de SAG. No. Not quite. Yes. Spencer. Do we get to discuss the motion after they make the motion? Oh, sure we do. Okay, let's. Yes, the motion is the same one that's been before as it hasn't been amended. But let's discuss. Why don't we start with you, council member Spencer. Thank you. Going back to Director Tallman, while I understand the motion. I just want it it sounds like there are already plans to add it to include some sort of balconies or outside areas per house. And as much as I appreciate that, that may not be enough. So so I'm I plan to support this if that is happening, because for me, here we are in a pandemic. I think it is important that people have some sort of private areas for their family. And I think it's so. So that's what I'm looking for. And then I do and I also appreciate the during the parking spaces and then that the neighbors seem to be supportive. Thank you, Councilor Spencer. Any further discussion? Okay. So hearing no further discussion and I'll just throw in I think this is a great project as well and it adds more well needed housing as has been noted. So I think that you got partway through the the roll call. Madam Clerk, I know you know where you are. Here, Spencer. Yes. Because that's where it is. Yeah. Bella. I may or as the Ashcroft I that carries by four eyes one now. Wonderful. Thank you, everyone. Okay. Thank you so much, Mr. Thomas. Mr. Chan, nice to see you. Okay, so moving on, we have we come to item five our. Final passage of ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute lease amendments for rent relief programs to Rockwall Winery and St George Spirits to the Loan Conversion Assistance Program for rent relief in response to the COVID 19 pandemic.

Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. RFP PW14-058 for Construction Management Services for the North Branch Library project; award the contract to Vanir Construction Management, Inc., of Los Angeles, CA, in the amount of $1,088,520, plus a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $108,852, for a total contract amount not to exceed $1,197,372; and authorize City Manager or designee to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any amendments thereto. (District 9)

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Believe item 18. Oh, there's one more. 18 It's so report from Public Works Department with the recommendation to award a contract to veneer construction management for service management services for the North Branch Library Project in amount not to exceed $1.197 million. Some of it has been in motion. And a second and yes. I just want to say something about the library. So. Oh, sure. So quickly. So we had some challenges with Fire Station 12 and its construction. It's particularly important that we have construction management on this library. I think folks should know that we've you know, we've taken our time to select a construction manager to ensure that we we do the right thing and we don't have to run into the problems we ran into with Fire Station 12. The date for the for the fire station for the library groundbreaking will be will be within this next month. So it's a very exciting time. Now, this is the last agenda item for the library until we see some some shovels in the ground. So thank you. Oh, great. There's been a motion. Any public comment on this item? Mr. Goodhew. Very good. Your clinic has addressed, obviously, supporters of finance for libraries. My mother was a librarian, actually went earned her degree about a decade and a half earlier or before. Eleanor Schmidt, who was our librarian for almost two and a half decades here. Also my great great uncle who I never met but designed our is main library. I fully support this. I'm hoping you can find some money at some point in time and I'm going to recommend that you buy that they. One of the first books they buy there and then have an average library. This book called The Boys in the Boat. In fact, I've recommended to Mr. Steinhauser that it be required reading it put on the required reading list or social studies in the Long Beach Unified School District. It is a fantastic book about what it is. It's a story about the 1936 Olympic eight, the gold medal boat. But it is much more than that. It is a fantastic recount of what life was like in the Depression area era up in Washington and across the country. It's got you can Google of sight and you can see it. You can actually see a two and a half minute video of the final race in Berlin. But again, it's called Boys in the Boat. I think every single council person should read it. I think, as I say, I think it will be read in the schools. I know every athletic coach, regardless of the sport, will read it. But it's just a fantastic, well-written it's well-written account of the struggles of the average American family back in the Depression and the economic hard times they face, which will probably resonate with a lot of people today. And so they get a good perspective of what life was back in the United States, although it does center in the northwestern part of this country again. Boys in the boat. Google it. You can read the reviews and you can even see the the video of black and white, the final race in Berlin . Thank you. Thank you. And let's I want to make sure that we're trying to keep the comments to the item at hand. The North Library. Will. Surely be installed. That book will. Be in the library. Right. That was that was that was the connection. You have libraries where they have books. Thank you. I did not. Know. Would you mind donating that book to the library? I'll. I will. This is somebody else's copy. I will. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Moving on. There is a motion on the floor. However, there anyone that has any comments and I think these people are queued up for new business. Probably hope so. Please go ahead and cast your vote. Motion carries nine votes. Yes, I mean eight votes. Yes. Sorry about that. Thank you. Run off to the bookstore. Okay. First up is Councilman Andrews. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you very much. I will be teaming up with the Cambodian American Business Association to host the fourth Cambodian Business Expo. That will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, September 28, at Mark Twain's Library Park at night.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and approve an amendment to the conditions of the Entertainment without Dancing Permit issued to Relevant, Inc., dba Marina Wine, at 194 Marina Drive, Suite 101. (District 3)

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Which is the next item coming out? Next 1516. Oh, yes. Okay. Final report from Financial Management. Recommendation receive supporting documentation to the record. Conclude the public hearing and approve an amendment to the conditions of the entertainment without dancing permit issued to Marina Wine at 194 Marina Drive, Suite 101 District three. This is no one has to be sworn in for this. There is an oath for this item. If the witnesses will please stand. Do you and each of you do you solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the court now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. I have Brett, Jackie's business services officer, presenting the. Thank you. Good evening, our mayor and members of the city council. Tonight have before you an amendment to the conditions of the entertainment without dancing permit issue to relevant in doing business as marina wine located at 194 194 Marina Drive Suite 101 operating as a restaurant with alcohol in Council District three. At its meeting on November 5th, 2019, the City Council granted an amendment to the entertainment without dancing permit subject to approved permit conditions. The permit conditions approved on the number of November 5th required entertainment activities occurring indoors with all doors and windows closed be restricted from 7:00 PM to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Entertainment occurring indoors with the roll up door facing the patio open is restricted to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 6 p.m. on Sundays due to a procedural error that occurred during the hearing. The conditions were not approved as intended in the entertainment permit. As a result, staff recommends amending the permit with the conditions as contained in the hearing packet. We stand ready to answer any questions Council may have. And that concludes staff's report. Thank you. Councilwoman Pryce. Would you like to have. Publicly. Time's a charm. I'm hoping it passes tonight, and we don't have to come back on this one. And we do have public coming in. This is a good. You actually going to try to. Fine. Okay. Will you please cast your vote?

Discuss City Council Rules and Procedures for City Council Meetings and the Possibility of Holding a Future City Hall Open House. (Mayor Spencer - 1210)

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Now, we have for a which is actually I'm coming from the school board here in the past. On the school board, when we welcome new members, we would have a workshop where we would talk about our vision, our mission protocol, the just really an open workshop, welcoming the members and then including myself and then allowing us to discuss and and the staff would help guide us along with the sitting members so that then we can work together. And so I requested this be put on here. And when you read this, it says Discuss City Council rules and procedures for city council meetings and the possibility of holding a future City Hall open house. And I added that because when I was seated, I was invited to two days of meetings where heads, department heads would come from all of our departments. And then it's my understanding that they did the same thing with both together Vice Mayor and member Odie and my but, but what I think would have happened on the school board as we would have had a public meeting and brought in the department heads because the information that was shared with me is the majority, if not all, was not confidential. It is actually just information about really what they do, the number of employees they have, what their budget is. And I found it very informative. And so personally after that I came up with this term of coining it, the City Hall Open House, but and I have subsequently spoken with staff about this and a suggestion was that in the future as a school board meetings, we highlight a school every meeting and they get to come and talk briefly as in very briefly, I would think at most 10 minutes, something like that, to highlight their department. And the suggestion, my understanding from staff meeting with the department heads was that we would highlight a department that this would also dovetail into the budget where they would have an opportunity which which we will be working towards being very transparent on our budget and then also looking at having but I'm going to call a physical open house either at the library or at Mastec where we would set up tables and have our department heads there and information about each department and members of the public could come and talk to these people because some of us have no idea about what happens in this building or wherever else our department has actually function. And I found that very informative and I wanted to bring this matter here also. Yes. Member ASHCROFT And this actually isn't a comment on that. But I did want to just note that according to the Sunshine Law, which we're going to discuss tonight, too, if the city council goes past 11:00, three meetings in a row, we must then add extra city council meetings for the rest of the year. And I don't know about you, but that proposal doesn't attract me. So we're okay now because it's just 925, but we may want to think about economy of. Time, words, etc.. And of course, we all will come to emotion at some point as to whether to continue. So thank you for allowing me that comment. And and what staff did to support my request. As they tried to come up with all different resolutions and ordinances and then the Brown Act of things that support the workings of our council meetings. And so we could this is actually very open. Now, we do have some speaker slips. We have one. We have we have one. So I would like to start with that. That's all right. Council. Thank you. And our one is Susan Gallimore. Oh. Right. And you? Well, one less. Okay. Okay. So if there is something anyone from the public would like to add. Otherwise. I'd like to continue with. For me, the next item I wanted to discuss was actually agenda making, and I'm not sure where that fell under here, but on the school board, one thing that another thing we do. Point of order. Yes. We finished the discussion on the open house. Or is that. So I don't know if we want to. I don't really want I don't think we have to vote on that. I. Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Member Ashcroft. Well, one of my concerns that I wrote in my notes is I understand the council referral process. I understand it even better after we heard a number of them tonight. But I don't understand why this particular item didn't come to us as a council referral because we were just hearing about it. Now I have nothing in front of me to to refer to. And worse yet, the public doesn't know what we're talking about or any background to this either. So that's at least an item I'd like to reserve to discuss whether, since we're all members of the City Council, that if we want to have something considered, we should at least have to go through the council referral process. But I know Vice Mayor matters. You want to speak on the Open House proposal? I actually have a similar concern. Is that. We don't have any detail on. On that and are we going to discuss detail and refer it on? That was my question. So so. Okay. Because because one of the concerns I have is are our agendas with the lists, the work sent out. Our full. And I would hope that any open house or any show until you have an appropriate time. And that would probably mean a workshop or a meeting that. Separate. So. Did you want me to respond? Well, ask my I. The rest of the council. Yeah. What? And are we again? Is our end to make a recommendation on this tonight is to ask staff to do something because. In order for staff to do something, they have to have council direction. Right. So at this point, I. My intent is to just allow us to have an open discussion about if there are things here or other people have ideas of how we would be working together. Yes. And again, because I have recently reread our Sunshine Ordinance, I'm just concerned that I don't dispute that these are very interesting topics to raise. But I feel that we're doing this without the public having the benefit of, well, the public and the council having the benefit of any context. And I, I just I've never encountered something quite like this. So I could tell you why I'm bringing this up. In the spirit of hearing from our colleagues. Maybe. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I guess I have a few concerns. Also a new one on the open house. You know, I think as an idea, it's not a bad idea, but. We just gave staff a lot of work today. I think we gave staff a lot of work yesterday. And you know why I think it may be a good idea to think about? You know, I'm not quite sure I want to give them more work tonight on this because knowing our staff that if we ask them to do something, they're going to give it 110% and do the best job they can and be amazing at it. And to do that, I think, is going to take a tremendous amount of effort. And maybe this is something we table and and come back to maybe in the summertime. But, you know, looking at the discussion points, you know, the first one says, you know, submission matters and it refers to a municipal code section order of business refers to the municipal code section rules of order, municipal code section, start time and length and Municipal Code Section Continuation of items Municipal Code Section, teleconferencing, government code, Brown Act . So, I mean, if we're going to consider changing those in the public really doesn't have any notice on what those proposed changes are. And I think if we're going to be thinking about changing ordinances and, you know, talking about the Brown Act, I think we should provide some guidance to the public and what those proposed changes are , because I don't know what they are. You know, I don't have an opportunity to hear, you know, staff's in-depth analysis of what the impacts are. And, you know, I, I believe, don't even have to have two readings of an ordinance change. So I'm just, you know, I'm just not quite sure of, you know, what the outcome of tonight's meeting really is intended to to result in. So I'd like to respond to that. In regards to how when I'm running the meeting, I think I think it's important that we review these so that we do know in regards to the referral form. But the processes now today we, we went through it, but it wasn't necessarily as clean as it could have been. But I've seen, you know, in regards to how we're going to do the meeting with the Brown Act, what exactly the protocol is. What I'm used to from the school board is that we call an agenda item. We have staff presentation. We have clarifying questions. We have public comment. We have our discussion and then we have our motion. Which is the way I've been running the meetings. Yes. I mean, with all due respect, Mayor, I mean, you you are the mayor now. You're not on the school board. We have our own procedures. You know, I took a look at the school board's procedures today, and they are a lot different, you know, than ours. You referenced the the comment about being able to explain your no vote. I mean, that's in the school board procedures. I actually saw it. But, you know, we don't have that in our procedures. So, you know what? You're you've been promoted. There's no offense to the members of the school board. Yes. Madam Mayor. My interpretation of what we're dealing with is it seems to me it's it is appropriately a regular agenda item. And it's appropriate. And it's this will be further to the extent that we don't have any specific actions that alter any of the ordinances here. I think what I interpretation of what you're seeking to do is have a conversation about the submittal of matters, not necessarily saying we're going to alter the ordinance tonight, we're going to talk about it and flesh out. We're going to then have a discussion about order of business, and then we're going to have a discussion about rule of order that we're not. Because I don't think it will be brown. Perhaps brown. I don't know. We're not going to. Take specific actions that will alter any of this. So I don't. My sense is that we are not precluded from having such discussions. Now on the idea of the future City Hall. Now, I'm fine with that. Oh, he's just city hall. Open house. I mean. I get tired there and. I'm happy to bring that back as a referral. But I am. I appreciate that. I think it is important to have this conversation. A member Ashcraft. I agree with you, Mayor Spencer, that it's important to have the conversation. My concern is I think a lot of members of the public might like to be in on this conversation. And I'm wondering that whether you would consider tabling this to just our very next meeting, I checked and the agenda is still right for our first meeting in February, and I think it would give time for a staff report to be generated with maybe a little more meat on those bones to really launch into a. Oh, I just got to. The pageant has to go to tomorrow. So this. Staffer work. But. But we do have a speaker. Would you guys be out? Would you feel worth every day? Madam, I just want to make sure to say in my interpretation of this is that this is. Properly. Described. In the very first sentence, the background the mayor is requesting to give the new council and members of the public an opportunity to discuss the existing practices and protocols for the conduct of city business. It's a straightforward description of what we're doing. We're going to discuss existing practices and protocols. And from that is all I. Ordnance. Things are subsequently referenced there. So that is the frame of reference for our discussion. The public be more involved in it. My sense is that the mayor put it on the Wednesday, January 21st because there wasn't going to be any substantive outcomes, much in the way that when we make decisions on Tuesday, there are subsequent substantive outcomes with regard to many of these. And. The fact that it was on tonight, I think it was duly noticed by little. Brown Sunshine Ordinance, though I don't think we're very. From. Anything. Thank you at this point. Go ahead for this. I'd like to hear the public speak. I'd like to call Carol Goldstein. Tony. I think you need a cup of coffee. You're speaking more slowly than I could. Anyway. Blue Danube coffee office hours now. With. With all this speculation about what the public thinks about this item, I thought you might like to hear from a member of the public sitting in the gallery about what we think. I know there's not very many of us here, but I actually got excited about seeing this on the agenda. I didn't reread the Sunshine Ordinance or the Brown Act, or I just saw the words Future Open House, and I thought, Hey, that sounds like something fun and cool. As I know that I was on the planning board in the 1990s, I was put there by Ralph Bazardo after I applied for the Historical Advisory Board because I'd been on the board of directors of the Alameda Museum for five years, and he said, Well, I'd really like to have you on the planning board. I didn't even know what the planning board did, but I said okay. And boy was a wonderful it not only, you know, opened my eyes to what goes on in the city and. I have been interested in those things ever since. And I think that what this item said to me is if more people knew what the various boards and commissions in the city did, then there would be more . More participation from the general public when it came to putting your name on an application to get on a board, because a lot of these city council meetings, they just fill up with people when something affects them in their neighborhood and then they get all hot about it and they take sides and people start arguing back and forth. But if more people in the city all over in general got on these boards and commissions from time to time, they have a better global appreciation for the way city business affects them and their neighbors in the East and the West and Central Bay Farm South Shore. So I hope this does come to fruition in the near future, if it if nothing more than to make it. More apparent to somebody and to anybody who just looks on the city website and wants to know, well, how does the city function? What how can I get involved in what would be the easiest way for me to do that? So that's my $0.02. Thank you. Thank you. We have another speaker slip now, Elizabeth Tuckwell. Madam Mayor and council members. My name is Elizabeth Tuckwell, and I just want to approach this from a very folksy, down to earth point of view. I in terms of protocols and practices, I think one enormous benefit that this council could do is to impart a an appearance of fairness that was not always there. I mean, I'm not trying to I don't want to be negative about this. I want to be positive. We want to have an image of fairness. We just want that the appearance of fairness is very, very important when it comes to city government. And we did not have that at all times with the prior council. What do I mean? For example, the order of speakers, at least at times, the order of speakers, which is not the order in which we turned in our pieces of paper. I'm not saying it always should be, but in some cases that order was changed so that, for example, the developer's representative was given the, you know, the honor of speaking last, which is speaking as a lawyer, you know, a very preferable position to be in. And I'm not saying that's wrong, but, you know, I think this is a type of thing that should be addressed in a transparent way rather than sort of hitting us by surprise, which is the way this came out so often in the prior council. Another similar example is very important issues that affect people's daily lives, like whether they're going to be able to park anywhere, you know, within a mile of where they live, this type of thing, these issues being put on the calendar in a place where it was perfectly obvious they were going to be discussed between 11 and one , something like that. It was perfectly obvious that was the upgrade opportunity for discussion the public had. Now there is something a little bit duplicitous about that, and I know that Councilman decided, at least in one case, try to remediate that somewhat, but that was shot down. So that that's my that type of thing, I think would be a very I think that would be very noticeable. I think the public would love it and I think it could be done very easily without changing any of the rules or, you know, any of the official protocols, basically by abiding by the spirit of the law as well as the letter of the law. I think that's what it comes down to. Thank you very much. Thank you. And so to me, this is actually more a workshop. I have the word discussed there. And I really appreciate the audience standing up and telling us how can we best serve you and make our meetings something that you do feel like you are participating and that we are being transparent and open and and I, I prefer having a separate than a regular meeting because that's the, that's the meeting where we're coming to discuss specific items. That's not what this is. This to me is we are not going on a retreat. If we could go on a retreat, that would be a similar event. To me, this is we are limited. We all need to be here because of our sunshine ordinance, the way we Alameda does business, we we do this in front of the public and I appreciate member de Sox comments and member Ashcroft's in regards to well. I did work with staff. We spent quite a bit of time writing this up so that the public would be aware of what we are here speaking about. And we actually do have quite a few members of our public here listening to us and that really the objective is to help us move forward. And I really do appreciate the public's comments in regards to being transparent, open, in regards to the slips being turned in. But we are doing is that they are being. I call the names out in the order that they are turned in. I'm not changing them. Staff is not changing them. And as people come and continue to submit slips, then I put them at the bottom of the pile. So then I call them last and we keep them separate per agenda item. And I and I think that this is great and we're going to have another speaker soon and that's not supposed to happen here. By the way, we are your city council. We are here to serve you. Richard Banger. Thank you. This is as good a time as any to bring up one of my pet peeves. There aren't many people in the audience. In the council chambers tonight that I'm sure there are quite a few watching at home. I probably watch more from at home and from in the council chambers. There's nothing more. Perturbing. Been watching. A council meeting. And someone who is an expert with a PowerPoint talking about it. And that camera is on. And I don't have a clue what they're talking about. They're talking about a map. They're talking about drawings. And so whoever's running the audio visual department are no breaks. You know, if if someone is here, if an expert is called back up, it happened recently, I think it was with the Del Monte Project. And the architect, I think, was called back up and he said this and that and this and that about. I had no idea what he was talking about because the camera was not showing what was up on the screen. You all saw it. People here saw it. But that camera was on and I saw his face. I don't want to see the guy talking. I can hear him talking. I want to see or see the presentation. So, you know, it doesn't happen a lot. But and the other thing, I don't know if it's. Mm. Excuse me if it's been resolved yet, but there's been an ongoing problem with audio visual feed and you know, somebody will be talking here and then, then they're talking and but you know, or there's no audio at all. And Mel, you may get it on your computer but can't get it on the TV. And that's not helping people. You know, they're going to go back to CNN. You know, they're not they're not going to continue watching the at the the council meeting. So anyway, tighten up the. Ave dept and happy to address a couple of those concerns. Thank you, Richard. Unfortunately, we've had the exact opposite complaint where people have said you've sat on the same slide, they're shown they haven't moved the slide. And now I'm not getting to see the person speak because you've shown one slide this whole time and I wanted to see the person speak. So we've tried to react, and so we've come up with the solution, which I'm about to put the buzzer off. Saber, stop this. And okay, so we've come up with the solution where we're trying to put a split screen that shows the slide and the person. And so we're working on solutions like that. In in addition, unfortunately, Harbor Bay recently had an issue with the we connect into two different three different systems the Web, AT&T and Comcast. And my understanding was Harbor Bay was having an issue and it wasn't happening on the island. So that's even where we're already transmitting within here to there, you know, out to them. And then even there, even within their transmission, there's being interruptions at different points. So unfortunately, we do have some dated Comcast equipment and I have told many, many people and we have called and drilled into Comcast as much as we can. And I have also told people, when you're having problems, call Comcast, Li call Comcast. So we have worked really hard to address the issues and I really appreciate the feedback and you're always welcome to contact me any time for any of it. And the sound issue on the Internet, even just tonight, I had somebody saying I couldn't hear it on my iPad, but that it was working fine on the computer. So then it becomes like, what is your iPad? Not refreshing. It just gets really technical. And so, you know, hopefully you can try a couple of different sources and I'm sorry that you might have to do that. But, you know, it's interesting the way these problems just bubble up and we keep trying to resolve them. But I hope you can all see why we love our city attorney, city clerk Laura Weisinger. As we turn. Now, we like our city attorney, too. She was, but she wasn't the one. That, you. Know, that America will ever do. I mean. Yes. Vice Mayor. A couple of comments at the. Oops, thank you. Okay. Time's up here. The previous speaker reminded me of a comment that I was to relate tonight, that last night at about 1:00. The video went dark. I heard that too. And interested party. To clarify. Which on public access Comcast. On Comcast. Yes. So it was still going on the computer here? No, they don't know. I think it ran. Out of coffee at that hour. Okay. No, she was awake. But I had heard that also that it went. It was black. And people want to know what the end was. Yes. But with regard to the agenda item tonight, there are a couple of things that I'd like to comment on and I'd like to reiterate. For the open house or for the presentations of departments. My preference is those happen outside of a regular council meeting because I think they have to be given their due. And and it's not just because our agendas are full. It's. They have to be given full focus if we want to make sure that people understand and get the full, full benefit of the presentations. And the second is in looking at all all of our rules and in the one, two, three, four or five exhibits that are that are resolution or ordinance based. One of the things that strikes me, and I think you've alluded to it a couple of times, is that. How are our rules of operation I think could benefit by an adoption of either in part or in in total of of Robert's Rules of Order. And that requires some it's not magic. You can't flip a switch because it's like 700 pages. But it it helps the public and it helps us keep order and. And not talk over each other and and to put some structure that the the general public can recognize. Because the advantage I see in Robert's Rules of Orders, even though people don't know it, chapter and verse, most people recognize it and who belong to a club, who belong to an organization or a board. It's. But if followed and if there's a kind of a parliamentary procedure that it helps guide us and we can always suspend the rules if needed, that's that's allowed. But I think we would benefit and I think I would offer a potential way to get there would be to establish a rules committee that would deliver a product of of council members to deliver a product to the council. Much like when we have a charter review committee, which is council members who come back with proposed charter review. And we did that 2008 days ago. I think you were still on the council or. No. It wasn't. 26, but we there was a charter review committee that delivered a. And there was a council member, Tim and. Gilmore. Yes, yes. So I think those are the things that I think a rules committee might be a vehicle that we can use to. Adopt either in part or in total Robert's order to help guide the function of the. So then it's not it's not arbitrary. I'm not say arbitrary, but it doesn't float with either the emotion or the or the issue at hand. And what I'm used to working with is actually a modified Robert's Rules of Order. And and I and I agree with you. I think it's actually very important. I've. It's my understanding, strictly with Robert's rules, you're supposed to do your motion immediately of someone second and then you continue, which is different from the way I've been doing it. However, I would support that. So I do think this gives us, as a council, an opportunity to have input with the public's input in regards to how we want our meetings to be. But but we want that the procedural aspects of it to look like. And I think it is very, very I support those reasons why committees do Robert's rules and I would support having and maybe I need to bring in a referral at this point and not I mean so I'm not sure what's how staff how we would proceed but if but I'm happy to do that in regards to allowing us to have that discussion. Right now, if I understand this agenda, that's an idea. And if people are interested, they can submit a referral and we could agenda it so that the public knows. And I would also like to have have some background information to fill out what the other possibilities are. And I'd like to toss this to the public that's here or any of you familiar with Barbara's rules. Who would you appreciate if we were more if you know the order that I've been doing it, which I've shared? Are you content? Do you like the way our meetings have been going and feel free to, you know, give us any guidance? That's what this is about. Step up here. And I mean, this is a workshop and I'm sorry we're not in the round. If you want to use the mic, you could and I can reach David. She just asked. Come on up here. We could. My name is Ann Richter. I love it. Can you want. You can pull back to your level. I just think if you aren't comfortable with it is for you to do just that. And I think. That helps public to. Well, in another example, I'll say real quickly, as I have been allowing people to clap, and I think that the audience has been very respectful of each other. I personally think the meetings have flowed well and. And that the school board, we did allow clapping. And so it is a change. It's something that I'm allowing and it's been respectful from what I can tell. I actually don't think it slows down the meetings. I think we've been able to go through a lot of speakers, but I'm not and now I'm not sitting out there like I used to and I'm sitting here. But I mean, that's what this is supposed to be a discussion. I think Frank. Has a point. That you should talk about doing Robert's rules. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Did anyone else want to speak? I appreciate the friendliness, the way you run the meetings. And I remember Mayor Beverly Johnson did so to, you know, people feel welcome here. It's their city hall. They feel free to speak. They're not lectured on what they shouldn't be doing. You encourage us to speak. And if somebody is a few seconds over the limit, you don't harass anybody or lecture. And if people are enthusiastic, let them express that it's an explore and applaud. So I really appreciate it. I like the structure of Robert's Rules of Order, and it's something that the whole country is familiar with. So I think it's a very good suggestion. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, go ahead. No, no. I was going to say, I think we should hear from the city attorney at this point. Did you want to speak next? And then we're going to have some more members of our public. This is exactly what I wanted. But if you want to finish. Well, and I'll just note that it's always wonderful to see members of the public. By my count, there are ten of them out there. So it's, you know. It's a very intense but small but interested group. But we do appreciate the ten of you. And I would like to hear from. The well, if I may, Manama, and I know it's a workshop. So you're going to encourage people to continue. To address you, but to try to bring a little bit of maybe some structure to what we're trying to accomplish. So we all can get out of here tonight before 11:00. I think what we what we were finding is and what we pulled together as a staff is a. Series of resolutions, ordinances, those kinds of things, which over time. The council and your predecessors sitting in these chairs have adopted as to how they were going to go forward and conduct business. And they're kind of scattered all over, which is why you see so many different ones. And then we have the Sunshine Ordinance. Our our resolution. One of these. Resolutions that you have in your packet does reference Robert's rules. It says, these are the kinds of things that we're going to do, and it specifies various things which we identified in each section. But the fallback is to use as a guide. Robert's Rules of Order. I think most people do that. And yes, Robert's Rules. Of Order, most people are. Familiar with. But if you've actually looked at the book, it is 700 pages and it is incredibly. Dense and. Arcane. But people have even taken to doing a. Condensed version and user friendly versions of Robert's Rules of Order. So, I mean, that's. Something that if council wants to identify a. Committee to go forward. And pull that all together, you could consider all those kinds. Of things. I think what we were trying to. Do is because with the new mayor and with. Some different ideas about how she wanted. To run the meetings. We wanted to come back and say, okay, you know, so we don't get trapped in wheel. Is that what we. Should be. Doing? Is that a violation of what our previously adopted resolutions have been? Are ordinances to pull it together, try to get some guidance as to where you wanted it to be had headed, which is why it says discussion. And then we could go forward. In under whatever and whatever system you would prefer. I mean, if you want. Staff to try to come back and consolidate something, we need guidance. From you on these areas and any. Others that you could think of where we can at least try to. Produce something to come. Back as a discussion item then that you can go through or or vice mayor matters matter. This idea of if you want to appoint a committee and have that committee go through that process. But I think that's what we were. Trying to. Help have happened. Here. And so the things that the kinds of things that we have are the order of business, because there have been. Some discussion about, well, how do we establish what the order of business is? There's a resolution that it actually it's a sunshine ordinance that adopts the the order of business that that can be changed ordinance. Ordinances can be changed with this council. It takes two readings. Resolutions can be changed by this council. It only takes one meeting and one vote. But you have to have the resolution and it has to be properly noticed. And all of those kinds of things. So that's what we're trying to figure out, how you want to proceed. And these were the kinds of things that. We heard a staff already that were sort of. Areas where we didn't. Know how council wanted to go start times for the meetings, regular meeting dates. Continuing meetings, teleconferencing. Those are the kinds of things that we've heard and we don't know if council. Wants to pursue. Them or. Not. And that's what we're trying to get some sense of tonight. And Braskem. Thank you. One of the things that I want us to keep in mind is that, first of all, there's a saying it's not so grammatically correct, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But what you know, what is the problem? Is there a problem? What is it that we're trying to fix? Well, I appreciate that. We have a new mayor. We're all members of the council. And as a body now, we'll be making decisions that we think are in the best interest of the the council, the city at large, as have previous administrations. And that's why reading through these resolutions and ordinances that are in this are the attachments to this agenda item or whatever this is, isn't the it was interesting to see the evolution that, you know, we did things as a council in a certain way, and then that was found to be not such a good way. One example is that we now have the opportunity for public speakers at the beginning of our agenda for on items, not on the agenda. And then we have another opportunity at the end of the meeting. If they couldn't finish all the speakers in the 15 minutes that were allotted, I would be hesitant to go into changing things like the order of business, the start time of meetings, because I think those are procedures that are working now. Well, they've been thought out by a number of councils. So I just think that and also I try to be mindful whenever we're asking something of staff of how much else we're throwing at them, if it's something that really needs to be done right away. Of course, you know, they're there to do what we asked them to do. But if something is working reasonably well, I think there's a good reason to continue with that. With regard to the rules of order and just looking at these five different attachments. One thing that I thought and maybe this is what a rules subcommittee would would tackle, is that I think they could benefit from consolidation, because right now, in order to get an answer to a question, you've got to look at a number. And that's a lot of work just for for staff to do. They do it, but I think that would help us all going forward. So I just would, you know, as far as the if we want to go one by one on these items, the I think we always have to be mindful of staff time when we're scheduling things like extra workshops for an open house for them to present. Bear in mind staff who are here, the ones who were here yesterday on the two Alameda point items that we heard, they get here between seven and eight in the morning. They left this building at 130 in the morning. And so just ask yourself, how much more do we want to ask of our people who are already doing very good work for us and still have them produce their you know, they're humans, they're not machines. And so I do like the idea. I really liked what I think Carol Gladstone said about the more people know about boards and commissions and opportunities, the more that we'll see people coming forward in applying. And I get really nice emails from people saying, I just moved here, I'm really excited, I'd like to get involved, how could I do this? And there's so many good things, not just in this building, but all across our city. But back to what I started out saying, let's try to be focused at what is it we're trying to accomplish. It shouldn't just be a wish list of, oh, gosh, this would be nice. What, you know, kind of a triage. What's the most important thing we need to accomplish? Are some things pretty good and could be made better and other things maybe another time when we have more time to tackle and approach it that way. Okay. And yes. Do you want to come? Yes. I think you'd have to have your head in the sand not to notice that people are about to meet us all. Something wrong with the prior council? We have Mayor, Mayor Trish Spencer and Vice Mayor Frank Matarese. Both of these individuals got over 50%, over 50% of the Alameda vote. Vice mayor matter. He had he had three people. He was. Both of them had incumbents that they were fighting. Both of them unseated incumbents. There's an enormous advantage to incumbency, but the incumbents were voted out in favor of these two. Now, what does this tell us? Not everyone was happy with the prior council. I certainly appreciate Councilmember Ashcraft pointing out that there's just very few of us here. And obviously the inference is that we don't count. But be that as it may, I've got my 3 minutes. So I think the important thing is to create an atmosphere where people feel welcome, where people feel that their ideas are welcome, which we did not feel under the present council or their prior council. Forgive me. I remember at one of the meetings, one of the former council members stated, I don't care what the people of Alameda want, I care what they need. I have what they need. Now, what does that tell us that this council member thinks she knows better than we do what is best for us? None of us thought so, but that's where she expressed that sitting right there on the dais. So that's the kind of attitude we don't like. Personally, just my own experience with lots and lots of committee memberships. I would not I would not do the committee on on Robert's Rules of Order. I think you're getting yourself into a quicksand situation where you just get dragged down and down and down. I would particularly in light of what the city attorney has informed us, that it's very easy to change most of the rules under which you work, either with one one meeting or two meetings course proper. You know, everything has to be done right. But basically it's a lot easier than I had thought. Tell you the truth, I thought maybe you have to get a vote of the citizens or something like that. And it sounds like it's quite simple to do so, but I think that the goal should be not to adhere to particularly not to Robert's Rules of Order. I mean, I, I can't tell you how many times I've been in a group that tried to. They want to do things right, Nathan. That's the way to do it. And I don't think that's the way to do it. I think it is, as the city attorney said, very arcane. I think it was written for another era. I think the important thing is hit the the main points, make people feel welcome. Make them feel that everything is fair, that that that you're giving serious consideration to what we say. In other words, if there's going to be a lot of public input, don't schedule the meeting so that, you know, the public input is not going to start until 11 and it won't end until 130 or two, which definitely was done in the prior council. And then the next meeting schedule a special meeting for 5:00, because that's when you want to get your vote and you want to make sure you got time for your vote before the new council gets sworn in, which is going to happen at seven. So, you know, when you do things like that and then you say, oh, we gave the public every opportunity. I mean, they could stay here till 5 a.m. and I think they had an opportunity for public comment. See, this is the kind of thing that that turns people off. So I think if we just look at the overall goals and frankly, I would just forget about Robert's Rules word, because I think once you get into that, you just get bogged down. And even if you have a committee to try to whittle it down the way the city attorney suggested, I think that would be the next best thing to do. If you insist on an Robert's rules or I do it that we it down, but I wouldn't get into it at all. Anyway, thank you very much. So I'd like to respond to her comments real quick. This is achieving my goal. I love having members of the public here come stand up and tell us what they think is working, not work, and how we can best serve your needs. This is exactly meeting. My wife wanted to have this discussion and I appreciate that we can follow up with referrals and whatnot and I can when we will have an opportunity to work with staff more closely. I also want to respect the time we were here until 130 last night. I did not attend for us. When I set this. I did not realize that we would have we didn't know that we would have other agenda items from last night that would take that would go first. This is actually beyond the time that I would have had us here. But so briefly as other members want to finish up and then we can resume in the future. Yeah, I'm just a tad bit concerned about, you know, the way this meeting has gone kind of down a rabbit hole and that it's turned into a, you know, session that criticizes the former council. And, you know, is I mean, the public obviously has a right to their opinion and a right to speak it. But, you know that the intention of this meeting was to, you know, sit there and bash the previous mayor and bash the previous council. Then, you know, you know, I think we're we're done because I don't think we need to hear that anymore. I mean, council member or Vice Mayor Matta Ricci put a referral on earlier today about moving forward on the the East Bay Regional Parks. And I think we need to move forward. You know, the election is over. I also won, by the way, and defeated incumbent. Just just for for clarification and to make sure the record knows that. And, you know, if you subtract the undervotes, then none of us except a lot of Hansberry got a majority of the vote. So, you know, you can spin anything and. Any way you want. But, you know, I don't have a problem with going through this and I don't have a problem with the mayor exercising her prerogative on how she wants to order the speakers and and run a medium. And that that's that's that's our prerogative. And if we want to discuss some middle of matters and order business and rules of order that that's another problem with that. But, you know, this is going to turn into, you know, a gripe session about, you know, the previous council. You know, I'd just as soon move to adjourn met. So I appreciate that. I'd actually like to be able to respond. I think that that unfortunately takes out of context what the intent was the intent of as a stated here, however, I am always welcome to public participation in our meetings and. This is a public meeting and this part. So so I appreciate that. But for me, this was very productive. And member Ashcraft. Thank you. If I could just take a moment to refer to the Sunshine Committee, a sunshine ordinance. I was reading it over this afternoon and then I had a phone call from my daughter. And this really is related. My daughter, who's 23 years old, is going to be on her way to London tomorrow. She's helping put on a workshop for she works for an NGO in Washington, D.C., that supports emerging democracies around the world. And her particular country of focus is Egypt. And because right now it is not safe for people who are trying to support democratic processes and parties in Egypt to meet in Egypt, they're meeting in London, but just getting arranging visas for all these people. And they have speakers coming in. Members of the Egypt of the British parliament are speaking and a number of different things. But to hear her tell about and she's she's done a number of these workshops in the last year. What these people are struggling with just because this is the first time that Egypt has had elected city councils and this particular workshop everybody is for city council members and for them. I mean, they really are risking their lives the jeopardy of their family investigation, she says. They always suspected at least one of their participants is actually from the government and is just, you know, keeping an eye on what's going on. And so I want to bring that back from Cairo and all the different provinces around Egypt and what they'll be doing in London over the next week. Back to the city of Alameda. And the purpose of the Sunshine Committee and the language that I found very powerful was that it is the city's duty to serve the public and to accommodate those who wish to obtain information about or participate in the process of making decisions. The right of the people to know what their government and those acting on behalf of their government are doing is fundamental to a democracy. And with very few exceptions, which this ordinance will clarify that right supersedes any other policy interest government officials may use to prevent public access to information. And it goes on to talk about, you know, assuring that all citizens have equal access to their government. But to me, that language is powerful. But it also reminds us that too often we take the benefits of a democratic society for granted. And I think we're doing a little bit of that tonight. I think we forget the purpose that we were elected here for. I think it is a noble undertaking all of us spend. We know how much time we spend preparing, reading, listening to our constituents. And I want to always make sure that this body serves our public. You, you in this room. And I do respect and appreciate all of you and everybody else, all 74,000 plus residents of this island that we do our best job in representing you. I do not think we're doing our best job when we let ourselves, as Councilmember Otis said, go down this dark hole of looking back, of attacking, of getting that last poke in. Everyone was elected. It's that's the democratic process. We can step forward and run for election without worry about repercussion to ourselves and our families. Once we hold this office, I think we have to conduct ourselves and in the manner that is expected of us, it's what our public would expect of us to put our best foot forward. And so I do think it's time to look forward that whether you won by the slimmest of margins or an overwhelming landslide, it doesn't matter. Once you're in office, you represent the people. And I think we all always just want to remind ourselves of the ideals that we represent, because from our founding fathers in Washington all the way down to Alameda, we're doing the people's business and we need to do it in the best way possible. Thank you. So. I don't think it was disrespectful to call this meeting. It was to discuss these items. And that was what occurred this evening. And member de SAC. I just want to say, I think the intent of the workshop is right on. I think it's about letting people understand the way in which government works. It's about opening the doors of City Hall even wider. And I think, you know, the intent and the effort is noble. And I think the substantive matters that are being examined are are are worthy of examination. And ultimately, we're not making any final decisions. We're having this workshop. We're gathering, you know, persons perspectives. And one thing I hadn't done was offer my perspectives. So for tonight, let me just say this. The views raised up here on the dais, I don't think there are any wrong views. And I do think, though, that, you know, having served on council, going on 13 years with four different mayors. Call me old school, but I'm kind of fine with the with the way in which we're operating. I'm fine with the middle of matters in an order of business is everything there. So but I think it's still a worthwhile to have, you know, works out like this because, you know, maybe if any one of the council members wants to pursue altering any one of these items that I read, maybe down the road, I'll change my mind. But for now, call me old school. I think I'm fine with how we do things. And the other member comments. And just one more. I'm sorry. Just to clarify, I never said that it was disrespectful to have this meeting and call this agenda. And I can agree with Councilmember de Song. You know, maybe there are better ways to do things, you know? I think we're doing fine as we are. As Councilmember Ashcraft said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it now. But, you know, we should feel free to bring suggestions. You know, I have no problem with that. And I have no problem with discussing those suggestions and having a public hearing and those suggestions. But, you know, for my mind, I think I think it's fine as we are. You know, I think we're doing fine. And I but I do think it was valuable to share this information. So we all you know, we're aware of some of these rules and procedures because I didn't know some of these rules and procedures until I read the agenda. So thank you for doing that. So I appreciate that. That's what we're trying to move forward. Sharing vice mayor. And the election is over. And I think, you know, we get what we get from the public. And I think our statements were focused on what the job at hand is, is is really important to move on with that. And it also sends a message to the public, we're here. We're here to work. And again, going back to my comments, I, I want to make sure that when we consider and we consider deliberately with a vote to have an open house, I think they're considerations of staff and their considerations of getting the focus. And secondly. I think if it's not fix, I mean, if it's not broken, don't try and fix it. But there's also something called continuous improvement and just listening in the last two nights on reconstructing the motion so that we can vote on it. The longer the time that passes, between the time the motion is made and the time the second occurs, it either gets better or it gets unintelligible. And I think there are certain certain aspects of a system like Robert's Rules of Order or some other system of order that gets the motion on the table. It gets a second, so then it can be discussed, and then we can check back and modify something that's real. And that's just the the practical application for my comment on establishing either some points of Robert's Rules of Order specifically, rather than reference in a book that 780 pages or whatever it is and some parts are arcane , but some parts are very practical and. We have to walk the line between freedom of speech, freedom of expression and practical policy applications to people who have to run our city. So. I think this is important. And if we do get an accumulation or need a consolidation of these, I would advocate a rules committee because it frees staff up. There's less staff, but there is some expertize that's brought to the table because it's council members and in the past it's work with or charter review. So I just want to emphasize those points and thank you for the opportunity. Thank you. Amber Ashcraft to follow up on that. I think that I don't disagree with anything except that Robert's Rules of Order thing, but I, I do think we have a procedure for the way we are supposed to make motions. And second of all, there's I think we got in a little loosey goosey as we've gotten at some of that might just be something the city attorney can give us a little workshop on or even a a writing. I know when I was president of the planning board, I had I think maybe it was from the the it was probably the planning association, but they had a really nice guide and I always had a copy of the one that told you how to run it, you know, how to handle a motion. And it's, I mean, it's not intuitive. So I like my cheat sheets. But that said, I do think the consolidation would be a good thing, just going through all those attachments and to the point that the vice mayor raises about a rules subcommittee. We've worked together well and another little committee a few years back, and I would be happy if the vice mayor was interested in being on the Rules Committee to this point. And I'd like to keep up the discussion. That's what that was. But then in the last point I was going to make, though, is and again, looking over our last two agendas and as you can see, we had two bumps the three times. Apologies to those of you stalwarts who came back three times. I think we need to. I'm not sure how, but consider the number of council referrals that go on to an agenda. Maybe it's just because it's the beginning of a new administration and everybody had things they wanted to bring up. But if we have seven or eight every time and it's just going to get really long and then it is would be my preference that we are all able to do council referrals, to get agenda items, to get items on the agenda, but only through council referrals. And even though the mayor is the mayor, I, I think that it's more informative to the public and helpful to council members and staff to have those ideas come through a council referral. So it's my understanding that in regards to how this has been done in the past, the Mayor works with the city manager and Laura to submit items directly, which is my understanding of how it has worked in the past that the mayor did not submit referral slips. However, at this point I actually want to adjourn the meeting. This has gone on longer than I had intended, and we were here until 130, with all due respect. Yes. So at this point, with all due respect, if I that during the meeting and I appreciate everyone's input this evening, I. Think you need a motion to adjourn. Don't you think so? No. And we do have we have a quick counsel communications, which I think. Oh, yes. Okay. All right. Yes. You go first and then I'll go. So. Or either way, I don't know. Someone that wants. Yes. So this workshop we have Council Communications is part of the workshop. Excuse me. You know, earlier. No, I don't think you realize that. Assistant City Manager. This Wormer Damn was trying to get your attention. Mayor Spencer. She had wanted to make a remark earlier, and we. We passed over. I'm sure you would. Be. Willing to hear from her. Thank you. Councilmember is he Ashcraft? I just actually would like to clear an issue that that was raised tonight, and it's not a big deal. But I think that on behalf of myself and the city clerk regarding the agenda process, because we are the ones who put together the agenda. And there was a comment tonight about that. We put controversial items at the end of the agenda to limit the ability for the public to speak. And I just want you all to know and I want the public to know that we do not do that. As you saw last night, we had just two items. Basically, we had the bass and we had housing that took up all of 4 hours, almost 5 hours to get through that. So we try our best to get those items up front, but sometimes we have MIDI items and we go late and there's nothing that we can do about that. And I apologize to the public. Laura and I worked very hard to get those items up front so that people can talk about it, can be heard. We're not trying to limit public dialog at all, so I just want to clear that for your benefit. So you know that we work very hard and we're happy to work with the mayor to make sure that we continue to do that. But just felt like I wanted to clear the record so that you all knew that that's not something that we do. And I appreciate that. Thank you. And I did I did not recognize that you were making a wave or whatever. So please. So moving on. So I did not realize that there was council comments and I actually thought the workshop was all comments. So if there's any concern. About that, it for the continued item. Oh for the continued. Yeah. Okay. And we already had those. Yeah. But you can still, it's still on the agenda. All right. So, um, so I'm not sure what comments you'd like to make, however, and let me just remind everyone at this point, it is 1023. So if you could really be brief, I don't want to discourage people from coming to my meetings.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. ITB FS15-040 and authorize City Manager to execute a contract with Kovach Mobile Equipment Corporation, dba KME Fire Apparatus, of Nesquehoning, PA, for the purchase of six fire pumper trucks, in a total amount not to exceed $3,400,463 inclusive of taxes and fees; and Increase appropriations in the Fleet Services Fund (IS 386) in the Financial Management Department (FM) by $1,134,803. (Citywide)

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Item 20 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to execute a contract with KMT fire apparatus for the purchase of six fire pumper trucks in a total amount not to exceed 3,400,000 and increase appropriations in the Fleet Services Fund in the Financial Management Management Department by 1,100,000 citywide. Mr. West, I want to appreciate the Council. Know what this is? This is a good thing. This is a very good thing. And I'm going to turn this over to our fleet manager down to Berlin, who can explain why it's such a good thing for our fire department and our community. Mayor Garcia, Members of Council. This is a. Contract with Kovach mobile equipment to purchase six fire trucks. New fire pumpers. Four fire pumpers were originally scheduled for a replacement this year at Fire's request. And noting that two of the pumpers in service had deteriorated during the year, we added two more for a total of six. The selected. Vendor, Colebatch, agreed to provide the same. Pricing for the additional units. Fire pumpers have a useful life of six years. There are currently 15 fire pumpers. In the city's fleet and these six that are being requested for replacement now were scheduled for 2015 and 2016 fiscal years. The current fire pumpers are 20 years old. And the cost and downtime have been mounting excessively. I'll take any questions. Okay. Thank you. Seeing no questions. There's a motion and a second. Members, please go ahead and cast your vote. Should we do public comment on this public comment saying nonmembers, please cast your vote. Come to in Austin. Seven zero. 21 Item 21 Report from Financial Management Recommendation to amend Contract with Daniels Tire Service and Sudduth Tire Company for the purchase of vehicle tiger tires to increase the annual contract amount by 130,000 citywide.

A resolution amending the Denver City Council Rules of Procedure. Amends the City Council Rules of Procedure to promote an anti-racist culture. Councilwoman CdeBaca approved direct filing this item on 2-20-20.

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Ten days, two days. Resolution 68 has been adopted. All right, Madam Secretary, if you please, for the next item on our screens. And Councilmember Hines, will you please put Resolution 182 on the floor? Yes, Mr. President, I would love to move that council resolution 20 dash 018 to be adopted. Thank you, Councilmember. And this is the first of the rules of procedure at council. You didn't see you call them out so they would have gone through on consent. I do have a couple of them. We had discussed these in committee, a couple that I thought needed a little bit more time, one that I had never seen before. And so I wanted to call them out so that we could discuss those and vote on them separately. But since they're yours, I didn't know if you wanted to take any time. First, if you had intended to call them out and dismissed them, or if you were hoping they would go through on consent. Now, why would I call them out if I wanted them to go through? That is a fair that is a fair thing. I just wanted to double check. But thank you for calling them out and some context for why they're in front of you and getting called out. These were proposed in committee as a single bill. What I heard in committee was that there were a lot of issues with replacement rather than additions. And so what we did was to reflect the conversation that happened in committee. We made additions instead of replacements and broke it up into separate bills for each one so that you all could vote on them individually. I thought this was a more effective use of our time than sending it back through the committee process, considering the amendments and the changes were a reflection of our conversations in committee. Thank you. Councilmember Torres. One question actually for the language on 182 is it proposes to modify G of 12.1. There's already a G of 12.1. There's actually a G, H and I. So that should probably read G. Yep. That's a typo. And it is an addition, not a replacement of the other one. And this is encompassed in the intent section of our rules. So there is no need to for it to be enforceable. But it is really about promoting the spirit and intent of what we're doing with these rules, which are not laws, they're group agreements for which we should be agreeing on as a group. And so this is just to add in there another layer of of what I believe we should be striving to do, which is promoting an anti-racist culture. Do I need anything? Yeah. So do we need to have a motion to amend on that or no? Jonathan Griffin Deputy Legislative Counsel So we do mention in 12.1 that to remember all in subsequent sections, so this will be inserted as G and then everything else will just go down a letter. Okay. Okay. Okay. I do have one more comment, but. You want to go. Ahead. Sure. Okay. So when this was brought to committee, my initial hesitation was that this was a rule to be enforced. And while I feel like we are progressive as a body, we may not understand how to enforce a rule of anti-racism and dismantling white supremacy. I do think we are building towards that. I see Kim Desmond in the office, who's leading the city's office on Equity and Social Innovation, directly responsible for this work and city departments. And so I do recognize that while we do have work to do ourselves, Kim is carrying forward a lot of this responsibility with city departments. I do support adding this and we may not fully be able to figure out how do we make that work in this body. I feel like we need to start including language that is explicitly anti-racist in what we hold our our own standards to, of ourselves and what we aim for in the work with you all and in the forum that you have here. There's any number of times where folks will make comments in council that we cannot counter, we cannot contradict, particularly in public comment. This is that for some First Amendment space and some of it may be racist in nature. And we have to be able to identify that, recognize that that's taking place. And this is an open forum. So we want to hear from community, but we also want to make sure that we're holding ourselves accountable to something in when it comes to decorum. I will support this one in particular, but I do look forward to us having additional training, discussions, conversations about how we internationalize that in our daily work, because we have to work with each other, because we have to collaborate. We need to be able to figure out how do we do that, how do we make it real in our daily work and not just language on a page. So I look forward to both that follow up and to my colleagues edition. Thank you, Councilmember. And I appreciate that. And I can't wait for us to build on our first training that we did with Kim Desmond, because I do think that it takes intentionality to make it real. So thank you. All right. Councilmember Black. Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, microphones. Time just for some context for all of you people who are here in the audience. It's really unusual for council members to direct file bills. I'm the chair of the Finance and Governance Committee, and we did discuss some of these at our February 11th committee meeting. Committee members did come to consensus on some of these amendments, and we actually amended a bill and agreed to move that forward. But that is not what is being brought to us tonight. There are other amendments that the committee agreed needed more discussion. I'm personally happy to support the amendments that we did have consensus on, but I think the others deserve some more discussion and the committee agreed with that. So I'm not saying it's necessarily that I'm opposed to them, but I want to honor the committee members that were there that day and agreed that they needed further discussion. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember Gilmore. Thank you, president clerk. I went back because I unfortunately was out of town traveling when the committee happened and went back and rewatched the committee. And I appreciate the conversation of my colleagues during that committee. And to echo Councilwoman Torres as comments, we we need to start this work and we need to start around education and really allowing all of the council members that are sitting up on the dais the opportunity to explore power and privilege and, you know, anti-racism, anti oppression, all sorts of different topics and work that we need to do. And I've been working directly with Kim Desmond and her team to set up an equity diversity and inclusion working group. We thought we were going to be able to kick off in March, but with scheduling, it's going to more so look like June. And so I invite my colleagues to definitely be part of that process. We had an. Initially reached out to committee chairs to start that because they can direct to the course of a meeting and and that we want to bring everybody along on this journey and that it's not a destination. It's truly a journey. So there's ongoing learning that folks need to do. I did want to in the spirit of being inclusive, ask the the bill sponsor, the resolution sponsor. If we could insert anti oppression as well into the definition. So it would promote an anti oppression and anti-racist culture that interprets relations of racial and equity by naming and challenging the norms, patterns, traditions, structures and institutions that keep oppression and racism and white supremacy in place. And then we might need to go back and tweak it a little bit more because we might want to not only call out race, but then also gender able isms such as sexual orientation. And so there's more work to do, but at least having an anti oppression in the definition, I think it sets a good table for how we're going to interact with each other as colleagues as well, but then how we're going to work with the public and the citizens of Denver. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember. Sorry. Thank you, Mr. President. I just want to thank Councilwoman CdeBaca for bringing this forward. I think this is just an incredibly important conversation to be having. And I'm so glad that Councilmember Gilmore just brought forward the idea of including oppression in this. I was actually going to ask that specifically sexism be brought into this. But I think oppression is a better conversation to word to bring to it. But I think, you know, I'm I've been shocked since beginning this position at the amount of racism and sexism that I have seen. It is real in our community. It is real in our jobs. It is sad. And it is really important that we start talking about it and we start leading on these issues because it's not acceptable. And so thank you, Councilwoman CdeBaca, for bringing this forward. And I hope that we can add oppression to it and start these conversations in our community. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember Flint. I thank Mr. President. The discussion we're having here demonstrates why I believe we should re refer this to committee. This is one of those provisions in the original resolution that was amended out by Councilwoman Cannick, who has left the meeting, and she specifically wanted to have more discussion on it in committee, as did the majority of the committee when this was amended out. So I would like to make a motion that we refer this to committee. And I believe that this time legal is going to agree with you that that now supersedes all. I thought last time I did, too. But I think this time you're going to get a legal thumbs up as well. I'm putting in for a new. Lawyer to. Kirsten Crawford, legislative counsel. That's right. This this is a different. Set of rules and this can be rewritten. Okay. So now procedurally, do we pause everything and only talk about that, even though I've got other people in the queue to talk broadly, is that procedurally where we go from here? Yep. The motion would have to get seconded and it has been and it has been delayed. Oh, we got a motion and a second for re are already ahead of me. All right. So now comments and questions on the referral, which we will vote on first. Councilman Flynn. Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Just just to amplify it, the meeting was adjourned. We ran out of time before all the folks who were there had the opportunity to ask questions. I have questions on all of the items that were amended out. And I believe that there will be another committee meeting at which we would continue the discussion. And to have this discussion on the floor and basically make our legislative meeting, a committee meeting, I think is is not a good use of our time tonight. But this requires some more thoughtful discussion, and particularly with Councilwoman Quinn each having been ill and having to leave. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Councilmember Cashman. Thank you, Mr. President. Yeah, you know, I've certainly everything we're doing in the city right now has equity at the heart of what the policies that we create. But the intent of our rules is to help us to do our business. So I had a little bit of trouble with this, but for me, if we were able to add at the end of of G as written in the amendment in the conduct of our business. That would put it in the context that I feel it needs to be. I do support Councilman Flynn's desire to bring it back so it can get tweaked. As far as the the gist of what's there, the thoughts of adding oppression and whatnot, I think we can get to something that that is is is real worthwhile. And I would support it, but I would like to bring it back to committee to finish the discussion. Thank you, Councilman. Councilmember CdeBaca. Thank you, Mr. President. I I want to point out that this feels like a game of moving the target. So it was mentioned by Councilwoman Black that it's unusual for a council member to direct file. And what I would like to point out is that these rules initially came before us through a direct file by Councilman Herndon . I followed the process as recommended to to raise some of my concerns through the committee process. I am amenable to both of the amendments that were put in front of us. And I imagine that our legislative council here can make that amendment tonight on the floor instead of sending this through the committee process to make the very changes I'm agreeing to tonight. And I also feel like it's not. I feel like the amendments, as with other things that come before us, could have been proposed prior to tonight. I filed this with enough time and an entire weekend notice. Like everything else that comes before us, and I recognize that the motion is before us to delay this or re refer to committee. And I would ask my council colleagues to recognize that I have followed the process that was set before me the last time, and I have made every attempt to accommodate the concerns raised in committee and tonight and I'm amenable to the amendments suggested. Thank you, Councilmember. Council member Herndon. Mr. President, I do want to point out some differences that what we were doing before and what I did, one, I sent this out to my council colleagues via email. So and I specifically said, if you have any moment or if you have any concerns, please, I mean, please let me know. And I receive feedback from them and I maybe I missed the email. I'm not a voting member in finance. We brought this to the APS meeting when I had the decorum rules and everyone had the opportunity to speak to that. So I do think there are some differences. Certainly everyone on this chamber wants to make sure we address in anti-racism, but hearing other people say, Hey, can we add this word or can we add this word? For me thinks if we take some time to sit down as a full body, have all the members come and do it one time versus making changes on the floor, I don't feel that that in any way will damper the spirit or the moving forward of this, the quorum rules, because it's certainly something that I want to add. So I am comfortable referring it to committee so that we can take a deeper dove as opposed to the one time shot that we had at the Finance Committee. So but if not, I certainly if the motion to refer preferred committee has failed and I'll take another look at what the full answer will be with the particular amendment. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilmember Councilmember Flynn. Oh, thank you, Mr. President. I also I want to let folks know that I also intend to move to re refer to other of the amendments that were direct filed, one of which never came to committee or was discussed. But I wanted to point out that the outcome of of the fingers of committee was that we would continue the discussion. And so I was I was surprised to see them on Friday that they were filed. And on Friday I did email some questions. But I have to Councilwoman that I have not heard back yet. So I don't think it's really a good practice to do amendments and committee work here on our at our legislative meeting. But that given the fact that the folks had amended this out for specifically to have a I in additional robust discussion in committee, I think that's that's only appropriate. I think there are three amendments here separately filed that were contained in the bill that was moved out of committee but then was never filed. And I'm perfectly fine having votes on those three because they were approved by the committee. Thank you. Councilmember Councilmember CdeBaca. First. Thank you, Mr. President. First to respond to Councilman Herndon. There is a difference. You sent an email and then direct filed. I actually raised concerns the night we voted and went through the committee process, requested feedback, incorporated feedback, even broke them down into separate bills so that we could address them individually and separately on their own merit. And that is also a response to Councilman Flynn. They are refiled so that we can vote on each of them independently and don't have to kill a bill because we disagree with one of them when we agree on several others. And so that is the reason that it is before you. The one piece added was the final one about revisiting the rules as the body changes. The these are designed not to be law, but to guide our processes as a body, as group agreements. And you can't have group agreements to guide our body if the group doesn't agree on them. And so that is simply to put out there that we should be reconvening every time there's a need. We're going to that one's called out separate so we can put that comment in there just so that we keep that with that item. Is that okay? Yep. Okay. That's it. Those okay. Comments. Councilmember Hines. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, I'm pretty sure that I'd be fine with this as it is. I also had to leave while when committee was scheduled to end, and I don't know what discussion transpired. I don't have the opportunity to go back and rewatch the end of the committee. And so I would also be supportive of referring this to committee just to make sure that we have the discussion that, you know, it sounds like we've got a couple amendments, at least one, and I want to make sure that we get it right. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. All right. See no other comments. I'll just add on this one. First of all, thank you to Councilmember CdeBaca for bringing these forward, for bringing them through committee. Well, all but the one that we'll get to. And I appreciate that. And again, you know, as we work through this, I apologize if I misunderstood some things as we went through my understanding on this one, hearing the the debate that we were having in committee, which I think was awesome, was that there was the potential of more discussion, getting the language right, where does it belong? And some of those things that I thought we were going to discuss again, either in committee or in some fashion. And I never saw any of that. And then it was filed. So that was this one for me. I was expecting another. Conversation. I also, you know, huge shout out to Kim and team for the awesome training that we did. And it's hopefully just the beginning for us. But for for the city and the work that Councilmember Gilmore is working on for for our our committee or whatever task force that we're doing on that. So, you know, I think that there is there's a lot in here that I like, but I am eager to hear from everyone else about these additions of language. And again, I do in this agree with Councilmember Flynn that this is not the easiest or the best place to do that. We've got, you know, a family waiting for a hearing tonight who are staying out later. And this is work that I think we can effectively do through conversations in committee. And and I think that it warrants that. I think this is a really important conversation and really important language for us to be having. And so since we we kind of got to that, what I thought was that at the end of committee that this one wasn't quite ready and there were more conversation to be had. And then I didn't see what changed between then and there, but missed that conversation piece. I'm hoping that we can continue the conversation on that. So for that reason, I will support Councilman Flynn's motion to refer. All right, Madam Secretary, roll call on 182. And the motion to refer on the. Motions are on the motion to refer on 182. Thank you. Flint. Black. I see. Tobacco. No. Gilmore. I. Herndon. Hi. Hi. Cashman. Hi. Ortega. No. Sandoval. No. Sawyer. I. Torres. No. Council president. All right. All right, Madam Secretary, because the voting announced results. 8 hours, three days. Eight days, three days. Resolution 182 has been referred back to Committee one. My Muslim. What's the. Ortega's done up there, Mr.. President? Oh, we're missing somebody on the Ortega.

A resolution approving a proposed License Agreement between the City and County of Denver and Neutron Holdings, Inc. for operation of a citywide Shared Mobility/Micromobility program for electric bikes and scooters. Approves a non-financial license agreement with Neutron Holdings, Inc., doing business as Limebike, for five years to operate micromobility services and install associated infrastructure in the public right of way, citywide (202158011). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 5-24-21. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-27-21.

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Eight Ice Council Resolution 20 1-0304 has been adopted. The next item up is Council Resolution 305. Councilmember Black, will you please put Council Resolution 305 on the floor for adoption? Yes, I move that council resolution 20 1-0305 be adopted again. Thank you. It's been moved and we have it seconded. Questions or comments by members of Council. Council member Hines. I thank you, Madam President. I did ask for these individually, so thank you for honoring that. I think the previous conversation is fine enough. Thank you again. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Hines, Councilmember State Abarca. Okay. Thank you. All right. Seeing no hands raised. Madam Secretary, roll call, please. Hynes Cashman. I. Can I? Sandoval. I. Sawyer. I. Torres. Now. Black I. CDEBACA No. Clark. I. Flynn. I. Herndon. I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, close the voting and announce the results. Three nays. Nine I's. Nine I's. Council Resolution 20 1-0305 has been adopted. The next item up is Council Resolution 465. Councilmember Black, will you please put Resolution 465 on the floor for adoption? I moved that council resolution 20 10465 be adopted.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy; amending the levy implementation and evaluation plan adopted by Ordinance 125807 to provide for emergency childcare services; ratifying and confirming the Mayor’s Civil Emergency Order - Emergency Childcare Services for Front-line Essential Workers; declaring an emergency; and establishing an immediate effective date; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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Agenda Item two Council Bill 119771 relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy amending the Levy Implementation and Evaluation Plan adopted by Ordinance 125807 to provide for emergency child care services provided by and confirming the Mayor's Civil Emergency Order. Emergency Childcare Services for frontline essential workers, declaring an emergency and establishing an immediate effective date all by a three fourths vote of the City Council. Thank you. I will move to pass cancel bill 119771. Is there a second? Okay. It's been moved on second. It did pass the bill and as the sponsor of the bill, I'll go ahead and address the substantive parts of the bill and then I will open it up for an amendment that is a friendly amendment from Council member Herbold. And then we'll go ahead and take your comments about the bill as amended so really quickly. In June 2018, the City Council approved Ordinance 12560 for submitting a proposition to voters to fund education services with a property tax levy that would generate approximately $619.6 million over a seven year period. The Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy or FAP lays out four investment areas for levy funding, preschool and early learning K through 12 school and community based grants K through 12 Health and Seattle Promise Section seven of the adopting ordinance, provided that levy proceeds may only be spent in accordance with an implementation and evaluation plan approved by the ordinance and by the City Council. That plan was approved by the Council in April 2019 originally, and this plan provides detailed information about Council's funding expectations in each of the four areas that I just previously outlined and March 27, the mayor issued an emergency order that would provide emergency child care services to essential workers, as defined by the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. These workers include health care workers, first responders, pharmacy workers, and Grocery Store Workers. Council Bill 119771 was originally transmitted to us by the Mayor's Office and the Department of Education and Early Learning. This legislation would amend the Families in Education, Preschool and Promise Levy Implementation and evaluation plan to include temporary emergency child care services for essential or frontline essential workers consistent with a mayor's emergency order that was issued on the 27th of March. These would be FAP Levy funded services in order to formally include these childcare services as an eligible expense for use of levy funds. The executive transmitted this proposed legislation to Council amending the Levy's implementation and evaluation plan and the total and total expenditures by the child care services is limited to the amount of funds that otherwise would have been used to fund the Seattle Preschool Program during the same period of time. Contracts. All contracts under this bill will be limited to an initial term of 30 days, and the Director of Deal may extend these contracts for up to two additional 30 day periods. This proposed bill would declare a finding of the council that child care services with developmentally appropriate activities provided on an emergency basis during school closures. Closures are consistent with a suite of education services defined in the enabling ordinance, and that this bill would also declare that there is an immediate need for essential workers to have access to child care services, and it would ratify and confirm the mayor's emergency order. The proposed bill attaches as attachment two to that is listed on this agenda an emergency addendum to the FAP Implementation and evaluation plan that effectively operationalize the Mayor's Emergency Order on child care services for essential workers. The agenda makes clear that child care services will be paid for by using funds that were allocated within the preschool and early learning investment area only. These dollars, under normal circumstances, as I previously mentioned, would have been used to support the delivery and operation of the Seattle Preschool Program and the Seattle Preschool Pathway Program. However, with the closure of schools and the governor's stay at home order, many of the SBP and STP pathway programs are not currently in operation. That means that FAP levy funds are available to be redirected to support these emergency child care services. Importantly, the executive cannot exceed an amount equivalent to the funds that would have been spent on these strategies during the emergency time period. This is an important provision to make sure that future years of SBP and the SBP pathway programs will continue to be fully funded as originally intended in the implementation and evaluation plan we adopted in the spring of 2019. And then lastly, I did receive written confirmation from Deal that the FEP Levy Oversight Committee was consulted as required by law, and the Oversight Committee agreed that the implementation of emergency child care services is. Inappropriate use of Beth Levy funds during the civil emergency. So colleagues, out of the abundance of caution, I wanted to make sure that we have this bill before us to make sure that we continue to have the accountability and oversight necessary for the expenditure of these important but limited taxpayer approved levy funds in the space of early learning. So that is the structure of the bill and what is before us and what this bill will do. Councilmember Herbold has an amendment that she'd like to make to the underlying bill that would require additional reporting requirements. So I'm going to hand it over to Councilmember Verbal to introduce formally introduced her amendment, and then we'll take up her amendment and then come back to the substantive bill as amended for comments. Councilmember Herbold and you are on mute, Councilmember. I certainly am. Thank you. So I am moving Amendment One to Council Bill 11 9771. Back in. So it's been moved and seconded. So why don't you go ahead and address the amendment? Sure. So this amendment just simply requires a monthly report from the executive on the emergency child care efforts. I've been hearing from people in my personal network that today, in the efforts of both SPS, Seattle Public Schools, as well as DIAL, that the demand for child care for the identified populations has not been what they initially expected . And of course, we know that one thing that often happens is once it's provided, then the demand grows. And I just want to make sure that sites don't end up having excess capacity and that there be consideration to expanding child care, a child care provision to other groups of essential workers, for instance, transit workers, the folks who are putting their their selves in in harm's way to do the essential work of getting people around, as well as our homeless service providers that are on the front lines. Just want to make sure that if there is excess capacity within the system, that there is an ability to to serve more families. And so the required monthly reports from the executive includes the number of emergency child care sites currently open operating and their locations, the number of staff at each site, the number of students at each site, including this aggregation, but the type of essential worker that the parents of those students perform. The amount of funds spent on emergency child care services and the fiscal impacts to other families. Education, preschool and promise levy investments from redirecting resources to emergency child care services. This amendment was circulated on Friday to council offices by a central staffer. Brian Goodnight. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Herbold. Any questions or comments about the amendment? Hearing and seeing none. We will go ahead and take up the amendment. Will the clerk please call the roll on the adoption of Amendment One? Councilmember Morales. Councilmember Morales. Hi. Sorry about that. Councilmember Macheda. I. Councilmember Peterson. I. Council members want. I. Councilmember Strauss. I. Councilmember Herbold, I. Councilmember Suarez, I. Councilmember Lewis. I. President Gonzales. I. Nine in favor, nine opposed. The motion carries and the amendment is adopted. Colleagues, are there any further comments on the bill as amended? Councilmember Herbold, the floor is yours. Thank you. This is more of a just a flagging of an issue. And. Council President Gonzales, you may you may know whether or not Jill is planning to to address this. But one of the issues I think that was in some ways raised in the letter from the advisory board relates specifically to a really important equity issue . Given that child care providers provide care for the children of doctors and nurses who are on the front lines and exposed to coronavirus every day and through the children that they're caring for, child care workers are facing are facing the same exposures. And there's been a movement towards hazard pay for grocery workers, hazard pay for homeless service provider providers. And I'm just wondering if the department is considering whether or not to consider hazard pay for this this group of professionals that are doing essential work that is critical to the functions of our first responders. I do not know the answer to that question. I know that the question has been posed. I think it's an important question, and I know that there's been, at least as it relates to the contracts with childcare providers in in school public school buildings, there's been a lot of conversation about sanitation and how to make sure that the environment is is as safe as it can possibly be under the circumstances. But I think that it's a it's an important question to get a follow up information from from deal, and we'll make sure to do that and circulate it to you. Thank you. You're welcome. Are there any other questions or comments? Councilmember Mosquito, please. Thank you. Council President. I thank you for your work on this legislation. And thanks to the Mayor's office for sending it down. I agree with all of the comments that Councilmember Horrible just outlined as well in terms of. Who needs access to these critical child care services. So I appreciate. That friendly amendment. I also note that the Department of Early Learning director. Chappelle has received. A email from the folks at SEIU 925 who are contract workers who provide childcare to individuals throughout the city and SEIU. 925 represents family childcare providers throughout the city. I'm hoping that they will continue to be used as an. Important resource in this effort. To make sure that all of our essential. Workers have access to high quality childcare. As we current for the current population and for any. Expanded population. Just want to note from the email that they sent, they note that the city of Seattle is a strong has a strong. Labor history and that. SEIU wants to help provide. Workers across our region with access to high quality childcare and also make. Sure that they're accessing high quality childcare. For those who are organized and have a. Voice on their job, especially in this time. We know how important. It is for people to be able to raise their hand and speak up if they feel unsafe at their place of employment. And that's true for the grocery workers who we help protect by removing the five cent fee for bags last week and also. Includes childcare providers as we look to make sure that their services are available across the city. So just want to ping. That for our department as they're looking. To deploy not just our city dollars, but also the King County PTA money and look forward to their ongoing. Participation with our friends at SEIU United five. Thank you for those comments. Really appreciate the the note there. I will say that in my conversations with the executive, it's my understanding that there's they're looking at at every single opportunity they can to figure out how to meet the childcare needs for essential workers. And so that includes not just contractors in center based facilities, but, you know, sort of making sure that we're keeping an eye on how we can make sure that the system is being fully responsive. And I think that the amendment that was advanced by Councilmember Verbal that we've now adopted is going to help us fine tune exactly where the gaps are to the extent that there are gaps. And so I think that that that those data points will be absolutely critical to understanding how else we can modify the model in order to meet this critical need for these workers. Are there any other questions or comments from my colleagues? Okay. Hearing them. I just want to say that I'm I'm I'm really excited that we can advance this legislation. I'm also mindful of the impact that it can have on levy existing levy funds and programs and services that we fund through it. That's part of the reason why I wanted to make sure that out of the abundance of caution, we had a legislation to formalize this as opposed to just relying on an executive order. I think it's important for us to have that accountability and that transparency around how these dollars are going to be spent and having sort of additional details out in the public about our expectations around how the executive order was going to be operationalized in this space. I will say that that that doing this work just really highlights for me that we still have an absolute crisis around child care in our city. It's part of the reason why we are scrambling. And so it's not not just a crisis for these essential workers, but for everybody. And I think we're seeing that during a period of a public health crisis, in a pandemic like this, we are experiencing the gaps in our child care system and in an even deeper, more profound way. And that's part of the reason why I've been working with so many of you and former council colleagues on on really, really making sure that we're having a conversation about how to best meet the needs of working families who have children in our city. So I think this is a good step, good step forward for this small body of workers, but look forward to being on the other side of this coronavirus and continuing to have a conversation about how we meet that, how we close the gaps in the childcare space in the long term. So with that being said, I am going to ask the clerk to call the roll on the passage of the bill as amended. Councilmember Morales. I. Councilmember Mesquita. I. Councilmember Peterson. I. Council members. So what. I. Councilmember Strauss. I. Councilmember Herschel. Council member Herbal. I. Councilmember Suarez. Right. Councilman Lewis, I. President Gonzales. I. Nine in favor and unopposed. The bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it will court please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. All right. Agenda item three. Will the clerk please read agenda item three into the record?

Recommendation to receive and file a presentation in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Children's Day USA Festival.

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Thank you. And that concludes public comment. I'm going to item T. Three. Communication from Council Member Your UNGA recommendation to receive and file a presentation in honor of the. 25th anniversary of. The Children's Day USA. Festival. Johnson. Ringo. Thank you, Mayor. I think we could use a little levity at this point. It's been a long meeting. Well, I like to bring up summer hats. And if you can, I'd like to congratulate her on her 25 years of putting together the Children's Day. For 25 years, the Children's Day has provided a safe and positive environment for kids to grow and play. Children's Day reminds adults that our future generations rely on us to be good stewards of the earth and of nature. The goal of Children's Day is to do something wonderful, to make our world a better place. And the motto of Children's Day is Be community friendly summer. You have been the embodiment of that motto. This year's Children Day Festival will take place on Sunday, April 28th at the Eldorado Park, Downtown Duck Pond. The event will include multicultural shows, children's choirs, dancers, singers, drummers and lots of wonderful young folks. I hope to see you there. I am proud to have partnered with Summer on many children's day events and I look forward to working with her on in future events. Summer, thank you so much. For 25 years of putting Children's Day together and for everything you do in the community and I have a certificate of recognition here that I would like to to give to you and and congratulate you again. 25 years. What? Well. Thank you. And and I want to thank all of you. Who were on or who were elected people. My goodness. You guys are great. It seems like it's getting better and better. I mean, even the stuff that's on television of your well shows wouldn't be the right word. But it's really interesting. And you guys work very hard and. I think we're all learning and we have such a great community. I know. I keep saying that. It's so true. Anyway. Oh, and the motto for Children's Day. I mean, you you got it, you know, is do something wonderful to make our world a better place. You'll know what your project is because you feel it in your heart. Oh, my gosh. You know, there are so many good things that are happening. And what is that new motto that's on the website for the city? What is it? It's like, let's all pledge. What? Please help me with that. How does that go? Let's make all the pledge to do take care of the environment. That's and we. Well, we got to do that anyway. And Rex Richardson. Oh, my goodness. The kickoff for Children's Day was at Shearer Park, and it was fabulous. And right around the corner from my house. Right. I mean, it was great. And I loved that idea about that, about the, you know, the poetry and everything. So let's just keep all those good ideas coming. Share them with one another. Encourage everyone to have projects that are in their heart. Tell one another. That's the custom. That's a custom. That's the thing that that is really worth supporting. And for generations to come, just think of all the good things that are showing up when everybody does that. Thank you. Okay. You know, there's so many people who helped. Yes. We have certificates for that. This is great fun. What's your last name? Thumb. Thumb Burg. Oh, my gosh. She's she's a she's going to get the Nobel Peace Prize almost for sure. And she is affecting children and young people all around the world. And we're talking about it at the thing that was at Cher Park. You know, we all talked about what everyone was doing. I mean, you know, all the good things that are happening and the promise. I mean, we all know about the promise. The Long Beach Unified School District, the best school district in the world as far as most of all of us are concerned. And look at these wonderful kids. Oh, my gosh. I mean, you know, they were on Democracy Now! Saying, let's get we got to get the green deal. Right. The big green deal all over the world they committed. The kids are really taken in. And if you. Want to serious, they care about their future. And we know that all of you do. So thank you so much for this beautiful presentation and all you do. Councilmember Mongeau, did you want to say a couple words? Just thankful for the opportunity to have this in our city. Thanks so much. Yes. And I'll just add while you're taking a picture. Sure. Park is right in the middle, in the heart of the eighth District. And I could hear the festivities from my backyard as I was embroiled in a big project over the weekend. Summer, you've always been about love and the kids, and we appreciate you. And I have a story about Summer Hanson back in the day. Right. If you were in any of the night establishments in Long Beach, she was always the person bringing love because she would always bring nice red roses for you to buy for your loved one to to purchase. And I purchased many of them over the years. So thank you for that, for your for your great contributions to my love life in the past. And to DH Andrews who when when he was first getting ready. Thank you. I first getting ready to be you know, to run for office. One of his ideas was to make a wonderful. You know, fathers are helping fathers to be better. We movement. We look forward to 25 more. He did so great. Children's Day happening here in the city of Long Beach. Thank you very. It's going to be up to the rest of you. Yes. Thank you so much. All right. I know we have to move on. Okay. Thank you. So next up is item number 24. We need a public comment. Any public comment on Children's Day? I think we just had it. I think so. All right. Members of Long Beach City Council, my name is Jim Oberst. I am with an organization being developed called the Creative The Climate Change Creative Committee of Children say we're made up of a series of of energy and issues of of renewable energy companies of we at your park, we formed a relationship with Miss Cherry of the Boy Scouts of America, which will be launched in 30 different schools of kids, basically helping to develop energy projects, renewable projects of various sizes from rooftops to geothermal projects. That will be that that'll be shown at Children's Day this year. Children will be given scholarship funds for participating in the program, but most importantly, they will be applying their knowledge that they're learning in schools to actually implementing these projects, which grades K through 12 to learn basic math and how that goes into sizing systems. English for persuasive arguments, music to celebrate the coming of the green economy. But most importantly, Sun Projects is a company that is licensed in about eight different states. They want to take this program as we are developing the pilot project in these 30 schools to be replicated within the scope of of some project. And as I have said in a previous statement, Greg Stewart, who is a local resident of Long Beach, who runs a company called Noble Therm but is a geothermal energy company. We are participating in a project in in restorations of different cities that were damaged and destroyed in fires in Northern California and turning and having them rise like phenixes to be completely green and sustainable. What we would love to be, what we would love to be able to do is engineer who developed the Stirling engine that is both doing the geothermal power as well as the water filtration cleanup at paradise that we're proposing in Paradise, California. We would love to be able to introduce that here as well and raise money for our scholarship initiative and our homeless housing programs. Thank you. You'll notice that actually in the flier that I gave you, which is right here. Thank you for the reinforcement. Appreciate your comments. Any other public comment? Harry Nunn members, please cast your vote.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, and adopt resolution continuing the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area assessment for the period of October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019; and, authorize City Manager, or designee, to extend the agreement with the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau for a one-year term. (Districts 1,2,4,5)

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So we'll kind of try to take all this together. But before we get to that, I want to start with the first hearing, which is I'm sorry, it was the our first hearing tonight, which is the LV Tourism Improvement Area hearing on the CVB. And if I can please have the hearing read into the record. Report from economic development recommendations received supporting documentation into the record to conclude the public hearing and adopt a resolution continuing the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area Assessment for the period of October one, 2018 through September 30th, 2019, and authorize the City Manager to extend the agreement with the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau for one year term. Districts one, two, four and five. Thank you, Mr. Modica or Mr. West. Mr. Mayor, council members have. A brief report. From Eric Romero, who runs our Business Improvement Associations through the City and our Economic Development. Department. Eric. Honorable Mayor and members of the City Council. This item is the annual approval of the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area Annual Ongoing Assessment. The Long Beach. Convention and Visitors Bureau as advisory board to the Long Beach Tourism Business Improvement Area promotes and markets. The City of Long Beach as a tourism destination using funds generated assessment of hotel properties located in tourism business improvement areas throughout the city. State law provides that the City Council shall here and consider all protests against the assessment program. And boundaries of the area proposed in the annual report. On September 18, 2018, the City Council. Approved a resolution granting approval of the annual report and set today's date for the public hearing. The recommended action of this item continues the assessment for another year. There are no proposed changes to the basis of the assessment, nor changes in proposed activity. Staff request. The City Council received the supporting documentation into the record. Approve the resolution. Continue the levy of the assessment and authorize the city manager. To extend the agreement for one additional year. That concludes my staff report. Thank you. We do have a motion in a second, but we're going to go ahead and do now, I believe is here. Correct me if I'm wrong here, Mr. West, but we are going to hear from Mr. Goodling, who will be making the presentation. Mr. Goodling. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. West. Good evening. On behalf of the Long Beach Convention Visitors Bureau and our 400 members. Thanks for taking the time tonight so that we could share with you an update on what's been happening within tourism. The this past year has been a record year. If we can get this slides up here. Okay. So this past year, as I mentioned, has been our best year yet in the history of the Long Beach Tourism convention visitor. We had over $2 million in the top. For a total of $28 million. And over a six year period, that's been 130% increase in total. So it's gone from 12.4 million to 28 million. Interestingly enough, this is the fourth largest tax revenue generator for the city of Long Beach. So behind property taxes and behind also sales tax. This is the fourth largest tax revenue generator for the city. Every dollar invested has returned over $6. And in doing so, it's been a very competitive field for us to play in. We have sales representatives in major cities, north in San Francisco, Midwest, Chicago, North Atlantic, also two in the D.C. area and one down in Atlanta. In addition, we have half the sales team based in Long Beach. That is also backed up by a convention service team who services the customers when they're here, and also a marketing team that helps to provide the marketing materials not only for conventions, but also for other tourism and pleasure travel. Our sales team attended 28 tradeshows, basically one every other every other week this past year. In addition, we've had over 122 site inspections. That's basically two clients. And these aren't just individual clients. Often they come with several people. So 122 site inspections looking at the city of Long Beach. The great news is, is when we get them into the city is when we have a high closure rate once they see it. What we always hear is, gee, I didn't know changed, but we hear one of the two. The other thing that separates us from our competition is when we bring site inspections in. We create a community event. These are two clients out of Atlanta, and we either do a breakfast or a community luncheon. We had a client recently say that in 30 years of doing this, she's never had any other city in the U.S. pull together a committee of people that she'd be working with to greet her and actually have a meal. And that left an indelible impression. And because of that, they get to meet our working committee, our team, the team they'll be working with. As I was talking with a few a few people lately, as you all know, by this point, we're very much relationship driven, not transactional driven. Many cities today are transactional driven. They get a lead. They disseminate it to their hotels. They don't actually act as an ombudsman between the client or the hotel. We actually serve as both navigating through it. Several years ago, we had the privilege of hosting TEDx. And with that, we learned several things from TEDx. There is a recent article today that was just published on how decisions on choosing a destination for a convention have changed. Back in the eighties and nineties, people chose destinations primarily based upon ancillary activities. A lot of people used the convention as an extension of their vacation time. And what's transpired since then is people are using conventions now for more for networking and learning job skill sets to make them more competitive, either for their company, organization or within their industry as a whole. Ted epitomized this new generation of meetings at the TED conference. They had seating throughout the throughout their entire campus. The whole idea was if you saw somebody that you wanted to talk to, you could grab that moment instantaneously, sit and have a conversation. Think of the last time you were back in a convention center not in Long Beach. You had to walk down a long corridor, sometimes to the food court. Sometimes you found maybe a long metal bench. And that was where your conversation had to take place. We don't believe in that. We believe in the TEDx style. We believe in creating an environment that encourages you to network with your colleagues. And in doing so, we have transformed the Long Beach Convention Center into being a facility that basically has been designed to encourage networking. So throughout our campus we have a variety and I love this shot. This is a gentleman that at Twitch Con and regardless of where you want to hang in, in the convention center, there are seating everywhere. And in addition, the arena has been a wonderful boon for us because it's created it, yet at 40,000 square feet, an additional meeting space. And it can be used for General Sessions. It can be used for special events. But it's multi-use. It can also be used as an arena. Since transforming this space in 2013. Its days in use has gone from 154 days a year to 258 days a year. It's practically booked all the time. The other thing that we learned from Ted is you not only do create this great environment to network, but you have to have a wow party at night. You have to have something that really sets you apart. And it has to be something that you feel. If you're vibrancy, it feels great. And so the Arena was the first party that Ted did, and that was where we got the inspiration for this new project. In addition, they used the underpass under Seaside Way and they brought in food trucks, they brought in picnic tables and they brought in crystal chandeliers and hung them under and created a. Southern California food truck party. Well, as Ted has moved on, the other phenomenon that has occurred is Instagram. You can't go to a party now without someone wanting to take a photo. The great news about these Instagram moments is if they're provocative enough, if they're cool enough. Not only does it market your city, i.e., Long Beach, but it also markets the association and it markets it to their colleagues and friends saying, Gee, you should be here, too. So what has been created at this campus is a turnkey facility that lets national associations which have limited budgets. They don't have budgets like Google and Facebook and others, but their budgets nonetheless now can be used for food and beverage while we add the rest to create those instagrammable moments. So with that last July, we opened up the cove and we like to thank Councilwoman Janine Parrish for the help on the lighting in there. It's become a very safe area to walk. A boon for our residents, but also a boon for our conventioneers. And I'd like to share with you in the past 12 months how this special space has been used. I can't believe. This is history. It's a party now. Everything's turnkey. It's just very creative. You know, there's so many opportunities to do phenomenal things with your event here. Long Beach is definitely one of the most innovated convention centers that I've worked in across the country. So what was a sleepy underpass? And quite honestly, foreboding at nighttime has now become an active, vibrant space. And last year, the Port of Long Beach was host to the National Association of Ports. And Mario introduced me to a lady from Puerto Rico, and she told me that she'd been coming for 25 years to these conventions. But she thought that their Long Beach convention was the best yet. They had used the arena and they had also used the cove two great spaces. In addition, Mayor Garcia came up with a request, which of course we love his request because it's always fun. And this one was Steve. Let's let's take care of the fountains out front. And the fountains were 40 years old, and they really needed help. And so with that, again, Councilwoman Jeanine helped as well. And we got there and Charlie Byrne from the Convention Center and I worked on this project and we now have our third turnkey space complete with trusses, outdoor stage lighting and all of you got to experience that at the inauguration in July. But we'd like to share with you what Medallia and other companies have used this space. But again, think of Instagrammable moments, think of cool parties, think of other cities. And I will share with you there is no other city like Long Beach. At nighttime when you walk around the fountains, it's beautiful. We were out there recently. There was a father with his two kids. It was 10:00 at night. It was. It was during the summer. And and they were just having a blast. And, you know, it's really a fun environment and it's a great, great spot with that. We also have our challenges ahead of us. And a couple of us have had conversations about what those challenges are. The as we've moved forward and we moved ahead of the pack, quite honestly, in the private sector, there is a there is a group called Gaylord Hotels, and they call them Convention Center Hotels. They're large hotels. They have an average of 1200 to 2, basically 3000 rooms. They have about the same footprint as the same size of our convention center. And Marriott Corporation bought them a few years ago. And they're growing them quickly. They're opening one in the Rockies. There's currently one in Washington, D.C. there one is open in Texas and of course, Nashville, which was the founding one of the Opryland. This for a meeting planner is almost a dream come true because you sign one convention and Gaylord Hotels usually try to sell three years consecutively. So you sell one convention under the same contract language and you do it for three years, so you get a three year run. And so we've had to compete with that. In Long Beach, for example, when you book Long Beach, you have a convention center contract, you have various hotel contracts anywhere from 4 to 10 on average. And so we really have to oversell on how we're so different. And we are different. And what makes us different is what we just went through our turnkey spaces and our great seating, but they are catching up to us. And one of the things and these are just a couple shots, of course, down in Opryland. And then the new Texan resort. So in essence, if you put a little roof over downtown Long Beach, that's what we're competing with, in essence. And in addition, our regional competition, Sacramento, is asking their city council for 360 million to redo their civic center, basically their convention center. They want $30 million to add a 40,000 square foot arena. Our adaptive reuse program for the Pacific Ballroom was only 10 million. And so we've taken our assets. We utilize them, given them birth in new fashions. Unfortunately, we've not had to bond or go after significant moneys to do what Sacramento is doing. But this will become a competitor as it's finished. In addition, Portland is adding a new hotel, Hyatt Hotel, right next to their convention center. For those of you who have been to Portland, you'll know there's not much to do around the convention center because they don't have a lot of hotel inventory. Now they're starting to grow. And so for us, we have the Gaylord, the the large box projects. We have large hotels in San Diego, Anaheim and L.A. that we're competing with that are 800 to 1200 rooms in size. And so for us, we need to continue to invest in the building. We've strategically taken the position we've invested in the exterior or the customer feeling of the building. We've, fortunately, have been ahead of the curve with that. Thank you to city management. Thank you to the mayor. Thank you to all of you for supporting that. And now we need to take care of the behind the house. It's a 1960s building. We have a lot of work that needs to be done on infrastructure. And so with that, we have to address that. And we've had those conversations. And, of course, we look forward to the leadership as we move forward into resolving those issues. We also have the Olympics coming up in 28, and that's less than ten years away. All of you have been involved in commercial projects. It really takes a good two years to get things up and running, which means then you have six years, six, seven years left to make sure you bring them under completion. So the time is now to do what we need to do at that facility. These are some of the renderings that you've seen in the past. It's going to be wonderful. Long Beach will be home to the world. And so it's going to be a great time for us to showcase our city in addition to progressive leadership. Four years ago. And Julia Wang came and said, Steve, we have this great idea. It's called Powwow. I reached out to the mayor. The mayor loved it. We reached out to city management Peyton Tom. They loved it. We reached out to the port and the port got on board. And before we knew it, we had the support of bringing pow wow to Long Beach. The artists that were here this past year, they personally and individually had contracts with Prada, Tiffany, Nike, Adidas and others, and they were here. It forgot DC Comics. And DC Comics. And go Superman. And so with that, we we've had the best artist in our city. And with that, these are the murals that they have left behind. This year alone, four pow wow. We had over 128 million in print and also digital press advertising equivalency, close to $1,000,000 in power alone this year. And we brought 43 press in just for powwow. The fun thing is, I think Pat West calls this the best urban renewal program going. $2.7 million is the aggregate valuation of 73 murals in four years. So in addition to all the publicity, in addition to creating a lot of recognition for the city and bringing people in, it's also left. That left us a legacy that's continuing to last at this time. I'd like to have Lauren Simpson share with you. Other things that we've done to bring pleasure travel into the city in addition to our convention travel. Lauren. Hello. So this year we continued our partnership with the aquarium and the Queen Mary on a co-op at in Sunset and West Ways Magazine for a combined circulation of 15 million. Instead of purchasing ads separately, we partnered together, which allowed us to have this two page spread in front of you both being highly visible versus each of us going in individually and having smaller ads. Furthermore, we've driven as we've driven leisure travel. It's been an incredible year in terms of exposure for the city of Long Beach. This past year, we've hosted several media visits, including a group visit of 38 four world renowned artists. I'm sorry, journalist and digital travel. Sorry, let me come down. 38 group visits, including digital influencers and writers from around the world. We hosted 26 individual media visits, which included, again, digital influencers, writers as well as editors from around the nation. Now, as are sales. Just like our sales team. Excuse me, our team relies on relationship building because of relationships and our proven commitment to service. Once again, we've had the chance to host the Latino bloggers. Now, these bloggers had a choice of hanging out with YouTube, Mazda and Neutrogena to name a few. But we had 80 who decided to hang out in Long Beach. Now that 80 represents about a fourth of the attendees for that conference. Here's a recap video of their experience here in Long Beach. As you can see, I've had a great time hanging out with those here in the city of Long Beach in their first year . The conference had an opening and sponsorship and the CVB stepped in to help them out and host a group. Well, now in their third year, Long Beach is chosen over top brands like a YouTube to hang out for their attendees. So we're doing something right. All of these efforts culminated into many amazing placements for us throughout the year. This one right behind you or in front of you was one placed in the New York Times. This one singular story had a circulation of 1.8 million. Now, just to backtrack a little bit, it took we pitched this outlet for over two years. The writer finally came out and hung out in our city. Had such a fantastic time that he wrote an incredible story. Again, one article equal a 1.1 circulation. And now to total it all out. For the past year we've had a total of 246 million in circulation. And this past year, we had an ad equivalency of 1.9 million. Our two overall impressions on print were 281,000 broadcast, 332 and again, 205 million impressions online. That includes both influencers. So social media posts, blog posts and online journalists. In terms of social media, we've seen double digit growth in our followership. As you can see, Facebook is nearing 50,000. We have over 20,000 on Twitter and Instagram is nearing 20,000. Now, keep in mind, all of our followers are organic. We've not paid for any of them. Aside from that, a lot of them consist of travel writers, digital influencers and editors who taught our city shared stories online or in print, and then continue to share their Long Beach experiences and throwback Thursday posts. We've had some great movement in terms of social and wanted to update our website. We had a soft launch, and something that's great about this new website is its way of harnessing social media. So on it you'll see tons of user generated content and great video. Another key component is that is the use of virtual reality and 362 hours. Once you launch the VR, you'll notice that there are blue waypoints towards the top, singling out hotels. Our website, I'm sorry, our Long Beach Airport. Major attractions as well as our convention center. The Tories also feature an interactive video component. We offer experiences like driving in a drift car where the user is able to put on their headsets, see everything that's in front of them, but then also see everything behind them. So as you know, when the drift cars go, all the smoke that flies up, all you have to do is turn your mouse or turn your headset, and you can see all of that happening behind you. Now, this is something that keeps us ahead of the competition. Especially since we know that today's consumer is all about the experience. With our new website we're right on target so have fun exploring. Visit Long Beach dot com. As you can see, we've had an incredible year in terms of exposure to the city of Long Beach and the ability to provide true experiences to those looking to travel . Now I'd like to bring John Molina, former board member and current developer here in the city. He accompanied us to on our D.C.. Mission and pitched the city as well as his current project. Thank you. Pete. Thank you very much. I'm John Molina. Thank you for letting me speak in front of you, Mr. Mayor and council members. I've been on the board of the CVB for many years. I just recently got off the board. Ironically, I wasn't in the hospitality business when I was on the board. And now that I'm getting into the hospitality business, I'm getting off the board. You see the result of what these folks do? You see them when you go downtown in restaurants and you see the conventioneers walking around with their badges. You see them every time. It's August, September, and you're looking at the budget. You see how much money they bring in. You see the wonderful projects every year or two that Steve Goodling and the crowd of the CVB comes in, whether it's the Pacific Ballroom or Bogart's or the Fountains or the or the bridge. But what you don't see is the hard work that goes in behind it. And I had the opportunity a couple of months ago to go on a Washington, D.C. trip. And sit with the folks from the CVB and the other hotels in Pitch Long Beach. You have no better ambassadors for this city than this group of people. They love the city. They work hard. They know their city inside and out. And they really bond connect with the people that they're trying to get out. From, whether it's Washington, D.C. or New York or Austin, Texas. And believe you me, there is a lot of competition for this business out there. And these folks do a fantastic job. They build the relationships and they sell the city. For every dollar. You invest, you get $6. Back. That's a pretty good deal. And what Steve and his team have done in the convention is really invest in the long term for the city. And I have the pleasure of introducing a video that shows our experiences in Washington, D.C.. I could do testimonials for Long Beach forever, only because it's near and dear to my heart. We have had the best experiences here because of contracting the space and working with the CVB and working with our sales people at the hotels. And every single hotel goes out of their way to make sure you. Have exactly what you need and they're with you the whole way through as the CVB is, as your convention salesperson is. And all of the staff at the convention center. Because there is such. A connection, the passion that they have. For the destination. It's contagious. And we end up for unit falling in love with the city the same way because they're truly invested in their city. And it shows. I loved Long Beach because of the sense of true partnership I get and bringing my meeting to their city because again, it starts with the Convention and. Visitors Bureau down. Pension center. To the hotels, to the. Restaurants. The whole. Entire city. And you walk away feeling, I have a true partnership with Long Beach. The Long Beach CVB is. Such an extraordinary partner for event planners. They know the city in their hands. And at the same time, there's a lot of cooperation with the different organizations within the city. The building works with us when we're moving stages. Three days before the event starts, all hands on deck, whether it's the fire department, police department, the building itself. We also had a very special situation. We really wanted to do a party on the beach in Long Beach since we were there. And the club went to bat for us, called in a lot of favors so we could actually do a beach party. On the beach. So it was great and they were great. We came in and we were actually fashion first floor. You know, that's kind of our concept. You got to have good lighting to show color. And the lighting and convention center wasn't the best. So within 24 hours, we had an answer from Steve and the crew at the Convention Center in the CVB, letting us know that they're guaranteeing they're going to put in new lights for our group. And one of the key things that Long Beach did differently than any other destination we've had the pleasure of working with, is that without asking, without prompting, I received an economic impact statement. We were able. To see directly that our meeting allowed people in the. Destination to. Work during that week. So kudos to. Long Beach for offering that. Without me asking. Everybody goes above and beyond the call of duty to try. And make sure. That your program is outstanding. And they want you to come back. They want you to have a great experience. So you'll want to continue to come back. And we do the top notch. It's wonderful. I think in the. Convention center, for instance, I had. A meeting. We were in a ballroom. I needed some cushy chairs for my panel discussion. And no question, the my convention services person picked up the. Chairs from outside, brought them. In. Done. And you don't always get that kind of service at a convention center. It's great. You know what? Honestly, I have to say, you know, I know that people say things because they think it's the right thing to say. But I'm a very honest person and I can tell you, I love Long Beach. They are the most terrific, terrific place to be. Long Beach. The people are great. The venues are great and they really take that personal touch. They really do. They take a personal touch to make sure that your event goes well, that you're happy. And the people are as friendly as they appear. They are definitely. Very easy to work with. They are willing to. Be flexible. And create spaces, even in spaces that they have already set. Up, that you can do something new and different with your event. Working with the crew at the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau is an amazing experience. It is so imaginative and innovative. I think those are probably the most innovative cities in the country. The world. This year was best in the West. Maybe next year will be best in the U.S.. Mr. Goodling talked about the Gaylord talked about what's going on in Portland, in Sacramento. I'm biased, but those folks don't hold a candle to the uniqueness of Long Beach with our convention center and the hotels and the waterfront and the restaurants, etc. But we need your continued support to put on a top notch CVB to return the money back to you. Now I'd like to introduce John Thomas, who I'm sure you all know, who's also a board member. People. Good evening, council members. Mr. Mayor, nice to see you again. What also makes Colombia so unique is our collection of nonprofits. These non-profits work hard every day to leverage their resources to deliver services and programs that, frankly, the city couldn't deliver and maybe that the public sector cannot deliver. The CVB has. Long enjoyed a relationship with these nonprofit partners. It's been strategic in our values and our mission statement in the city as well as in all the districts to assist where we have an opportunity and one special occasion. We'll be celebrating. Here pretty soon. Another month or two is our very own Ronald McDonald House, who's since its building in the city of Long Beach. And thanks to the CVB. Our hospitality partners. Our restaurants and catering partners. Not one meal has been missed at the Ronald McDonald. House because of these partners, and I think that's a very significant sign of how the CVB. Our partners play in the city. To make sure that our nonprofits are accommodated. Without further ado, I have a guess what a video to show you. I think it might be the last. Get it up, but we'll keep your video. And thank you so much for your participation in your support of the CVB. The CVB is beyond just events. They actually connect the community to other national resources and also build our capacity as an organization. The participants weren't all. Of the space. They were so proud to be Cambodian and they. Felt like they were valuable. Contributors to the larger. Society. Unfortunately, I've attended a lot of funerals in my time in the union and as president of Local 372, I can tell you I have never attended a service where a convention or center bureau or an organization like the CVB has gone to the extent. Long Beach, CVB have done. The CVB and the Convention Center gave discounted rate to the firefighters who traveled from across the nation, and they were given a discounted rate, which was absolutely a blessing to our people. What's been wonderful this year is that the CVB actually became one of our corporate sponsors. And that's wonderful because what it really does is it promotes the bridge building between two organizations within Long Beach. And what everybody wants is to always be included. Everybody wants a seat at the table, and anytime you go to CVB, they make sure that happens. You know, as nonprofits, you know, we all. Have our. Specialty. Like Central Cha, like the core of the Cambodian community. And we were given a specialty chef who designed our. Food for. Our events to celebrate our. Culture. So really, because I know that they will do. So much for. Us that we won't have to do and I don't have to stress about it. I know it's going to be a successful event. They work with the nonprofits. They want us to succeed. And that's so. Rare. There was this unused space and and the people at the CDB had a fantastic vision for it. They redecorated it. They opened it up, made it beautiful and new, and brought these different performing arts groups. And here we are and we're part of it. And we're so excited to be part of the Beverly O'Neill Theater. Thanks to the CDC. Let's face it, the CVB works daily on trying to get the word out and bring attention to our great city. They've increased marketing, which is helping all the arts and creating greater awareness in the community. And I think they do all this because they understand and value the importance of quality arts in our community. One of the most visionary initiatives that they've launched in the last few years that has greatly benefited the symphony and all the artistic partners is the creation of an arts brochure that publicizes all of the different happenings at the center. And we are so fortunate that they provide that kind of marketing support, and it's a brilliant idea. They are more than a convention center. They are our best friends, and that's for sure. They were step by step and made that. Unique experience. Marvelous. It has become a dynamic force for the city of language. We have groups, we have so many nonprofits in this region, and they utilize the facilities for their fundraisers. Plus, they're charming to work with and they work hard. When you call the city, you're not just renting a room. You're not just getting a meal. You really are getting in touch with people that care and they care deeply. And you just can't find that other large cities. They love plumbing. And they know the value of. What makes Long Beach beautiful. Which is the diversity. What people also don't know about the Convention Visitors Bureau is that. They also support the. Youth, but that's part of their community involvement, and they've done that for many years without asking for us to broadcast that. They have pride and community because they invest. In this community. Great. On behalf of our entire tourism partners behind us, if I could ask our CVB staff first to stand so we could thank them for their hard work this year. And as all of you know, without our convention center partners, we couldn't even begin to do what we do. If Charlie Byrne and your team, Veronica, if you could all stand as well. And our hotel partners. You heard about it, the rates that were given for the fire. Sadly, what happened with Captain Rose this year and others, again, it's a great partnership. So could all of our membership stay if we could just thank them for doing what they do? The best thing. And I think Beverly O'Neil said it, and that is we're Long Beach. We're collective. Not only does this entire group sell the city every day. Not only do we welcome conventioneers and let them know that we what we can do for them. But we're also bringing in press. We're showing them how to sell the city. And beyond that, we're working with our nonprofits because if they're successful, we're successful. And that's what we should be doing. So all these folks behind me make it all happen. We appreciate your support in making it happen. And again, thank you for another wonderful year. Thank you so much, Mr. Goodling. We have we have a couple we have a couple of items as part of this. The general public comment is not here. This is just on the hearing comments. And then we have any any any other comments on the hearing, which we don't. Councilman Pearce and he comes for we vote. We have one other item at CPB related as well. Okay. So, members, please cast your votes on the hearing. Motion carries. Okay. Then we have the companion item is 20, which is the CVB Agreement Item.

Recommendation to receive and file a staff report regarding the National Cyber Security Awareness Month of October.

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Motion carries. Thank you. Item 25. Report from Technology and Innovation Recommendation to receive and file a staff report regarding the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month of October. The question in a second. Any public comment scene and please cast your votes. Oh. That is nice. You want to start from what you said? I think. Francis, focus. Oh, sure. They stayed this late with them for then. Thank you for that. An honorable mayor and city council. We would like to announce that the city of Long Beach is joining the Department of Homeland Security in honoring the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month held annually in October. This is an annual campaign to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity. And just as the technology continues to evolve, so has the malicious cyber threats and landscape on corporations, governmental agencies and individuals. So here tonight to talk more about this is the city's new cyber risk officer, Veronica mitchell. Veronica comes from us from the Department of Defense, and we're glad her to have her on board. So before I turn this presentation over to Veronica, I'd like to bring your attention to the screen for a brief cybersecurity video clip. Right. So you. Just take people. A joke. But during the interim, I will say that I saw your new poster in the elevator on the way to our floor. Thank you very much. Just a note, perhaps a conversation with Mr. Julie as that drop in roll. We now have fire retardant clothing for children and the new campaign has actually closed the door. Just a little piece of information about the fire service. Q With a motion in a second on the item, is there any public comment saying Please cast your votes. Or what happened to the video? It was on. The video player. They couldn't get sound on it.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy; approving an implementation and evaluation plan as required by Ordinance 125604; amending Ordinance 125724, which adopted the 2019 Budget; changing appropriations to the Department of Education and Early Learning and various budget control levels, and from various funds in the Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.

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The Report of the Gender Equity Safe Communities, New Americans and Education Committee Agenda Item 17 Council Bill 119 480 An Ordinance relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy. Catherine Gonzalez Council President Harrell, if I may request that the clerk also read Agenda Items 18 and 19 into the record. I'd like to speak to all three of them at once. Excellent. Please do that. Agenda Item 18 Resolution 31881a resolution relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy approving a partnership agreement between the City of Seattle and the Seattle College District and Agenda Item 19 Resolution 31882a resolution relating to the 2018 Families, Education, Preschool and Promise Levy approving a partnership between the City of Seattle and the Seattle School District . Number one, the committee recommends the resolutions be approved. Adopted. We will vote on them individually, of course. Councilmember Gonzalez, lead us through these. Thank you. Council President Harrell I spoke to all three of these pieces of legislation during council briefing today. I won't rehash all of the remarks that I made this morning, since I know that I spent quite some time going through all of the details of the amended version of the Council, Bill and I walked us through the bare components of the partnership agreements with our partners. I do just want to say that the bill, the underlying bill, which was originally transmitted by the mayor's office, the city council in this particular version of the bill is it includes nine different amendments from committee work in my committee. All all really centered around making sure that the implementation and evaluation plan, as presented in this Council Bill is in alignment with the the priorities of the City Council as adopted both in the ordinance and in the resolution that we all considered last year before the levy went to two voters for their consideration in the fall. And again, I won't belabor those points. I went through them pretty thoroughly this morning during a council briefing, but I'm very excited about having the council bill in front of us at this juncture, which will effectively provide appropriations to the Department of Education and Early Learning in order for Diehl to be able to begin the process of contracting out with partners, to begin the process of investing taxpayer dollars in the various areas of education, both from preschool to the K-through-12 system. And, of course, by establishing a sustainable revenue stream for the Seattle Promise Program, which will provide two free years of college for high school graduates of our public schools. And so Council Bill 119480 would accomplish all of those things consistent with the levy as adopted and approved by the voters. And of course, our Levy Oversight Committee also considered the bill and the resolutions that I'm about to talk to and recommends that the city council approve all of the above. The two resolutions that we will consider 3181 and 31882. Our resolutions that would approve the partnership agreements between Seattle School District Number one and the Seattle College District. These are our first two identified partners as it relates to the K through 12 Investments and the Seattle Promise Program. And again, the FAP Levy Oversight Committee reviewed those partnership agreements and approved or recommends that the City Council adopt those resolutions. I will also note that as it relates to the Seattle school district there, the Seattle School Board did review and consider the partnership agreements and they approved those partnership that partnership agreement last week during their Seattle school board meeting. I will just end by saying a few thank you's. There are some folks in the audience today and some folks who couldn't be here today. But I do want to thank some folks before we take a final vote. On advancing the implementation and evaluation plan and the accompanying partnership agreements. I'd like to thank Chancellor Pan from the Seattle Colleges. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. And Dr. Sheila Edwards Lang also here from Seattle Colleges. Thank you so much to both of you for your ongoing partnership and making sure that we got the model just right and that we're centering the Seattle Promise program on on those students who have the least amount of access and opportunity to pursue a college degree or a certification for a career after after graduating from high school . So really thank you. Thank you to both of you for all of the work that you've been doing us and for your ongoing commitment to making college accessible and affordable for as many students as as we possibly can. So thank you both. I also wanted to thank Superintendent Denise Juneau and her staff over at the Seattle Public School District, number one for all of their ongoing partnership and cooperation in structuring our education investments in a way that will really, really wrap around a student who has additional needs to be able to learn and and be successful in their academics. I've really enjoyed getting to know and work with Superintendent Juneau on these really critically important issues and have just been really honored to be able to share that space with her and to really see her center. The academic performance of our students that are furthest away from educational justice within the Seattle Public School System. So thank you all for your partnership. Equal thanks. Go out to the Seattle School Board and their members really appreciate their insight as we continue to develop these investments. And again, making sure that these partnership agreements are workable for the Seattle school district is really, really important to making sure that the investments are being leveraged as as efficiently and as strongly as possible as they continue to look at their budget as well. And then I would also like to thank the Department Education Early Learning director Dwayne Chappelle and all of his staff for all of their really hard work on shepherding this along. Over the last a year and a half or so, we've actually all collectively have been working on the families and Education, Preschool and Promise Levy proposal and now implementation evaluation plan since 2017. So it has been a long road and I'm really excited to be able to be at this juncture when we can finally give our final vote of approval to the Department of Education and Early Learning to begin deploying the dollars and investing in our kids through our partners. So thank you so much to Director Chappelle, who just happened to walk in. It's like he heard me and to all of his staff for really being so committed to to this work and ultimately to the kids of our city. So thank you all so much. I also want to thank Mayor Jenny Durkan for her cooperation and her steadfast commitment to working with my office and with City Council on advancing these really important areas of investment. Especially want to thank Chris Delano from her office, who's here with us and serves as a representative on the FAP Levy Oversight Committee. Thank you all so much for your ongoing partnership in and wanting to continue to work in a spirit of collaboration to make sure we give our kids the best opportunity they can have. And then lastly in my office, wanted to thank V Nguyen, who really worked very hard and diligently on shepherding through a lot of my policy priorities in this implementation and evaluation plan and the overall levy as a whole. I also want to thank her for shepherding through a lot of her own priorities in this levy to continue to invest in English language learners and diversifying our teachers and educators within the Seattle Public School System. And in really making sure that we are continuously centering our work on those students who again, are furthest away from opportunity. And then, last but not least, wanted to thank our former colleague, Rob Johnson, who was my co-chair on the Select Committee on Education and really worked closely with me and my staff and my office to just continue to champion the needs of kids, particularly in the K through 12 system. So he is missed because he's not here with us in in in the in the physical sense. But his legacy will continue to live on in the work that he did on this particular levy. So I want to give him a shout out also for all of his partnership on the Families and Education Preschool Levy, including this implementation evaluation plan. I think the only thing he didn't get to do was take a final vote in committee. So I know he's watching. So I want to thank him. I thank him for that. And. And with that being said, I would like to move for the council to adopt Council Bill 119480. It doesn't have to be moved because. Okay, well, then I won't move it, but I'll just encourage you all to support it. Very good. Well done. Any other comments or questions? Customer mosquito. Well, I was ready to second that because I'm very excited about the work that you've done. And I just want to congratulate you. Councilmember Gonzalez, you mentioned you and your co-chair have been working on this for years. And as we talked about it in your committee, there was a round of applause and murmurs as people had talked about how long they had been waiting for this to happen. So just a huge amount of congratulations to you and everything that you got accomplished in this levy. You had a good document to start with and you made it even better. Thank you for all the work that you did to include race and social justice, especially trying to think about alternative career pathways, good living wage jobs, making sure that we had a focus on our earliest learners. You mention a legacy as we think about our former colleague, Councilmember Johnson, and I think you should also give yourself a pat on the back for what did that for you, for the legacy that you've also included in this legislation. I also want to thank our colleagues, and especially you as the chair, for your support for the amendment that we were able to work in to make sure that our public dollars are being used to really support our institutions that are adhering to labor laws and a commitment to labor harmony. The amendment that we got in, as you read this morning, item number eight ensures that our city dollars makes ensure that our city dollars are providing a baseline protection for the labor policies that the city has already passed and that we don't further erode labor protections or collective worker voice. And I just think that this is really important to lift up, especially in the era of the Janice and the attacks on labor nationally, that we continue in this city to stand up and show what it means to be a strong Union City, to support workers across the board, whether or not they have a collective bargaining agreement or not. And I applaud you for including this in there. We were really excited to make sure that our amendment was included because we wanted to make sure that we we applaud the fact that when we have higher unionization rates, we see higher retention, less turnover, less stress and improved health outcomes. And all of these things are good for our kiddos and our city at large. I also think that it's important that we continue to applaud the good work that our public schools are doing just by recognizing the hard task that you all have in front of you to to raise our youngest learners all the way through now the Seattle Promise Program. So thank you for everything that you do and to your frontline staff for helping to raise and grow our kiddos in the in this community. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember skater Councilmember Swan. Thank you, Carol. This resolution adopts the implementation plan detailing how the funding from the education levy will be distributed to schools and programs. When the mayor first sent it to council, my office was concerned to see that the mayor explicitly put in the implementation plan that funding might go to charter schools in Seattle. I do not support charter schools as an institution. They are cynically used to disempower teachers and their unions. They remove democratic community oversight of schools and they drain resources from the already deeply underfunded district schools. Ever since labor movements have won public education, they have been relentless, profit driven forces trying to privatize it. In the nineties, these forces tried to push for vouchers that would take public education funds and put them towards private schools. When they failed to win support for that. They started pushing for charter schools, which in many states do not. In Washington state are operated by for profit companies with devastating impacts for both children and our teachers unions. The Waltons, the owners of Walmart and the Gates Foundation. Both are examples of institutions that pour money into charter schools, even in cases where charter schools may be well run. They siphon off funding from the district schools, hurting the education of other students. And of course, we know the most adversely affected are very low income and poverty stricken communities with no accountability. Seattle's charter schools are nonprofit, which is good, but they are all run by charter school chains out of California. I hope these problems are considered when funding awards are made so that Seattle Public Schools does not lose out. I will vote in favor of this implement implementation plan because I support the overwhelming majority of it. But I just wanted to state for the record that I do not support funds being taken from our public schools to fund charter schools. Ultimately, educators are charter schools will need to unionize to push back against the privatization and austerity agenda of the so-called school reformers. And it is encouraging that charter school teachers in cities like Chicago are starting to move towards this. As a member of an educator Union American Federation of Teachers Local 1789. I know firsthand how important unions are. Adjunct professors will tell you. You know, I join professors who cobble together a living by teaching courses, and different universities will tell you that they are paid more in introductions where they have a union than in universities where they don't. Even though the universities don't have unions and may actually have larger resources simply because when you have a union, you have better wages and benefits. If only educators at Seattle charter schools would want to unionize. I would urge you to contact the Seattle Educators Union or my office so that we can make sure that all charter schools are unionized and then ultimately brought into the public purview. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Swan. There's no further comments. I'll say a few words and then I'll ask Councilman Bizarre if she'd like to close. I just want to thank Councilmember Johnson and Councilmember Gonzalez basically for doing their job so well, that this is a time where the Legislative Department will do a very deep dove, almost very granular in its approach to make sure that the investments are exactly where our priorities are. And that's not easy. Work is thorough work. And I want to thank you and commend you for the level of detail that this legislation presents. Thank you very much. Councilwoman Gonzales, would you like to see any closing remarks before we vote? Just really quickly, I want to thank Councilmember and want for her remarks. I think it is important for us as an institution, an agency that continues to invest in education, to make sure that we are centering the children that we are investing in at the center of that work. And and I also think that our investments in the area of educator diversity really signals to potential partners that those are the things that we really value. So even though charter schools will be allowed to apply for levy dollars, it doesn't mean that they're guaranteed funding. And it is my expectation, I think the city council's expectation that deal will be taking our priorities very seriously, seriously in evaluating any applications for funding of public dollars in the space of education. So it is not it is very common for us to invest in nonprofit organizations. You know, our Seattle preschool promise I'm sorry, Seattle Preschool program relies on nonprofit agencies that are not public entities to deliver preschool and early learning opportunities. We also have a similar partnership with Seattle school districts in terms of co-locating preschool classrooms with K through 12 rooms. And again, I think my expectation and this council's expectation is that we will continue to work. With partners in the area of education that really fundamentally understand and have a strong commitment to race and social justice, equity and to educational justice, and at the same time, with partners who are willing to commit to transparency, accountability, reporting, data sharing and also to their workforce. We know that when we invest in our educators and when our educators look like the students they are serving, we do well in terms of reducing the opportunity and achievement gap for our students of color in particular. And and I have full faith in deal that they will figure out how to tread the line of complying with the law of the land while also continuing to center our investments on the students who need the most investment in order to be able to succeed in school and and beyond. And there is some work that is left to be done through the implementation and evaluation plan. For example, figuring out how to connect students who are graduating from charter schools, figuring out how to connect them to the opportunity of Seattle. Promise is something that still needs to be done. Again, those are dollars that go directly to and opportunities that go directly to students. And that's a good example of when I think this council would be supportive in general of making sure that those partnerships exist for purposes of connecting with the actual student and not punishing the student for having gone through a charter school process but could still benefit from Seattle promise. And the last thing that I'll say that I learned in terms of Council President's comments around the granular details in this space. One of the things I found most astonishing is when you dig into the demographics of who is attending the three charter schools in Seattle, it is a predominantly majority demographic of students, of color, of students and children who are on free and reduced lunch. And I think that's exactly the kind of population we want to be helping in the future. So my hope is that we've been able to thread the needle well enough here to be able to comply with state law while at the same time continuing to center our work on the students who need it the most. And, and I'm looking forward to continuing to, to do that hard work with deal and with community partners to make sure that we continue to get it right. So with that being said, thank you so much. Really appreciate my colleagues engagement on this, somewhat wonky but very important policy area and really look forward to continuing this work in my committee. Thank you. Okay. I think we're ready to vote. We're going to vote separately on three different piece of legislation. We'll take the bill. First, please call the role on the passage of Bill. Constable 119480. O'Brien I want I make sure I. Gonzalez I. Herbold, i. Whereas to by president narrow high eight in favor and unopposed. Bill passed and show sign it. We're going to vote on resolution 31881. Those in favor of adopting resolution 31881. Please vote i. I those oppose vote no. The motion carries and resolutions adopt and share with Senate and those in favor of adopting resolution 3188 to please vote. I. I. There's little work on those eyes. Please, Lord, I. There you go. Now we're now in rhythm. Those vote no. The motion carries a resolution of Adobe and the chair will sign it. Just one moment. I need a just a quick second. Can we applaud? Yes, we can. Yay! I was standing between the end and identifying a new colleague. So thank you so much for allowing me an extended period of commentary on this. Thank you. Okay. Filibustering and I may have to do that as well. Okay. We will move to the adoption of other resolutions. I don't believe we have any resolutions for introduction. Adoptions will move to other business, which of course is our council vacancy position.

AN ORDINANCE related to the Cheasty Greenspace Trails and Bike Park Pilot Project and amending Section 5 of Ordinance 124546.

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The Report of the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee Agenda Item two Council Bill 118506 related to the tasty green space trails and the Bike Park Pilot Project and amending Section five of Ordinance one two, four, five, four, six. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Bagshaw. Thank you very much. So I spoke to this this morning and also, as a reminder to my colleagues, this is something that we worked on a full year ago. And there was concern from those who opposed adding the new recreational opportunity in the green space to give us some more time. So we agreed to do just exactly that. And we developed a project advisory team and it was from the neighborhood with both the supporters and the opponents. The project advisory team met five times and in February recommended that we move forward with this. Our Board of Parks Commissioner Commissioners then took a look at it and the goals being to increase recreational opportunities in an area where there need to be more to connect our environment with our schools, our parks, our neighborhoods, and really to improve the oversight and actual diminution of some of the illegal activities that we know that were going on and this long recent green space. I do want to say thank you very much to all of you who volunteered to clean that up. I've enjoyed the work parties and I want to say a special thanks to Jay and also to my good friend, Mr. DeYoung. You've done a tremendous job of bringing the volunteers out. And what this will do now is move the $100,000 forward from the Neighborhood Matching Fund to be able to be spent on this. The outreach and planning will continue. Parks will come back to our Parks Committee Quarterly to report on it, and they will create an environmental checklist to evaluate the project as they go. And the evidence to damage to the wetlands erosion, vandalism, parking patterns that negatively impact the neighborhood will be considered and there will be adequate separation of bikes and pedestrians on this path . Bikes will be going around the perimeter in one direction. Pedestrians will have connections in two directions, and after the project is constructed, it's considered to be a 15 month pilot and Parks will come back, make a report. If the impacts are negative, they can make a change at that point. If they're positive, they can go forward. So again, I want to thank you to the Friends of Chiefs to Greenspace and Mountain View for your dedication to this project. I'm recommending that we vote yes and move forward with this. Thank you. Questions or comments, Councilmember Rasmussen. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilmember Bagshaw, for helping lead us through this effort during the last year. I wanted to make sure that the city's policies that do protect our green spaces were being followed in this process. And as the project is carried out, if it is carried out, one of the things I think that's important to remember is that we do not prohibit uses or active uses in our greenbelt. But what we do say is that if active uses are going to occur in the greenbelt, they have to be minimal activities, ones that don't have a negative impact upon the greenbelt. And that's what we wanted to make sure. With regard to the proposed bike park and trail, I think that the Parks Department has done a good job of evaluating how best to construct a trail there that wouldn't have a negative impact upon the greenbelt. And they've come up with a design that is likely to not have a negative impact. This is just a 15 month pilot project that requires rigorous reporting from the Parks Department every quarter. They have to report back to the Parks Department on the effect of the bike trail in the greenbelt. So I think that this provides good protection to ensure that there is an active use, but also that it's not having a negative impact upon the greenbelt that's consistent with our city policies. In the meantime, we have asked the Parks Department to review and modify, if necessary, our greenbelt natural area guidelines. We want them to do that with broad public participation, and that will help guide further decisions. With regard to any other proposed uses in our greenbelt, we want to make sure that the policies that we adopt give clear guidance to the Parks Department when proposals are made to you, make active uses within the greenbelt, and that's what that process is to do, and it is underway now. So I do support this. I understand the community's concerns about the greenbelt. I, I appreciate very much their concerns and their stewardship over the greenbelt. And this process that we have moving forward will help to ensure that the effects that they're concerned about will not occur. Thank you, Councilor. Remember Lakota. I have actually I was moved to ask some questions actually from our speakers today because my back show, if you could help me understand, I do remember voting before and I was under the impression that we were safeguarding the space and was also under the impression that this proposal would still do that. I, I seem to recall one of the points that we did not approve of was having mountain bikes go through the park. I thought that was one of those elements that was there. And so before you answered that one, I got a couple other questions. So my understanding is that the current design is a perimeter path, nothing through. One of the concerns I had was to stop bikes from going through the middle of the park. And so if you could address how we're monitoring that and then the issues were raised that this park would not longer be no longer monitoring it, although Cosmo Rasmussen said they would be civic, he clarified that. And also the statement was made that Parks has been not releasing information. I haven't heard that before. Have you heard any complaints about not releasing information? And the last is on the appeals for the hearing examiner. The first ruling was to proceed, as was pointed out, not significance. And maybe this is a question for someone else. I don't believe you generally hold moving forward if there's an appeal. My impression was that we generally go for it. But if you could answer this question, I'm sorry to pile them on. Yeah, right. And I didn't write them down as we go. So let's start with the beginning. One, and you may. Want to remind me as we go. The Parks Department did ask for the neighborhood to come together through this, Patty. And the agreement was made that we would not have a path going through the park, but it would be, as you said, a circumference park. So that is like the pilot. There is a lot of interest in making a pedestrian pathway like they've done down at the southern part of Chisti that connects the top of Beacon Hill down to the Columbia Street Station. There's a lot of interest in doing that with a pedestrian pathway, but that's going to be on hold for now. It's just a circumference around that around the edges where the bicycle and the two way pedestrian path will go in for now. And then we'll see how that goes. Remind me of the other questions. Question the information being released. Nothing but salient information not being released by person no. Nothing about that. I have Parks Department is listening today. We will let them know that there's been a particular request and to make sure that that's attended to. And the monitoring council member garden may have more information on that than I do. And the monitoring element. Monitoring is going on monitor is continually going on, particularly around the wetlands, the evidence of any damage, obviously species renewal, water quality erosion, any damage to the existing plants, any habitat disturbances. That monitoring is going to continue and a deep continuation every quarter. We'll come back and make that report to the Parks Committee beginning as soon as this gets going. So I imagine the next quarterly report will be December or January when we will hear about it. So I heard also the concern that there wasn't going to be monitoring. Very specific monitoring is going on. And that's in no small part because of the concerns that have been raised by the neighborhood. And in the last was the appeals process. We can gather more details on that. I can only give you this much is that the appeals are ongoing, but the keeper process will continue. And the as I said, the the impact on the park, the impact on the neighborhoods is important, critical. And that information will be coming back to our parks committee. So we will have all that. It's not like it's going away. It's not like it's being swept away. That's part of all of this stuff going forward. We're releasing the hundred thousand dollars so that the commitment to getting an effective project in place occurs and it starts right away. Thank you. I saw it on their hands, went into speakerphone. Councilmember Rasmussen I thought Councilmember Herrell was adamy, but he deferred to you or you deferred. Thank you. Just to answer Councilmember Lakatos question about reporting by parks permit as required by this council bill, it specifically says there have to be quarterly reports for the next 15 months. I know that Councilmember Banks have said is underway, but it's required by the ordinance as well. So that's codified. Councilmember Herald. Thank you. I will be supporting this legislation and I have not missed any committee meetings where we've discussed this, you know, this, this Chishti Park You know, my parents lived about six blocks from it for 30 years and my son lives across the street from it. So when I've and I've met in homes I've met in. At the park have met at coffee shops to discuss this. And it saddens me that I have sort of a community sort of torn apart for something that could, I think, be a very beautiful asset, a beautiful gem for the South and of Seattle, and will be so under this vision. The monitoring piece is not taken lightly at all that I've been very critical of parks for certain projects in the past and will continue to be critical of parks if they do not deliver. But I'm asking them to deliver for the beauty of this park. You know, we have competing policies here. On the one hand, we are trying to look at greenspace somewhat new. As we approach our density. We are looking at a cultural piece where we can have a very diverse group of kids and young adults get together and and not only enjoy the the activity of mountain biking, but enjoy conservation and helping us get rid of some of these invasive species. We have a great opportunity in front of us, but we do have some geotechnical issues. We do have we know that I've looked at some of the some of the areas in the ground that we have to monitor. Jefferson Park is a one of our gems in the city. And, you know, parking is is terrible up there. And and so we don't know who's going to use this park and in parks does not have the skill set really to monitor parking. So I'm calling upon them to actually look at other departments to make sure we are monitoring how people are getting to the park at park and quite frankly, who are using the park. It does not bother me that if people from all over the city are using the park, but we need to know who is using the park and make sure again that we have neighbors that have been there for 20, 30, 40 years, that this is an enjoyable experience for all. The bottom line is we have a phenomenal group of volunteers, people who love the community as much as anyone else, putting a lot of blood, sweat and tears behind this effort. We have a great opportunity to have some cross-cultural experiences meeting this nature deficit and so many of our kids having a beautiful pedestrian trail alongside the bike trail, making sure that safety comes first, that this is a safe activity. We are going to learn more about what this entails as we balance the policy between minimal activity in greenspace and recreational activity. I think we have a tremendous opportunity and four in front of us and we will hold parks accountable. We will do more than monitor. We will evaluate, learn, invest where we have to and look forward to supporting this this this investment. Because I think if done right, it will be a tremendous gem for generations to come. And again, you know, if we're going to be completely honest and completely transparent, we do have a deep analysis that is is not completed. We have some pending issues in front of the hearing. Examiner In a perfect world, before we passed legislation would help have all of that in back of us. This is not a perfect world. I'm working very closely with both parks and again, everyone involved in this effort. We're not going anywhere in terms of monitoring this. And so let's let's make sure this works out for all communities. And thank you for I know this is not a great news for you. But again, let's keep the communication lines open. Let's preserve this beautiful gem and move forward as one community. Thank you. Are there any other comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Okamoto I Rasmussen I so want back shore garden i Harrill i Lakota. Hi O'Brien. I am President Burgess nine. In favor and unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read items three, four and five.

AN ORDINANCE adopting the Initial Health through Housing Implementation Plan to govern the expenditure of sales and use tax proceeds authorized by K.C.C. chapter 4A.503 and RCW 82.14.530 from 2022 through 2028 and creating the health through housing advisory committee; and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4A.300.

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And that takes us to our first item on today's agenda, which is the proposed health through housing implementation plan. We had an initial briefing on this item at our last meeting. The ordinance was duly referred to the Regional Policy Committee and the Committee as a whole. It was amended and passed by the Regional Policy Committee last week. It was Sanders supporter and Cherie Sue from council staff were here to provide the staff report. And Ms.. Sanders, are you leading off today? Yes, I am. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. April Sanders, council policy staff. As you said, I'm joined today by my colleagues Sam Porter and Sherri Sue. The materials for item five began on page eight of your packet. Proposed ordinance 2020 10330 would adopt the initial Health three housing implementation plan to govern the expenditure of health through housing sales and use tax proceeds. We last briefed this in CAO on November 2nd, so I won't go through the entire staff report or rather review what action took place in our PC last week. This item received a mandatory dual referral and was amended and passed by the Regional Policy Committee. Last Wednesday. The APC passed a series of amendments which are summarized on page 26 of your packet. The RPC passed or sorry, Amendment one amended any reporting requirements in the ordinance language. In the underlying ordinance, the committee is required to annually send a letter to the Executive and the Clerk of the Council to notify them that the committee's annual reporting through website update is available for review. The amendment required the annual report to be transmitted by the Executive on behalf of the Advisory Committee, as well as a motion acknowledging receipt of the report, the clerk would be required to provide an electronic copy to all council members as well as members and alternates of the RPC. Amendment to replace Attachment eight with the revised Attachment eight that made various technical corrections and clarifications in the initial implementation plan. The remaining amendments amended that revised Attachment Day Amendment three required notification to the Regional Policy Committee members and alternates for any substantive budget changes. Note that in the proposed implementation plan, substantive budget changes are defined as a change or series of changes within the same calendar year. The change a health or housing strategies annual allocation by more than the greater of 5% or $150,000. Amendment four removes the preference for advisory committee members to be from cities that did not separately impose the sales tax. Amendment five prohibited more than one fourth of the advisory committee from being from a single jurisdiction. And lastly, Amendment six made a series of changes on annual reporting requirements. The amendment removed the line stating that the Healthy Housing Dashboard update would be used to satisfy annual reporting requirements, and it added information that would be included in that dashboard. It stated that the annual report is to be transmitted by the Executive on behalf of the Advisory Committee and that the Clerk would provide an electronic copy to all councilmembers and members and alternates of our P.S.. The annual report would be accompanied by a motion acknowledging receipt of support a report similar to the language that was amended in Amendment one. In the ordinance itself, this amends the implementation plan, and it said that passage of that motion acknowledging receipt of the report would satisfy the reporting requirement. Lastly, it added the IRP to the list of committees that DC Jess would be prepared to present the annual report to upon invitation. That brings me to the end of amendments. It was passed again out of our PC last Wednesday, so we have a substitute version in front of you today. Mark Ellenbrook, Mario Williams Suite and Kelly Rider are on the line from DC. As for any executive questions. Your colleagues questions. What's. Your mother would entertain emotion. The structures discussed one to Moscow move adoption of the legislation with the do pass recommendation. Thank you. Councilmember Dombrowski was moved to give a to pass recommendation to ordinance 2021 2030. Would miss Sanders is just breathless and we have executive staff. If there are questions but this is the implementation plan for health through housing and as with Sanders just reported has been through the regional policy three with amendments there and provides the structure and the framework for continuing the health through housing program in the coming years. That is, speaking for myself. I'm beginning to have great success in providing housing and support to people that have experienced chronic homelessness. And this intervention is proving very successful and I'm glad to have it before us. Similar further comments. I would ask the court to please call the rule. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sorry. One moment. Total number of. How did you were you trying. You really wanted to vote or to make your comment about. Right. Thank you, madam. Please proceed. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Council member. Baluchi I Council member. Council member. John. Council member, Caldwell's High Council member Lambert High Council member of the press. I think that's number one right there. Council members only. I. Mr. Chair. Hi. Mr. Chair. The vote is 7i0 nos. Council members done in one hour. Excused. Thank you. By your vote, we are given a do pass recommendation to substitute motion 2021 330 and we will forward that to full council on regular schedule. And let's not put that. I was able to speak to that for a moment. And that takes us to our legislative agenda for 2020. I understand this item is not ready to move out of committee yet today, but we'll have an initial briefing and be able to sit here and review the draft that has been put together based on individual conversations with council members.

Recommendation to receive information and provide direction to staff relative to a proposed project in PD-1 Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan (SEADIP) that requires an amendment to SEADIP and the Local Coastal Program; and Optionally, adopt resolution allowing for the initiation of a Consolidated Coastal Development Permit process pursuant to Section 30601.3 of the Public Resources Code (Coastal Act) in connection with the Los Cerritos wetlands/Synergy Oil Field located at 6433 E. Second Street and the “Pumpkin Patch” located at 6701 East Pacific Coast Highway. (District 3)

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Please click or read item. Item 26, report from Development Services Report to receive a recommendation to receive information and provide direction to staff related relative to the proposed project in PD one Southern Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan that requires an amendment and the local coastal program and optionally adopt resolution allowing the initiation of a consolidated coastal development process. Permit Process District three. Mr. Logan. Thank you. This is a tremendous opportunity for the entire city of Long Beach. This is another very positive step moving forward to restore our wetlands and make the motion to approve the staff recommendation second. Reading second and any public comment on item 26 and the Council come. Mr. Parker. Whoever is sitting there. With you before we take a vote, need to put something in the record that pertains to the environmental review of this resolution. And Mr. Black is prepared to do that. Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council, just for the public record, we want to make it clear that staff has made the determination that the adoption of this proposed resolution, referring this matter to the Coastal Commission, is not considered a project within the meaning of secure, nor is this action an approval of a project under Sequa. The proposed resolution merely delegates the city's coastal development permit authority over the pumpkin patch and related wetland and adjacent areas to the Coastal Commission. Any action involving a physical change to the environment will be subject to all the required and environmental reviews typically known that we do or perform under Sequa. In addition, Sequa does not currently apply because the city is not committing to a definitive course of action with respect to the involved properties at that time, at this time, and that the city will ultimately retain the ultimate authority to approve or disapprove any project processed as a result of the procedure contemplated. By this resolution. So in essence, doing this resolution is a commitment to moving in the correct direction. There's still a long road ahead in terms of reviewing an actual project application and going through the secret process and so forth for the purposes of sequel. This action tonight is not considered a project. Thank you. Thank you, Ms.. Product. Any public comment on it? Please come forward. Identify yourself. If you see the light, you might. My name is Elizabeth LAMB. I'm executive director of the Low Stress Wetlands Land Trust. And I have some very brief remarks. It is fair to say that my organization that advocates every day on behalf of Lois Rita's wetlands, we are very intrigued by this proposal. We, because it is so early on in the process, don't have a position other than we think anything that moves the process forward so that we all can get more information is is a good idea. One of the things we'd really like to do is thank the landowners involved in this proposal for reaching out to us early on and involving us and helping us be a part of the process from the beginning. And that gives us a confidence or greater confidence. I do have to say that the language about Studebaker Road that we saw in the staff report, I got some concerned emails about that and was curious to know how that plays into this . Currently, that area is zoned so that if you develop that pumpkin patch property, it includes extending Studebaker Road. We would find that to be of grave concern to us. But setting that aside, the proposal is an intriguing one and one that we're looking forward to learning more about. Thank you. Thank you. Ms.. Land present. Any other comment? The motion is second. Members cast your votes at 26. Thank you for the disclaimer. Ms.. Bodak But and just so we're clear, that motion includes adopting the resolution that's prepared in the council packet. That is correct. Motion carries five zero. All right. Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate that. We're good. I'm 27 clock read.

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation; authorizing the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation to enter into a lease agreement with Oiselle Running Inc. to occupy and use a portion of Building 11 at Warren G. Magnuson Park for general office purposes.

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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 number one. The Report of the Park Seattle Center Libraries and Gender Pay Equity Committee Agenda Item one Council Bill 118488 relating to the Department of Parks and Recreation authorizing the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation into into a lease agreement with was l running inc to occupy and use a portion of building 11 at Warren G. Magnuson Park for general office purposes. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember Gordon. I move to amend council bill 118488 attachment one by substituting version seven for version 6/2. Any questions or comments on the motion to substitute. All in favor. Vote. I oppose. Vote no. The motion carries and we now have version seven in front of us. As I stated at briefing the Lees pass through the Parks Committee a couple of months ago, and since then some small changes have been made to the lease. The Y cell building occupancy footprint in the hallway was reduced by 175 feet. This allows a part of the hallway that originally would have been more cells to become a common area so that other tenants would have a second means of leaving the building. One more room was added to the rear space, resulting in a net increase of 186 square feet to their premises. The committee did unanimously agree to this. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the rule on the passage of the bill. O'Brien. Okamoto. Rasmussen. So want back shot? I got him. I look. Carter. All right. And President Burgess eight in favor. Nine opposed. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. That's the last item on our agenda. Is there anything else to come before the council? Councilmember Bagshaw I have one quick one. I request to be excused on Monday, December 14th. Second on favor of excusing Councilmember Bagshaw on Monday, December 14. Vote I oppose Vote No. The excuses granted. So the council will reconvene in 15 minutes at 230. As the board of directors for the Park District. And we will immediately follow that meeting with a continuation of the Select Committee on the Budget. Thank you.

Recommendation to request City Manager to work with appropriate staff to report to Council within 30 days on a potential MOU executed between public safety and Water and Gas Departments. Public safety enterprise fund services and weighted costs must be addressed appropriately by all departments.

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Thank you. That concludes public comment. So we'll move forward now to item number 18. I see that. That's Glenn Communication from Councilwoman Mango Council member Super Non Councilmember Urunga. Recommendation to request the city manager to work with appropriate staff to report to council within 30 days on a potential EMU executed between public safety and water and gas departments. Thank you. I know this item is really important to Councilmember Mongeau, but she's stuck in jury duty, so I'm going to ask that we just continue this, the next city council meeting. So is that is that your second super mystery winner? Yeah. I don't think we have a choice, unfortunately. Well, we do have a choice. We take the item, but I think the good thing to do would be to continue it and not the special meeting tomorrow, the next regularly scheduled city council meeting. Is there any public comment on that motion saying non members, please cast your vote?

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 7900 East Colfax Avenue in East Colfax. Approves an official map amendment to rezone property from E-MS-3 to E-MS-5 (main street, 3 stories to main street 5 stories), located at 7900 East Colfax Avenue in Council District 5. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-23-18.

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Speakers should begin their remarks by telling council their names and cities of residence and if they feel comfortable doing so, their home addresses. If you are here to answer questions only when your name is called, please come to the podium, state your name and note that you are available for questions of council. Speakers will have 3 minutes and there is no yielding of time. On the presentation mounted on the wall you will see your time counting down. Speakers must stay on the topic of the hearing and must direct their comments to the council members. Please refrain from profane or obscene speech. Direct your comments to the Council as a whole and please refrain from individual or personal attacks. Councilman Flynn, will you please put Council Bill 1163 on the floor? Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 1163 series of 2018 be placed upon final consideration and do pass. It has been moved and seconded and the public hearing for Council Bill 1163 is open. May we have the staff report? Good evening, Liz Wagle with Community Planning and Development. I will be providing the staff report. We do have two applications before you today for city owned property on East Colfax and Rezonings from M.S. three times five. The first application is at 7900 East Colfax Avenue. This is in Council District five in the East Colfax neighborhood. The site is located at the corner of Trenton and Colfax Avenue. It's approximately 3000 square feet and it's currently vacant, as I mentioned, is owned by the city and county in Denver. And the intention is to redevelop it with affordable housing. And the proposed rezoning is from Urban Edge Main Street District of three stories to Urban Edge Main Street Five Stories. The Main Street districts are intended to allow a mix of uses that promote safe, active and pedestrian scaled commercial areas. The subject site is currently a three story district. It's surrounded by other three story Main Street districts, and there are pockets of five story Main Street in this area of Colfax. To the south is a two unit district, and then there are additional single unit zoning around it. Here you can see the subject site, which I mentioned is currently vacant to the north along Colfax to have a mix of auto repair and commercial uses to the south, you have some single multi-unit and duplex residential in a similar mix to the north. On the other side of Colfax, this shows the subject site. Here you can see the predominantly low scale uses along Colfax with surface parking and the residential uses. Here you can see the site on the top right corner and which has surface parking on it. To the north you have a medical use and auto repair use. To the west, a restaurant and surface parking to the south, low scale residential to the east, another auto use and then additional residential uses in the area. The planning board heard this application on October 3rd and voted unanimously to recommend approval. We're also two public speakers in favor at that hearing this mentality on October 23rd and is before council tonight. And we have a position statement in support from the East Kovacs Neighborhood Association and from the Facts Partnership, registered neighborhood organization. And we did receive one comment in opposition from a neighbor of the property who's concerned about height adjacent to her property. And in addition to this process, the Office of Economic Development did attend three community meetings in the neighborhood as well. We will I will review the five criteria and the Denver zoning code for Rezonings. The first is consistency with adopted plans of which I will cover. Comprehensive Plan 2000 Blueprint Denver. The East Montclair East Colfax Neighborhood Plan and our housing plan, which is not adopted as a supplement to the comprehensive plan, but it was adopted by City Council earlier this year. First, we do find that the application is consistent with a number of planned 2000 strategies. Most most of these speaking to encouraging mixed use development, supporting our business corridors and encouraging intel development. Blueprint Denver calls out this area of Colfax as a commercial corridor, which are linear business districts and also an area of change where we're looking to direct growth. Colfax itself as a mixed use arterial in Trenton is on designated local east. Colfax is an enhanced transit quarter, which are areas that we are also looking to direct to mixed use development. The East Montclair East Colfax Neighborhood Plan from 1994 is still in place in this area. It envisions an improved Colfax Avenue with more business opportunity. More reinvestment of this area is called out as the business area, and it shows multi-family residential adjacent to the south. This neighborhood plan does not provide direct height guidance in the area, but the neighborhood plan does have general statements, again, encouraging redevelopment at intersections along Colfax, bringing buildings closer to the street, which is consistent with the main street zoning, recommending better compatibility with residential and commercial uses and encouraging less dependency on the vehicular road trips. A more mixed use development that people can walk and bike to. Again, the main street districts are consistent with this vision and they do also include building form regulations that ensure that compatibility with adjacent residential neighborhoods. Lastly, we have our Housing Inclusive Denver plan, which was adopted earlier this year, which specifically speaks to leveraging publicly owned land for affordable housing and also creating affordable housing in an opportunity areas. And this rezoning would facilitate additional housing units in an area of opportunity and the leveraging of that publicly owned land. So CBD staff does find that the rezoning is consistent with adopted plans and further will result in uniform application of zoned district building form, use and design regulations. It will implement our further public health, safety and welfare by implementing our adopted plans and facilitating building forms and site designs that will improve the pedestrian environment of application. Notes and CBD staff agrees that there are a number of changed and changing conditions in the area. This includes the closure of the bar in the current vague condition of making condition of the site, the city's purchase and intention to increase housing opportunities in this area. Our growth in job centers along the 15 and 15 hours, a new housing that has continued to develop in Stapleton for similar mixed use, affordable housing development at Pontiac and Colfax. And our planned investment both in a bike lane on Syracuse and the Bus Rapid Transit Project on Colfax. Staff finds that this reasoning is also consistent with the neighborhood context zone, district purpose and intent, and that the means specifically the Main Street districts, are intended to promote this safe, active, pedestrian scale environment and that the M5 district is intended to be applied to collectors and arterials. So with that, CPD staff recommends approval based on finding that all the review criteria have been met. Thank you. I do also have Megan Yankey here from the Office of Economic Development, who can say a few words if that's an appropriate. Hello. Megan Yang from Office of Economic Development. I just wanted to point out a couple of things. The city of Denver purchased this parcel in 2017 for the purpose of creating an affordable housing project, specifically as permanent support excuse me, permanent supportive housing. We intended to develop affordable housing on this site associated with the goals of the five year housing plan, which call for permanent supportive housing is one of the goals. The city is focused on developing housing near transit and the parcel is located within a quarter mile of the planned bus rapid transit station at the corner of Winter and Colfax. This location obviously offers some excellent opportunities for affordable housing and transit oriented development. And finally, the city has issued an RFP to identify a partner to develop the site in accordance with the city's vision and needs expressed by the neighborhood. The city is specifically looking for an experienced developer to provide permanent supportive housing on the site to meet the goals of the plan. Some available to answer any questions you have on this topic. Thank you very much. We do have four individuals signed up to speak this evening. So if we could make a little bit of room in this front bench and if you're speaking, it'd be great if you could come up to the front bench, because when I call your name, step right up to the podium as your time will start to elapse. First up, we have Susan Leahy. Good evening. I am standing up here. As a citizen and resident of East Colfax, not as. An employee of OED. For just a moment, I'm normally sitting over here. As a city employee, but I wanted to take just a moment to put my my $0.02 worth in of support for. These two projects. I've lived in the East. Colfax neighborhood for more than nine years, and I want to thank Chris Herndon and Mary. Beth for their tireless support and. Championship of East Colfax. What I call our little. Stretch of heaven. Between Lowry and Stapleton, our neighborhood is undergoing an awful lot of. Change, as many are. Housing prices, of course, going up quite a bit of transition. One thing that. Doesn't change is how neighborly and caring we are. I think it has something. To do with being low income and traditionally. High crime. We are very. Connected to each other, my neighbors and I and my experience in life. I've never been through the kind of positive neighborhood spirit that exists out on East Colfax. And I do want to say that we're grateful for the city's investment in these two projects. It's going to make a huge difference. It's been at. Least. Six years since the PHENIX on the facts and the Ace hardware store, which are back west. On Pontiac and Poplar, have been. Built. So we're we're excited about this. It's refreshing. And I'm proud to say that we don't have a lot of NIMBYism in East Colfax because we. Understand low income. Our neighbors live in transitional housing in the motels. Neighbors that we interact with. We already understand their challenges and we empathize. So there there is not likely to be a. Lot of speaking against these projects. We're all excited about it. We feel like. We know these people already and perhaps some of them are our neighbors now and will remain so when these projects are complete. As a transit corridor, of course it can't be beat. And finally again. The projects will lift up residents and the neighborhood as a whole. We look forward to. Both the groundbreaking and the subsequent ribbon cutting. Thank you. Thank you. And could you officially state your name for the record? Sorry, Susan Leigh. Leigh, 16 seconds. Is for saying your last name wrong. I'm sorry about that. That's okay. Thank you very much. Next up, David River. Hello. David Roybal reside at 742 West Ninth Avenue. Also a city council candidate for District three. Awesome plan to hear about affordable housing and I hope it brings a safe haven, you know, for people get moved out and to let them know that East Colfax belongs to them, they don't have to move to Aurora. And I wish this example was played in West Colfax because I know that when I go to East Colfax, that's the last Denver that I know that I see my people, my friends in West Colfax Day, so much so, I hope with this affordable housing plan that, you know, it could set the example of how how much variety and keep low income and middle class. And somewhere we have to bring bring the divide and bridge the gap and bring Lowry and those neighborhoods together. And, you know, when you go there at night, it's not a nice place to go at night. It's probably the only place I go in Denver that I get messed with. And I just want to put that in there because you might see it on the crime and safety in the stats. But no, you know, it's the it's the last of the last of the affordable hotels, you know, the cheapest hotels in Denver. And I hope we brings more opportunities for for the low income people that are there, more programs, more nonprofits I used to go to and made a CD out there on Claremont. So, you know, there they have the access to that. And then the 15 that connect straight to the Sun Valley to human service. So, you know, it's a good place for it, for access and services and hopefully, you know, have some family to stay there. Sounds like a good place. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Chairman CQ. Yes. Good evening. Thanks to colleagues and citizens representative here at city council. I represent the Black Star Action Movement. Who are the voice and. Action folks that represent poor working poor homeless senior citizens use. And the handicapped, the oppressed, the ones that are most likely not heard or considered, especially in the steam body where we have no seat of power or influence. Nobody up there among you are poor. No one is homeless. And yet I know from the character and the sense of folks here, you have a sincere desire to make this city work for everybody. So this one right here is important because we're talking about affordable housing. And we've got to be real clear about what that means to poor people. That means housing that we can't afford housing that well, except section eight. And families of one parent. I was born and raised here in Denver, 67 years. We're all familiar with Colfax and the owners it has on it that when you bring poor people in there, we bring problems. We bring crime increase. We bring folks that are not necessarily considered socially acceptable like addicts. But women of distinction who are using the only tools they have in order to feed their family and the kids that you'll call illegal prostitution. Return my folks who have to survive. And it's a life and death thing every moment of the day. And you have nothing for them in this ordinance. And why? Look inside this audience. There's no diversity here. There's all white supremacy. White exclusive folk who want a deal on what they're doing. Yeah, we pay taxes, too, but we get no bang for our tax money. Why? They get a bang for whatever they do. And it's not fair. And they don't care nothing about us. Nothing. So when jobs are done and all the rest of that, black people ain't even cool, you know? See no black people working in this town. I'm sorry. Your time is up. Thank you very much. Next up, Jesse Pierce. Good evening. Members of Council. Council President Clark. My name is Jesse Paris. I was born at 2842 Josephine Street in Albert Brooks district. And I'm representing for Denver Homeless out Loud, Black Star Action Movement for Self-defense and Community Action and Commitment for Change. And I am also an at large candidate for Denver in 2019. As has already been stated, I am very familiar with this area and question myself being a native as well. Colfax I'm no stranger to. It seems like this city is in concerted effort to keep concentrated poverty along Colfax Avenue. Yes, I am in support of this. But at the same time, I remember sitting in here many times hearing that the city was going to try to stop with the concentrated poverty. But it seems like this is just going to continue in this whole revitalization. That's just another way of saying ethnic cleansing. You have to get out. You are not desirable. And we're going to make it seem like you can stay because we're going to make it seem like these are units are affordable. So I have two questions. I want to know the amount of units in question and I want to know the am I level? Because, again, people are not familiar with what affordable is. A lot of times all those that are listening when I say affordable housing, what they are really saying is anywhere from 60% to 120%. Am I level? That is not affordable. Affordable for who? The city is in a crisis right now, along with the opioid crisis. There's also a homelessness crisis in the city and county of Denver. In saying that units are affordable at 60%. Am I is not is the solution. Barely making enough units for the need is not the solution. We need attainable house so we need obsessed with housing. That is 0 to 30%. Am I across the board? If you are really concerned about the suffering of the people in a city and county, then you would suggest, I would suggest that you and members of this council make that their focus and their make that their best interest. But it's clearly not. People that are black and brown are being completely marginalized as usual. It's just business as usual. And we're being displaced. And you think by making a few units affordable, that's doing something. So like I said earlier, sweep council, like they're sweeping the homeless just for council 2019 cycle for mayor and David Roybal for District three. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Are there any questions from members of council? Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. Luis, would you mind coming to the microphone? I have a couple of questions for you. You mentioned that there was no guidance on the height in the area. How is it that the adjacent height levels have no implications on the height for this particular site? We do not have the the neighborhood plan from 1994. It does not have height guidance in it. That was what I was speaking to directly is there's not a height map that you might see in other neighborhood plans. And there were when the main street zoning was put in place back in 2006, 2007. And there were places of Colfax that got the five that have five storey zoning. So we evaluated based on the planning guidance that we have, and that specifically is must five districts are intended for arterial streets and we do feel that that's appropriate for this area. Is that generally the max of what we've seen along the Kovacs corridor. For when you get east of Colorado and there's really only three and five story districts? Okay. Can you give us an idea of roughly how many units we might see on that site with the five story swing? I'll call up Megan Yankee from OED to answer that question. Councilwoman. We did a zoning study based on the five stories, and we anticipate that the project could support between 60 and 70 units of average sizes. Of course, we expect that that will be determined based on financial feasibility. And does that include parking? That does. I know the developer would get to reduce the number because it is on a transit court or correct. And because of the army levels proposed for this property. Can you remind us what those are again? But. Were you asking for the am I level? Yes. Oh, because this is a permanent supportive housing project. We're anticipating those that are formerly homeless would be housed at the site. So certainly less than 30% of very median income. Whoever the developer is that would be selected would. Be expecting to secure traffic tax credits in order to serve that EMI level. Correct? That's correct. Okay. And have you already issued that RFP and kind of where are you in that process? Yes, we have we issued it in October. It is the responses are due December 13th. Okay, great. Thank you. LS Ortega seeing no other questions? The public hearing for Accountable 1163 is closed. Comments by members of Council. Councilwoman Sussman. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I'm very happy to see this come here tonight. It's a it's. Been a long process. If you read the. 1994 neighborhood plan for this group, it talked a lot about the development of Lowry and the development of Stapleton. And so much has happened that met that plan. But all of the things that were related to the East Colfax neighborhood, hardly anything has happened in terms of helping that neighborhood. And to put it in perspective, this particular property is only four blocks from Lowry and only five blocks from Stapleton. And we've seen so much development, great development at those two places, but very little right there in our island of Colfax. And I want to echo Susan Leahy's feelings about her neighborhood group. They are just wonderful. And and the city did a great outreach to and myself and and Councilman Herndon to the neighborhood to talk about this. We had had other developers before that were interested but couldn't get the tax credits. And so the neighborhood was very aware that this kind of zoning would might come to be five stories instead of three. And they're just except for the one letter, there wasn't opposition to that five stories means that we can provide more affordable housing and activate this area and just do something for the area that will help the street, that will help the people that we are going to house and not house, but to provide homes for people who otherwise might not be able to afford them. The neighborhood is actually altogether east. Colfax is the lowest economic, has the lowest income levels in the city, has the lowest education levels in the city, has the highest unemployment in the city. It's a neighborhood that needs this kind of investment, that needs this sort of this kind of attention that we're giving to it. And I couldn't be more pleased than what we are doing, and I couldn't be more pleased than how the neighborhood feels about it. But it is also a neighborhood in danger of of gentrifying as well, of housing prices going up as fast as possible. So that's why I was glad the city stepped in to buy property when it would be possible to buy it. Because as as Colfax develops, we do want to make sure that we keep it what the neighborhood said its gritty character, but also make it a place that's. Livable for. Different people of all different kinds of income. That's something the neighborhood once they want to keep the diversity of the neighborhood, both economic, ethnic in every regard. And so I think this project is one that is going to help doing that's not going to solve everybody's issues about needing homes. But it's going it's it's an important step forward for us. And I'm very excited about this one and the and the project that's coming up next. So I urge my fellow council people to vote with me and to pass this zoning. Thanks. Thank you, Councilwoman Sussman, seeing no other comments. Madam Secretary, roll call we. Romney with. A black. Eye. Espinosa. I Flynn, i Gilmore, i. Herndon, i. Cashman, I. Can I. Lopez I. Knew Ortega. I. Susman Hi, Mr. President. I I'm secretary. Please close voting announced the results. 12 hours. 12 ayes countable. 1163 has passed. Guzman Flynn, will you please put House Bill 1164 on the floor?

AN ORDINANCE granting Lakefront Investors 2 LLC permission to construct, install, and maintain four sets of private communication conduits under and across Boren Avenue North, north of Mercer Street, and under and across the alley between Boren Avenue North and Fairview Avenue North, north of Mercer Street, for a ten-year term, renewable for two successive ten-year terms; specifying the conditions under which this permit is granted; and providing for the acceptance of the permit and conditions.

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Agenda item two Council Bill 119159 An Ordinance Granting Lakefront Investors two LLC permission to construct, install and maintain four sets of private communication conduits under an across Bourn Avenue, north north of Mercer Street, and under and across the alley between Warren Avenue North and Fairview Avenue, north north of Mercer Street. For a ten year term renewable for two successive ten year terms, the committee recommends the bill pass. Because of O'Brien. So this is another term permitted as described in the title of Bill. This is for properties in South Lake Union, sometimes known as the Mercer Blocks, their blocks between Mercer and Valley. Just what would that be? South of the South Lake Union Park. These projects are being developed with the intent that Google would be the tenant in a few these buildings. And specifically, Google has requested the ability to network the two buildings together through a dedicated network under the street in these conduits. So this legislation would allow that procedure to move forward. This is not a vacation, but rather a term permit. This means that if at any point the city needs access to that right away and the conduits are in the way, we can revoke that at any point. But we've done the thorough analysis. And at this point we believe that these will be placed in a way that we will not need access to them. The intent is that Google is who wants to have security communications among their employees and allowing the private conduit to connect the two buildings allows them to proceed with that. Very good. Any questions or comments that please call the role on the passage of the bill? Gonzalez I. Herbold, i. Johnson I was I was scared to I. O'Brien by Sergeant Bagshaw. President Harrell nine in favor and an. Opposed bill passed in show Senate. Please read that you're not in number three. The short title.

Recommendation to approve the expenditure of $10,000 in the General Fund Group as a reward for information leading to the identification and conviction of the individuals responsible for an arson fire on May 31, 2020. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Now go to item 18. Report from fire. Recommendation to approve the expenditure of 10,000 in the General Fund group as a reward for information leading to the identification and conviction of the individuals responsible for an arson fire on May 31st, 2020 citywide. And to have a report on this. Yes. Anachronism with lobby fires on the line on May 31st, 2020, civil unrest impacted Long Beach. A video has circulated that shows multiple subjects approaching the men's food outlet at 655 Pine Avenue and throwing two incendiary devices into the business. The ensuing fire destroyed the building and the following businesses the main outlet, the legacy, beauty and Barbershop, 10th Planet, Long Beach, Jiu-Jitsu. People ready as well as the Urban School of Self-defense. The loss is in excess of $5 million. To assist the investigation, the ATF contributed $10,000 or towards the reward for information leading to the identification and conviction of the subjects responsible. An additional $10,000 by the city of Long Beach would place the total at $20,000. The fire department believes that this would be beneficial to establish a reward, which may prompt reluctant witnesses to come forward and help solve the case. As this isn't an active investigation. Any support would be greatly appreciated. And a report. Thank you. And see that councilwoman as well. Kudos. Yes. Air Vice Mayor, one of the things that I want to say is thank you, thank you for this city step in closing the the horrific thing that happened to our business here in the first District and these businesses were attacked unjustly. And so I'm really happy that this city is putting forward an item to help protect the perpetrators of this crime and hopefully stop them from any any bad doing in the future. So I am really excited to be able to see this reward and to the community that's out there that, you know, this would be a really good incentive for those people that may know of them to actually come forward. So thank you again for this item. Thank you, Councilman Kinzinger. Do I have a second in this place? I may have a second on this. Vice mayor, this is Susie Price. I'm happy the second. Thank you. The only public comment on this item. There is no public comment on the side of. All right. We police de-growth. District one. By. District two at district three. I. District four. All right. District five. I. District six. Park District seven. I. District eight. II. District nine. I. Motion carries. I'm I am back with going to do item 19.

Approves a text amendment to Article 9, Division 9.4, of the Denver Zoning Code to create the South Sloan’s Lake Design Overlay, DO-5. (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves a text amendment to Article 9, Division 9.4, of the Denver Zoning Code to create the South Sloan’s Lake Design Overlay, DO-5. A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD AT LEAST FOUR WEEKS AFTER PUBLICATION. The Committee approved filing this bill at its meeting on 11-12-14.

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Yes, Mr. President. I move that council bill 962 series of 2014 be placed on final consideration and do pass. Okay. It has been moved in second in the public hearing for council bill 962 is now open. May we have the staff report? Good evening, Mr. President. Members of council. I'm Deirdre Oates with Community Planning and Development. I will present to you this Council Bill 962 a proposal for an amendment to the Denver Zoning Code. No. Specifically to Article nine Division 9.4 to add d05 or design overlay five concerning the South Sloan's Lake redevelopment. Former St Anthony's Hospital. The ordinance is sponsored by Council District one councilman Susan Shepard. The ordinance also and the overlay itself has been reviewed by the property owners who are actually within the area that is defined in the proposed design overlay. And unlike some text amendments that you might see to the zoning code, which are are something to be applied citywide, this is a design overlay that is more specific to a larger site that will be developed over time by multiple folks, but is looking for a consistent approach in design and transitions to adjacent neighborhoods. And so the design overlay tool was chosen as the way to implement recommendations and plans, and I'll explain those to you. So the purpose of the overlay district, it must meet one or more of the following in accordance with our zoning code, and in this case, highlighting implementation of land use and urban design recommendations and standards that are set forth in neighborhood and small area plans that have been adopted as part of the Comprehensive Plan. Also to provide uniform standards for mitigating the impact of more intensive uses adjacent to less intensive uses, and to reinforce the desired character for newly developing areas. All three of those are very specifically applied to the South slogans like area. The Tax amendment process. Specifically, there is an internal draft review by community planning and development. The text amendment itself was drafted, reviewed by our city staff and then Council District one and partners and owners who are affected by the specific design overlay that occurred in the fall of 2014. Notice was then emailed to all registered neighborhood organizations with links to that review, draft and summary was posted to our website on September 30th. The Planning Board had a public hearing in November 5th and notification to the Register, Neighborhood Organizations and City Council was was provided for that hearing and also notification for the Neighborhoods and Planning Committee that occurred on November 12th. So those are the processes that have occurred up to now, the final hearing for the text amendment. With regard to the schedule, there are two, two items here that you'll see on your presentation. The top is the the text amendment, and that is where we are today, January 5th, for the final hearing. Below is an accompanying map amendment. Now, that map amendment will come to city council in February. Tonight, we are just talking about the text amendment to establish the text as part of the Denver zoning code. And then we will later come back with a proposal to map that design overlay to the site. So I just wanted you to see that schedule as well. So this is concerning the Southlands Lake redevelopment area, the former St Anthony's Hospital in Council District one on the west side of Denver, just north of Colfax. It's 17th between Stuart and Perry Street. And this is the site, obviously an old areal. Now, everything is is under redevelopment actively right now. But the areas specifically affected by this design overlay take off the little legs that are south of Kansas. And you're looking at the areas between Stewart Street on the West, Perry Street on the East, 17th on the north, and then Kinney House on the south. The existing zoning of the site. So you have a little bit of that context is c m x5 urban center mixed use five story. The action that you take tonight should you approve this design overlay will not change that underlying zoning. That will be an action that will take place as a proposal in February, as I mentioned, as part of an accompanying map amendment. So here are a few more pictures of the slums like redevelopment area. This is the slums like park to the north of cell slums like redevelopment area. And then some of the context around the site to the east on Perry Street. We're talking about primarily single family, lower density residential and lower intensity residential that surrounds the site to the west and to the east. And that is the reason that this overlay has been proposed, is to provide transitions to these sites that are consistent with neighborhood plans. Okay. The West Colfax plan and the South like general development plan both advocate for height transitions to existing lower density, lower height West Colfax neighborhood blocks, including Stuart and Perry Street. The design overlay as proposed implements height limitation concepts that were conceived in the West Colfax Plan and specifically delineated in the approved southlands like general development plan . I should note now that the General Development Plan is not an official supplement to the comprehensive plan, but the West Colfax Plan is. And so that is our main guiding document. But it was more refined in the general development plan as a supporting document. The design overlay uses a distance from the zone, not line so the edge of the property to identify the extent of these height limitations. And I'll show you. You also have in your packet the actual redlined draft of the overlay and then I'll show you some pictures as to how that applies. And the overlay also provides an exception for exterior balconies. And I'll talk about why that is. It provides context, sensitive height, transitions to the adjacent neighborhood and again, does not change your base zoning. So let's start on 17th and Stewart Street. These are just pictures that you also have in your your packet. This shows a structure. This is simply kind of a building envelope. It's typical of the kinds of drawings that we have in our summer zoning code. And this shows for Stewart Street a three storey 45 foot maximum height between 17th and 16th, 480 feet from that zone, lot line. So you can see where the height can transition up to the five story road's current five story district, 80 feet from that zone lot line on Stewart Street. And that provides more of a pedestrian oriented height transition along Stewart. Then between 16th and Carney House, which is to the south, it's another it's 80 feet and then there's a four storey maximum. And this accommodates an existing structure in the parking garage on the site. And then also any future development that might come into play, it would be limited to four storeys for 80 feet from that mine plus it. Along 17th Avenue, there is a five story maximum height limitation for 4343 feet from the zone lot line. That's kind of a funny number. It comes up because a cell phone's like was being redeveloped. 17th Avenue needed to be finally, finally added as part of the subdivision. And when they looked at the delineation of what 17th Avenue would become, it turns out that the private property, there's eight feet of the public sidewalk that's actually included within some of that right of way. So we actually added. 88 feet. To the normal 35 foot from zone lot line. That would have been our normal restriction to make it 43. So a little math behind that. And then on Equipment Street, which is Mid-Block in South Sloan's Lake at 60 feet from the zone lot line with a five story maximum height or 70 feet. Perry Street. Lastly is three stories and 45 foot maximum height with 80 feet from the zone lot line along Perry and that is that eastern side of the south sounds like redevelopment. The balcony exception if you look at your your packet and look at your slide, there is a little area in beige called the restricted height area . Normally, if we did not accept a balcony, they wouldn't be able to build a building and then actually have balconies that would be added to it like you see on most multifamily buildings that are constructed today. That is because in our height exceptions in the code, we do not list balconies as an exception to height. They're seen as an exception to setbacks. So how of how far they come close to the street, even if it's a balcony up, you know, four stories or five stories. But they're not shown as height exceptions. And so we wrote an exception to ensure that the developer was able to provide balconies without taking away square footage of the units which they would have to do if they were to meet those those zone line restrictions for the height. There are two and we're calling them adopted and pending rezonings. Right now both of these are pending the ACM x five, which is the current zoning, the proposed design overlay oh five that would be applied to the site is part of a map amendment that will come to you in February. And then there is also a map amendment for what's called block. One of the sounds like subdivision filing one and that is that northwest block of the redevelopment. They're looking for a rezoning to CMC's 12 and that is the applicant proposing that to see him x 12 they would be applying for and reinforcing the deal five again. But because we don't have the deal five on the books, that application still looks as if it's pending until we have the deal five on site. So now, you know, there are kind of three things that are happening along with the site that you will see over the course of the next month, month and a half. Review criteria for text amendments include consistency with cities, adopted plans and policies, uniformity of district regulations and restrictions, and then further in the Public Health, Safety and General Welfare Plan 2000 or Blueprint Denver from 22 in the West Coal Flex Facts Plan adopted in 2006 all provide the structure for that plan consistency review. Within the the comprehensive plan, there is specific guidance. A lot of that in the narrative to use the best of Denver's architectural and landscape legacy to guide the future in quality design, to be livable and admired. All of the components of the city, its infrastructure, buildings and open spaces must function well and be attractive individually while combining to create meaningful, beautiful places. When you're adding new to old as and we as we're doing here with this redevelopment. So slums like this is one of those phrases that really rings true for redevelopment here. Also, the primary urban design challenge of the early 21st century will be to integrate elements of Denver's traditional urban design character into redeveloping areas and new, more compact, mixed use areas. And so the design overlay has come to us as a tool to apply to the site because it can be applied over time to multiple blocks that will be developed by different people. It'll provide a consistent approach. Specifically policies regarding Denver's legacy is to identify areas where increased density and users can be accommodated and then to encourage quality infill development. We want to encourage that quality infill development. We want to make sure that it is sensitive to the context and the neighboring blocks, in this case, the West Colfax neighborhood. Blueprint. Denver is our land use and transportation plan. It specifically identifies the sites within an area of change for mixed use. Development and specific concepts that are applicable from blueprint include a change in the land use standards of a zone as a tool to improve compatibility. Again, the design overlay using land use and transportation types, focusing on the experience of place at the ground level where the qualities of pedestrian oriented city are most apparent and again, tapering down the height toward the edges is important for creating that pedestrian space along a mixed use street pedestrian scaled facades, which may include height transition step backs for the front of a taller building promoting pedestrian activity. Again, the overlay is designed to provide a building envelope for that to occur. It doesn't constitute detail on the architecture. It doesn't say what to build. It just gives an envelope for building height restrictions in the West Colfax Plan, which is the most specific plan for the site redeveloping St Anthony's in a manner that catalyzes reinvestment in the larger study area while respecting, complementing, enhancing stability of the surrounding neighborhood. The site is identified as catalytic development opportunity as an urban town center, and specific to that with variable scale radiating from the dense core to a lower intensity at the fringe. And there is also a picture in your packet of one of the many kinds of concepts that could be it's on page five of your packet could be used to to look at this site. And it shows generally the higher buildings in the center and lower buildings toward the fringes. And so these height restrictions are designed to create that that lower height and intensity from the West Colfax plan. There are a number of different policies and language that supports the development of this area. So that is not what's the question tonight. It's how we do this best and what kinds of tools can be used to provide this transition. So I've listed many of those specific here. We're talking about promoting safe and attractive pedestrian linkages, incorporating focal points, public gathering spaces and strong pedestrian linkages, and then creating an urban edge along West 17th to define the park. That, for instance, when you create an urban edge or creating a place where people can walk along, where you can have the ability to provide space, either if it's residential or if it's commercial mixed use, which the zoning does allow. If you're doing it in a way that is not creating canyons of taller buildings right next to the street and instead providing height transitions, it creates a better space for the pedestrian. And that's part of best practices in urban design. In the general development plan. If you look at this slide, there's a dotted line around the middle of the site from 17th Avenue down to new house. That dotted line defines what was called the core area. And when we talked about variable densities and variable heights, you're radiating from the denser inner core to the lower intensity at the fringe. These height limitations are designed, if you look on the right for Stuart Equipment and Perry Street to be specific to those recommendations in the South Sloan's General Development Plan. Again using the general development plan for the text amendment. The GDPR provides additional reinforcement, but it is not considered a supplement to the comprehensive plan. It's just additional information for you. And then the Denver Zoning Code provides that the city council may approve an official map amendment which will come to you next month for property located within an approved GDP. So keep this in mind as you're looking at this a month from now in an application for the MAP Amendment that will accompany this this design overlay. With regard to uniformity of district regulations, the text amendment results in regulations that are uniform across the districts. This means that they will be applied across the area that gets Ddr5 five that they will be applied in the same manner and to which it is written. And it is written very specific to certain blocks. And furthering the public health, safety and welfare, providing for context sensitive transitions between new infill development and adjacent lower intensity, lower height blocks in established neighborhoods, and transitions that provide for pedestrian friendly environments at the street level where experience of place is most apparent. So the public review, I went through this a little bit, but we had informational notice symptoms of tember 30th. There was no dissent of the planning board hearing on October 21st. There was also a public meeting where the applicants the city attended, but then also the owners of the property that's affected also attended to help answer questions about how this overlay will affect future development, followed by the Planning Board, public hearing and just the update notice was sent for City Council to a number of different registered neighborhood organizations. With regard to public comment, we actually had a few public comments sent to CPD at the public meeting. They asked about how the balcony height exception works in the future of new based zoning with higher height as approved balcony height exception still applies for anything that's over the site. And then with planning board there, there were questions about the use of applicable city plans and concerns regarding the overall development impact. Things that weren't necessarily related to the overlay, but we did hear those as well. So with that, staff recommends approval of the Denver Zoning Code Text Amendment for the Southlands like design overlay or D or five. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Host. We have three speakers signed up and I'm gonna call all three. You can come up to the front pew and the first one can begin his remarks Cameron Bertrand, Dan Shay and Ben Stetler. So excuse me, you three can come on up and Mr. Bertrand, you can go ahead and begin your remarks. Hi, my name is Cameron Bertrand. I work for LFG. Sounds like one. We are not the applicant, but we are the property owner of four of the six blocks affected by the design overlay. Our address is 475 17th Street, Denver. Thanks very much for having me up here tonight. I just briefly wanted to say that as the owner of four of the six blocks and once upon a time all six of the blocks, it may be a little bit unusual for a property owner to support what is really effectively height restrictions across much of the property. But for us, this is really the culmination of an effort that the city started back in 2006 with the twin Anthonys task force recommendations, followed by the West Colfax Corridor plan that I think put very clearly out there the intention after many community meetings that the development of the redevelopment of the St Anthony's site be sensitive to the surrounding neighborhood and that heights transition from the center down to the edges. And I think that that was further put forward through more than 60 meetings that we had with the community when we showed up in 2012. And the passage of the GDPR, which further reinforced not only transitioning heights at the edges, but also to some extent in the center to make for active urban mixed use streets. So just on behalf of us as the owner as well as our development partners who are building the are the presumptive builders of the mixed use buildings on this site, we support the passage of the design overlay text amendment here tonight and just a quick thank you to CPD for all their work along the way and to Councilwoman Sheperd for sitting through 60 public meetings with us. Thanks very much. Thank you. Dan. Dan Shay. Yeah. Dan Schorr and I met with the West Colfax Business Improvement District. And I just want to thank you for your time to consider our input. My district strongly supports the text amendment because it furthers the principles and recommendations of the West Colfax Plan and because the proposed development projects that are coming on based on that following the text amendment restrictions are a critical step toward revitalization in West Colfax. In addition to specific design recommendations, the West Colfax plan sets out objectives for growth in West Colfax, and the proposal under consideration today should be commended because it is designed to ensure that type of growth actually occurs at the Saint Anthony site. These objectives include promoting a range of housing types, increasing income diversity and offering the density of development that will support enhanced retail and neighborhood services, as well as a healthy walking and transit oriented environment. The design overlay not only enshrines in code recommendations from the West Colfax Plan, but working in conjunction with even more restrictive design guidelines , plays a critical part in laying the groundwork for the kind of owner occupied condo project that is sorely missing from among the housing types in West Colfax and actually is not found in any of the other of Denver. Denver's Untested Markets. It therefore supports the plan's recommendations to increase the range of affordable I mean, of available housing types in West Colfax. We know that from a business development perspective, this form of market rate housing will attract residents with greater disposable income, also recommended by the West Colfax Plan and contribute importantly to West Colfax is well , revitalization. Last but not least, by striking a balance between existing housing stock and more intense development. The text amendment also supports the West Colfax vision of a neighborhood developing with sufficient rooftops. To support strong neighborhood serving retail and services. At the same time, the density also supports the West Colfax Plans recommendations of inculcating a strong walking and transit oriented culture. For these reasons, the West Colfax bid supports the proposed tax amendments as directly supporting the West Colfax plans objectives of income, diverse, retail, abundant and healthy neighborhood in West Colfax. So thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Shah. Ben Stetler. Hello. Good evening. My name's Ben Stetler. I live at the corner of 17th and Utica, and I'm co-president of the West Colfax Association of Neighbors. Our organization is excited for this project and for the opportunity that it presents for the West Colfax corridor. I'd like to read a letter that we prepared, read that you all now. And thank you, by the way, for the opportunity to speak this evening. I'm writing on behalf of the West Colfax Association of Neighbors Weekend to express our general support for the Design Overlay District at the Sloane's redevelopment. Since the board membership of our organization voted to support the GDP for the redevelopment in December of last year, and the design overlay district merely codifies the lower height specified in the GDP at the time. The Board of Directors feels confident in supporting this new district. It should be noted that we did not take any official vote on this issue, but simply lean on our previous support. By and large, the board and the membership are quite happy with the way in which the project is progressing and glad to see that the city is taking it upon itself to ensure that the residential edges of the development are protected from taller development as outlined in the GDP. We can represents the needs and desires of the residents and business owners in the Denver's West Colfax neighborhood. Our organization currently has over 550 registered members and is dedicated to creating a healthy, safe and sustainable community in West Colfax. Please support us in approving this rezoning. We look forward to the completion of this project. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. Now is time for questions. Do we have any questions from members of council? Councilwoman Shepherd. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a question for Deirdre. So the evolution of this project has had many phases, shall we say, met several of which perhaps may not be the most obvious or clear to folks that have been following it. And I think there may be a lot of people perhaps watching tonight via television that say, you know, why are we doing this? Because isn't this what we already did through the general development plan process, which was, you know, you know, went we went through literally a year ago and planning board made the final vote. So I think it would be beneficial to clarify why this next step is needed. Certainly the general development plan is a guiding tool. It is a process that is in our Denver zoning code. It is not a regulatory tool for helping to restrict that height in a formal way that attaches to zoning. And so while it's in the general development plan, without this tool, there isn't a consistent regulatory approach that would accompany the zone district that's currently there, the Cemex five or any other zone district that they propose. So it is a regulatory tool. It is the way we help implement that GDP as the next step. Okay. Thank you for that. I appreciate it. Thank you, counsel. I'm sure councilman in each. Thank you very much. I just want to make sure I am saying it back and understanding correctly the differences between the different votes coming in phases. So what we're doing tonight is creating a new district with some rules regarding three stories, four stories, five stories. Any zone district that adopts those this DOE five at a later date will be adopting these restrictions regardless of what the height is in the non restricted portion. So for example, it could be three stories next to five, which is what it is today, or it could be three stories next to 12 if that's what's adopted. Just depending on which street you're on, so am I. Am I understanding that correctly in terms of how this will interact with what comes after it? What comes after it? Right. Pretty much, yes. So what we're doing is putting the language on the books today. And should you approve that, then that would become part of the Denver zoning code. And in a month, you'll see the map amendment that goes with this applied to that very same area that we talked about. And that map amendment will then make the zoning on the site effectively seem x five slash DL five. So we're adding that overlay to it. The third that we're talking about for an applicant who comes in and is proposing a different zone district like the CM x 12 to change the base zoning, we've asked just to reinforce , even though it already would be on the site, we've asked that they come in with an application that still says d05 on it to make very clear that it doesn't go away, that it's staying along with that. And in fact, you know, sneak peek, the planning board looked at that and said, that's great, but we want to make sure that the door five is applied to the site. And so it's just a reinforcing way to look at any zoning application in the future. But the deal five would apply to the entire site. Okay. Thank you for making sure I understood that. Yeah. Thank you, Councilwoman. Any other questions on 962? Seen a public hearing on 962 is now closed time for comments from members of council councilwoman shepard. Thank you, Mr. President. I am glad to sponsor this text amendment this evening and it's precisely for many other reasons that we've already spoke about tonight. The West Colfax plan in 2004, you know, did envision higher density in this site because it is an area of change. And we knew the hospital would eventually leave and then we'd have, you know, all these blocks and, you know, what would we do with them? And in particular, with the advent of the light rail and of course, also the West Colfax bus line that exists today, which has 15 minute headways. We have excellent, excellent public transportation opportunities throughout this whole corridor. And if, you know, as our city grows and changes, it is imperative, you know, that we plan for the infrastructure that helps to accommodate that growing population. And the number one of the number one ways to do that is by making sure that we have adequate public transit, transportation, transportation options to help meet that need. However, although it is an area of change, there is already a very large established neighborhood there in that area, many 1 to 2 story homes throughout the whole neighborhood. And I think it is imperative, you know, that. We protect the quality of life for those folks, especially on Perry Street and Stewart Street, which is the east and west boundaries of this site. And I think it's a very sensitive approach to help limit the height at those edges, to better compliment the site as it develops forward. And in particular, I think this is extremely important as we contemplate potential heights that are even higher than the five stories that is currently on the site. And as many of you know, through the presentation, that is already a higher, you know, heights, higher than five stories are already being contemplated there. So I think it's even more imperative that we move to codify this in a way that can give residents that have already been on the on the ground for quite a while, you know, some security that they're not going to be faced with, you know, potentially up to 12 stories right there, you know, across the street from them. So for that reason, I am definitely supporting this tonight as I chose to sponsor this application and I would ask my fellow council members to support it as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Sheppard. Councilwoman Kennedy. Thank you, Mr. President. I would also like to just enthusiastically add my support to this to this overlaid change. I really do think that the idea of density is one that people talk about. And often when they're articulating their concerns, it's really design that's more concerning than total height. It's about what it feels like, it's about what it looks like. And so, in my opinion, these kinds of overlays and even some of the basic things we already have in our zoning code like step backs and setbacks from the street edge, which will also apply to some of these edges to even further enhance the way that it feels when you're walking by it or living near it. So I really do think that these pieces are really responsive to the to the community and actually even to the original conversations about how you make something that was a piece of the neighborhood, but a pretty rough transition from hospital to residential become a little more of an integrated transition. And so I think that it'll actually be an even better experience than the prior uses and the prior edges were. And so in that way, I think redevelopment presents an opportunity for a really great, seamless community. So I want to just thank all of the work that went into it and to Councilwoman Sheperd for coming forward and sponsoring this creative solution. So I hope we all support it enthusiastically. Thank you, Councilwoman. Any other comments on 962? Seen none. Madam Secretary. Raquel Brooks. Hi, Brown. I fats. I can eat lemon Lopez. Hi, Monteiro. Hi, Nevitt. Hi, Ortega. Hi, Rob. Hi. Mr. President. I. As women can each. Thank you, Madam Secretary, please close the voting. And as a result, 3939 counts will 962 is passed on Monday, February 2nd, 2015. Council will hold a required public hearing on Council Bill 963, changing the zoning classification between 17 Drive, Cornelius Place, Stewart Street and Perry Street, South Long Lake General Development Plan Boundaries . Any protests against Council Bill 963 must be filed with the Council offices no later than noon on Monday, January 26, 2015. Seeing no other business before this body, this meeting is adjourned. Yeah.

AN ORDINANCE related to the City Light Department; authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of City Light to execute a Reliability Coordinator Funding Agreement with Peak Reliability, Inc.

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Agenda item eight Council Bill 118444. An ordinance related to the City Light Department authorizing the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of City Light to execute a Reliability Coordinator Funding Agreement with Pink Reliability Peak Reliability Inc. The committee recommends the bill pass. Thank you, Councilmember someone. This Council approves the contract with the nonprofit organization that regulates the transmission lines for all the utilities on the West Coast. They make sure that as utilities buy and sell electricity, no transmission lines are overloaded and that that network works smoothly. The Energy Committee recommends passage of the bill. Thank you. Questions or comments? Please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Okamoto Hi. Rasmussen All right. So want I back? Shall I? Gordon I. Harrill Lakota I O'Brien and President Burgess now in a favor and unopposed. Bill passes and the chair will sign it. Please read item nine.

Recommendation to conduct a Budget Hearing to receive and discuss an Overview of the Proposed Fiscal Year 2017 Budget for the following: Department of Health and Human Services; Parks, Recreation and Marine Department; and Public Works Department.

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Unanimous. Thank you very much. Congratulations to Vice Mayor Richardson and council member Austin. We're going to go now right into our budget hearing, which is the start of the meeting and then the rest of the meeting. So let staff get ready for that. And Mr. West will go through the entire presentation and then do questions at the end. Okay. We're going to go ahead and get started. Last week we had our first formal budget presentation reviewing departments. We had the police department at the fire department and disaster management. Today, we're going to hear from three of our departments. We're going to hear Kelly Colby, the director of our Health and Human Services Department. After Kelly, we're going to hear from Marie Knight, the director of our Parks, Recreation and Marine Department. And after that, we're going to hear from Craig Beck, the director of our Public Works Department. So with that, I just. Thank you. We just want to continue that to note that we are working on a public safety continuum. It's just not all about police and fire protecting our community and public safety areas. It's a lot of other departments. It's health and it's Health and Human Services. It's Parks, recreation and Marine keeping kids busy. It's public works, taking care of our streets and our graffiti and issues like that. Obviously, library services as well. Workforce development, code enforcement. So there's a myriad of activities that work to help support our public safety continuum and work with our police department to keep our community a great community that it is. So that I'm going to turn it over to Kelly. Good evening, honorable mayor, vice mayor and City Council Members. Thank you for the opportunity to present the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services. First, I'd like to recognize my team members. Who in the audience? Raise your hand. Raise your hand. All right. Who make of what we do possible? They're bright, committed, caring, and their team are so passionate about their work. I appreciate them fully and know that the Health Department would not be where it is today without them. I am truly lucky to be here. I'm going to share with you first some, of course, services. So the Health and Human Services Department provides over 30 programs in nine sites around the city. Together, these services focus on building and supporting healthy communities, families and individuals with pre-natal through old age. Many people connect us primarily with homeless services and restaurant inspections, but we do much more. We promote healthy living through many of our programs, including healthy, active, Long Beach, the Hills Zone, Rick, and our public health nursing. We increase safety of neighborhoods, homes and businesses through our environmental health programs, as well as our strengthening families efforts at the Center for Families, Centers for Family and Youth. We provide housing and homeless services, work closely with our city, federal, state and local partners to prepare for public health emergencies. We increase access to health care and community supports and prevent, investigate and control communicable diseases through epidemiology, disease, investigation and clinical services. We have a diverse list of accomplishments this year. As you know, we achieved public health accreditation, demonstrating our superior level of service. We were the third local health department in California. Out of 61, only 5% of health departments nationally have achieved the status. We provided over 350,000 public health visits this year, all at free or no cost to do theirs. We brought in we brought in over $96 million of funding from outside of our city. This provides 225 jobs in the city. 60 million of this funding actually goes back to the community through the housing authority and rent payments to move to apartment owners. We really are an economic driver. We became the only California public health lab to receive our and molecular accreditation, which allows for a significant decrease the amount of time for testing results for Zika, other infectious diseases and bioterrorism. It went from days to hours for when we can get results. We had 498 homeless veterans and met the HUD benchmarks for functionally ending veteran homelessness, a level we've been trained for nine months. We work closely with city partners and public works and development services and other community partners to complete the pedestrian master plan to the Communities of Excellence and through Kaiser and the Office of Traffic Safety Funding. We implemented bike safety courses and a bike hub in North Long Beach, where youth learn to maintain bikes, receive free helmets. We were awarded a $5 million fatherhood grant, which allows us to work with over 500 fathers to become better parents. We opened the Section eight waitlist for the first time in 13 years, received over 18,000 applications for vouchers and over 14,000 more applications for project based sites. Finally, we led planning efforts for a large scale four day bioterrorism exercise that included many partners in the city and other government agencies. Our budget is just over $114 million. 61% of that comes from HUD for the Housing Authority. 30% 37% is health fund, which includes funding from grants, fees, sales tax and vehicle licensing fees. 1% comes from Cooper, which was previously discussed by the Health Department's presentation, and 1% comes from the City General Fund. This all turns out that we leverage about $1.4 million in city funding to bring in $114 million in resources, which is about an 8,043% return on investment. Our notable changes this year focus on homeless services, internal changes, and broader public health trends. The Health Department continues to lead the homeless outreach efforts and partnerships to support homeless in the city. But our capacity does not meet the demand for outreach and services. We do have new funding this year, which includes $100,000 in one time funds for outreach and response activities and $250,000 for Infuse Fellow to help further our innovative strategies and identify innovative funding opportunities to help address homelessness. This is added to the $7.2 million we receive from Howard to fund our Continuum of care, which includes 12 community partners that provide case management, mental health services, transitional and permanent housing and so much more. Another 1 million come from other grants to support outreach, emergency shelters, homeless prevention and veterans supports. Other notable changes include reorganizing the health department programs to create efficiencies, enhance coordination. In the past, we focused on the different grants and how people access them separately. Our goal this year to align our services around individuals, beginning with the common intake process. They'll help determine all the programs they qualify for and to better coordinate those services. We're also redesigning internal administrative processes for efficiency and consistency. Public health. Public health at the national level is changing. It's focusing more on the social context that impact health, such as housing, violence, prevention, trauma, environment and education. This requires significant partnerships as it takes all of us to address these issues. It also takes reviewing policies and programs through an equity lens to ensure we are building and supporting improve health for those who haven't been supported in the past and who now experience disparate health outcomes. We are looking for also looking at improving data sharing strategies across hospitals and community partners to better connect people to the community supports they need to build and maintain their health. Our significant issues include the increasing concerns about homeless across the city, and I've discussed those resources in a previous slide. We face increasing external public health threats such as Zika and other vector borne diseases, bioterrorism concerns and climate change that's impacting our environment, access to food, the heat advisories and other things, just to name a few. We're constantly working to identify sustainable funding streams for existing and emerging priorities. We've lost funding for asthma and diabetes. Education have not found resources to support those programs moving forward. In addition, grant funding does not cover full administrative costs or increasing employee costs, which which leaves us running about 110 grants and sub grants and responding to over 100 program and fiscal audits annually based on grants. The lack of sufficient administrative resources actually limits our ability to build our grant base. We also face increasing facility cost to aging infrastructure, which is also not covered by grants. Often we hear we can fund it through grants and we have been very successful at that. But it is not easy. If it were all work and all nonprofits would be fully funded. Funds, funds priorities shift and reduced and the competition continues to get steeper. In addition, writing and managing grants is very labor intensive. Grants are a great part of an overall funding strategy, but as the primary funding strategy, it can be very difficult. We are excited about the potential opportunities to build a more integrated system of services for older adults, as outlined earlier this year in the older adult strategic plan . We'll be working very closely with Parks and Rec in this work. The potential move of violence prevention and equity efforts into the department is also an opportunity. At the national level, violence prevention and equity have become key focus areas for public health because of their impact on overall wellness and communities. In addition, we're participating in many conversations about increasing opportunities to avert people with mental illness from criminal justice settings to treatment settings so that they'll be safer and served in the right place. Finally, health departments nationally are moving toward the role of chief health strategist. More of the convener pulling together government agencies, hospitals, community providers and community members to improve health and wellness. We're being approached by a number of partners to take on this role, and we appreciate the opportunity in their trust they place in our work. In closing, thank you for your time this evening. The Health and Human Services Department looks forward to working closely with you to continue to build and support a healthy, safe and vibrant Longreach and village of Christians. Thank you. Next up is Parks and Recreation Marine. Good evening, honorable mayor and members of the City Council. It is my pleasure to present to you tonight the Department of Parks Recreation and Maureen's fiscal year 2017 proposed budget. This has been an incredibly successful and dynamic past year for us. And I want to thank the mayor, city council, the city managers and his office and his team, our partners and other city departments and as well as the community for all the support. The investments that are included in the fiscal year 17 budget will help our city continue to be recognized as a national leader in parks and recreation services. And even more importantly, we'll help the Parks and Recreation and Animal Care Services team that some of which are assembled here this evening, to continue to have a positive impact on Long Beach residents and visitors each day. So our core services, we are one of the most diverse departments. We go from pets to beaches, buildings to youth and turf and trees to seniors. And we touch the lives in every corner of our community. We provide for the maintenance of parks, facilities, open spaces, marinas and beaches to promote an active, healthy lifestyle and improve the livability of Long Beach. We take our role in the public safety continuum seriously and work hard to provide access to healthy recreation opportunities and safe environments for the city's youth. Teens, adults and seniors who visit our programs over 2 million times each year. We promote responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals and work to reduce animal overpopulation. Our Animal Care Services is a 24 seven public safety and public health operation. As the largest municipally run marina system in the nation. Our goal is to make sure our facilities are excellent quality and exceed customer and community needs. And lastly, we continue to implement the city's open space plan with projects that expand community access to parks and facilities. So we had many accomplishments this past year with a focus on livability. We've increased our bike ability, swim ability and walkability with the installation of the Bayshore Buoy, swim line, bike, fix it stations and fitness zones across the city in parks, beaches and waterways. We completed over 5500 work orders, many coming from the Long Beach app in our parks and removed over 4000 tons of trash from our beaches. And we were again rated one of the 25 best park systems in the country. Additional strategic investments included renovations and improvements to Homeland Cultural Center, Willow Springs, Park Stearns Park, the playground at MacArthur Park and the Community Center and Pool at Martin Luther King Jr Park. Also, there were restroom projects at Bixby Recreation and a forest projects done this year. To further our efforts to use irrigation water and our water budget as efficiently as possible. The conversion of over 300,000 square feet of street medians from turf to mulch has started. Gun Boehner Park will be completed in the coming months and the DeForest Park Wetlands, Drake, Chavez, Greenbelt and the El Dorado Nature Center projects are just starting. And with the rebuild of the Alamitos Bay Marina well underway, staff is now focusing on improvements of the other Marina amenities. And we are marketing the new, larger slips that will soon be available. We also act as an incubator for hundreds of local, micro and small businesses through our contract class and structure opportunities. Demand for our recreation programs continues to grow this summer. Excuse me? This summer, our programs were either at or exceeded capacity across the board. And as the demographics in Long Beach shift towards a larger senior population, demand for senior services has also grown. Our Animal Care Services field staff responded to over 28,000 calls for service last year. As we work to ensure the safety of all of our residents two and four legged. Through the many community partnerships, spay and neuter programs and improved health care, the live release rate has continued to grow for another straight year. Partnerships within the community and outside funding sources such as with the LA Kings and Signal Hill Petroleum have allowed us to continue and enhance programs and services during fiscally challenging times. This past summer, the Long Beach Unified School District provided free access to youth at all city and school pools and free swim lessons at Cabrillo High School . And once again, we teamed with the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau to provide 100 days of summer program to increase the economic impact of the staycation concept and the impact of our programs. For our fiscal year 17, our proposed budget totals over $56 million across all funds, with 32 million in the general fund. The department also has substantial Thailand funds budgets to support our operations in the marinas, beaches and waterways. We have significant revenue streams to help support our many programs with general fund revenue of over 12 million and tidelands funds revenue over 24 million. The department is also significant also has significant grant funding for youth services of just over $2 million. This budget provides for 430 full time equivalent positions, and during our busy summer summer months, our total staffing complement grows to over 800 people. Each year we provide hundreds of area teens and young adults their introduction into the workforce through volunteer and employment opportunities. Some notable changes in this year's budget in order to reduce the impact to the community from any further critical program reductions. We worked hard to develop additional operational efficiencies and look for new service delivery models where possible. For example, we are reducing our mowing frequency and our turf areas during the winter months, saving approximately $60,000 each year. A reduction to administrative staff was made possible by leveraging technology to distribute information throughout our various locations more efficiently. We will also redistribute responsibilities in our sports field permitting program and in the supervision of the Long Beach Senior Center, resulting in some staff reductions. These reductions do not reduce recreation services, but will, however, reduce the amount of staff time available to interface with customers. Next, we look to make sure all of our programs are right sized by matching budgeted resources to the actual participation. The summer season of youth sports is historically the least attended, so reductions in this program will have the least impact to our city's youth. We were able to adjust areas of our budget for strategic investments for the future. For example, one adjustment that is offset by revenue is increased staffing at the El Dorado East Regional Park gates. Our General Fund budget was increased as well to help provide additional resources to maintain our parks and facilities. This included resources for City Council district funded improvements and to bridge the L.A. County Parks Tax Levy shortfall. In addition, we identified areas where a small investment will reap larger rewards by providing upgraded equipment for floor care in our 27 community centers and response to plumbing issues in our parks, as well as new equipment to more efficiently clean the Belmont Pier. As we continue to deal with the drought. One time resources were identified to further our water conservation efficiency efforts and provide emergency additional emergency tree care. The Be Safe program will be funded once again, and we will have the opportunity to build on previous successes, helping to keep youth and families engaged in positive and safe activities on weeknights during the longer daylight hours of the summer season. In the coming year, we will be working to increase efficiencies in animal care services and implement multi-year pet licenses for residents. Saving both staff resources and the customers time and the passing of the historic measure will allow us for long awaited and much needed repairs and improvements in our parks and to our many facilities. There are some significant issues and opportunities facing us in the year ahead. The Department will work to continue the investment in our parks and facilities throughout the city to increase the city's livability and safety. The identified projects for measure funding have a very aggressive goals in Year one and will require staff to dedicate significant amounts of time to complete the many, much needed projects. And we look forward to that challenge. The city's park trees have been hard hit by the drought. Their advancing age, lack of trimming and insect infestations and resources are now provided to start to address these problems. We will work to develop strategies to further impact these issues as we take as well as take action to address the recent audit findings within our current constrained resources. Future partnerships will also be critical with stakeholders to develop an innovative approach to address the challenges of homelessness, vandalism and an aging infrastructure and their collective impact on our limited staff and park resources. Our Animal Care services operations have come a long way and further investment will be needed to advance our progress in providing positive outcomes for shelter animals as well as those that we encounter in the field. The department sees great opportunity as well in continuing our efforts to seek partnerships with the community to enhance our service offerings in all areas. And finally, the demand for all of our programs and services and the use of our parks, our beaches and all of our spaces and places has greatly increased this past year, putting a strain on our limited resources. With over 168 public places and spaces, six miles of beaches, 27 community centers, dozens of athletic fields, 67 tennis courts, five municipal golf courses, 54 playgrounds, three pools, and 330 300 marina slips. Our opportunity to impact the residents of Long Beach, both our two and four legged, is great. And through all these facilities in our programs, we have made millions of positive contacts this year as we take our residents from diapers to diplomas and graduates to grandparents. Your continued investment in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine has been essential to our ability to meet the needs of the community, and we thank you for your support. And this concludes our presentation, and we will be available after the next presentation for questions. Thank you. And finally, it's a public works. Good evening, honorable members of the City Council, thank you for the opportunity to provide a brief overview of the Public Works Department's Fiscal Year 2017 proposed budget. If you recall, two weeks ago you received a presentation on the proposed capital improvement program, or CHP, which outlined the city's plan investment of roughly $76 million into city infrastructure. Tonight, I'm going to discuss the public works operating budget. Public Works is a team of service oriented individuals who actively support the successful operations of the city on a daily basis. These activities are summarized in three core service areas, which include overseeing the maintenance and rehabilitation of the city's core rights of way infrastructure, such as streets, sidewalks and our urban forest. We provide services supporting a healthy and sustainable city environment, including waste diversion, stormwater management and enhancing livability infrastructure. The Department also works to safely and efficiently design, construct, deliver and maintain our public facilities. So next time you drive to a council meeting, I'd like you to think about the hardworking public works employees while you're on the streets designed by your engineering group, while you obey the traffic signs supported by our street maintenance group. Now, if you don't obey the traffic signs, you'll be thinking about Chief Luna. I want you to think about when you walk into city hall that this building is maintained by your facility team and when you dispose of your Starbucks coffee cup that is serviced by an environmental services team. Public Works had a number of accomplishments in 2016, including completing 113 million in capital improvement projects. Some of those highlights include a $25 million investment in arterial streets and sidewalks. And I just want to note that to help ensure that our rights of way meet accessibility standards, the city has hired a new ADA coordinator. There was also 15.1 million invested in the new Michelle Obama Library, 7 million for Parks Recreation Improvement, some of which Maria outlined here this evening. As well as $35 million to start the new Civic Center project, which included the demolition of the old courthouse. Our refuge crews collected 186,000 tons of trash. This was either recycled or used for renewable energy. Street crews repaired 34,000 potholes, trimmed 25,000 trees, and removed 1.2 million square feet of graffiti. Under the Clean Team Initiative, over 13,000 illegally dumped items were collected. Many coming in over the Golden beach at. We assisted residents with 15,000 special item pick up requests, keeping those items out of the alleys. A highlight that particularly worth mentioning is the street sweeping optimization study, which focused on the elimination of the 14 street sweeping routes . This was done in one of the city's most parking impacted residential neighborhoods. Alameda Speech. This effort will continue in 2017, moving into the downtown and West Gateway neighborhoods. In 2017, Public Works is proposing a $177 million budget. This is divided across nine different funds. This includes about 107 million for operating activities and 70 million in capital funds. If you look at the pie chart, I just want to highlight that public works includes roughly 21% of its budget, which is made up of general funds totaling $38 million. This $38 million represents roughly 9% of the citywide general fund budget. Additionally, this $38 million is offset by $25 million in revenue from various sources, including parking meters and permit fees. You'll notice the refuse and recycling fund is our largest amount that we have in the department that represents $47 million and it's generated from customer payments. These moneys are solely restricted for waste diversion activities, including the city's clean team. The Capital Projects Fund includes the first year of measure investments totaling $27 million. This is in addition to the base amounts. These activities are all detailed in the proposed CIP plan, which again was presented two weeks ago. Notable changes that we're working on include working closely with financial management department to achieve the general fund saving target of $733,000. This reduction will result in minimal impact to operations as the savings was achieved by reducing overtime, essentially shifting after our call outs to regularly scheduled hours. We also reallocated our survey staff to the oil fund and the Capital Projects Fund, thus aligning staff with the funding areas where the actual work is performed. I want to take a moment to thank the limited gas and oil department for their continued support of our survey team. Public Works is proposing to enhance the Clean Team Initiative, allowing for two dedicated clean team crews. This will expand the proactive response to illegally dumped items, litter abatement and other clean services that's included in this year's budget. The budget also includes Measure A again, $27 million will help address many deferred capital projects. We are also adding staff to help meet the demands of not only measure but the other side IP projects. When thinking about project delivery. Public Works is is restructuring its organization by establishing a focused project management group. This will align tidelands measure A and base SIPP into one work team, providing more efficient effort and better communication. Additionally, it will allow us to support private development as it relates to work within the public right of way. Opportunities in 2017, with the passage of Measure aid, the city can begin to address its aging infrastructure, which has been a constant budget challenge to ensure the city is making strategic investments in its street. The Pavement Management Plan, or PMP, will receive an update in 2017, giving council an understanding of what condition all the streets are within the city. The city will also complete its first alley, including courts and Ways Management Plan, funded with $300,000 for measure. There is also a new sidewalk management plan which will be prepared to evaluate the condition and help us prioritize repairs based on need. This will also focus on the needed accessibility improvements that we need to make in many of our intersections. The proposed budget includes an update to the city's refuse rates. A study is currently being conducted by an outside consultant and those results and recommendations will be brought to council in early 2017. The study will include an evaluation of rates in comparable cities, including Los Angeles, Burbank, Pasadena, Santa monica and San Jose. I want to point to the phase the completion of phase one of our led streetlight change out program that updated 1750 intersection lights, or we call safety lights. That program continues with phase two. That will result in replacing roughly 24,000 high pressure sodium lights with LED lights. This is in partnership with City Light and Power. And also I'd like to point out that it's a sustainable project and will significantly reduce the city's city's energy consumption for streetlights. And I'm pleased to announce that we are investing in technology, working with the innovation team and our technology and Innovation Department. The city will deploy an easy park, Long Beach smartphone mobile application. This will show a parking information for on street and off street parking, allowing users to view parking availability throughout the cities. When that 1651 smart meter on street parking locations and over 10,000 spaces in our lots and garages. Finally, the department will continue to focus on citywide mobility programs, including completing the deployment of 50 bikeshare stations, which will result in 500 bike share bikes throughout our city communities. We're also adding 19 bike repair and hydration stations that again will be deployed throughout Long Beach. Again on mobility, we will work to continue the construction of the Daisy Avenue, the 15th Street and Sixth Street Bike Boulevard projects. These will be in addition to the newly completed expansion of Alameda Avenue buffered bike lanes and the new parking protected bike lanes on Artesia Boulevard that were just unveiled last week. It's also I'm pleased to announce that our beach treats events will continue in 2017 to support the community and make sure that we're working to educate them on mobility options. So in closing, I want to reiterate that our goal is to continue to efficiently and seamlessly provide these essential services to our communities. On behalf of the 466 dedicated men and women of the Public Works Department. I want to thank you for your support, and I look forward to working with each of you in the coming year. Thank you. Thank you. I think that concludes all of our presentations. I think everyone did a great job. Thank you. And we're going to begin by going into some questions. Again, a lot of members want to speak. So please, if we can just try to note that everyone has has questions, we'll probably get to all of them instead of , you know, one person asking all of them. That would be great. So, Vice Mayor Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I want to start with public works. I just want to say and this isn't a question, I just want to say that it's apparent that you've invigorated your department and it's clear that your staff, in all your all your bureaus and divisions, they're clearly thinking outside of the box and really striving to meet the needs of our city. So so I have to say that I recognize that and you're doing a fantastic job and your staff is doing great. That's all I have for public works. Thanks. And Parks and Rec, a few things that came up. I noticed you mentioned that you have 800 staff during the summer and that's that's huge. That's a tremendous point of entry for employment. That's you know, this is it's a front line for youth violence prevention. And with all of the constraints with dealing with a department that large it I think your staff does a fantastic job at balancing community interests city council interest and needs and you're really the you know, you're really sort of delivering on a number of programs like our concerts in the park are fantastic the Be Safe program, a number of improvements like our de force wetlands, the Harlem Park Community Center, our north town open space masterplan can go on and on, but your staff is they're killing it. So keep up the good work on health. I would say, you know, along that same along that same vein too, to think that, you know, it was something you mentioned. So you have a lot of accomplishments. I see everything from the heels on to the bike club, the fatherhood initiative, which is huge. All your work. I'm very proud of your work around veterans and homelessness and I think it's to hear all that. I think it's astonishing to know that you only receive 1% of the general fund and as much of as much of you know, as much that we talk about it, city council about a lot of these social issues. It's just surprising me that that you receive less than most other departments and you're completely you're completely grant funded and fee funded. And I know that we can't expect our departments to continue to be innovative and forward thinking if we can't support them and if our budget doesn't reflect our values. This department continues to be a smart investment. You invest 1% and we literally get 99% back. And that's that's just fantastic. And that's a lesson learned. But we can't think long term when we're thinking in terms of grant cycles. So today we did receive this memo here on the Office of Equity and we received a letter from the Board of Health. So I do want to thank your staff for your hard work and research that went into this. But because this just came out and I did take the time to read it, I want to ask you if you can just take a moment and just walk the council through this memo. Good evening. So we were asked to look at the feasibility of integrating the violence prevention efforts and equity efforts in the Department of Health and Human Services. This is the first the first memo that outlines the steps and initial resources that it would take to do that. We provide some background about the the safe Long Beach and violence prevention efforts, as well as the existing equity efforts. But in the end, what I'd like to talk a little bit about is what the structure would be and what we're proposing. We see equity as an overall encompassing activity. It is not an activity, but a philosophy and the way that we look at things. And so what we'd like to do is to place an equity office within the Administrative Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and then the violence prevention efforts really to move into the Human Services Bureau, which we don't currently have, but we will soon as we're realigning our organization. We see the nice fit there because the we have the Center for Families and Youth, we have homeless services, the Fatherhood Initiative, our kind of strengthening families activities. All of those are considered core violence prevention activities. And then that would allow for those integrated efforts to look around prevention as well. We're also been spending a lot of time looking at mental health diversion from incarceration opportunities, which is also violence prevention. So we'd like to incorporate that into the Human Services Bureau and then the equity efforts would be within the overall department. Thank you. And I think that makes a lot of sense to place, you know, violence prevention with all the human services stuff that you're doing from homelessness to, you know, fatherhood initiative and all that. I think that all make sense. And in terms of like the staffing in the Office of Equity, I want to applaud the fact that you've looked at two positions you've already gotten grant funded and you're leveraging that. So that's great. I want to just ask that that, you know, I see a timeline here that says, you know. The City Council asked that we look at some time in the next fiscal year to make this happen because I know it's going to take some time to do some some outreach and things like that. Could you just walk me through just what you anticipate to be a potential timeline, like how I know we can't be open on day one, October 1st of a fiscal year, but what would it look like, that sort of phase in a ramp up? So the in terms of the Office of Equity specifically, we are in the middle of hiring an equity coordinator for the department that was that is funded through the California Endowment. We also have a few fellow who will be joining us for one year that is funded between general fund and grant funds. In addition to that, we would we would language access and My Brother's Keeper would be would be incorporated there. So as we look at what it would take to plan, when we talked about the feasibility of what was originally proposed here, there were a large number of people here speaking and wanting to engage in that conversation around equity. And what we understand is that we want to be able to be out in the community, to engage with the community over the next 4 to 6 months, to have a conversation about what are the expectations and how do you align the expectations and the resources to really move forward and determine together what we want to create with this office. So we would come back in six months with a plan in terms of the violence prevention, we're looking at another probably year sometime in early, early to 2017 to be able to move those over based on space and technology and other things. We also the memo outlines the fact that because we are grant funded and all way to pretty much everything that is coming through violence prevention and equity are grant funded as well that we would be seeking an administrative analyst at the most as an absolute core piece to help run all of those grants and monitor them and do those kinds of things, as well as bringing on a public health professional level or high level sort of program and person to really look at the data and to help drive violence prevention efforts across the department. Thank you. So I'll just end with I'm very comfortable with that timeline. I think it meets exactly what we discussed in initial motion. I'm going to ask our budget folks, Leia, John GROSS and I and our chair of our Budget Oversight Committee, just look at this proposal, talk with city staff, see if there's a way that we can make sure that this gets phased in to meet the needs of the health department. Because what I understand is our director saying, yes, we can do the things that the council asks, but at some point we have to talk about real capacity. We can't continue to be, you know, grant funded and look at we need to have some support on the administrative side. And that's my analysis here. So I'm to ask folks this to look at that through the BRC process and I look forward to what comes out of it. But thank you so much and great job to all of you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzales. Yes, thank you. Thank you to each of the department heads. I really appreciate all of the work that each of you have done and also the women and men of each of your departments. It's been phenomenal working with with all of you. I will start with public works. Just real comments. I want to say thank you. I know the courts and waste management plan is will be underway. It's very exciting. Also your commitment to parking. Craig, I really appreciate it. I know that we will receive a study that will discuss the courthouse area. We're also looking at the greater downtown and city place as well. So thank you. Moving along to Parks summary. I have a couple of questions, so thank you for everything. Your reports are always very inclusive and comprehensive and I think we've streamlined a lot of our questions and we've received a lot of answers from you. Have a question? I see a couple of reductions and eliminations. You did talk about the youth summer sports programing. I guess historically it's been low, but I have questions also the reduction for Silverado and Veterans Park. So can you just explain that a little bit? Yes. The reduction in the youth sports for summer, there was a at one point in time an all city track meet that was produced by our department. It wasn't run last year because the numbers from the year before before were very, very low participation. So that was something that we thought we could eliminate in this year's budget without having an impact to some of our other summer programs. As far as then Silverado and Veterans, what we were doing there is really eliminate or not eliminating, but bringing the budget back more right sizing it to the participation level. So the numbers are low there during the summer show and the staffing level doesn't need to be as high there. Okay. And was the track meet? That's the only youth sport for summertime. Yes. And then as far as the low participation is that that money be placed in other like different types of programing. I mean, that would be great if we were able to do something like that. So just that would be great if we were able to do something like that. But as we looked at the need to do reductions in the department across the board, we tried to be as efficient as possible and look at right sizing and and areas where we could reduce without the impact. And that's one of those areas. Okay. Thank you. And then last question for you. I think it's been a question that we've had historically as park patrols. I know that's been talked about formally. What is the next step? Because I know we talked about it last budget season and I don't know where it's at at this point. Well, right now we have our park ranger program is actually housed in the police department, and they are mainly working with our regional park system. We had a pilot program a year and a half ago, I believe it was. It stopped in the council district two. That was, again, pilot, and that was to be funded if it was going to go forward through the local homeowners association, if they chose to continue to move it forward. And that was really using some of our part time recreation staff to be at that park, to sort of be eyes and ears on the park after program hours and and to help with some of the issues that we were having there. We don't currently have plans or we don't have funding in the budget to start a program or to bring back that pilot program. Okay. Thank you very much. That answered my question. I appreciate it and Kelly and help thank you also for everything that you do specifically with homelessness. I feel like it's been really prioritized. We've been talking about it quite a bit and I know there's different funding sources coming through, but I really appreciate your commitment to that and all of your your team's commitment as well. Question about the lost funding for asthma. What are the next steps? Because I know that has been lost for some time. So I don't know what where we go from here. Right. So recently the port announced, I think it's $47 million that they'll be putting out into the community over the next 15 years to to start to address some of the issues. We had been receiving a human being port mitigation funds in those funds, and it so we'll be reapplying for those resources when they come forward. We are also looking at working with different health insurance organizations to see if they will start to fund asthma education as part of this part of an effort. We're in early conversations in that I'm not sure where that will go, but it is a possibility. Okay. Would you be able to inform us? I know that you you do regularly just to ensure that we know where it's at, because I know a lot of residents on the West Side specifically will have questions as to the funding. And I know you're very tight end, but be good to just get an update on where that said. Yeah, sure. Thank you. And then just last question. As we are discussing, the Office of Equity is I know there had been discussion of an Office of Aging and I don't know if aging will now be tied into Office of Equity and how that will work out. No, they'll be separate. Okay. Just just checking on that. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Yeah. Thank you. Excellent. Yes. Thank you, Councilwoman Pryce. Thank you very much. Okay, so a few questions. We'll start with public works and regarding the measure, plans for 2017. Is it realistic that we will actually be able to complete all of the projects that we have scheduled for 2017? And if not, at what point during the year will we have a sense of what projects we likely won't get to in that year, thereby allowing us the opportunity to reallocate some funds? Well, Councilmember, I'd just like to say that the mayor has issued me a challenge in completing these projects in three years, which I've gladly accepted. Joking aside, I do believe we will get through our $27 million of measure money in year one. A lot of the items on here are are things that don't take a lot of design time. So, for example, in year one, we're going to be doing a lot of street work that's focused on slurry while we we will be designing streets that we would be reconstructing in year two and then we would design streets in year two that we would be reconstructing in year three. So that really is the long lead time items. Many of the other things in here we believe we can get to should we find ourselves in a situation where we believe we're not going to achieve that in carryover moneys, we're going to be utilizing the Transportation Infrastructure Committee to make regular updates as long as well as the Measure Committee to give them updates on expenditure plans in progress. Okay, great. Because I know that we have a lot of public safety priorities as well as infrastructure priorities. And if there were if there was a realization that maybe we couldn't get to all the infrastructure ones, maybe for the 2017 year, we can reallocate some of that money because $1,000,000 may go a lot further with some of our public safety priorities than with infrastructure in terms of our our first year plan. So I just want to put that out there, something to think about. Okay. The pavement management update that we're going to get in 2017. Is that going to impact at all the three year plan that we've come up with? Or is the three year plan pretty much determined based on the last study that we did and will be identifying new, new challenges moving forward? Well, I think best management practices are that you keep your payment management plan current. Our goal is to update it every two years. So we have a very robust plan. I think you've you've spent some time looking at it and understand what's in that plan. We want to make sure that the street ratings that we're basing our decisions on are accurate and current. So essentially in 2017, those street ratings will receive an update. And I would imagine that our our strategic approach would remain consistent. But if, as an example, we have a street that significantly deteriorates in that two year time frame, we may want to shift some priorities to address those streets. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. And thank you very much for the work that you do. Have shared this with Mr. Beck in private, but happy to do so in public as well. Your team does your department does an amazing job responding to the go along beach app requests, especially in the area of graffiti removal. So I think it's that is the one. Service, a resource that we offer our residents that allows them to have direct contact with the city staff and city departments. And when that contact is positive, I think it fares well for the entire city. So thank you for that. Okay. Going on to health, if that's okay. I want to commend the Health Department for the amazing work that you do in bringing in grant funding. There's there's no doubt about it. When you look at your budget, like my colleagues have mentioned, you get very little from the city, but yet you bring in so much in grant funding. And so for that, you should be absolutely commended. And I can imagine that homelessness is a challenge. For the department at this time, because although you get over $7 million in funding from one source and some money from other sources, it still presents some new and unique challenges that are being presented , and we're not necessarily able to keep up with those. My question to you is, you know, we're hearing a lot about creative programs and projects that different municipalities are using to try to determine what works when it comes to homelessness. This morning, I heard on NPR that L.A. County is going to be implementing another idea of selling city advertising space and using that money to fund homelessness initiatives above and beyond what we do. And we're known for doing as a staple in the area of homelessness in the city of Long Beach. What creative methods or ideas or plans do we have moving forward that we can share with our constituents in regards to homelessness? Are we are we planning to try out any pilot projects anywhere? Is there anything that we're looking into that might be a little bit different than what we've done in the past to meet the new challenges? Yeah. So the Fuze fellow, we will have a Fuze fellow joining our team starting this fall for a one for a one year activity. And the Fuze fellow was the sort of led the much of the planning in L.A. County as part of their work. And so they will be looking at different sorts of innovative opportunities for how to address homelessness, as well as creative financing solutions and innovative financing issues to help fund additional resourcing in the work that we're doing right now. When we think about the 7.2 million coming in, six over 6 million of that actually goes to all of our partners. So we're doing that. We are providing transitional housing and permanent supportive housing and mental health services, veteran services, domestic violence services, even child care for people so they can begin to find jobs and to be educated . So we're really spending a lot of time, you know, working with our partners to house people. As for those who come in, the other is we're really spending a lot of time trying to you know, when we think about different ways that we can provide mental health treatment and substance abuse treatment, many that many who are homeless experience mental illness or substance use. And so we are working with our partners to try to identify new ways to do business there. But there's work to be done. In regards to that. And I know that you attended a recent meeting that we had in the third district that was very well attended by over 150 people on this issue. And some of the folks in the group were asking whether or not we have a plan in place. Do we have any sort of strategic plan in place for homelessness? And if not, what would it take for us to create one? I imagine that would be quite an undertaking that would be costly. What would be involved and do you think it would be helpful? Well, we do have we have a coordination. We very closely with our region as well. And so there's there are there's a lot of work through the coordinated entry system and through our teams. So it doesn't lay out as the strategic plan. It is a it's a highly coordinated effort that has brought together many partners from across our region in an effort to to address homeless. I think the work coming in for the few fellow that's actually going to be a core part of that work. So how do we look at the next steps? And we would be laying those out as part of a plan. So that's a one year process, and I'm not exactly sure what it's going to look like yet, but there will be much more engagement and opportunity to think through different possibilities. And when does this Fuze fellow join us? This fall, the next month or so, one week, October one. Would it be possible for us to have a little bit more engagement with this Fuze fellow as a council body? So maybe periodic updates because homelessness is something that's impacting all of our districts. And I know that sometimes we've you know, just in the short time I've been on council in two years, we've had programs that we've we've gotten grant funding for. But months have gone by. And by the time council gets an update in terms of what folks are working on, it's a little bit late for us to give input on what can you also work on this or can you also look at that? So is it possible for us to have like an early opportunity to maybe give input what we're seeing, what we'd like to see explored so that the Fuze fellow has a little bit of focus in terms of some of the issues that we might be dealing with that might be the same and some maybe not. Sure, we can do that. That would be great. Thank you. I'd appreciate that. Okay. For Parks, I echo everything my colleague said. Your team does a fantastic job, so they should be commended. Every single one of them, especially the ones that are out there every day, bringing a very positive spirit to people who may not get it elsewhere. So I thank them for that. I do have a question about the park safety issue that was raised, and I remember being very involved in the discussions regarding Bixby Park, but I'm not sure if we ever received and we could have and I missed it. But any sort of like a summary or overview of, you know, how effective was that program? Was it an effective program? Did we collect any data? And if it was an effective program and we wanted to continue it, what would that budget look like? I don't know that I have the budget numbers at my fingertips of what that would look like. As far as an effective program, I think it really is going to depend on what outcome you were looking to achieve. If you recall, they are mostly young, part time recreation staff that were in the park and I don't think they had the ability to enforce some of the issues and the concerns effectively that maybe the residents were looking for. So the program effective? I you know, I don't know that I heard it was with an overwhelming response that it was an effective program or that on either side from our team or from the residents, that it really did what they were looking for. But I think partially that was because some of the outcomes really weren't clearly defined going in as to what the program was to to achieve. I know recently we've worked with the Friends of the Bixby Park and we started to do some things in the park that I think have have created some change and and solve some of the issues. So, for example, the skate park, there was great concern that the skate park was attracting somewhat regulars and the regulars were older. So it made it very intimidating for the young kids and families who wanted to enjoy that activity or that space in the park. So we started this summer the funding from the Friends of Bixby Park with some free skate opportunities. So Tuesday nights and Saturdays we had one of our contractor instructors out there doing some free skate programing, which sort of broke up a little bit the what activities were taking place at the skate park. And it seemed to have a very positive effect. So we're looking at continuing that, moving forward, using that space a little differently, bringing in some of our other program opportunities and ideas for the park and just activating it in a different manner than it had been. And we're seeing some great success with that. Right. Okay. Thank you. I don't have anything further. I actually I do. But the mayor said don't ask all the questions, so I'm going to pass. Thank you. And just to something that Councilman Price said with which I want to just clear, because people are probably hearing views. Fellow what's what's his views fellow in and out in the in the world there. Just just to clarify. So what what what this fellowship program is, is these are it's a it's a fellowship where they they go out and seek and find kind of the best and the brightest that are experts and innovators in civic innovation. And then they get placed in cities and communities to innovate on a topic that the city needs, innovation and development. And so these are some of the some of the the brightest minds out doing this work. And then they're also a network. So that, for example, I think my call it we just mentioned that there's a few fellow in Los Angeles that works on homelessness and so that that those ideas and those projects and get network to this Fuze Fellowship network and so in Long Beach from from per staff's kind of recommendation and and hope is that our Fuze fellow that will be coming in I guess October 1st they're going to be focused on homelessness and we acknowledge that homelessness is an area that needs new ideas and innovation and commitment as well. And so, you know, want to comes from as prices continued commitment in this area. And we're really excited about having this fellow. And I think that that's a good idea to have them hopefully meet the council early. So we all can kind of get to know who this person is and we look forward to their work. Thank you. And Mayor, just just to add that we are actually going to be able to have two few fellows. So you mentioned the one on homelessness, and we're also going to have one that's be working on safe, safe Long Beach and violence prevention as well. So we can certainly do that. Great. It sounds good. Councilman Ringa. Glad to hear that. But I was one of the things that I wanted to add have that that, you know, along with a lot of the questions we might have today in terms of the budget that are being presented, we also have a lot of comments to make in regard to the services we are already currently receiving . And I think that that is a that is a commendable in the sense that we have great departments in the city and they're working the best they can with the budgets they have. And in regards to homelessness, it is my expectation, my hope actually, that eventually we're going to institutionalize our budgets for homelessness and for a lot of the things that we have here, because every year we're always looking at, you know, what grants are available up there or what innovation can we go for to continue the work and continue that battle that we're dealing with, with homelessness. And the only thing that we can do is not rely on outside sources, but rely on ourselves to get those budgets at a level that we need them to be to battle the homelessness issue. Throwing money at it is not enough. We need to have a commitment from our city staff, from our city farmers, from this from this council to to fund these types of programs, to keep them funded year in and year out, and not rely on budgets going up and down and relying on grants that are made available or grants that may be two, three, four years down the road. And then once they go away, the program goes away. And that's that's not the way to operate as far as I'm concerned. So much of what I have to say is I'd like to see some of the a lot of these these programs that we are talking about being more a permanent fixture in our budget so that we're not having these kinds of discussions about having the health department, which is the one, first of all, comes up, you know, where they you know, they function 99% outside the general fund, 99%. They're getting all their money from other sources. They have people who write grants. They have people who hire they hire part time. They have people they hire for maybe three or four or five years. And then they have to go away. What kind of commitment are we giving those people? And we're giving them great training. No question about that. They live us in Long Beach and they go somewhere else to do their job, to do their work because other jurisdictions or other agencies have the money to hire them on a permanent, full time basis. And we don't do that. I think we need to have a more much more of a city council commitment to our health department so that they're not functioning at 99% grants and having to rely on and on the federal agencies or the state agencies or even other local agencies to to fund their programs. So I want to challenge this, the city council, to find the money. To find the resources. To address the big issues that we have. And we and we have two fellows that are coming in with two of the biggest issues that we have going public safety with kids that the safety the be safe program and homelessness. I think it's a great start and we should start looking at that. Maybe these these fellows can find a way to convince this city council that, you know what, you need to devote more of a full time institutionalized commitment to those two areas, and you will make a difference. I didn't see it for that reason, but I think I'll get off my pedestal at this point in terms of public health. They're the first ones up. I want to go in that order. I notice in your budget that you have three vacancies, three bureau manager vacancies. One is going to repeal very shortly with the excuse me, with the city health officer. Once that city health spots are going to start again. Health officials on September 19th, September 19th. And it was vacant for a number of years, if I'm not mistaken. We've had it filled for the last three years. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I hope you get a great one and one who will stay with us longer than a few years. Thank you. You also have a vacancy in the current structure that you have here. So that's what I'm going by, is a vacancy in community health and a vacancy in policy planning and prevention. I'm guessing the policy prevention I'm playing with. You'll be a. Prevention Bureau, correct? It is. Things are a number of years ago, things were realigned based on what was available in terms of funding during the recession. As we are looking now, we are realigning our programs once again. So we'll no longer have a policy policy prevention bureau. Instead, what we'll have is a Human Services Bureau that will align the homeless services, the Center for Families and Youth. And if the violence prevention work moves over, it will align there as well. The the Community Health Bureau will now take on public health nursing risk, and then all the other health promotions work. So the Hills, unhealthy, active, Long Beach, all of that work. So those are the those three will align in the Community Health Bureau. We are excited we start interviews this week for both well one on Friday and then starting next week. So we're hoping to have those filled within the next within the next month. Very good. Because that is going to be my next question to turn to. If you had current recruitment going for these two other positions, and when do you expect it to have a feel to it? That's great that you're you're on your own. You're on your toes on that one. You have to have it yet. You want to you want to help your department? Of course. The other question that I had regarding to do your funding was that you mentioned during the course of your of your presentation, you mentioned VLF is that the vehicle license fees? It is, yes. I thought those went away. We are still made available now. We received we received about $8 million this year from the from the state from the from the vehicle licensing fees. And we used those resources. Those are the only they have to be used for health purposes. But they, in addition to the general fund, are only more flexible source of funding, which we use to cover some administrative costs and to support grants where grants cannot be fully supported by the funds that are provided by the grants. What would be an estimate of what you get from vehicle license fees and how much do you use or how much of that money goes towards administrative? So we get so this year is about $8 Million. It decreased to about $7 million a number of years ago. And it's you know, it's basically about how the economy is doing is how those rates go. So we are at about $8 million this past year. And those resources support. They pay for my salary. They pay for the health officer salary. They pay for our administrative salaries. You know, so they cover a lot of administration, but they also because our grants generally administrative costs up to 10% and our overhead is closer to 16%. They help to cover those costs as well. So if I hadn't been in the health department before, so basically you can't cover a lot of your administrative fees. So a lot of these grants that you get because they have to be basically used for services for the services that they are funded for. Correct? That's correct. Yes. Homeless and whatever else. Right. That's correct. So many of the grants we get some some include no administrative opportunities. I include up to about 10%, if you will, take us up to our to our actual cost. In addition, if there are increases in employee costs or anything like that, they can't be built in. And so we have been using the realignment resource to be able to cover and support what is left of the grants that can't be covered by the grants. Okay. And I notice in your budget that you're budgeted for or where is that page again? Well, just go ahead and tell me the your your funding for how many fees. Refunded for 374. I believe we have. I found the page. And you're hoping to go up to 381. Correct? Yes. Okay. Now, those those additional positions you're looking at. General, generally, what are they going to be supporting? What programs we'll be bringing in? We'll bring in bringing in resources to support the clinic. So a medical assistant in the clinic will also be looking at support for the for homeless services, as well as the positions that that could be involved here through the violence prevention equity work. Okay. Well well, thank you. And again, I want to commend you for all that you do, all the health department staff who are here. All the great work you do. Keeping our city safe from bioterrorism for. Are you still having immunizations, by the way? We do. We do immunizations. We'll be having we'll be having a free immunization clinic again this year where we practice our response. So we set up as if there is an emergency and we do somewhere between 809 hundred flu vaccines in a couple of hours at the health department. Yeah, I was going to say, I think to be laying up for flu this year in terms of parks and recreation, a lot of a lot of the questions and comments that I have, you know, we've dealt with personally. I want to thank Marie and your staff for always meeting with me and being open and addressing the issues that I might have in my district regarding the parks, especially with all the work that you're helping us do with the Will Springs area, that is that is very helpful. And I also want to commend you for meeting with my two big constituency groups in in the Wrigley area, Wrigley Neighborhood Alliance and the Wrigley Association. And dealing with your questions regarding our Daisy Lane, which is a big area that we have every year. We have our Daisy Parade and and dealing with the trees. And I know it's going it's somewhat sad that what's taking place because all trees get old. And when trees get old, they have to they have to be replaced. And you dealt with it with the with the community very sensitively and are working with them to deal with how we can replace them or and or do something different on that on their Christmas tree. So I want to commend you and and the work you're doing there. One question that I had, I was a back back in the day like. Two years ago. I was a what you call a rec spec recreation specialist, but I was I was a recreation specialist with the Department of Parks and Recreation in L.A. County, and I worked in it in a program called Get High on Life. Many moons later I come to Long Beach and I'm driving down Pacific Coast Highway and I see some kids with old T-shirts that say, Well, there's a kid high on that program here in Long Beach. Wow. Amazing. I wonder how long it's been here. So that that brings up the issue now in terms of do we have programs in our parks that are funded by the county or any other entities for youth diversion programs? This was a they they can't program that it worked for a long time ago. Do we have those types of programs in our parks, recreation programs that they're supported by other other funds? We do we have grant funding that comes from different sources, for example, for our rap program and our afterschool programs. We don't have a Get High on life program. I'm not sure that's at all true. Yeah, I'm not so sure that that moniker would go over very well today. But we do have a lot of you. Should have heard the original, you know what it was originally sports addicts. That sport. That would be good. That'd be good. Okay. Right. So we do we do get funding from multiple sources. And of course, you know, that's part of what our B Safe program is about as well is, you know, positive engagement with our youth. So we do have state funding. We have our ACES grants that help us with our afterschool funding programs. So we have a few other sources. Yes. Okay. Well, great. Well, I want to thank you for all the work you do in public works. You know, you're doing a great job. I'm glad that you added a clean team, an additional clean team. We're looking forward to seeing that around town and keeping our streets free of debris and also to the implementation of our Missouri fund. So I want to thank all three of you for being here today. Thank you, Councilmember. Super now. Thank you. I'll be very brief. I just have a question for health and and the homeless issue. I know you're in the midst of the grant application process and I see Theresa Chandler in the audience. So thank you for being here, but we won't keep you long. Get back to that grant writing we talked about the 7.2 million versus the 6.0 million. If you got more money, where would you want it to go? Or would it be equally divided? Oh, I'm sorry. For what? For goes to outside sources versus what you use internally within the race. So right now, the funding that comes in from the continuum of care funds, one outreach worker and five, five case managers, intake worker. So when everybody say we need more, we need more outreach and we're seeing a lot more on the street than we would want to support additional outreach workers within it, within the community. The other key pieces for us is to really start to look at additional service for those with mental illness. So mental health practitioners and the ability to link people to care as well as for substance abuse practitioners and to be able to link people to care. And supportive housing is also a key piece and there are a lot of different models that one can work on in terms of supportive housing, which means that you are providing, you know, treatment and case management and those sorts of things where people are permanently housed so that they can remain housed. And so that would be another area where we would look to build additional capacity in permanent supportive housing beds and transitional housing moving in that direction. Okay. Thank you. And Councilwoman Pryce referenced a plan, and it strikes me with with limited staffing now that a lot of your duties are day to day putting out fires, and it's so tough to to function in that mode and work a plan at the same time. So if you have additional resources coming in. Well, will most of that go to planning or just your day to day, or have you determined that yet? I think we do receive we did receive some additional resources to to do planning and also for the unified funding agency, which allows us to shift resource where it is most needed across the different contracts, which we did not have that capability as of two years ago. So we are receiving some planning dollars and when we're able to do that. I think this the the Fuze fellow will be joining, you know, so that is a it's a funded it's a funded support person. I wouldn't say support person, but who can really lead and participate in these efforts. So that is a fund that's funded as well. But you're right, most of what most of what happened is we are we are on the you know, we are boots on the ground making things work for people and and doing outreach, connecting people to services on a regular basis. Okay. Thank you. And my council office is very close to this problem and we put a lot of time and energy into it. So we certainly want to help you and what you do. Just moving to a move to public works first and again reference. Councilman Price was talking about any any extra dollars that you have will will throw a different direction. Let's get a a stump removal program in place first. So that's that's just a real issue. We want to go back and and and eliminate this backlog. And to my way of thinking, it makes no sense to cut down a tree without removing the stump. Two things. You can't plant a new tree if the stump is to it's still there. And on residential streets, it's just you don't want the neighborhood to get used to a tree not being there. You want them to miss that tree and want it back very quickly. And to Parks and Rec. I just want to compliment compliment Marie actually to Craig, too, because you both have been in the job a short time, but you really hit the ground running. And to someone who took office eight days after he was elected, elected, I can relate to that. Hitting the ground running. Can we get a shot of Maureen while we're talking about her here? I go ahead. Okay. Also, let me compliment I want to compliment Murray on that necklace that looks great on camera. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilwoman Mongo. Our colleagues were so loquacious that Councilmember Supernanny. I had time to comment on how fabulous you look tonight, Murray. I'll start with health. I think you guys are doing an excellent job. I look forward to long term funding streams that have the ability to ensure that our community is healthy. Safety and health really do go hand in hand. So please tune in next week to the Budget Oversight Committee, where the I-Team will be making some presentations that I hope the community will really embrace and we can move forward with related to public works. Craig, you're doing a great job. Street streets. Streets and more streets. I think that we'll hear from you later tonight on other council items that are in the district but related to streets and traffic. I think you're doing a fantastic job. I'd also like to say that with regard to trees, you've really stepped up and we had a tragedy in the community where a tree fell on a home. No one was injured. But we need to be aware that not only are a third of the trees that are in our parks dead, many of the trees in our parkways are dead. And so the arborist is having to change because the drought situation has changed the make up of trees. And so the community of arborist. Is happening to change. And I really appreciate the great work that your office has been doing. Mr.. BECK And I also support and have been discussing this for weeks. We've used a lot of our council district funds to remove the tree and the stump, and then the replacement program. The Volunteer Day Long Beach last year that was hosted in the fifth District, resulted in many new tree replacements and tree placements, specifically in areas that really needed the canopy coverage that make the community cooler and safer. In the end, it really creates a healthier community time in our health department when we have that canopy coverage, especially during these really warm times like we're having now. So I'm excited to hope that that tree study from Lemieux will be worked in. And then I'm looking forward to finding a way to fund tree and stump removal with a record breaking tree removal a few weeks ago of 26 tons. Yes, one tree. 26 tons. And then finally, I'd like to concentrate on Parks and Rec. I know Marie got a letter from me, an email last night or Sunday, stating about how fantastic the staff were on Sunday at Eldorado Park. I think that the added gate staff is definitely being used properly. I think it's fantastic. I'm very supportive of the $370,000 one time funds to properly water our parks and maintain our drought tolerant plants. I think that if we're going to put in all this drought tolerant plants, we need to maintain it. The community needs this is a quality of life issue. We need to have it maintained and we do need to water. So no more trees don't die. Very supportive of $150,000 for tree trimming in our parks and removal of some of the dead trees because they are dangerous. I'm really excited about the Be Safe program, hoping to add a few more parks to that. And then I think that your staff are doing a fantastic job on the turf management plan. So I think that those modifications under your leadership have been phenomenal and I look forward to the study this fall, and I don't remember if we asked for it formally at council or if you and I've just discussed it so many times that I feel like it's coming in restructuring the allocation and fees associated with leasing our parks. Our parks are an amazing asset and we're very lucky to have them and we need to properly fund the utilization of those parks and look properly at programs that have been grandfathered in and what it means to add them and bring them up to compliance. And I know it's a tough discussion to have, but to have the assets we have without maintaining them would not be appropriate. So I appreciate your leadership on this. Thank you. That is all. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you. And I want to say thank my colleagues for answering or asking most of the questions that actually that I have. And I want to, first of all, start out by thanking the directors of the Health Department, Public Works and Parks, Recreation, Marine. All three of them are exemplary in doing a great job for for our city. All three are relatively new in their roles, but are certainly hitting the ground running as a Councilmember Suber nomination. I want to start with the Health Department and I want to go back to this issue of homelessness. It's something it's a recurring theme among my council colleagues, but it's something that we hear from quite frequently from our constituents in the community knocking on doors. People are really concerned about what they perceive as a increase in homelessness, and they would like to see the city do more to address that. And so to Councilmember your point earlier, I wholeheartedly agree. We need to look at ways to sustain our efforts in this this budget proposed budget. There is there's a line item for $100,000 and one time funds for proactive homeless initiative. Can you. Ms.. Collopy, tell us exactly what that will be utilized for and how that how you expect to utilize $100,000. So we received $200,000 last year as well in the way that we have used that is is as needed. So it's really been more of a hotspot approach. So last year, the $100,000 was spent as part of our team. So it was part of it was overtime for the police department to do quality of life work with us so that they're going out with our homeless outreach folks to meet with homeless individuals. We had sort of infrastructure maintenance. So, you know, Lincoln Park in areas, making sure that that things were being cleaned up, power washing those sorts of things and cleanups from individuals who were sleeping during the day. We've also did some of the river use some of those resources for L.A. River cleanup and then for motel vouchers. So we were we used some of those resources from motel vouchers for people who are homeless and who needed housing immediately. We did not have any other options we would foresee using that hundred thousand dollars similarly this year. So as things pop up and are needed and they don't fit, they don't fit a certain budget category, we would use those resources to help support that. So I guess I have to ask is is that enough? Let's see. I mean, there there are there are a lot of different resources that that are needed in our community to help support homeless as they are, you know, throughout the region. So, you know, I'm not sure what enough would ever be in terms of the resources that we need, in terms of mental health service and substance use and those kinds of things. We are looking and we are receiving another outreach worker through our emergency services grant and through and through. We are starting to build some capacity. And we are we had a veteran outreach person who retired. So we are feeling that and we have funding for an additional in there. So there are a lot of other other moving parts where we are building some of our capacity. So I'm here now. We have we will have two outreach workers, correct? Okay. And that seems like an area of need. It is an area of need, definitely. And I guess the other question I have in terms of your budget is you mentioned the health department seniors, our senior outreach and services. And I would go back to Parks and Rec a little later. But what services does does that supply provide and how many people are we actually reaching annually? You know, we have a we have a public health nurse that is co-located at the senior center on Fourth Street. And so she she receives a number of referrals to help, you know, and works to connect people to service. We also have a social worker on staff who helps with senior outreach as well. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I can find that up for you. So that's just at the fourth, the Street Senior Center. The public health nurse is she is located at the Fourth Street Senior Center. The other is located at the Health Department and receives her first. And then we, our public health nurses, will go out and do home visits. They do that for, you know, for for families and seniors and others, but one specifically for seniors services. And I know Ms.. Night Marie mentioned that, you know, there is a growing need for for seniors services. Just curious to know what type of coordination and collaboration you have between the departments on that particular issue. We worked together very closely on the Seniors Strategic Plan that was presented here earlier this year as part of that effort. We'll be moving forward. We have a management assistant who is agreed to work between the two of us over the next six months to help drive and coordinate through the senior senior planning groups who will be pulling people, people together from all different all different parts of the of the older adult service community, as well as older adults to start to identify and plan out more specifically, the resources that are needed. In addition, are our real goal for this, you know, moving forward is that we better coordinate and inform people about what's actually available. There are a number of services available. People don't know about them. The lists are incomplete. So there are a lot of people with different lists. Those lists aren't yet all in one place. And then our referral systems are not as effective as they could be. And so we'll be working at we are looking at some technology solutions, not just for older adult services, but also for a number of social services about how is it when someone comes in and you refer someone that we know what the capacity of that referral spaces and that they actually have a place. And so we are looking at some different technology opportunities so that we can start to improve the coordination and service for folks in the referral system. So with one outreach worker for senior services, it sounds like there's some serious need. Is there there as well? Yes. Yeah. I believe the senior strategic plan had well, we have five staff members which include any additional public health nurse technology focus, as well as a lot of coordination and staffing. Okay. And I guess the next question on the same area, in the same line of questions would be for the Parks Recreation and Marine director. What does it cost to to run a senior center? I think we have three in the city right now. We do. And I have some information on our costs. You just bear with me for a moment. So right now we have five park locations for senior programing and that's at Houten Silverado, McBride. And then we have the Four Street Senior Center. We also have senior programs at Chavez and El Dorado West. So combine the fourth Street Senior Center, costs 620,000, a little over $620,000 a year to operate. And then the ancillary sites costs 265,000 to operate. Okay. Is there a do we do we do a census count for each of those locations? And do we know how many seniors are actually utilizing the services? We do have program numbers. I don't happen to have them with me tonight for our overall per site, but I can get those to you. That would be greatly appreciated. I'm just trying to understand how we're spending our resources and making sure we're getting. Optimal coverage throughout the city and reaching as many seniors as we possibly can. I know there's a lot of good information that we provide to that population. I'd like to move on and ask about our Be Safe program this summer. Do you have any figures on how many kids and families are participating in the program and how that compares to previous years? So the Be Safe program has been, again, a very successful program this summer. And as with all of our programs, we have seen an uptick in participation. Interestingly enough, for the B site safes this summer or B safe sites this summer, we're also seeing families participate. So in past years, they've been having, you know, their kids come and kids stay on the site. So they stay maybe for the day camp program and then they continue to stay at the site for the Be Safe program. But families are coming as well and participating, which is really nice to see that we're also providing that safe space and that safe place for family recreation in the evening hours. For some numbers, I don't have exact numbers per site or participation numbers this summer as we're still in the summer, but I can get those for you . But definitely we are increased over last year. Thank you very much for for that. And I'm encouraged that that the program is actually working so successfully. One thing that I would just request in, and I think we talked about this in our briefings, is that after the summer months, particularly at these parks that are very highly utilized, we look at the maintenance in terms of reseeding and, you know, making sure that our parks are still beautiful and appealing for fetal position to families. Thank you. And Mr. Beck, I think. I'm curious about that. You mentioned the payment management plan update occurring biannually to every two years. Yeah. Our goal would be to update the street index every two years. So in 2017, when the first plan was presented to council in 2015, so an update in 2017 would stay on that schedule. All right. Thank you. And I know when we we initiated the very first payment management plan, it was. Do you have any do you recall how much there was was about $1,000,000. I'm told that it was roughly that that dollar amount. The update will be nowhere near that amount. Okay. That's mainly. Just. Next question. It's going to be $1,000,000 every time. No, no, not at all. Okay, great. And I wanted to get that clarified. And then the the the clean team. This year we're proposing a second clean team, which I think is great. Can you share what the team clean team has been able to accomplish in this initial year? Yeah. So some of the numbers that I that I quoted are really the results of our clean team. The clean team gets involved in not only addressing illegally dumped items, but helping coordinate with both the police department and health department on homeless cleanups. When there's encampments, when in homeless leave materials behind. The clean team will get involved in cleaning that. I think the real difference in the Clean Team versus a normal refuge collection is that it's proactive. So, for example, we may service your your trash at your residence every Monday, but the clean team's out every day and they're actually driving corridors and they're looking for items that have been dumped. Many of those are reported through the Golden Beach app or through our telephone centers. But just additionally, we're out there looking for items that may have been illegally dumped and picking them up right away. So the ability to add another team again will be funded out of refuge dollars. Not an impact to the general fund will allow us to expand the number of quarters that we're doing and the number more quickly address those illegally dumped items. So if I'm not mistaken, last year we used the clean team was required for us to to buy more equipment. We're going to take a pay by or purchasing more equipment. Yeah. So so part of the budget increase would include not only the staff, but a vehicle necessary to do the driving around with the team. Okay. And is there a specific area or route that they focus on? Again, we're primarily looking at are our main thoroughfares. So examples would be Long Beach Boulevard, Anaheim, PCH, Atlantic, both in throughout the areas of our of our city. So we believe that important corridors to add that we're not currently able to get to as frequently would be Santa Fe some of the areas on our west side up in north Long Beach Market, South Street. So there's a number of areas that we believe are a mix between residential and commercial corridors that that should be addressed with our clean teams. All right. Well, I look forward to a fiscal year of success. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Pearce. All right, there's been a challenge. I'm going to talk. For at least 15 minutes. Okay. Stacey, you ready? I want to just say that everybody that's the comments that have been said. I couldn't agree with more. And it's really. It's really great to come on to a council. Be here for a month and know that you guys have been doing so much work for the last several years. On trying to push the conversation around equity. Because what I've heard today is that people on this council want to prioritize equity over a lot of things. And so taking that frame, I'm not going to echo all the questions that have already been raised because I think they're really great questions, particularly the ones for our health department. I did want to ask, you know, knowing that that funding and when we all saw the $100,000, I think when we think about that being a priority number seems. Really small in comparison. To things that we're investing in, whether it's capital improvement projects that are, you know, obviously things that we need to invest in. But in my district, we have here City Hall where we've got Lincoln Park, we've got the convention center where we have tourists coming in. It is an issue that it's homelessness is an issue for the entire district, for the entire city. But thinking about the impacts here in downtown, thinking about our capital improvement budget, I wanted to just float out there that through future conversations as we can try to prioritize what we're investing in, I definitely want to say that I want to push the council and the staff to continue to prioritize the health department. If that means looking at our entire budget and looking at a project that could wait a while or could possibly, you know, isn't as urgent as we work with this fellow, trying to identify opportunities and funding sources to go big is something that that I want us to be able to do. And just from hearing the conversations that we've heard today, I wanted to ask, is there are there any grants out there that require matching dollars that we're missing out on? There were missing out on there are we actually for the tenure move care requires a 25% match, which we do match. There are some that there are others that are one for one match, like the emergency services grant. Emergency Solutions grant is a one for one match. So we we are we work very, very hard to make sure that we can meet those matches and to align the different resources to make that work. There are grants that around the more around the judicial system and things around substance abuse and those that are have a match that have very high match rates. And so we have chosen not we have chosen not to apply for them in the past because there are sort of a 50% to 100% match, and that's just not feasible. Okay. GAO would. Be interested if there are some on the 50%. Match just to. See those so we can start. You know, now that the counsel and folks seem to be prioritizing equity on these issues and if there are things that are there that we can make a decision to say, hey, if we all pull together a little bit and cut a little here, that we could get those grants. Because they come forward. That would be very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, everybody. On my. My health department stuff. So I'll keep it short on that. I did want to just ask one last question is, is the city doing any work with bridge housing? To try to identify new opportunities for bridge housing that aren't necessarily around. Drug rehab. That's what I mean. We do rapid rehousing and prevention programs, so we're connecting people through that. And we do have transitional housing. We have we're participating in housing across the spectrum. And is would you say that the biggest challenge is staffing? Like, instead of having five days a week, we have seven days a week of people going out and doing outreach. Or is the bigger challenge identifying housing that people can be in long term? That's a that's a good question. We have a we have a 24 hour hotline for folks who, you know, who can call in if they see somebody that they would like to have some support and outreach to. And we do do that outreach to our partners specific to, you know, if they're partners that are like the mental health America or the veterans U.S. vets, they have outreach workers specific to their population. And so if they're being served by them or if they will fit within their services, then they will help support us. But they won't do just on call outreach. So we do have some support around those efforts. Really, what it is, is, you know, many homeless. It takes a lot of time to go out and keep re approaching and keep re approaching. We can approach 15 times or it might be ten years before they decide to come in. And so we want to make sure that we have those resources available for them when that occurs. And so providing the the supportive housing, you know, the transition to permanent supportive housing is absolutely essential. All right. Thank you so much. I know you've been on the spot tonight for Shade It for our Parks and Rec. Thank you so much for all the work that you've done. Thanks for helping us out with our upcoming budget meeting. I really appreciate it. Just I guess my only comment here is a great job. I wanted to say that it seems like with our youth programing, it's something that both connects with violence prevention and crime reduction and making sure that there's any way that we're collaborating with our health department and with the council offices to try to get more sustained programing in our parks. And if that means for my office, identifying organizations that can come in and also fill that void that we definitely want to try to activate those parks as much as possible. Yeah, I'll leave that. At that one. Thank you so much. And then for Public Works, also, thank you so much for handholding with us the last month as we get up to speed on all the great work that you guys are doing for Measure $8, we've talked about slurring in the first year. We've had a lot a lot of residents asking about their their maps and and what streets are getting done from the get go. How can our residents identify which streets are going to be slurred in this first year? So I believe the maps are already up on our public works website and if they're not, we'll make sure that they're up next week. But we do have a map per year, one which is identified the street segments that we are planning to do from a slurry seal perspective. And we will be resurfacing one major corridor in year one. And that is Broadway. Thank you. We're excited about that. The one other question I have for you, Mr. Beck, is, you know, we talking a lot about trees lately, and we have a number of parkway trees, you know, the Lovett Focus Tree, which has been damaging some sidewalks. And we've done a removal of those trees. I wanted to find out what the cost are to remove bad trees before they they damage sidewalks. That that might be a broad question. But. I don't we don't normally take out a tree that isn't sick or causing some kind of either damage to the infrastructure or creating some other public safety hazard in as far as removal cost. It completely varies and it depends on the size of the tree. We did bring forward a council, a new tree trimming contract recently. And for those councilmembers, you may remember that all of the trimming costs depend on the trunk size of the tree. So, for example, Councilmember Mungo talked about some of the trees. They were Italian stone pines in the fifth District. They were very, very large trees. And those cost were much greater than maybe many of the trees we would normally address. Okay. Thank you. It's all my questions, everybody. Fantastic job. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Andrews. Fine, thank you. May I thought I waited for this time because I wanted to be less because of the fact I want to group everyone together. I just want to thank each and every one of you for doing such a fine job. And with that, I'll have my budget on the 30th, and you can come and ask any questions you like. Thank you very much. Thank you. And thank you all again for the presentations. It's budget season. So, you know, obviously meetings start a little bit later and fortunately during these these sessions for the budget. So with that, we're going to go right into the council meeting and public comment. But is there any public comment on the budget department that you just heard? Not general public comment. Please come forward and just go ahead. If you have a comment on the budget here, please come to the podium right now so we can do this expeditiously. Go ahead. Hi. I've never spoken to the city council before I came last year to speak, and there were 40 people talking about coyotes, and I had to go home to bed. I've been ill, but I was trying to do a lot of research last year. Okay. My name is Catherine Jeté. Four 4102 Cranston Court, Bixby Village, Susie Price's District. I'm speaking tonight about the budget for Parks and Recreation, Long Beach Animal Shelter. We bring animals in from Cerritos, Los Alamitos, SEAL Beach and Signal Hill. At the present time, this shelter has two part time vets half time, two full time registered vets for several hundred animals. The staff works tirelessly under the direction of Ted Stevens, who have made who has made such a huge difference toward the goal of having a no kill shelter. It is unconscionable that this many animals have actually one vet for all the sick and injured animals. The majority of residents in Long Beach, if you talk to them, have no idea that animals are being killed at the shelter. The SPCA is next door. They get very confused. They're actually horrified when I tell them. Last year I did my homework. The shelter received $56,000 more for the year 2016 of a $2.7 billion budget. I asked Ted Stevens for the facts from this year, January 1st to August 31st, how many animals were euthanized? 212 cats, 217 dogs, 469 kittens, and 495 other animals. Total animals killed in six months. 1393. For the budget every year, millions of dollars are given to various organization activities, studies, museums, one time trainings, etc.. I'm a former teacher of 39 years and kids are my first priority. These are all needed and important. But as a member from the shelter recently pointed out, these animals are alive and healthy. I doubt seriously if any of the city council members are regularly visiting the Long Beach shelter. Every time I go, I cry all the way home and go, What can I do? I'm not with an organization. I'm not with a rescue group. I'm just. One person. These animals are lost, afraid, and sometimes sick, just like the ads on TV that make us cry. The SPCA, L.A. gets lots of donations. They choose animal from the shelter. And in six months, they took 1099 animals. The problem is, is in the month of July, there was 700 animals, cats and dogs turned in 700. Mayor Garcia took office and had a meeting at the El Dorado Park last year, and many of the city's rescue groups were there. They were actually begging for help for the shelter. The mayor promised to help. I really think the many rescue. Groups are doing the. Majority of saving animals lives in our city every day. Mr. Ted Stevens. Told me one person can make a difference. That's why I'm here. I went to Ms.. Price's meeting last Saturday in my neighborhood. I'm very hopeful that those that were there and. Those tonight really help this. Problem. Thank you, ma'am. Tony Zoller, sorry about that. Okay. Thank you very much. And thank you for caring about our shelter animals as well. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is Ramon. I'm in the, uh. The fifth district. In the past, I've. Been a little bit critical. Of some of the the way that the parks has Parks and Recreation has has been going. But now that I'm in, I'm standing here. Listening to all this stuff and seeing Marie, I am now very happy with all the way things go. I can't say enough. Praise for for Marie in. The way that she's handling. A lot of the the way the parks are going under the conditions that she's been under. She's been just doing a great job. I think she said she goes something like 160 emails a day. And I've been lucky that I got a couple of couple of ones that I sent. The only ones returned with actually correcting some of the assumptions that I had, which was great. And I'm giving a lot of the information that she's given me to the residential groups, and I'm really happy that the trees and the are getting trimmed. You know, we can see all that stuff. I have nothing but praise. That's just what I've seen in the last couple of months. It's just been great. We had a problem with with a branch falling from it were no park. It hurting somebody and it was a safety issue and everything started it looks like the tree trimming started taking place. So I'm sorry it had to take that long, but it's great. And I call today I spoke to someone in the mayor's office about the budget. Everybody's like totally on board with what's whatever's taking place, you know, a guy named Daniel, great guy and Stacy Mango. I mean, I know maybe this is kind of confusing to people, but Stacy Mango saying all this stuff about the the the. What more stuff got more. Money coming in for the water is great. And the only thing really that I would like to see is, is I'm trying to get residential support to try to get more water for our parks. I mean, a lot of people don't realize that we haven't even budgeted enough money to water our parks. I mean, this is what she's faced with, that 80%, she could only water 80% of the parks. I mean, this is ridiculous, you know, so and I'm not saying that to be critical of her, but I mean, is elected officials, I think you guys really got to help her get her funds that she needs. At least a lot of the park finished the tree trimming 1.1 million. 18,000 or something like that. Let's get it all done and and handle that. Those are the main, main issues. Re planting trees. I got some time left. I don't need it. But I mean, Stacy, I know you got to be surprised, but thank you for for for finally, you know. Getting this stuff organized and done. I appreciate it. And please try to help get some more water. All right. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good. You clearly as the address. I echo the gentleman's sentiments relative to our parks director doing a great job. Also, I'd like to echo the support of the lady that spoke before relative to our animal shelters, and I would offer the suggestion that I did last week when she made that presentation at the meeting. I would seriously. Request the City Council to consider a tax. On a minimal tax on pet food, I would think with the dollars going toward the projects you was talking about. My sense is any pet owner wouldn't mind paying a half cent or a cent or percent. When they go to buy their pet food. And I think that's those people that don't have pets may not do it, but I think enough pet owners in this city to or those that support it wouldn't mind paying a minimum tax on that. Thank you. Thank you. Any other budget from other departments that we spoke of today? Please come forward. Is there anyone else besides Mr. Boland who's going to speak? Okay. See, now, Mr. Boling would be the last speaker when closing this and then moving on to the council meeting. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And council learnable. And I want to address the issue of the homeless and the fire department's response to these homeless non-emergency calls. Other jurisdictions throughout the country have identified clusters of where non-emergency homeless calls were made. These clusters, then they put into that cluster of calls, an SUV with a nurse practitioner and an EMT. Right now, what we do is we send a $500,000 fire engine with four firefighters making from 175 to $200000 cost, plus two paramedics. We send six people to sometimes deliver a bandage to a homeless person. It seems fiscal insanity. So here's my thought. The fire department is at five years to do this to cost effectively help the homeless. Why don't we just have the money sent over to the Health Department? Let the Health Department put together the SUV with the nurse practitioner in the empty place. That vehicle or those vehicles were the clusters of the homeless are and deliver them the services they need to get at some reasonable price. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. And with that, we're going to go ahead and continue the budget hearing to the next budget hearing, which, again, will be at the start of the next meeting. And we're going to just take a minute to just a quick 30 minute, 30 minute, a quick minute recess to get the council agenda started here. Okay. And we'll start here in just a minute. Yeah. Okay. We are ready to recommence the city council meeting. Clerk Can you recall the roll call? Councilwoman Gonzalez. Councilmember Pearce. Councilwoman Price. Councilmember Superman. Councilwoman Mongo. Councilman Andrews. Councilmember Odinga. Councilman Austin. Vice Mayor Richardson. And I'm here. So now we're at the consent calendar. So let's go ahead and take up Ms.. Clarke, the consent calendar. Okay. So we have a motion by council member Urunga. Is there a second by Mungo? Let's go ahead and take public comment on the consent calendar items number two through 14.

Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to disburse direct relief grants for the Long Beach Recovery Act (LB Recovery Act) programs, consistent with City Council approval of the LB Recovery Act. (Citywide)

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Thank you. Next, we're going to do item 21, please. Report from City Manager Recommendation to authorize City Manager to disburse direct relief grants for the Long Beach Recovery Act program citywide. We have a motion in a second, but I want to let this staff give us a presentation on this. Meredith Reynolds are especially happy the city manager can give a presentation. Community. Mayor, Member City Council. Tonight's item for you is an administrative item really focused on the ability to distribute our direct grants as a part of the Long Beach Recovery Act. The Long Beach Recovery Act that was adopted by city council in March 16th of 2021, provided for a variety of these programs that allow for direct relief grants for businesses, for arts groups and several others at that particular time. That did not include the adoption of that plan, did not include some of the administrative actions necessary to actually physically distribute those grants. So that is what is before you this evening in particular, the directory of grants were posted in previous months and the some of the business grants just closed on Monday. And we have some additional nonprofit grants that are closing in a month. And so this provides the opportunity to be able to distribute those swiftly to those who have who have been applied and who have been selected. So there's no fiscal impact associated with this action. This is an administrative action allowing us to distribute those grants. I'm here for any questions. Should you have them? Thanks very much. Let's move, Richardson. Thank you. This is an incredibly important I know a number of folks have signed up for these relief grants. Congratulations to the whole team and the economic development team for going out and doing the outreach so that people can get these grants in their hands. So are we talking about all of the grants are finally ready to direct relief, like the restaurant, the personal service and fitness, the small business relief grants? Vice Mayor That's correct. So the direct relief grants include a variety of those that you mentioned, and shortly they will also include the nonprofit grants as well as the arts grants. Okay. So the small business are ready to go, the restaurants and the bars, and then afterward will be the nonprofits and some of the others. How far along is the the difference in time. From the difference in time? The nonprofit grants were just extended by a month to give folks more time to those close. June 15th and the arts grants have a variety of deadlines here and the coming month. Thank you. Well, this is certainly well received. We look forward to getting these resources out to help support our recovery. Thanks. Councilman. Screw you, Mayor. I just want to thank Miss Reynolds for going into this role so quickly and being able to get this process set up and disbursing it as quickly and as organized as possible, given the time limit and the amount of process it takes. So and I look forward and receiving an update because we know this is a special one time fund that we don't get and we look to seeing. I look forward to seeing the impact that we have in our recovery efforts. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're probably coming here. If there are any members of the public that would like to speak on item 21 in person, please line up at the podium in Zoom. Please use the raise hand feature or dial star nine now in person. Your time begins now. Soon I can face six district residents. I would love to know what respect to the nonprofits. What are the current deliverables for one, and what does the audit look like? Because to my understanding, I have no disrespect intended, but you know, I don't necessarily agree as a taxpayer that the federal war chest should be distributed out to people who aren't doing work in the communities. And a lot of these nonprofits, when COVID happened, suddenly emerging communities and speaking towards a neighborhood that they weren't president up until, you know, billions of dollars of federal money became available. So I'm just lacking the understanding of how can we as a city discern who is doing the work and who is and how can they prove it? And the second part that I would like to ask, especially with respect to nonprofits, is, you know, the fiscal language. A lot of people are familiar with people who are doing service in communities and as a result, they get left behind. I'm speaking specifically towards people who don't have five own fees, who operate in community. So I just would like to understand how is the city bridging the gap of disbursing funds that makes no impact on our general fund to these types of providers who are operating in a community who don't have five agencies, because there's a lot of organizations in neighborhoods and communities that don't have the fiscal sponsor who's going to tax you ten, 15% in hand. And everyone else goes through or they don't have access to these right in these rooms. And as a result, they they miss out on doing more impactful work work that they are already doing anyways just for the fact that they don't have capital investment from the federal government. So if it's possible, is there, is there some opportunity that we can just create some type of small pipeline towards the communities that organizations in community that aren't? 501c certified? That would be great because if we can if we can have thousands of people working as food vendors with no paperwork, I'm sure we can figure out a way to do something similar towards our community providers. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Thank you. Just for also wanted just to thank the staff. I know this has been a lot of work in putting this all together and just grateful this money's been been organized well and going out. There's emotion and a second. Please do the roll call vote. District one. I'm. District two I. District three. I. District four. All right. District five. District six, i. District seven. I. District eight. High. District nine. High. Motion is carried. Eight zero.

Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of $913,991 from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control (BCC), for the approximate period of March 1, 2020 through February 28, 2021; Increase appropriations in the General Grants Fund in the City Manager Department by $913,991, offset by grant revenue from the BCC; and Increase appropriations in the Business Assistance Fund in the Economic Development Department by $530,000, offset by an operating transfer from the City Manager Department, offset by grant funds. (Citywide)

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Council member, Austin. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 18. Communication from City Manager Recommendation to adopt resolution to execute all necessary documents to receive and expend grant funding in the amount of 913,009.91 from the California Bureau of Cannabis Control and Increase Appropriations in the Business Assistance Fund in the Economic Development Department by 530,000, offset by grant funds citywide. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Mayor. Councilman at certainly motion to start. I'm. I'm just to be careful. I would like to recuse myself from all cannabis items. Thank you. And let me have you do that while we go to count and ask them. I'll wait. So certainly I support this. Social equity is extremely important, particularly as we we look at new emerging markets and the cannabis industry is now legal, supported by the voters of the state of California, as well as the city of Long Beach. And this is a grant coming from the the Board of Bureau of Cannabis Control. I'd like to know more about how we received the grant and how we expect to expand the grant. And I know we have a staff report, but I certainly support this. Staff Reporter. Sure. Kevin Jackson and AJ Cleary can provide a brief self-report. AJ is going to provide the staff report. Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. This is a recommendation to accept grant funds from the State of California Bureau of Cannabis Control to support the existing Long Beach Cannabis Equity Program approved by the City Council in 2018. Grant funds will be used to provide fee waivers, grants and technical business assistance to qualifying cannabis business license applicants. A general update on the program was provided to the City Council through a recently released memorandum. This grant will allow staff to continue developing the program to promote equal opportunity in the cannabis industry. That concludes my presentation and I'm available for questions. So thank you. I guess we apply for the grant. We did apply. For the grant. Was it a competitive grant process? And it was a formula driven process. So any city that adopted a cannabis social equity program was eligible for grant funds and then the state awarded funds. Based off of a formula. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor Andrews. I support this also. Thank you. We have two members of the public, Mr. Goodhue, and I think it's precious. Marcel said names. That's very good here. I would use every single dollar. That we could get. To discourage. The use of the cannabis. In this city. We don't need it. Look at some of the conduct of some of the council members, and you can see that. Period. Use the money. I mean, if you if you're improving this. To me, that's tantamount to saying, hey. Let's encourage underage sex. Why not? Cannabis is dangerous to the city. No ifs. No answer. No buts. And if you don't understand that. Perhaps you're using it. Now, one other thing again. I just after. I know. That last subject, the trucks or the lights get our local people. To serve the food we've got plenty of. Operate community organizations that would be more than happy, more than happy to provide food as they do for other events. And they you can use their own kitchens and then bring it to the tables that can be set up. It's a it's a wonderful revenue source for those industries and so forth. And the point is, right on those those trucks are useless and expensive. At a neighborhood organization that baked, baked, baked goods and bring in the beverages. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Precious. I'm 21 years old, born and raised in Long Beach. I'm very grateful I get approved for the. Campus equity. Program. So I'm still in the. Process of the application. And it's I'm finding it hard to get a location because I cannot complete the application without the location. And so I'm on my own doing this. So I would like to get some. Help with funding to obtain a facility. Um, because I won't be able to get issued a license unless I do have a place. And I just don't, I'm not having, like, luck with it. Um. And offline equity applicants are. Able to use 800 square feet, minimum of non-equity facilities and up to three. Years of free, real. Real estate, which is very helpful for equity applicants. But in Long Beach is prohibited to have another license. Holder in renting in the same place. And the city does not offer three years of free real estate. It would help if we could just be adjusted or some type of compromise. Being a minority and a. Woman having no support makes this harder. For me. But it is my dream to run my own facility and be a proud cannabis equity business owner in my city. I will continue to do what I can to make. That happen, not just for me, but for other Long Beach equity applicants that will be facing the same obstacles. It's not just about the cannabis for me. It's about growth and knowledge, business, education, networking and. More that comes with this. I just want to bring up really quick, there's an online that the city is not taking any more applications for storefronts, which is something I would like to do. Maybe someday that can be adjusted anyways. I would love to see more people like me thrive and be supported by the only city we know. And one day I can give back to my computer community in a positive way. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm going back to Councilman Austin. So, yes, obviously, I support this item and encouraged the rest of the council to do so. I did have a couple of questions. And before I say that, any time you can get close to $1,000,000, $900,000 from the state to implement something that we are already going to implement, I think it's only helpful to our budget and so it would be wise for us to accept this this grant. I'm enthusiastically a yes. That's it. I'm I would love to know more about the accountability measures that we are building into this. Do we have any accountability for the grants in terms of reporting back to the Bureau of Cannabis Control? And will we be getting report backs in terms of how our equity program is actually progressing here in the city? Yeah. The state has reporting requirements for the grants. We're required to. Report on. Who has applied for a license, received a license, a lot of demographic information for those who participate in the program and receive a license. We are planning to provide periodic updates to the City Council. Our most recent one was released just recently, but we're happy to continue updating the City Council as we make progress in the program . Thank you. Thank you. There's a motion and a second. Please cast your votes.

Approves an official map amendment mapping the Zone District Campus-National Western Center (CMP-NWC) to properties either owned by the City and County of Denver or the National Western Association within the campus area identified in the National Western Center Master Plan, rezoning the properties from I-B (Industrial, 4,500 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-A (Industrial, 3,000 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-MX-3 (Industrial, Mixed Use, 3 stories), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); CMP-ENT (Campus, Entertainment), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards) to CMP-NWC, UO-2 in Council District 9 (2015I-00057). (NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLANNING) Approves an official map amendment mapping the Zone District Campus-National Western Center (CMP-NWC) to properties either owned by the City and County of Denver or the National Western Association within the campus area identified in the National Western Center Master Plan, rezoning the properties from I-B (Industrial, 4,500 Lot Size), UO-2 (Use Overlay Allowing Billboards); I-A (Industrial, 3,000 Lot Siz

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Let's take all of those in districts to see MP nwc you oh to the campus national western center and continuing to allow the billboard use overlay of the map that you see the properties shaded in blue are the proposed areas to be zoned. Again. Here he is in blue. Those areas be zoned as legal descriptions of other properties owned by the city or the national or the Western Structure Association are properly defined and as the city acquires properties within the National Western Center area. Additional map amendments to resume properties to CFP and the NWC will be brought before City Council. So this is one of many MAP amendments for the National Western Center. So the public process is the same. We talk about the map and text together. But all notices public notice for planning board the for the public hearing were emailed to all Arnaud's and all city council members. Signs were posted throughout subject rezoning say and then for the public hearing tonight. Notice was emailed to all Arnaud's and all city council members and signs were posted throughout the subject rezoning site, the same condition applied. So Planning Board did recommend approval unanimously with a condition that City Council acknowledge and address the concerns expressed by the neighborhood stakeholders with regards to neighborhood involvement and governance and community equity. The existing land use surrounding the proposed rezoning is the land use consists of vacant park parking and entertainment and cultural uses, and then the surrounding area is largely industrial, with nearby residential in the area Swansea and across the South Platte River in Globeville. So the criteria for review for a map amendment consistency was adopted plans uniform to district regulations to further the public safety and welfare justifying circumstance um consistency with neighborhood context and district purpose and intent. So again, there are five plans that apply to this site. The proposed map amendment is consistent with many objectives and strategies found in comp plan 2000, as detailed in the staff report and highlighted on this slide, promoting the infill and designing mixed use communities by mapping this zone district. The signature would allow for more density at the future transit station and would celebrate the existing focal point of the National Western. In Denver. The venues concept for Blueprint Denver is entertainment, cultural exhibition, area of change and the details as to how the proposed map move is consistent with the objectives of blueprints detailed in your staff report highlighted here on the map. As you can see, it's all an area of change and it's all entertainment. Cultural Exhibition. The Globeville Neighborhood Plan also applies, as I mentioned, previously proposed map is consistent with many of the strategies as detailed in the staff report, some of the key recommendations from the global plan. Talk about implementing the build out in the National Western Center. So embracing the river, providing better access to resources, improving educational opportunities. All uses are allowed in this ENP National Research Center associated with education and community resources. And then the another key recommendation is to introduce new multimodal connections over the river to the National Western Center, which is critical to the build out of this center. Hillary's wants a neighborhood plan, so the proposed map movement is consistent with many objectives and strategies found within the plan. As detailed in your staff report, as you can see by the the map, it's encouraging the development of the key sites, including National Western Center. Also, the plan allows building heights that deal, outgoing heights, should accommodate the redevelopment of the National Western Center and that two d should be targeted adjacent to the station. So the by mapping copy and wc the uses that would be allowed and the intensity of uses meet the goals and strategies of the leaders. Once an airplane. The proposed map movement is consistent many objectives and strategies found in the National Western Center Master Plan, as detailed in the staff report, providing a variety of programs, fostering regeneration and driving new tourism. This MAP amendment will result in uniform regulations applicable to all new buildings and uses within the land mapped. See MP NWC. This MAP movement furthers the public health, safety and general welfare of Denver residents as they provide for implementation and revitalization of the National Western Center as identified in the city's adopted plans. The justifying circumstance for the proposed map is the land or its surrounding environs. It's changed or is changing to such a degree that is in the public interest to encourage the redevelopment of the area or to recognize the change character of the area. A lot of the discussion we've had, a lot of the impetus and momentum behind build out of the National Western Center is a justifying circumstance in itself. There's more detail confined in your staff report than inconsistency with the neighborhood context zone district person. In turn, the proposed map movement would lead to development that is consistent with the campus context description, which was specifically written for the National Western Center. And so the purpose and intent is met by and is consistent by mapping it at the National Western Center site as proposed. So with that, CBT recommends approval based on finding that all criteria have been met. Thank you. Thank you. We have eight speakers for this and I will call the first five and. Hayes Paul Andrews, Johns, EPA and Betty Cram, Drew Dutcher so those five can make their way up to the front pew. And the remaining three I will call up as we move through that. And, Ms.. Hays, you may go ahead and begin your remarks. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of council my name is Ann Hayes. I'm a resident of Denver. I'm also a member of the National Western Citizens Advisory Committee. I also am with a company who owns 14 acres on Brighton Boulevard that we intend to redevelop. I also have been very involved in the working group for Brighton Boulevard and on the board of the newly formed General Improvement District for Reno. I am here to just tell you that I totally support Bill 325 and the rezoning of these properties. I think that the rezoning, as Kelly and Steve have mentioned, is an important next step in bringing this project forward and bringing the benefits to the adjacent neighborhoods that will come from that and and into the entire city with the redevelopment of this property. But I also think it's important to note from my perspective that this forward momentum and rezone also gives encouragement to developers and business investment nearby, such as ourselves, that can count on the fact that this is going to happen likely in the future. And so therefore we are willing to spend our money in improving those properties and the people who we bring on to the property in our development who will be creating new businesses. So that will also bring opportunity and prosperity to the adjacent neighborhoods as well. Thank. Thank you. Paul Anders. Thank you, Mr. President. Members of Council. My name's Paul Andrews. My address is 4655 Humboldt Street. I'm here tonight as the CEO of the Nation of Western Stock Show. We are the landowner for portions of the property in question this evening, and we fully support the rezoning of our property to the National Western Center Zone District. Think you also have supportive letters from partners of the project that have been handed out to you? CSU, The Museum of Nature and Science and History, Colorado. Just like to make note of that, the proposed rezoning will assist in the implementation of the National Western Center Master Plan that you adopted in March of this year. The Nation of Western Center Master Plan, as you know, envisions a complex that focuses on the research and animal husbandry, agriculture, retail and entertainment for 365 days a year. It will also continue the dominance of the National Western Stock Show as the world's leading livestock show that celebrates our Western heritage. Not all of these uses are possible with our existing industrial zoning. Category three Zoning this evening is one more step towards the implementation of the National Western Center vision, and we encourage your support. Thank you. Thank you, John Sabian. Good evening. This is the second time that I'm here on behalf of the national western. And a neighbor of ours. Dave, asked us. Asked me, Brother, how can you support an effort that's pissed in your backyard for the last eight years? And I said, Well, if you have gone through the process, as we have in the last two years or so. It's been enlightening and. The term Western heritage has different meanings to different people, positive and negative. I think we're at the point in that level of Western history where we can start separating the facts from generalities. I feel what we have at hand with the national Western efforts, the city and county of Denver's efforts and the neighborhood effort that's gone into. This whole process is. An awakening as to the possibilities that await not just the national western, the city and county of Denver, but all the neighborhoods around, not just Globeville, Elyria and Swansea , but also Cole. Whittier. Curtis Park. Mm hmm. And even some of the Rhino Place, the new ballpark neighborhoods. It's going to benefit a lot of people. Hopefully it will benefit Globeville and Swansea the most, because that's our self-interest. With the establishment of the educational effort by CSU and the history, people involved will be able to teach our young kids the true aspects of Western history. Both negative and positive. But more importantly, I see this as a golden opportunity, the best opportunity I've seen. In the last 80 years for little kids growing up. Especially close to that area to have opportunities to get into things that we never dreamed of could happen. The whole idea of food science, water plant and animal husbandry, food and the next generation is going to be a big item. Mr. Lopez hit the nail on the head, and we can teach our kids through this process those great possibilities. And I urge you to support this effort. We're going to be here again. JUERGENS You're going to see more of me. I promise you that. And I think that we can go forward in a real positive effort, working with all the people that we have been. It's been very enlightening to me, and I've enjoyed it very much, and I look forward to taking on the next bull by the horns. Thank you. Thank you, Betty Graham. Thank you so much. And thank you, Mr. President. And City Council. My name is Betty Cram and I have lived in the neighborhood for a long time and I'm a proud supporter and always will be of the National Western. And I've been to many, many shows and I worked on the Yards and I also worked at the Livestock Exchange Building and at the commission companies. And it was a great, great time when when the stock show got ready to come to town, it was like magic. Many of the people were from the community and from the community. In fact, I think sometimes it was the only job they had all year was when they went to work at the stock show. And a lot of the ladies would always make sure they'd always give up their bedrooms and they all ran out their rooms to people as the stock shocking suction man came in. They would always there was a lot of people rented out a lot of rooms to the stock show people. And so in town, when the stock show came to town, it was like magic. Then we had a little scare because we thought we might lose the structure. It was very, very frightening. And we worked hard. We got a lot of signatures. And the and I hope it helped prove that we really thought a lot to have them stay. Then we got CSU coming on board with us, and I think that's going to be one of the greatest things there is. I was a little disappointed one day when I saw that they said there's parts of Denver they don't think we ought to be called Top Cow Town. They there was a lot of people don't even know our area of town. It's an old, old area. It's not a rich area, but it's got some of the most wonderful people you could ever know that live in that area. And they have that's what brought the name in the first place. When I was working down there on the plains in the fall, the cattle would come into town from the farm, from the farms and from the ranches. We'd sometimes have 40,000 cattle coming in one day on the on the trains and in and then the in on in the end, shipped in. So it was really it was a proper name. And I will always say it is the cow town. And I'm so glad we still call it a cow down. Thank you. Thank you. Next is Drew Decker. And as Drew comes up, I'll call the last three speakers Micki Zeppelin, Kim, Q, Sarah and and Elizabeth. So those three can make their way up to the front pew and that's it. You can go ahead. Hi. Hi. Thank you, Mr. President. My name is Drew Dutcher. I live in the Elyria neighborhood. I've been very involved in the National Western Planning, as well as the neighborhood plans for Larry, Swansea and also in Globeville. I do want to say that the resident participation among the also the National Western Citizens Advisory Committee, I think the residential participation for the stock show of the National Western Center has been really great and they've really reached out and there's been a lot of enthusiasm. I think there's really an effort to involve the community. But so so I think that that that that has been that has been great. But there's a new vision here, I think a very unique vision that's never been tried anywhere else. It's not just another stock show. It's the presence of the CSU and the History Colorado and the Museum of Nature and Science is something totally different. Nobody really knows what this will be like, and that's very exciting. This will be unique in the nation and probably unique in the in the world. I think that we have a chance to change the history where we may have we no longer isolate institutions from people with this new vision. There's enormous potential here. And I enthusiastically support the campaign for the the National Western Center. Thanks very much. Thank you. Maggie Zeppelin. Good evening. I'm Mickey Zeppelin. And I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight and also want to express my thanks to all of this council for the support that we received from the council in terms of Rhino, in terms of any number of projects, and particularly to Judy Monteiro, who's really led the effort to make the northern section of the city really what it is. We keep hearing about it, the hearings before us, for really also a recognition of Judy's efforts, as is Union Station and other areas of the city. So thank you, Judy, so much. I strongly believe in the catalytic effect of the national western in terms of what it does for the city and particularly for the neighborhoods. I guess I wouldn't be wearing this silly shirt if I didn't believe that that was the case. But I catalytic in the part as a catalytic in the catalytic goods. Obviously, some sort of zoning is necessary and just to basically set the ground rules for what's happening. My concern is that although this is a good start, it not be the end. This is an evolving process. We're talking about a ten or 15 year development cycle. And I think it's important that we not use this zoning to use a Western term as a corral, as basically closing it in, but looking look at it as a free range. There's a lot of opportunities that will be coming up, a lot of opportunities in the neighborhood. The neighborhoods really have been kind of the wasteland in a sense for the last 50 years or so. And I think it's time that we really the Council and the National Western really work together. The funds from the seed tax, etc., are confined to this zoned area. So I think we need to be open to basically look at some possible expansion in terms of the area. Their needs for that really conserve both the national western and the neighborhood. And we need to seize those opportunities. We need to make it a real campus. We need to get rid of fences and we need to break down those barriers that now are part of national western and open it up to not only the neighborhoods in the city, but the whole country. Thank you. And I support the zoning as a first step. Thank you. Kim Kucera. Hello. My name is Kim. Sarah. My address is 1660 Lincoln. And I'm here reading a letter on behalf of a member of community who could not be here this evening. It says, As I am out of town, I appreciate my comments being read into the record. My name is Vernon L. Hill. Managing partner of GE Properties 810 to 870 East 50th Avenue, Denver 80216. The business property consisting of 150,000. Square feet, is one of the success stories of Globeville. Having been a. Significant part of the meatpacking, his meatpacking history from the 1920s to 1950s. It has since been repurposed into three successful and thriving meat, seafood and produce small businesses employing over 60 people. I have worked in Globeville since 1984, owning a commercial and industrial construction company and have seen the changes in Globeville over the years. Because of my dedication and commitment to this community. I have given extensive time and effort as a member of the Globeville Steering Committee, National Western Center, Citizen Advisory Committee and Globeville Civic Association. When I spoke at the Planning Board meeting regarding the National Western Center rezoning, I presented concerns in the form of a draft memorandum of Understanding for the North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. While expressing my support for the zoning changes, I was gratified with the Planning Board's conditional approval. To. Condition attached to their approval that the City Council acknowledge and address the concerns expressed by the neighborhood stakeholders with regards to neighborhood involvement in governance and community equity. Thus my comments 2016 North North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative Budget. In meeting with Kelley Lead, it was encouraging to hear of the projects for Globeville that he is considering to include in the 2016 budget. He also has the list of budget items requested by the Globeville Civic Association and will be interesting to see how the overall budget. Will be structured. We look forward to receiving the 2016 budget summary as we move forward in the aggressive implementation of the Globeville plan. Memorandum of Understanding. It was my hope to have this completed prior to today's meeting, Kelley Lead received a copy of the Globeville Civic Association, proposed. MRU, and likewise Kelley presented. In memo you draft from the DCC. I requested that Keller review and align both drafts to meet the needs of the Globeville Civic Association and North Denver Cornerstone Collaborative. I am in favor of the suggested change to the statement of commitment signed by Mayor Hancock, which would be a strong moral commitment to the community. The development of the National Western Center has the potential to bring historic, unprecedented transformation beyond the National Western Center boundaries and hopefully into the surrounding neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and Swansea. I request the continued support and input of City Council and I am in favor of moving forward on the National Western Center zoning request. Thank you. Thank you. And Lizbeth. Hi. And Elizabeth National, Globeville. And I'm on the National Chester Senior Citizens Advisory Committee. I want to speak in favor of the MAP Amendment and to the synergistic, the perpetual synergistic relationship between the text amendment, the text and the map relationship as we go forward as the dynamic. And that I think that the two memorialize the history of these changes, I think would be a great idea. Kelly Lead once made the comment that we ought to write a book on what they discovered in trying to find the boundaries of these properties and that kind of thing. And I think that there is something important there, and I hope that that is understood to be part of the legacy and that there are stories there. And I hope somewhere a mechanism can be created to provide a little grant for the History Colorado and the NDDC to memorialize this. And to Steve Nally in the Planning Department to talk about the foundational breakthroughs in presenting zoning, through learning about presenting critical paths versus details and the magnificent process discoveries. And so I want to support the MAP agreement, the MAP amendments, the map, the creation of the map zoning, and also recognize that there is work to be done , partly because our city workers have discovered these mysteries and these incredible historical uncertainties. And that part of this, the excitement of what can become a legacy project like the National Western that can revitalize an area has to do with this history that even precedes when the boundaries were born to the original indigenous people that are somewhat neglected in the conversations. And there's a lot to be discovered there. So I would just want to say that this is a moment where I feel we're putting a touchstone in place as we move forward. Next becomes building and the concepts and the design and preserving the flexibility relative to the things that can be accomplished over the generations with with this sort of thing. So just just to to memorialize it and to make sure that we understand these are stepping stones and all of the people that are involved in this, whether it's the city council, the city staff, the residents, the folks that have preceded us for generations that have have contributed to this being the special area that it is, or there would be no reason for this to have such a specialness as we go forward and as we all go off into the ether. What we've done here, I really think is profound, and there's more to be discovered about what it is. And I hope it can be memorialized by supporting the folks that are on the front line with discovering what it is that has to be put into nuts and bolts and brought out as part of the documented history to make sure we also are accountable to that. So with that, I support this and wish for the depth of of really memorializing it as a way of appreciating everybody that's been involved with this for the last ten, 15, 20, 30, 40, 100 years. Thank you. That concludes our speakers. So now any questions from members of Council 325. All right. Seen none. Public hearing 325 is now closed. Time for comment. Councilwoman Monteiro. Thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank everybody that has come out tonight and Hayes, Paul Andrews, Betty Kram, Drew Deutscher, Mikki Zeppelin, Kim Kiss, Sarah, 81 to thank Mr. Hancock and his Cabinet members who have worked on this effort. And also to all of my colleagues tonight for being here this evening, knowing that you could have had the evening off. But you're here with us. So I very much appreciate it. The National Western Stock Show has had a long history of 109 years in the Globeville area, Swansea and neighborhood. And it's been my focus for the 12 years that I've served on council. It wasn't long ago, as was mentioned by the speakers, that we were working just to keep National Western here in Denver in our National Western Committee, taking the National Western Complex to the next level is moving forward. And we've had so many accomplishments, including a major feasibility study, a commitment to stay in Denver, a memorandum of understanding with CSU, the Denver Museum, Nature of Nature and Science History, Colorado. The formation of the National Western Center Advisory Committee, the global Elyria, Swansea and Neighborhood Plans and the National Western Master Plan. Also an application to the Regional Tourism Act in support of the CSU facilities at the state level. Just as significant to me as the movement going forward of National Western are the hopes of the surrounding neighborhoods of Globeville, Elyria and swans here to move forward as well with their neighborhood plans and improvements. Now that we are in the next stages of realizing the master plan and building the infrastructure for a national Western, we must also be integrating the human spirit in the neighborhoods where the national western exists. Globeville, Elyria and Swansea. If National Western is indeed going to be catalytic in nature, incorporating the values of the people in the area into the picture is just as critical as a physical connectivity. Moving the National Western Center text amendments and mapping forward is a step in the right direction for the master plan, but must also include long term sustainable structures for decision making. That includes the people of global Elyria sponsored Swans here and supports their dreams and aspirations. I would be extremely disappointed if the neighborhood was marginalized as their time is important and their contributions critical to the health, future and vitality of the neighborhood. It is also important to me moving forward that the neighborhood is always at the heart of the decision making over the full rollout in the future of the projects. I would like to see these amendments as charting a new course for how large scale projects move forward within historic, yet vulnerable neighborhoods. A new path would include a sustainable structure for inclusive government governance to the neighborhoods and the transformation of the national Western. Equally valuing the human factors of development, such as integration of jobs, training, health and well-being, and affordable housing for Elyria, Globeville and Swansea, and requesting that mediation services to work with the neighborhood are also a need for an ongoing role, as requested to me by neighborhood people, for an ombudsman to support neighbors throughout this fast moving process to help ensure that they are kept up to speed. No other neighborhoods in the city have been asked to be able to track the amount of public investment coming into and through their neighborhoods. And my worry is that the neighborhood will be left behind. So I just want to thank everyone again. And it was important for me to put my a little bit of my fears on the record, because my hope is that with the neighborhoods all coming together and all of the work that's been put into this whole process , that it keeps going forward but it keeps going forward in a suspicious, substantial and credible way, and that the neighborhoods here are not marginalized and are not seen included. They are, but they are. And. Marginalized as we go forward. If there's any opportunity for the sportsmen to play a neutral part in representing the neighborhoods is that all of these decisions are coming forward. I think it would be beneficial to all. So I'm asking my colleagues to support this very, very important proposal before us. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman Monteiro. Councilman Brooks. Thank you, Mr. President. This is a this is an exciting day. And I, I was looking at Paul Andrews and I was reminded of August 2011. You're not going to remember this. You will. When I tell you, though, we're sitting in a visit Denver boardroom and the conversation was about, you know, the National Western Stock Show going to Aurora. And boy, you could cut the tension in that room with a knife. And Paul was just almost, you know, best for his organization. But you could see everyone in the room was very tense and wanted the National Western Stock Show. And fast forward here, 2015, a neighborhood coming together, an entire agency formed from the mayor's office. An entire city excited. A ballot measure pending. We have moved really, really fast. And, you know, I just I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this. And I think this council that is leaving couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this, as well as this is one of our last meetings. But we'll I think we'll hold the city and the community accountable to this to see how fast we can get things done. I think a lot of plans sit on the table. They sit on the shelf for a long time. But this is being implemented at a very quick rate and we're really excited about it. I'm excited to be representing this this neighborhood and just a couple of weeks. And the things that I've been underlining is community input, community engagement, continue to bring the community along, have them at the table, which is great. But the thing that I haven't heard mentioned a lot, but came up a lot at Alaska's Civic Globeville Civic Association meeting is the existing conditions of the environment that we're currently in, the number of businesses that are acting in violation. I mean, think someone brought it up to tonight and talked about it that, you know, we have a vision for the future. But unless we start taking steps towards helping neighbor, helping the neighborhoods, helping good businesses get up to code and things like that, we're going to be in trouble . And so those are some things I'm going to be real focused on. The other piece is when I knocked on a number of doors in Globeville area, Swansea, I was amazed at the number of people who are not a part of the process, the number of people in the community who don't know what's going on. And so we still have a lot of work to do in trying to get folks to the meeting, trying to get folks to be a part of this, in way in to what they're, you know, these decisions that we're making. So while I think we've we've come a long way, there's still a lot of work that we have to do. And I think the people in this room are ready for it. And so I just want to thank Councilman Monteiro again for for working hard. All of the bills tonight have been in your district, so that says a little something. She's been incredibly busy, but not just busy. I think there's a bunch of neighbors who support all the work that you've been doing. So great work. And as as far as the community, thank you for your involvement. We've got a lot of work to do. We're going to keep working hard and and we'll be there to keep moving the ball down the field. So thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Brooks. All right. In the comments. 325. See none. Madam Secretary, welcome. Montero i. Nevett i. Ortega, I. Rob i. Brooks. I. Brown. Can each. Layman. Hi, Lopez. Hi, Mr. President. Hi. Madam Secretary. Please cause a very nice results. Nice, nice, nice. Nice. 325 has passed. All right, we've got one more. And just remind counsel. After the public hearing and vote on 381, we will also need to vote on 430 the companion bill. So don't take off after the 381 vote.

Adoption of Resolution Amending the Capital Budget by Increasing Appropriations in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Project (C99300) by $1,911,000 for Replacement of Three Portables and Decking at the Midway Shelter, Food Bank Facility Repairs, and Purchase of Wireless Hotspots for Lending. (City Manager 10021030/Finance 10024051)

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You know, improve the way in which they either deter crime or if crime happens, capture the people who perpetrate crimes. They're not perfect tools. And I don't think we're at a point where we can wait seven more years in hopes of finding the perfect tool, to be sure. You know, these are expensive. They're expensive in 2014 and they're expensive in 2021. But. We here in City Hall, we've got to amp up our game in terms of deterring crime and solving crime. And this is one tool that that I'm looking at that that I think can help us. You know, it's not the perfect tool, but I don't want to wait another seven years for the perfect tool. I think the issues of privacy are absolutely important. They're absolutely critical. But, you know, I have confidence in our city attorney's staff and I have confidence in our city Manor's staff, and I have confidence in our in our police staff and in our police chief that, you know, we will be very mindful of concerns with regard to privacy. So I think we need to move forward now, not just because, you know, we've got Easton homeowners associations concerned, but, you know, we've got West End homeowner's associations and and whether or even renters who are concerned about about crime. And we need to give them a signal that we're going to give our police a fighting chance in order to enable to to deter crime and to solve crime. And I think in LPR, I think that's what that that's what we're giving them. Thanks, Councilmember Desai. So here are my comments. I am very mindful of the comments that I heard from residents tonight concerned about increasing crime and also those concerned about privacy and other issues. But certainly anyone who follows the news knows that we are seeing some changes in the way that crime is taking place. Our attorney general, Rob Bonta, who happens to be a former member of this body and Alameda resident, has been on the news lately talking about the need to get tougher on some of these criminals. I think our technology can be a valuable tool. But based on what is in front of us today, this particular staff report, I'm not ready to move forward approving the use of this technology. I would like to give staff direction to come back to us. So this is this is what I would propose. And I will add that I did have a lengthy phone conversation with Chief Joshi this this morning or this afternoon sometime today, because I have a lot of questions about the staff for it now. We've heard some information presented tonight. It's not in this staff report. And I would like when if if when this item comes back to us, I'd like some of that fleshed out more because the as far as the cost of these of this technology, the amount that was given in the staff report was actually between 500 and $700,000. That's a lot more expensive. This is on page four in the staff report that had a fix. Our PR system is preliminary, preliminarily thought to cost 500 to $700000. Now we're hearing that it's under 3000 per unit. So I'd like some explanation of that. And also, there's there's the the cost of installing the cameras if if that is approved, if there's a majority to approve that. But then there's the cost of of maintenance. So what would that be? But we've heard many references to privacy concerns. And so I do want to know what specifically is the retention policy that's being proposed. We heard Chief Joshi and I also have huge regard, and I'm so glad he's our chief and other local resident, too. But he said that he would be willing to reduce the retention time that needs to be in a policy where we're just hearing, again, more anecdotal evidence. I would want to see that there's been talk about fix security cameras and also continuing mobile cameras. I'd like some more discussion about which actually might have the more chilling effect on residents. There's always that balancing act that when Chief and I talked today, I use the example of, you know, the the mobile unit with the camera that goes past the mosque at prayer time. So just some considerations I'd like to see fixed versus mobile or do we do both? And so the other question I'd like explored is the city of Berkeley, you may have heard recently approved the use of security cameras. Berkeley is also experience increase in crime. Berkeley's about as progressive as they get in Alameda County, and I have huge regard for their mayor. My friend Jesse Archean, we communicated about this Berkeley City Council, approved the use of security cameras in various locations throughout the city. And there are, again, tells me that the city manager I'm I'm guessing in concert with the city attorney is currently drafting the use policy for these fixed security cameras. I would like our staff to look into to communicate with Berkeley. What are they doing? What is their policy say? Might that be a way that we go about making our residents safer and and helping the police solve crime? And I do very much understand the need to free up our officers to do the kinds of patrolling and and covering our neighborhoods and business districts to make us safe. We need to do more with less. And then the other thing that I want addressed when if when this item comes back to us is how do you handle vehicles without license plates? Because in some of these mass retail thefts that we've heard about, these cars can be. And they don't have license plates. So how does what is an LPR do it appear to do in that in that instance? And then data retention and storage, where does it go? Who's storing it? What are the you know, what are the possible uses of it? And I do think we need to have some explanation of that Clearview snafu that occurred a year or two ago. Whatever happened to the folks who without authorization, were trying out this new software? I think that that's a fair question for the for the council and the public to know about. And finally, I want to encourage our city council to get behind supporting a b550. This was authored by Assembly member David Chu when he was still on the Assembly before he became a city attorney of the county of San Francisco. But it's now been picked up by Assembly member Friedman, who is the chair of the Transportation Commission, which is a good thing. But this is automated speed cameras and as you would expect of an assembly member, David Chiu, it's very thoughtfully designed so that, yes, if you're caught going over a certain speed, you do get the other citation. But there's a process for appeal for folks with low incomes to not have to pay that fine. But it is part of what is viewed as part of Vision Zero. So I want our city to join a big MTC, the League of California Cities and others. I understand that it got hung up in appropriations because the California Highway Patrol sees some threat to maybe their territory. But I think that's an important tool for for law enforcement and to help our cities remain a little safer. But anyway, at this point in time, I am willing to support giving a staff direction to come back in the manner I've laid out, but not to support the motion that's been made. Council days have been. Council are not. Swayed. Well, I'm just going to second Councilmember Patricia Spencer's motion. And with a yeah, I'm just going to second it. Okay. And, Kelso, we're not sweating. So you to go up. Yeah, thank you. I know I talked a lot earlier, but I haven't actually given my comments. We already support 8550. And actually, we were one of the few cities to send a letter when it was before we did. So it's good. And I appreciated the the lead him because I was going to say I'm not against cameras. I just think that if we're going to tell our community that we're going to install them, we need to have confidence that they're going to actually have an impact on the things that we're telling them. And we heard a lot of a lot of statements today, and I've read a lot of threads on next door in the past that make a lot of claims about what cameras are going to do. And I haven't heard one that actually accurately describes the outcome of putting these cameras in place. I think we you know, we have through many different and I want to say, I understand that our community has concerns about safety and crime. And I think we need to be doing as much as we possibly can. And I would be supporting these cameras if I thought they were actually a tool that was going to do that. And I want to thank our staff and our and appreciate the work they're doing. I also had a chance to speak with Qureshi. He knows I. He has my support. I greatly, greatly appreciate him. And I think this is just an issue that we're going to we're going to disagree. There is a reason that there are no studies that show that these do not deter or change crime. And the reason is because they don't. And there's a reason why we have to listen to anecdotal stories of one issue that happens in one city and one issue that happens in another city. And it's because nobody says that they have never solved a crime. It's that when you install cameras, they do not change what happens with crime in that city. In the years after Piedmont put in cameras. Assault went up twice as fast as it went up in Alameda with no cameras. Violent crime went up 104%. Alameda was dropped 4%. Robbery went up 20%. Alameda has dropped 4%. Firearm robberies went up 17%. Alameda is dropped 30. Aggravated assault went up 210%. Alameda has dropped. Burglary dropped 23 and a half percent in Piedmont, 33% in Alameda. We are overpromising if we move forward with this program that somehow putting these cameras in are going to have an impact on the crime outcomes in our city. And it's not going to. A 2018 study of Vallejo's use of these found that 37% of the license plate hit were wrong. That's 37% of the hits that our police officers chase down are going to be after. Things that are not are not crimes. People who are not involved in things, it ends up wasting time. One of the reasons why I'm concerned about this is that we are actually short of officers, and rather than using this to leverage the officers, we have to do more and better work. We're actually going to be taking away from the time they are spending on the streets doing the work that we need them to do. I appreciate it, Mayor. As the Ashcraft mentioned of the Clearview issue, I don't know how we move forward with with a new camera program until we've addressed the issues that that we still that are still out there about Clearview and our police force writing about how they know we don't like these cameras and yet still continuing to use them. And I do know that a lot of people didn't use it, and I appreciate that as well. But I would like to finish up that before we move forward. So, you know, for me, I'm not going to be supporting this because I think that it actually ends up being just security theater. We're going to spend $700,000 for trying to put things up on the bridge. We're going to actually pull away the resources that we have. And we're at the end of the day, a year, two years, three years after this, we are going to have nothing to show for it. But the companies that we have spent this, hundreds of thousands of dollars are going to have pocketed that money and are going to be on to selling us the next technological fix. Dozens of agencies in this Bay Area and in the country use these things and there is not one study that can show they have impact on crime. For me. That's all I need to hear. So I'm absolutely now I'm moving forward with this. I don't think we need to spend any time even asking staff to come back with more information. I think at such time that we can say to our community, hey, look, this has been used in hundreds of cities, and here's the data that shows us that actually it's effective. I will be there with you saying, let's put these in. But until then, I'm not ready to move forward. Thank you. Councilor Daisuke. You know, I just in my brief amount of time left, I just want to say, you know, we have had two, maybe three police chiefs who have been supportive of things like LPR. I think that that has got to amount to something. And, you know, the fact that, hey, there are other police forces employing it, I think that's got to amount to something. I you know, hey, you know, whatever a university professor in some ivory tower has to say, you know, great. You know, wonderful. But I'm going to have to balance that with what the men and women, you know, dressed in blue are telling us. I don't think they're just, you know, whipping out loopers for because they've got nothing better to do. I think if they're telling us that this is a tool that can help them in deterring and improving solving crimes, then and I think we owe it not just to our police force, but we owe it to our residents. So I don't know what more to say because it sounds like we're going to be waiting another seven years. And it was seven years when we first started this conversation. Now we're going to wait another seven years to find that perfect magic tool. Councilmember Desai I'm willing to consider moving forward, but after the questions I posed or answered. I think it was. I second it. Councilmember. So you did councilmember knox way. I guess what I would say and I and I didn't read it off my list but I think Alameda is actually police force has let us know what you know how overly useful these are we have four of them and two of them have been in the shop because we didn't take care of them and we haven't met and maintain them and they are out of commission and they were not deemed so important that we needed to, you know, prioritize fixing them and getting them back on the street. So again, I'm not looking for the perfect bullet. I'm looking for something that says that where you can where we can find where there's data that shows us, because there is so much data about crime fighting out there that shows us this can be impactful. Speed cameras is exists. There are reams of studies that show you this time. Speed cameras, slow speeds down, reduce crashes, make places safer, but not for these. So anyway. But we can just disagree. We have counsel for her, Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to give the Chiefs the opportunity to respond to some of these comments. And there have been many made. So, for instance, just last councilmembers spoke in regards to the developers that have been working. But I believe I read in the report that part of the reason that you had to bring it back was that you want to hear from council what to do. But if you could address that, that concern, as well as the best use of the officers that we have. That was another issue that was raised. Actually. Councilmember Harry Spencer, I think it's time for a vote on your motion. I have asked for direction to have staff which would include the chief, come back with answers to questions. But I think it's time to take a vote now. If you want me to take a roll call vote. I mean. I do. I yeah. Okay. Councilmember Desai. Well, just a point of order. I mean, I think if the councilmember is asking a question that she would like our staff to answer, I think that's her prerogative. It is okay. And I'm going to need a vote to have more time. One minute. Actually, I think the question gets answered. Point of order. You can't just call the question without doing emotion. And you tried to do that. But I did have a question to the chief, and it's extremely disrespectful to not allow him to speak. However, I do have time. You do have a point of order. Yeah. I heard you. We had a staff presentation. The questions you were asking. The information was in the staff report. Council member Harry Spencer. So I'm not sure the value of hearing it from the chief again. But we can we can let him speak. But if you want to move this item forward, it's going to have to be from a different direction. But. Yes. What question would you you asked him about the unused IPR powers. Is that it? I'm sorry. You've been extremely disrespectful to myself as well as the chief. I've already asked the questions and I'm pretty confident he can answer them. You might not be able to remember, but I bet he can. And Councilmember Harry Spencer, I apologize if you think that I've been disrespectful to you. I am trying to run a meeting and I'm trying to also move this item forward, actually. So I will just remind all of us that we don't speak disparagingly to each other. I do know that we get a little frustrated at times. We don't see eye to eye, but we all have the city's best interests at heart. Chief Joshi, perhaps you could restate the question so I make sure we all understand what it is you were asked. I think the question was regarding the the Alps that are in the vehicles that are not in use as I think that's okay. So there were. So back in 2014 is when the department had the four cameras installed. Two of the vehicles are actually it's not that equipment is out of commission. The actual vehicles are out of commission. And in order to move the equipment from those out of commission vehicles into in commission vehicles would require. Go initiating another contract with this current vendor. And I just think that there are other vendors that we can we can work with. And I just I just that that's why it has not been done. So the two cars are out of commission and that's why they're not being they're not out there as much. May I continue? Council Member Harris Spencer. Thank you, I my chief, thank you for that comprehensive answer. My second question went to your professional opinion of the best use of the officers, our officers, and the use of this equipment to do your to do your job. I think there's value in in this. But I do want to say it's a tool. And so these crimes are solved by people. And so if there's a tool out there that I think can help, I think there's value in that. Councilmember Harry Spencer. Thank you. Thank you. That's all. At this time. It's. Well, we're about to take a vote. Did you want to ask anything else? Not at this. Time. At this time. Okay. Any further comments by Samir Vella? You know, I think and this has been said before, I think it's not whether and I understand what Councilmember Herrera Spencer was trying to get at, but it's not whether or not a tool can be useful. It's whether or not it's effective and how effective. And I think one of the things that several of us have raised are creating relative to also creating not only looking at efficacy and efficient use of public resources, but also creating limitations to protect members of the public as well and to not have a chilling effect. And so I think part of our job as policymakers is to evaluate all of those things. I guess we can listen to the recommendations of staff and but but ultimately, we need to make those policy decisions. And I think one of my concerns is that I feel as though we have made some of the related policy decisions , certainly around parameters relative to privacy. And I appreciate that staff is going to to do that analysis. But I also think that certain things need to be codified rather than just kind of, you know, decided after the fact or. Responded to after the fact. So that's all. Well. So anything further? Okay. Are we ready for a vote? I think we're ready for a vote in America. Councilmember de fag. Yes. Sir. Spencer. I Naxalite. So Vela. No mayor. As you. Know. That motion fails to two three. I would love to have the time to make another motion that perhaps could move forward, but I would need some time to do so. Councilmember Harry Spencer. Thank you. I'd like to make a motion. I'm not going to ask. Well, I can ask the clerk, but I don't think it's necessary. I, as the mayor, had asked for multiple things that she'd like to have this staff to come back with. And first of all, my question to the staff would be how much time do they think that they need to to address all of her concerns and questions? That would be Chief Joshi, I think, or maybe Chief Joshi and city attorney, whoever I'd like to answer. Okay. I think the question was on cost. Madame Mayor, and I think that you also asked looking at looking at cameras similar to what's being proposed in Berkeley. And I just wanted to cover whether whether other items I apologize. And there is no. And Madam Kirk, do you want to be the one to read that back? I wish I had an alternate. I've got I've got it in my notes. Okay. So the it is the cost, the delta between the 500 to 700000 in the staff report and the amount less than 3000 per unit that you told us this evening would like to have staff look at the security cameras. The city of Berkeley just approved and the the use policy. The city manager there is is drafting. Also, there was a statement from the chief that he would be willing to retain data for less than six months, 90 days or even less than 90 days. I think that's of great interest to us. And also on how to how Alpers would deal with vehicles without license plates and where the data goes and where it's both stored and stored, retained and other possible uses that could be made of it, as in sharing with other agencies. And I also want an explanation of what happened around the the consequences for members of APD who used the Clearview Software without authorization of the chief of the department. Those were the requests they made. Let's let the chief halcyon days of this year head and let's let the chief answer Councilmember Harry Spencer's question of him, which was how much time does it need? Would you need to provide that information? Yeah, all those questions are I could get to pretty quickly. I would admit the only longest item would be looking at the looking at Berkeley's proposal. And then yes, I, I don't, I could be ready pretty, pretty quickly at maybe at our next at our next meeting. I could be ready, but I would have to go with. The city managers at the next meeting. Okay. Yeah. The meeting is tomorrow. Oh, yeah. Okay. Hold that thought. Councilmember Desai, then City Attorney Councilmember Desai. So just a point of clarification. If there is to be a motion, is Councilmember Herrera Spencer going to make a motion based upon the items that mayor, as he Ashcraft had enumerated? So because he's out of time. And so just kind of clarifying what she said minutes ago. Yes. So through the chair. But wait whole if you would just wait whenever the city attorney puts his hand up, I feel I should call on him. Mr. Sharon. Yes. I just want to caution on the last request, which involves what happened to police officers, violations of policy. That's confidential personnel information that the police should not share with you in open session and entirely within the city manager's administrative control. And so I just. Very good to. Respectfully request that that item be that request, not be included in the report back. Okay, I will withdraw that request, but I would say that counsel might still be interested if there's some other way to say anyway, I will. We will leave that and I will leave that discretion. City Attorney Councilmember Desai, back to you. I think the question was, was Councilmember Herrera Spencer going to move? Right. Move those items. And I was I got to ask you through the chair, but I felt I needed to. And I'm glad I called on the city attorney, Councilmember Harry Spencer. Member de SAC. If you wanted to make a motion, I'm more than okay then I'm happy to make that motion. But with the. So I want to get back to the city manager. Then for me, time is of the essence. I agree with member de SAC. Seven years is seven years. Too many is what I'm going to say. Actually, as far as I know, Chief Joshi is the only one on the screen that is actually in law enforcement or has not any formal training in law enforcement. So with all due respect to the chief, so I do respect his opinion. And I'm not just saying that I am happy to have him. I'm actually going to listen to what he says. So city manager Eric Levitt, when you think this could come back. So based on some based on the request in my emails. Yes, please. Mr. Lovett. Yes. Yes. Based on the request, the privacy policy, bringing that report back to the Council. I remember, Andrew, it took a few days for him to put that together. Andrew Thomas Mr. Thomas, the planning director, it took him a few days to put that together when we brought back the last report. So there would be some of that. The 18th would be absolutely early if you could bring it back. But I'd have to rely on Chief Joshi, because there's. About five things. He couldn't bring it back on the January 4th meeting. And because that would be due tomorrow for him to bring back on January 4th, he would have to have everything done and complete review tomorrow. But January 18th is a possibility. Probably the first meeting in February would be a more likely scenario. So so I'm happy to move that the mayors requests the information. And I would say, you know, my preference is, of course, the 18th, because I do believe time is of the essence. And I actually that's what I hear from our chief also about it staff. The staff thinks they need to do it on, you know, whenever you can get to it within my motion. Okay. We had a motion by Councilmember Herb Spencer, Councilmember de SAC seconding. Okay. Any further discussion? May we have a roll call vote, please? I'll remember station. Guy. I, however. Spencer, I knocked. Right. Oh, well. No mayor as yet. I that motion carries 3 to 2. All right. I want to thank everyone for all your comments. This is not an easy issue. There are different a lot of different perspectives to consider. I am convinced that we can bring forward some more information, maybe more and better, and especially now that there's an understanding of some of the concerns that were raised tonight. So thank you, everyone. Staff council members, members of the public. Thank you. And we will get to this early in the new year. So with that, we finished all of our items that we would vote on. We have already heard. So, Madam Clerk, help me out here. Item seven eight Julie moved that to be item six on our next agenda. If, if, if the council wants to take a vote to continue it, otherwise staff can just place it back on under the regular item two. It's up to the Council's discretion. Okay. Member That's what. Have any thoughts about that one? Yeah. I don't know what else is on the agenda, but it seems like a good one to write like that. I mean, we just finished the one item we deprioritized in the conversation about police reform. And so I think maybe we should prioritize the things we actually prioritized for the beginning of our next meeting. Yeah. So if we do an item six and it gets up to the top of the agenda. I move to move item 7 to 6 A at the top of the next item agenda. Okay. And we do need a vote on that, right? Yes, please. Yes. So as vice mayor, I think you're reaching into a section. If we have a roll call, vote, please. That's a rotation. Yes. Her Spencer. I right. I avella i as Ashcraft. Right. That carries by five. All right. Thank you so much. And then finally, we go to item nine for all communication on agenda items. Do we have any public speakers on this? And we did one Jim Australia. Yes. Oh, do you know what? No. We did get back to. And this just drove on. Lawyers. Never mind. So welcome back, Australia. Yes, sir. I am commenting on Alameda Avenue between Park Street and Oak Street. I learned the other day that additional garbage cans there on Alameda Avenue attract flies and rats. Does the city have a plan to better manage the garbage situation on that part of Alameda Avenue? Also, at the last council meeting when you had seven Bays Signalized intersection, it was full of motions and superseding motions when even the city clerk had trouble reading back what the motion was. So the general public, at least I would like a clarification about what actually passed. What was AC Transit's reply to the pedestrian priority over transit priority and when will the City Council place a follow up agenda item to clarify? Lastly, they on the AB 550 actually has been silenced or is no longer in. It is not. There's no longer an active AB session. It said that traffic enforcement disproportionately punishes those who can least afford it and that's why they stopped AB 550. Thank you. Thank you. Any further public speakers? An oral communication? There are none. All right. With that, we will close item nine and we can go to Council Communications. Item 11 Councilmember notes wait. Thanks. Last week I came, I guess it was Thursday night I attended the supervisor named Miley, had a community workshop with 700 people to discuss removing the truck ban on Interstate 580. This is a project that is going to go through years of study with the air district and the Caltrans in order to identify that. Yes, indeed. It turns out putting all the trucks in the area where all the black and brown people live has a disparate impact on those neighborhoods. They are going to be engaging, I think the city managers and information afterwards they're going to be engaging with with San Leandro and Oakland. When you look at the air quality maps, the northern side of Alameda has significant noise and health issues as well related to I mean, you could just watch it travel along 80. I think this is an issue that the city of Alameda has to have some engagement with and can get involved with the committee. So I want to just use my time to say that it was a good meeting. I really appreciate the supervisor putting it forward. Everybody is being very careful to say we're going to study it before we make any decisions. But it's an issue that that Alameda can both lend our voice in support of our East Oakland and San Leandro neighbors with as well as look out for our residents as well at the same time stay on that I'm just going to say it's it's the end of another year. This is supposed to be the year that we're supposed to be in the part of the year where everything was going to be really exciting and we're reopening and everything's back to normal and we're at Christmas parties and whatnot and it seems like we didn't make it. So I'm going to go really low key on my wishes for 2022, which is I hope it's a good one for everybody, but I'm not making any promises because I don't want to. I've got to mitigate expectations for after this after this one. So thank you. Manage expectations always a good thing. Thank you for remarks by Vice Mayor Vella. Anything to report. Last week I attended the LED Abatement Board meeting. We had it a week early just to make sure that everyone could attend a few things. There are still issues with a number of different products that are kind of common products, especially different spices that are healthy homes, department staff thinks is is causing some of the lead poisoning cases. And so, you know, we we had a presentation on that and just trying to find out if there's some way to either get some sort of labeling or requirement testing requirement for spice folks in the in the spice business. One of the issues is that they source them from all over the world and some farmers have used lead to actually make the weight of their crops heavier and then lead gets in the food. And this is very common, I guess, with turmeric farmers from some other countries. So there's heavy, heavy metals in the soil and it's it's a common practice. And so there's remediation issues and some other things. And if you don't track and trace where the actual original produce comes from, it can contaminate a number of different batches. So this is something that we're we're looking at. There may be some legislation attached. We're not sure. There's there's several different recommendations. Additionally, we're hoping to get an update. We're really encouraging the county and the city of Oakland to get together and finalize the agreement relative to the lead paint settlement so that those dollars can go back to the communities that have been disproportionately impacted. So that's from the lead paint litigation. There was a fairly large settlement and we know that there's communities, especially in the Fruitvale and West Oakland, that that really need those dollars to help alleviate and prevent lead poisoning, especially in homes and daycare facilities for for many of our kids. The other thing that we covered, again, is just there's going to be there's there may be legislation again around mandating. Or requiring universal led testing for all one year olds. It's something that comes up fairly regularly. We also know that there's a number of children who have not been tested because it's an optional test. And during COVID, a lot of parents didn't want to bring their children in to get those tests. So we know that they have learning impacts is something we'll be watching. Additionally, the state of California I know is CBH has distributed a number of COVID tests, millions of COVID tests and made them available to our school districts to send home with with students. I think Alameda Unified was one of the districts that if they went through the CDP program or on their own, that set them home. So hopefully there will be more tests distributed ahead of our kids going back to school in January. Thank you. Thank you. Who else? Anything to report? Councilmember Harris Spencer. Thank you. I actually want to thank our city manager for his initial comments regarding the new care program. The care team with Alameda Fire Department and the Family Services. I'm very happy to hear that that this had a good first week. And I want to thank the fire department for stepping up on that program. I remember when they applied back there, it was them in Belton that applied. And I really trusted their program and them to step up and lead. And then my was very hopeful that our family services would be interested in supporting them. And and we all know that they did. And I want to also thank their director, Kathleen Schwartz, for all of her efforts to couple with the fire department and now bring this to realization. And I know our department has I think I think working with staff to thank our staff to be able to get the 5150 approval that they can do that. And so, honestly, I see this as a very big lift from our city. I think it's something that we can all be proud of, and I'm very much looking forward to continued updates from the city manager. How is working to thank you so much. Thank you. Councilor Bridges, like anything from you. Just quickly, like I said earlier, it was a privilege attending the hiring ceremony of three new police officers, along with the mayor as he Ashcraft and Councilmember Tricia Spencer. I guess on a somber note, you know, attended the memorial for the late supervisor Wilma Chan over at the Oakland Museum. And I guess, you know, one thing that I for those who are still watching and listening, I would certainly encourage Alameda is to come to city hall at night time to check out the beautiful tree. The holiday tree is very beautiful. Come and check it out. Thank you, Councilmember. I did so again. So I. And since we last met, I have attended a big regional planning committee meeting where we went over our legislative policy agenda proposals for the coming year I on Saturday, December 11th. And actually Councilmember Spencer was at both of these events. I had the privilege of doing the ribbon cutting for a great art installation. You are should check it out. It's called polymer, which is the Spanish word for squid. You've never seen a more adorable squid or probably a larger one, but it's an amazing metal sculpture. You know where it is? It's right. It's along the Bay Trail where the the lawn next to the Wheeler facility. So ride your bike out there to go check out the calamari. And then that evening, I got to do the ribbon cutting at the little ice rink, which is out in Alameda Point. Now, it's as I told Chris Seibold, who is generously underwriting this, we are trading street racing and donuts for ice skating because this is out almost to where dash sellers and urban legend wineries are. And it's in a big airplane hangar that had just been used for storage for BRICS beverages. But now it's an indoor ice skating rink, but very airy, high ceilings. There's a couple of great art installations out there, and there's a little courtyard as you enter with food trucks. So and there's some food you can get inside, too. But it's adorable to see the kids and families and teens and just everybody lining up to skate out there. It will be open until January 17th, I believe. And then on Monday, seven December 13th, there was a joint meeting of the Allegheny County Board of Supervisors and all of the mayors in Alameda County, because we are trying to come to some agreement and to work out funding arrangements to fund our homelessness programs. And so the money comes through the counties to the cities. Cities want to make sure that we're getting the money we need and that we're able to direct these moneys that are coming from the state to the counties and to the county and ultimately to us. So, you know, we've got to keep working at addressing homelessness. And then this past Friday, I was invited to see the distribution of gift cards. These were gift cards that our firefighters. Local 689. I for 69, I didn't know to their fundraising or whatnot. They came up with target gift cards, $35 apiece for families in Alameda Housing Authority, Headstart families, 1100 children altogether. Any family with kids got a $35 target gift card for each of the kids. So that was pretty sweet to see that parents out there, too, can pick up those gift cards and have a little merrier holiday season. So we are just about to the end of this day. But it was the winter solstice, December 21st, shortest day of the year. That means that every day after this, it's just going to get days. The day is going to get a little longer. There'll be a little more light. We can all use more light in our lives. Thank you for all the good work, the hard work, all of you staff, we appreciate you and council members. Thank you so much for your hard work on behalf of the city. I hope you have a restful, relaxing, enjoyable holiday season. I'm a crime is real, so just be super careful and wear a really good mask. Social distance. Just be smart about it. Test if you've traveled or been to a large gathering and we'll see you safe, sound and healthy in the new year by everyone. Good night. I wanted to add real quickly, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention and I didn't hear anyone else mention it. The Western Arts District did a very large mural on Webster and Pacific. I was able to go to their grand opening of it, and I really encourage people to go by. And I want to thank the muralist also Dave Young Kim, who worked with students to do it. But if you see it, you might not really understand what it is. So I encourage you to go super close and then pull back. And I'm not going to tell you that there's a lot to be seen there. So I wanted to share that also. Thank you. All right. With that, everyone, good night or good morning. Happy holidays. Happy New Year. We'll see it in the new year. Bye bye.

On the message and order, referred on June 30, 2021 Docket #0825, authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Four Hundred Seventy Six Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Six Dollars ($476,666.00) in the form of a grant for Nutrition Services for Boston elders, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed through the MA Executive Office of Elder Affairs to be administered by the Age Strong Commission. The grant will fund the FY21 Title IIIC Supplemental, the committee submitted a report recommending the order ought to pass. The report was accepted; the order was passed.

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0826.0826 message an order authorizing the city of Boston to accept and expend an amount of $476,666 in the form of a grant for nutrition services for Boston. Elders awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, passed to the mass executive office of Elder appears to be administered by the Strong Commission. The grant will fund the FBI 21 Title three C supplemental. The chair now recognizes once again Councilor Liz Braden, Chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities. Counselor Braden, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. Also again, we had a hearing that we combined many of these dockets this past Monday. On October 18th, a strong committee on strong women, families and communities heard here had a hearing on this docket 0826. And we were joined by Emily Shea, commissioner of the of Strong and Francis Thomas, director of administration and finance for Age Strong, who both provided testimony on behalf of the administration. The docket includes $476,000 to supplement Title three funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services for the Elderly Nutrition Program. This program provides meals at hundred and 284,000 meals for up to 2700 older adults through congregate nutritional lunch sites and Meals on Wheels program. As we found during COVID, this is a vitally important program and supports not only the cost of meals, but also the cost of delivering meals and providing nutritional assessment, nutritional counseling and nutritional education . At this time, it's my recommendation to the council that we accept and expand this docket out to pass. Thank you very much. Chair Louise Braden, chair of the Committee on Strong Women, Families and Communities, seeks passage of Docket 0826. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I oppose. The ayes have it. The docket has passed. Madam Clerk, would you now please read docket 1011.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. R-7004 and award contracts to New Creation Builders, of Bellflower, CA, KLD Construction, of Los Angeles, CA, BiTech Construction, of Buena Park, CA, Exbon Development, of Garden Grove, CA, and Thomasville Construction, of Fullerton, CA for both anticipated and unanticipated (emergency) construction of various City infrastructure repairs and improvements to be performed under the method of Job Order Contracting (JOC), each in an amount not to exceed $3,500,000 for a period of three years, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000 per renewal, at the discretion of the City Manager; Adopt resolution authorizing City Manager to execute a contract with the Gordian Group, of Greenville, South Carolina, for access rights to their proprietary Pro-Gen software and to provide professional services to manage the JOC program in an amount not to exceed $341,250 for a period of three years, with the option of renewing for two additional one-year terms; and Authorize City Manager to execute am

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I. Adam, 35, is a recommendation to adopt. Okay. I'm sorry, 30 3 a.m.. Item 33 is a recommendation from public works and financial management with the recommendation to adopt specifications and award a contract to five construction companies for anticipated and emergency construction repairs to various city city infrastructures and improvements performed under the method of job order contracting and to adopt a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a contract with Gordon Group for an amount not to exceed $341,250 for project software and professional services. Can I get a motion? I got motion by Andrews and your Ringo. Any public comment? Very good. Clark has the address. I want to make sure that whatever project this comes forward for and what is it applied to, that it first comes before the council and has the approval of the council. So we don't run into nefarious projects such as we get out of the Tidelands group that marches forward under a blanket . And the next thing you know, they're undertaking a project that was not approved or that was publicly vetted. So again. Certainly enter into a contract, but before the contract is, any work is done in a given district. It has to come back to the council. Were the details outlined. So people know that they're not going to have a a power or a utility box placed right in their front yard or rip out something that if what is there they feel is needed, so forth. You got to put the foot on the neck. To make sure the money is well spent and consistent with the neighborhood in which the project is taking is is going forward. Thank you. Thank you. Please cast your vote. We? We have another speaker here. I'm sorry. I just wanted to thank our public works director who skipped me, Mr. Mayor. But that's a sorry. Just. We had a great discussion about this, and I understand that this will streamline the process for you, make things a lot easier for you. So thank you very much for the information you gave me. Thank you. I keep looking at the old screen with no names on it. It's lovely. Let's take a vote on this. Motion carries eight votes. Next item. Item 34 is from the city attorney with the recommendation to declare an ordinance amending the municipal code relating to speed limits. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council.

A resolution approving a proposed Third Amendment to On-Call Services Agreement between the City and County of Denver and TruePoint Solutions, LLC to extend the term and amend provisions for continued maintenance and support services relating to the Accela application. Amends a contract with Truepoint Solutions, LLC by adding three years for a new end date of 12-31-24 for access to IT Staffing resources who specialize on the City’s enterprise permitting and licensing platform, Accela. No change to contract amount (TECHS-202160513). The last regularly scheduled Council meeting within the 30-day review period is on 11-15-21. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 10-12-21.

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Nine I's. Council Resolution 1016 has passed. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screens. Council Pro Tem Taus, will you please put Council Resolution 1193 on the floor for adoption? I move that council. Resolution 20 1-1193 be adopted. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded. Comments by members of Council on Council Resolution 1193. Council Member Sawyer. Thanks, Madam President. This is a tech services on call contract, and I think I've said enough about uncalled contracts up until now, so I'm just going to be a no vote. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Resolution 1193. Sandoval. I. Sawyer? No. Torres, I. Black eye. Clark. I. Flynn. Hi. Herndon, I. No. Cashman, I. Can each. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. To name two names. Nine Eyes. Nine Eyes. Council Resolution 1193 has been adopted. Madam Secretary, please put the next item on our screens. Council Pro-Tem Torres, will you please put council bills 1056 and 1058 on the floor for final passage. I move that.

Order for a hearing to discuss the possibility of allocating ARPA fund for the expansion of South Boston Community Health Center. On motion of Councilor Flynn and Murphy, Rule 12 was invoked to include Councilors Murphy and Flaherty as co-sponsors. Councilor Arroyo in the Chair.

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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. Duncan 0638 Council of Flynn offered the following quarter for a hearing to discuss the possibility of allocating our full fund funds for the expansion of South Boston Community Health Center. Thank you, Mr. Clark. The Chair now recognizes Council President. Flint Council. President Flint Clause. Thank you, Counsel Arroyo. May I add? Counselor Murphy in council as well as the original co-sponsors, please. Seeing no objections there. So added Councilor Flynn, the floor is yours. Thank you. The South Boston Community Health Center plays a critical role in our community. It provides many seniors with quality and compassionate medical care. We also have a strong behavioral and mental health component to it. We represent a large number of residents living in public housing and on some type of assistance. Many of the residents are from Mary Ellen McCormick. Many residents are from West Broadway Development. All the old colony, which is in Lynch as well. West Ninth Street. Which is another BP facility. Many of the patients that are at the South Boston Community Health Center, Health Center are communities of color. As I mentioned, 60% of the patients rely on some for some part of assistance. Many are living below the poverty line. During the height of the pandemic, the health center vaccinated over 35,000 people. There's also a vast increased demand, as I mentioned earlier, on behavioral health. I had the opportunity to visit recently and. The number of young people in students seeking mental health counseling or behavioral counseling is increasing dramatically. There is a proposed $20 million. For the continued COVID response another 8 million to augment behavioral health services. The expansion of the South Boston Community Health Center would would serve to fulfill both of these proposed uses under ARPA funding. They're expanding right next door. And again, part of that expansion is to the is to work on mental health counseling behavioral health counseling. I hope to have a hearing on this matter that it would be in the appropriate committee. But listen to residents, listen to the health center staff. Listen to patients, community activists, partners on on this proposal. Thank you, Councilor Rail. Thank you, Councilor Flynn. Councilor Flaherty. The floor is now yours. Thank you. Just to echo. The comments of my colleague and our council president, Cybersecurity Health Center does a phenomenal job, as do all of our community health centers. We are blessed. Not only do we talk about this all the time, we boast of some of the best hospitals in the world. We also have a network of community health centers that just provide front line care to some of our most vulnerable residents. And during COVID, I would argue that I believe it is the South Boston Community Health Center that stepped up and got right into so that COVID action, if you will council put in they were able to connect folks in our community particularly we have a Somali community that they service as well as the Dominican community and both of our local public housing developments. And as a result of that, they were able to expand the care and support other agencies like a local nursing home that was under siege at the time. So hats off not just to the South Boston Community Health Center, but to all of the community health centers, all the leaders, all those frontline workers that went to work every day helping all of our residents. And they're in need of some additional facilities and expansions and they want to expand their programs as to a sort of a lot of our other community health centers. So I wholeheartedly support this and look forward to an expedited hearing. Thank you, Councilor. Clarity. Councilor Murphy, the floor is yours. Thank you. So I'd like to start off by saying I am a patient at the South Boston Health Center, as is my family, and I'm also a board member on their fundraising committee. So I definitely know firsthand the great work they do and the strong role they play in that community. So not only is the South Boston Health Center the sole provider of primary and preventive care in South Boston, but it is also the first major health care provider located in the ever expanding South Boston waterfront. Funds would help the center prepare and expand this growing population. These funds would also combat inflation, especially with medical equipment supplies in their food pantry, which has seen a 50% increase in the amount of food distributed since the pandemic. They have done an amazing job feeding the people in the community. And in recent news, the health center has proven that the health center successfully rises to extraordinary challenges day to day in find safe ways to deliver care for their people. They did this especially during the pandemic. In 2021, the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners awarded South Boston Community Health Center for being one of the top practices in Massachusetts for patient experience in pediatric primary care. And in 2020, the Health Resources and Service Administration recognized them as the Health Center Quality Leader. This award is given to health centers that exemplify the best overall clinical performance among all health centers. And also lastly, in 2020, the health centers, overall clinical quality was in the top 30% of health centers nationwide. We know they're an amazing health care provider. They're also a great partner in the community and in the neighborhood. So with that being said, these funds would greatly benefit the health center and continue allow them to continue to deliver valuable care and services to their growing community. Thank you, Councilor Murphy. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? Seeing no one? Would anyone else like to add their name? Mr. Clark, please add Councilor Bok. Councilor Baker. Councilor Bok. Councilor Braden. Councilor Coletta. Councilor Fernandez Anderson Councilor Lara, Councilor Emily and Councilor me here and please add my name. Mr. Clark, can you please read docket 063900. Sorry, I got to refer that to a committee. Docket 0638 will be referred to the Committee on Boston's COVID 19 recovery. Thank you, Ms.. Clark. Mr. Clark, can you please read Docket 0639.0639?

Recommendation to receive and file a report from the City Manager on earthquake preparedness in Long Beach, including but not limited to the Alert Long Beach system, seismic studies of buildings in the city, and general readiness for natural disasters.

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Item 28. Item 21. Okay. Now we're going to move back to item 28. That would be. She please. Item to item item 28 Communication for Mayor Garcia Recommendation to receive and file a report from the City Manager on earthquake preparedness in Long Beach. Right to have a report on that week. Mr. Vice Mayor, members of the city council. This was an item that the mayor has put on to really educate the community about what the city does in during an earthquake. So we obviously had those two right on the fourth and the 5th of July. Rest assured. Ah, we were responding. We were. Everything was working the way that it should. And we'd like to really take this chance to hear from Reggie Harrison on behalf of our departments about what it is that we do during an earthquake, what we recommend to the public on how they can help. And also talk a little bit about seismic resiliency hearing from development services. So with that, I will turn it over to Reggie Harrison, our director of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Communications. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, and members of City Council for this opportunity to present this update to you. Seismologists have for years been predicting a strong earthquake to impact this area. City staff has taken those predictions seriously at the beginning of the year, at the beginning of fiscal year in October. The city hosted a Homeland Security Executive seminar attended by our management team, all department heads, including the Port and Water Department. We were joined by 60 other participants, including including the L.A. and Orange County Sheriffs, the L.A. City Police and Fire, the FBI, National Guard and others. We brainstormed around a catastrophic event that would require all of our collective efforts, like an earthquake. We put it we put into practice the lessons learned from that seminar that day. To be clear, earthquakes cannot be predicted, not even by the famed Southern California seismologist, Dr. Lucy Jones. What we do know is that we live in an area prone to earthquakes, and we need to be prepared to survive as individuals, as a family and as a city. So on July 4th, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake rattled. Southern California was the largest earthquake that we had experienced in the last 20 years. The quake struck near the city of Ridgecrest and in Kern County, which is about 160 miles northeast of Los Angeles. People, however, felt the effects of that earthquake from Las Vegas to Phenix to Ensign out of Mexico. Then one day later, on July 5th, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the exact same area. That the second earthquake was larger, higher in magnitude, and the first was alarming even to seismologists and of course, to many residents. There is no doubt had either one of those earthquakes hit closer to the metropolitan Los Angeles area, there would have been injuries. Compare this to the 1994 Northridge 6.9 magnitude earthquake, which killed 57 people and caused billions of dollars in damages. In Long Beach. We train our staff and work with our residents to be prepared for all hazards. Of course, we live on the Pacific Rim and with that comes the rest of us tsunami or sea level rise. We are responsibility for securing the twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. And with that comes terrorist threats and natural and man made disasters, as well as we're responsible for the Los Angeles and Long Beach airports . Again, terrorist attacks and natural disasters are major concerns there. Now, an earthquake is the most probable disaster that we face in this area because of the many earthquake fault lines that crisscross the region. Many fault lines are near Long Beach, including the Newport-Inglewood, Palos Verdes and Cabrillo Fault Lines. And you see some of those fault lines depicted there in that picture. The city has many disaster preparedness and response plans that comport with the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA's national standards. All of our plans have been approved by FEMA. The fact that we have plans that have been approved by FEMA allows us to be able to apply for additional grants as well as for disaster response reimbursement. Community outreach is one of our major priorities, and we take a whole community approach to disaster preparedness and train our staff and residents to be prepared for all hazards, whether preparing for an earthquake or tsunami. Having a family emergency plan is one of the most important things we can do. The plan should include where to meet if the family is separated, and a communications plan for contacting a relative who lives outside of the impacted area. And we also encourage residents to think about their pets as well. What are the needs of pets? We've we've seen across the country that people tend not to evacuate from their homes. And unless they're sheltered in us, their pets can also travel with them. We encourage residents to become members of certain, to be trained in areas to promote self-sufficiency. Residents should take disaster related first aid classes from the Red Cross and other providers. The really Long Beach, the the very Long Beach Disaster Preparedness and Resource Fair is one of the largest of its kind in California. Last year, we attracted over 3000 attendees for this event, the fire department said. And the Department of Disaster Preparedness. Our primary organizers for the event were representatives from across Southern California attend this event. The Red Cross. Los Angeles County Resources. The National Guard. SoCal, Edison and other utilities are there. We have events that include first aid demonstrations, emergency vehicle displays and preparedness booth for various vendors. This is a much sought after event. Representatives from Cal Lewis often come down to this event to just experience how large of an event this is. This year's event will be held on September the 28th at Cal State University, Lombardi's campus. Earthquake preparedness, in particular before an earthquake. And I talked about some of these already before the shaking begins. We should have family plans, go kits in place, and especially for an earthquake, secure, breakable items and large items that tend to fall over and of course, take first aid classes during an earthquake. I think we all know the drill. We practice that the last couple of weeks I believe now since the earthquakes to drop, cover and hold on drop to the floor and cover your neck and head and hands and get under a table and just hold on until the shaking stops. Running out of a building is not recommended. It's not a good idea as objects attached to buildings tend to fall off. In fact, the only people that got killed in the Paso Robles earthquake back in 1992 were people who ran out of the store and got hit by falling debris from the store after an earthquake . As a time to check for injuries to your family and neighbors, turn off gas only if you smell leaking gas and listen for updates from the city and be prepared for aftershocks. One of the programs that we are really promoting with neighborhoods and a number of you council members have seen me make presentations on this program, which is really your Long Beach neighborhood. Recent events across the country have shown that the new first responders in the immediate aftermath of a disaster are fellow neighbors. Neighbors helping neighbors is the basis of the map. Your Long Beach neighborhood program that we are encouraging residents to participate. And through this program, we teach residents to understand and identify the risks in their neighborhood. Who are the elderly, the mobility impaired, the residents that are dependent on electrical medical equipment, and then to also identify the resources that they have in their community, who other residents that have plumbing skills, electrical skills, who's that neighbor that has every gadget in his or her garage that you can imagine? Who are the retired nurses and teachers? And so through this approach. Neighbors develop a plan for how they will help each other until a police and fire personnel arrive. They identify a meeting place who is going to check on the elderly, the children who are home alone, who will make rounds to determine if gas lines are busted. I place at each of your chair a backpack that we intend to be able to distribute a few to the neighborhoods that successfully go through this program, where this does take work on the part of our neighbors where we have staff that's available to assist with that. Alert. Long Beach is the city's emergency mass notification system. And you'll recall during the power outage in 2015, system did not service our community well. We have a new system in place that we implemented shortly after the 2015 power outage. This is a system by which we would notify our residents what has happened. What first responders are doing and what actions our residents should take to protect themselves. Residents do have to sign up for alert based to be able to receive voice, text or email messages. During the Ridgecrest earthquake, we sent out three messages through this system and one of them for the first time ever, we sent a message to the entire database in the city of Long Beach, 197,000 phone numbers. We had a 45% rate reach and we gained 6000 new contacts either text voice or email contacts to the system. We have made signing up even easier for residents. You can easily sign up for alert lobbies by simply texting alert L.B. to 99411 and a sign up link will be sent to you. It's as simple as that to be able to receive these emergency notifications. Shakealert. L.A. is a relatively new app that has just come out. It was in effect prior to the Ridgecrest earthquake. Our residents need to download this app to be able to provide a warning of a pending earthquake. Lambie's beta tested the technology behind this app for the previous four years. We have confidence in it that it works. The public facing app test that has been released is set at a 5.0 and above earthquake. Hence, we did not receive an earthquake warning through the system for the Earth for the Ridgecrest earthquake. However, the city of Los Angeles has reset that threshold now, so it's a much lower threshold so that the notice would be sent out. The system provides information and English and Spanish is available on for iPhones or Android. You have to download that app and the city and the county and the city of Long Beach. Disaster preparedness will continue to work to perfect this notification system. We recently completed the development of a crisis communication plan, working with a consultant and a city manager's peer and peers from across the city. This plan provides guidance for the coordination of communications during during a crisis. The plan considers all communication platforms, including social media, media and press releases. The plan is also sensitive to the needs of our non-English speaking residents and those with other disabled access and functional needs. This slide provides an outline for how incident manager incident response flow works from the street level up to the federal government. The slide also depicts the scalability of this federal system. Every incident, regardless of the size, utilizes the incident management system. Every department has staff that has been trained in the system. Police and fire have personnel that have received advanced training and all has an incident management system. Often are all hands. Teams are requested to go out to assist other jurisdictions outside of the city of Palm Beach. Our fire department plays a critical role in in the event of an earthquake. A priority for them is to ensure the safety of their equipment or apparatus that it is not so that they're not stuck in firehouses. They're responsible for making critical facilities checks. And as you can see from the previous slides, fires do erupt during an earthquake. And so they all have a primary role of controlling those fires. Similarly, the police department, the police are our eyes and ears out on the street. They provide us with situational awareness in terms of what's going on across the city. The police would coordinate evacuations if necessary. Police would also enforce any curfews that may be established by the city council and much, much more responsibilities. Public Works has a responsibility to ensure the free flow of traffic by removing debris that might hamper first responder police, fire, emergency medical personnel. They also have a responsibility to check critical facilities. I hope the Human Resources Department is responsible for coordinating mass care and sheltering sites if necessary. The city health officer would issue orders regarding air quality or boil water any of those issues related to health. Our city health officer would have that responsibility. And with that, I'm going to turn this presentation over to Linda Tatum. Thank you, Reggie. I will be covering some of the proactive activities and a little bit of the history regarding the city's efforts regarding seismic activity. And the first is a just a piece of trivia in history regarding the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. It was that earthquake that where there were over 100 deaths caused and and more than $40 million in damage. And interestingly enough, the the deaths were caused by people leaving the buildings and being hit by falling debris. But as a result of that earthquake, the good that came out of it were two really critical pieces of seismic legislation. The first was the Field Act. And what that did was establish or was the basis for the city's office creation of the state's Office of State Architecture. And that's the entity at the state level that actually permits and approves all of the state facilities, as well as critical care facilities, things like hospitals and schools, again, public schools and hospitals. The second provision in the legislation was the Riley Act, and that was the legislation that required all cities and counties to regulate building construction. So it was a very early days of the California building code. So the very first and most vulnerable buildings that occur during that are that are damaged during seismic activity are what we call the unreinforced masonry building. So essentially buildings that are the brick buildings. And back in 1971, the city did an inventory of all of its masonry buildings, and it was a voluntary program for the property owners to actually seismically reinforce those buildings. And it was amended in 1976 to make that a mandatory requirement for owners of those buildings to upgrade those buildings with retrofits. And from this program, the city did an inventory, and of the 936 buildings identified, the vast majority were actually repaired, but a significant number, over 300 were actually demolished. And the very last building that was completed under this program, which took a number of years, was the Masonic Temple that's located on Locust Avenue, one of the city's historic buildings in the downtown, and that was retrofitted as recently as 2007. So I talked a little bit about the soft story buildings. That's the I'm sorry, I talked about the unreinforced masonry. Another very vulnerable building that we have to deal with here in the city are what we call soft story buildings. And those are essentially buildings that where there is no attachment to the foundation. And this photograph here that shows the tuck under parking, that's essentially what the type of construction that we mean when we talk about soft story building. As you recall, during the the 1994 Northridge earthquake, that's when the city first implemented a voluntary program for other types of vulnerable building construction. And the slide here shows a list of those buildings. But of course, they include single family residential buildings that were not at the time they were constructed many years ago under the building codes . They were not required to be attached to the foundation. So that's one of the major categories. And then I talked about the soft story buildings. Again, this is an example of those were the the building the wall of the building is not attached to the building foundation. And there are a couple of other types of vulnerable construction types. And after the Northridge earthquake, that's when the city required these buildings to be seismically retrofitted. I'm sorry, a voluntary program for these buildings to be retrofitted. So what I'd like to talk about here is one of the city's efforts starting in the late 1990s, which was an assessment district. It was the city's first attempt to try to establish a funding source for buildings that were damaged or buildings that were built under former building codes that were not seismically anticipated to withstand substantial earthquake activity. They created an assessment district and that covered about over 500 residential structures. And this was, again, some of the older, more vulnerable buildings built under older building codes, essentially pre 1934 buildings. And after the initial assessment, we added additional 65 units to this assessment district. So the results of the assessment district were mixed because of some of the extensive work that needed to be done to some of these buildings. There were definitely some some issues with the buildings. Some of the property owners were able to complete the seismic retrofits without any issues. But there were a number of problem areas where the scope of the retrofits were more substantial than the property owners could handle. That resulted in some some cases where a few property owners actually lost their properties. And this effort actually continued until I'm going to say about the mid-term, early to mid 2000s. But that program and that assessment district is is no longer active. So that's kind of a lesson learned for the city, because as we go forward, we'll be looking to make sure that any future program that the city structures will take into account the kind of the potential funding sources. And we'll be looking for ways to incentivize for property owners to be able to complete the the necessary retrofit. So this next slide just gives you a list of some of the buildings throughout the state of California that have actually undertaken a number of different approaches in terms of how they've addressed having their building inventory, in terms of a number of different approaches and how they funded, whether they provide incentives. So there is a lot of good information in some of the cities that have started programs. And as we go to the next step and try to and start to craft our program, we'll be looking carefully at each of these programs and making sure that we establish best practices from among the cities that do have active programs. And I think as anything, we'll just need to be aware that there is no magic bullet. There is no one city that has a perfect program. I think, like most of our other efforts, will need to look carefully at the city of Long Beach. We're different from many other cities in the state. We have an older building stock and our income levels aren't necessarily what some of the other cities that have more aggressive programs. So we'll be looking at all of those factors. So again, the next steps for us, once we get direction from council, we will be looking at picking up a program, an effort we started initially back in 2018, which is a scope of work that brings on board a consultant to take a look at the inventory of these buildings so that we have a comprehensive inventory of the vulnerable buildings. We would then look to expand that scope of work to include having someone take a look at possible funding options again so that we can provide an incentive to property owners to support their retrofit activity. And we've had a very last year's effort. There was a preliminary price tag to do this work at 1.1 million. But again, we'll be going back to relook at that scope, seeing if there are some ways to make sure we get a very complete list of that scope of work with the added benefit of having them look at funding sources and hopefully try to get a better value on that. But we'll be doing that through an RFP process. So we'll be again looking at that and looking at other cities programs to make sure that we establish a program that that works very specifically for the city of Long Beach. And again, just to close out here to talk about some statewide legislation that was previously considered, this was the AB 2681 that was proposed to require local and state reporting of the inventory program for for building. And that's the type of program we're going to be taking a look at. That bill was vetoed by the governor. So it's not a requirement. But again, we think it's best practice isn't something that the city should be moving forward on. And again, there are other proposed legislation regarding seismic resiliency. And we, through our city manager's office, will be continuing to track those bills. I'll turn it over now to Craig back to complete the presentation. Thank you, Linda. I think we have seen that the outline this evening is really focused on all the opportunities that exist relative to preparing and preparing one's residents to be safe. But we just wanted to spend a brief moment highlighting some of the critical infrastructure that we have in Long Beach and what we're doing to make sure that it's safe for continued use. So we know right now that there is over 200 facilities in the city that we would consider a critical facility. So these are our fire stations, our police headquarters, our pump stations, our water and energy resource utilities. Certainly our city hall and other important government buildings. And then we we know we've identified some weaknesses, in particular some of our bridges. It's surprising to think, but we have over over 100 bridges in this in Long Beach, 131 that are owned by the city. So we need to start being diligent in analyzing those bridges and making sure that they're safe so we can provide access if we were to have a major event in the city. We want to make sure public safety can can get to those. But recently, as detailed, there's new building methods that really focus on the resiliency of a city facility. And I think the first city facility that really employed a lot of this was our echo. So there was actual rockers put within the building foundation. So it can kind of move independent from any motion that might happen in that was typical in an earthquake. Certainly our public safety building retrofit addressed many of those things, shoring up that structure and making it much more earthquake resilient. Our new passenger concourse at the airport is another example of where we strengthen the facilities and really build them from a place where we're understanding what earthquake motion does to a building and what improvements you can do in a building to help. You can never prevent 100%, but you make it much more resilient and much more likely to survive a major event. I really wanted to spend just a moment highlighting our City Hall and our main library. I know this council in the council before this this seated council really weighed heavy on this question about how safe is the current city hall. And we know we have some seismic challenges in this building. And so when we took on the the project to build a new civic center and in particular a new city hall, seismic resiliency was one of the key issues that we looked at and that we really put within the entire RFP process. And when we we selected and finalized the layout of the building, it's really a matte foundation designed. So both the Port Tower and the City Hall Tower function together. And as far as resiliency, it was imperative that we are able to re-occupy the building in no more than five days of a major event, and that we would be operational to the public. No, no more than 30 days from a major event. So that is built in and built into our contract with plenary. The project company in charge of the facility. And if for some reason they aren't able to meet those standards and they need to provide alternate space for us to look at them . So we take this all very seriously as we design any new project, any new facility, earthquake strengthening and resiliency is important to the project components. And just wanted to convey to not only the council but the community listening this evening that we are making our new facility stronger and any retrofit of an existing facility is done with earthquakes in mind. I'll pass it back over to you. So I've got the, the last line for presentation as a summary slide. The recent earthquakes really did crack our California cool over the 4th of July weekend. They motivated a lot of residents to get prepared. We saw an uptick in the number of residents who signed up for alert Long Beach. We saw an uptick in the number of residents visiting our website, looking for information. And then just anecdotal, just being out at department stores, hardware stores and others. You saw residents there getting fire extinguishers, water, gloves. It's never too late to get prepared. City department plans continue to evolve. The newly developed crisis communication plan allows us to quickly and effectively get messages out to our residents. Our first responders work as part of a regional response network to ensure we have resources necessary to manage an incident. And we take a ground up approach to disaster preparedness, starting with individual and family preparedness and working our way up through our neighborhoods and the city. We have to accept that we live in an area that is prone to earthquakes and we have to do our part to be prepared for it. Being prepared mentally and physically for whatever may come is what it's all about. We need to be ready to help ourselves and then each other. That concludes staff report. Various representatives from various departments are available to answer questions. Thank you very much. I want to thank the entire team. I think that was a very extensive and good report and a great update on our emergency disaster preparedness response, particularly to Mr. Harrison and your team. And also, of course, the entire public safety network that we have through public works and planning. And so are really, really important for us to always get updates on this. Just a few, a few comments. So I had asked Mr. West to kind of bring this back and to prepare a presentation, because I think it's important to put it out there and continue to put that information out there. We had a pretty, I think, you know, serious scare recently with with the quakes. And I think that it certainly got people's attention. It's certainly got my attention. And I was reminded as I had conversations with the chief and Mr. West and others in the minutes following both of the quakes, that that this information is really important to review and to practice and to continue to review and to keep going through our our our our our preparedness consistently. A few things I want to note. I do. We made an effort the next day to increase our alert Long Beach sign ups and we doubled them or doubled more than doubled them, which I think is really important. I want to encourage residents to please sign up for alert Long Beach, and I want to encourage staff to continue at every possible event to continue to to do that. I want to ask Mr. West also, we need to make a personal appeal to our city employees there, 6500 of them. They should all be on alert. Long Beach. And the fact that we have how many folks signed up already to have 10,000 folks signed up, maybe on alert. Long Beach, is that right, Mr. Harrison? On the cell phone. Of course, we can we can call, I think, over 150 or 160,000 or whatever the number is. But we need to I would expect that that all of our city employees would be interested in being on that system. And so there needs to be an internal effort to do that. And so I would hope we would do that. I'll also just add, I think that our our cert operation teams and the fact that ready Long Beach and those groups are out so consistently in the community I think is really great to see. I see them in all the events in the community functions, so I think that obviously should continue. It. We continue to promote those that work. I wanted to just note. I'm not sure. Maybe, Mr. Modica, you could you can answer this. You and I talked about this some. So our our resiliency program, I just want to make sure that I know that that that issue has been before the council, before we discussed it. We want to I want to make sure that the timeline I know we still have it may be possible to your timeline to complete that work. And I really would like to see that moved up if possible. I know it's a lot of work. I know it's not easy, but I think that that that's just a little bit longer than that I think most of us would like. And so maybe you can get back to us on an expedited timeline and what that would look like. But I think we need to cut that, you know, cut that in half, hopefully, and and get something in front of this body as to what the next phase of this is. In addition to that, I will say that I want to commend the city, because we the first thing that we have done is kind of taking care of our own buildings and facilities. And so the fact that in two weeks we are moving out, we're moving out all of the employees in this building, which is a structurally unsound facility into a facility that is to the latest standards on earthquake preparedness, I think is really important. And I'm glad that we're making repairs across the city on so many public buildings to to continue that work. But I do I do think that whether it's, you know, the Los Angeles program or or the Santa monica program , there are other programs that are out there. And I just want to I want to make sure that we adopt a program. I think it's that's that is important. And I know that funding is always a concern on the on the private side for for for property owners. And we certainly don't ever want to overburden property owners. We also don't want to. We also want to make sure we do everything we can to to ensure safety and the continuation of of of every person and life. And so don't want to repeat the disasters that we've had in the past as well. And so the last thing I'll say is I have been so impressed with our emergency response when we've had these incidents that have not in most cases been major. But what what happens in the way the PD and the fire department and public works and everyone kind of rolls out these plans is really impressive. Has been impressive for me to see as mayor and and to follow. And so I just want to commend the team. And and I think we just got to redouble our efforts and really focus on this. I know that, you know, interest in this sometimes wanes from from from from time to time because there may not be the emergency in front of us, but we just got to be vigilant constantly on this issue. And so I want to thank the staff. I'm sure Mr. Murdoch could want to add anything to that, but I think you guys are pretty on top of it. And there's a good comments and we agree on the study. So, yes, it does take some time to do an inventory of everything as we go back out and relook at the scope of work would be happy to look at what we can do in different chunks and we also want to really focus on that. How do we get those economic solutions? Because that's something that we heard last time that we didn't quite have worked out. And maybe and maybe maybe it's done in those chunks. Right. And so we can get to some of the, the, the the lower hanging fruit and quicker. We'd be happy to look at phasing that so that we can do something a little bit different. Thank you, Councilmember Erika. Thank you, Mary. And I certainly have to agree with the last point you made in regards to the response of police and fire and this last event that we had, the updates that were given to us in regards to their checkpoints and to going to public facilities, ensuring that they were secure and no damage had been caused by the quake that that happened at Ridgecrest. One of the most important things about this report here, and I really want to commend staff for putting this together. It's very thorough. It covered practically all points that you would want to hear, including that as you were going through the report. I think we should probably get a little historical perspective on Long Beach and where we were back in 1933 to the present. And you did that. And I think that was important because it's always is that, you know, would you learn from from from your moment in history? One of the points that I see here also, although we may be encouraging, of course, our residents to send up to emergency to the emergency alert system. I think it's important that we have this kind of report yearly, maybe even twice a year, because of the you never know what a disaster is going to hit. And just being at the forefront of our minds is always important. So, I mean, I hope that we can maybe not as extensively, maybe once every two years, but I think every year we should have some kind of preparedness report such as this. I know we do it at our events that we're going to be having that the Cal State, Long Beach. But, you know, not everyone attends that and not everybody is is aware of what we might have available for them. So I think that having this kind of report to seek answers is important. But more importantly than that, I think we need to engage our media in regards to getting them to also post some of these recommendations for public safety. Also getting the alert system published through a PSA or event or through other kinds of media that we could use for them to alert the residents that there is this system available for them where they can get this kind of information. And, of course, the the extended resources that we have with Facebook and everything else that we use. I think as we move into our into the technical era that we are in using all these different mediums and platforms to expand the information, to make people more aware of the issues that are out there in terms of public safety and disasters, both natural and manmade, that we keep them aware and abreast of what's going on in our in our system. So, again, I want to just commend staff for a very thorough report. And I know when you look at police affairs, they're always conducting exercises and sometimes they seem redundant and they seem like boring. But that's how we get to do the bit. That's how we get to be the best we are. It's practice and it's practice all the time. And while it may be look routine, you never know when that practice is going to become a reality. So thank again. Yes. Thank you very much, Councilmember Pierce. I yes, I want to thank you, Mayor, for agenda raising this so quickly. It was definitely something that we had talked about a ton in my district. Doctor, disaster preparedness has been a key issue for the second district. We have the coastline, we have our downtown. We have many senior homes, high rise buildings in our district. So I want to thank you guys for this. We're constantly having this conversation. And right after the quake, we had our third roundtable of senior residents that were meeting about how we can improve their lives. And one of the biggest issues that they all hooked on to was the fact that most of them lived in a high rise building and none of them had been through a drill in their building. And so I know I quickly grabbed your ear a minute ago, but could you walk through for us, are there requirements for residential, high rise buildings to have any kind of drills? No. There are currently no city regulations nor state regulations that we're aware of that would make that a requirement on building owners. So that is something that, you know, I know it's not in your report. I think it's your report. Fantastic. I really echo the comments about trying to get a quick timeline to have an assessment of those buildings. But in the meantime, we know that what they said with this last quake is it could be five years of having, you know, the ripple effect from that. And so what are we doing to make sure that our residents, not only at our neighborhood meetings, because there's a population that's engaged and there's a population that works two and three jobs or they're elderly and they don't get out of their building. And so I have a real concern that, you know, say that the next big one is here, that we have a lot of people that maybe they went out and bought their kit, but they've never done it. I mean, how many people sat there during the quake and just looked at everybody and didn't get under a table and didn't do the things that we know we're supposed to do? And so I, I will come back, and I hope that we can work together on trying to explore what options we have, particularly for our downtown, where we have senior high rise buildings and older buildings. And what we are doing to really whether it's annually, whether it's whenever new people move into a condo, what can we do as a city to really make sure that we're engaging with our constituents and that they're practicing their plan? Because I think if we really understood how many people have gone through a drill, know where the exits are, we would be pretty disappointed just because our lives are so busy from the from just a quick search at the Internet, looking at all the studies. Residential high rises are the least prepared. And so whatever we can do to make sure that we address that would be fantastic. I had another question on the right of your neighborhood, which, mind you, is all our downtown picture. So just making sure. What does it take for a community to get one of these presentations? How long does that take? How long does it take to set one up? I'm glad you ask that question, Councilmember. We have staff that has been trained and and are going through a training process to be able to conduct these meetings. The meetings actually take place in the neighborhood. Lead resident will invite their neighbors over to their house, living room, garage, lawn, wherever that might be. And the discussion would take place that I described in regards to identifying the resources and the rest and who's going to do. What. After a disaster. So the map here, Long Beach neighborhood is patterned off of a longstanding map, your neighborhood program that's been in existence for a while. We have the city of Long Beach has teamed up with the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles to roll this program out countywide so a neighborhood can be whatever it is. So we can map your high rise. Right. We can map your apartment building. So certainly the people, residents in your district that we have a tool available for them. I would also just and with your prior questions, encourage residents to also participate in the Great California shakeout. And maybe that's something that we can promote more so that we can get to residents, so that they do practice that drill on a on an annual basis with which we can set up a competition among the districts and see how many people can sign up for it. You've done Facebook stuff with us in the past, and we're certainly willing to do those. And again. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, we've definitely we try to. My goal is to do a disaster preparedness video every quarter. But again, we get so busy that we let the disaster just kind of sit in the background. So I like those ideas. I would want to make sure that we have benchmarks that we're meeting. And so for me, I mean, my number one goal is as soon as you guys are ready that every one of my neighborhood associations and my business improvement district, I have 16 different groups that identify themselves that way in my district would get that done as soon as possible. So my team is always here to help. But whatever we can also do to reach those buildings that are hard to get into, that have ways that don't. I mean, most of these senior buildings, we had a large conversation about it because they have a management company that's in there providing them those services . Even when we've had the city go in, they haven't allowed us to do presentations and things like that. So for some of those troubled buildings, we need to figure out how we make that a requirement, particularly, I think, for our senior building. That so many of those people in those communities are most vulnerable and might have disabilities or mental health challenges and are just our most vulnerable. So whatever we can do to to have that discussion in the future, I welcome that. So thank you, guys. Again, this was a thorough presentation. Look forward to keeping disaster preparedness as a priority. Thank you, Councilman Austin. Thank you, Councilmember Supernova. Thank you. This is going to be very specific, probably not the best venue for it, but I didn't think about it until this item came up tonight. But I it brought back my memories. So the night of the earthquake, I think the alert went out at 10:41 p.m. that police and fire personnel were going to be assessing damage in the city. And I'm one just philosophically, I want more information, not less. That's my idea. But I question that when at I think it was. 12:36 a.m. an alert went out with the same intensity of any emergency that public safety officials have completed. The infrastructure checks, no reported damages have been received and in the city of Long Beach, unless new information becomes available. This will be the last update. So that's essentially an all clear update, but it comes in the wee hours of the morning with that same kind of intensity. So I don't know if I assume protocols are established about how these things go up, but that's that's some input I'd be willing to meet on a committee or whatever, like how will we want to lay this out? And for an all clear message, I'd be willing to wait till the morning. I think Mayor Garcia sent out a comforting message about 9:30 a.m. That was that was a good timing. Thank you. Make it, councilmember. Councilman Mongo. Thank you. I enjoyed the presentation. I appreciate the increase in uptick in the enrollment. I was at concert in the park at the time with approximately five other 5000 other residents, and I thought that it was a great opportunity to talk with neighbors about being prepared. I think one of the things that we often forget until we have a power outage or any of those things, is that you need to be able to provide food and water and save yourself for many days. And I think that your group is doing a great job, especially our CERT teams, in getting out and communicating that to the community, in going into the details of the presentation and talking about bringing back some guidelines to help get the city infrastructure, the infrastructure within the city at a high level of preparedness in case of an emergency. I had read some things that I'm not clear on, but maybe you could help that. Many of the roofs in the region are all flat, so helicopters could land on them for rescues. But that in actuality, I'm internationally when these incidents occur, they don't actually use those helicopter pads for those things at all. And some cities, including Los Angeles, have actually changed the requirements and allowed for variances. And so. We might want to look at making those adjustments at this time if we have policies in place that are based on misinformation, I'll give an example. We don't stand in doorways anymore when there's an earthquake. That's not the protocol. And yet there are still people and teachers out there who haven't gotten the new updates to know that now you want to be underneath the desk or adjacent to a desk so that if something falls, you can be protected. So for that, I would also say that if there are any other earthquake guidelines in the city, that we could look at them and see if there are any that aren't fact based that we could erase them from from the. The ordinance or codes or whatever, so that the city can again, if safe, resume our economy and resume and increase our iconic skyline. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes, thank you, Mayor. Mrs. Tatum, Mr. Beck and Mr. Harris, after the report in which I just heard, I think all of us can go home and sleep very. Safely tonight because that was a fantastic report and more information. I know A people hear that and they adhere to that. I know they will be able to get to any other quick that we have. Thank you, individuals, for giving us that fantastic report. Thank you again. Thank you. Just a quick note, just on behalf of the planning staff, I was talking to Councilman Mongo. I know that we a few years ago changed our our codes at the city and to align with some of what other downtowns are doing. These are relate to construction of roofs and giving the ability for for design that are not just, you know, flat helicopter pads. And so that's been changed. And that is why you are now seeing building designs with pointy roofs and spires and other things that are coming to the downtown. It was a big pet peeve. Councilwoman, go. That's great to hear. Maybe, perhaps we can also allow the places you already have, the flat roofs with helicopter pads defensively, put outdoor furniture and start utilizing that space more effectively. Because as I look out the windows of the new city hall next week or two weeks from now, and as I look at any other tall building in the city, there's a bunch of numbers on the tops of buildings with no furniture and no enjoyment. And I know there's a limited amount of downtown outdoor space. Let's start giving them the ability to use that space effectively. Thank you. Is there any public comment on the side of city seeing none or is that public comment? Please come forward. No. They had to do a lot of work up there. That's right. It could happen, but only after. Good evening. Tiffany Davie, resident of the fourth District. I want to thank you all for a very comprehensive report. I was looking forward to this. I actually started training with the California Specialized Training Institute the beginning of this year and with L.A. City EMT. So when we had this opportunity during this emergency to kind of see the language system in place, I received reports of 1041. I know. Was a little bit late, but the all clear going through felt like any time for that news was great. I look forward to the community partnership meeting that I believe was scheduled for the 18th and just in case, I didn't see that in the report, but it's now the 25th. Okay. And that's from 1 to 3 p.m.. Okay. As well as perhaps more engagement for Stop the Bleed trainings. And there's also a mass. Mass casualty exercises in August. I learned of that at the Met Court kickoff of the year. So I just wanted to know if that could be updated on the website as well and just look forward to being able to find the crisis communications plan as well as an updated hazard mitigation plan that reflects the new development that's taking place over the past five years. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Dave Shukla, Sun File, thank you very much for the presentation. So very informative. A couple of brief comments. First, an inventory of seismically vulnerable buildings in Long Beach is crucial, even if that doesn't move on state or county levels. It's important to know what here could potentially be affected. Bridge collapse. Also in disaster scenario planning is very instructive for traffic flow, but it's not the only impact. In my neighborhood, we're right by the Newport-Inglewood fault line and there's a lot of critical infrastructure that could severely limit ingress and egress out of the county. And it's important to kind of think through and these are exercises, you know, just look at a map. Cross some lines of what would we do? They're pretty easy to think through, but harder to actually implement in the way of practice. Councilwoman Pierce's point about requiring multifamily property owners to drill for seismic or other disasters is pretty intriguing. I would like to see a way that that that could actually be made amended, but not just for. For Senior living, but also for a lot of the high rises we have downtown and some of the workplaces as well that are in some of these taller buildings. Lastly, a ground up approach or actually not. Lastly, sorry, one other point that a councilmember your group made was that we need to kind of wideband all the technologies that we get information out. One that we didn't hear that much about, especially older folks, still turn to handy dandy AM FM radio and being able to get information out across a variety of platforms is important. It's also important to recognize that. What your neighbors tell you is more likely than not going to be what sticks in your head. And so that brings me to the last point, which is the grownup approach is to be commended. And that's why it's absolutely crucial that we continue to support our program. Thank you. Thank you. Our last speaker. Hello. Good evening. My name is Johnny Wallace. I'm a resident of the seventh District and I am actually a graduate of the CERT program with Long Beach Cert. And although I was not here for the first earthquake and I got a lot of, you know, a lot of people asking me if I was I was actually studying abroad when the first earthquake happened and I was talking with someone and they were like, oh, I'm glad you are here, because, you know, it could have been bad with that. And I was really like, I want it to be here, you know, to help if, you know, if I mean, luckily there wasn't any structural damage or anything like that that was too major. Um, but I would have liked to be here to help. Um, after I. Completed the CERT program. I actually went back to my neighborhood. It's actually right next to the Goldstar Manor. It's for veterans and a lot of elderly people live there as well as in my my neighborhood as well. But I actually went back to my neighborhood and did a presentation with the help of firemen from. You know that helped that help with the cert program by the name of JC Heflin. And they came by and gave them some first aid kits. But after the presentation, I, you know, gave my residents, the residents of my neighborhood survival kits. And that's all great. But I wanted to know, are there any plans on setting up neighborhood preparedness officers and are there any plans to establish new leadership roles within the communities , people that actually know the community outside of cert? Are there any opportunities to learn how to do better presentations and inform the community? Um, you know, all throughout Long Beach, I wanted to just know how to. You know, touch up on that because I was actually kind of in that California cool. You know, even though I wasn't here, I was still in that California cool because nothing had happened for some time. But as we know, you know, seismologists are predicting that artists are anticipating a greater threat from earthquakes in the coming years. So, you know, we're definitely trying to get ready, going to get ready for that. But, yeah, I want to keep my keep my neighborhood alert before a disaster like this. And. Yeah, thank you. First of all, thank you for doing it for us and for your interest. I think it's great to have folks that are out there volunteering and doing that work. So I just want to thank you also. I I'll make sure that we get get back to you in, Councilman. I think if you're not connected already, maybe someone from your team can go over there or someone from staff so that we can connect. These are some good ideas and some areas we're going to kind of close the loop on, I think, with certain fire and some other folks. And so maybe we'll do that. Councilman, we will connect with you in just in just a minute. Yeah. I want to thank you for stepping up also with a third program. One of the things that we're trying to emphasize more nowadays is that, you know, although neighborhood watch programs have gone away, that would have been a good resource for people to get information about such things. We are now encouraging more and more to our police department, community watch, neighborhood watch programs where you could get your neighbors, get updates on what's going around in your neighborhood in terms of public safety. But it's also a good avenue to talk about earthquake preparedness or disaster preparedness as a whole. So let me get your information and I will get back to you in them. And we have in the West Long Beach area, we had the West Long Beach Association. I would recommend that you attend one of those meetings. Our police officer and our neighborhood watch and our community watch person is always there to talk about what's going on in the neighborhood, in the area and give updates. So that would be I would strongly encourage you do that as well and we'll give you those dates when the West Palm Beach Association meets. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes we're going to take a roll call vote. Councilman Pierce. I'm sorry, district two. District three for. I. Okay. That's three, four. Five, six, seven, I eight and nine. Okay. That motion carries for the seat in front of the report. Thank you very much. We're going to item 36 now.

Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record; conclude the public hearing, and Adopt resolution certifying EIR 01-15 and approving a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Riverwalk Residential Development project (State Clearinghouse No. 2014091011), for a new 131 single-family home subdivision (Riverwalk) at 4747 Daisy Avenue;

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Report from Development Services hearing to consider the land use entitlements for the River Walk Residential Development Project for a new 131 single family home subdivision located at 4747 Daisy Avenue in the eighth Council District. This hearing requires an oath. Those that are planning on testifying to the hearing. Please, please stand up. Okay. If you plan on testifying at the police, stand up. Okay. The clerk revealed. You and each of you do solemnly state that the testimony you may give in the cause now and pending before this body shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. Okay. Thank you all very much. So I'm going to turn this now over to city management, who will introduce the item and begin the presentation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the City Council. The staff report will. Be given by Amy Bodak, our Director of Development Services. Mr. Mayor. Members of the city council, thank you for your indulgence tonight on this very important public hearing. As the mayor indicated, we will be doing a staff PowerPoint presentation, which will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation from the city's secret consultant. Joe Power of Rincon. Once staff and our secret consultant have concluded their PowerPoint presentation, we will like to turn it over to the applicant who is represented by Ed Gallagher of Integral Communities. After his brief presentation of the project, we would turn it over to the City Council for questions and or public comment at your discretion. So with that, I'm going to walk you through this PowerPoint presentation and orient you to this site. This is an approximately 11 acre site in North Long Beach and District eight. It is currently a vacant, undeveloped land, but was previously used and owned by the Boy Scouts of America and is colloquially known as the Will Jay Reed Boy Scout camp. The project that you're going to hear about tonight is called River Walk. It includes 131 new single family detached homes in a gated community, which would also include a recreation center and a tot lot on site, and then also a an additional turf area that will be used for environmental remediation purposes as well. On the on the project site, this is the current design that has been recommended by the Planning Commission for the 131 units. It is a single entry point with a gated entry. All private streets within the project, around a circle, two story homes towards the north end of the site, and then three story homes in the middle and towards the south. The southern boundary of the site abuts the existing UPR railroad embankment and the western boundary of the site actually abuts the Los Angeles River embankment. It is accessed through Daisy Avenue as the main point. There is also emergency access through another point on Oregon Avenue. This is an example. This is a representative example of the design of the turf area that will be used for infiltration, as well as the recreation house and the pool and spa area that would go with this community. As I said earlier, all streets and drives within the development will be privately owned. Each house is going to have their own private two car garage. Guest parking is required as part of this project and would be provided on the main circular road. Additional guest parking above code requirement has been provided. Guest parking is not allowed to be used for storage of excess cars or trailers. There will be a homeowners association that will have conditions of approval that will require the property owners to park their cars in the garages, not park in the in the guest spaces and not park in their driveways. This is a representative example of the layout of these cul de sac streets around the ring road where each small street is basically a cluster of six homes in a very neighborly like setting. And all of the entrances front the street, as well as the driveways. We were we worked quite a bit with the developer in honing and refining the architectural style. When it was originally submitted, there was multiple architectural styles as well as I'd say, 11 different floorplans and we were able to narrow that down for a more cohesive neighborhood environment and worked with the architects on the high quality architecture that they are going to be proposing. So this was a representative example of their different plans for two storey homes and then also their representative plans for three storey homes. We spent a lot of time working on the architecture, making sure that the massing and setbacks for the homes were appropriate, that there was a lot of light and open space with the homes, as well as clearly no blank walls fronting the streets. This project does require a number of entitlements. First and foremost is the certification of an environmental impact report. This project includes a general plan amendment to change the general plan designation of the Boy Scout site. It also includes a general plan amendment for a community park that would be developed outside of the projects boundaries. This would allow the city the ability to have the park at Oregon and Alamo constructed, which was a former redevelopment project. I'll get into that in a little while. We're also asking that the city council consider a zoning amendment to create a new planned unit development ordinance, as well as a zone change for the River Walk site and the Oregon Park site. This also requires site plan review, which the Planning Commission is recommending vesting tentative tract maps that the property can be subdivided for individual ownership, and then a statutory development agreement, which is quite critical to the the development of this entire project. I want to talk a little bit about the zoning because this is a little bit new for you as a city, as a city, a seated council. We do have areas in the city where we have developed this type of housing, but they are not known to be developed under the PUD term, which is a technical planning term. But the creation of a PD allows quite a bit of flexibility for the city in how it works with developers in laying out traditional development sites for residential property. Tonight's action, I want to make it extremely clear, is site specific only? There have been numerous blogs and Web posts indicating that your action tonight would clear the way for this zoning to apply be applied to other institutional zoning districts citywide. And that is categorically false. Tonight's zoning request would allow the creation of a brand new zoning district, but it is only being applied specifically to tonight's site. If anyone else in the city that has a property that is currently zoned institutional wishes to take advantage of this, they must go through the traditional process of a rezoning with public hearings and public input. A plan development unit also allows us to configure densities like like allowing three story units in the center of this project and two story units on the edge of the project. This is very similar to how Spinnaker Bay was developed in District three, although that was developed under sea dip many years ago. It has a similar look and feel. This is also similar to the Crown Point project in I believe it's in District seven now, right near Los Cerritos Park, off of Del Mar Avenue that has a similar look and feel as well. With that pad and those densities, we are able to achieve a higher quality development through the use of this pad. When you're dealing with a large subdivision and so we are asking for your consideration of doing that. The pad that we have selected has been also the subject of quite a bit of discussion over the last year. The developer had looked for higher density than the city staff was comfortable with and we eventually settled on a density of approximately 13 dwelling units per acre. To give you a reference point, the The Crown Point Project on Del Mar Avenue has a higher density than 13 units per acre. That's actually at 14.5 units per acre. So that's the one that we were able to find that currently exists that's most applicable to this project, although that one has higher density. The development agreement is a tool that we are allowed to utilize under state law. So this is a statutory development agreement which gives the city the authority to enter into a long term contract or agreement. We have previously entered into development agreements for most notably the Douglas Park Project with Boeing, and we also recently entered into a development agreement for the Golden Shore Development Project in the downtown. So this would be a similar type of contract. It provides the city the opportunity to negotiate benefits for the city. Above and beyond those are which are normally allowed under traditional planning entitlements. This project and this development agreement would be a ten year contract. It would reserve the rights to the developer for this zoning designation for that entire period of time. It does, as I said, allow the city to to accrue benefits, if you will, to the city in exchange for higher density. In this case, we are looking at significant public improvements, including the construction of a park at Oregon and Alamo, which has been stalled due to the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. In addition to the public improvements which will detail later, the developer will also commit $100,000 in cash to the city to be placed in a traffic mitigation fund that will be used at the discretion of the city engineer, the city traffic engineer in order to mitigate ongoing or future neighborhood traffic mitigation issues that may arise. Additionally, since the developer will be constructing a number of public improvements for the city, we are requiring a performance bond that is 115% of the total amount of the public improvements. We have pored over this project, as I said, and have a number of conditions of approval, which I think are valuable in protecting the city and ensuring that this project will be the quality project that we expect it to be. There will be a construction management plan that is going to manage construction traffic throughout the entire time of construction. There will be a new minimum of six foot six, but up to an eight foot block wall that will surround the site. And we have the ability to to go higher if that is the desire of the city council through a zoning administrator process. We are asking them to bring adjacent streets and sidewalks into ADA compliance, do significant public improvements along the adjacent streets, including Daisy and Oregon Pacific, 48th and 49th streets. We will be asking them to either grind an overlay or to slurry as determined by the city's director of public works. A number of streets in that area, and that includes 48th Street, Pacific Avenue and 49th Street. I believe the developer has an exhibit which will show the extent of the offsite improvements that the city is requiring as part of this project. I am going to momentarily turn this over to Joe Power of Rincon. He's going to address the Environmental Impact Report and the process that we went through in order to get to where we are today. If you could bring that PowerPoint back up, it's the same PowerPoint that Joe will be using that I was just referring to. Okay. Thanks, Amy. Again, Joe Power from Rincon Consultants. We assisted the city in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Report. I'm here tonight with Greg Martin. Our project manager will both be here to answer questions, if any come up later tonight. I'm going to quickly talk about the process and then I'm going to talk about some of the air findings to begin the process. The city issued a notice of preparation of the draft air back on September 4th of of 2014, that there was a 30 day comment period in which you were taking input on the air scope that ended around October 3rd. During that 30 day period, the city also held two public scoping meetings. Those were on September 24th and September 30th. We had a number of attendees and got a lot of input from the community regarding their concerns for the project. And then most recently, the draft IRR was circulated for the required 45 day public review period in May. The final air on the air includes responses to 23 comment letters that the city received during that 45 day public review period. Those included four letters from agencies and 19 from individuals, mainly folks living in the neighborhood, the adjacent neighborhood. The final air also includes the draft air text with some minor eddies, mainly requiring involving some clarifications that were that came up in the responses to comments, as well as the mitigation, monitoring and reporting program. The final year determined that with all recommended mitigation measures, impacts associated with the project could be reduced to below a level of significance. Here's just a very quick overview of the process. I mentioned that notice of preparation and up at the top. That's where we got input on the air scope. Then the draft air was circulated for public review. With those comments, we responded to all of them, prepared the mitigation monitoring program and the findings and all that is before you tonight where we're ready to make a decision on the project. Now the environmental impacts are identified in the air. We had no Class one or what we call significant and unavoidable impacts. There were a number of impacts that we identified as significant, but that could be mitigated to below a level of significance with mitigation measures included in the air. Those were in the areas of air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology, land use, noise and vibration and utilities and service systems. Now just a quick overview of the impacts that we found to be significant, but medical for air quality, this related to construction emissions. And we had two mitigation measures to address both dust and emissions associated with construction equipment. And with those measures, we could bring the impacts to below a level of significance for biological resources, the impact that we identified significant related to potential impacts to nesting bats and birds, and that's addressed through a pre-construction survey and as necessary avoidance of any nest that are identified during that survey. For the area of cultural resources, we found potential impacts related to archeological and paleontological resources. There are no known resources on the site, but the mitigation is there to address as yet unidentified resources that may be uncovered as grading occurs on site for the area of geology, the impact related to liquefaction and settlement. And we have a mitigation measure requiring placement of properly compacted fill, as well as another measure requiring the building foundation to be properly designed to address those kinds of impacts for land use and planning. The impact relate to local policy consistency, and this impact is really addressed by mitigation measures found throughout the air in such issues as noise, air quality and the like. And then lastly, for utilities and service systems, the impact related to wastewater infrastructure. And we have a mitigation measure, measure requiring the applicant to submit a sewer study and if necessary, upgrade the sewer system to provide needed capacity. Now again, just to reiterate the opportunities for public comment, there have been a number of them that in OPI that I mentioned previously, back in September of last year, there were the two scoping meetings also held in September. The draft IIR public circulation. From May 5th to June 18th. There was a planning commission study session during that public review period on May 21st and then a planning commission hearing on October 15th and of course, tonight's hearing. Now, in addition to the significant impacts that we identified, I want to touch on a number of items that the community expressed concerned about. And in some cases, we identified significant impacts in these areas. And in others we didn't. One that I'd say was the top concern that we heard from members of the community was traffic in specifically cut through traffic on Daisy and through the residential neighborhood adjacent. Air quality was a concern. Land use and zoning changes. Amy touched on that a little earlier. Noise was a concern. Parking and soil stability and seismic hazards are going to go through those very quickly. For traffic. There were concerns both about construction traffic as well as operational traffic for construction. The grading phase would generate about 236 daily trips. Those would be spaced out over the course of the day. Generally, we think avoiding peak hour times building the building construction phase would generate the highest number of peak hour trips by employee trips with about 54. There was a traffic analysis done of the construction vehicles and how they would affect the system. And it was determined that that the level of service standards of the city would not be exceeded by construction traffic. Nevertheless, as Amy mentioned earlier, a construction management plan is going to be required to ensure that traffic is managed during construction . With respect to operational traffic, the project would generate an estimated 98 Olympic hour trips and 131 peak hour trips. The impact would not exceed the city's level of service standards at any of the study intersections. The larger concern was about that we heard was an increase in traffic on local streets, in particular Daisy Avenue. I will say that there was would be in percentage terms a pretty substantial increase in traffic going from an estimated, I think it was 75 daily trips to over 1200. However, the city does not have a specific significance threshold or standard for trips on residential streets, so we did not identify a significant impact despite that pretty substantial increase in percentage terms. Air quality. This was about both construction and operational emissions. We did the modeling based using the standard procedures based on South Coast Air Quality Management District guidelines. We did not find any operational impacts that would be significant or that would exceed AQ MDA thresholds. Project construction, as I mentioned before, would generate emissions exceeding thresholds. But with mitigation measures, recommended impacts could be brought below significant. Next slide noise. There were concerns about both construction noise and operational noise. Construction noise would be temporary and would occur only during daytime hours, so it would not be significant there, although there clearly would be an increase in noise and does not exceed the level of significance. There's really not anything unusual about the construction noise. It would just be it's just going to be loud as construction is. With respect to operational traffic noise, we did model traffic noise based on the air traffic study and found that though there would be an increase in noise on a number of streets, Daisy Avenue in particular, that increase would not exceed city standards or thresholds. With respect to parking, the air does recommend that construction management plan that I mentioned before to address parking concerns during construction. Within the long term, the project includes 302 parking spaces, including 260 private parking garage parking spaces and 40 on street guest parking spaces. I will just mention as an aside as well, parking really is not a sequel issue per se that was removed from the the secret guidelines about five years ago. So it's not an issue we typically are looking at as a potentially significant impact. In sequel terms. Soil stability. The issue that we heard about was a concern that the site may have formerly been used as a landfill. We did not see any evidence of that particular issue. There was a phase one environmental site assessment done for the site, and there was no historic record of there being a landfill there. I skipped over the first concern. A number of folks expressed concern about there maybe being a fault trace running through the site. Again, we've seen no evidence of that based on local or state maps mapping. Fault zones through the city. We do have a number of soil stability mitigation measures to address potential concern. There was the landfill concern was largely about the potential for settlement and how that might affect the project and adjoining neighborhoods. We do have these measures that I mentioned before. Excavation, too adapted for people of existing grade to address foundation concerns as well as the recurring foundation systems to use specific items to address this impact. No alternatives. We didn't study for alternatives. These are required by secure. These were the no project alternative. That one is required under Sequoia and assumes that this site would remain in its present condition. The second one is what we call the reduced density alternative, and that would essentially comply with the current zoning for the site. About 65 units total for about half of what is proposed. We have an alternate alternate site alternative that would put all of the residential development on the Oregon Park site that is proposed for a park that was one that was suggested by the community. And then the revised access alternative, again, this was suggested by the community during the scoping process would involve two points of access, one at DC and another at Oregon. With respect to the alternatives, we really didn't find that they would eliminate any significant impacts. The revised access alternate, for example, would we think, move some trips perhaps up to Oregon Avenue. But as some of you are aware, north of 48th Street, Oregon really narrows. And we think that's going to be difficult for people to pass. And they're probably going to go right back to D.C. and use that to get out of the neighborhood anyway. So we don't think there's going to be a substantial change in the traffic pattern based on that alternative. As I mentioned before, the EIA, the project does not have any significant, unavoidable impacts. So of course, the although the all of the alternatives may incrementally reduce impacts, they would not avoid any significant impacts that that would have under the project anyway. Back to Amy. Thank you, Joe. So the planning commission did hear this in a study session in May. They made comments and got a briefing on the air, which was in circulation. They then held a public hearing in October and did recommend that the City Council certify the air and grant all of the entitlements. As I said earlier, it's an extensive list of entitlements and so I'd like to walk you through them. Some of these are a little bit less common for you to see. The first one is your standard resolution certifying the air. That is something that you are required to adopt should you choose to move forward in certifying the air the section. The second action is to adopt a resolution amending the land use element. This allows us to change the land use designation for the Riverwalk site from Elwood 11 to Elwood three. A It's essentially from an open space institutional zone to a residential zone. We're also asking you to adopt a resolution amending the land use element for the for the Oregon Park site. The Oregon Park site has been approved. It has its own environmental document. However, the amendment to the general plan was never done due to the dissolution of the redevelopment agency. So we are asking for your consideration of changing the land use designation from Elwood one to Elodie 11, which would be open space. We're asking for a zone change on the River Walk site from Institutional to the RPE 13, which is our new PUD zoning classification. We are asking you to make a zone change from institutional to park to allow the construction of the park. We're asking you to declare an ordinance allowing the city manager to execute a development agreement in substantially the same form that is presented to you tonight. Also investing tentative tract map, which would allow for the subdivision of the 131 homes into individual parcels for sale. Clearly a review of the site plan. Then the next ones are a little bit less common for you to see. We are asking that you consider an ordinance to allow a credit against the transportation improvement fee. The staff report details that the developer expects to expend at least $1.65 million on traffic improvements in the immediate neighborhood. And there is a credit that we would be asking you to consider in that they would normally be paying a traffic improvement fee of $147,000. So we're asking you to give them a credit for the $147,000 in exchange for the $1.65 million in improvements. Similarly, they would be required to pay a Parks and Rec facility fee in the amount of $604,308. Instead, we are asking that you give them a credit and instead accept the construction of the Oregon Dilemma Park, which has a developer value of approximately $2.25 million. So again, instead of accepting $604,000 in cash, we would instead be giving them a credit in exchange for $2.25 million in park improvements. Lastly, we would ask that you declare an ordinance allowing a zoning amendment for the creation of this new PWD ordinance that would allow this new zoning designation to be in place. I have two items of correction that I'd like to make. One is that the resolution granting the credit for the transportation improvement fees did not include the correct dollar amount. So we would ask that you allow the city attorney's office to provide the correct amount of the traffic improvement fees in that ordinance at $1.65 million or more . The second thing that I would ask is that in the development agreement, we would like to add a clause that would give discretion to the director of public works to determine whether the streets in the surrounding area need to be slurry sealed or whether they needed to be have a full grind mill grind and overlay applied to it. This will allow the the director to have discretion to say a portion of this street is eligible for salary seal, but the other portion of the street must have a full overlay constructed. The developer understands that request, and that would be to Exhibit C of the development agreement. No other changes to the development agreement are expected at this time, but we do have in the ordinance authorization for the city manager to execute the development agreement in substantially the same form that you have it in front of you tonight. I'm happy to answer any questions at this point, or we can take public comment at your pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. I believe we're going to go through the applicant the applicant part of the presentation. I'm sorry. Yes. We would like to introduce the applicant. This is Ed Gallagher from Integral Communities. He has a presentation that we would like to bring up. And so with that, I'll introduce Ed Kane. We're putting another applicant who requested. Well, two things. One. Mr. Mays mentioned me. The applicant requested 15 minutes for the presentation, and then the applicant also requested an opportunity to do the five minute at the end rebuttal. If there's anything that he wants to to rebut. Is that correct, Mr. Mays? That's correct, Mayor. Okay. Just for that, for the hearing process there. So with that, Madam Clerk, I can just make sure you set the time for for this and please begin. Mary Garcia, members of the Long Beach City Council. My name is Ed Gallagher with Integral Communities in Newport Beach. And we want to thank the staff for the amount of hard work they've put in and all of the all the negotiations that we've done. And I think that the the the we have a vision we had a vision of what we wanted to see with the development and we worked with staff for it's been over two years now and we think we have a community that's a, a great community and we think that the staff has, has enabled the city to get a lot of public benefits out of this. And we completely concur with that. Um. We started this in December of 2013, and here we are today without going through all the steps which aren't necessary. I think we want to focus on a couple of things. One is that we have really think that we've made a really strong effort to engage the community in what we've been doing all throughout the process. Our first community meeting was in November of 2013 at Mike and Diana Julia's house, who live on 48th Street, the back up to the project. We then had another neighborhood meeting once the project was fully designed and had gone through a conceptual review and comment by the city. And we came up with a plan that you see before you tonight. And we had another meeting on on July 30th at the George House. And I want to thank them so much for being accommodating. We then had a meeting in mid-August of 2014 at the Del Amo Mobile Home Park to address concerns and questions that the mobile home park residents may have. And as as was said by Rincon, we had a scoping meeting in September of 2014 to meetings in September of 2014. And we heard what the residents had to say, and we've tried to address those concerns. We finally had another another neighborhood meeting, adult elementary school in November of 2014. As we've gone through the process and the EIA, the draft here was was out. Do we Amy, could we play the video? Yes, Jeff is. We have a little video that we'd like you to see that kind of capsulize. For what. Community? A planned community is in the neighborhood bounded by Del Amo Boulevard, Long Beach Boulevard, the Los Angeles River and the Virginia Country Club. Oregon Park today and Oregon Park in the future. The development of Oregon Park, which will have a multi-use artificial turf field, will take place simultaneously with the development of River Walk, transforming this vacant lot into a beautifully landscaped and active destination for the neighborhood. It will have a large parking lot surrounded by picnic areas, a playground with state of the art equipment, fitness stations and also modern restrooms. The park will serve the city of Long Beach and the families who live not only in this neighborhood but other neighborhoods as well . Today, Riverwalk is vacant land that will be converted from unused property to a new home planned community with a dramatic entry supported with quality architecture. Next to the secondary exit gate at the terminus of Oregon Avenue, there will be a tot lot serving the children of the Riverwalk community. As we enter the community, we pass through the entry gates, pass the recreation center and travel the street that loops completely around the community delivering the homeowners to their new destination. The homes are designed with variations of the Spanish theme, all with two car garages and fenced rear yards. The entire community. Including the streets. Interior landscaping and the new landscaping on Daisy and Oregon Avenue, will be managed and maintained by a professional homeowners association. What a beautiful community and what a great addition to the neighborhood. Thank you. When bringing the application before the city of Long Beach and the Planning Commission in the City Council. And I think. We're. We want to kind of capsule8 the the what we think are public benefits and how we feel as a public private partnership to to develop this community and to to create benefits for the city. Obviously, you've heard a lot about Oregon Park, and it's a 3.3 acres. It's got a an athletic field that accommodates a regulation soccer field and it accommodates a couple of other things. Amy, can you put those on the screen? The park alternatives. It'll accommodate to youth soccer fields. It will accommodate a two softball or little league diamonds, and it will accommodate a star in the video yet. But it will accommodate a miniature football field 70 yards long. Um, and we're, we've in the development agreement, the details of the park improvements are have been enhanced quite a bit to the tune of about an additional $400,000. So that 2.25 is more like 2.6 to $3 million. We have state of the art restrooms and restrooms have grown have grown to be twice as large as they were to begin with. We have six fitness stations instead of one. We have play equipment for two different age groups instead of one. And we have state of the art lighting that went from 15 to 20000 a night to 60,000. So I hope these lights are really good. And so I think that the the the park itself is is a is a it's a it's going to be a it's an a great location and it's going to accommodate not only people in this neighborhood, but other children and people in other neighborhoods. We want to put that one back up, Amy. The next thing I wanted to go through is the off site street improvements that were that we're doing. And you can see by this map behind you, it's pretty hard to read, but I'll go through it quickly. You can see that there is a traffic signal that's at Del Amo and Oregon Avenue. If you come down, you'll see that there's full street improvements from 48th Avenue South on Oregon and 48 Avenue South on Daisy. There is a Oregon Avenue frontage improvements right in front of the park with new curbs and gutters and sidewalks and landscaping. Then from 48th Avenue there is grind and overlay and new ada handicapped ramps on the three intersections of 48th and Oregon and Daisy and Pacific. In addition, you can see in the blue that those streets which are Pacific 49th and 48th Street, we are we are replacing the curb and gutter on those streets as applicable, which probably is going to be a lot. And then we're either going to slurry or we're going to do grind and overlay, depending on the condition of the street and what the street will handle physically. So we're doing a lot of road improvements that are necessary, and we think that the community is going to benefit but is really going to look sharp. You'll also see on the map that there are two access points to the walking path that are next to the Dominguez Gap wetlands, one from Oregon Park and one from the subdivision, too, to to allow access through the public, through the public and the private community. And as Amy said, we're in the 1.6 to 1.7 million for those street improvements. I think in addition to these improvements, there are other benefits to the city. Property values are obviously going to go up. The property taxes just from this community will generate about $900,000 a year in increased property taxes. Local businesses are going to benefit by business generated from the residents of this community. Jobs are going to be created. And we we. Are. Giving the city about one point, a little over 1.4 million an impact fees and the school district over 1.6 million and school fees. And we think that this community and this development, both the community itself and the park, is creating increasing opportunities for youth activities, enhances the existing neighborhood, and it's making an economic reinvestment in this area . We we realize the temporary inconveniences to our neighbors and an effort of that consideration. We've reached out to Daisy residents and offered to enhance the neighborhood. The neighborhood? So far, what we've done in that neighborhood is and I'll try to go through it quickly, it's a big list, but we've painted 39 houses, we've installed 19 fences painted , six fences painted. We planted drought resistant yards, we've installed window blinds. We've removed 42 tons of trash, installed six security lights, port two driveway pads, repaired four walkways, and the list goes on and on. And we've spent a lot of money doing it because we feel that the neighbors deserve it. And we want we want the neighborhood to feel good about this development. I think that I think that we're we're really excited about developing the site and hopefully the city council will be just as excited as we are. I'd like we have some supporters in the audience and not every single one of them is going to come down here because we want to go home sometime tonight with our supporters. Please stand up. Don't be don't be bashful. Thank you. And you know, if you have any questions, I can answer some now or I'll be around to answer any questions that you might have down the line or or answer objections or positive notes from the audience. Thank you, sir. We're going to keep the hearing going, so thank you. And then you'll have a few minutes at the end, okay. For for any other additional comment. So moving forward, we had the applicant presentation. So now we're going to public comments. So if you're going to comment on this, please come forward. The clerk will set 3 minutes for public comment. And just please make sure you say your name for the record and then begin, sir. Kenneth Kern, 474 Virginia Avenue, about two blocks away. You look like common sense people. Although D Andrews is in here, so I hope he abstains. From the vote. Before certifying this EIA, please ask staff the following four questions How can it. Be justified in the. EIA using the Long Beach average of 2.8 persons per household? While these include tens of thousands of one in ten, one and two bedroom units, while the well, what they're going to build, they're going to be three and four bedroom units. The U.S. Census report indicates 3.6 persons, which is a 29% understatement of all impacts. Second, why are they using 2.0 vehicles per household when the U.S. average is 2.3? This understatement equals 40 additional vehicles for which there is no room to park and the development they will have to park in the already crowded nearby area. Third, why was the fact that Oregon, which is only 18 foot wide and the Daisy and 48 Street, which are only 30 foot wide, was omitted from the report. Doesn't even mention it. Recommended street widths are 36 foot, with 32 foot being the minimum. Will this not create even more unsafe conditions with this increased traffic? Fourth. What specific street do they intend to use for the projected 2064 dump trucks of dirt? If any of these mentioned streets are to be used, how are the vehicles going to pass each other? They can't get through. The air is flawed and biased and should be rejected because all impacts and mitigation measures are underestimated. Adoption of the reduced density alternative allowing 65 homes. Will be the the need to revise. The R and B in keeping with the current zoning. You are inviting a lawsuit under the California Environmental Quality Act. If you certified the sea air and approve these 131 homes. I beg you to ask those for common sense questions. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Mayor and council people. My name is Don Hobson. I live at 4965 Pacific Avenue. I didn't come with a speech tonight. I've lived there 27 years. I've witnessed many accidents at. The intersection of Pacific and Alamo, which is not signaled. The majority of the traffic in the neighborhood use this Pacific Avenue because it's wide enough that two people can pass each other going opposite directions. Daisy Avenue. That's not possible. It's a give and go situation and they're talking about increasing the traffic load to 1200. It's it's impossible. But nobody has addressed the. Comments that have been put forth on the air other than to say that. There is no problem with the road widths. But I beg you to go out and measure them and drive them and. Try to try to pass each. Other on those roads. It's impossible. I'm just concerned about. The long term traffic that will be impacting our neighborhood and running into the ground in the long term. Please reconsider the air on. This and look into some of the statistics on it, as was. Mentioned earlier, and see if there isn't a better way that we could improve this community. I'm in favor of it, of building. Homes, but 65 homes would be a lot less impact and more. Tolerable. Than 131. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Ann Cantrell. There are so many things wrong with this development. I don't have time to address them all. Density, parking, traffic. Air quality noise. Water bill availability. Lack of solar artificial turf in the Oregon park, the PD and adverse biological effects on the project site and the nearby Dominguez Gap. The mitigation for the birds and the other wildlife is inadequate. Putting a 25 foot zone, a buffer zone around a nesting site is not going to help the birds with the construction noise and the people that are around there. It was stated that the project would not have a substantial adverse effect on any repair and habitat, federally protected wetlands or any other sensitive natural communities. This is 200 feet from the defense gap. How can they say that the noise of the construction and the traffic will not have an effect on the habitat of the Dominguez gap ? Also the pod's zoning is, uh. We've tried increase density before with cracker boxes in the 1980s with disastrous results no available parking, increased crime and deteriorating neighborhoods. Staff calls this good urban planning. Anyone familiar with the rat and mice studies of John B Calhoun would disagree with this. He saw a breakdown in social structure and normal social behavior when rodents were crowded together. They were given everything they needed except space. As the population increased, the behavior deteriorated until finally the population quit breeding. High density doesn't work for rats and it doesn't work for humans. Instead of changing the zoning, the developer should change the project. And if you insist on allowing this flawed project to proceed. Do not make this a one size fits all zoning by allowing similar crowded conditions in other projects around the city. In addition to space, the city does not have the water nor the infrastructure to continue to increase its population. Please deny this disastrous plan. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Nancy Embry. I live at 4125 Linden Avenue. I'm concerned about this project. Most specifically, I think that a lot of the things that have been mentioned are problems, but the most specific ones are traffic and land use. Stacy Avenue is very narrow. I've taken it with my son who goes to school in Carson. Also, Delano is very congested, very difficult to get through on Delano. And because of the river and because. Of the freeway, it's it's hard to get across from Long. Beach to anywhere to the West except on board Lower Delano. And now we're going to add to that congestion. In addition to the land use, changing. The from open space. And park to townhomes is just a big mistake. In the northwest part of Long Beach, we're very much underserved with open space and parks. If you'll recall, the other parts of the city have recreation park, which is in excess of 300 acres. We have El Dorado. Park in excess of 300 acres. Hartwell Park in excess of 200 acres. What have we got in the northwest? You know, a. Few acres at Oregon Park is hardly. Compensation for doing this high density development in our neighborhood. Really what we need is more open space and more parks, and that's what we should be doing with this property. So I am absolutely. Against specifically adopting the. Resolution to amend the land use element of the general plan from DE 11 to D3. It's just wrong. So I urge you to vote against this. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Yes. Thank you for hearing my vote on my comments. My name is Richard Reason. I'm a resident here of Long Beach. I think in this area of this part of North Long Beach, I consider it North Long Beach with the. Beginning. Of the. Agenda of the area that you were talking about earlier, about the wetlands and so forth. This is going to go great with the Oregon Park area. It's also going to bring jobs. It's also going to bring more, better living status in. The area. And upgrade the area of. That neighborhood of. Between Oregon. Daisy and Pacific. The contractors and people that are working on this project have nothing but positive attitude toward this thing, and I know they are out to do the best for that neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Yeah. Joe Sopko, fifth district. You have my address. Mayor City Council member. Staff I've been selling real estate in Long Beach for over 30 years, and so I drove that area where the project is proposed and. The whole infrastructure. I mean, all those streets, everything is it's not going to take the traffic at all of those streets to need to be replaced, like much of North Long Beach. It's been neglected. It's been second or third on the list. It's it just it needs a lot of help. Now, that presentation was very nice. But it was like putting lipstick on a pig. You know, they didn't point out the railroad tracks right on one boundary. I live in a two story house and believe me, it takes a while to get that second story. And they're going to build some three story homes. You know, I've never heard of a three story house. I don't live in that. I mean, you'd have to have an elevator in every one of these houses. If if I took one view after this project was built as a client to take a look at this project, you'd say, turn this car around. I will not live here. And this developer, Mr. Gallagher, seemed like a nice fella. But someone should have told him back in December of 2013. It's not here. It it doesn't work here. Education's real important. All of you that have had children or grandchildren, you know how important education is. And you want your children in the best schools that you can look up on. Look on the Internet and you can judge schools. It's terrific. And you've got a you've got a2a3 and a five rating on schools. That's just totally unsatisfactory. No one would move there if they had children. No, I don't know. No prices were quoted, but I've heard $600,000 for one of these units. That's you're not going to have a homeowner or someone with children wanting to live there with those low ratings on schools. God bless the schools. I'm sure they're doing the best they can do. But anybody who's going to invest 5 to $600000 in that area would have to have better schools than that. And they certainly are not going to send it to private schools because we just can't afford that. So. So I would tell you, too, that in the eighties, when I was selling real estate, I always wanted to testify against a project that was destroying the community again. And just project zip is like the cracker boxes in the eighties. Please don't do this to the community. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Renee Lawler. I live in Wrigley on San Francisco Avenue. And you hear a consistent theme in my message regarding equestrian. And this is another project that is in the L.A. River Recreation area that does not address adequately the negative impacts to the equestrian community and the historic trail. So this this project does have a Class one issue where the equestrian community has not been addressed. Not only do the Wrigley equestrians rely on the trail that's directly adjacent to this project subject zone, but also the stables in DeLand, Alamo, and any equestrian that use that uses the trail system is potentially negatively experiencing a negative impact . You have a high density development which is directly opposing what the equestrian experience is all about, and to put a high density development right on top of the historic trail without including and incorporating setbacks, without incorporating safety signage, when when you're having all of those new homeowners access and cross over the trail. Again, I reiterate the dangers and concerns that that are not really being addressed for that equestrian community. You have existing zoning law here in the city of Long Beach. You've got an equestrian overlay document which is applicable to the Wrigley Equestrian Zone. But there are certain guidelines within that horse overlay that talk about setback with respect to residents, with respect to anything that is adjacent to, you know, that is residential adjacent to an equestrian existing equestrian area. And and that that zoning overlay should have some application to this project. In addition, you are basically inhibiting and eliminating the continuous mobility of the equestrian user groups. If you proceed with the construction of this project during the time of construction, I understand that there's going to be about a two or three year period of construction with the contractors intending to utilize the the river easement and or trail area for for construction vehicles and equipment and access. So you have disrupted the trail not only from the Delano users coming south, but the equestrians in Wrigley going north. And you've provided no mitigation plan for alternative route for that equestrian trail and the users that are currently dependent upon it, it's our lifeline. It's the only access we have for exercising our horses and we need to be considered. And I oppose this. I ask you not to vote for this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Dody Soto and my address is 4784 Virginia Avenue. I've lived there for 40 years. Daughter Would you mind just pulling your mic? Do you. Can you hear me better? Okay. I've lived there for 40 years. That's hard to say these days, isn't it? And I'm an angry resident. I'm sorry you have to see this side of me tonight. But my concerns for the Riverwalk housing project led me to petition against it as well as other my other 250 neighborhood residents. My blood pressure is up in my thoughts for peaceful retirement. I don't imagine squeezing 131 homes and ten acres. Of land that is just incomprehensible to me. I will also add that not once during the planning committee meeting was the possibility of a reduced density alternative discussed or debated. This would at least lessen the number. Of homes to. 65 that could be built. Because of the number of petitioners who could not attend this meeting and have their voices heard, either due to their work schedules this evening or the availability of free VIP bussing to City Hall, such as was provided to selected residents only by the developer this evening. This seems to present a very biased situation. We have been an unheard group of residents, even by our eighth District Council member, Mr. Elston, who never wanted to share our grievances and the impact of this project with us. But come election time, Mr. Austin, you will feel the impact of the voters. It appears your goal is to build a park at Oregon and Delano and generate more tax revenue. Great idea. But did you have to trade off to the Will Rogers Boy Scout camp to accomplish this? Parking issues. Traffic noise, more pollution. I plead with the council. Is this what you would want? Your neighborhood? You want to Disneyland in your backyard? I think not. Council, can you please tell me one question? Are petitions still do they still hold a voice in today's public? Is it a waste to go and have petitions? I have 250 petitioners here, local residents that have lived there as long as I have. We're mortified with this. We do not want this in our area. It doesn't fit. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is Janice John. I have been working in this area and. Just make sure if you can just name and address or neighborhood for unless you have it on file. I'm I'm sorry. I live in this Long Beach area and I have been working out here as well. And I see a lot of good coming from this project, a lot of benefits. I think the park is awesome because there's not a whole lot of that in that area that is available to the children, in the family , in the community. I do see with the project itself a very beneficial, um, can I say an increase in quality of living being introduced. And I think that also impacts the schools. I have been working in schools for several decades and I have also started out in schools that have been on the lower end of the rating having difficulty. But I've also seen when there has been an introduction into the community with a more, uh, increase in quality of living, you tend to get more involvement in the schools as well from the families. That in turn also increases the quality of the schools. I am definitely in favor of this project and I do hope it goes through. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, I'm Hayley. Argo and I live in the north Long Beach area and I work in the Bixby Knolls area. And personally I think the project, um, it, it's a good project. It will create more jobs in the area and I think that's important. Me as a college student, that's a big concern. And, um, I just think having more jobs in general is great, especially in that area. I think it'll boost the economy. I think it to me it sounds as though the developers are very interested in not only making the quality of life for the development and. The project itself. Um. I guess, bringing the quality of it up. But the surrounding areas as well. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. My name is Randy Wise. I live at 200 West 48th Street on a corner of Portland, Oregon. First of all, mayor, to you and the count and to the council chamber. And also, I like the knowledge of my vet, my fellow veterans and their families. You know, thank you very much for your service. I am a vet as well and I'm a disabled vet. I'm really totally against this project because when they first had to preliminaries, had contractors coming and cutting down trees, as the trees were hitting the ground, cracks was coming all out to my house and me and my wife . We still went into this day. If this project began, how would it affect our house? Because of trees can fall and hit the ground cause cracks like that. And we're like, who's going to fix this? Right now we face what cracks unbelievable in our house because of the impact of the trees in the ground. No one gave us warning. No one mentioned anything about the contractors coming in. But now we're faced with cracks. All of our house. Some of these cracks look very I mean, it's really frustrating. So if if those cracks are from trees, once they start shifting to Earth, what's going to become of our house, not just our house ? What about our neighbor house who's elderly? Can't speak. What about the neighbors down the street? You know, I think it's great that the city of receiving revenue, I'm I'm totally with that. But it shouldn't be done at the expense of somebody losing their home or home caving in. They come home. Major problems at home. Who's going to fix this problem? You know, we're faced with problem problems right now that we trying to wonder who's going to fix this? No one. No one young lady gave me her card, told me to call her by the name of Miss Diane Ripley, sent her email. That was like four weeks ago. And she says, You call me in two weeks. Never heard nothing back from her. That's great that they fixing up the neighborhood on paint jobs and all that. That's a blessing. But what about the people who homes are affected once they start shift in the dirt? I'm right in the eye of the storm. So once this happened, what's going to become of my house? Is it gonna cave in when I come on? One day, me and my family are going to be in danger. We'll be sleeping at night here, crack. Next thing, the whole house caved in on us. What's going to happen? That's a good question. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is John Sloan and I live at 163 West 48th Street, right across from where the new development is going. Going into it, going into I happen to support the new development because of all the positive changes it's bringing about in the neighborhood. Because you can see my neighbors are all here. This is the first time I probably met some of them, but I fully support it just for the fact that it is bringing positive change. I like my neighbor, Randy. I'm on the front lines. I'm right across the street from the development and being right across the street from that development, I've dealt with a lot of crap that's going on in our neighborhood. And what I mean by a lot of crap is I'm constantly over in the Ian where Organ Avenue ends, picking up trash along with three other my other neighbors and including that trash that we pick up. We're picking up condoms, we're picking up just trash, weed, weed bottles and all that other stuff. So I do support positive change that's coming through the neighborhood. The reservations I wanted to bring, what I want, what I wanted to bring up is I do have a few reservations with the increased amount of traffic that's coming in the neighborhood that's going to again, that that kind of it scares me already. We're having difficult issues parking in the neighborhood and we get the traffic from Dilemma Avenue during the busy, busy hours. And, you know, we just get a lot of people speeding around that corner where I live, and it creates a problem for me and my neighbors. Other reservations I do want to mention, my neighbors are just right, I'm afraid for them as well, especially the neighbor, the neighbors that are in that cul de sac. Because I do see their street is sinking. I'm concerned for them. They are good neighbors. I love my neighbors in that area and I don't want to see them have to move just because or get hurt just because what the new development may bring. So there are some reservations, but all in all, I do support this positive change. I do I mean, I do wish that they consider dropping the amount of homes from 131 to a little smaller amount. But all in all, I do support what goes on in that community. I do support what Al Austin is doing in that community. Fantastic job. And I just want to say thank you and thank you for my neighbors are coming out here and carrying. Thank you, sir. I like your jacket and let's go pitch next speaker. Segway I got my name is Tammy Bennett and I am immediate neighbor on two on one for you eighth street. I'm nervous because this is very dear to my heart. What's going on? I let you know where I'm coming from. I am very proud of my city. I'm proud of the work that all of you have done, especially tonight with approving the development of the Forest Park. I moved here from Northern California just to go to Cal State, Long Beach, go Beach. And I. I am proud of where Long Beach has gone. I'm proud, Mayor, that you have been working really hard with all of us, with the river uplink as well. I agree with Richard, who commented that the forest that will blend with my neighborhood at the Dominguez Gap. I do not agree that this project will blend with my neighborhood and the Dominguez Gap. This I have gone to all the neighbors that at all the neighborhood meetings that I had mentioned. I went to the scoping meetings. I have studied the reports, kept up communication with the eighth District Council office, made public comments, reported code and ordinance violations to this city. That has happened with integral communities. I have attended the public hearing. I've been speaking up and I have searched through the legislator appendix and findings that you all received. And I am not confident that what Ed says they've been trying to work with with the community. It's not showing up for us. We we want to know that off site traffic studies will reflect what we brought up as a community of the scoping meetings with the width of the streets, all the streets in and out of that area. My my neighborhood does have a distinct character. It has the eucalyptus trees that line the perimeter of the property. They sway in the breeze. They attract the birds who live near the Dominguez gap, and they absorb the noise pollution from the metro line, the Union Pacific Freight Lines. They are blowing their their horns last night, mid midnight, mid-day early morning. The buffer zone that they want to put here with this particular project has only 20 feet high. Freeze. They will not. If I fear they will not give the privacy to to my neighborhood and keep the the the quality of life that my my neighbors and I have been able to go. I want to be proud of of my neighborhood. I, I deal with the blight. My neighbors and I deal with the blight in and out. We use the Go Beach app to get the trash cleaned up off of the 48th Street berm Union Pacific. I want to know what you would be proud of. This project doesn't reflect that. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi there. My name is Gabrielle Weekes. I'm a resident of the second District, but I'm the elected chair of the Sierra Club for the 11 cities in and around Long Beach. So I represent members in all the council districts. You guys got a letter a few weeks ago from one of our volunteers, Justin Ramirez, suggesting that some other things happen with this property because Long Beach has been such a leader with union issues as well as environmental issues. We were surprised that this didn't call for a union labor to build these things, but also that we lost an opportunity to be environmental leaders here. There are developments going in in a lot of neighboring communities in Southern California that require for large developments like this that they have solar on the roof, that they have gray water, drought tolerant landscaping. I heard tonight that the developer is gifting drought tolerant landscaping to the neighbors to to buy their, you know, support for the issue . I'd like to see some drought tolerant landscaping on this actual development. Maybe some other environmental components like, oh, I'm sure increased insulation that that would require less air conditioning and heating in the seasons if they did more than just the bare minimum that's required by law. So there's a lot of things that with a large development like this, whether it's 60 some odd homes or 130 that you guys could have this really be an example for what transit oriented development. Make a special bus stop there or as well as just environmentally responsible development could look like. And so I hope you guys will maybe search through your emails and look for that letter from just a Ramirez. It had a few ideas, I'm sure there maybe even some more. If you guys want to make that, hold that to the same standard that like Signal Hill and Irvine are now doing for large developments. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Kobe Sky. I'm a second district resident. My address is on file. I'm also an environmental engineer. I'm on the Sustainable City Commission and a board member of the local Sierra Club as well. And I know that often Sierra Club is painted as opposed to development. And I just want to make clear that we're not opposed to development. But we have spoken out at council meetings before in opposition to the development that has a significant negative impact on the environment, on the quality of life of residents, on developments that don't have redeeming qualities in terms of environmental mitigation, affordable housing, other criteria that we as a city hold are important and developments that have terrible precedence in terms of land use, in terms of secure, in terms of the environmental impacts. And this project hits all of those. And so I won't repeat comments that have already been raised, but I think that, um, we're very concerned about the way this project has been moving forward, and we hope that the Council send it back for further consideration. Also, just to echo comments that were raised earlier, I think further vetting of projects like this, especially at this scale, we haven't seen a project of this scale, a residential project in many years. And we have a great Sustainable City Commission with a lot of really great expertize, and we'd love to see projects of this scale come to that commission so we can help the developers get some of the environmental issues that are raised. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, I'm Joel Weinstein. I live in District eight. I walked out to this site just a couple of days ago. I drove to the Gateway also to get a real feel for this. What strikes me is that what you're being asked to do tonight, the whole list is illogical. You're being asked to designate a new zoning. When this is not even part of the menu that you're able to do legally. And then later you're being asked to approve this new zoning citywide. There was a comment, I think, from his body that no, it really wouldn't apply citywide. But if you look at the language, it would it just is that apparently her department doesn't intend to immediately invoke its provisions because there aren't projects immediately in the pipeline to apply it to. Now, if, in fact, you think you can pass a new ordinance for which there's been no due notice, I think you have something to think about. The process is probably illegal and is for sure illegitimate. It is unfair. There has been no public discussion of a citywide policy. Every call, every call to these hearings emphasized that this is about River Walk About or Oregon Del Amo Park about that neighborhood. So there's no clue to residents except that there's no clue to residents of the city. What's really at stake? It's citywide. Now, is the news possible new zoning a good idea? Well, I think if you look at this project. Well, first of all, the new zoning is a catch all because it's not only R.P. 13, it could be R.P. anything. In other words, it's total flexibility, which is regarded by the proponents as a good thing. Actually, you have zoning regulations not to permit total flexibility, but to have constraints. So really, this is kind of an anything goes new zoning with a particular case of our P 13. And you see what that case may mean when it's played out at this project site. This project essentially has been designed as a high class ghetto. It has a one gate. I'm on like the planning documents of ten and 20 years ago in the city, which said, let's have higher density, but let's put the residents along transit corridors and business centers so that they can be well-served by good public transit to get to their jobs and they can patronize businesses there. This is not it at all. Rather, what it reminds me of is my father's memoirs. When he came to the USA. They passed through Warsaw on their way from the Ukraine and they lived for a couple of days with relatives in a Warsaw tenement. One gate served hundreds of people. There were tenements and then tenements and tenements. And of course, 22 years later, that became part of the Warsaw Ghetto. That's sort of what you're acting for if you go with this. Thank you. Thank your next speaker, please. I'm not a public speaker. So I wrote this down. My name is Diana Drew, and I live at 116 West 48th Street. Um, our house is directly adjacent to the proposed development that would literally be in our backyard. When we chose our house, we chose it for a lot of reasons, one being the privacy that we had. The Boy Scout Park was back there filled with acres of trees and it was really nice. But things change and we all know that they're going to change. The Boy Scout Park is not there anymore. That land is going to be developed by somebody somehow. So. We need somebody that's going to make it better, not worse. We think that with this property going in, this development going in, it's going to increase our property values. It's not going to decrease them. If this doesn't go in, somebody else will come in and maybe they come in with more townhomes. Maybe they come in with condos, maybe they come in with lower income. And that decreases our property, but it also increases the crime. This group has come out into the neighborhood. They've gone door to door. They've talked to all of us and asked us what we need. Some people answer, some people don't. Some people like to complain. There's nothing I can do about that. But they've asked us. They've helped us. I don't know what more we can really ask. We want our neighborhood to improve. We want our area to improve. They want our area to improve. It seems like our goals are kind of the same. Is it a perfect plan? No. You know, is ever going to be happy about it? No. But considering the possible alternatives that are out there, I think it's a good plan. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Laurie Angell. I live at 458 East Platt Street, which is probably within a half mile of the of the development in real estate. It's location, location, location. Now, I don't have a problem necessarily with density. The problem with the density of this project is where it's located. There's no easy way in and out of that neighborhood. If you picked up that piece, that parcel ten acres and put it elsewhere where people could get in and out of the neighborhood be a completely different story. So it isn't being adverse to density. It's been adverse to that level of density in an area that you can't get in and out of. So it doesn't really belong there. That's the problem. So what you need, you need to reduce the density of that project if you're going to have it there. Otherwise, you're introducing lifelong problems to that neighborhood that's going to impact them for the rest of their days. It's the it's the wrong thing to do. The parking is inadequate. I mean, they don't have driveways. You just have to park in your garage. I did notice that there's a little street parking, but I can hardly see it at all. We were told there's no significant impacts with parking, but there's going to be 1200 increased trips per day through the neighborhood. 1200 increased trips. But the city doesn't have a standard, so it's no problem. The city doesn't have a standard, so it's no problem. Are you kidding me? We're going to allow the increased traffic because the city doesn't have a standard for that and there's no way to mitigate it. It's going to happen. So so what my suggestion is, I mean, I was part of redevelopment. We bought the property for for Oregon Park. We want Oregon Park. I worked on that for years and years and years. Don't do Oregon Park. Don't do the level of improvements to that neighborhood that you're doing that is forcing the developer to have that level of density in the neighborhood. Don't do it. We'll do the park some other time. It's a wonderful little thing to just put in front of you, but the cost to the neighborhood and the individuals and the safety issues on the street are overwhelming. So talking about alternatives, the only alternative we got was 131 units. That's our alternative. Give us an alternative that works better for everybody. So the city and the developer have been working on this for two years. What we got was a fully baked, baked plan with. Absolutely. I mean, you know, the incidental public input that you have to do for these plans without any real anybody really listening to us. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Josette Sangria, and I live on D.C. Avenue for eight, six, six D.C. Avenue. And thank you for your time tonight. Pardon me for my vocal chords. Not really functioning well. But I'm perfect. No problem. I'm sorry. I said you sound perfect. Oh, thank you. I was here on October 15th, and tonight I would like to continue on supporting this project. I am very excited. And for my children who grew up in Long Beach and who also received scholarships, not to underestimate the schools in Long Beach. You know, we have a motto at home that anywhere you go, anywhere, any place you go, the first teachers are the parents. And it is the teaching at home and the discipline at home that helps the children grow. So and we have been to the other in a city in Carson also. Of supporting the project long before the Home Depot. And we were other ground breaking also for that one because we wanted our children to grow in a community to to be part of a community where sports also are emphasized. And this park here in Oregon would welcome the inner cities, too, to give them a chance to make their minds busy. A lot of teenagers, a lot of young people growing up and we know the fact that there are so many, you know, broken homes due to addiction, all that. And we want to integrate our children the education itself. And not only that, sports, too. And for this project, it has really. Given our community like we are? Well, I have been there almost 20 years, and I don't even know some of the some of the residents there. Now it's uniting our community. And it's I think I'm very, really excited and want my children and my grandchildren to be proud that I'm a part of supporting a project like this. Because my children grew up and they had scholarships in college and in tennis, and now they're successful. And now they are also looking for homes in Long Beach. And my other daughter lived in San Diego, moved back and she's she looked at a change and she wants more change, too. And this is a big change. And I'm so thankful for the Riverwalk homes and the developer. Thank you so much for your time. And I am here to support every every step of the way for it. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Next speaker, please. Good evening. My name is Edward Giles. I live at 240 West 48th Street. I live in a cul de sac on 48th Street that's neighboring. To. The River Walk project. Family lives and homes matter in our community. Fans in this community have complained that their homes and streets are thinking. They have not received a response to any of the fan. Satisfactions from the lobby city officials. As soon as a developer. Wants to come and totally. Rearrange our community. We have pending. Infrastructure. The Planning Commission approved the Riverwalk project. To be presented to the. City Council for final approval. During this commission. Session, it appeared to this writer that the general consensus of the Planning Commission that it was going to be inevitable that the Boy Scout. Camp grounds that is not open area will be. Resolved by developers and communities should be happy with the deal that was on the table. I know that this may be. True and the committee must make some sacrifices. But to build 131 homes, the 4747. Daisy Avenue is. Overwhelming and not acceptable. The traffic volume, pollution parking problems will create a major impact. To the infrastructure of our communities. The neighboring homes to the river project should not have to endure two and. Three story homes overlooking our homes, which will eliminate privacy, peace and tranquility. It's one thing to remove. Well over 100. Mature trees. But to lose your peace and tranquility to two. Two. Two and three storey homes will have a negative, negative impact to my family. The developer's efforts to reach out to the community are well noted. But all the paint. Fences, fences. Pruning of trees. To to affect the. Curbside appearances for the residents. Close to the entry and exit the daisy and organ avenue would not change the facts. Too many people. Vehicles and water drought will still have a dramatic negative effect on the infrastructure. Of our community and my family. Our concerns were brought to the attention of our eighth District Council member in informal gathering. His response. Was, Just ask the. Developer for what you want done in the community. Chances are. You get it? I shouldn't have to negotiate with the developer for infrastructure concerns. I have observed other areas in the community within the district. And sidewalks that are maintained new paved by the city of Long Beach. Why does our community have to negotiate with a developer for infrastructure construction concerns? Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Good evening, council members and good evening. I'm Eric Garcia and my name is Virgil and I live in DC Avenue and between 40 and 49th Street and I live there since 1999 and I'm here in support of the Riverwalk project I'm supporting is because this is the continuation of the beautification of the not Long Beach. It's virtually done by your ex-mayor and you as a mayor right now that you're doing a good job in the not long bits. No indication of the alley and the not the Long Beach volleyball road. And the reason why I'm supporting this is because the not Long Beach now is losing a lot of businesses. One hope is that we lost the arts, we lost the rails, we lost the harbor paths and all those small businesses in these buildings and not Long Beach Boulevard. You can see a lot of vacancies, a lot no tenants now. But because of this Riverwalk project, this will help boost the surrounding businesses and all the restaurants and all the gasoline stations and everything will benefit from all this Riverwalk project vacation. You can see the beautification. They really help get behind the surroundings of the Dixie Avenue, Oregon Pacific and about eight and 49 Street. And this is this will continue the beautification project of Long Beach Long Beach mayor and and and others. And I can I can see the big picture that this will really help boost the air and the value of the homes in the surroundings. And also, you know, the traffic that is normal here in LA, in Southern California is it's always there, this tropical wherever you go, especially on grass hours. And I'm pretty sure this project, city project will have a solution to those. That's why they're putting a traffic light. And I also emphasize I think this is better than the leave. This land, idle and useless is better. They have something in there, it's gasoline. Or you going to have a beautiful park where they put the people around the area will benefit and it's good. And the Del Amo that all those cars passing by will see the dedication that's going on in the area. That's why I'm here in support of this project. I can see the big picture and I know that this is will help a lot of things in the area. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I'm going to I'm going to go ahead. And unless there's anyone else close the speakers list, please just get in line. If you're if you're planning on speaking, sir, move, move the the line down so I can get everybody in there. But I'm going to. Go ahead, sir. Hello. My name is Luke Halsey. I reside in 4956 Daisy Avenue on the list on this address for 60 years. To me, it seems like this project is being rushed through by some special interest groups who want to make some quick money. This project, in its present form is too big for the area. The three story home just don't fit in fit. In the area. The streets in this area. What they said before falling apart, they need to be dug up. The slurry seal doesn't do the job also and it is too much. Traffic on these streets is ridiculous. And also. Maybe by losing development, who was looking at a rusting railroad, bridges all full of graffiti and everything. And that bridge was built in 2002. And has never been painted. I mean, what an eyesore you and and see what else to do to the project. This development is being cut back by at least a whole bunch of homes. I don't know the exact number. Daisy Avenue would have to be made a one way street between. 49th and Alamo northbound. Only because two way traffic is a disaster. Coming down the street is just too narrow. And also as far as the park goes. What are they going to do about that park being a magnet for crime, gangs, trash. Graffiti and everything else out there that's going to be fenced. Off yet to have a post, a guard, 24 hours a day there, that just could be. A magnet for crime. And also when we. Do get the police, the police are too busy being south of the Pacific Railroad. Tracks are all hiding on Bixby Knolls and Virginia Country Club. And when they do come to town, they run it through the. Real quick and disappear. So anyway, this is this project needs to be examined. More thoroughly before a decision is made. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is Richard Ivey. My address is on file. I'm worried that this sets a precedent like we did in the 1980s, where we created all those cracker boxes. We have adjacent property of the oil operator site. We have the idea that this can go on in in other districts without really thinking about this, without having, you know, the proper outreach, the idea of permitting and in fact, encouraging to the point of creating a special zoning designation for a land use form we do not want is baffling. We do not want high density development in most of Long Beach as one of the reasons we live here rather than in downtown L.A.. It is because even though we are an area with a high population, we are spread out. And that's what makes Long Beach the great city that it is. This would be great in the area surrounding city hall, around city hall. This proposed ordinance might make sense where New could replace some of the old, severely outdated projects that do not provide parking and basic necessities like laundry area recreational amenities. Ironically, though, this is probably one of the few areas in Long Beach that other areas in Long Beach that this will encourage to have high density development. The Gaslamp District down in San Diego. There was not the high density that we got with the cracker box houses, and those areas have been able to be restored and regenerated. This is going to set the precedent where, again, like some areas where we have the cracker box houses, I've done property management. It's really hard when you're on a block with something that's overbuilt and you can't change it to try to restore a neighborhood. And this is going to we can rebuild our cities. We're looking at the future. They did a project on the genome in the 1990s and they determined, you know, they were talking all about it was genetics. It was this. We rely on our city to develop infrastructure, to develop the environment we're going to live in, to determine the kind of people and the kind of city we're going to have in the future. And genetics determined to be irrelevant. They determined the most important thing that is environment. And we're setting the future of our city and we're not making a good precedent for environment. If you do support before before the next speaker. Just the gentleman. The end is the last speaker. So, Mr. Good, who you already are, were in line. So you called. But the gentleman in the end. Raise your hand real quick there. That's your final speaker there. Okay, so we're just going to close the speaker's list. We got everybody else in line. Sir, your next. Thank you. I'm John Bolton. I'm the director of the Long Beach Boy Scouts. And on behalf of the board of directors of the Boy Scouts, I want to thank you for the opportunity of addressing you all. I just wanted to share a few things tonight about about this project and about the process that the Boy Scouts went through in determining what we were going to do with J. Read Scout Park back in 2008 at the downturn, economic downturn, we were seeking ways that we could be fiscally sustainable and manage the assets that we currently had. And we embarked upon a new strategic planning process at Tenet. Most of you might not be aware, but we had a tenant at will J read a long view private school that at its peak at 225 students in it and that closed in 2008. And so as we went through that process, we clearly carefully evaluated all our facilities for current usage patterns, future use of patterns, deferred maintenance, and also what could be a replacement of usage. And we'll do a read scout part kept on coming to the top of our lists to be evaluated in an effort to preserve the site . We worked with nearly a dozen groups, including private schools, other youth groups and community organizing organizations trying to preserve the property. In 2011, we brought in the Trust for Public Lands, a nationally recognized land conservation group. TPL worked for a year and a half to form a coalition to purchase and operate the site by the expiration of the contract in 213, TPL was not able to garner enough interest for a public access facility, and so we decided to put it on the open market, and now that's where Indigo Properties purchased it. So what does that meant to us and what does that meant for the Boy Scouts? The sale has allowed us to invest in our other properties. We lease RC based on a Naples Island. We own a square mile in the mountains, and it's given confidence not only for us to invest in those properties, but confidence for donors to invest in us. We have completed $200,000 improvements at our base and we put $1,000,000 into camp targets and we use very little from the proceeds of the sale for that. That's all come through donations. In addition, we've raised an additional $2 million towards other projects with an eventual goal of 5.8 million to invest in the sea bass in our current service center. I think that the ultimate thing that this will mean is more families for scouts, more families, schools, more families for businesses, and plus a new park. And I hope that you approve it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next week for peace. Good evening. My name is Carmen Valdez. I'm an eighth district resident and coincidentally, a proud mother of a first class scout. This is just an aside that came to me tonight. Rules and regulations of the Boy Scouts of America, Article nine, Clause six specifically states the Boy Scouts of America shall not, through its governing body or through any of its officers, its charter councils or members, involve the scouting movement and any question of political character. I would like you to take that into consideration when you consider the previous speakers comments. This year, the city of Long Beach ranks as 18th in Park score out of the largest 75 cities in the U.S.. It would have done better if not for the fact that the size of a median park in Long Beach is a mere three acres. Tonight, you can lower our rank by eliminating a park that is three times the medium size by rezoning it. The chairman of the Long Beach Planning Committee mission, Mark Christopher, stated, quote, This property is too valuable not to develop. I asked the council today. Have any of you researched the cost of the city to transform ten and a half acres of already developed land into parkland? Is it even feasible? Excuse me for disagreeing with Mr. Christopher's shortsightedness. Earlier this year, tens of thousands of Long Beach residents went without power for five days. Let me repeat that. Tens of thousands of Long Beach residents went without power for five days. This was followed weeks later with another lasting three days. Have any on this council or the office of the mayor considered that this outage was due to the strain of an outdated infrastructure and the continual development of the downtown area in the last few years? During the Planning Commission meeting. When asked about the additional load to the existing grid, added Gallagher of Integral two communities flippantly replied If everyone's power will be off when the system is taxed, so will those in this development. Tonight, the Council will vote on the countless health, social, environmental and economic benefits of Parkland to a community council member. Austin. Is it your legacy to be that of the council member who thought parks are overrated and not necessary and that cookie cutter homes as ubiquitous as fungus which paint the landscape of Orange County, are more valuable than our health, wellbeing and safety. How about making this land the crown of the divorce wetlands about which you so enthusiastically spoke earlier? Where do your priorities lay? I ask that you reject the rezoning of this land from you. Allowed number 11 to elude. Three. Elude. Three. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, Ray Gavlak, eighth district. And I'd like to ask if you would please listen for comparison. The following Long Beach parks are close to the same size as will Jay Reed, Ramona Park, Martin Luther King Park, Mother's Beach, Los Cerritos Park, Golden Shore, Reserve and Cherry Park. They're all between seven and a quarter to ten and a quarter acres. Now, imagine these parks tucked away in the corner of an underserved neighborhood with ingress and egress limited to only two locations onto these currently overburdened and narrow streets, streets that have not been maintained and are beyond being able to be fixed with. A slurry. Seal. Now envision that they're within blocks of a large mobile park that serves 131 mobile homes. Their entrance and exit onto Oregon that has no parking allowed on the street and can only support one car in one direction at a time. On the opposite border of this enclosed neighborhood is the Gresham housing project that was built to support Section eight housing needs. The other two borders are the lovely Dominguez Gap wetlands that serves our residents with a quiet, open space opportunity. And the other is Union Pacific Railroad at the top of a 30 foot embankment. And you heard they travel throughout the night. Can you honestly state that you would relocate or suggest to a friend or a family member to invest $600,000 in a home in this type of neighborhood? The Dominguez Gap residential community itself struggles with poor property maintenance, crime, parking issues, abandoned properties and narrow streets. These descriptive words were used at the Planning Commission meeting by people that spoke in support of the project. I'd like to say kudos to the developer for providing exterior paint on dozens of these homes, fixing gates and yards to gather support for their project. But even this act of bribery does not seem sufficient to entice new homeowners to drive to their private gated community tucked in the corner of this isolated neighborhood. Daisy and Pacific are defined as the main entrance off of Delano Boulevard for this proposed development. Driving west on Del Amo, both left turn pockets are limited to two cars maximum. What happens during the high traffic hours in case you don't drive it, it's gridlock. With the approval of this project, there will be an additional 300 vehicles. Council members. You may want this new zoning for other areas like the property being sold at Los Coyotes and Woodruff in the fifth district or the seventh District oil field properties in Wrigley. But even those have better access than what we're talking about tonight. It is a separate issue. And Councilmember Austin, please take the lead on this. You were elected to improve quality of life for our residents, not support negative development that isn't even from our city. Don't allow this to move forward by approving new zoning that will give the developer the opportunity maybe to sell it off now with entitlements back to the community with zero leverage. Thank you. Right. Time's up. Keep this. Land is open space for the citizens of Long Beach. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Okay. Hello. My name is Mike Driller. I live on 14th Street. My wife spoke earlier. We're right on the property line there. I feel a little funny speaking with all of these good speakers who have obviously done a lot of homework. My homework is kind of. Now let's say it's much less. I talked to Al Austin. Of course, he's a politician. And I talked to Ed Gallagher, who's essentially a salesman in this situation. But I like what they say. I believe them. And I think that the good guys that are trying to do what they can. In the situation. It's not a good one. I mean, there's a lot of. There's a lot of downside to this, but they paid $6 million for this ground. And it's not a Boy Scout camp anymore. It's going to be sold. It's going to be developed. And I'd like to try to do it with that company and the people that have been coming around. I know they're just painting houses and fiction gates, but I appreciate that. And maybe I'm just easy to bribe. But I like Moran. I think I approve of this development. Thank you. But after this gentleman, Mr. Good here, you're going to be to this gentleman and the last few speakers. I think he's the last one. So, Mr. Good here. You will go before him, okay? No, no, not before him. Go ahead, sir. Your next. Good evening, Mayor. Good evening, Councilman. My name is Victor. I live on Daisy Street, 48th Street and 49th. I'd like to say that the project Riverwalk is is is going to bring a lot of positive and, you know, a lot of progress to our area. When buying a home sometime in 2011, 2012, I was discerning where to buy and I couldn't afford Bigsby. And if there's more development in this area north of the railroad and an improvement to the area, I would really like that because it increases the value of my property where I stay right now. So I'm. All for the Riverwalk. Project and there's some mitigation. Actions perhaps that have really been touched on, like traffic and parking. But I'd like to thank the the lady Diane, who, who has been explaining a lot of things to the about the project to me and I. I think it's a good project and I'd like to endorse it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker. Good evening and thank you for your service to the community. My name is Carol Beery and I own a residence at 48th and Daisy. I'm in opposition of the proposed 131 unit project due to the impact of such increased density on the neighborhood and streets that are well below city standards for width. Our 13, 13 homes per acre. That's dense. Yes, the developer has had many meetings, but several of us have been opposed all the way. I've seen how they're improving properties in the area to buy approval and bussing those people into this meeting and last month's commission meeting. Regarding density, this small quadrant neighborhood is mostly single storey residences, yet the developer proposes 131, two and three story homes. These homes are to be three and four bedrooms. HUD states that there is a two person per bedroom policy which indicates actual occupancy will be 6 to 8 persons per household. However, the developer has stated that there will be 2.82 persons per household. This is a 29% understatement of all impacts. Why has this number been skewed and understated? Parking. The developer proposes 131 homes with two car garages and no driveway parking. They have indicated that there would be 40 guest parking spaces. The developer stated that they do not anticipate outside parking of the development as each residents will have a two car garage. However, the number they have used for vehicles is two vehicles per household when the national average is 2.3. Why has this number been skewed and understated, and how many? Two car garages do you know where 2.3 or even two cars are actually parked in them? There's not nearly enough parking provided within this development. These extra 100 plus cars will have to park in the nearby neighborhoods streets that are already crowded with vehicles at night and on street sweeping days. What will happen on weekends and holidays when residents have guests for parties and family gatherings? Regarding the roads, why was the fact that there are substandard streets, substandard side streets leading into this project omitted from the report? For example, Daisy is only 30 feet wide and Oregon is only 18 feet wide, according to the standards published by the University of California at Berkeley. Recommended street widths are 36 to 40, with 32 being the. Minimum for two sided parking. Regarding traffic, using the national average of 2.3 vehicles per household at two trips per day, this equals 524 additional in and out trips per day on these narrow streets where vehicles already have difficulty passing one another. The condition of the streets is poor and the winds are substandard. Unsafe conditions for residents and pets will ensue. With this increased traffic, how would even. Emergency vehicles access this development? The E.R. E.R.. Is flawed and biased and should be rejected because the facts are distorted. Why should zoning be altered to accommodate? Thank you, Bill. This project would set a terrible precedent. MAN Time. Time is up. Time's up. West. 65 homes instead. Thank you. Actually, sir. Mr.. Good to hear your next. Mr.. Good to hear your next note. This gentleman's lesser. Mr.. Good to hear your next. Okay, then just come up. He wanted to use less of mine, so go ahead. I'll be brief. Before getting to my overarching concern, just let me say I share the thinking of Reagan-Bush, of Joe Sabo and Cantrell, and particularly the gentleman that spoke of it reminded him of the Warsaw Ghetto, which comes close to what I was thinking when I looked at that picture. I said to myself, that is certainly, certainly a very fantastic design and looks very good. That would be ideal in a third world country where they would probably, unfortunately, have to put 10 to 12 families in each one period. There is no question this issue puts. Not only the current head, the councilperson for the district has been, but the entire council on a war footing with the rest of the city. If you've tried to follow this paradigm, period. I think it should be cut down, but at least by a third. But I want to now turn to something that you really never even that nobody else has mentioned. I don't think you've thought of the impact that this is going to have. If this goes through and particularly if it if it seeps out to other districts to have on the hotel business and the tourist business, on the business to the the attendance of the aquarium and the Queen Mary. Think for yourself as a parent, as a family member, would you take your family to a city? Where there's obviously something in the tap water, that ginger, this type of damaging thinking period, it makes absolutely no sense. And indeed it does put you on a war footing. I hope you realize that. And I understand that. And that's not just in the ninth District, that's across the city. And that's particularly true combined with the head up the rear decision of having a building here on Ocean Boulevard with having only requiring one parking space per unit period. It's just there is something in the tap water that needs to be addressed. Thank you. Final speaker. Hello, I'm Richard Gutman. I live at six of 2/37 Street and Wrigley Heights. It said that you would even consider allowing this property be built upon. It's one of our last open spaces along the L.A. River. It could be purchased or even taken by eminent domain for a few million dollars. I'm sure you claim we don't have the money yet. You're able to spend hundreds of millions for a new civic center without making a serious effort to explore retrofitting the current city hall. I watched this item recently when it came before the Planning Commission, over 250 residents signed a petition opposing it, and a number of people came down here and spoke against it, presumably, and uncompensated, just wanting to preserve the character of their neighborhood. I don't think the same can be said for all of the eight or ten who spoke in favor of this project. The developer admitted he planned houses. He painted houses of 23 residents and worked on over 30 homes to improve the neighborhood. Tonight, he gave even larger numbers. It's nice to have the homes fixed up, but this is little different from giving money in exchange for support. So as for executives of individual communities illegally contributing $750 to councilman, you're on this officeholder count. One $750 contribution is the legal limit. The council member returned the money. But are we to believe Integral Communities just gave him $3,000 out of the goodness of their heart? What bothers me more still is that you're wrong. It's like councilman and this same developer is trying to buy the oil operators highly contaminated property in my Wrigley Heights neighborhood, and he wants this same zoning planned unit development to build more sun cracker box homes there. I have an email I obtained on the public records under a public records request from Amy Bodak, in which she suggests that this same zoning be used in oil operators, be used on oil operators property in my neighborhood. The proposed ordinance states that the purpose of a planned unit development is to reduce or eliminate rigidity in traditional development standards. This is contrary to the very purpose of development standards. It does make more money for developers, though. After reading this proposal that this proposal allows houses only 16 feet wide, I made it my own homes frontage. My house is pretty small to 112 square feet, but it's 36 feet wide. A 16 foot wide house is ridiculous. Our neighborhood of standard 6000 square foot lots was the first outside of Belmont Shore, Naples, where the city allowed homes to be built on 2400 square foot lot. Please go take a look at what was done to Golden Avenue, north of Ward Road before you vote on this proposal. These two 400 square foot lots are neighborhood records. No place for kids to play, nowhere to park cars. And they are unbelievably narrow, 25 feet wide, but still wider by five feet than those in this proposed development. The late. Start times. Say one more. One more sentence. But the late Ray Robinson accounts for our district, told a developer who had built them, you built substandard houses on substandard lots on a substandard street. Thank you, sir. Okay. So we've we've closed public comment. So now the the appellant has an opportunity for a couple of minutes of rebuttal or additional now serve you you use I believe 13 minutes of the last. So if you can just keep us to two or 3 minutes, that would be ideal. Please. I'll keep it really short. Thank you. Just a couple of definitive things to say. The I've heard some negative comments on several issues and we want to clarify some things. For example, the use of artificial turf on the park is that was what was the city wanted. And we can go either way on that. The gentleman just spoke, said something about 16 foot white houses. That's completely incorrect. That's not true. And I think that the education, the school we like, the schools, I mean, sure, they could get better, but they're not. They just got bad. For some reason, I don't understand it. And for the gentleman who spoke about worrying about if his house is going to fall down, if we do anything on that site to cause damage to houses, we will fix it. I urge you to read the nine letters of support that were delivered earlier. And then there was one comment about about union issues. Well, all the public improvements that we're doing are all going to be paid by prevailing wage. So that will foster the the union involvement. Um, and I think one of the ladies mentioned that we should have drought resistant landscaping that's condition 12, that's requiring of the subdivision drought resistant landscaping. So I just wanted to bring those things clear so that the council understands that some of those things weren't quite correct. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, sir. Okay. So we're going to go back to the hearing. At this point, we closed the public comment portion as well as the hearing and do the deliberation and any action from the council. Before we get into this portion, I just want to remind the body that there are a series of motions if the council goes in that direction and that the the city attorney has well has laid those out. So those are what's what's in front of us. In front of us. So at this time, I'm going to close it out back to the council and go to Councilmember Austin. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I really want to take this opportunity to thank the many residents who came out this evening to speak either for or in opposition to this. This project has been noted that we have been the city was first notified and the sale went through a couple of years ago. And so this is a been about a two year process. I met with many residents. There have been a number of community meetings in living rooms at the local park. You know, we've we've we've had, you know, impromptu meetings throughout the community on this particular issue. I've heard from a lot of people. And from the very beginning, I think I was I was clear to everybody because I thought that this this project brought opportunity for for the community, opportunity to bring people together. What I'm seeing here this evening, I would say that that was successful. I see people from this community that have never been to city council meetings. I see people who don't know or didn't know their neighbors prior to the conversations and discussions about this project and the the mitigations or the impacts that it would have on their neighborhood. And so with that. In mine. I think we made some progress. Residents, I got to tell you that I'm a bit my tongue throughout this this process, because I heard some very disparaging remarks about what I believe is a great community with good schools and good people. And, you know, I took a tally throughout the public comment and, you know, there were about 29, 30 speakers here this evening. And, you know, and I think there all the residents were coming. I want to thank all the people from outside of the neighborhood who have an interest in this as well, you know, because this is your city as well. But I'm really listening to the residents who live in this community. My ear is there because I said that from the very beginning. There's been a lot of not a lot of opinions is a lot of misinformation has been you know, there have been political agendas, obviously, associated with this. And, you know, I've been very. Patient and I've listened to everybody. I was out walking the neighborhood just last week. I wanted to do my due diligence in terms of listening to the residents, not hearing about it on social media, not hearing about it, hearsay, third party, but talking to residents at their door. And I had an opportunity to talk to some of you even who spoke this evening. My Italian residents who live in the impacted neighborhood. Seven were opposed. Eight were in favor. This is a split community. This is a split community. I mean, the jury is it's not clear whether or not one way or another we oppose it or in favor of it. And a lot of people are indifferent in talking to them. They were indifferent in that. Yes. If we can mitigate traffic, if we can, we can deal with that. The issues that that are that are obvious, you know, we can do that. And they would be in favor of it. I would I want to just say that my mission as a as a council member, I mean, I walked I've talked to many residents over the last three and a half years. My mission has been to upgrade uptown, right, to improve the quality of life in our communities and to take advantage of opportunities that are in front of us. And I see this as a rare opportunity. I want to walk through the the brief history, because I think it's very important to put that perspective for everybody at home. I think the Boy Scout executive director did a good job of it, but I'm going to recap some of it and Will will get read was a ten acre park gifted to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941. And it served our community and served the scouts for many years. And during the mid 2000 there were some talks between the city and the Boy Scouts for a possible land swap for the city to obtain. Will J read? But nothing was ever worked out. And I'm sure I mean, we had some speakers here. We had a former council member here who has some perspective on that to tell us why. I don't I'm not exactly privileged to all of that inner city staff who can tell us more about that. I had a long meeting with our former city manager, and he had some perspective and background on this this property as well. In 2012, the Boy Scouts voted to put Wil J. Scout Park up for sale due to financial difficulties and maintenance costs. In July 2nd May 2012, when I took office, the Boy Scouts voted to accept a purchase offer from 4.8 million from the Trust for Public Lands. However, the Trust's Trust for Public Lands still had the opportunity or had to identify partners to finance the acquisition as well as to operate and maintain it. The terms of the purchase contract with the Boy Scouts provided the trust for public lands. Nine months agreement to find the financial backing. The TPL then contracted. Contacted the department. Water replacement district. I'm sorry. The County of Los Angeles. The City of Long Beach, and other public agencies to request funding partners, but not nothing was available to finalize any agreements. Keep in mind, I'm in July 2012. At the time, TPL was asking for funding. The city of Long Beach had a structural deficit of $17.2 million, requiring major cuts to our police, fire, parks, libraries. In other city city services. The balance our brothers budget. The city, unfortunately at that time did not have the money available to either purchase nor maintain that property. The county wasn't interested. The Water Replenishment District. Was loose, loosely interested, but there was not the the the the the the agreement or the the ability to really put together the resources to purchase that property. And I can tell you that I was privileged to at least five or six meetings during that period of time with TPL as well as other agencies to try to make that happen. In April 2013, the Boy Scouts voted to deny the request of the TPO to renew their option agreement and instead decided to put the property back on the market for sale in October 2013. The Boy Scouts voted to sell the property to Integral Communities for $6 million. This was a private land transaction between the Boy Scouts and the developer. And I will just emphasize that enough. I can't emphasize that enough. There's a lot been said about, you know, keeping it park space. It was never park space. If you look at the maps of greenspace and parks based in the city of Long Beach. Well, Jerry was is not on there. It's clearly not there because it was public. It was private land and always had been. In November 2013, after Integral Communities purchased the property, my office received some calls and emails from for residents adjacent to the property who concerned about the cutting of some trees and what the plans were for the property. A coordinated meetings with the residents immediately adjacent to the property with integral communities to discuss the site. Integral Search subsequently initiated separate meetings with residents near the property. In the spring of 2014, Integral Communities submitted an application and site plan to the city for Riverwalk. In September 2014, the notice of preparation was issued to the city for an environmental impact report, and there were two public scoping meetings held, one at Shire Park and the other at duly elementary school. The Planning Commission held three sessions and a hearing on this issue before voting on their recommendation to the City Council. And I met with many neighbors on several occasions. Like I said, I walk the neighborhood and I talk with many people who live in the neighborhood about the proposed park project. And before I get into some additional comments, I'd just like to ask a couple of questions which I've heard from residents this evening just to get some clarification. And for city staff, I heard a lot of express concerns about losing privacy, particularly those who live on 48th Street. And I just want to clarify. I think I heard it. I want to make sure that I'm clear. Will there be any three storey homes in this development immediately adjacent to these existing homes? Councilmember asked. And the answer to that is no. We actually have a requirement in the project that the homes abutting the 14/48 Street northern boundaries be two story. We also have a requirement that there be at least a minimum of a six foot six inch block wall, which can be increased to eight feet in height if that is desired. He. Thank you. Hey, guys. No one can be asking questions from the audience, from the audience, or. Can. Also, as. A fan staff discuss some of the potential projects or issues that can be addressed with the $100,000 traffic medication fund that is being proposed for the development. Let me just be a little more specific as well. I know there was a there was a lot of conversation about the Meryl Streep Daisy. I was out there walking the other day. One of the speakers, Mr.. Mr. Causey pointed out. And we were talking in front of his house and, you know, he made a great suggestion that this be studied as a as a one way street. Would that be something that we could look at using that plan to do? Certainly the concept of a traffic mitigation fund was used very successfully in the Douglas Park Development Agreement, whereby the city was able to utilize the funds to address very specific traffic issues that were raised by the development of Douglas Park that were unanticipated. It allows the city's traffic engineer to be very site specific and very responsive to the needs of that immediate community. It is absolutely within the purview of the city traffic engineer to utilize those funds for those purposes. So certainly if a study needed to be conducted and it was determined that a one way street couplet or a one way street pattern was most efficient and desired. Yes, absolutely. That's something that could be done with these funds. Okay. And another concern that was was pretty consistent was the fact that that that particularly residents who live immediately adjacent to the property or around the property were concerned that people or residents in the property would be parking outside in their areas. And I'm sensitive to that that concern. I'm just curious whether or not we could look at preferential parking. And I think we can. Obviously, I think that's something that we can do. But I'd just like to get staff response on preferential parking, the possibility of doing so at a later date. That is also something that is is readily applicable to this mitigation fund. So if there is that a preferential parking district does require a survey and a certain petition process, certainly these funds could be used to go through that process and determine if that is warranted and if it's desired by the immediate community. I met with several residents on 48th Street who said their homes were built on a former dumpsite. Can staff address the research found regarding that? Certainly, as Joe Pera of Rincon indicated earlier, through the secret process, we scoured the state databases and have not been able to find any evidence of a landfill. Further, when this issue was raised at the Planning Commission, we went to a separate landfill consultant that the city has worked with in the past, who also did a database search and can find no evidence of any documented landfills in that area. That's not to say that the that this area might not have been subjected to illegal dumping or to improper compaction when the residential tract was developed in the forties and fifties, that there is no evidence of an actual landfill having ever existed on that site . Thank you very much. So I understand that there are many different opinions on the project. Many residents I spoke to in the neighborhood believe the project will be good for the neighborhood and they like the project. Some residents overall like the project, but have specific concerns, are issues they'd like to see addressed. And I think some of those have been addressed through the mitigations proposed for the project. Ultimately, I must weigh all of this input and these opinions to decide what I believe is in the best interest of the community. For one, this is not city property, but private property. The city had the opportunity a few times to acquire their property, but that was never realized, whether because of fiscal limitation or other factors. It's a land remained in private hands while it was undeveloped. When it was owned by the Boy Scouts, it was never a public park, nor was it publicly accessible open space. We have a lot of open space, by the way, in a district. The biggest open spaces is not publicly accessible. It's actually a country club. We have open space in the Carlitos housing. We have seven acre urban farm there. There is a lot of open space. We voted this evening on 39 acres of open space for for native habitat restoration. There's a lot of open space. And yes, this is private development, ten acres. And we're going to get three and a half acres of public park space. I'm weighing this out and I'm having a hard time seeing where this is bad for the community. As the Planning Commission chair, Marc Christoval, said last month during his hearing. To believe that this property would be remain open space forever. Is is really a pipe dream. It's not not feasible. I want to remind you comments from earlier from Councilmember former Councilmember Val Lerche, how long it took to find the forest wetlands. So three decades. Are we really, really, really willing to wait that long to do improvements in this neighborhood? Hey, guys. First of all, we can't go. We can't do like this. I don't think. Thank you. This is private property is going to be developed as residential. So. Watch this. This takes us to this particular proposal. The quality is, I believe, a quality proposal. As a development services director is indicated, the homes are of quality design. And this is a quality development that will be a complement to the neighborhood. In addition, the development includes a development agreement that provides many community benefits to the Dominguez Gap neighborhood. Most notably, the new park at Organ and Animal. When I was first walking this neighborhood running for office a few years ago. And ever since then I've been asked by numerous residents in the direct neighborhood and around the neighborhood when we when are we going to build this park that we were promised seven, eight years ago? The land was acquired by the redevelopment agency and was supposed to be built with read about development bond proceeds. But that money ran out and we no longer have redevelopment. So the city does not have the funds to develop the park at any time in the foreseeable future. This is an opportunity, folks, that I don't believe will come again to build a new city owned park that will be well-used by kids throughout the neighborhood and throughout the community. I think there are great benefits to having a park there with active recreation. I've said on many occasions, if you go north of the four or five freeway, you have very limited active recreation for our youth in that community. This park will serve a need when I say active recreation, soccer. Rugby football. Things that keep our kids running. That bring families and communities together. The development agreement also assures that several streets in the Dominguez Gap neighborhood will be repaved. 48th Street, from Oregon Avenue to Long Beach Boulevard. 49th Street from Morgan Avenue to Long Beach Boulevard. Daisy Avenue, Oregon Avenue to Pacific Avenue will also get repairs. And I know some of those streets need more than just flowery silk. I'm not I wasn't born yesterday. I've been I mean, I've seen the conditions of the streets. I've driven the streets. I've walked the streets they need for grind and overlay. And this is why I've asked for an amendment or further conversation on this and to give our public works director the ability to approve whatever improvements are going to be made there. I'll be making my motion. The request. I'm sorry. The development agreement. Also, there's a $100,000 traffic mitigation plan that we've discussed. I've also heard from residents that they want to explore having some sort of streets become one way because of the narrowness of the streets. And I think we've addressed that and will address that. Others have asked about having speed bumps. This mitigation plan can be used to study these measures and implement the necessary traffic improvements to address some of these concerns. It's not a perfect neighborhood. It's not a perfect development. It's not a perfect situation. But I think this is with almost $4 million in public improvements that are going to be directly into this neighborhood as a result of this project. There's something very difficult to walk away from. Plus there are additional public safety and school impact fees that will be going toward these services. Some residents who live adjacent to the property have expressed concerns about losing their privacy. With the new homes right next door. And we as we've established, there will be no three story homes up against homes along 48th Street. We also ask that the perimeter wall be eight feet high rather than the proposed six and a half feet, and that mature trees be planted along the perimeter of the property adjacent to the homes. And if we can preserve existing trees, I would ask the developers to look at that option as well. No one can be for sure what the future holds or what the market conditions will be a year or two from now. We certainly did not see ten years ago being in this situation. We didn't see five years ago being in this situation. But we have a unique opportunity when all said is done. I believe this is a project that the city can be proud of. The community can be proud of in the neighborhood with new homes, a new park and new streets, as well as 39 acres of wetlands just across the Llano will be much better off. So council members weighing in strong support of this project and would ask that you join me in approving it. And there are a number of motions that I would like to to read. Two. But should we take it from the council first? Yeah, I think what we'll do is if you I know you've you've made a motion or there's a second by Councilman Richardson. I think on the first the first part of the motion, I'll go through the members that are there, whether cued up, and then we can go to that vote and then go through the votes. Okay. Okay. So just to keep this organized. Next is Councilman Mongo. Thank you, councilmember austin. I think your outreach to the community and I've heard from neighbors who you knocked on their door personally. I actually ran into one last night and they think that that's wonderful that you've continued to keep that connectivity with the community. And I appreciate that. Even after a presentation from Miss Bodak, I heard from the community in public comment and perhaps they prepared their questions in advance of the presentation. But I just wanted to ask two or three questions really quickly, just to once again confirm what I had heard earlier in the presentation and what you and I had discussed earlier, which is come to the attention of our office, that there is misinformation out in the community, and we just want to correct the record once again. Ms.. Modak, does approval of this project exempt any other development in the city from going through the necessary approval process, including Title 21 zoning within the Long Beach Municipal Code? No, ma'am, it does not. And will the development project in the eighth District at DC Avenue impact any other current or proposed or future projects? No, ma'am. Each project is determined and verified on the basis of its own qualities and characteristics. I appreciate that, and I know we've discussed it several times. And the final question, which was very specifically called to my office on numerous occasions today because of misinformation in the community. If there is, for instance, an existing parcel in the fifth District that's zoned institutional. Does approving tonight's list of items from Mr. Austin grant an automatic zoning change for any of those properties? Categorically no. Thank you. I really appreciate the amount of time you've spent on the phone with constituents across the city. I want to thank my staff for fielding the numerous calls and properly informing the community. There's a process for a reason and there are no secret projects. The words are there. To inform the community and engage the community. And I hope that we can all stand together and talk through the fair process that we have in in knocking on doors and talking to the community and getting involved. And I want to thank every single person that came here tonight, because it's really important that you came to voice your opinion. And thank you to all of those who called to get clarification, because you didn't think that Councilmember Austin or any other member of this council would try to be deceptive. And we're really here to move the community forward. And I want to thank Councilmember Austin for his leadership. Thank you, Councilmember Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I took a lot of notes and sort of have been following this here recently and just the start. I think this is just a tough position for the city council one way or the other. You know, I would love to say that we should acquire Jay Reed, invest that money, expand open space. But the reality is it's we're just in a position where you have to find an opportunity to expand open space and other places. I think, you know, there's you know, this is this is seems like you're taking a difficult situation and making it creating a win or dilemma. Park Oregon Park looks great from the renderings. So, so I'll just start by I'll just applaud all the residents and the Boy Scouts for coming out. I got a history lesson tonight on the history of all the efforts the Boy Scouts made to try to preserve that space. Seems like they went through the right steps, but it wasn't it wasn't possible. So I just have a few questions based on things I've heard tonight. So. When my residents in North Long Beach were very close to this area and including myself, I don't live very far, just the Long Beach Boulevard. When we think of parks and open space parks and recreations, historically folks haven't thought about Will J. Read. Was this ever open? Was the site ever open to the public for recreation use? Not to our knowledge. It was never considered a public park. The city has not used it as a public park. The city has not maintained it as a public park. Certainly it was available for special events and the Boy Scouts had a number of events, including overnight campgrounds, camping at that location. So I'm sure that there are a significant number of people in the community who have had access to wheelchair read in the past. But it is not and has not been publicly accessible to the residents of Long Beach. Okay. Is there now? I know that we're in the process of identifying, opening space and building new parks and trying to figure it out. And, you know, a big part of this is funding. And that's why it took so long with the de force wetlands opportunity. So is there funding available that I'm not aware of that the city has at this point to acquire the site and develop it into a park? I would leave that to the city manager or the assistant city manager, to my knowledge. No. No, sir. The Oregon Park site. What is the current development plan and timeline for that? If this isn't approved, including funding and timeline. If this is or if this if this. Is not. If this is not approved, we do not have any funding lined up for any portion of this project. It would still be owned by the former successor agency and now the city of Long Beach. But we do not have any identified funds for the construction. In the event that we cast a vote in support of this project. What is the timeline for park construction? The timeline for the park construction is concurrent with the overall development of the residential homes. Grading of the project site would be concurrent with grading of the park site. The developer would be required to deliver the park site prior to the 33rd issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the 33rd home. And the city would then enjoy the warranty maintenance period on the landscaping. And then the city would need to accept the park for use maintenance and essentially the rights to use the park and to maintain the landscaping by the 67th certificate of occupancy for the residential. We were very cognizant of the the need to ensure development of the park since that is a significant benefit to the neighborhood and we wanted to ensure that that would be done prior to completion of the residential project. So it sounds like when the project's halfway done, 67th occupancy permit is when we take the park back over. Correct. Okay. And how long is that going to take? I would say that the developer is best able to answer that somewhere around probably 18 months or so. So an 18 months or more park can be open. 18 months from, I would say, grading? Yes. Okay. And there were concerns I heard about the traffic on the Alamo. And I know that like I take the Alamo pretty often and the traffic is pretty bad, but and it's the same way on Artesia and Artesia, we're doing a master plan to look at active transportation and things like that, to try to make sure that people who want to connect to the blue line station that's right at the Alamo. And what is that Santa Fe think? It's the Alamo. Santa Fe. They have access. Are there any current, current designs or plans with the blue line station? I would ask or to connect to that. I would ask the council member or anybody else, is there something in the works already to add, you know, bike facilities or something on Alamo? Not that we're aware of. Certainly there is on Artesia, as the councilmember is aware, there's an effort by the Gateway Cities to do a significant multi-jurisdictional project on Artesia. Is is since you're building a park on Artesia, is that something the developer can can work on? Developing the park at Oregon Dilemma. Yeah. I mean, since we're building a park and we build bike lanes or. I would defer to our bike coordinator to see what sort of master planning efforts are currently in the works in that area. I'm just not versed enough to be able to speak to that. I want to know. Do. Okay. I guess I'll get that answer and some other point and then preferential parking. So I know that. What was it? Maybe three years ago, we created a new ordinance for construction related preferential parking that didn't have the the whole elongated timeline. It was supposed to be immediate subject to public works on if there was any sort of construction related impact we could utilize this this tool and I think we've only utilized it once is our would that be a tool that can perhaps help mitigate some some of the potential parking impacts or perceived parking impacts. Certainly during construction? Absolutely. In addition, there is a requirement that there's a construction management plan for the project that will also mitigate the impacts of the construction vehicles in the neighborhood as well. Okay. And then as you know, I represent Long Beach on SAG as well. And every city in the region, including Long Beach, has been issued RINA numbers addressing housing needs. What is what is Long Beach is most immediate housing housing need as indicated by by okay. So sag hands down and allocates numbers to all jurisdictions within the region and are required arena numbers which stands for regional housing needs assessment is a little over 7000 units that we need to be able to have appropriate zoning for. They break out the arena numbers into different categories are very low, low, moderate and above moderate income units. And of that 7000 and change arena number, our biggest need is for above market rate residential housing. Is that what this is? It's. Of our total arena numbers of 7048, we are required to have adequate zoning to accommodate 3039 above market units. Are these above market units? Yes, they are. So this helps meet that requirement that every city has, excuse. Me, above moderate income units. Okay. And so the shrinking the sinking street stuff. Is there anything written in to make sure if anyone's house sinks? We don't think it. Certainly the developer has offered to deal with those issues if they are found to be the responsibility of the developer. Certainly on site there are absolute requirements from a geotechnical perspective and a soil compaction issues to ensure that the site is capable of withstanding this construction and that we don't have these issues. Okay. So from my from my standpoint, you know, to conclude it earlier, earlier today, we talked about the forest wetlands, huge open space opportunity. It took 30 years to get to get there. And what I see here is the Boy Scouts have tried to do the right thing. Now they've come to the city and was able to help us figure out how to add a park that we have no strategy to build at a park to North Long Beach, which the city hasn't even figured out how to add more parks in North Long Beach. And this the Boy Scouts and the developer has figured that out. I think that's something to be acknowledged. And and this is a good thing that in 18 months, we're going to have new open space in terms of Oregon Park and the forest wetlands. I think that's and I think that's something to be to be recognized. I know it's I know it's a tough situation for everyone to be in. But I think that the key word here is diligence. The Boy Scouts have done their diligence. The developer so far seems like they've put out like a open call saying, hey, what can we do to help to fix it? So from my standpoint, I think this is a project that I'm going to support and encourage the council to support for the sake of open space in North Long Beach. Thank you. Councilmember Ringa. Thank you, Mayor. For the purposes of transparency, yes. Integral did give me $750 for my officeholder account back in earlier in the year, January or so, before I knew that they were involved with this project. And when I found that out, I gave it back. And I also gave back about another $3,000. A letter from other donations that potentially might put me in a. Conflict of interest situation. So I'm listening. I hear it. I'm trying to do the best thing I can as well. And it's not welcome when there are aspersions thrown at not only at me, but at my fellow council member when threatened with a vote. I mean, we all have an important job to do here, and it's not easy. The easiest vote for me to take today would be to say no. To say, let's leave things be as they are. Let the open land stay open and undeveloped and become a blight to the community. There was a comment made earlier today about maybe we could use eminent domain. Eminent domain went away with redevelopment. So that is not there. It's been mentioned before, and I will re-emphasize that again. The Boy Scouts did a stellar job in trying to do the right thing. They put it for sale. No takers. They put up for sale again. There was a taker. It's private property, folks. And when it's private property, the property owner has a right to do what they want with that property. There are other properties in Long Beach that are going through the same process. There's there's property. The mansion that was also mentioned by the same gentleman who put a price on me on that. That, you know, we had the oil properties out there. The oil properties has been a vacant land for. Oodles and oodles of years and nothing being done there. You want to keep that there. Keep smelling that oil coming out of there. Instead of when you can have a developer come in, clean it out and make something beneficial out of it that would benefit the city and benefit the residents. I spoke with Integral about the project at hand. They are a responsible developer. They are. They've offered to build a park, which is part of a community benefit. And when a company comes to me and says, I'm going to give you a community benefit, I'm listening. It's not totally about the development itself. It's about giving back to the community. And that's what they're doing. It's a responsible way of being able to develop a project that is going to be welcomed and that is going to benefit the community more than it's good that will be there if not developed. So that's that's the option. If we don't vote for this tonight, what are we going to have an empty lot? If I don't if we don't do anything with the oil property, what are we going to have? Another empty lot? If I don't if we don't develop the land, the other part of my district which is out there and Santa Fe and PCH, close to the Long Beach State Tech Park. What's that gonna stay vacant land. These are properties that are owned by private companies who have the. Ability to develop something there that can be positive, and we need to support that. Now, should there be more community involvement? Absolutely. Should there be community benefits coming out of these projects? Absolutely. And we're going to work towards that. And I know this city council is responsible towards doing that. And that's what we're going to do and that's what we're trying to do here. The fact that there is going to be a park, Oregon park is a is a huge benefit to the community. Now, is it everything for everybody? No, it's not going to be. Is it too close to the to the. With that the path. Well, the wetlands. But the the gap. Yeah. The the the forest gap. I mean, we can't please everybody. But, you know, in the long run, the benefits outweigh the negatives. And I would also be supporting this project. Okay. Thank you, Councilman Price. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you to the staff. I found tonight's presentation to be very informative. I did have the opportunity to read all the correspondence that came to our office, as well as the emails. I believe we received over 20 emails over the last week, so I've had a chance to review all that, and I did receive a packet of letters that were sent to us today. I actually had to read them during the meeting because we received them so late. But I want to thank everyone who did submit letters and express concerns. I also want to take a moment to just again, the staff's presentation was very informative, very educational for those of us who don't know the history. And I just had a couple of questions and then and then I'll make my final comments regarding what were the conversation that's gone on tonight in regards to this the the negotiations that have taken place with the developer? Ms. BODAK How common is it to ask a developer to make improvements to adjacent streets? Typically when we are working on a development project, we are obligated to work within the existing state guidelines that only require us to ask for improvements that have a direct nexus to the impact from the project. In this case, because we are entering into a statutory development agreement, it provides the city a much greater level of flexibility in focusing on that nexus, and it allows the city to ask for additional things that may not be directly related to impacts caused by the project. So in this case, because the developer is asking for a statutory development agreement, we had the ability to ask for much greater level of improvements. If this had been a a zone change and a general plan amendment. Without the development agreement, we would not have been able to ask for the extensive park improvements or a number of the street improvements and. Based on your experience. Would you would you. Conclude that we've done a good job in terms of the city's position of of getting the most public benefit with this project that we can under the circumstances? Yes, ma'am. I do feel very comfortable with that. I have been involved in the other two development agreements in the city, and we have received quite a bit of benefits from the Douglas Park Development Agreement. And it's to be seen what we will get out of the Golden Shore Development Agreement. But this one also has a number of public benefits that far exceed our abilities normally to get these type of benefits. I may have missed this during the presentation, but what is the anticipated square footage of the plan one and plan to homes? So the houses range in size, but the average square feet of a house is about 2500 square feet with a two car garage. Okay, so the units range in size from 2100 square feet to 2900 square feet. And I know there were some comments about personal speculation about sales price. Has any of that been determined in terms of what the price per square foot might be in this area, what the fees might be, anything like that. That's not within our purview. So we don't get involved in that. That's purely a market issue. I don't know if the developer has those pricing available or not. I want to you know, I know this is not an easy decision specifically for Councilman Austin. I want to thank him for his leadership because he's really taken the time. I appreciated his presentation tonight and his talking points. I'm very much a visual learner. I need to read things and I appreciate that he enumerated for us all the what he's been through and kind of the history of the project. That was very beneficial for me. He has done his due diligence. I think it's really important that he reached out to the community to the best of his ability to try to get their feedback and that his intent here is very good. It really is. I know that Councilman Austin cares very deeply about his community, and I know that he's done the work on this project. And it is he has no desire other than to better his community. And I know that his leadership on this issue and his request to his council colleagues tonight to request support is based on a premise that he believes he's doing what's best for his community, a community that he is intimately familiar with. So I will be supporting his request this evening. Thank you. Councilman Austin. Okay, thank you. And I know this has been a long night and I want to thank everybody who has indulged this council on this particular item. Again, I want to thank our city staff for their great professionalism and their due diligence and hard work for the last two years, developing and working with the developer, negotiating the community benefits. I want to thank the developer for being a good community partner thus far. Their outreach to the community, their transparent process. I want to again thank the residents who participated for every step of the way, those who were in the scoping meetings, who who who submitted comments in the draft ADR, who participated in public comment at Planning Commission here. I want to thank the Planning Commission for their work on this. And I want to just just applaud the process for being open and transparent. Whether you agree with the decision being made here tonight or not, I understand that the process was transparent, that the process was open and the process was fair to everybody involved. And yes, the city is getting nearly $4 million in community benefits from the project, which will, in my opinion, make this neighborhood a better neighborhood for for all of its residents and for North Long Beach as a whole. And so, members, I'd like to make the motion to adopt the resolution certifying the EIA are adopting findings and approving a mitigation, monitoring and reporting program. As the first motion. Case was just just let's go where we are right now. So there's a motion in a second for the first motion, and then we'll go through through, down, through all of them. Mr. MAYS. Okay, thank you. So there's a motion on the floor for motion number one for Councilmember Austin's motion. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Motion number two, please. If we can get a motion in a second for motion number two. Thank you. And just just to be clear, Mr. Mayes, you had mentioned that public comment is for all the motions and that was that was adequate just to you can.

A bill for an ordinance amending Article XI, Chapter 53 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code relating to the administration of tax refund payments for elderly and disabled persons. Amends Chapter 53 of the Denver Revised Municipal Code to clarify and update eligibility and payment requirements for the citywide Payments to the Elderly and Disabled Persons Program. The Committee approved filing this bill by consent on 2-15-17.

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All right. I will do a quick recap. Under resolutions, we have nothing under bills for introduction. Councilman Flynn has called out Council Bill 148 simply for comment. And under bills for final consideration, we have nothing. And under pending, we have nothing. Madam Secretary, can you please put up council bill 148. Thank you. Councilman Flynn, your comment. Thank, Mr. President. And is Julie here? Okay, thank you. She might be able to address the comment as well, but what we're doing here is, among other things, we're changing the dates by which one would apply if eligible seniors and disabled property owners and renters for a rebate on portion of the property tax or their rents if they are renters. And we're changing that deadline from April 1st of the year, actually the second year after that tax year. So we're still accepting applicant applications for rebate refunds on the tax year 2015. We're changing that to December 31st, which implies that the deadline for 2015 applications would already have passed. And the only reason I'm calling it out for a comment, Mr. President, is to point out that the website at Human Services already says December 31st, and if there are seniors and disabled who are qualified for this refund, they need to know that the deadline still is April 1st. This year, you have another two and a half weeks to get an application in. So if you went to the website and saw that, you might be discouraged and not apply. So Julie, I don't know if you want to add to that. I hope that everything I said was correct. But before we pass this, I want to the people on Channel eight at least to know that. Julie Prine, Deputy Chief of Staff, Denver Human Services. Yes, everything you said is correct. If applications come in for the 2015. Property tax or rental payments through that year, we will accept those applications through April. 1st, through April 1st. Thank you. And going forward, those folks who have already applied get applications every year just because they've applied in previous years. Is that still correct? And they will also get an instruction. Sheet. That tells them how. Much the benefit is, how much the eligibility requirements are, and the dates for the applications. All right. Thank you, Mr.. I just wanted to point out that people can still apply. Thank you, Councilman Flynn. Thank you, Julie. All right. This concludes our items of bills that need to be called out. All bills for all of the bills for introduction are now order published. We are now ready for the block votes on resolutions and bills for final consideration. Council members remember that this is a consent or block vote and you will need to vote. Otherwise, this is your last time to call out an item for a separate vote. Councilman Cashman, will you please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills for 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 and a block for the following items. All series of 2017 to 30 to 84 to 20 6 to 60 4 to 60 5 to 60 8 to 60 9 to 71. 152 to 60 6 to 60 7 to 70 2 to 60 122 to 31 1337. That series of 2016 and back to series 2017 to 24. Thank you, Councilman Cashman. It's been moved and second amount of Secretary Rocco. Black eye. Clark, I. Espinosa, I. Flynn I. Learned. Cashman I can eat. Lopez. All right, Ortega. Sussman I'm sorry. Mr. President, I ten I's. Ten I's. The resolutions have been adopted and bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Tonight there will be a required public hearing on Council Bill 45. Change the zoning classification for 10200 Smith Road, commonly referred to as the Sand Creek Open Space at 9507 East 35th Avenue, commonly referred to as the Prairie Uplands Park

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP 15-069 and award a contract to Dell Marketing, L.P., of Round Rock, TX, for the purchase of body worn camera equipment, software support and cloud storage, in an annual amount not to exceed $191,000, and authorize a 10 percent contingency in the amount of $19,100, for a total annual amount not to exceed $210,100 for a period of one year, with the option to renew for two additional one-year periods, at the discretion of the City Manager. (Citywide)

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So let me begin by transfer to our clerk. If you can read item number 21, please. Report from police recommendation to award a contract to Dell Marketing for the purchase of a body worn camera equipment, software support and cloud storage for a total annual amount not to exceed $210,000 citywide. Thank you. I'm going I'm going to turn this over to staff for an update and a report on this item, and then we'll we'll go from there. So, Mr. West. Mayor, council members. This is about body cameras. As you know, we've been working on this for approximately a year. There's money in the budget this year to do that. Chief Luna and his management team have been working tirelessly with the Police Officers Association to work out the kinks as we implement this. So tonight I'm going to turn this item over to Chief Luna and his team to go over the purchase of the hardware for the body cameras. And he can talk to us about the number of people participating in this one year pilot program. Chief Luna. Thank you, Mr. West. And. Real quick, before I get going with my report. Mara Velasco, who is our financial officer, is joining me to help answer any questions that I know many of you probably will have. Deputy Chief Rich Rocky from our patrol bureau and Commander Paula Barron here is we're here as a team to answer any and all questions that you may have. So to start off, thank you to the mayor and City Council for your support and patience through this process. Our goal with the body worn camera program is to help us enhance community trust and underscore law enforcement legitimacy and accountability by using video to better document police interactions with our community . Our objectives for deploying the cameras are officer and citizen accountability. Reduce injuries to our officers, reduce citizen complaints, reduce uses of force, and enhance investigations. And what we've seen with the many other departments that we have studied is that these reductions that we're seeking pretty much do occur and in some large percentage numbers. Moving on, a committee was formed in March of 2014 to consider the use of body worn cameras. Objectives of this committee included to research best practices determine the feasibility of body worn cameras, identify the best product, or what we thought was the best product and vendor for our needs. Research and develop a policy for body worn use and identify infrastructure concerns. Subcommittees were formed to look at body worn camera policy. We looked at over 20 policies that covered body worn cameras, including best practices from the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Police Executive Research Forum. Another subcommittee was looking at equipment. A separate one was looking at legal issues, financial considerations and technology. So as you could see, the subcommittee looked at really all of the issues across the board. The recommendations of the committee have led us to the development of a pilot program. The details of this pilot program will include camera deployment, which is planned for approximately March of 2016. It will take place in the West Patrol Division. We will deploy between 40 and 50 cameras to include patrol officers and supervisors. The financial impact of this pilot program includes your approval to contract contract with Dell Marketing for $210,000. It is being funded by one time, by a one time appropriation allocated to the police department in FY 15 for strategic technology investments. Additional equipment may be considered and purchased during the pilot program through alternative funding sources. This contract includes cameras, network components, software applications, cloud storage, training of staff and systems support to interface with existing systems. Although we are asking for $210,000 for this pilot program, we realize that full implementation of a body worn camera program will cost more . Additional cost are unknown at this time. Additional areas of concern to us include infrastructure, data storage and personnel to handle potential additional workload. In conclusion, there are three things I want to leave you with. One, the body worn camera is a tool. It's not the silver bullet. One of the things that we have learned throughout our research is body worn cameras are a tool to help us enhance community trust and underscore law enforcement legitimacy and accountability by using video to better document police interactions with our community. Number two, we will not know the full cost of the body worn camera program until the pilot is complete. And three and final. Just a reminder to everybody, because we're getting a lot of questions from many, is that this is a pilot program and we will learn a lot. We will document everything. And there will be many changes and adjustments as we move along. And and we're ready to do that as as the year wears on. So with that mayor and members of the city council, this concludes my report. And I can answer any questions that you may have. Thank you, Chief. I will have a couple council questions. So let me go through those and I'll close by making some comments as well. There's a there is a motion in a second. So I may start with the maker of the motion, which is Councilman Richardson. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I want to I want to just say that how proud I am at our city, our mayor, our police department and our peo way for stepping forth and and taking this on, testing this this is utilizing new technology to encourage 21st century policing. I know that these things are concerned, controversial in this day and age, and particularly in our time. I know that this is uncharted territory with respect to the fiscal impact and what the ramifications might be in terms of our public records and things like that. But I'm really proud to say that this wasn't a fight. This was done, you know, in partnership. And it will be it will be treated as such as a partnership. I know that this is I do have just a couple questions. I know that we are starting with about 50 units being deployed. And I think that's a start that's smart just to start small. And. Really measure it. So my first question is, what are the metrics? What are we going to how are we going to evaluate success or how are we going to track this thing? Councilman Richards. The four primary areas that we're looking at is reducing injuries to officers, reducing citizen complaints and uses of force in all of the research we did for the last year. We were looking at numbers in reductions in some of those areas that ranged between 60% all the way up to 80%. We're looking forward to seeing if that automatically or I should say, as a year goes on, if that will impact our numbers as significantly. That's why we picked the West Division to do this, is because historically that is one of the busier parts of town where these areas, these numbers are typically higher. So we will have the cameras issued to officers that will stay with them. They will not be rotated around. They will stay with these officers throughout the duration of that year. And then we'll be able to analyze what the numbers were in the beginning, to what the numbers were at the end, compare them, analyze them. And that will be part of a report that we will be turning in at the end of the pilot program to see if it was if it's something that we want to continue with, if it's something that we as a city want to invest money into, certainly. So I would I would just ask. So it's I'm glad to hear that there will be a report back to city council before the decision was made to. I see there's two one year extensions but the report will come the city council would it would that come in a two from four paper report? Are you going to come to city council and and give a presentation? I think it would be good if the council just knew whether the pilot will be eliminated or extended and had the opportunity to weigh in before before that decision is made. So how would that work? We know we're going to be putting a report together in what fashion? We haven't discussed it to that length. I have to discuss that with the city manager's office and see how we can best present the information that has been gathered. Another part I have not mentioned is we are working with Cal State, Long Beach, and although we have not solidified exactly how we're going to do this, we are talking to their academics and we're working together to figure out how they can help us with the report in analyzing all the information that I've just put forth. Thank you. I think that makes a lot of sense to work with an academic institution. So I would just I know that. So I know that this is a one year pilot. We only funded it for one year, correct? That's correct. Okay. So one way or the other, it would have to come to city council for funding if we extend the pilot anyway. That's correct. Okay. Thank you so much and good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman Price. May the second. Any comments? I do. Just briefly. Thank you very much, Chief, for the presentation. And this was an item that we had a report on at our public safety meeting, and Commander LeBaron and Deputy Chief Rockey did an excellent job at the presentation at committee. A couple of issues that were raised at committee that I kind of want to follow up on. One, to see if we've made any progress on in terms of identifying these issues in the future. And two, because I think they're their subjects of of general interest in regards to this item is because the costs are unknown. And given our budget projections for the next few years, what efforts are we taking to determine whether grant moneys are available for us to be able to implement this technology on either a broader scale or continue using it at the scale that the pilot is going to encompass? We are consistently looking for any funding opportunities that would assist us in this program. Maura, who said it to my left her shop is is consistently looking at them. And what we have to make sure as we move forward is that we're looking for these opportunities. But in a lot of what we've seen thus far, there's a lot of strings attached to them of things that they are mandating us to do if we take that money. So we have to be very cautious as we're proceeding forward to make sure that we're not putting the city in a place that they can't get out of two or three years from now, depending on our financial situation. Have we identified? A process regarding when and under what circumstances footage. Would be released. Under the pilot program. Yes, we have. That was part of our policy discussion. And and we have a policy that's going to work through this pilot program. And basically, when you have a criminal investigation, we can't release video when we're dealing with a criminal investigation or an administrative investigation. But what we do, in fact, see is that we will follow the public records request act policy that we have. And if it fits under that criteria, working with the city attorney's office, we will be able to release the video. How are we planning on transferring this footage to either the city prosecutor or the district attorney's office in terms of discovery? What is that done through the cloud or disks? How is it done? I'm going to let Commander LeBaron answer that that question. Councilwoman Price at. This point, we're not completely finalized. On that, but we are. Working with the district. Attorney up in Los Angeles, as well as our local district attorney's office, to establish a sharing option. And the software allows us to create a license, which we could share that information with them directly through the cloud. I know that when Commander LeBaron talked to the Public Safety Committee regarding this, we had some questions about the mounting options. I know that was one of the pluses of this company. Have you had an opportunity, Commander, since our discussion, to find out if we have any other mounting options that would allow for better placement in terms of evidence collection? Depending on the size or the height of the officer. Councilwoman Price, member of City Council. We have looked at that. This particular device will be in a sleeve, in a uniform shirt or a vest. We are looking more at a, you know, uniform shirt option with all of the tech technologies. They all have some limitations as to what they will capture and what they will not capture based on the positioning. This one does capture quite a bit of the scene as it is placed on the the uniform shirt. Consumer prices that I'm just checking off my notes. Sorry. Have we determined what the fee is going to be for our uploads to the cloud? Any specific figures that we've associated with this for the pilot so that we can start thinking about future costs associated with this technology? Councilmember Price, the quote that was prepared for us includes 43 terabytes of storage space. There was no fee on the monthly basis or per upload basis, but that total was provided to us by the vendor. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Sorry, Councilmember Gringo. Thank you, Mayor. My concern is always with pilot projects, is that we should have more than adequate time to do it in one year. And now I understand that it's going to be coming back to the council at the end of one year. Is will we be emboldened? In Boulder. We hold it to this company should we decide that the data we've gotten thus far isn't sufficient to make a decision as to whether we want to go full fledged with this program or not? I would hope that if it goes back to the Council for reconsideration and should we decide not to proceed with their full fledged program, that we can go out again and solicit another vendor? Because my concern is, is that I don't see extending pilot programs to the same entity if the if the data is not there to proceed with a full fledged program. So is that part of the the thinking that we're going to have for the next go around if we were to decide to extend the pilot program to another year? We will be doing a full evaluation of how the provider or the company responds to us. After all, we are their customer. Our standards are high. We will have very high expectations of them, and they're expected to perform. And if they don't perform, there's other vendors out there. So they know that. We've we've we've talked to them and they're. They understand that full well. Well, I would I would hope that I'm going to be in favor of this. However, I would with the caveat that when it does come back to us in one year, that we take all our options into consideration for additional vendors if necessary. Thank you. Councilmember Mungo. Yes. I just want to a follow up question on one of my colleague's questions. I think that you've answered a lot of what we had, and I appreciate the presentation, Chief. In my experiences when going into a home, there are certain calls where family members are in vulnerable positions. And while the Public Records Act is vitally important. Victim rights are also pretty important to me. And I was hoping that you could communicate a little bit about that process and at what times we have discretion. Victim rights are an absolute priority to us. When we're talking about praise or when we release videos, if we're dealing with situations such as crimes involving children, sexual assault and things of that nature. Those are videos that are situations and videos that are very sensitive. We will not be releasing those within the policy that we have. It also talks of situations where, for example, if an officer's in an emergency room when they can record and when they can't. The policy is pretty strict about those type of situations. And again, because this is a pilot program and as we have studied many other departments, we have seen and heard about some of their failures. So we're trying to avoid those pitfalls. And I'm very confident in what the committee came up with and the policy that we've put together that that it's going to be pretty darn good in regards to actually very good in regards to protecting and respecting victims rights. I appreciate that, Chief. I appreciate the process that was first followed to get to this point. I know that there are departments all over the country that are looking at this, and I'm really proud of the methods that you went through in ensuring that we had a very high input, high understanding process. So thank you for that, and thank you for sharing the victim's opponents components. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman Gonzales. Thank you. I first want to commend a police department in our way and all of the community members that were involved in this, because I think it's we've done things a little bit differently, like we often do here in Long Beach is, you know, we were rolling out a program, but we're really involving the community at large . And so I want to thank you all for doing that. I know you worked with CCJ and a few other community groups to get it right. A few questions I have. So I think you answered my question. I'm glad to see that this pilot program will be started in the West Division for those various reasons. As far as are we comparing? I have I mean, I know we've looked at other cities, but is there another city that we're looking at a little bit more closely that has done things that we'd like to do? I don't know if there's a specific component or a specific city. Yes, we've we've looked at several cities, including in in California. We looked at Oakland, we looked at Modesto, we looked at San Diego. We've been paying a whole lot of attention to what the cities of Los Angeles or LAPD is doing, L.A. County sheriffs. And again, we've seen some of the things that are working and some of the things that aren't working. And I think that's the advantage. And when I started my report and I thanked all of you for your patience, there were other cities that jumped the gun. They were, I think, more interested in headlines than they were in substance and actually looking at what can solve a problem. And I think a big part of our success thus far is that we've been able to take a step back and and look at what other people are doing and then figure out how to move forward with the best policy. Specifically, when we're talking about the finances as it relates to this, and we learned that from the cities I just named. Great. Thank you. And then which officers are who will be selected and at what times? I mean, do we know that at this point or have we given any thought to that? It will be assigned to West Division. The afternoon shift, which we call watch three and the officers were randomly selected. Read. Thank you. And then last question, because I do work for a technology company is I'm almost certain Dell is just. A compliant. Councilmember Price that it employer counsel Alberto Gonzales. That's correct. Our cloud host. Is Amazon Web Services. Which is officially approved by the FBI. ABC just complained. Just checking on that. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. And good work. Councilmember Andrews. Thank you, Mayor. You know, first of all, I think the chief and his staff there, because the fact that, you know, I think I understand that this video recording and the police, you know, action is enriching the county and it's good for the you know, for our police officers also, because I think this is the direction in which, you know, they're going. And we see a lot of improvements in it, you know, not only for our police department, but we have community also. And I still think that we need that, you know, the track, the cars to see how much we you know, we can, you know, to be sure that it is affordable so we can move forward citywide. Because I heard the chiefs said there's a certain amount, but it could cost more. So I think that's why I think it's important that we maybe, you know, we should do some tracking of it to find out, you know, the cost of this because it could be excessive. But, you know, they are intensive public records requested by many cities. They're receiving from body camera footage. So I'd like to make sure that we are ahead of all of this. And I want to thank you guys for the hard work you've done. And I hope it be very successful because I know it will be. Thank you. Thank you. With that, we are going to go ahead and take a vote. I want to just say a couple brief comments. The first is I want to thank our police department and our Police Officers Association for working on this together. Mean, this has been a project that we've all been working on for probably about a year just to get this pilot project ready. And I want to reinforce something that the chief said is that this is about getting this right. It's getting it it's getting it done the right way. We're going to pilot this in a way that really maximizes the success of the program. And we're really proud of the fact that we're rolling this down a way that's responsible. It's going to ensure that our rank and file employees were a part of the process. In fact, something that wasn't mentioned by the chief. But our police officers union and the police department had multiple committees assigned just to this project that have been meeting over the course of a year to prepare for for this vote and for this rollout of this pilot program. So it's been an extensive conversation. This is a national conversation that's going on. And I want to thank all the rank and file members that participated in this. It's our expectation that we roll out the best the best body camera program in the country, and that we do it in a way that's respectful to the officers that are wearing the cameras. But it also is of protects the public and that we're ensuring that we're being as transparent as possible. And so I think all of that is what's happening as part of this program. So I want to thank the chief and the team for doing that. Let me do public comment on this before we go to a vote. Thank you so much, Mr. Mayor. My name's Gary Shelton. I just. I have no objections to this at all. I'm. I'm anticipating that it's going to pass with. With flying colors, and that's a good thing. I wanted to underscore some points that were made in response to questions, particularly from Councilmember Price and Mongo in regard to the well, it boiled down to the problem that this is going to solve. And I think if we look back into recent history, going a year or two back from now, a problem was identified in the county that people didn't really understand how in the world they were going to find out what happened in the event of a police and citizen altercation of some kind. How we would get that information. And so body cameras were to were thought up in the general public as a way that that information would be brought to us. But I think it's really important that we understand that in order to get that information, especially in the context of a criminal case that might be underway, would require either the city's deciding to release the the information, the videos, or through a public records request, which may or may not be a successful way to get that out there. So what it boils down to is that we need as a community to continue our vigilance and no aspersions at all . The police department, I count those folks over there in uniform as friends as well as you folks here at the dais. But it's going to take the continued vigilance of the community to be certain that we know on a in a real time basis what has occurred. When police force is used and the body cam in Los Angeles is going to be used as a tool for the officer to assist him in writing his report. And beyond that, I don't know what they're going to do with it there. And so I wonder if that that wasn't mentioned as a primary use for the body cam footage in Long Beach, but that's what they're planning to do in Los Angeles. So any other information you might be able to impart or elicit from the staff would be so much appreciated. But again, community vigilance is all important. Thank you. Please come forward. Marvin Cummings in my name. I'm a resident of Long Beach, and I'm sitting in this audience and I say, Who's representing the taxpayers here? What is this, a joke? I can't believe what I'm hearing. I can't believe you're talking about Susie Price. She says, How much are we paying for service to the cloud? And she can't get an answer. He is spending $210,000. What are you getting fired? 50 cameras. You can buy a camera for $300 a piece. Service to the cloud. An average price is $50 a month. Los Angeles is playing well with something that's $85 a month. There's all kinds of prices. $50 a month. Service to the cloud would be a reasonable price for 50 cameras. That would be $30,000 a year for 50 cameras. So now we get $45,000. You're talking money for training. This is a digital camera is nothing to this. It's very simple. The trip we train. The train is it's easy to do. Yeah. You may have some software, you may have some issues, but I think so. You get a year contract on 50 cameras at it. You're talking $4,000 a camera. This is a disgrace. And you and somebody said, what do we need a city council for? Well, where is the where's the city manager on these purchasing? Since when do you write out a check for $210,000 and you don't know what it's going for? I think that what you're going to see I happen to be in the business. I don't I'm not here to sell my product. I came late for the game because frankly, when you people started, we weren't in the business. But what has happened in body cameras is the early people in who did business with certain people who wanted the publicity. What happened to them is other people came in and a better technology had better prices, which is very common in the tech field. Your technology is not so bad. There's better, there's worse. But the pricing is open ended. And to me, the taxpayers are getting raked over the coals here. Your check for $210,000. I call up the clerk's department. There is no there's no details. There's nothing. They don't have any details. It's one package deal and it's poor business. Private business does not operate in this fashion for $210,000. You should know what you're paying for. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Todd Stout. I'm just curious, you know, with all the technology companies in California, why are we doing business at taxes? I mean, you know, that's a heck of a rivalry going here. Texas and California round rocks doing better in some of our. So Toyota figured they had move there. That was one question. And the other question is the the 50 camels will be divided between the different shifts. It's going to be a shift. I don't know. And hopefully it works. I mean, if it can cut down some of the lawsuits that we've had that have been extremely expensive, you know, that would be wonderful to save some money for a change. I just wonder what the previous gentleman said is, is it a good deal? I don't know. I guess after a year we'll know. But I guess that a lot of people might want to see a breakdown on what the costs are. For each part of this deal. And maybe in the future we can do business in California and employ a few more people here. That's all we see on this council is we need places. We always need more jobs. Well, let's do contracts with California. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Surely researching your consultants or group and associates to Chief Luna, I want to take an opportunity to say I have never run into an officer. That threaten me in any way. I've been a resident of Long Beach since 97. When I started working for the homeless, it was your officers who knocked on my motorhome and when I was touring the city and mate to make sure that I was comfortable and letting me know what prospects of danger were in the area. Officers, no matter where they are, you face an affront because of your job. In my religion, the powers that be or ordained of God, what you are doing and your officers has been ordained for the time that we're in. Of course, in every institution, be it religious or non religious, we're going to have people who work for us who may be not be worth their salt or may be shifting in some way or another. But as a personal person standing here today, I think it's important that I say to you and your officers, you have a prayer coming from some people in this city because of the work that you have to do. May you have the grace to be cognizant and aware of those people who are serving under you, who may need some additional training, may need an additional word of encouragement, or may need to maybe step back in their own personal view as they execute their authority in the city. But thank you and thank you, and God bless you for what you're having to do. My former husband was a battalion chief with the city department in Los Angeles. And on his deathbed. His concerns were and all the fire department and police department are two different serving capacities. He was troubled about the internal issues going on in the department of which he served. That was something that the public could not handle. It was things that he could not discuss. But as being a battalion chief, you understand what kind of pressure there is internal. My prayer for you is that you're able to sort out those internal issues so that your officers who serve under you are able to find the grace to come on to their duty every day with a smile and and and an encouragement to serve in their capacity. Thank you for what you're doing. And I might not be there on Saturday, but I am aware and you have many people praying for you and your officers in this city more than who are complaining. Please know that tonight. Thank you. Please come forward. Amir Garcia, City Councilmembers. My name is Robert McNamara. I'm the CEO of Utility. We were the partner with Dell working on the body worn cameras of swimming. This is approved this evening. I just want to let you to come here in person. Let you know that our company is committed to your success. We're very thrilled to be working with Chief Luna and his staff, and our company is committed to the. Success, and we'll do everything. Possible to make it work for the city of Long Beach. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Goodhew any other public speakers? Kay. Mr. King. He'll be the last speaker then. Go ahead. Very good. Hugh Clark, as he. I support the concept. A couple of different issues. In response to the question from Councilwoman Price, the good Lieutenant Barron referenced. We're going to be checking with LA's D.A. or I wasn't sure if it's L.A., L.A. City or L.A. County D.A. if it's the L.A. County D.A., of course, they are now under they're in a situation which Long Beach will be in probably four months from now, i.e. under federal purview. I'd be comfortable getting information from them more so than maybe from it from the city of L.A. second or thirdly, I think it would be a good idea if we can develop it. They have body cameras for each of the council people. And or back in the council, their council chamber. So when they get off and go back there, that the public can keep an eye on them and so forth. In fact, I think there would be no problem funding it. I think the public would fund that instantly and so forth. Thank you. Thank you. Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Let me. I actually had you know, we didn't have a full list, so I had a short list for public speakers, but I missed. So let me just do I have three people that want to speak to the public and then I'm going to commissions right after that.

Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing City Manager to adjust certain rates for natural gas service to reflect market conditions by implementing Gas Rate Schedules 1 through 5, 7, 9, and special conditions and incentives in Exhibits A and B. (Citywide)

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Thank you. And I believe we already handled the consent calendar as item number 18. Next. Yes. Report from team. Report from Long Beach Gas and oil. Recommendation to adopt resolution authorizing the city manager to adjust certain rates for natural gas service to reflect market conditions citywide. Is there emotion? And a second. Thank you. Our staff report. Bob Dow can give us that report for seven. Good evening, Vice Mayor. Council Members Agenda Item 1608 806 to approval to adopt a resolution to adjust certain rates for natural gas services long as meets gas and oil routinely reviews its gas utility rates against those charged by SoCal Gas and other surrounding utilities pursuant to the Long Beach City Charter and the Municipal Code. The CPC recently authorized increases to the gas transmission rates charged by SoCal Gas and SD genie to its ratepayers effective August 1st, 2016. These increases were approved to provide the necessary monies to fund replacement of aging natural gas pipeline infrastructure, to fund pipeline integrity programs as required by federal regulations, and to facilitate compliance of federal and state environmental regulations. The proposed rate increase sought this evening only affects the transmission rates for all customer classifications. The current the commodity price is charged. All customer classifications will continue to reflect the actual cost of monthly gas cost. Revenues collected from the transmission of natural gas not only depends not only on the actual rates, but also on the volumes used by the customers. Between 506 and 515, the volume of natural gas used by all LBGTQ customers decreased approximately 36%. This decrease in volume of natural gas used, along with the increase in pipeline maintenance and regulatory costs, require the proposed increase in transmission rates to meet the ongoing additional operating needs for the average residential customer in the city of Long Beach. This proposed rate increase would net approximately a monthly increase of about $0.87 or a 3% increase. This concludes my report, and I'm available to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Council Member Eureka. Pierce. Okay. So any public comment on this? I'm seeing none. Please cast your vote.

Recommendation to direct City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to address tenant harassment within the City of Long Beach; and, direct City Attorney to bring this back to the City Council for consideration at its next scheduled meeting, or as soon thereafter as reasonably possible.

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Great. Thank you very much. That concludes the hearing. So let's continue on the E on the agenda. We're going to go ahead and do item number nine is next. Communication from Vice Mayor Andrew's council member Urunga. Recommendation to direct City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to address tenant harassment within the city of Long Beach. Okay. I have a motion by Vice Drews and a second by Councilmember Ranger of Vice Mayor Andrews. Thank you, Mayor. You know, first of all, I'd like to thank the Orange Avenue residents for bringing these types of items and issues into the district to my attention. I want to thank, first of all, Councilman, your response in this item with me. And residents came to your you know, when you have residents come to your door about 8 p.m. when it grew, even because their security lighting on the second storey apartment complex is removed. You must take action. Imagine your safety fences being removed in retaliation for not signing a lease that increased your rent by $800. Worse than that, being threatened to be evicted if you did not sign a document, not in your native language or having no idea what you were signing. These kinds of actions. A one we are facing and a sixth district. It is unfortunate that a few bad apples and the landlord sector faces us to create citywide policies, which should be just a human decency. I am a renter. I've always considered tenant landlord relationships to be a moat or a mutual benefit and respect. Bringing this item forward with relief recommendations is needed because it is time that as a city we start taking tenants seriously. This situation is what a lot of, you know, anger and unfortunate situations that I have found because of this individual, which made it bad for a whole lot of landlords. And I know better because they are much, much better individuals and the city of Long Beach and they do better. But I'm just thinking by going through this, can you imagine a group of individuals who have lived in their place for 24 years, never missed a day of rent? And then you get a new owner once they raise the rent, $800 more. That is a state ordinance that you can't do. This is the type of thing that I think we should really take serious issues to, because this individual is blatantly overlooking what is a state mandated audit. These individuals were landlords have really overlooked. And this is a serious situation because the fact that I'm just thinking if in a situation during that time, if those little young kids who live in this apartment would have gotten hurt. We wouldn't be here talking about this right now. So I'm just hoping that maybe somehow I see the attorney, prosecutors or anyone in our department and really let these individuals know that this is not acceptable in the city of Long Beach or shouldn't be accepted anywhere just to come and make money. You know, our landlord and everything set a very precedent going along with most of the things that the state and the local city has asked them to do. But this is unacceptable. This individual had another piece of land in the first district and now with mine just to make money and raise the rent, $800 more than what it should be. Individuals have lived there, probably have bought that piece of land. But this should be unacceptable. And I am hoping that I can get my colleagues to support me on this item. I'm looking forward to a robust discussion. And thank you very much. Thank you. I do have a second by councilmember your ringa company Ringa. We we do have significant comment. Would you mind if I go through all the public comment and then have you begin the discussion? Not at all. Okay. Madam, quick. If you want to go through all the public comment. Four out of nine, please. Our first speaker is Andrew Men, Dujana. Hello. My name is Angela. Do I know a community organizer with Long Beach Forward? Over the past year, I've had the honor to organize alongside the most powerful people I've ever known. It started in District nine when a tenant union of 16 families was formed to fight against illegal rent increases, harassment and displacement at the hands of their property management company West Stark. Then in District one, another tenant union of 12 families formed to fight against unjust evictions and escalating levels of harassment, which include waking children up from their sleep to translate documents and threaten to pull permits and evict if rent increases up to 90% were not paid. Lastly, in District six, the Tenant Union of eight families formed to fight against illegal rent increases and escalating levels of harassment, such as shut off utilities and taking off security doors. In District three, a tenants family was threatened to be killed, and in District four, a building was served involving 60 day notices. Adopt this item as emergency ordinance and on or before October 27th. Let's be clear that this is a growing movement of individuals who are fighting for their rights. These injustices are only examples of a much wider problem. The adoption of this policy doesn't mean we stop here. We work together and adopt more protections. I look forward to speaking with you all. Thank you. Your next speaker is Eduardo. Obvious. Well, good evening, honorable mayor and council members. My name is Eduardo Olivas. I'm a senior at Cal State Long Beach, and I live in council district for me and my family have been renters for ten years in our current apartment and gratefully our landlord has been have have been has been a decent landlord. We have no experience in the housing boom. So he and other landlords like him won't be impacted by this ordinance. However, I've been in contact with some tenants and some are experiencing harassment from their landlord and they have told me things like they've reported mold and rats in their unit but have not been addressed or fixed by the landlord. Other tenants have told me that the landlord have tried to force illegal rent increases ranging from 66% to 90%, then threatening eviction if they can't pay the rent increase. Some of these tenants are immigrant families, which means that they have trouble speaking English, and it makes it a lot more difficult for them to deal with this. I simply can't imagine my own family, which is also an immigrant family. I can't speak a lot of English experience the stress of being harassed by a landlord, especially during times like these. This ordinance is to protect tenants from the landlords who abuse their position of power and ruthlessly harass or tenants. This is about basic human decency. Everybody deserves a safe home, especially during a pandemic. I urge the City Council to vote yes on itemizing and adopt the anti-harassment urgency ordinance at a special meeting on or before October 27. Thank. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ailsa Chang. Hi. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Elsa Tongue, resident of District seven and program manager at Long Beach Forward and member of the Housing Justice Coalition. Tenant harassment is real and it's happening all across the city. You will hear firsthand stories tonight. Long Beach needs a local tenant anti-harassment urgency ordinance such as those adopted by Santa monica, West Hollywood, Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley. That will create real, substantial penalties for specific abuses without requiring tenants to prove landlords motives or move out first and sue later. This is a matter of basic human decency. If you are a kind of decent landlord, you have nothing to worry about. This ordinance will not impact you. I will repeat that if you are a kind, decent landlord, you have nothing to worry about. This ordinance will not impact you. But if you are a landlord who harasses and intimidates to squeeze your tenants, then your opposition to this ordinance is more a reflection of your shameful character than anything else. It is your responsibility. City Council to legislate protections against egregious abuse. Please show your leadership and your humanity tonight. Pass Item nine and adopt a tenant anti-harassment urgency ordinance at a special meeting on or before October 27. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Rob Velasco. Aura Velazco. Prison yourself. Moving on to our next speaker is Fred Sutton. Brett Sutton. Can you hear me? Yes. Please begin. Hello, Honorable Mayor and City Council. My name is Fred Sutton. I'm calling on behalf of the California Apartment Association. We strive to uphold the highest standards in the rental housing industry, promote fairness, equality and the availability of housing throughout California. We do not tolerate any forms of harassment. It is our members who house Long Beach and that is the business oriented housing people. California state law regarding this issue is incredibly robust. Residents are protected from harassment and wrongful evictions. Meaningful protection this law can impose have already been imposed, but some of the prohibitions that are in this proposed ordinance are vague, which create the ability for an individual to create their own definition of harassment. There are references to annoying a tenant in here and a previous caller said there's someone had illegal utility shut off or threatened to kill somebody invalid. 60 day notices, illegal rent increases. All of those items mentioned are already illegal. No outreach was done to discuss these issues with rental housing providers. Like any other policy the city visits, a formal stakeholder process should be established, receive feedback, input and considerations. There are nuances that must be considered to avoid unnecessary legal pitfalls and frivolous lawsuits. The motion does not display a single point of down of communications received, which would justify the fast track nature of this proposal. The best way to resolve disputes is through communication. We. Thank you. Our next speaker is Ana Velasco. Aura Velazco. Our next speaker is Joshua Christian. Hello, Mr. Mayor. Members of the council. My name is Joshua Christian, eviction, defense attorney with the Legal Aid Foundation and our Long Beach Office. This ordinance can put a stop to startling levels of harassment that are going on right now in Long Beach. It is an emergency situation. State law in these cases is actually very limited. Harassment is only outlawed in the extreme cases. And even then, a tenant has to impossibly prove a landlord's intent to actually drive them from their homes. And damages under state law are not a sufficient deterrent. So tenants need a local law that specifically lays out what constitutes harassment, makes it illegal regardless of landlord's intent, and imposes damages for landlords who abuse their power. And that's why so many other jurisdictions have passed laws very similar to this one. The landlords who violate these ordinances, they are serial offenders. They have seen cease and desist letters from people like me dozens of times. They crumple them up, throw them away. They know that in the rare case they pay, the damages will be negligible compared to profits. 95% of landlords have nothing to worry about here. This item will only deter bad actors. So it's been seven months since the policy was proposed. This is at least the third time it's been on the council's agenda. This issue is urgent and needs to be addressed now. My clients are scared and they are hurting. Thank you, counsel. Thank you, Staff. Thank you. Your next speaker is Karen Reside. Hi. This is Karen Reside. I'm a resident of the First District and a member of the Long Beach Gray Panthers, which is also a member of the Housing Justice Coalition. And I have a I have rented in the city of Long Beach for over 20 years now, and I've had a variety of landlords, some good and some not so good. I actually rented an apartment one time that didn't have any hot water and that was not revealed to me at all in the lease. And then when the condo I was renting, I complained about it for the landlord to do something. They tried to say that they were going to make me pay for it through my rent. Landlords do many abusive things to tenants. We've had all the control in the power for too long. The relationship should be one of mutual respect and with ability to communicate. I live in a subsidized building. The property managers that are hired don't often know the rules. We had dog inspections to come through for bedbugs. And. They get the notices at 5:00 in the evening and the inspection is the next morning. When I pointed out to them that it's not 24 hours, they got angry and threatened me, but I knew they couldn't do anything. It's time we put a stop to this harassing behavior. And for the apartment association. I wish that you would help landlords to understand what the law is and that it's very intimidating to go to people that don't speak English and demand that they sign documents and. Thank you. Our next speaker is Maria Lopez. Good evening, Honorable Council Members and Mayor. My name is Maria. I am a District One resident employee of Housing Beach and a member of the Housing Justice Coalition. I have been in the field of renters rights protections and affordable housing for four and a half years here in the city. And I have seen over 600 cases of tenants varying and different amounts of harassment, micromanagement and just complete degradation of persona on behalf of the person they rent from. You know, harassment is not ideal, especially when it comes from your landlord. You know, you are put in jeopardy almost your whole life to try to really create a safe, healthy relationship that can flourish, hopefully with the fact that you can keep your home at the very least, and that that's not necessarily happening. There are various cases of harassment that we tell tenants to go ahead and, you know, detail in a tenant journal. And even with all that evidence, there is still fear of losing one's home, loses one security and stable needs. And so I urge you to support the stability of our families because when renters rise and thrive. Thank you. Our next speaker is Melody Osuna. You. Good evening. My name is Melody Osuna. I'm a home owner in the eighth District. I support this ordinance because the health of Long Beach tenants is at stake and no good landlord should be opposed to it. I work at a medical facility in District one and see a lot of tenants who come into the clinic with landlord harassment issues. Their landlords are demanding rent now, even though the law protects the tenants from paying if they cannot and they are threatening eviction even though there is no legal way to do it at the moment. This is causing a lot of anxiety and toxic stress for the tenant patients at the clinic, which could harm their health . Studies have shown that housing stability can significantly affect health care outcomes. Today's ordinance would be a real deterrence for bad landlords and could keep tenants safe from toxic stress. While there are laws in place that protect tenants, there is no real remedy for the individual. To pursue this ordinance would put tenants on an even playing field with landlords. Finally, there is no reason for landlords to be opposed to this ordinance. If they follow the laws and stay away from the abuse that this ordinance protects against. No additional conversations need to be had said don't force domestic violence victims to talk it out with their abusers and tenants should not have to talk it out with their bad landlords to remain safe and free of harassment. I urge you to adopt this ordinance and bring it back on or before October 27th for adoption. Thank you for considering my comments. Thank you. Our next speaker is Cindy Quintana. Hi. Good evening, everyone. My name is Sandy in Dallas and I'm from District six. I urge you to please vote yes. To keep vulnerable families from experiencing harassment at the hands of their landlord. Landlords use harassment to pressure, intimidate tenants into leaving their homes, paying illegal rent increases and signing documentation they say they don't understand. The city council must declare the item an emergency ordinance to return on or before October 27 to prevent further harassment from escalating. Just last week, landlords shut off utility lights from our apartment in serving legal 60 day notices and threatening to evict tenants if they don't pay legal rent increases, which is up to 90%. Please. Please declare this item number nine and urgency ordinance and vote yes. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Tanya Jimenez. Good evening. My name is Tom Jimenez, lifelong seventh District resident and DSA language member. First, I would like to thank Andrews and Aranda for being the only two council members out of nine to do right by the city center by bringing this item forward. The narrative that merchants and others propagate even members on this council, that most landlords are good and only some are bad. Apples is a false narrative because in an exploitative system where profit and property are valued over human life, one cannot be a good, morally upright landlord in an ongoing pandemic. Homes are not just places that we live in. There are places of refuge and safety. All tenants, especially tenants that are experiencing job insecurity, those that do not speak English, those that are older, those with disabilities, etc., cannot wait for the protections they rightly deserve, such as those outlined in the proposed tenant harassment ordinance. Council members, I urge you all to vote in favor of adopting an emergency and harassment ordinance and protect Long Beach families do right by these tenants and make it just a bit easier for them to stay in their safe haven. Lastly, landlords, I urge you all to look for new jobs because being a, quote, housing provider, unquote, and exploiting others is not a legitimate job. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Tiffany, D.V.. Tiffany Davey. Yes. Good evening. Honorable Mayor and City Council. I strongly support this item as well as a passing of an ordinance to protect tenants. In my case, I have actually assisted a member who has both underlying conditions and part of a vulnerable population. And during some of the most impactful stressors during the COVID 19 pandemic, who was given a 48 hour notice to move out? This senior citizen who resided in the affected district really was threatened just because she was going for a walk. She had a shared residence with friends and there are a lot of gray areas. We know that there have been illegal actions taken. We know that individuals have been unhoused. We know that individuals have been threatened during an ongoing crisis, unlike the Northridge Northridge earthquake that lasted 35 seconds and had lasting economic impacts for the past 25 years. This is ongoing. This is not over. There are many things we are not able to control and there are many protections that need to be in place. The CAA has issued many enticements to their landlords and it's not quite in the equity lens nor the emergency response lens of the complete, unfathomable ramifications of whatever. Thank you. Our next speaker is Jordan Wynn. Ken. Evening, City Council and Honorable Mayor. My name is Jordan Wynn, District three resident, also a member of everyone in which is a part of the Housing Justice Coalition. In spring, our city council passed an eviction moratorium, which was a common sense policy given the COVID 19 crisis that faced our city. And since then, most landlords have followed this policy. It has been recognized by the city and the state. And good acting landlords. At a time when things are so unstable, people deserve to stay in their homes. It's unfortunate now that we have ended up in a situation in which item nine has become necessary. But unfortunately, the bad actor landlords will not stop. There are cases of harassment across the city, but the pandemic going on. I can only imagine how heartless those are who decide to harass and harangue their own tenants and threaten them with eviction and homelessness, taking advantage of tenants with false information and deliberately obfuscating the legal rights of ten. We need real remedies for. Families against landlord. Harassment, and it is why I speak in support of item nine tonight. As was stated earlier, everything that is being engaged by the bad actor landlords is illegal already, and we need a backbone to that. We need enforcement against these bad actors who continue to get away with illegal harassment. This policy has come up for over seven months at this point and has almost been the council appearance twice before today's appearance. Today, I urge you all the City Council members to support the bill in your city. Thank you. Give us a moment when we transition to the Spanish portion of the public comment. Our first speaker is Ora Velasco. Premiere Pro Sona is our local. Hello. All. Which of. So to me is so simple, saying we are comfortable and love for your whole family. You know, my name is not my name. My name is out of Alaska. I'm from District six. And I asked the council please to support the adoption, to adopt these in article to protect tenants. Continuing to see. Her day care for you. You then return to the familiar. More vulnerable. And so from a causal part of the study. And I asked them for them to add support and help families that are vulnerable at this moment continue. What? She would that you in a court opera. Of course you are not prissy or not e intimidated I think in the. And they use harassment in order to pressure put pressure on their tenants lumped in with. The domain name so that it's a settlement of their illegality. And I feel good compassion and most importantly, you know, in seeing them going to another level and I've seen them document them. And and they tried to do that in order to push us out of our homes. And they do that in order to make us pay higher rents, illegal higher rents. And they also present documents that we had to sign that we do not understand. When we had you sign. Continuing to buy. Saltpeter for your outdoor content. Boiling hot little things not familiar with. Some of this. And almost. Almost 180. Days honorable counsel to please support all these tenants. He's not only tenants these are families and he's not only one person. We are many families facing this situation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Aurelia Ortega. Las personas. Aurelio Ortega. They go. A long Selectwoman Saniora. In the future. Of the culture. Although when I started in mid-November, several of. The. Yo yo yo quiero is to give up in a sequel. Also, I Don't Think Anymore. In L.A., Ortega and I would like for this honorable council to pass these Article nine in order to support a continuing. Forget walking the streets or saying so in a reciprocal safe zone, your son. And they're safe. They live on the coastal communities that other people know, etc.. What about the story that one loses to? If I am from I mean, I am from different sticks. And then the owners came requesting for more money. They asked. They increased their rent. They also had a harassment against us. They removed all the safety equipment for safety. They took the laundry away and they took all the outside lightning from us. Continuing. Uh huh. Is that your single training? You should be able to win the singles off winner you stole of the 1 million. I guess you get my husband. I mean it. I said so. Nah, not with my commentary then with the. But I'm one of those positive commentary. You some. Me and. And we. I had three kids in my home and they took all the the lights outside. So the children for like eight, eight days and the children were asking, can we go out and what is going to happen tomorrow and what about the day after and what about the day after? So it is a very stressful light, a life not only for parents but also for the children. Continue it. I mean, it's not that I endorse conservatism and get most of your money for them and then. I don't know. No, no, not remotely. To Mark Vaile. They sent me to tell them that I used them up and. No, no, not that I wasn't looking. Look, I just trying to scribble. And they bring contracts for us to sign. But it is in another language that we cannot understand. So when we don't want to sign that contract, they tell us that they're going to translate it themselves. But then when they translate the documents themselves, they translate whatever is convenient for them. They do not translate the whole document as it should continue. Thank you. The next speaker is Jose Luis Gonzalez. All over the place for some reason. Somebody there just to say. Good afternoon my name is wholesale Gonzalez from District six. Continue with. But a lot of people more than the delay in controlling the possibility to be more jokey. You kill a person until they'll be defeated in the future. I asked the council member and the honorable the honorable council and and the mayor to please to adopt Article nine and two, which is a law to protect tenants against harassment. And also if it could be passed before October 27, continuing. Yet the most obvious, one of the most egregious. They include a stellar rental wedding, a single person. Because we tenants are under harassment by some property owners and sometimes their rent is increased by a 45%. Continue with. And it's total direction from the Malaysian. And that is so. And I ask you, please, to support Article nine. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Porfirio de la Rosa. Perfidia Rosa. Well, I mean, a lot of people are looking into entitled Lazy in the street. My name is Porfirio Rosa and I live on 432 A Daisy Avenue A and I am here for a continuing. See if you put a subway in the lake. Okay. But then I'm also going to. With the temple. And I am here to to ask you to please support the law that would prevent donors from harassing us all the time. Continue a simple listening level as he look, you get a little rental only. Okay not for anybody to. And yes, because this has come up with paperwork and they tell us that the rent is going to increase, even double from what we're paying right now. Continuing. CEO, Barbara Morello, my mentor and the man who is connected to every animal successfully needs it. All of the other levels of power. And besides, there are many pests around and there are cockroaches and they don't fix things. All their piping is all blocked and clogged. Continue with. The purpose of communism is also for gay couples and we only want security given the long sleeve e, which is stress. And also the children. They're very scared because we receive papers are going to we're going to have to move out. And that creates a lot of stress to the children as well. Continuing. Therefore. Look, again, I see the point for. And that's all I want to tell you is please support us. Please. Garcia. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Rosa VILLASENOR. The persona rose above us. And you. But when I started my. No. What evening? My name is Ros. Obvious and your continua. Get their help on safely, baby. And let's not have four young people on the web. But I love a little stigma. And so I think, you know. And I want you to thank these honorable counsel for the opportunity. And I ask you, please, to support Article nine for the law to protect the tenants from harassment. Continue with. If I were passing on the bill. Thank you. Sit there. But I did not. And most of these guys or whatever is like I thought there was like capital of the law bill. So then the spirit will say. And please to pass this law before the 27th of October so we are not harassed again. I am a neighbor from 54th Street, 1454 Orange and District number six continue. Well, that ultimately Avril gets on top of this. You know what? Do I know this like on the store? He was scared. Okay, but a lot of things this year for your support. Yeah. I gave have a spicy product and he sat up also on North Carolina. And that since April the first when I a it I have a new owner a I been under severe stress and I had to go to the doctor again and again. A And I speak not only for me, but for all tenants. Please pass these law in order to protect us from harassment. What? By, uh, studying El Sindicato in Chile knows they'd love to have a long beach. And I will maintain a continuing. WALLACE But I'm also appointed, so they'll call and say, okay, if I approve it. But every battle in the course of my son. SLAUGHTER And we're hoping for the support from the entire council for all from all the council members in order for us to not to suffer any more harassment. Um. Not the sense of the end though. When I went back a bit with Mutual, not with him. Bhagat Singh is still the La Pandemia Mucho. They're still sick. And I don't seem it was sort of our thing, but I gave it everything. I've gotten myself looking cleaner. And the rent is increasing a lot and we cannot pay that kind of increase, particularly during the pandemic. And many of us do not have a job right now. So please, I ask you, please vote and support these law to protect tenants from harassment. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item, which. Addresses Edelman in a commentary, but I don't think so. Okay. Thank you very much. We will now go back to the council. I have the second year of the Motion Council member hearing. Thank you. But even if they get it out to the polls, a lot of money if they're super, super cynical. But it's good to look at what they notice of this. First of all, I want to give people thanks for coming forward to speak on behalf of attendance rates and their situations like Councilmember, like Vice Mayor Andrews . I, too, have had visits from renters who have let me into their homes or to their apartments. They showed me for the conditions that they live under. Some of them are very horrific. There's not too much, but they're all suffering from some kind of negligence from land owners or apartment owners who have chosen not to fix their apartments. So this ordinance we're trying to look at today basically provides guidelines for land owners in terms of what they can and cannot do when you're coming to your tenants. And it also provides an opportunity for tenants to look at what landlords can and cannot do when their rights are being violated and what they can do in terms of getting any kind of compensation or corrections when it comes down to their their living conditions or their rent. So I'm bringing this forward with a council, with a Vice Mayor Andrews, to assist our clients, to provide them with guidance so that when and if there is a violation, there are what I call 13 different conditions that we are moving forward that the tenants can use when they go to court or when they need to get compensation for any kind of violations that they are facing, including eviction. The importance of bringing this now and bringing this up and bringing it back to the city council as soon as possible, is that. We we have an urgency. We have a pandemic that is horrifically affecting our populations, especially those in dire need of assistance. And bringing this back as quick as possible provides them with additional help to address this. So I want to thank the Vice Mayor for bringing this forward, and I hope that we can bring him back as quickly as possible, hopefully before the end of the month looking if we can bring it back on on the 27th, sometime that week, maybe the 30th. So I'm if you don't mind my saying, like to amend that motion that we create that by the end of the month. Yes. Thank you. Vice-Chair And thank you, City Council. I hope that we could get the support of our council members to support this and push it forward so that tenants can have a pathway towards getting to really. Thank you very. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilwoman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I want to thank Vice Mayor Andrews and Councilman Karenga for bringing this back or bringing this item to council. I really appreciate the comments and the testimony that we heard from so many tenants. And I wholeheartedly, absolutely agree that nobody should live under the situations and the circumstances that we heard tonight from so many of the speakers. And so I really think that some of the concerns are very valid. And I want to go through some of the items that are listed in the proposed ordinance that Council Vice Mayor Andrews has asked the city attorney to bring forth. So I had a chance to and I understand there are state laws in place right now. I also understand that there's. Nuances and different burdens of proof and different factors when we have a local ordinance. So I'm not opposed to having a local ordinance, although I do have some concerns about the way this one is worded. So I want to talk to Vice Mayor Andrews about that. A couple of the speakers talked about similar jurisdictions that have adopted local anti tenant harassment ordinances. And I know that I have reviewed those in the past when we've talked about this item. The particular item that Vice Mayor Andrews has brought forth, I think, misses some of the verbiage that was included in other city ordinances. That to me is kind of pivotal. I think it's really important when you have any sort of law or regulation that it's very clear and there is due process and as much effort to avoid ambiguity as possible. I mean, some of the callers talked about domestic violence cases and things of that nature. And I think we can all agree that while there's a lot of room for improvement of the law, the law, at least the criminal law, is written in such a way to avoid ambiguity so that people know exactly under what circumstances they'd be violating it and under what circumstances they would not. And so there's got to be kind of a mental state requirement. Any time there's an allegation that someone is violating another person's rights. And so one of the things that I noted is in the ordinance, the proposed language of the ordinance vice mayor that you bring. There's nothing requiring any bad faith or ill will on behalf of the landlord. So technically, if you look at many of these items here, many of these provisions, they could technically, technically and legally be violated by someone who has no ill intent at all. So someone could inadvertently annoy a tenant. By the way, they're asking a question or the type of question they could also inadvertently confuse someone, whether someone's confused or annoyed. Are very much subjective terms. And so I don't think the what we're astha and that's not present by the way, in any of the local ordinances. So whether we're talking about Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, you know, they all require some sort of a specific intent or mental state on behalf of the landlord, which we don't have. So, Vice Mayor Andrus, I'm wondering if you're willing to. Consider this friendly. I have a couple of friendlies I wanted to ask that would allow me to support this item tonight. But the first sentence that you list here, it would say No landlord shall. And I'd like to offer a friendly that says no landlord shall comma in bad faith comma. Commit the following colon and then it would go to number one. Is that something you're open to? All right, I accept your opening. Okay. Thank you. And then there's a couple other ones that I wanted to ask about. On number 11. English is my second language, and it's the second language for my family. So I'm very. Cognizant of the situation where someone is being asked to sign a legal document in a language that's not their own. My mother and I certainly had to do that quite a bit in the apartments that we lived in when I was growing up. But I think that sometimes, you know, we're attributing to number 11, for example, a violation that may be inadvertent. So what I would like to add as a friendly is number 11, communicate with the tenant in a language other than the tenant's primary language. And I would like to cross out for the purpose of two with a specific intent of intimidating, confusing, deceiving or annoying the tenant. And then I'd like to add language barriers that arise in good faith and without the intent to intimidate, confuse, deceive or annoy do not constitute a violation. Is that something you'd be open to? Yeah, definitely. Okay. And that way it's just it's really the people that are intentionally, you know, they've been advised and they ignore it. The other one that I had is number. Okay. The last paragraph. What I'd like to include is an opportunity for the landlords to be able to correct the defect. So what I wanted to propose is the last paragraph. If a landlord violates the terms of this ordinance, an aggrieved residential tenant, and then I'd like to insert must provide the landlord with a reasonable time to cure the defect. If the landlord fails to cure the defect within 7 to 10 business days, the tenant may and then continue the rest of your paragraph, which is institute a civil proceeding. Are you open to that? First of all, I heard that. But, you know, you know, I'm not an attorney and this is not a it's this is not perfect. But I would like to do you know, I city attorney to help write the ordinance similar to other cities because the point of this item is to help us stop harassment in general. And I, of course, you know, and I think, you know, general treatment, you should you know, you don't need to move like the offenses and increase, you know, rent it is that's not okay. So this is what I would really like to see what's going to happen with this, right? Because, you know, like I said, it's not perfect. Least, you know, we need to make sure that, you know, our people are, you know, communicating, you know, in their own native language. And I appreciate that, Mr. Vice Mayor. And I certainly don't want to rewrite the ordinance. You know, I'm a council member. I'm not the city attorney here. But those are areas where I would. I mean, I'd love to. I'd love to. If you're open to those topics being included in the first draft of the ordinance that comes back, and the city attorney can write them up using whatever verbiage they like. I'm going to throw this to the city attorney. Would that be okay? Because I'd like to hear, you know, some of their comments on it, because, first of all, I understood with the last I have a little you know. Concerned about that. I would like to write to the city attorney. Before you do that there today for a second. Well, hold up. Hold on 1/2. So I just wanna make sure we're clear about where we are. So. So I think I'm wrong. I think Vice Mayor, I think. Were you just what just what you just said was that you were open to the first two friendlies, but the last friendly. You would prefer that the city attorney handle all in when he writes the ordinance. Is that is that what I got that you got. Mr. City also. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That's what. That's what I got. This is Rick Anthony. I assume everyone can hear me. Thank you. Okay. Okay, great. And then. And then I think the next person that spoke was that Councilmember Gringa. I don't. That you. Councilmember. Yes, it was. And that's to as a part of the second year of the motion. And the friendly desk. I'm sure it's just really customary. Just 1/2, please. Just from a procedure perspective, I do have a speakers list. Should you try it? Does the second order of the motion also have? Can he speak now or do I need to keep going down the queue? If if I understand the council members he may be asking is the as the second hour of the motion, is he also accepting the friendly? And I think the answer to that is yes, he needs to or it needs to be a substitute motion. Okay. It's customary, Ringo. Yeah, well, I basically agree with Vice Premier Andrews in the sense that I think it would be better if we get a read from the city attorney in regards to the to the substitute motion for the amendment for the amendments that were made to this. Because, again, he is not a divisive attorney. I am not an attorney. The the amendments, the friendlies that are being pushed forward are difficult to understand in the sense of what effect it would have on the current motion that's on the table. So I would rather we have a read from the city attorney on this before we move forward with any kind of presence. Is that okay with you? That. Yes, it is. That's the way. Yes. By all. Wyoming. Okay. This is this is Rich Anthony, again, deputy city attorney. I can. I'm taking careful notes, trying to we can have as many friendly amendments as the council. Direct. I I've so far I think I clearly understood the first friendly that Councilmember Price made having to do with in bad faith. Commit the following. I understand the second in section 11. If Councilmember Price wouldn't mind reminding me I didn't get it all down what her third friendly was, which I'm calling the third friendly, also a change to section 11. It had to do with language barriers. Could you repeat that language a little more slowly? Sure, sure. The second friendly was on item 11. It was it to read communicate with the tenant in a language other than the tenants primary language with the specific intent of intimidating, confusing, deceiving or annoying the tenant. Moving on, the second sentence would say Language barriers that arise in good faith and without the intent to intimidate, confuse , deceive or annoy do not constitute a violation. That was the second one. The third one does not. The third friendly that I proposed does not have to do with item 11. Right. But. Okay. Thank you. I have that. And so then let me continue with the third one. The provision of of a reasonable time for a landlord to cure. I understand that without too much more detail, because my read of similar ordinances adopted in Oakland, San Francisco and Berkeley, at least two of them, maybe all three of them, I can't quite recall due do include a provision similar however in those. However, I'm not sure that every violation enumerated in the first 12 paragraphs is reasonably susceptible to being cured. Like if you're abusing someone or harassing someone or annoying them or threatening them, there's no real way to cure a threat that's already been made. Other other violations I think are could clearly be cured, like a failure to maintain the property or make a fix or a failure to provide a tenant with a valid address at which to stand rent, among others. I have not gone through to check all 12 to see which ones might be cured. I guess I should say 13. Which ones might be cured and which ones may not? And I think I can do that. But I do think that it's it's something that I would prefer to have direct and specific direction from the council on. And I know that maybe not everyone wants to hear that, but I think a fair number of questions are going to arise tonight. And I would love to have direction from the Council on on several of these issues that that this item raises. Well, Mr. Anthony, on that note, can I just ask you, since you've looked at the other ordinances, how is this proposed ordinance different from the other ordinance ordinances in terms of bad faith and the ability to cure a defect? And could we align them so that the language is consistent with other cities? That's really all I'm trying to get to here. Yeah. The answer to your second question first is, you know, clearly we could align them, I think, with other ordinances that other cities have adopted. The answer to the first question is, I have not done an exhaustive comparison line by line or, you know, substantive provision to substantive provision there. I think this item is is it's off to it gets us off to a very good start. It clearly is inspired by other provisions that other cities have adopted and have been in place for several years, if not decades. But that said, there are some things in here that I did not see in other ordinances, which is okay. That doesn't necessarily mean this ordinance couldn't adopt them, but it's something that I would want to confirm the legality of. And I have I also have several questions of my own and points of clarification that I think I would like council input on. Okay. So I can bring back an ordinance that I know reflects what the council wants to see. So, Mr. Anthony I know, I know that comes from your anger and Vice Mayor Andrew's and we're still accepting we're in the process of accepting those friendlies and have a full council list. So did you, Mr. City Attorney, did you get everything you needed at this time on the motion that's on the floor? Yes, I think I'm good for now. Thank you, Mayor. Okay, so before we, uh, and that and count from your anger that's reflective of, of then the motion and the second. Correct. Could I have one clarification before we move on? Are we good? Okay. Actually, no. But I'm going to let my colleague to speak. And I'm not I'm not in total agreement with the friends. Okay. Well, you have to actually accept the friendlies for them to move forward. If the city attorney just said, is that right? I'm correct. I think I have to I have to disagree because of the emotion on the floor. It's emotional on the floor. I don't really. Hold on a second. I just want to make sure that that we're doing this correctly so. Mr. City Attorney, the reason we went back to free range is because he wanted to comment on the friendlies. And so it sounds like counter me, Ringo, you don't accept the friendlies. And so that does not allow the friendlies to go into the into them into Vice Miranda's main motion. Is that right? Is that right? I'm a city attorney. That's correct. Real quickly, to make this easy, let's go ahead and let the councilwoman price make their own substitute. Okay. Well, then you're not. So are you saying you don't accept the friendly face that you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Now, let me get a. Okay, so let's just have everyone's queued up. So let me let me go through this whole thing before we move on. I'm sorry. Yeah, but not accepting and putting. I wanted to go, and so. Councilwoman. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. So you're not accepting the friendlies. Okay, so let me let me get one clarification point before we move on. And I have customers and they have snacks. Was was part of the motion. I thought I think I heard that the councilmember wanted this to come back before the end of the month, I think is what I heard. I just want to clarify that, because the next council meeting is not until the 17th of November. I mean, we the council actually we have Election Day and council meeting. So I just want to clarify that. And I think there is no council meeting to the 17th of November. And Mayor, this is city attorney. I just also want to interject this motion. I don't think we can physically bring it back on the 27th. We need a couple of weeks at least, and I haven't heard all of the councilmembers comments and direction. But three days is not enough to write this motion and try and bring it back next week. So we're going to need at least two weeks to do this. So just we're trying to factor that. My concern about my concern about next week is there is there is no next week, so there's no meeting next week. The next meeting is November 17th. So I just want to clarify that I think part of the motion said to bring this back to the council. So I don't know if that meant like, like, like send the council a memo or on the item back. But there is no meeting till the 17th, just to be very clear. And so they can't come back in two weeks. And I think the city attorney has just said that, you know, he would need more time anyway. So. So, Vice Mayor, I just want to make sure and clarify on that. Are we or with whatever the motion is? I'm under the assumption then that it would come back at the next meeting. But I want to clarify that it comes from your rank because I think you said end of the month. Yeah. So are we. Are we fine with that, vice mayor? Yes. Yes, that was what we decided on. Which which was what, but that it would be the next meeting or try to make sure. It would be like as quick as you can bring it back. And that's what it is. That's what I would like to see is that hopefully before the end of the month, but it just seemed like he said he can't do it. So that's the that would be a problem for all of us. That's sort of set up as because it's an emergency situation. But you said that he can't. So we're going to have to go back. What's. Okay. Let me cut some of your anger. Well, actually, I asked for it at the end of the month, the 30th. We were we were not able to do it on the last Tuesday of the month at a special meeting, which is when it's ready to go. Ah. Okay, I'm. I'm just trying to get clarification. I don't understand. So you want it by the end of the month? On the 30th? You want it to come back at the next possible meeting or are you scheduling as part of your motion of meeting. The bill before that, before the next council meeting. Which is the 17th? Right. I'll bring him back before then. Exactly. But did it help? Would it help? If this were to be, we could work on the main motion, but bringing it back. Would it help if we made that a separate motion? Just to make a clarification. Okay. Why don't I think I guess what I just want to be clear on before we move forward is I think part of your motion, you said to bring it back on the 30th or the end of the month. I'm just letting you know that there's no council meeting to the 17th. And I think the city attorney has said that he can't have it ready on the 30th or the end of the month. So we can continue moving forward. But I just want to make I want to make sure those two notes at some point in this discussion, we need to clarify one, if part of your motion you're calling a special meeting or what's happening there before the 17th and two, the city attorney has to be able to actually physically bring it back. So I just want to those are two things that we got it clarified as we as we move forward. All right. So let me keep going and count concerns and things. Councilman Sun has. Sorry. Thank you, Mayor. I thought I was. I didn't know what I was on mute. Thank you very much, Mayor, for this. This time on this, I know that we have a very complex item in front of us, but also a very, very important one. I'm so excited to see a version of this policy come before us today here at council. As my colleagues know, this is a this is a very important and incredible, incredible item of importance for me. I'm grateful for my staff and our community partners, like Legal Aid Foundation and now Vice Mayor Andrew for choosing to back this very important policy. And thank you so much to Vice Mayor Andrus for bringing this forward and listening to our residents who are going through a lot at this time. I myself have been a renter and have struggled with with housing and afford when it comes to being able to afford housing. And I've been a renter for over 25 years and I see myself continuing to be a renter for many of our neighbors, especially our neighbors of color. We have we see a lot of harassment going on, especially in our in immigrant communities and undocumented families that we have, especially in here in the first District. Well, I can imagine that circumstances that make this pause, this policy sadly necessary, are unimaginable to to most of Long Beach residents but me. Each week I hear from my residents on how they are being harassed by their landlords, mostly because they don't either speak the language or they don't know the law. And in in most instances, if a landlord says something to attend, a tenant usually takes that as it must be law. And that's why it's so conflicting. And it puts a lot of our tenants, you know, in very insecure positions. As I said, I understand how difficult this year has been on so many of us, on so many levels, including our small property owners. But there is no excuse for this kind of treatment to our tenants. And a policy like this would limit the ability of doing or continuing the harassment of our of our tenants. Unfortunately, there is only so much we can do as a councilperson to defend our most vulnerable among us. You know, there's times when I. I just break down in tears when I'm hearing the stories of my tenants. And I I'm frustrated because I feel that my hands are tied. And I, you know, as a council person, there's only so much we can do. But these stories really tug at my heartstrings. And, you know, and I really bothers me to see families going through a lot of undue stress and unnecessary stress, especially when they have younger children who are already suffering by the changes that COVID has brought upon us. You know, so there's stress already on the family and on top of that, being harassed by the by your landlord who who is, you know, something that, you know, can can really bring down a family. So I really urge my colleagues to really take a good, good look at this and really support this item. I'm so grateful to all of our community partners that have been advocating for our residents in and out every day, you know, trying to find ways to assure them that, you know, they're not going to be out on the street. But it's easy for us to say it's okay, things are going to be okay when it's us that you know, when it's not us. That fear that tomorrow we will be homeless and that that could be a real possibility for that. Again, I want to thank Mayor Vice Mayor Andrews for bringing this forward. I also want to thank Councilmember Otunga for for signing onto this item. And I hope that we can together come up with a. Good. A good resolution so that we can protect those most vulnerable, those renters that need our help now more than ever. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is Councilwoman Pierce. Thank you, Mayor. I want to sincerely, sincerely thank Vice Mayor Dantas for bringing this item forward together with Councilmember Yarrawonga. We have been trying to figure out how to tackle this issue, not, you know, not just in COVID, but before COVID. And I think we all hear these stories every single council Tuesday, and you guys have heard me share my story and I want to share a little bit more. And then I want to specifically clarify that it seems like council member, Urunga, council member Marizanne de Vos and Vice Mayor de Andrews have all asked for this item to come back earlier. I recognize that that means having a special meeting. I think the date was the 30th. We have two meetings that were canceled in November, one of them because of the election. And honestly, I'm not sure why the other ones canceled. So I would hope that we could do what's best for tenants right now and put their interest in front of anything else at this moment. So I've shared with folks and you've heard the testimony about my landlord, the fact that I'm a renter. My landlord is the sweetest man. He's like in his eighties, this is his only property his son used to be on. The city council is very nice, kind, smiling guy. When COVID happened and I lost my contract, I sent him a letter that said, Here is what my payment plan is going to be. Here is me telling you that I've been impacted by COVID. I have texted him. I have emailed him. I have kept him up to date with the income that I get and how much I can pay. Currently, right now, I am one month behind rent. He showed up at my door at seven in the morning, knocking on my door and he gave me a list, ten pages of papers, and he says, You need to sign this in three days. And I said, What is this? And he said, Well, you need to sign it in three days. It's because you haven't paid your rent. And, you know, I just woke up, I hadn't had coffee. I had to get my kid up, get ready for school. I look at them and I can't read them. They're printed on vague paper. But what I can put through is that there's a letter, there's a new lease agreement. There's papers from the city of L.A., nothing from Long Beach and nothing about the state law. The last page was the only page that I legally was required to sign. And he's doing this to me. A councilwoman who he knows knows the law in that was a letter. I'm not going to read you the entire letter. I've shared it with many people. It says, While no eviction actions will be taken at this time, there is an expectation and a requirement that your outstanding rent be paid in the near future. There are temporary bans on evictions, but those do not waive financial obligations. You need to pay as much as your rent as you possibly can to avoid legal actions, period. That is a threat. That is harassment. That is not transparency with the state law. I am a college educated, elected official that have been threatened by my landlord. I text him and tell him that I want to understand what he's sending me. So he knocks on my door again while I'm trying to feed my daughter and get her ready for school. Mind you, I have a meeting at 9:00. He says if you can't read it, I'll just read it to you. You don't need to read it. No, I need to be able to read the document you sent me. So I know firsthand what harassment means. Did he intend to, quote unquote, to harass me? Did he intend to make my heart race, to set my day off, to make it one of the worst days I've had in the last month? Probably not. She probably wouldn't stand in front of a judge and say, I intended to go and bully her. She's scared too. But we all have to understand how we treat people and what the law is. When I asked him where he got the documents from, he said the apartment association and that they were required. I informed him they were not required. I gave him the only page that was required by law and I informed my other tenants that live in this building of their same rights. This is something that's happening every single day. He asked me to sign a new lease with a new payment agreement on that lease. I still don't quite know if legally if I had signed that if I would have to be upheld to that standard. This is why we have to do something sooner rather than later. So I know that there is an urgency ordinance that the city attorney reads it as an urgency ordinance. I know that there is a extensive two from for that stuff is done. I know that these things can seem complicated to us who aren't attorneys, but it should be pretty simple in my mind from having drafted other policies and recognizing that when we focus on something and it's urgent, we get it done. So I'm asking the city attorney, Rich Anthony, which date is the soonest date that you can bring this back? If there was a special meeting. Councilmember Pearce, thank you. I know you know this. I'm not the city attorney. You are any attorney within our city. Thank you. Yes, I am. I would like to defer that to to Charlie, Mr. Parker. And if he'd like me to speak to that, I'm happy to do so. This is Charlie Parker, and I think the earliest we can commit to bringing this back would be November 2nd, the first week. And we certainly I hear the urgency, I hear the desire to to move quickly on this bill. But we want to do a good job for you. And we would bring it back as an urgency ordinance so that you could, at the discretion of the council, adopted that night and have it go into effect if you chose to have a special meeting on that week. Okay. And can you clarify for me if it's an emergency ordinance, you bring it back on the second. Does that protect people that might experience harassment in between now and the second? Is that what I remember from other emergency ordinances? That is not correct. If you'd adopted it on the week and I'm saying the week of the second, we would bring it back to you. It would it would go into effect that evening and be proactive from that date and would not be retroactive. Okay. So with that, you know, in the statements that my colleagues have made, I wholeheartedly you know, I recognize that we have an election on the third. I also recognize that we don't want to play politics with people's lives. I would hope that we could get a special meeting scheduled as soon as possible. You know, if not the 30th and then the second, I know that's up to you guys and the mayor should decide how to do that, but I really hope we can get something done before the election. Thank you. Great. And before we move on to the next speaker, which is controversial or not. Just to clarify, I know I'm not available on I'm the second. So please, when you make the motion, you guys will need to schedule this. Please schedule the meeting with the motion. So it's very clear, perfectly, very difficult to get it scheduled right around that time because people's calendars, people are already have the commitments. So please, if we can before this this conversation ends, if the makers of the motion will include the special election or the special meeting date. So it's very clear when that will be that that would be very helpful, I think, for for the city attorney and the staff as well. So let's get this continue controversy for not. Thank you, Mayor Garcia. Yeah. I'm going to try to go a little different direction here because I think we're fighting the calendar and we're actually rushing an ordinance that would be incredibly important. So what I'd like to ask and I'm going to direct this to the city manager, but I understand that it might take development services and possibly the city attorney to answer. But how much are. Included in this new ordinance would would there be crossover for items we already have on on the. Books? And what. Are your enforcement. Capabilities? That is. What the city. Staff have that we could address these issues immediately. Even if we were to bring this forward on a second, on November 2nd, we have units who have expressed that they need help immediately. Is there anything that could begin tomorrow to address these issues? So I'll take the best crack at that that I can. This is not an area where the city has a law. In the past, most cities don't really get into this business to, you know, this type of business in the past. So this is clearly something that has been in the last couple of years of interest. And so there are city programs on the books, but there are state laws and state law protections that already exist that people can avail themselves of. We were not planning that this would be a city enforced ordinance. It would be a city ordinance which would then be handled in the civil court system. So otherwise we would be needing to add a number of staff and putting staff in the position to put themselves between their landlord and the tenant. And so the way that we understand the ordinance to be written is it would be regulated in the courts. And so if there's people who are experiencing harassment that they may already qualify under certain amounts of or certain provisions under state law. But this clearly is an attempt to add additional items and provide clarity at the local level. Okay. Thank you. Then I'll just have one follow up. So the idea of of having this ordinance enacted at the earliest date, November 2nd, that's provided, we can have a quorum on that date, which I'm not sure of. Then how about the implementation? I think the city manager. Was saying that that that is something that might be time consuming. And I'm making that a question. Well. Yes. As as the city manager was saying, the implementation of the ordinance would be, it would provide, as I understand it, enriches on the line, too, and he can jump in here that it would give the tenant or the person who is aggrieved under the ordinance the right to bring the action and for the damages. Richard, you want to add to that? Sure. Sure. Thanks. I think that's right. I don't think there'd be much in the way of implementation on the part of the city as soon as it became effective. The tenants would have the opportunity to avail themselves of the of the rights of action that they have. So because we don't intend and I don't I don't think the makers of the motion intend that this would be city enforced. There's not much to do as far as implementation on the part of the city. I would imagine there would be some sort of notice post notice posted to a city website and that may be it . Okay. Thanks for that. Clarification. Thank you, Councilmember. Next up is Councilman Richard. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So I think this is, you know, certainly an important issue. And and, you know, I tend to believe that we should certainly certainly look at this from a standpoint of if we can get this done the week before the election, that's fine. But doing a meeting the day before the election, that doesn't sound that doesn't sound like a good proposition to me. If we know that there's going to be number one, there's going to be a it's going to be pressured decision making and more and more discussion. And I don't think is the environment to shape policy. I think we should just get it done on the on the 30th. And if we can't get it done on the 30th, and it could be immediately after the election, we you know, we as a city attorney can get it done. We call the special meeting. So I don't I don't know if this makes sense to do it on the second day of you know, on the day before the election. Secondly, you know, this is special. It's a stressful time for everybody right now in general. It's confusing environment for for renters. We know that it's also for small property owners, this confusing environment. Like what? What is harassment and what is not? I think all of us have a general idea of what harassment is, but we have a very, very specific laws that that call that out. If you're a large property owner, you should know those rules. And if you break those rules, there should be penalties. Very small guy will say you have one property, you have one renter, and the rules change. Well, there's no local resource for you to find out what you should or shouldn't say, what language you should or shouldn't use. There's there's no real resource for you have to pay $300 to join the apartment association and they will have the updated documents and they'll have the trainings for you. But we don't have anything local for we're talking about small property owners here, which is which is, you know, what a lot of people in the city are . Those are the ones where you want to make sure you create an environment where there's no harassment intentionally or unintentionally. So this is directly connected to our whole conversation about establishing a rental housing division. If we if we establish a rental housing division, the whole point is to have notices that are available to both sides. Resources, trainings locally that we can make sure that's a that's a service that we should provide in our city. And so this is directly connected to that. So here's so, so, so and not just look at the calendar. It looks like the 30th is a furlough day anyway. So. Mr.. Mrs. City Attorney, is it at all possible to get it done the week before the election? And I, I cannot commit to that. I haven't heard the rest of the Council discussion on this, but there's already been several issues. And I know Rich has a series of questions for additional direction. I would like to be able to promise that, but I would say no. I would say the week of the second is the earliest. If you're asking me for a commitment that we could commit to, I agree with you that November 2nd is a bad day. We would like it later in that week, if possible, but we will support it. Well, I certainly appreciate your honesty about your ability to get it done. I think if you can't get it done that week, then you plan for the following week and do it after the election. And, you know, we set a goal we agenda item, and then we get it. We get it done. The reality is this is a shifting legislative environment. And, you know, and there's going to be a lot that takes place on on that Tuesday. If if if the city attorney is telling us clearly he cannot get it done on the 29th, then we as a council need to say, bring it back on the third or bring it back on the fourth in a special meeting to get it done. I understand the urgency. This is an important issue, but I also think we need to have some common sense about how we go about this. I there's you know, the window of time I think is closing. It needs to happen. If he if it couldn't happen on the 29th, the citizenry saying it shouldn't then do it on the fourth or the fifth. So that would be that would be my suggestion. I'm going to keep listening to this conversation. But again, I think I think, you know, that makes a lot more sense hosting it after, you know, bringing this back in a special afterward and ensuring that we have we have quorum for the meeting. So those are those are my general thoughts. Thank you. Becky Council member. I mean, look at the queue next to us, Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I don't think I queued up again, but sorry about that. It's okay. Let me just chime in that, you know, I support what my colleagues are saying. This is really important policy. I understand there's a rush to get this done. But honestly, if you if people read it, there is no mens rea or state of mind whatsoever attributed to the landlord. So it's very much subjective in terms of what someone might view as annoying or in fact the word confusing. I mean, there is a lot of times where my council colleagues are talking and I'm sure it's the same with you guys when I'm talking, or you might be confused. Does that alone mean that there's been a violation? I just feel like we need to make sure that we I'm willing to do it any time you guys want to do it if you want to do it tonight. But I made some friendlies to try to move this forward and they were rejected. So with that, I'm going to support what Councilman Richardson said. I was hoping that some of my friendlies would be accepted and we could move forward. But it sounds like that's not going to happen. So if that's the case, then I think we do need to talk about it further. So thank you. Vice Mayor Andrews. A lot of it. My problem with this is we need to have our city attorney. Out. Got what bad faith or intent is. You know, also I understand and our landlords, you know, our landlords are bilingual. But we need to understand that you can't get someone to agree a sign on something that they do not understand because . It. It it is like, you know, we've had a code enforcement system and that allowed us to repair things in seven days. So this is also a problem. You know, my problem with this is because in the tenets that I have on Orange Avenue, that was inspection made two months ago, the owner was just mailed a letter by code enforcement today. So clearly something is broken. And if we can't get this ordinance in place sooner or later. It can't hopefully deter bad apples. You know, they they have been living with no interior lives, no security doors. No one should have to live like that. So this is where I feel about the whole situation. Thank you. Next up is Councilman Mongo. Thank you. Thank you for that statement. Both Mayor Andrews, I guess in kind of leaning to. Solve issues today. Along the lines of Councilman Supernova. Is there a. I guess. I don't know. Across all the cities, I'd like to see a chart that shows what different cities have put in place as it compares to the state law , as it compares to what we're talking about today. I think that that would be helpful. And then are there things that we could do? Like we were talking about the administrative housing division is there. What processes are expensive? So we're going to create an ordinance where tenants who, according to Councilman Pearce, don't know that what their landlord is saying isn't true, which means that they wouldn't know that this ordinance is true. But hopefully we can figure out something bigger than that. But there has to be a cheaper, more expedited process than going through the courts. Is there are there cities who do administrative hearings or. I don't know. Something on a more. Quick and resolute level that Mr. Anthony or both Marie Andrews could speak to. Councilmember Mungo, this is Rich Anthony. I think there are. I'm not an expert on the subject, but just by perusing some of the other anti tenant harassment ordinances from the cities that have already been mentioned, some of those cities, one comes to mind, already has a rent control board in place. So that city already has infrastructure in place in order to bring administrative hearings and determine possible landlord harassment. Long Beach doesn't have such a thing at the moment, so I'm not certain. I see what you're saying, but I think trying to address the accessibility and the speed with which a tenant could get some redress, I don't know that the city is set up to do that without a much heavier lift and a lot more changes. Is there a possibility for on a local level for us to adopt the state ordinance as it's written with a financial commitment of, I don't know, $200,000 to pilot an administrative officer? To be brought on on a contract basis to make it possible that. That individual could do administrative duties. And then we because I have big concerns, I don't think I completely understand. In listening to the testimony of the community, there were things that were said that were in conflict that make me concerned about the language that we are proposing. When we talk about the different excerpts that come to an end, price is kind of addressed. I want to make sure that we're doing it right because we put policy in the place. We often do it and we don't look back for a long time. And so I almost feel like. Even this policy, I don't think, would help Councilman Pierce's situation where the small property owner doesn't know or understand. The components of what he's doing and she talks about how he's nice and all these things. And then I guess my bigger question is. How many cases are brought forward to the court system as it is today? I mean, in looking through some data that was submitted and I can't verify the information provided by the community member, they thought there were four cases. In the past 220 days. That means once every 30 days out of our. 65,000 units. One person starts this process, so I'm not sure if an ordinance really resolve the issue. It kind of goes to a bigger issue of knowledge, understanding, education. I guess I would ask Vice Mayor Andrews if your intent is to give immediate. Support. Would you be of the mind that perhaps some kind of pilot program for immediate support would be a good alternative? I don't have one in mind. I'm just trying to listen to what I'm hearing and. Solve issues. And I just want to say one thing about four incidents. You know, a lot of times, especially in our areas that know how to go and report various incidents. I know it's more than four, but those are the individuals who just came forward, you know, to let individuals know why they were being treated so. Right. I get. That. Yeah. So that's but I hear what you're saying. I think that would probably be a good idea. You know, we have that type of, you know, finance to be able to put something like that together. Not just the finances, but I guess, I mean, it seems like there's like this massive sense of urgency to get something done. We're doing it now. I don't know what. You're 5 minutes. Longer. Okay, so let me just I mean, just at the meeting back. So, Councilman Mongo, I'm going to gather anything else that you have. I just. I'm looking for a solution that gives. If we have a law in place of the state that no one's utilizing, I'm not sure a law at the local level is going to solve that problem. So I'm just looking to figure out what's the issue. There's a perception that people are being harassed. How do we stop people from being harassed? We either need something more immediate because court processes take a long time. So just looking for some solutions. Okay, Mayor, I'm going to go ahead and hold on 1/2. Okay. I just want to I wanted to get back on track. And this is as this is all over the place. So just to be very clear, before we move on to we have another councilmember just queued up. So just be very clear. There is a motion on the floor by Vice Mayor Andrews and comes from your anger. And I want to get clarification. I'm I'm not exactly sure what it what it is right now. So I believe the motion is to have the city attorney draft this ordinance and to bring it back at its earliest possible. A date, which, according to the city attorney, would be November. That would be November 2nd. That is the motion on the floor. Am I right? Vice Mayor Andrews am I correct so far? I want to assure that for the motion has now you'll change. Okay. Okay. Councilman Ranga. Is that correct? Where the motion is as of now. Yes. Okay. So we've agreed that the motion on the floor. I'll be back as soon as it can. November 2nd. That's the motion on the floor. We'll continue. Councilman Pearce. Thank you, Mayor, for getting us back on track. I won't speak too much. I just want to clarify that there was a two from four done in July that actually has a chart of all the other city ordinances. So a lot of work has already been done on this. I hope that we can call the question and vote on this. It seems like staff has a lot of work to do in the coming weeks, so thank you. Okay. Thank you. There is no more. There are no more cues pushing the talk. Actually, Councilman, we just came up right now. Councilman Mongo. Councilman Pearce, I've read that the thing is that that chart doesn't compare to what is currently state law. It only addresses Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Santa monica and Berkeley. There is a state law anti-harassment policy. That's why we need to do something locally. So I called the question please. But within. Thank you. I have the floor. But within that there is protections against harassment at the state level at least. Many people have testified to that today. And so that's why I just don't know. Also, this chart doesn't show which ones of these boxes the Long Beach ordinance is trying to address is the Long Beach ordinance trying to address all of them for eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 were all a mix of them when a city attorney question actually work. So we have that. There's nobody else cued up. So we're all we're going to go. All right. So I think we may. Or members of the council, Rich Anthony, has said we have some questions that we need clarification on before votes taken. But I will I will I will have the Mr. Anthony make the questions of the maker of the motion. Go ahead. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. First, I want to make a clarification. The state law does not include anti-harassment provisions. It does include anti retaliation provisions. And I think a lot of people seem to think that's a distinction without a difference. But but in fact, it's not the what. What you are have in front of you tonight would provide tenants with more protections and more tools than what state law currently does. First, second, it's a I think it's an administrative issue that I just want to bring to everyone's attention. I have several questions about the ordinance as written. I think there may be some issues with it that I don't want to wait until the first hearing to bring up, because what I'm afraid is going to happen is I'm going to get direction to change certain provisions on the floor at whenever the next hearing is, which will require another first hearing. So I don't know that it's that efficient to move forward right now and to direct me to prepare an ordinance based on what I know right now without having a further discussion. And I'm prepared to do that tonight. I don't know that others are, but I am. I'm also prepared to put my concerns and the specific points of direction that I think I need in in a memo to forum from which would be public. And we could get further input from the public and council members and hopefully it would be directed and specific at a future meeting. That would necessarily mean that this ordinance won't be adopted until after November 2nd, but I'm not sure that that's not going to happen anyway unless we want to continue this discussion right now, which I am prepared to do. Okay. Mr. Anthony, it sounds like you have some questions that you want to ask, or we can just take a motion and then what you come back with. The counsel can then give you additional direction. Exactly. Thank you. So just I just I think that, you know, Mr. Anthony makes a good point and so he will bring something back. But there might be obviously changes to that. It sounds like the motion is to have the city attorney come up with the policy per, you know, part of the agenda item. And then you guys would then go ahead and go through that. Is that correct? Mr. Vice Mayor? Yes. Okay. Councilman Franco. I was to about. Okay. Okay. We're going to before we go to a I have another cue up Councilman Price. Okay. So we are about to take a vote to have the city attorney draft an ordinance on an item that he has lots of remaining questions on. And we're all comfortable with that. Is that just for clarification? Is that what I'm hearing, that the city attorney is being asked to draft an ordinance and he himself is not clear on the policy direction. Is that where we're at? If you're asking me, I think that's where we're at. Okay. Well, I think that's I'm sorry to say, but a pretty sad state for policy. But if that's where we're at, then that's where we're at. Let me just remind everyone that there was an effort to offer some friendlies to be able to move that item forward. And I guess now we're just going to ask the city attorney to do his best to try to understand where we're all coming from and come up with some language for us to vote on. That's what we're voting on. So awesome. Let's do it. You know? And what do you do with that respect? You know, we have a week to act. And so, you know, Mitch, you have a chance to put in memo. Okay. But if this is a city attorney, I'm not sure I just understood the vice mayor. But does he want is the direction now you want a memo instead of a draft ordinance? Because what Richard's talking about is we're going to have to make several assumptions without further clarification from the council, and we're going to do our best job to do that. But it may not be or meet the requirements and the intent of this body. And if you make some substantive changes, when we bring this back as an urgency ordinance, we'll have to bring it back another time. So further delaying the implementation. So I just want to be clear that we're going to do the best we can, but without these questions answered, it's going to be very difficult to mine. Read what everybody wants and have an ordinance that is going to be meet your your needs. Thank you. Okay. I have I have four councilmembers cued up again. So let me go ahead and go through that council. Councilman Mongo. I just want to iterate that. I want to be supportive of a tenant policy, but I can't be supportive of a policy that I don't know what I'm voting on. If the city attorney is mind reading, then it doesn't surprise me that I'm confused about where we are or what we're voting on because he's not clear on what he would be writing. So I understood that the possibility that Mr. Anthony said and maybe I misunderstood because what Mr. Perkins said is a little bit different. Mr. Anthony, you were saying you would potentially bring back a memo, send it out to the council without a meeting. We'd have it immediately or whenever you're able to get to it. Then the community and the council could provide input to your office, but then we would probably need to vote on what that input was because no one member of the council can. Provide direction to city staff on how to write an ordinance. But then there'd be at least the opportunity for the community to help weigh in on that, and then the item would come back at a future council meeting. So perhaps, Vice Mayor, you could provide some guidance on what you're looking for or Mr. Mayor, tell us where we are, what we're voting on. Yes. Okay. Yes, very good. Wayne, back a draft ordinance. We'll go from there. If the memo was suggested, we should have had that conversation early. We can discuss the details later on what the ordinance is going to look like based on that draft ordinance. Okay. So what I'm just to be clear. So what I'm hearing is that it's clear that the maker of the motion wants the city attorney to bring back the draft ordinance. And then at that point, the council will discuss that. That's at least what the what the maker of the motion said. So that's where the motion is at. At the second day of the motion today? Yes. Get out. I think the vice mayor may also be a little. Confused as well. But I think based on the. Testimony that we just received right now from the attorney. I think we go ahead and listen to the questions because this is so important that I think that if the city attorney has questions, they want to proceed with questioning the the emotion makers and the counsel as to how they should proceed to get clarification. And let's offer that opportunity as we think we need to go ahead and get a clarification tonight so that when and if we do come back with this, it's pretty much what what the intent of the council is. So, Mr. Vice Mayor, are you okay with that? I am okay with it. But like I said, I think we've put in a lot of time and will we can get this moving and everyone will have a chance to discuss it even so that it. I'm okay with that. Okay. So I think okay, so I think I think where we're at now is the the maker of the motion. And the second of the motion are fine with getting the questions answered by the city attorney to develop the ordinance. Believe that's where we are right now. And I think that. Mr.. Mr.. Parkin, I think that's what you heard as well, right? That's correct. Mr.. Anthony, go ahead. Okay. Will do. Thank you. My first question and probably the one that's most important are other ordinances exempt, certain residences, certain units from the application of the anti tenant harassment, their anti tenant harassment ordinance units such as halfway houses, drug rehab facilities, university owned housing, health care facilities, housing that is owned by non-profits. The proposed ordinance does not. I have not had time to go through and determine whether the exemptions of those types of units is a policy decision made by each one of those cities, or whether it's actually illegal to regulate those types of units. I don't know the answer, but it makes me nervous bringing back an ordinance which hasn't fully contemplated all of those exemptions. And I want everyone to know I'm not trying to delay for the sake of delay. I'm trying to delay to ensure that we've addressed all these issues and that once an ordinance does pass, assuming that it does, that it is strong and not subject to challenge, and we haven't overlooked anything. And in four or five days, it's it's tough to get that done. I have another six questions or so that I think are threshold questions. I don't know if we should be taking a motion, if they should all be in one amended motion or a friendly or further direction, or if we have five or six different motions, I'm happy to do it either way. But the first issue I have is do we intend to exempt any sorts of units and if so, which. And I understand that the Council may not be ready to speak to that right now, but I think it's something that we have to consider and discuss. And maybe the answer is no. We're not interested in exempting any units whatsoever and I can continue on through with various other questions. We can take them one at a time. And I leave it to you, Mayor. Can we just hear all the questions? Hold on. I can hold on a second. So I'm having some council members that are calling the question and asking for a vote. So I just want on the on the motion. So I just want to make sure that, you know, I'm also following Robert's rules the best way we can, you know, electronically here. So, Mr. Turner, if I have a councilmember calling the question, do we have to unless there is an objection, do we have to take a vote on that. Call for the question? We need a second on the call for the question. It's not debatable. It needs a two thirds vote to pass. And then you would vote on the on the actual item if there's a second, and then you take a roll. So it's called the question. All right, guys, I'm in the meeting. I have a call for the question and I have a second for the call on the question. So I have a call for the question on from from price. I have a call from the question on Mongo second call for the question. So just so I'm. D two and called to the question and it was already seconded by the second call for the. Question. Why? Okay, I don't have that. I have a cooler. I'd have no one calling. The question except for Stacy Mungo called the question and Price called the question. Kels woman Pierce called the question verbally. What I was speaking is what I was addressing. But yeah, let's call the question then. I don't know. I'm just trying to follow the rules I got. Thank you. All right. We're going to take a vote on calling the question to just vote on the motion on the floor. And. And that's correct. Right. City Attorney. So what. About. To go directly to a vote. Mr. Parkin, is that right? That's correct. You need a two thirds you need six votes to end debate. Okay. Six votes and debate real companies. District one. Name. District two. Nay. District three. I. District four. I. District five. I guess even I was confused. The person who called the question with a name. Yeah. I tried to take it back, but I was cut off. I tried to clarify that when the city attorney. There's no debate. We're in the middle district. We're in the middle of a main district. Seven. District eight or nine May. Great work going on now. Okay. So the vote with the question did not have the the the two thirds majority. So we're going back to where we were. I believe the person that has the floor next is councilman's in Dallas. Oh, thank you, Mayor. Actually, I'm sorry, Councilman. Before I get to that, before I go to you. So, Mr. City Attorney. Mr. Anthony, did you want to go ahead and continue? I know you were actually you were actually speaking on some questions you had. Did you want to continue that part first? Sure. I'm happy to. And then, Councilman, I'll go to you next. Hopefully, I've described the possibility of exempting certain units. I'm sorry that I can't give you more guidance right now about what actually needs to be exempt and what doesn't. Next question is whether this ordinance is meant to apply to commercial tenancies as well as residential tenancies. My suspicion is that it is not, but it's not clear on that matter. So I would need to make her the motion to clarify that. Is it commercial or and residential or simply residential? There is a provision in section. I think it is Section nine, sorry, it's section ten, which says that the request on the part of a landlord for a tenant's Social Security number can constitute harassment. I think we need to clarify that, that that requesting a Social Security number in advance of a tenancy is acceptable. It seems to me that that is the industry standard for determining someone's creditworthiness. You need to have their say. And every other ordinance that I reviewed included such a provision allowing for a landlord to require a Social Security number in advance of executing a lease. The next point of clarification that I have is with respect to Section eight. I want to make it clear that my reading of Section eight says that it would constitute harassment if a landlord requested a tenant to sign a new lease. That is not in the tenant's native language. I'm not certain that would be enforceable. I have not found any provision of state law which requires a lease to be written under all circumstances in the tenant's native language. And I think to ensure the legality of whatever ordinance we bring forward, I would probably eliminate that. But I don't know that it's illegal yet. So if the maker of the motion wants to keep it in, I'll do that. It gives me some pause. The following are see also in section nine. I want to make it clear and every other anti tenant harassment ordinance does this in my research. That is, failure to accept rent by a landlord payable by the tenant is okay provided that. The number of days. Usually it's 3 to 3 days have expired under a validly issued notice to pay or quit. Refusing to accept rent after the expiration of that statutory period does not constitute harassment. I suspect that might be okay with the maker of the motion and maybe that's what was intended in Section nine, but it's not as clear as I'd like it to be. Also in Section nine. The way I read this is that it would constitute harassment by a landlord if the landlord fails to allow for online payment portals or fund transfers at all times. I'm not currently aware of any law which says that a landlord can't simply require cash or a check or a credit card, but that a online payment portal is required under all circumstances. But I feel like Section nine would effectively require that in Long Beach. It wouldn't require it, but it would. Failure to provide such a thing would constitute harassment. The way that I read Section nine. I think there's also I think it's very important that there be a clarification on the penalty provisions at the which is the last paragraph before the conclusion. First thing it says, there is that under it for a violation, there would be an award of a civil penalty, no less than $2,000 per violation, depending on the severity. But that effectively means that the top amount of the violation is open ended. You know, in theory, it could be millions and millions of dollars if that's what a judge imposed. And I don't think anyone intends to give a judge that kind of leeway for a violation of this ordinance. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think maybe that should say up to or should say no less than 2000 and no more than 5000 or whatever the case may be. But I'm going to be guessing at that. If we move forward as is. And there are other. Those are things that I need direction on. I think there are other best practices that maybe haven't been considered, just based on my several hours of review of similar ordinances in other cities . And like I say, I think I'm willing to take direction on all these tonight, if you would rather a memo and we put this off. I could do that, too. But right now I'm moving forward, assuming I'm going to do the best I can tonight with the direction that I'm hopefully will be given right now. Thanks. Vice Mayor Andrews. Okay. Are we ready? Are you ready? Yes. We're ready. Okay, fine. I'm going to give you Justin's and then I won't cost you anything that's on it. I'm going back to recommendations for our city compared with other cities. I don't think we should exempt any of. Not for commercial tenants this week at the part of Social Security numbers, a lemonade part on number eight about the native language. In number nine, about three days. Accepting or refusing payment. You're right. If three days have expired, it should not be considered harassment unless they have a court related agreement in place already. But remind us, I will leave the dollar amount for you. The draft based on what other cities have done. Thank you. Okay. I think you would ask the customary gringa to weigh in on that as well. I'm just waiting for the vice mayor to. Answer and provide. Okay. That's very. You said it well. I agree with you on that. And just for correction purposes, this is not about commercial properties. These are about tenants. So thank you. Okay. Let me I do have folks cued up. So let me go ahead and go through the people that are queued up. Councilman's in Dallas. Thank you. May I think what I wanted to say has already been said. I had been queued up for a while and my queue was the purpose of my queue was to listen to what our city attorney, deputy city attorney had to say in regards to this. So I'm right now processing all his questions. So thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate the opportunity to hear the questions. I think we're so used to hearing staff reports at the beginning and perhaps that's where we kind of everyone got flipped around. So, you know, having no exemptions is, as the vice mayor said, is something that I support, that it doesn't you know, it's not meant for commercial tenants, which was already recited trying to keep native language in the ordinance if it's legal. And I know you've got to verify that, but I believe from other ordinances that it is and penalties, I know that we change those penalties from the first time when we tried to bring this to council, trying to make sure that those aren't to be capped, that that's up to the the judge. That's not for us to really decide is what I think is the best practice, making sure that that's up to them. So, you know, Rich, I think we all believe that you you need some direction from us. So I appreciate the questions and the intent. From what I've heard tonight is drafting an anti-harassment policy that falls in line with some other policies and ensures that we have the best protection for our tenants. And we hope and believe that you can deliver that for us. So those are all my comments tonight. I think you think of. Vice mayor have you in the queue. I'm not sure if you acute or this. Do you have additional comments? No, I'm fine. Okay. Councilman Richardson. I didn't know I was cute. I'm good. You're good. Councilman Price. Mr. Mayor, I'm not queued up. And to be honest, I really have no idea what we're voting on, because what Vice Mayor Andrew said and what Councilman Roberto said were not the same thing. But I'm just I I'm a no, I don't even understand what we're voting on. Okay. And I just so you know, I do have you guys queued up. So Councilman Richardson, Councilman Price and Councilman Mongo, you're on the Q side, so I'm not sure if it is such a long time ago, but Councilman Mongo. I would like some clarity on the variance between Mr. Ringo's comment and Mr.. Vice Mayor Andrew's comment and my understanding that Vice Mayor Andrews asked Mr. Anthony to do his best to mimic the other cities. And then Councilmember Ortega added, Except don't add commercial properties and include all other types of properties. That could nullify the ordinance. Mr. Anthony, is that what you heard? I can. We are going to. Attempt to clarify the motion if the mayor is okay with that. I can tell you what I have. Yep. Yep. Let's do that. Okay. So I think the motion on the floor is to adopt the ordinance as written in item nine in the council letter with the following changes or clarifications and changes. We confirmed that there will be no city enforcement arm will simply be civil matter. No properties will be exempt from the application of this ordinance, including university owned housing and the other stuff that I mentioned that they will all be subject to the anti tenant harassment. It will. I heard it as residential only, not commercial. It will not apply to commercial. The Social Security number can be removed, or at least it can be clarified that requiring a SSN prior to tenancy is okay, not anti tenant harassment. The preferred language. I think I heard the vice mayor say he doesn't require that. But but then I heard other people say, well, it's only not required. It should only be removed if it's if it's illegal. So I'm not quite clear on that. But I'm going to say that the motion on the floor is we're going to remove the requirement that future leases be in the language, the tenants preferred language. That's the way I heard the motion. And also, we're going to clarify that the three day notice, once the three days is up, it's clear that failure to accept rent thereafter is not harassment. Then we also have the penalty clarification. I think I have clear direction to come up with something reasonable, propose something reasonable based on other cities ordinances. I can do that. The last question. So that's where I stand on how I heard the motion. However, I do have a clarification question for the maker of the motion for the vice mayor. I didn't hear anything. Maybe I missed it. Regarding my question about whether online payment is going to be required. It cannot be removed. Mr. Vice Mayor. You want to keep it? Oh, yeah. Hello? Are you there? We're here. Yes, we're here. Remove. Remove the part about the online payment. And can I. Okay. Number eight, eliminate item number eight about the native language. Unless you find it legal to enforce. Okay. Then I think I'm clear on the motion on the floor. Everything else. Thank you. Everything else is good. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Anthony. I think we have a motion on the floor and a second. And so I have no one else cued up. So we will go ahead and vote on the motion. So if I can please turn it over to the clerk for a roll call, vote, please. District one. I. District two, I. District three? No. District four. Ney District five. No. District six. Yes. District seven. District nine. I. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. Just to clarify that question then, welcome back to the Council. Mr. Anthony, if I heard correctly as part of the motion at a special meeting on November the second that we had as well. Mr. Anthony. I think that was part of a motion on the floor. If if Charlie would like to China and otherwise or if we want to take a specific vote on that, I mean. I think we need some direction. I heard discussion. We said we we're going to try to bring this back on the week of November 11th. That's a monday. As everyone knows, Election Day is the following day. There was some discussion of of having to come back either on the fourth or fifth or sixth and and depending on when we could get a quorum. So some directive to be helpful. Okay. I thought part of the combat weekend. Ice Mary Andrews. Yes. That was deferred to Alberto. I think he made that. Second. Please get that for me. Okay. Got some ringa that wasn't for me. What was your interpretation of the motion? Well, my interpretation that I received that I understand was for the second. And I'm okay with that. Okay. That's. It was my understanding that we never got off the set of off November 2nd and as a as a question. But that's I could be wrong. You know, there was a lot of back and forth there. So. So, Mr. Anthony, do we need to take a vote on this or is that part of the motion? This the city of Frankfurt, and we'll take that as part of the motion. We will work with the city clerk to try and have a special meeting on November 2nd, assuming we can get everything done. Okay. That concludes the item. We are now moving on to the next item and that will be item number. Ten.

Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Amending Alameda Municipal Code Chapter XII (Designated Parking) to Improve Procedures for Management of Public Parking on City Streets and in City Lots; and Recommendation to Approve a Policy for the Use of License Plate Recognition Technology for the Purpose of Parking Enforcement. (Planning, Building and Transportation 4227287) [Not heard on March 17, 2020]

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Thank you. And I was going to say and Mike Magic Andrew Thomas, uh, planning transportation and building directory if I got that in the correct order changes. And good evening, Mr. Thomas. I think he's here. I see his name. Mr. Thomas. What have you done with Mr. Thomas? Um. There he is. Okay. There you are. Okay. I. You look like you're unmuted and everything. Are you ready to go? Uh, he, um. Let's see. Can we hear in Mr. Thomas? We can't hear anything here. Oh. It seems like his audio is not connected. It. Um. Let's see it. Connecting. It's connecting now. I can see it. Try now. Oh, now you have to unmute yourself. Can you hear me? Yes. For a moment I could. Let me try something that works. I see this. So am I hooked up? Am I ready to go? I think you are. Fired up. Ready to go. Sorry for the confusion there. Super getting used to it around here. Getting good at it. Let me just. I'm sorry. Now I'm getting double voices going on. Oh, um. Let me try this. Can you hear me now? Yeah, we can hear you. All right. That's much better. Okay. Andrew Thomas, planning building and transportation director. As the city clerk said, this is there's two items we're covering. Two items in this agenda piece with. This is one is the introduction of an ordinance amending our parking regulations within the Almeida Municipal Code and really to try to modernize those those provisions. And I will just briefly summarize some of those amendments for you tonight. And then the second piece is adoption of a policy for the use of automated license plate recognition readers for the purposes of parking management and enforcement. And I'll talk a little bit about that piece as well. The two, though, are we're bringing them together in this one staff report because they're both, we believe, instrumental to improving and modernizing our ability as a city to manage public parking here in Alameda. They're both of these actions, we believe, are consistent with your general plan policies that talk about the need to manage parking as a as a tool in managing our transportation network. And there is no bigger issue in Alameda, or at least there hasn't been historically than transportation in our ability to manage traffic and transportation and parking is a piece of that. And the general plan recognizes that the 2014 Alameda Point Transportation Demand Management Plan adopted by the City Council, the 2018 Transportation Choices Plan and your 2019 Climate Action Plan all talk about how important it is that we effectively manage parking, not just to make sure that everyone can get access to public parking when they need it at a price that they can afford. But it's also instrumental in our ability to support the business community, reduce congestion around the city, reduce greenhouse gases, and just ensure the health of our business community and our environment, everything from our ability to to do street cleaning, which is a way of keeping San Francisco Bay clean, to dealing with the larger issues of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gases. We're not going to be able to effectively do any of those things that we can't effectively manage our parking supply and the space for parking. The other goals of these of these two companion pieces, as we to manage parking effectively, we think it also has to be convenient and flexible for the for the public and the users. It has to be flexible so that you the city council, when making policy decisions about how to manage public parking, that you can quickly and easily flex your policies and your and your tools to better enforce these two proposals are also really just trying to make our parking program more efficient and more frankly, cost effective. And then lastly, and this is certainly not something we talked about when we originally wrote this staff report two months ago. But even with the COVID 19, we are starting to think about parking in a different way and the needs for parking and the needs for people to be able to pick up and drop off food and retail and all sorts of things. So we don't quite know how that's going to play out, but I think it's pretty clear to us that the need to manage our parking spaces and manage parking and manage the use of the public right of ways is not going to be an issue that's going to go away. And anything we can do to make that system work better, make it more flexible and easier to adjust, is going to serve us well. So two months ago when we wrote this, we are also very much focused on being able to start charging for parking at the ferry terminals. I wanted to and we were pushing, pushing hard to get those parking charges in place by August, obviously, with the. But COVID 19 and the health emergency and the complete sort of drop off in ferry ridership, we don't believe this is the time to start charging for parking for the ferry terminals, but we do think it is the time to start getting set up so that we will be able to do it when life starts to return to normal and ferry ridership returns. So let me just quickly summarize these two different actions. The first is the draft amendments to the parking codes. These are really quite straightforward because the parking code is so old, for example, that I'll just hit on the four main changes to the Muni code that we're recommending. The first is about forms of payment. The currently the Alameda Mosby code does not include provisions allowing for modern forms of payment, such as mobile payment or digital permits . That is that is going to be something we want to be able to implement in the future. And it's important that our municipal code allows it. This will allow these amounts, allow for flexibility and convenience of paying with cell phones, customized parking rates, all those kinds of adjustments and modernization that a modern parking program is going to need. The amendments allow for the different being able to charge for parking in different kinds of spaces. Currently, the AMC doesn't include any provisions to allow for pay by play or multi spaced meter. Nancy currently assumes that every space is always going to be numbered or equipped with an individual meter. Well, when looking into the future, looking at things like large parking areas, neighborhood parking permit areas, we want to be able to manage parking even if every space isn't numbered or individually metered. And there are ways to do that. Thirdly, rate adjustments. The current municipal code and these provisions which were adopted originally, many years ago, assumed that parking rates just weren't going to change very often. You know, just a parking meter was going to cost essentially the same for four years on end. These adjustments make it easier for adjustments to be made by the council and or the city manager and public works director. As necessary, it may be everything from changing the hourly rates at Park Street and Webster Street to establishing a special rate for a special event at Alameda Point. You want to have that flexibility to adjust rates and do it flexibly and quickly. And then finally, the other main big issue we wanted to address in these code amendments is currently the ordinance talks about any revenue generated from parking revenue must go straight back into parking, maintenance and parking enforcement. That all makes great sense. That's still where most of the money will probably always need to go. But these amendments broaden those potential uses so that if the council felt that you had additional revenue from parking, you could start to, let's say, use it for other transportation programs like funding a shuttle or supplemental bus service to the ferry terminal to reduce the need for parking and ferry terminals, using parking revenues for projects, transportation demand management kinds of programs, bicycle and pedestrian improvements could also be something that the council might in the future choose to use parking revenues for all. The Vision Zero work that you're doing is basically trying to make other transportation modes more effective to reduce the demand on the public parking supply. So those that's a general overview unavailable to answer your questions on the code amendments. Now, let me just move quickly to the second half of this, which is sort of the other piece of this equation. We also want to put the city in the position to be able to use the most modern tools for parking enforcement. And one of those tools that we are recommending is license plate recognition technology to expedite and make the process of enforcing these permit programs more effective. We also think it's going to make it more convenient and user friendly for the customer. It's going to help support that flexibility we talked about. And as I said earlier, it's just a very cost effective way of. Doing parking enforcement. For those of you who show the council is all very much aware, but for the benefit of the public. License plate technology essentially replaces the old fashioned manual approach for parking technicians to check to see if somebody has paid for the parking space on the public street or lost it there that they have or that they're using to store their vehicle. In this case, it's a camera mounted on a vehicle that automatically processes the license plate number on a car and that can then can then verify whether that car has paid for the parking. If not, they can immediately in real time send that data to a handheld and the parking technician can write a ticket. So there's no more of the checking for green lights on meters. There's no more of make checking for little white slips on parking that vehicle dashboards. No more chalking of tires, none of that. With this new technology, you are able to move much more quickly, much more cost effectively. And I don't know, I've already mentioned this, but we're just following the lead of our other cities here in the Bay Area, San Francisco, Berkeley, San Leandro, Emeryville. Pretty much any city that's really modernizing their parking program is using this technology. It's very cost effective. It's very flexible, and it's great for also understanding use. You know, how many cars are parking every day in certain lots, but there is a there are issues to be considered. And the first and foremost is the privacy issues around this kind of technology. What this technology does and the privacy issue that we talk about in the staff report is you're collecting huge amounts of data, huge amounts of data at once. And when, in fact, we only need one while we're really looking just for one thing, has that vehicle paid for the parking for the space it's using that day? However, by collecting this amount of data, and if misused or not secure, it can be used by individuals or organizations to track people. It can be misused if it's in the wrong hands and that or is transferred to some other group or organization that wants to use it for a different purpose. Obviously, from our perspective, we're only interested in the technology for one reason, and that is to help us manage our parking supply. We are not interested in it for tracking people or for any other purpose. So what you have attached to your staff report in the package today are two important documents. One is the policy. And so this would be the city's policy for how this technology will be used and how will be used in a way that they were careful about making sure that that information and that data does not end up being misused by others or by ourselves, and that we try to minimize the potential privacy impacts of the use of this data that may occur if we are who are using it for parking management. So essentially the exhibit to the impact analysis essentially acknowledges the risks and identifies mitigations and essentially strategies and requirements that we can impose on ourselves to really minimize those potential risk and safeguard personal privacy and meaningful and minimize the potential impacts. I won't summarize both those documents, but I think the three main criteria that you will see is that we take essentially three approaches. Number one, the control of the information, the way we're proposing to proceed here is that like every other city, we would be bringing on a separate vendor to provide this technology and to store that data for us. This data would be owned by the city of Alameda. So with our information, we are going to be responsible for it and we're not going to share it. Now, of course, you minimize all the you minimize the risks around that whole issue of not sharing if you don't store it for very long. So the second important concept here is as that parking technician with their vehicle is driving down the street and recording every single parking, every single license plate and getting hits or no hits, you know, hit is in this terminology, meaning that car did not. Hey, for the parking or that car is stolen or is is wanted for some reason there's a violation in that only in those cases the data would be kept for violations or hits for other existing problems with that vehicle, stolen vehicle or something like that. That data then would be stored for a maximum of two years. Every other license plate, all the other data. If you paid your parking ticket, your car is clean. That data is erased that day. We don't need that data for our purposes. We don't want to have to store it. We the the proposal here is just to eliminate that data. So the vast majority of the data that's collected each day around the individual vehicles is going to be deleted. We only keep the people who have not paid for their parking or there's some other violation there. The vehicle is stolen or there's an issue, this active crime situation around that vehicle. So there is a tradeoff. Of course, that means we're not keeping information. That information could be valuable to the police department if they were investigating some sort of crime that occurred after the fact. We felt that on the whole, this was an appropriate trade off. We we recognize there are privacy issues and there is a tradeoff with police trying to balance that with personal privacy. But in this case, we felt like we had about the right balance. And it has sort of been, in our view, the balance we struck here is a a policy that recognizes the privacy protections are necessary, allows us to proceed as a city with cost effective parking enforcement and modernize our planning and management of the parking, as well as our climate change and customer convenience and flexibility sort of goals . So we think we've struck the appropriate balance. We hope you agree. If you do, then the recommendation would be to introduce the first reading of the ordinance amendments tonight and approve the policy for the use of automated license plate readers for the purpose of parking enforcement. If you do approve the policy, then our next step would be to start soliciting a vendor who is comfortable with our own restrictions and requirements. And of course, that vendor would come back to council for before we could sign a contract. So that's sort of the initial steps. I'm available to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Thomas. Good report. Um, Counsel, do we have any clarifying questions before we go to public comment? I guess I should ask the city clerk, do we have public comment on this item? We do. Okay. So, Counsel, let's just ask any clarifying questions of Mr. Thomas. Now we'll hear public comment and we'll come back for a discussion. Vice Mayor Knox Wait. I have a quick question. I think it might be for the city manager, but whoever is the appropriate place and I apologize for not asking this earlier, it didn't come up until I was listening to the presentation. I'm curious in in how the decision was made that the public works director is the one who sets our parking policy price. Given that the transportation this is kind of moving us further into a transportation policy arena, which is where I think park pricing and parking should be. And why that wouldn't be either the city manager or the the transportation director or planning body and transportation director who's. So I'm not sure who I could. Eric, unless you want to respond, I can certainly give some background on that. Go ahead, Mr. Thomas. Um, I look, I think for tonight's purposes, it certainly would be fine to make it the city manager instead of the public works director. Our thinking around that specific language, though, was not that we were trying to take the power away from the city manager or the city council, for that matter. It was the thought was that council would set policy directions. For example, Perkins Webster Street Youth Council in past years have adopted a policy that the city should maintain the park. The parking meter pricing at a rate that would ensure 85% occupancy. The concept being, if it's all empty, it means the price is too high, if it's all full and its price is too low. So 85% occupancy sort of means you're driving down the street every block. There's one or two spaces available that would be sort of. And the thought was, once the council set the policy, then the public works director and the management of the parking meters and the parking lot are really under the purview of the public works department in the city of Alameda. So it wasn't really trying to set the public works director off as the policy maker as much as the person implementing, you know, changing the actual rates to implement a policy that was adopted by by council. That was the thinking. I think changing it from public works director to city manager or his designee also would be a fair. Adjustment if that was something the council wanted to do. Thanks. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Okay. And Mr. Chen, city attorney. Mr. Chen. Yeah. I just want to also add that looking at the ordinance, there is existing language and previous ordinance language that designates the public works director as the person who is essentially managing the various parking endeavors. So if the council wishes to make changes, will want to be really clear in the ordinance. And what places is the Council looking to make changes from public works director to something else, it appears. And maybe a dozen or more places in the ordinance. Thank you for that. And Mr. Leavitt, did you want to add anything? No. I can hear you. I could see you shaking your head. Okay, that's a no. Um. Any other clarifying questions? Mr. Desai? Yes. Thank you. Um, what thought? Well, frankly, I'd love to see Cesar Chavez Day be celebrated March 31st. I think it's a state holiday. Um, it's. It's not included there in section nine, so that I would certainly encourage that. And frankly, I think generally not just in this one, but generally I think the city of Alameda ought to celebrate that day. Um, so we might look forward its future and how we might change the city holidays. So, yeah. Thank you. That was your clarifying question. Thank you. Um, I've got one. If no one else has a clarifying question. Um, Mr. Thomas, I just wanted to ask a question in the I'm in the draft policy, which is exhibit one and. I'm sorry. I have the temperamental iPad today. Okay, I got it. And my question is on page two of the draft policy. It talks about storage of data and parking enforcement. El Paso automated license plate reader data is stored based on the following schedule. License plates collected but not cited. So what you were talking about there? Collected. But they pay. There's no problem with that car. That data is not retained. But the second bullet is license plates for issued parking citations retained for two years. Now I don't see our police chief popolare here, but if I recall correctly, the policy that governs our LPR data for the patrol vehicle mounted pass the one year retention policy. And assuming I'm correct in that, why would we make this data storage period longer? And I see city attorney been shown with his hand at that. So. Mr. Shen And so we actually inquired with the police chief and the fact that the policy here in front of you actually stores data for less time and all the cards. So what Mr. Thomas is proposing is 24 hours of storage of no heads and two years experience ahead with the police department's policy. It's more I believe it's in the more in the range of six months of storage when there's no heads and and potentially unlimited length of storage when there isn't. So the policy in front of you tonight stores far less data than the existing APD policy that's in existence, that the inquiry that we made earlier today with the police department in anticipation of this question. So my question would be, cause I was on the council that set that policy. And I know the police chief wanted a longer period of time and he didn't get it. So do you have that language to share with us? Because I'm trying to remember when we might have lengthened that retention period. Unfortunately, I don't. My office reached out to the police department in my understanding and said it's generally six months, but if there is a head and the head is different because for the police departments they might be engaged in, for example, with the district attorney's office for a multi-year investigation that the district attorney would request. And there will be necessity to keep that data essentially until the case is well over. And that could be many, many, many years because it could be the prosecution, the appeal and any collateral appeals. And that's why the data, I believe, is stored longer with the police department. And I unfortunately don't have the exact data. But we did inquire into the patient on this question. And my understanding is that it's six months and much longer to the extent necessary for any particular case for the police department. Well, you know, I always like to follow the advice of our city attorney, but I was there at that vote, and that is not my recollection. I'm willing to say maybe my recollection is, but I, I well, this is what I would say and this is what I wrote in the notes that I don't see any reason that we would retain license plate data from. It's you know that's that's related to that has has turned out been a stolen car. And again once the a case is is ongoing. So there is a stolen car. So it's pursued. Of course, we're not going to destroy that data. In fact, I think there's even something in the policy that it then becomes it goes into an evidentiary file. That's something else. But for all others that are being looked into, I would want to make sure it was the same retention period as we use for police department powers and and not any longer. And I just looking at the council, I don't think any of you all were on that council with me. But anyway, Councilmember Vela, did you have your hand up or is that just your hand? Okay. Councilman Rivera and new speaker. Well, I, I, I recall this conversation did come up when we were considering six Alpers. And I believe that your statement about it being only written for a year is correct, because I thought that was part of the discussion when we were talking about Six Alpers, which was an issue that came before the council, not this council, but the previous council was when I thought that conversation occurred, I did I did have also a question about the type of photographing technology that would be used, because, again, this was something that came up before with the six Alpers, which was what exactly getting photographed. So is it just life and is there a way to crop it out for it or to small make it so that it's just limited to the license plate and even perhaps just the back of the vehicle? And that wouldn't necessarily include faces, that sort of thing. I think Mr. Thomas has an answer for you, Mr. Thompson. And you'll see that in our privacy impact analysis, this idea of making sure that the camera that's mounted on the vehicle, the parking technician vehicle, is directed down and focusing just on the license plate. You know, we don't care about somebody who might be sitting in the vehicle. That's not our issue. The issue is literally just reading the license plate. And so one of the mitigations is the direction, how the camera should be directed when it's mounted on the vehicle. But I guess my question is, if there's something, would there be an instance where something else would get captured? And if something other than the license plate gets captured, are we going to be cropping the image? Well, I mean, in terms for the purposes of the parking management program, so there's two different LPR policies, the one that the mayor was talking about for the fixed, which is for fighting purposes. And then this LPR policy, which is for parking management, you know, for the, the, the, the mitigations that we were contemplating where first of all, if your car is clean and you paid your parking, then we're not keeping any data at all. No, no photographs of any kind. They're being they're being deleted immediately. That day just erased. If your you have not paid your parking ticket and I do remember a process by which, you know, if we start seeing photographs coming up, which are just too broad, they they can be cropped. Now, once again, we would only be cropping photographs that we're keeping and those would be somebody who got a parking ticket or they came up with a stolen vehicle or something like that. Right. I mean, I'm just I'm just thinking of a scenario where it's like in one of these lives, somebody walking with a small child who happens to be shorter and all of a sudden we start capturing other things. Is there going to be some sort of review mechanism to make sure that we're limiting what we're actually capturing? Absolutely. Absolutely. And I think that's. Well well, while you're taking public testimony, I'm going to go back and read through the impact mitigation just to verify that my recollection is correct. Once the third important and last piece of this I think is important in this policy is and the mitigation is this annual review. Like, we do need to be checking on ourselves. We do need to make sure and I think that's one of those kinds of things that as part of the annual review and that's the reason I mentioned the vendor coming back to council, I think this is an evolving conversation really getting down to these kinds of specifics. I think it would make great sense to have that sort of annual review, include a review of, okay, let's see some of the photographs you've been keeping for a year. I mean, if we start seeing that it's getting sloppy, that we're catching all sorts of people and not. Just license plates. It means we need to sort of, you know, clean up our program and do better training, frankly. Okay. Or work with our or work with our contract vendor and say, hey, you need to clean up your program if you want to keep our contract. Okay. And Mr. Shin. So. Mr. Chan, we can't hear you. I've been able to obtain the APD LPR policy number for for 62. So I'm going to read the language to the council. Thank you. Requested the specific language. The language for the APD policy is that all LPR data downloaded to the server will be stored for a period of six months and thereafter shall be purged unless it has become or it is reasonable to believe, to become evidence in a criminal or civil action, or is subject to a lawful action to produce records. In such instances, the applicable data shall be downloaded from the server onto portable media and stored into evidence. And so that that was the, the information I was attempting to convey, which is that it's six months unless there is a case pending, at which point it becomes evidence and it stays much longer. So it doesn't say two years anywhere. It does not say two years, two years as the what the proposed in front of you. I think that the parallel is that what Mr. Thomas proposes for the 24 hours is close. The parallel there are six months. The two years. Here is the parallel to the somewhat less definite timeframe in the APD policy. Um. Yeah, I. Well, it would be great if. If you could maybe while we're hearing public testimony, if you could just email that over, cause I just, like I said, I, um, I do remember there are not a lot of times that I disagree with our police chief, quite frankly, but I really felt and it was one of those cases where we worked with the ACLU and the Oakland Privacy Project and, you know, trying to establish that balance between police needs, you know, crime fighting, crime solving needs and protection of civil liberties. And I just remember there was a one year limitation that didn't make the chief very happy, but, uh, and I just don't remember it coming back for modification since then. Um, but anyway, um, if there are no further. Mr. Thomas has his hand up. I just very quickly. Yes, Councilmember Bell on that provision that everything will be cropped out of the photograph is actually already in the, in the impact thing. So any photograph will be kept for that, not a limit if it's not purged immediately that day, it is being kept because of a ahead or or not paying. Then even still it's cropped if there's I. Guess my question is the sentence that comes after it that says personal identity information, call it connected. That cannot be technically. Obfuscated will be used solely for the purpose. What would that be? Cheese. I have no idea if that's. Why don't you take public testimony? Let me. Let me read out. Okay. It's just the final sentence. Point number three. Yeah, that's a funny phrase when you think about that. Um, okay. So should we go to our public comments, counselor, or any other clarifying questions? Okay. Ms. ways here. Let's hear public comment, please. Okay. We have two. The first one is from Karen Bay, Mayor Marilyn Ashcraft, City Councilmember, City Manager Eric Leavitt and city staff for Alameda paid parking and our ferry terminals and city lots will be a new source of revenue. And we have before us an exciting opportunity to use these revenues to fund high priority transportation projects. Parking revenue is something one of the highest sources of revenue for some cities. In my opinion. It's important that we separate the permit parking revenue from the daily parking revenue and manage these revenues differently. Permit parking is a more stable source of revenue, which could be used to fund some of the high priority transportation projects listed in the Transportation Choices Plan that currently have no funding sources. There are two projects that I list below for your consideration. One, as we move towards finalizing and implementing our public parking management plan and using public parking permit revenues to fund a smart city parking management system could be prioritized. Is state of the art automated parking management system can assist us with controlling operating costs, collecting pertinent data that will help us improve the management of public parking long and long term transportation planning. The second project is the Alameda shuttle funding. The Alameda back shuttle could provide shuttle services to our three ferry terminals and would be an important tool in getting more people out of their cars and getting more people to use public transportation. We can expand the Alameda shuttle to provide citywide services as more funding becomes available. Finally, we could use the Oakland Broadway shuttle model, which is a partnership between the city and AC Transit. And ah, we could explore other models to determine which model works best for Alameda, but this is a great opportunity to fund this high priority project. Thanks for your consideration. Oh. And the next speaker is Jim Strelow. Lifelong resident of Alameda. Madame Mayor. Council Member Staff There is a major hole in the logic of your license plate recognition policy at Alameda Point. Your intent is to limit and manage how long people park at city run parking spots. The major overlooked flaw is with management of non city run parking spots. Look at Williams-Sonoma was warehouse at Viking Street and West Orange Ski Avenue. Businesses at Alameda Point have parking for their own business needs. Those businesses currently have no need whatsoever to watch who parks in their parking spots. There is no current demand for parking in front of those businesses for not doing business with them. But once the city opens up, Seaplane Lagoon and the new ferry location, vehicles will soon realize they can park for free in non city parking spots nearby. There will be no license plate recognition at those free parking spaces. Those businesses will thereafter have to pay an employee to spend time to monitor their own business parking spots for scofflaws who are not doing business at their location. Their own business parking spots will become an attractive new nuisance to people who will want to avoid paying at the LPR parking spaces. A solution might be for the city to authorize these security monitoring service that currently patrols the area to report potential violators to a business contact. That service can then determine if there is a potential violation. And phone a tow truck service. But even at that, the city's license plate program will be a daily nuisance for businesses to mitigate. Your policy will spend lots of money for LPR equipment to monitor empty parking spaces. If people can park for free nearby, please fix your policy to plug that loophole. And that's the loudspeaker. That's the extent of our public speaker Public comment. So I will close public comment and we will return to council discussion. And I want to thank City Attorney Evenson for sending me that data retention policy for the purpose for the police department. I can see that we were even stingier than I thought we were with data retention. And so what I'm saying is, and I don't know if Mr. Thomas has a copy of this, too, but I do data retention, which is just one paragraph long. It says, in pertinent part, that all our data downloaded to the server will be stored for a period of six months and thereafter shall be purged. Unless it has become or it is reasonable to believe it will become evidence in a criminal or civil action, or is subject to a lawful action to produce records. In those circumstances, the applicable data should be downloaded from the server onto portable media and broken into evidence, which I think is in your policy. But I would argue would I do want to argue, but I would suggest that if the police department is retaining data for six months, unless that that license plate is found to have been involved in a crime or a civil action, and then, you know that that takes it into the realm of evidence. I would think that it is reasonable to have to have the policy for the parking lot data also be retained for six months unless these other circumstances apply. Unless. I mean, Mr. Thomas, if you think there's a reason to retain parking. Right, Dad, want to make sure we're. We're saying the same thing here. So under the police department's current program, all data is kept for six months? Yes. Well. Everything is kept for six months, and then it's deleted unless there is some reason to keep it for a for an actual crime or as part of evidence, what we're proposing to do is, unless this person has a ticket or is part of a crime with a stolen vehicle. That data are data will be eliminated in 24 hours. So if you're saying no, if you're saying you want us to keep it for six months to reflect the police department's policies, then that would be that would be extending our how long we would be holding data. We're maybe saying two different things. I'd say right now, your policy says license plates collected but not cited are not retained at all, and that that is different from the police department. But remember what this policy is governing and what this council I think is likely to approve, but I won't speak for my colleagues is a parking management program. The, um, the police department, they, they do keep data for six months unless it is a notice to be in a crime. So I. And the second bullet of yours is license plates for issued parking citations. I kept for two years, I. Don't understand why you would need two years to pursue someone who has a parking ticket. If I you know, if you again, if it's one of these vehicles, but then you're going to share that information. If you have gotten hits on vehicles that are stolen or vehicles that I love the term, but scofflaws involved in some crime, you're going to you're going to turn that over to the police anyway. So could you help me understand why you think parking citation replace expired parking citations need to be kept two years? Well, our thinking was you need you have to give people time to appeal. Parking tickets. So there's it might draw out. I mean, we look at San Francisco. I think they have if there's a if somebody's dealing with a parking ticket, they keep that information until it's. I mean, I guess one clarification we could make clear is it's until resolved or two years, whichever is whichever comes first. I mean, if somebody comes in and pays their parking ticket the next day, we don't need to have that information for two years. The thought was after, if if it's still not resolved in two years, we're going to get rid of the information. I'm I don't know why. If you wanted to shorten it we couldn't to one year but I just want to make I mean those are that's the that's the information we're keeping for somebody who hasn't paid a parking ticket yet or had some problems. So we can shorten that if you'd like. I'm just don't know what top of my head right now, what would be too short? I mean, like I said, we're not interested in keeping information if we don't need it. Um. Okay, well, I. I said those are, those are my views. I think that retention, um, is, you know, should be a reasonable length and reasonable minds could differ over what that is. But I don't want to take up all the time. Councilman Brody, I think I set your hand up. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thanks, Andrew, for the presentation. That's typical of Andrew presentations. Very forward thinking, so I appreciate that. Um. I had the same recollection of the mayor that it was one year, but it was six, six months. So I wanted to question but then, you know, maybe a solution of that is, you know, we do they collected, not cited, not retained. And then we do a second category. If it being for some other reason, like it was stolen or involved in a crime, then it would go off into that other category like like we have for our, our, our mobile readers and then maybe for, you know, issued. And I don't know how the technology works. I mean, two years does seem like a long time, but, you know, maybe six months after it's cleared or maybe after it's cleared or if it's not cleared, it stays till it's cleared. I don't know, something like that. But I get the analogy between the, you know, six months equating to the not retained and the two years equating to the, you know, as long as it's needed for evidence. Well, I guess what I'm trying to struggle with, you know, not so much this policy, but I'm trying to figure out , like the use case how it would work. I mean, so are we like proposing getting rid of meters and getting rid of slips and or are we going to have both or do we just not know? Or because it's a. Tiny like. Picture how this would work in real life? Right. I mean, Thomas is going to look into the future for us. We well, I speak first of all, it's this I have, but I have the benefit of working with a very talented group of other staff members. This has been an effort that's public work staff, police department staff have been working with us on this all along. So it's a good collaboration. You do have a very talented group of staff people working on this. What we but this is how we've been thinking about it. We want to introduce this license plate readers first that allow me to point and the reason we were thinking Alameda point was to very first of all the two ferry terminals operating. We were originally thinking at full steam with COVID 19. Our timing might be a little off, but the idea was and here we have these large areas around Main Street, which is completely unmarked, unmetered. This technology would be perfect for that. Then we have a situation at the Seaplane Lagoon, which is also very comparable, and this also addresses the speaker that spoke about the problems. We actually thought about that our the way we were going to use it at Alimi Point Seaplane Lagoon, obviously the the vehicle goes into the parking lot with 400 vehicles to check their license plates to make sure they're paid. What is nice about this technology for ferry riders in particular is you can walk to the booth and type in the license plate and say, I'm going to leave my car here all day. Here's how you go and pay. Or you can literally do it on your phone, do it literally, park your car, jump on the ferry, and then pay for your parking space on the ferry. Ultimately, we see this expanding and using this citywide. So you could start introducing it with street sweeping, I think Park Street, Webster Street, you know, Park Street garage or the municipal garage, the municipal lots, you might start integrating it in there because ultimately what you would be doing is you would be pulling out the old meters and instead putting in a pay by plate, sort of multi space booth. Or if somebody has already got the application on their phone and they're paying for their cars, they go to the ferry terminal a few days a week. And now there, if we start expanding the technology and this is I mean, which is a multi-year effort, this is not something we're thinking. We just overhaul the entire city. One in one summer, it was we were sort of thinking we would be rolling it out. The ferry terminals, Harbor Bay Ferry Terminal was another one where we felt like it would be very easy to implement it and use the technology there. So we'd be sort of but still have the meters on Park Street until further notice. That was sort of how we were thinking about it. The other thing just real quickly. Does that answer your question? Mr. Rodi Yeah, I think so. I mean, I, I was picturing robots and, you know, like the Hayward, I think has a robot in their garage. And I know that the airports have like the license plate that charges to your fast track and things like that. So anyway, whether it's you or a group of people are very forward thinking. So I appreciate this and you know, I, I am open and probably would prefer not keeping a clear citations for. Two years or so, I'm open to hearing what my colleagues think would be a better a better retention for those. Thank you. I think the city vice mayor. Stand up or. No, no. Okay. Anyone else have any comments? Okay. I that is the vice mayor said sorry. I my mike wasn't on, but I was saying I'd be happy to. Oh, yeah. My lip reading skills are not. They're not up to par. That's all good. Just. It's just a couple. I really want to just say how thankful I am to have this here. I think city staff across the board has done a fabulous job. I really appreciated our staff working very directly with Secure Justice to get input from the privacy community who are not here supporting or not supporting this, but who gave a lot of input and really helped make sure that what we ended up with was a report that even though we have yet to adopt a, a, um, a surveillance policy. Yet back in January we gave direction to use San Francisco intel. We have. And so this, uh, this is the first one that's come forward with a report that actually says when we're going to do surveillance stuff, this is the type of information we have so that we're having a mindful conversation about it. And I know it took a little bit of learning, but I just wanted to give Andrew and his team and everybody big props for that. Thank you very much. I think this is fabulous. I do think and I had looked through here for public works director in the current language Public Works Director as mentioned from Public Works stuff, whether it's paint, etc.. I do know the one place I would in having nothing to do with our current public works director who actually gets this and has let our parking conversations in the past. But as as rules have changed in the city over over time, I would consider at least putting the city manager in there right now. We're moving it from the council. I would say the city manager or designee would be the person. I just think it makes it cleaner. And it's an odd place for the pricing parking pricing policy or sorry, parking pricing policy to live at the public works director, because the pricing itself is not based on any sort of public infrastructure decision making. So but that's not the direction of the council. That's fine. I'd look for to support this either way. Thank you. Over and I have a quick question before I call on Mr. de SAC and Mr. Thomas and the data retention policy is that the length of time is that that length of time taken from other cities policies? Where did that come from? We looked at I don't remember exactly where the two came from the two years, but we do have also a very good parking consultant has been helping us with this. I did some of the excellent staff that's been working on this. They've been furiously texting me during this conversation. What did we do before? Text messages? I just got a text saying, you know, we could probably make one year work, but bureaucracy takes time. Well, that I mean, what I was going to say is I don't want to get hung up over something like that. And I, you know, I, um, if I get parking citations, I pay them. So, I mean, maybe, maybe they really do take two years. I assume you didn't just call that. You remember that. If the council wants to shorten it to two years, we can wait. It is two years. Yeah. I mean, I mean 2 to 1 year. Sorry. You want to do it to turn it to one year. We can work with that. And then another thing is we're going to have to then start working with selecting a vendor, bringing that vendor back. Right. We've got that whole. Conversation probably again when the vendor. Right, Anderson, let's hear. I'm mindful of the fact that it's 930 and we were just an item six. But and I know Mr. de SAC has had his hand up, so. Mr. Desai Well, thank you. Two points. One is, um, I really like the ordinance. I think, um, citizen Karen Bay summarized it best, but I especially like the ordinance and how it improves the way residents pay their parking fees or whatever else. Um, I also like the ordinance. Um, just because the way that, that we will going forward fund certain transportation projects, I certainly welcome the ordinance. And second, that the second point, though, is, you know, I'm not a fan of the license plate reading policy, quite frankly. And frankly, it doesn't really have to do with the privacy issues that people have spoken about tonight as well as in the past and in the in the far past. Um, quite frankly, I don't, you know, as one of five council members, I prefer the old way of identifying people who haven't paid their, their parking fees and the old way of assessing parking tickets. Granted, it's less efficient, it's less revenue generating, but, uh, you know, doing license plate reading. To do. For parking tickets and violations. I really think we we run the risk of having a parking ticket regime that's just completely on steroids. So I prefer the old way of doing things. I would hope that we separate the policy from the authorities, because I think this audit, for the most part, is silent on on on the on the license plate reading aspect of the. Nice discussion. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So I think we've all been heard from and I do see that our colleague, Councilmember Vela, has slipped out of view, but she might be putting a baby to bed and she's back in the nick of time. Councilmember Vela, um, are you ready to. Did you want to say anything more silly? But should we do? I was ready to support. And I'm ready to support approval of this ceremony. Yes, taking into account. But I would like to only retain the information for. One year instead of. Two years. So we were talking about a little bit and she filed the whole thing. And apparently Mr. Thomas, his staff has been furiously texting to him and they just let him know that while they could shorten it to a year. Bureaucracy takes time to get through the citations. Uh, I. But we're, we're retaining. We're retaining any evidence that there's an evidentiary need. So somebody is contesting it. They're still going to. They're still going to be able to to hold it. I just don't see how a bureaucracy would allow. That would. Require us to send out a ticket two years after the fact or something like that. I think it might be the court case pursuing it if indeed, but then it would be in an evidentiary file. I've seen our city attorney not. Are you now, Mr. Shad? Actually, I was in a band and Councilmember. I think Councilmember. Vela is right. If there is a judicial proceeding, the. Existing policy would allow staff to download it into an evidentiary file and keep it for the duration of the judicial proceeding, which will probably go beyond two years. Right. But it would be initiated inside of two years and hopefully inside of one year. Correct. So that. Yes. Yes, it certainly would. Okay. Okay. In fact, the statute of limitation requires that. Okay. So all right. So then if I understand, I think you just stated it that you you are moving approval of the amendment to the municipal code and approving the policy for the use of the appears with the modification that the retention period be limited to one year in the case of parking citation. Yes. Yes. Mayor. Yes. Which who is that so councilor. Okay, so. I like to separate out the ordinance itself from the other items and have a separate vote on on that. I'll ask the maker of the motion. Actually, I think that's mandatory. If he asks for it, though. Tip I forgave. Laura. About second whichever motion. Okay. Um. Well, I don't mind. Is it? I mean, whatever. We need to move things along to move forward, whatever. Whatever we need to do. I don't. I don't. I'm fine bifurcating. Okay, that moves it along. Yeah, let's do that. You can. You can be the maker of both if you like. That's fine. Okay. So we've got a motion that's on the ordinance. Okay. All right. So the ordinance amending the municipal code corrects. Second. And 72nd. That was you council every day. So I forget. Roll call, vote, please. Councilmember De Sang. Yes. Thank you, Knox. Wait. Hi. Odie. Just Bella. I may or as he Ashcraft I that carries by five eyes. Thank you. Second motion on the policy for the use of automated license plate readers. Motion. I'll move approval and if somebody wants to. Okay. It's been approved. And live by vice mayor, seconded by Councilmember Bellamy. We have a real cover, please. Councilmember Desai. No. Not quite. High. Odie Yes, that's was the amendment that Melissa talked about earlier. By the. Correct. By. Mayor as he Ashcraft High that carries 4 to 1 with Councilmember Dysart voting no. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Thomas. Good report. Good work to all of the staff who worked with you. Thank you. All right. With that, we close out item six A and we move on to item six B, but I bet Mr. Thomas is staying public here. And can I just say at the outset that it is 930, we've got a few more items to to cover. So let's be as expeditiously as possible and getting through this next. Public hearing to consider accepting an interim report on the status of the general plan and housing element, an annual report on the status of the Transportation Choices Plan and Associated Work Program Priorities. And an annual report on the West Alameda Transportation Management Association. And. Are you ready for me? I. I missed my sitter. I don't think we have to read the sequel language. I think we was. You okay? You're fine. Yeah, I. We just lost you for a minute there. Okay. No, it's all good. Okay, Mr. Thomas. All right, Mayor Ashcraft. Welcome. So I am good. Thank you for having me back. Um, I'm going to be. I'm going to do this very quickly and just make myself available to answer questions. This is an annual report on the general plan, the and the housing element and our transportation planning efforts.

Public Hearing to Consider Introduction of Ordinance Amending Alameda Municipal Code Chapter XXIV Public Health to Add Section 24-14 Prohibition on Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blowers. (Planning and Building 20962710)

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Public hearing to consider introduction of ordinance many amendments book chapter 24 Public Health to add Section 14 Prohibition on Gasoline Powered Leaf Blowers. All right. And do we have any public speakers on this item? We do not. I'm closing public comment and. All right, I see we have both Alan Thai and Andrew Thomas. Take it away, gentlemen. And brevity is the key word here. I'm going to turn over Tallentire did all the work on this. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor and city council members. I'm just going to make this very quickly. So there the city's Climate Action Resiliency Plan contains an action item to enact the ban on gasoline leaf blowers. Gasoline leaf blowers have been well documented as a source of greenhouse gas emissions. In Alameda, our Karp anticipates a reduction of 76 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. So and many cities have enacted similar bans, most recently Oakland and Berkeley. The draft ordinance that is in front of you would ban the use and the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers starting on January 1st, 2023. So that's a lead time of 15 months. The city staff plans to use that time to further outreach to. Property owners and businesses and. Allow the conversion transition to electric alternatives. And we've discovered that there are about a. Hundred landscape companies that do business in Alameda and we have all notified them. And so staff is recommending the introduction of this ordinance and I'm available for any questions. Thank you so much, Mr. Tie. Councilmember her Spencer. Thank you, Mayor. I had asked before. Is the city still using gasoline powered leaf blowers? The city? I believe I believe the answer is no. Our contractors are not using. Gas leaf blowers. Okay. Because I did receive a complaint, I think some of us have at one of the parks there. I believe that they did work for the city. So I would like clarification. I saw two other hands. Mr. BURTON, did you have your hand. That I'll I'll defer to City Manager Leavitt. So he's got the answer. I was going to clarify that we are converting to gas. I know I'm running away from gas, too. So and I it's getting late burning though too electric in our contracts with our outside contractors where the complaints have come from, what I've seen tend to be where we have outside contractors working for either public works or parks. I think it's for public works and some of our ride away areas and we're trying to convert those contracts and we're trying to do it consistent with this ordinance. Thank you for that clarification. Councilmember Harris Spencer, then Vice Mayor of L.A.. Thank you. So I support this, but I, I hope that the city will finish the conversion of who we hire, who the city hires, as well as what we use, because we can be the leader on this thing. And so thank you very much. Thank you, Vice Mayor L.A.. I just want to move approval of the ordinance as written, and then I hope that we actually follow and execute as the city and comply with it. Thank you, counsel, over there. So I'd like to second that with a quick comment. Finally, thank God, no more loud, obnoxious, odorous gas powered leaf blowers. Thank you, city staff. Thank you. All right, Councilman, relax. Okay. So I was. I plan to support the motion. My only potential change would be to consider whether we wanted to actually make it make make it go into effect immediately. But have enforcement not start until the 23rd? I'd say till 2023. So basically the same timeline for enforcement. But rather than giving a year and a half of people to be able to continue using leaf blowers, you know, people we can start making sure that part of the part of the education could be the phase in of people getting notices that, hey, these aren't allowed and we're going to start enforcement in the next year. So just throwing that out. So I actually would like to stick with the staff's recommendation. I have talked to some other cities where it's done and the education pieces is really important and the bilingual education and we are impacting people's employment. And so I bet. But the hope would certainly be that it happens sooner. But anyway, I but I do think the motion was as to the original ordinance, unless anybody wants to make amendments. Okay, let's. It is 1155. Madam Clerk, may we have a roll cover, please? Councilmember dialog. Yes. Aurora Spencer. Hi. Knox Light. Hi, Bella. I mean, as Ashcroft. Yes. That carries by five eyes. All right. Thank you very much, staff. Mr. Time, Mr. Thomas. Thank you so much. And good work, counsel, for moving things along so expeditiously. So we aren't going to be able to get to item seven E today. So, Madam Clerk, help me out here. We you have two options with this item. You could just have could just put it back on the regular agenda for the next meeting without you taking a vote and considering it. If you wanted to put it in that continued section, you could you would it would require council vote to put it in that section. So it's up to Council's discretion. Counsel What do we think? We can have a vote to add it to the Section six, which means, if I understand correctly, it's heard before the rest of the regular agenda items at our October six meeting. But we have to decide quickly because time is running out. My man, Vice Mayor. Yes. I moved to put it in Section six. Okay. Do you have a second? Councilor Herr Spencer. My second. Okay. Any discussion thing, then? Maybe have a roll call vote with member station? Yes. However, Spencer I Naxalites II, Valley High Mayor as Ashcraft. Yes. I'm curious my. If I might. Okay, that's great. Thank you. Okay. So the. We will take the city manager's comments and. And do we have the oral communications network?

Informational Report on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Proposed Revisions to Floodplain Maps Which Could Impact Alameda Property Owners. (Public Works 4205)

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A informational report on the Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed revisions to flood plain maps, which could impact Alameda property owners. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Can in my in the microphone for good? Yes. Okay. If I lean in. If you can. It doesn't always pick up. All right. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Honorable Vice Mayor, members of city council. I'm Aaron Smith from the Public Works Department. And presenting before you tonight an informational report only there's no action or decision required of council on this matter at this point in time. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, commonly spoken of as FEMA, is the agency within the United States Department of Homeland Security that manages the National Flood Insurance Program. This program allows property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance protection from the government against losses from flooding. Property owners and Nonparticipating communities are not eligible for federally subsidized flood insurance, federally backed mortgages, federal grants or federal disaster relief. In 1978, the city joined the National Flood Insurance Program and in 2009 amended the Floodplain Management Chapter of our Municipal Code to adopt flood insurance rates rate maps which are issued by FEMA. It is these maps that identify the special flood hazard areas within the city where specific standards of construction, which are specified in the code would apply. FEMA periodically updates the flood insurance rate maps based on new information and science. And this is what brings us here this evening. FEMA will be issuing preliminary maps that expand the special flood hazard areas in the city of Alameda. Eric Simmons from FEMA will present this evening on the specifics of those preliminary maps and the public process that FEMA is required to move the maps through before their final issuance. Although not required of the city, we've hired an independent hydrologist to review the new maps. And although our hydrologists confirmed FEMA's conclusion based on existing conditions, additional study can be done to potentially reduce the impacts of flooding on Bay Farm Island with modifications to the dike system. The Port of Oakland has also hired their own hydrology consultant to investigate the modeling used by FEMA at the Oakland Airport in Bay Farm Island. The city supports the port of Oakland's efforts, and we await the conclusions which we understand will be presented during the formal appeal period for the preliminary maps. So, Eric, when you come on up, when Eric's done with this presentation, I'll return just briefly to speak a little bit more to the extra outreach efforts the city will be taken, given the potential number of newly affected property owners. Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to talk about flood hazard mapping. My name is Eric Simmons. I'm an engineer with FEMA, and we have a regional office right across the estuary in Oakland. And in April. We released preliminary flood insurance rate maps. And Aaron was able to do a really good job of giving some of the the background and history there. So what I wanted to focus on was some maps that show the differences between what's currently mapped by FEMA and what's proposed to be mapped by FEMA. And the basis for FEMA flood mapping is the 1% annual chance flood. It has a 1% or greater chance of occurring each and every year. Some may hear it as a 100 year flood, but over the long term average, over a 30 year period, it has a 26% chance of occurring. So on this slide, in the next couple slides that the blue zone is that 1% annual chance floodplain. And on the graphic, on the left is the current flood insurance rate map. It's based on a study from the mid eighties and with FEMA is embarked on a new coastal mapping for the entire United States that includes the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay. And we're issued these draft preliminary maps for the Bay Area counties, including Alameda County here, the Main Street area. You can show you can see how the blue zone that 1% chance flood plain is is widening. And this new map also shows a moderate hazard area. It's the 0.2% chance floodplain or often commonly called the 500 year floodplain. Looking in another area here, Webster Street. You can see again the proposed changes. And in general, the flood zone or the city of Alameda is being widened. Here on the east end of the Alameda Island, where in general the current flood insurance rate map shows the mapped high hazard area right along the shoreline. We have numerous houses in that high risk floodplain and even more in the moderate hazard area, that 500 year flood plain. And one thing to highlight this is based on sea levels, conditions today. These are flood insurance rate maps that are used to rate the. Flood insurance, and therefore it's based on existing conditions. The last slide here probably shows the greatest change here on the western part of Bay from Island. You can can look along the lagoons on the golf course area and other areas showing what I'd call a major change in in that mapped 1% annual chance floodplain. So I'm going to hand it back to Aaron to cover kind of the next steps and the process. Thanks, Eric. So these are preliminary maps which FEMA, we are pending FEMA's announcement in the Federal Register when they put it in the Federal Register. FEMA will also due to notifications in local newspapers, which officially starts this 90 day appeal period. The appeals are not between the property owners and the city, but between the property owners and FEMA. So I want to also just speak to a little bit of the additional work the city is going to be doing to ensure that our property owners are well informed. So immediately following FEMA's announcements in the Federal Register, the city will send out a targeted mailing to all affected property owners. We'll post the announcement and information on the city of Alameda Web site and hold a public information meeting where questions can be answered. The intent of these extra actions are to ensure that people are aware of the change. They understand the requirements once the maps are final, and that they understand their right to appeal to FEMA, although appeals and protest are collected by the city. I don't want that to be confused with the fact that we are just passing them on to FEMA. Once FEMA resolves the appeals and protests, they do issue a letter of final determination for the new flood insurance rate maps in order for the city to continue participation in the National Flood Insurance Program and allow property owners the benefits of federally backed mortgages. Federal disaster relief, among other benefits. Council is required to adopt the new flood insurance rate maps into Chapter ten, which is our floodplain management section of our municipal code. So with that, the informational report is complete. Myself, Eric and Lori Koza check from Public Works, who's the lead staff member on here, can certainly answer any questions you have. Vice mayor. Is it fair to say, or if you can explain the reason why these zones are expanding? Is that there's projected sea level rise. I'm going to let Eric from FEMA answer that one. So the the proposed flood zones are based on today's condition and not on a future sea level rise condition. There are there are a couple of reasons why the proposed flood zone is is wider than the current flood zone. One is we have much better information on the elevation of the ground using new technology. We have more accurate and precise information that shows these flood prone areas. FEMA also developed a bay wide model. It has information at over 8000 locations along the bay that we have modeled the past over 55 years of of conditions, whether it's surge to the Golden Gate or, you know, during El Nino conditions where higher water levels are as long as as well as tides, wind conditions that can affect. Water levels. And so we just have better information on on the hazard that is today. So it's more accurate. And there's a larger body of data, as I interpreted you saying. Correct. Thank you. Any other council comments? I have a question. And. In the presentation on page four of ten, on the third bullet point, it says properties proposed to be mapped in the 100 year flood plain equals 1800. So right now, what's the number of properties that are in the current floodplain? Is it this 40 or. Or is this the number of people who have flood insurance? That's the number of people that are currently mapped in that high hazard zone. Oh. So the increases. 1760. Yes. Okay. And. Of the 1760, then basically it's complete. Do we know how many of the 1800 already have some form of flood insurance? We can provide a summary of the flood insurance coverage in the city. I don't have that exact number with me. Okay. Because. Right now within the map area, within the current map, there are 40 properties subject to the current 100 year flood plain. But when you compare it because that's the next bullet points. Now when you compare it to the actual number of people who have taken out flood insurance, there's more. There's 134. Right. Which suggests that within the envelope that will contain 1800. There might be a number of homeowners already with flood insurance. Right. I think what I'm getting at and I think we'll do that and we've got plenty of time. But is this just getting the accurate data as to the current conditions, existing conditions? Because. You know, it's altogether possible that you can read this and you can have one incredible, huge sticker shock of, you know, suddenly 760 homeowners affected, which might be not or might not be. So we just need to make sure to get that. One other day. So I will definitely follow up. We have a which those parcels are okay. Make sure that we get that information from FEMA and we can provide that to you rather quickly. All right. And one last thing is if we can also get the. The incremental change, if there is any, between those? Well, will there be any incremental change in the flood insurance amount right now? And the bullet point on page four of ten. It says on average, people are paying 511. I don't know if. Yeah. So one thing we try to emphasize is, is those homeowners or business owners that are impacted by this flood zone change. FEMA has adopted a policy that allows them to purchase the least expensive type of flood insurance as long as they purchase it, you know, sooner rather than later. So they can save money in the long term by purchasing flood insurance sooner. And again, because the city participates in the National Flood Insurance Program. Any homeowner or business owner or renter is eligible to buy flood insurance. It doesn't matter what flood zone they live in. Or where where they work. All all those people are eligible to buy flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program. We thank you. Mayor Brody. And we do have one speaker. Thank you. Just a couple of quick questions. So there's the four areas outline here, the the Main Street, Webster, Starkville, East End and Bay Farm. So the areas that are not mapped, are they just not in the floodplain or did you not map them or. You know, FEMA's. New study studied flood hazards throughout the bay so all of the city of Alameda currently for example Alameda point is not mapped with high or low flood hazards. But our new study did study. That. And. Proposing maps. We didn't rate graphics. For every area of the island. It said, okay, because that was my question. You know, we just signed off on a housing project on Alameda Point. Are are those houses going to be in the floodplain that requires them to get flood insurance? And the same thing with the Del Monte and all of the other projects along the northern waterfront. I mean, people will be buying those. Right. And I'm happy to say we've had coordination ongoing and so that the the FEMA study is being used to build much safer in that area. You know, above the 1% chance flat elevations and then also considering future conditions. Okay. So but this is just the highlights of your map. This isn't the entire map that we have. Right. Thank you. All right. I'm going to go ahead, Kristen. All right. Thank you, Miss Smith. I didn't get everything down that you said earlier that the city council is required to adopt these regulations into. Is it chapter ten? It's actually the map. So we already have our Chapter ten, which can references the existing maps that Eric had shown on there. So that identifies the special hazard zones now. So what will be required to do is adopt the new maps once FEMA finishes their public process and they issue a letter of final determination. And we have a six month period of time to adopt those new rate insurance maps into our municipal code. Okay. And then I understand the six month window of time. Give us the time frame from about when to when will the start? The cities poised to act. We're waiting on FEMA to post in the Federal Register so that once they do that, then there's the 90 day appeal period. And then the question is, is after the end of the appeal period, how quickly FEMA issues the letter of final determination? So that that timeline depends on what kind of comments we we have, and then we resolve them in coordination with the impacted cities. This map change does not impact just the city of Alameda, but other cities, certainly. So there's a coordination process. But typically, the new flood insurance rate maps go in effect about a year and a half after this preliminary issuance. Okay. But our residents should expect to start receiving letters in the mail in the next. Do you have an estimated date of when you'll be posting in the Federal Register? A little bit outside of FEMA's control. But I just checked off work in the. Past. Four weeks or so. In the next 3 to 4 weeks. We have our letter ready to go and we're checking the Federal Register daily. Okay. And so what I would just ask of city staff, you know, I think we all agree that more information is better than less. So if you could all do your best efforts to get word of this out into the public, through our newspapers, and not just the legal notice that I know is going to be posted . But I heard you say it'll be on the city's website. Not everybody goes to the city's website. So let's be as proactive and communicative as possible. Mr. Hahn is making motion. I didn't quite understand. We're actually going to send a letter to every affected homeowner. So we will put them on notice through a letter from the city as a service to our citizens. You don't need to do that. But we're doing we're being proactive and reaching out. And I appreciate letters and sometimes people don't, you know, pay attention to everything they get. And I again, more information is better than less. It wouldn't hurt to layer on some of their. During our comments. I was just finishing my sentence to Mr.. Flynn on that later. Yes. I'd like to take once. Blake, you, Mr. Hunter, I. Appreciate I'm going to go ahead and call her up. Carrie Johnson. It wasn't. And if you want to say. Good evening, everyone, I am Kerry Thompson. I am here as a homeowner in the new flood zone. Thank you very much. What a nasty little shock that was today. I frankly am opposed to it. Initially, when I did purchase my home in 1987. It was in a flood zone. We were aware of that. We had to go through the whole process and thank heavens after a while it was determined it was not in a flood zone. So we've not been able to you know, we've not been required to have flood insurance as part of our our loan. And frankly, that's just another impediment to homeowners existing and future in that area, because now everyone has to disclose that that that will become effective in, what is it, 12 to 18 months, they just said. So I'm really disappointed because frankly, it doesn't seem like anyone had an opportunity to weigh in. There really isn't an opportunity to opt out. It sounds like it's a done deal. So I'm kind of concerned that this whole thing was pointless. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Member comments. So I would agree with member Ashcraft that if the city could actually put something in the newspaper in addition to the letters, to make sure that all the homeowners do receive, do our best to make sure that they received notice. And also, if we could have the whole maps like in our planning department, people could go and see the whole map and double check it for whatever reason they need to talk to someone about is my home within that area. If we could have the full maps available in the planning department and then the public could come and double check with a person and speak to it if they have a problem or question anything that we could do to help facilitate that. And and I appreciate my understanding the staff we are hiring someone to also check this. When we already have and they've they've already concluded confirmed FEMA's conclusions pending additional study on modifying the dike system in Bay Farm Island. So they've confirmed FEMA's conclusions based upon existing conditions. So I appreciate that staff that took that extra effort to try to confirm because as the Speaker noted this, our speakers know this will be challenging for many of our homeowners member, Ashcroft. And so just to follow up on the speaker's comments, Mr. Smith. This isn't exactly something that we can opt out of or the city could opt out of recognizing our floodplains. But at considerable cost as as in. Opting out would mean. Are you suggesting not participating in the National Flood Insurance Program. When when homeowners say and understandably, I mean, we all see our, you know, costs of insurance and property ownership costs go up every year. But I just you know, I'm not sure that the public understands quite the ramifications to all of us, not just individually, but the city, if for some reason we weren't to comply. Sure. Well, I'd like to just. First start with that. This is not a done deal. This we haven't started a 90 day appeal period. So we are at the cusp of a 90 day period for public input that, you know, can still dialog can still occur between the public and FEMA. Also, I'd like to have Eric speak to once the maps are issued, there are options for individual property owners to do what's called a survey certificate. And if you could briefly explain what that is. And if I could also ask you, if you're able to just talk about what would an appeal look like? What are criteria for appeal? Okay. Thank you. Let me first touch upon the the issue of of after these maps are updated in and the opportunity to revise or amend them is always there. Theme every year processes thousands of letters of map amendment and letters of map revision where either a homeowner or a community provides better data to FEMA to show that they're at or above this flood elevation. Or maybe there's new construction and the development involved fill, and they put that fill to elevate the new development again above the flood elevation. So the maps, even though they get revised through a big revision that we're talking about now, can get amended and revised at any time in the future. And then. What Aaron referred to as an elevation certificate is a form that documents the surveys that substantiate those changes and the newer information. And your question referring to what kind of appeal or other data FEMA may receive during this 90 day period. In that we're open to any technical or scientific data. One, I wouldn't say common, but situation that does occur is perhaps a homeowner has one of these elevation certificates. They're being mapped very close to the line of that special flood hazard area. And that elevation certificate shows that they're, in fact, at or above the flood elevation. And we can clarify that situation through a letter or, if necessary, make that small modification on the map. That's probably the most common kind of scientific or technical information we receive. Thank you both. Member OTI. Thank you, Madam Chair. So on that that's survey that elevation certificate. So you have to do a survey to get that if you don't already have it. Yes. Typically, the homeowner or another party hires a licensed land surveyor or professional engineer to fill out that form the elevation certificate. So that that kind of was my question then, you know, hire. What's the average cost of one of these surveys? You know, it. It depends on where you are. And it also depends. Sometimes homeowners get together, you know, if ten homeowners get together and their costs maybe, you know, $300. Or. Or a lot less. But if if one homeowner hires a surveyor or that professional engineer, it could be over $1,000, depending on where you are. I mean, it just, you know, seems to me, you know, you're kind of. In a bad way. Either way, you know, you either have to shell out the money to buy to get a survey, or you're stuck with buying insurance. And the homeowner really has no recourse except to pay one of those. And it just seems unfortunate. So just one more question on the this appeal. So you said we had a staff and analyze that. They agreed with with the FEMA maps. And the independent hydrologist that we hired on public works. Correct. They they agreed they confirmed FEMA's conclusions based on existing conditions. So I guess I'm concerned based on that, that if we do have homeowners that do appeal this, that that the city and the staff will be supportive of those appeals. It seems to me that there's a belief that, you know, the FEMA maps are valid. Again, the city's kind of a pass through body in terms of the actual appeal. That's for FEMA to consider. Okay. Again, I think it's unfortunate that, you know, homeowners have to shell out money regardless. And it's just. Just one of those things, I guess. Member Data Two sets of questions. The first set of question is when the independent hydrologist or whomever did their analysis, did they do analysis on the ground or do they use some kind of GIS system? And based upon that. I'm going to have Lori speak to that. She was our staff member that worked directly with the hydrologists. Madam Mayor and council members. The hydrologist was ballance hydrologists and they took a look at the data that the that FEMA had used and pretty much looked through their method of calculating the base elevation of the floodplain and how that was. The question was whether. That Stillwater elevation could have time to go inland during just the high tide or just the storm event, and they calculated that it would have time to do that. And the inputs into their calculation was based upon numbers that's already in some kind of system, and they just had to review the system and make some updates. I believe the light hour or the elevation data came from the county. Is that okay? Did you use the county elevation or do your own? Okay. So they were partially using survey data that came from the county and so they were kind of checking FEMA's calculations, using that. They did not go out and do an independent, complete survey. Just really like of a metadata findings based upon a metadata analysis. Yeah. So it's not completely. So it's altogether possible that people could still. Do their analysis. And it's completely possible that some parts of Alameda are higher than what's in the what's in the database. So I wouldn't at their own at their own. And that's something that we need to discuss. The second set of question in our maps, the the the 1800 or so that will be subject to the new boundaries, although. Thank you very much. Appreciate your assistance. These are the these homeowners, these resident properties are in the blue area, is that correct? Correct. So this is not the brown areas in the map? No, the brown areas where the lower the 500 year flood. So yes, aren't those are more for planning or advisory purposes. So I just want to clarify. So there's is there any effect in having the number of units, residential or otherwise, that are in the brown areas they're not going to suddenly get thrown with. Some kind of new bill is a correct. They're just for whatever reason, they're just categorized as being in this moderate flood plain zone. That's my understanding, right? Yeah. Okay. Yes. You know, I mean, going back to Councilmember Otis point of view point is that a lot of these brown areas are also near the blue areas. So I wouldn't completely ixnay the idea of, you know, doing one's own analysis. That's a very technical term, by the way. Yeah. So but, you know, figuring out how to help the residents is something that we need to do in the coming weeks and months. I'd also like to just just add this survey certificate that we're talking about is not yet these analysis is are done at a certain level, granular level. So you could have any one particular parcel on a block that has something. And so it's not just because our hydrologist confirmed FEMA's conclusion that shouldn't in any way discourage a property owner from pursuing that, if that's what they feel they'd like to do. Like member Ashcraft. And Miss Smith. You mentioned earlier, and I just wanted a little more information that FEMA will allow homeowners to purchase a lower cost flood insurance if they do so quickly. Is the procedure for doing this going to be contained in the letter that's going out to these homeowners? How will they how will they find out about it is my question. That's a really good question. We allude to it, and we also invite property owners to a public meeting that will be holding to answer any questions. If I can work with Eric in advance of the letter and be as specific to that policy and reference it, I will certainly integrate that into the letter. Yeah. Without sounding like a broken record, more information is better than less. And if we know that some of these homeowners are almost certainly going to have to bear the cost of flood insurance, I'd like to see us at least give them the information about how they could lower that bill. So if that could go, if you've got the ability to get that into the letter that's going out, I think that would be great. It's not a problem. We will do. Thank you very much. And do you have the date of the meeting that you've referenced again? So we're poised kind of for the Federal Register notice and then all our actions come subsequent to that. Right member day. So. You know, and I think this is where council member Odie might have been going the direction, but it's something that we can mull over in the coming weeks, months. It's completely possible that the city of Alameda ground truths the blue areas. Something to think about. So. I just also keep in mind, Port of Oakland is is also pursuing their own independent study that impacts Bay Pharm Island, which is our largest impacted area. And so we are cooperating and await the conclusions of that study as well. Thank you. Iran. As. Just to remind one last thing. If you do not have a federally insured mortgage, you're not required to have flood insurance. Okay. So if you don't have a FEMA or Fannie Mae mortgage, then you're not required to have flood insurance. You're going to be in a flood zone. So that's up to you. But you're not required to do that. Okay. It's only required for federally insured mortgages. Ethan. Thank you. All right. They no other comments on 60. Thank you very much. And now we're going to go to six. B I'm sorry, six B That was 63. Introduction of ordinances amending the Alameda Municipal Code by adding Section two, Dash 23, Article two concerning creation of a rent review advisory committee and an ordinance adding Article 14 to Chapter six concerning the review of rent increases.

Recommendation to receive and file the application of Cuban Pete’s Rhythm Lounge, LLC, dba Cuban Pete’s, for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License, at 245 Pine Avenue #200-220, with conditions. (District 2)

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Item 20 Report from Police Recommendation to receive and file the application of Cuban Peter Leather Ribbon Lounge for an original application of an Alcoholic Beverage Control License at 245 Pine Avenue. With conditions district to sell moved. Second move and second any member of the Public Research Council on item to consumer law. Q I just wanted to make sure that it was with conditions. Madam, quick. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Members cast your votes in over 20. And the council met a lot of. Council member Andrews. Council member? Austin. Did you? They're all on. A. Motion case. Thank you. They'll go to item 21. Item 21 report from Police, Financial Management and Harbor Recommendation to adopt Adobe specifications and authorize the city manager to execute a contract with an air inflatable of an airport for the purchase of 130 foot down 3840 foot multi-use port police boat.

Recommendation to increase appropriations in the General Fund Group in the City Manager Department by $3,300, offset by the Ninth Council District One-time District Priority Funds transferred from the Citywide Activities Department to provide a contribution to the Draculas for a mural painted at Houghton Park prior to the grand opening of the expanded Houghton Park Community Center on June 30, 2020; and Decrease appropriations in the General Fund Group in the Citywide Activities Department by $3,300 to offset a transfer to the City Manager Department.

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Thank you. Item 11, please. Communication from Councilmember Richardson recommendation to increase appropriations in the general fund group in the City Manager Department by 3300. To provide a contribution to the Dracula's for a mural painted at Howden Park prior to the grand opening of the expanded Howden Park Community Center on June 30th, 2020. Yes. Well, consider Richardson's first as president. Oh, it sounds 1/2. You please call for the bill. District one. I district to. I District three. I district for. I. District five. Hi. District six. District seven. By. District eight. By District nine.

Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP CM15-159 for the purchase and development opportunity at Anaheim Street and Walnut Avenue (1205-1209 Walnut Avenue/1500-1546 East Anaheim Street), Assessor Parcel Numbers 7267-001-900, -901, -902, -903, -904, -905, -906 (Subject Property); Declare the City-owned Subject Property as surplus; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all necessary documents, including a Purchase and Sale Agreement with BRIDGE Housing Corporation and The Children’s Clinic “Serving Children and their Families”, both California corporations, for the sale of the Subject Property in the amount of $2,500,000; and Accept Categorical Exemption CE 16-138. (District 6)

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Thank you. Item nine. Let's to item 19 and 20. Item 19 Report from Economic and Property Development and Development Services. Recommendation to adopt specifications for the purchase and development opportunity at Anaheim Street and Walnut Avenue. Declare the property as surplus and authorize the city manager to execute all necessary documents with Bridge Housing Corporation and the Children's Clinic for the sale of the property in the amount of 2.5 million District six. Councilmember Andrews. Thank you. Thank you. Vice Mayor. This is another great great project. Has been a pleasure in this extensive but I want to start by thanking the city economics and my property development development directors Mike Conway and Amy Bodak for their work on this project. I'm very happy to see that this will be created for 408 temporary jobs and 42 permanent jobs. I know that there were several bids on this project, but in order to choose the right development, the city had to acknowledge the biggest and need in our city community. That need would be a housing for our aging community and affordable health care clinics for our children and our families. I do appreciate the fact that the developers understood the importance of our Cambodian community in the areas by providing space for two active nonprofit organizations and serving Cambodia community, as well as housing and a small business development center created to the surrounding in their community. This kind of development means or it meets more than the number of surrounding communities needs, and I hope this will be a new standard for all developers on the city property. It's a nice to see services in our neighborhoods outweigh the mighty dollar and thank you very much. And I move to approve this. Councilmember Richardson. I stand to support the motion. Thank you. So any member of the public that wishes to address the Council on item 19. Seeing none. Members cast your vote. Motion carries. Item 20.

Recommendation to direct City Manager to work with Public Works and City Attorney to amend Resolution No. RES-18-0171 Section 1, to change the 4th Street parking meters hours from Hermosa Avenue to Junipero Avenue from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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Councilman Richardson. Motion carries. 24 Council member Pearce. Communication from Councilmember Pearce recommendation direct the city manager to work with public works and the city attorney to amend resolution changing for street parking meter hours. Yes. I want to thank staff for all their work. I want to thank Retro for their work as well. I know that we had this item come before us last year. It's just in front of us today. We are changing the hours from 9 p.m. to 7 p.m., which is in. Alignment with the other. Meters that we have. And other business improvement districts and staff will also be reducing the footprint, but that doesn't require a vote today. So again, thankful for community members that have come out and participated, engaged in this conversation and for everybody being patient with us as we, you know, figure this out, how we balance residential homes while they're surrounded by businesses as well and wanting to support both of them. So, again, thank you, staff. Thank you very much. Hmm. Let's begin this year. Goodbye. Okay. Nobody can come in on this idea. Now, will you please cast your vote? Motion carries now in final. That's right. I've become my.

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

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Agenda Item 18 Capital 119848 relating to start conservation appropriate controls upon the University of Washington Engineering Annex, a landmark estimated by the Landmarks Preservation Board. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I move to pass Council Bill 119848. Is there a second? Tactically. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Councilmember Strauss, you're the sponsor of the bill and are recognized in order to address this item. Thank you. Councilmember 119848 Control imposes controls on the U. Dub Engineering Annex. This legislation acknowledges the designation of the University of Washington's Engineering Annex as a historic landmark and imposes the controls. This engineering annex was built in 1909 as it as part of the Alaska Yukon Exposition Exposition and is being designated because of its association with both the exposition and the university's historic history. It has very distinctive visual characteristics, and something that's interesting to note is that the majority of the buildings built for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition were built as temporary structures. So this was built as one of the few permanent structures and was the first boundary this side of the Mississippi that the public could view. This was built as a demonstration site where folks could see how the the foundry works and how you smelt metal into tools and other important things that they were using in Alaska. On the way for the gold rush. This controls the controls in this agreement apply only to the site and exterior of the building. Thank you. Councilmember Strauss, are there any additional comments on the bill? Hearing no additional comments on the bill will please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Strauss. Yes. Verbal. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Peterson. As president. Gonzalez. Yes. Seven in favor, not unopposed. Thank you, Madam Park. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Agenda Item 19 Will the clerk please read item 19 into the record?

Order requesting certain information under Section 17F relative to the Personnel Review Committee and personnel vacancies.

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Numbers 0640 Council of Reading off of the following order for a hearing on appropriating federal relief funds to stabilize and expand public sector personnel capacity beyond pre-pandemic levels in dark number 0641 Council of after the following order requesting certain information under Section 17 F relative to the Personnel Review Committee and personnel vacancies. Thank you, Mr.. But she recognizes counselor Brad. And Counselor Brad. And you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. These are two dockets related to our personnel capacity across city departments. As we work our way through the budgeting process, we hear from departments across the city about their personnel and their difficulties with vacancies within their departments, etc.. The first docket is a hearing order on the use of ARPA funds for pandemic recovery. And the second docket is a 17 F information request related to the Personnel Review Committee and Human Resources Practices for posting and filling vacancies. For generations, public sector jobs have been a lifeline for working families in our city, providing secure employment for women and workers of color with better and better benefits, greater job security and opportunities for nonunion from union representation and full time work. Across the country, local government public sector employment did not recover from the Great Recession of 2008 and until 2019. And then we were hit by. Since the onset of the pandemic, the private sector has regained 93% of their jobs lost since 2020, while the public sector has only recovered 53% of the jobs. Looking at our city's recovery since the recession over the past 15 years, not all departments gained back their personnel full time equivalent levels of 2008, supported by the General Fund. Inspectional Services has not fully reached their 22,000 needed staffing levels yet. Year after year, they took on more responsibilities and when the council and mayor passed new ordinances. And we're pretty good at that. We've added a lot of work to their workload. In the last past past few years, public facilities and property management are staffed below 2008 levels, while facilities, maintenance and capital projects are stalled without without needed project managers. B Cyf has more than 60 permanent full time equivalent positions below their 2008 levels, and Public Works has 80 full time equivalent position deficit compared to 2008 permanent staffing. All of these departments are front lines for city services and meeting residents needs. An excerpt from the Municipal Research Bureau's 2014 Transition Report spells it out Through the Great Recession of 2008, the personnel reductions of the three largest departments of school, police and fire have been less than proportional to their share of the total city employees. The greater burden experienced by the other 42 departments and the reduction of employees over 11 years is also evidenced by the fact that the police, school and Fire Department represents 77% of city funded payroll in 2013, but experienced 36% of the employee layoffs since 2002. The remaining 44 departments are 22% of the workforce, but have had a 63% reduction. The US Treasury Department determined that ARPA fund relief may be used to bolster local public sector personnel capacity to restore pre-pandemic 2020 staffing levels or expand up to 7.5% beyond the pre-pandemic baseline. I hope to explore this in the the committee hearing. We have heard throughout the budget hearings that department after department is struggling to hire and fill vacancies. It's an incredibly competitive job market at the moment. The Position Review Committee manages the approval process for posting and filling vacancies since 2017 financial year 17. The city has also eliminated 190 long term vacant positions. But we must understand why those positions were left vacant for so long. What functions they served were the essential and are they currently being contracted out? The 17 f order is intended to provide the counsel insight into the personnel processes in the context of fiscal management and recovery policies over the span of multiple mayoral administrations going back to 2008. Not just what is in front of us right now. And in this moment, we have a responsibility to look at the human resources situation holistically and use any and all tools at our disposal to help recruit and retain personnel for our city workforce so that we can continue to sustain and deliver good quality constituent services across all departments and unleash the power of municipal government. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, counselor Braden. On on docket 0640. Would anyone else like to speak on this matter? The chair recognizes Councilor Bach. Council. Bach. You have the floor. Thank you. And thank you to counsel Braden for filing this. And please add my name. I think it's been the most frustrating thing for, I think many of us about budget season. But for those of us who are here last year, the number of things where we approved new positions last year and they haven't been filled because of this hiring situation. I mean, if you think about like Whitey, which we had up, we had approved them for for new people and said they lost people with the speed humps. We had approved a whole second team so we could parallel process. Instead, public works is down to one engineer. I was working with property management around graffiti busters yesterday and they've got to like a third of the team's vacant. So I just think like again and again, this council is seeing the limitations of like the appropriation power is nice, but if we don't have the staff in place, then the money doesn't move and the work isn't done on behalf of the residents, the city. And so I have appreciated the administration's references to their plan to kind of do comp and class analysis and try to raise salaries appropriately to be competitive. But I just think this is a critical issue and it's becoming critical in every department. And so I really appreciate Councilor Great. And bring it forward. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Counsel Buck. The chair recognizes. Councilman here. Councilman, here. You have the floor. Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you to Councilor Reinhardt, even though I wasn't here for the hearing. I did hear that a line item that we fought for and approved last year, which was workforce development for 19 to 24 year olds, that a position wasn't filled. And as a result of that, that that line item has yet to be tapped. So when we fight for things on the council to serve our constituents and then we don't have the personnel to do the work, it impacts all of us. And so I really do appreciate you bringing this hearing and this request to the council, and I look forward to the conversation. Please add my name. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman here. The chair recognizes Councilor Baker. Councilor Baker. Thank you, Mr. President. Being someone that was laid off during that. I was laid off in 2010. Department people know about it still would never be able to figure out how much we're spending in the city on printing that department had to go away with. But what I wanted to focus on was what Kensi had spoke about. It's the people that are doing the work. If you look in the policy rooms, they're all full. All the nerds are all clicking away on their computers. All the policy rooms are filled. But the people that are doing the work, that are filling the potholes, that are mowing the grass, we don't have them there. We need to focus on that. The people that are actually doing the work, our constituent service sort of stuff. So I just wanted to add my $0.02. Thank you. And please add my name. Thank you to both. Doggett. Yeah, thank you. Councilor Parker. Anyone else looking to speak on the matter? The chair recognizes Council Fernandez Anderson. Council Fernandez Anderson. Do you have the floor? I rise in support to my council colleague. And to quote my angel, still I rise. That's the last what I promise. So I think this idea is genius. And speaking of nerds, thanks, Wayne. Now we've got a lot of work to do. I wholeheartedly support this. I think it's brilliant. Looking forward to it. Thank you. Council Fernandez Anderson. Anyone else like. Would you like to add your name? Please raise your hand. Mr. Clarke, please. Council and Royal Council of Baker, Councilor Bach, Council of Britain. Council of Fire City Council Council Fernandez Anderson Council at Lara Council Region Council me here. Councilor Murphy, please add the chair. Dakar 0640 besides the Committee on Boston's COVID 19 recovery. Councilor Braden also seeks suspension of the rules and passage of dockets. 0641. All those in favor say I am opposed to any this have it docket zero six for one has been passed. We're on 2.0642. Mr. Clark, please read that. Docket number 064 to cancel on me here or for the following order for a hearing on government accountability, transparency and accessibility of decision making protocols in city government.

Report of the City Clerk on the Certificate of Sufficiency for Seattle City Charter Amendment No. 29, concerning action to address homelessness and keep areas clean of encampments.

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Agenda Item one quick file 314480. Report of the City Clerk on the Certificate of Sufficiency for Seattle City Charter Amendment Number 29. Concerning action to address homelessness and keep areas clean of encampments. Thank you. I move to file Clark file 314480. Is there a second? Second? Thank you. It's been moved and seconded to file the Clark file. I Lewis. Lois, you are going to address this item, so I'm going to go and hand it over to you for that. Thank you, Madam President. So in my role as Chair of the Select Committee on Homelessness Strategies and Investments in consultation with Council President, we agreed that it would probably be most appropriate for me to just provide a couple of comments on the process that is before us today. In regards to Charter Amendment 29, I want to stress for the general public and for colleagues here, this is a ministerial and purely pro forma function, a cornerstone of our local democracy and part of our general process for receiving proposed referenda to put a charter amendment on the ballot. This Clark file and the related legislation acknowledges that the King County government has received sufficient signatures from a group of folks who have organized to put a measure on the ballot for consideration of Seattle voters to amend the charter. Voting on this matter today does not express support or opposition by council members to that given charter proposal. It is merely us acknowledging the legitimacy of the process and the certification that we have been sent from the county indicating sufficient signatures for this measure to be placed on our general election ballot. So with that, I would. Really just say that we proceed forward and do the responsibility outlined in the charter and approve this measure for placement on the November ballot and and take care of the clerk file and acknowledge its sufficiency. Thanks so much, Councilmember Lewis, for those comments on the quick file to just address the process procedure and why we are taking a vote today on this ministerial procedural matter. Are there any additional comments on the Clark File? And that's in any hands race. So will the clerk please call the roll on the filing of the clerk? Clerk? Gladys, I. Lewis. Hi. Morales. I must get that by Peterson. Yes, sir. Want? Yes. Strauss. Yes. Herbals? Yes. In Council President Gonzalez. I died in favor and opposed. The motion carries. And the clerk file is placed on file. Will the clerk please read item two into the record? Agenda Item two Resolution 32012 regarding the voter proposal and Charter Amendment 29 authorizing the city clerk and the executive director of the Ethics and Elections Commission to take those actions necessary to enable the proposed amendment to appear on the November 2nd, 2021 ballot and in the local voters pamphlet requesting the King County Elections Director to place the

AN ORDINANCE relating to the termination of residential rental tenancies; providing a defense to eviction for rent due during the City’s COVID-19 civil emergency; and amending Section 22.206.160 of the Seattle Municipal Code.

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Jan the item for Council Bill 120077 an ordinance relating to the termination of residential rental tenancies providing a defense to eviction for rent due during the city's COVID 19 civil emergency. And amending Section 22.20 6.160 of the Seattle Municipal Code. The committee recommends the bill passed with a divided report, with council members swap Morales and Lewis in favor and Councilmember Peterson opposed. Wonderful. Okay. Thank you so much, Councilmember. So once you're the chair of the committee, so I am going to hand it over to you to provide the committee's report and then we'll take it from there. Oh, you're on mute. Sorry. Thank you, President Gonzalez. This legislation is sponsored by Councilmember Morales, and so I will turn it over to her to make introductory remarks. Thank you. Now I muted myself advertently. Okay. Thank you for for facilitating that that hand back over to Councilmember Morales. Councilmember Ellis, I'm going to go ahead and hand it over to you to walk us through this reporting. Okay. Thank you, Chair. So on. And Council President Gonzalez. I am excited to bring this before my colleagues. I do want to begin by thanking the members of the State House Stay Healthy Coalition. We've been working with them for several months now and I'm really excited to be bringing this forward at their request. And I do specifically want to thank representatives from the Housing Justice Project, El Centro de la Raza. Washington can be Seattle, a black LGBTQ ally. Ship Transit Riders, Union Tenants Union, real change share the cities, the landlords at Solid Ground and Lehigh and many, many others who've been part of this work. I think it's really important that they are pushing us as a council for more tenant protections and really holding us accountable to our neighbors who rent in the city. So just a little bit of background. According to the National Equity Atlas. County renters owe an average of 40 $700 in back rent. Combined, approximately 39,000 letters owe $186 million in pandemic related rent. And we know that over a third of black, Latino and native communities are burdened with rent debt. These are some of the same neighbors whose work often requires that they are at increased risk of exposure to COVID. We also know that they are disproportionately uninsured, that something like a medical emergency during a pandemic could significantly affect people's ability to pay for food and child care and other bills. These really are some of the essential workers that we've been talking about and hearing about for the last year. And the people without whom our city would have kind of fallen apart last year. So it's really important that we do what we can to help help protect them. We know that 58% of people are facing a pandemic related financial hardship are low income themselves already. 59% are people of color, and 71% lost employment related income in the last year. So when you couple this with the fact that in just a few weeks, the eviction moratorium at this point is set to end, you can understand the urgency to provide a defense to eviction for renters who have fallen behind because of financial hardship. The impending avalanche of evictions is more than just an issue of money. It's a systemic issue brought on by generations of disinvestment. Why that is. Seattle Public Schools calling brought on by generations of disinvestment. And we know that, you know, this this this disinvestment in communities of color and our racist housing policies have really continued to haunt us. And that's part of the challenge here we're trying to solve for some of these problems that are that are long standing . So what will this bill do? This bill would allow tenants to assert a financial hardship defense at any time. If you're a renter who's faced or will face financial hardship during the civil emergency, you will be protected. If a landlord does serve an eviction notice to tenants based on nonpayment of rent, they must include a statement that notifies tenants of their right to assert a defense based on nonpayment of rent caused by a financial hardship during the COVID emergency. Once in court, tenants will have access to representation now that we have a right to counsel legislation that we passed earlier this year and as part of that right to counsel process, tenants are asked to self-certify that they are facing financial hardship. So following that certification, renters will be allowed to assert this defense, as I've mentioned in council briefing this morning. And I do think that this is important to reiterate landlords have resources available as well. King County executive recently announced that King County will be offering slots to $150 million in rental assistance to tenants and landlords. Here at the city. We are also offering just over $20 million in rent assistance. So I think it's important that landlords are aware of that and that they access those resources before considering evicting someone. I will have some closing comments, but I will leave it at that colleagues and I'm happy to answer any questions that could help. Thank you so much, Councilmember Morales, for that report. Are there any additional comments on the 120077? See, I see a couple of hands raised as member. So what is next? And then Councilmember Peterson. Thank you, President Gonzalez, and thank you. I'm happy to support those renters rights bill. And I was happy to co-sponsor it in the Renters Rights Committee. As was stated, it creates a defense to eviction, protecting renters from being evicted for being behind on their name. Stop. Innocence. Sorry. Sorry. Councilmember Mosqueda, you are not mute. And that was my cracker. I'm sorry. Code. Sorry. Councilmember silent. Go ahead. No problem. It creates a defense to eviction, protecting renters from being evicted for being behind on their rent during the COVID emergency. It is very important. And at the same time, we should recognize it's not the same as canceling corporate debt, both renter debt and mortgage debt for working class homeowners, which is what we really need to be fighting for. And because renters would still owe that back rent, it will hurt people's credit. And sometimes people might even face lawsuits. But at the very least, it is extremely important that the city council pass this bill because it will mean that people won't be evicted and forced into homelessness for that back rent that was accumulated that renters were forced to accumulate during COVID. So I hope all council members will vote yes on this. And I also wanted to note that this is both an economic justice and a racial justice bill. Because of the pandemic racism under capitalism, communities of color are facing far greater COVID related debt burdens on top of the preexisting debt burden discrimination and therefore are at a great power greater risk of eviction once the eviction moratoriums end. And on that note, it's extremely important that the city council passed this resolution urging the mayor and the governor to extend the eviction moratorium. And we need to be following up with that to make sure that they actually do it. Last September, industry analyst apartment list dot com which is which is a website for landlords and is followed by corporate landlords reported that 31% of renters had unpaid rent and the report went on for the share of white renters with unpaid rent is well below the overall rate at 24%. Meanwhile, black and Hispanic renters are far more likely to own a 48% and 41%, respectively. So even though corporate landlord websites are acknowledging the disparities between white renters and renters of color, and renters of color are facing a very dire situation. And so it's really important that we pass this bill. Thank you. It's so much I can see where we are there. Casimir Petersen I didn't see that you were in the queue. Do you still want to make comments? Go ahead. Floor is yours. Me too. I'll put you in the queue. Thank you. Customer. We're going to have more Peterson. Thank you. Council President. Just to provide context, again, for the Renters Rights Committee that we had a couple of weeks ago for this council bill. 110 0077. I had offered two amendments at committee on May 26th. The First Amendment would have exempted small landlords, and the second would have allowed this regulatory change for 18 months so that it corresponds to the potential lingering effects of the COVID recession. I think we want to be mindful of the financial challenges faced by smaller housing providers who lack the economies of scale to absorb these costs. I also don't think it's appropriate to make such regulatory legislation permanent at this time. Neither of my opponents passed, so I voted no at committee, and as nothing has changed in a material way since that time, I'll be voting no today. Again, while this legislation is framed as being related to COVID civil emergency, it would be permanent. Rather than making wholesale permanent regulatory changes to existing contractual relationships, I put the entire burden on to the housing provider regardless of their hardship. I believe we should instead get more funding in the hands of the housing providers and the tenants to make them whole. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Peterson, because there was. Thank you. Council President I'm going to just say some brief comments about all three bills. I reluctantly voted yes for the school year evictions, but not for some of the reasons that Council Peterson outlined. But mainly my main concern and I did vote yes, is ultimately we do want to protect children in their families and educators. But I do feel like, as we were advised by legal, that there's going to be some issues on the definition and how broad that bill is. But nevertheless, I voted yes because I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak. However, on this bill, I cannot vote yes on this one. I think that my main concern with the whole slate here and I think we heard this from legal counsel as well, and also including the preemption arguments and the recent variant case is that we really do need a comprehensive review of city tenant protections that work with state law. And I think this pandemic field recession has really changed the landlord tenant and the as we learned from legal counsel, the preemption landscape. So I think this piecemeal approach on long term consequences is really going to be difficult to unwind. And so it regarding Council Bill 120077 this is a defense, so it is not correct to say that you will be protected. It means that you have a defense when you go to court. That doesn't mean it's going to be successful. I'm always concerned about raising expectations. So what you're going to have is somebody to come into court, assert the defense of COVID. That's why you couldn't pay your rent during the moratorium. That doesn't mean that a judge or jury is going to buy that, and that doesn't mean that you don't get to walk away from responsibilities. Of course, these are not I'm not passing judgment because all of us have been affected by this by this recession and what it's done, but obviously to renters. But a morea a moratorium doesn't mean that you don't have to pay. It just means that at some point you have to pay. Later you have to work something out with your landlord, with notice. And so with that and what we've learned from legal counsel and the briefings that we've had and how it works with state law and the it I don't think it works with state law. I think that's been was made very clear to us. But in any event, I'm sorry, but I cannot support this today. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Juarez, for those comments. Really appreciate it. Are there any additional comments on the bill? I'm not seeing any of their hands raised. So, Councilmember Morales, you will get the last word as the prime sponsor and we'll close out debate after your comments and call the bill to vote. Thank you. Colleagues. So I do want to acknowledge and thank council members a lot for joining me in sponsoring this. I neglected to mention that beginning of my remarks. Colleagues, we know that thousands of our neighbors will find themselves caught with a growing mountain of debt and a looming deadline for when that that comes due. And if we don't do something to provide a defense for renters now, we will face depression level, depression era levels of homelessness. So, you know, our system is already overburdened. This is a huge issue that we've been talking about. And even if a quarter of the renters who currently owe rent that fall into homelessness, our entire system could collapse. So this is about providing some protection in the form of a defense so that there is at least an opportunity for them to to have a discussion, to be able to work out the payments as council member , as is talked about. And these are things that we have also been discussing throughout this year as we talk about how to make sure that there are different levels, different mechanisms in place for folks. So we have to respond to this impending crisis with the gravity that it deserves. We have to take action now so that renters who have faced a financial hardship don't face eviction, too. And as Council Member Water said, we aren't saying that folks don't owe the rent. We're saying that while they are dealing with a hardship during this era, during this time, that there is some protection from them from getting evicted . This is the reason why they can't pay the rent for now. So passing this bill will do just that and will help keep tens of thousands of renters from the threat of eviction. So I urge my colleagues to support the bill today and give them that then that protection and assistance. Thank you. Councilmember morales that does conclude debate on Council Bill 120077. So I'm going to ask that the clerk please call the roll on the passage of the bill. Whereas now. Lewis. Yes. Morales as. ROSQUETA. I. Peterson. You know, salon? Yes. Council President Gonzalez. I. Five in favor to oppose. The bill passes and the chair will sign it will the first please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf. Well, Clark, please read item five into the record. Agenda Item five Council Bill 120090 An ordinance relating to new residential rental tenancies. Giving a tenant a right of first refusal of a new tenancy after the expiration of a tenancy for a specified time. Requiring a landlord to have just cause for declining to give a tenant the right of first refusal requiring notice in advance of asserting

AN ORDINANCE relating to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services; authorizing the Director of the Department of Finance and Administrative Services or the Director’s designee to negotiate and execute a real property lease with the Washington State Department of Transportation on behalf of the Seattle Department of Transportation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda Item ten Council Bill 120340 An Ordinance relating to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services. The committee recommends the bill pass. Now, I'm sorry. Go ahead, Councilor. Thank you so much. This legislation authorizes a lease of property near the I-5 and I-90 interchange referred to as the Royal Brougham property by the city of Seattle from the Washington State Department of Transportation. The lease will enable the Seattle Department of Transportation to continue using the property for equipment, storage and parking and applies retroactively to 2017 when it first began using the property for this purpose. All right. Thank you. Caspar Herbal, are there any any comments? Anything else, Councilmember Herbert? Madam Clippy, please call the roll. Anthony Peterson. Yes. Council member Saline. S council member. Strauss. Yes. Council Member Herbold. Yes. Council member Lewis. Yes. Councilmember Nelson. I kept the president was. I seven in favor and unopposed. Q The bill passes, the chair will sign it, and Madam Cook again, please, to fix my signature to the legislation. That concludes our committee reports. So moving to items removed from the consent calendar, there were no items removed from the consent calendar moving to adoption of other resolutions. I understand there are no other resolutions or adoptions today in regards to other business. I want to note for the record, which I apologize for not saying at the outset that Councilor Macheda has indeed been excused from today's council meeting before I adjourn.

Consideration of Mayor’s Nominations for Appointment to the Planning Board, Public Art Commission, Public Utilities Board, Recreation and Parks Commission, and Social Service Human Relations Board.

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Avenue Complete Streets. And I'm really excited about the Seaplane Lagoon Ferry Terminal that was the probably the largest Alameda recipient with $8.2 million coming from these various funds, which tend to be county and state funds. So that's going to help that third ferry terminal in Alameda. So with that, then I'm going to go right into item ten a, I have been busy. My assistant Michelle Cook tells me that since I last saw you two weeks ago, I have interviewed 34 candidates for various boards and commissions and I'm really excited. We've had such interest this year and we've just got great, smart and our residents. It's been tough to make choices, but here are my nominations, which then council will vote on in two weeks or at the next council member meeting on July 2nd. So for the planning board there are two seats available and I am nominating Hansen Hamm. Mr. Hamm is a former planning director, himself a former community development director. Deep experience in policy planning, land use plans, affordable housing programs, urban design, environmental review and a longtime Alameda resident. Teresa Ruiz is my second nominee. Missouri's is an architect with a San Francisco firm, and she's also active in the Urban Land Institute. And in fact, she works with high school students in a number of Bay Area high schools in their government classes, having them actually set up a mock planning board. And they have a project that they undertake to, you know, deliberate on and vote on. And she puts in a lot of real life issues and she's very impressive in her own right. She's a native of Taiwan who came to this country to start high school when she was in high school, started high school at Fremont High , and she said she didn't know English. When she started high school at Fremont, she knew Spanish because her family on route from Taiwan spent a couple of years in Costa Rica. But that said, she graduated in four years and went to UC Berkeley and then got her architectural degree. And and she's a mother with young kids, but she wants to give back. And so I I'm very happy to appoint both of them for the planning board, the Public Art Commission. We are still doing interviews for applicants. I just can't get through all of them at once. Public Utilities Board. I am reappointing the incumbent, Laura Jean Tierney. She has great and deep financial expertize background, which is very useful for that board. The Recreation and Parks Commission has two openings right now. I have one. I'm nominating Tara Navarro. Ms.. Navarro is a tennis player. She's a mother of two young children. She makes a point to visit all the parks. And she's been involved in the Jackson Park proposals and has, you know, attends recreation parks commission meetings. We think she brings a lot to that commission. And I'm still interviewing nominees. So we'll we'll get that second seat filled probably by the next or nominating. By the next council meeting on the Social Service Human Relations Board, we have one opening. I am nominating Christian Fruit Fong. She is a long time reading specialist at Ruby Bridges School. She's also a third generation Alameda. And although she was born in Topaz, Utah, because her parents were interned there during World War Two. And in fact, just last week, Christian and 45 others, her family members and some others, were taking a trip to Topaz. And her parents were going. And she said her mother had actually designed for everyone. She did research and she designed they all would have the tags because, you know, all the families were numbered and they were these tags. But I said, would you please take pictures and write an article for the local newspapers? So I hope she did that. Anyway, those are my nominees. You all can look up there. You have the applications and their resume or their. Yeah. Resume is if they attach them. And so with that, I am going to adjourn this city council meeting. Thanks, everyone. Really good work tonight. Goodnight. See you July 2nd.

AN ORDINANCE relating to Parks and Recreation; authorizing the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Department to execute, accept and record a Restrictive Covenant, Easement and Contract Concerning Real Property on behalf of The City of Seattle; placing the property rights and interests conveyed by the easements under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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Agenda item three, Constable 118 691 relating to Parks and Recreation, authorizing the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation Department to execute, accept and record a restrictive covenant easement and contract concerning real property on behalf of the City of Seattle. Placing the real property rights and interest conveyed by the easement under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks Recreation, ratifying, confirm research and prior acts. The Committee recommends the bill pass. Cause my voice. Thank you. This regards University Heights Center 2008 Parks and Green Space Levy Opportunity funds were used to make improvements on the South lot. This legislation would put I'm sorry would place a 15 year covenant that restricts the use of the property and require that it be open for public and recreational use, meaning parks, space , open space, recreation, multi-use open space and improvements to make the South a lot more useful to the public. The committee recommends the passage of the bill. Three Comments. Please call. The role. Passage of the Bill. O'Brien and so on. I make sure Burgess Gonzalez Johnson was I president Herbold eight in favor and unopposed. The bill signs, the bill passes and the chair will sign it. Item number. Four.

Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution Approving the Engineer's Report, Confirming Diagram and Assessment, and Ordering the Levy of Assessments, Island City Landscaping and Lighting District 84-2, All Zones. (Public Works 275)

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A public hearing to consider adopted a resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming a diagram and assessment and ordering the levee of assessments. Island city landscaping and lighting District 84 to all zones. Madam Mayor, I'm going to recuse myself in a homeowner in that area. Thank you. So anyone that has property or is a home owner within 500 feet of the property of the item needs to recuse themselves. You will be seen. You just saw two members. Leave. The dais. Vice Mayor and member de SAC. So at this point, we will continue with the the item. Thank you. Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the city council. I'm Melissa Cord, management analyst for the Public Works Department. The item before you this evening is one of three public hearings you will conduct to levy assessments for the city's special districts in the coming year. Special districts are formed so that property owners within those districts can pay assessments to fund enhanced maintenance within the district, for example, daily sidewalk cleaning. Normally, we would have two routine public hearings this evening, one for the landscape and lighting district and one for the maintenance assessment districts. But this evening is a little bit different. We'll still have those two routine public hearings to approve assessments to continue the status quo. But then comes the excitement. In the third hearing will count the ballots for an assessment increase on Park Street, one of the zones in our landscaping lighting district. Should the Park Street balloting be unsuccessful? Approval of this first item will guarantee that we can levy the existing assessments for the coming year. If that balloting is successful, the increased assessments will be collected instead. So with that, I will continue with the first item. This report report requests that council hold a public hearing and then adopt a resolution approving the engineer's report for the landscape and lighting district, confirming the diagram and assessment and ordering the levy of assessments. This is the last component of a prescribed legal process done annually to charge assessments for the following year in existence since 1984. This assessment district has six zones throughout the city. I'm going to walk you through the zones and the proposed assessments for each of the zones. The first zone is on Lincoln Avenue between Sherman and St Charles, and it funds landscape. Median maintenance staff is proposing assessments remain flat, totaling to just under $5,000 for the whole zone. Zone four is Park Street and funds, graffiti removal and daily litter cleanup, including a public litter can maintenance. As we just talked about, this zone is currently in the last stage of the balloting process to increase assessments as assessments for Park Street have remained flat since the mid 1990s. We will learn the results of the balloting after the public hearing and ballot tallying before council later this evening. If that balloting effort is unsuccessful, this action ensures that the existing assessments are collected for the coming year. Zones. Five and six are the Harbor Bay Business Park and Marina Village commercial area. And for these zones we are recommending consumer price index increases of 2.53%, which are permitted without balloting of the property owners. Zone seven represents several blocks of Bay Street and funds enhanced maintenance of the entries along the streets. We are recommending that assessment stay the same as past years, amounting to about $150 per parcel. Finally, zone eight is Webster Street. Webster Street was formerly Zones two and three of the Landscape and Lighting District, and last year the West Alameda Business Association City conducted a balloting process, a successful balloting process to double assessments over five years . It was during that process process. The zones were combined into one zone, now known as Zone eight. This is the second year of the assessment increase and these assessments primarily fund tree trimming and daily street maintenance in the Webster Zone. In closing, we are requesting that council adopt the resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming the diagram and assessment, and ordering the levy of the landscaping, lighting, district assessments for all zones. My report is complete and I'm available for any questions you may have. Member Ashcraft Thank you for a nice report. Ms.. Just for clarification on that last zone. Zone eight, Webster Street from Central Avenue to Atlantic Avenue. So the zone is in the second year of its assessment increase that will culminate in double assessments over five years. But at the end of that five year period, the assessments will just. They'll resume the consumer price index increase year over year. Okay. Thank you. I'm prepared. Yeah, I'm prepared to. I didn't have a question. I am prepared to move that we approve this resolution. Sorry. Approving the engineer's report, confirming diagram, an assessment and ordering levy of assessments. Island city landscaping and lighting. District eight for dash to all zones. Do we have any speakers on this item? We have nothing, because on this item. We have a second. Okay. Oh. My gosh. I a second. And then will the record note that we had to recuse themselves? Oh, yeah. All right. Any comments? All those in favor. I motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Cause 60. Yes. And has. There. Which is right. Got him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think. Okay. Six. E public came to consider adoption of resolution approving the engineer's report, confirming diagram and assessment and ordering the levy of assessments. Maintenance Assessment District A1. A1. Marina Cove.

Recommendation to Authorize the City Manager to Execute a Second Amendment to the Agreement with Kittelson & Associates to Increase Compensation by $270,906, for a Total Aggregate Compensation Not to Exceed $345,876 to Continue Providing Technical Services Related to Roundabouts. (Transportation 20962743) [Continued from December 7, 2021]

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items to allow the city to advance projects that are experiencing delays. Would this be funding that would then be reimbursed by a developer, went to developer, came in to those particular items into those particular areas. We've thought about it both ways. We thought about it as an investment in the community based on the allowed uses of ARPA dollars. And then we've also thought about it as a as a possible reimbursement, depending on how the the the project continues at Alameda Point, there's still things that are moving through our process internally. And so this gives us some options. But the, the eligible uses do include water and water, sewer and broadband infrastructure. So we thought we'd put it into the mix for future discussion. Absolutely. So it'd be fair to say that we don't have to make the election at this point in time, whether the city picks up the final tab or. Okay, that's that's fine fee. So Councilmember Harris Spencer. Thank you. I wanted to ask, I guess the city attorney I don't in the title of this document does not include UPI and nor is it in the list I can see in the staff's report. And so I'm wondering if that's actually part of the that was noticed. Hi, Mr. Chan. Councilmember I'm happy to answer. Generally, the Council is able to give very brief direction to staff that's related to an item in front of the council. And so in this case, the Council is being asked to spend ARPA funds, and I believe the direction that's being asked is to look into, not make any final decisions and not allocate any funding, but look into the other way of spending. As long as it's brief direction that does not involve a lot of discussion, it's fine because what would happen out of that brief reaction to that? I'll take a look and bring back to you a real item. Thank you. I think it's important to get that on the record. Yeah. Thank you for doing that. Okay. So we have a motion, I take it with the with the direction. I think I also think I need to accept the friendly amendment, so I'll accept the friendly amendments. Great. Thank you. Then I'm looking for a friendly second Councilmember Knox Way. And Lee second. Already we get a friendly roll call vote place. And somebody said yes. Cary Christiansen. I. Knox Right. By. Vela. I as the Ashcroft. I and I probably should have included. Thank you. Go ahead and finish. I want to just say that these guys five guys, five guys and I do want and I'm sure the council agrees, we really want to send a huge shout out to our wonderful colleagues and partners at Building Futures and the amazing work they do, not just at our Midway shelter, they do the vital work all over this county and also the food bank. They've been doing amazing work since that well, even before the pandemic. But then they just really had to kick it into high gear with very short notice. And the Hotspots Lending Library is great idea. So thank you. Thank you. We're going to do a lot of good things with this money. So have we given everyone enough time to return to item fixing? Because we're going to close this item, item seven be now. What's what's up next? Staff and the celebrity manager. Yes. So we've we've looked at it. And so my recommendation is we've looked and there are different opinions whether or not the report back to council as far as how it complies with the privacy resolution and ordinance. There have been different opinions on it, however, and there was some confusion within the emails earlier before this item came to council. So my recommendation is I still believe that it meets the policy. It's just the report to council showing how it meets the policy. If the council wants to move forward with us bringing back Lpas and either fixed or mobile, I'd recommend we bring that privacy, that we bring the privacy analysis at that time when we bring that item back. That would be my recommendation at this point. Okay. Thank you for that. And I take it you've concurred with the attorney. Someone from the city attorney's office say you're in agreement. Yeah. Mr. Chen. Madam, and happy to share my thoughts, which is that we did the city clerk pull the council motion and she shared with all the staff and she can share with the council probably by sharing a screen, reading the motion. It is not entirely clear to me that a personal privacy policy is necessarily required. But that's just reading the one page of minutes. The city managers indicated that if the council wishes to move forward, he would have staff. He would have his staff prepare such a statement in any event, which would seem to satisfy the council's needs and probably obviate the need to call this question that we and we at least we we, as in me, just heard about this question in the midst of the council discussion. So I think the city manager solution is an elegant one response to the council's needs and allows us to move forward if the council desires. We like elegant solutions. All right. Um, so at this time, because there's some decisions to be made whether this move item moves forward, but if it does, then it would come back with this personal privacy policy if I get the word incorrect. And now the analysis. Analysis. Analysis. All right. So we are back on item six C. And as I recall, we had speakers, public speakers on this item, Madam Kirk. We did. We were at the show. Yeah, we do. They're raising their hands again, so. We'll. Win. But now. Would it be good to reintroduce this item since we're short? That's a great idea. We might. We might be confusing people. Yeah. So we're back on 60. That's the recommendation to provide direction on staff regarding installation use of automated license plate readers, including fixed mobile equipment, and now these police department vehicles. And we are back up to eight speakers. All right. So with that, I'm going to take the public speakers, please, Madam Clerk. So you and your right to tell them about time. Since there are more than six speakers, there's now nine and each speaker will get 2 minutes. And the first speaker is Bill Pye. All right. Good evening, speaker pie. Good evening. Can you hear me? Yes. So thank you. My name is Bill PY and I'm President of the primary board for the Community of Harbor Ballard. We're located on Bay Farm Island and our community is comprised of 20 homeowners associations and almost 3000 homes in total. My thanks to all members of the City Council, the mayor and staff for your efforts on behalf of our city. Happy holidays to all. So my comments today are to make clear that the community will be. I'll supports expanding the use of automated license plate readers, all referred to them as helpers at strategic points in our city community. We've been doing this discussion for years and I think that the recent increases in crime and staffing constraints at the police department make this issue even more important to consider now. Now we recognize that the Alpers are not a cure all for crime by all, by any means. But we believe they can be a valuable asset in helping to discourage crime. To cite one location specific to our community where Bay Edge Road becomes Harbor Bay Parkway. This backdoor entrance to our community allows criminals to rapidly exit the area and be on Ron Cullen Parkway within a couple of minutes. There's no way law enforcement can respond quickly enough to address that kind of issue. I realize that there are privacy concerns and residents who do not wish the APD to have the information collected by Alpers. But with proper safeguards, we believe the benefits outweigh the risks given the relatively limited number of interest routes to our city. Automated license plate readers could have a strong impact once criminals know their plates will be photographed and recorded. The community of probably firmly supports installing automated license plate readers at appropriate points within our community and our city. Thank you. Thank you. And happy holidays. Thank you. And our next speaker. Sure. Kim. KDP Speaker Kim. Happy holidays, everybody. Thank you. Mayor Ashcroft and city council members for allowing me to speak. My name is Richard Kim, and I am the past president of the East Shore Homeowners Association, which consists of 142 single family homes on the east end of the main island. First of all, I commend all of you for the hire of Police Chief Michel and Joshi. Our association had the honor of meeting with him and hearing his vision and plans for the safety of our city. We fully support his vision and would like the Alameda Police Department to have the technology and the resources that will allow them to address our number one concern, which is safety. During the past two years, we have experienced robberies, vandalism, assaults and even deaths. One of our neighbors had a home invasion on Friday midday at 230 in the afternoon. Earlier this year, the invaders had a gun and thank God nobody was injured. This is not the Alameda that we know. A discussion on license plate readers has been an ongoing one and we hope it will be approved. There are three data points which we consider. One, there was a reduced headcount of sworn officers for the Alameda Police Department and they need the help of technology to the readers are an investigative tool and they do not replace officers and by themselves do not solve crimes, but act as a deterrent to crime and save people hours . A good example of this is the city of Piedmont, which uses these readers. And lastly, there are fears about privacy and preventing access to the data that we feel that resolution proposed by the city can make this a win win proposition. I humbly ask this forum to approve the installation and use of the automated license plate reader. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker. Denise Anderson. Good evening, Speaker Anderson. Good evening. Some years ago I was pulled. Over and approached with. Guns drawn. Because my car was the same color as a car involved. In a crime. Not even the same car, just similar and. The same color. It was extremely traumatizing. But there isn't any evidence that Alpers would prevent mistakes like this. If these devices truly, really, truly assisted in. Significantly increasing clearance rates. There is no way these departments wouldn't be tracking that to justify these and other cities. A quick search of any social media platform, and you'll find dozens upon dozens of stories of people with stolen license plates. While this is just anecdotal evidence that is just as valid as the anecdotal evidence presented by Chief Joshi. We are. Quickly experience a crime wave instigated by very. Organized criminals. But now I'm supposed to believe that these sophisticated masterminds can't figure out how to unscrew license plates and keep a stash on hand or print counterfeit dealer plates. There's a lot of money to devote to more surveillance. It hasn't proven to be an effective and reducing crime or helping to clear a significant amount of crimes committed. Thank you. Thank you. My next speaker. Zak Bailey. Good evening. Speaker bowling. Hi there, counsel. Yeah, I see how the department can see. The importance of this. Tool, but I do have concerns about. Privacy. I'm concerned about secret subpoenas, rogue actors, misuse. I'm an engineer, but for 20 years, I've been working on implementing systems that are private. Secure, secure by design. In ways that can't be reversed. And as an engineer, I seriously want to look in depth at these different vendors, exactly how they implement their data storage. In that vein, I would urge an in-depth analysis of any solution from any vendor, because Googling and looking at most of the products that I've found, I'm concerned just on reading product data sheets because these don't look like they were written. By security engineers. It's my understanding that the. Mobile. License plate reader. Systems are more real time. They don't store and review for later, so there's not as much of a storage component with it as there would be with a fix system. So concerned about the cross-referencing that these devices. Do, I'm concerned about the incremental data collection more than just license plate readers and timestamps, but just the full images and what could be accidentally cotton. Those concerned about the. The fact that there is a bit in one of the presentations that shows if they're a resident or not and I don't know if that's just informational, but that kind of information shouldn't be automatic. That it should be more investigation, should be should be for that. So I'm not against the idea of automatic license plate readers, but I'm very concerned about how they're implemented currently by any vendor that exists. And it terrifies me that a subpoena or somebody could come along and collect this data. Or. Some other entity could collect this data without anybody following our policies that we set. And that's my concern. So I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Our next speaker. Elk Irvine. Good evening, Speaker Garbine. Good evening, council members and Mayor Ashcraft, thank you for permitting me to remark on this. I'm a bit frustrated and confused by the by the mechanism that this agenda item has been heard and then not heard and then deferred. However, as a resident of the Fern Side Marina neighborhood, where we have quite a bit of crime, I'm speaking as an individual, but I am definitely speaking in favor of the installation and use of fixed and mobile automated license plate readers by the Alameda Police Department. I believe it is this council's primary responsibility to provide for the safety and security of city residents. And while there may be adjunct concerns in this, I trust Chief Joshi to do the right thing and follow council direction. And I want you, though, to give him and his department the chance, because these things appear to be a valuable crime fighting, an investigatory tool that will primarily serve the strong interest. And I believe your primary duty, the primary interests of the community in public safety and security. Therefore, I very respectfully ask that you go ahead and permit APD to acquire a fixed and mobile automated license plate readers. I thank you very much for listening to my remarks.

A resolution approving the Mayor’s reappointment to the Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors. Approves the Mayoral reappointment of Patricia Dean to the Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors for a term effective immediately and expiring 6-30-26, or until a successor is duly appointed. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 9-7-21.

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Pestering people. So it's just the lies need to stop and you all need to do what you said you were going to do. But again, we probably know that you won't, because right after that, you know, you gave all that money, the millions of dollars for the the the cameras and the uniforms. So I don't know I don't know where your integrity is when it comes to what comes out of your mouth. Oh, and then and then to top it off, you are adding eight park rangers and and they're going to the only thing they're going to do is go, you know, police unhoused folks, camping van camping bans, you're putting the police money in. Other departments need those boosted up. And it's like the same stuff that was done with the airport and and and DPD where they were mixing and matching their money. Our next speaker is Michael Liquid. Hello, counsel. Uh, landlords are so important to affordable housing that they get two public comments in a row. Last time we talked about how landlords thrive in a seller's market and only make home ownership more expensive. In a buyer's market, though, this isn't the case. So how do we make it a buyer's market? Well, we build more housing. When you look at that, it's exactly what I've been advocating for. What a coincidence. We are not out of the woods yet, though. What happens when we can't build anymore? We've run out of land. Landlords continue to buy property and slowly start to tip the scales in their favor. Now they own a majority of the property in Denver. Home ownership is out of the question again. But there are still a ton of rentals and not enough people to fill them. What do they do? Well, they could sell the properties that aren't making money. But then they risk housing prices going down, potentially even rent going down. That doesn't seem like a good option. That'll lose money. Well, some of these properties are really cheap to hold on to and maintain.

A bill for an ordinance changing the zoning classification for 3030 North Newton Street in West Highland. Approves a map amendment to rezone property from U-SU-C to U-SU-C1 (allows for an accessory dwelling unit), located at 3030 North Newton Street in Council District 1. The Committee approved filing this item at its meeting on 4-6-21.

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Thank you, Madam Council. Let me share my screen and I am going to turn off my video because I'm a little glitchy on my end. I don't know if it's the storm that apologies me. Sounds good. Are you able to see full screen Madam Council? Madam President, apologies. Okay. Yep. We got it. Getting used to it. This is my second one. So here we go. Another your rezoning for you all. Nothing too exciting, but I'll try to go quickly. Good evening. My name is Valerie Arara, associate city planner with CPD and I will be presenting a rezoning case for the subject property located at 3030 North Newton Street. The request is for urban single units C one to allow for a detached accessory dwelling unit or for short adu in the rear of the loft. The subject. Property is within District one under Councilwoman Sandoval and is located within the West Highland neighborhood. The subject property is currently set about 6350 square feet with a zone width of 50 feet. The existing zoning, the subject property and the surrounding properties in all directions. Are you, as you see, which allows for urban houses with a minimum zone, lot of 5500 square feet to the north along west 32nd Avenue is umx2 and ums three and a block to the south is c mpi two zoning. Furthermore us you a makes up most of the eastern portion of residential low and to the north you also have SUV. The site is a single unit residential land use with a mix of two unit and multi-unit existing uses in the neighborhood, as well as some commercial office and public. Quasi public. This property is within the Wolfe Place Historic District. The subject site is within I'm sorry, that has a period of significance spanning from 1883 to 1926, and the property is subject to additional design review through the Landmark Division. The subject property is mid-block with alley access. There is an existing primary single unit structure and a detached, detached garage accessory structure currently on the lot. Nearby properties are shown on the top and bottom of the screen. In terms of process the map. And then it went to planning board on Wednesday, March 31st, where the item was recommended approval on the consent agenda. The rezoning was moved forward to a final hearing of city council by the Land Use Transportation and Infrastructure Committee or Looby on consent and is being heard today. For public outreach staff received a response from the West Highland Neighborhood Association, which states Land Use and Planning Committee of W, H and A remains neutral to proposed minor rezonings for ADU allowance. The entire neighborhood co-op or ANC, also sent an email expressing support of ADU programs and streamlining the process. To date, staff has received three emails from nearby neighbors included in the application stating no objection to the proposed rezoning. As you know, the Denver zoning code has five review criteria. The first is consistency with adopted plan, starting with comprehensive plan 2040. Staff found this rezoning to be consistent with several strategies shown here from the Comprehensive Plan 2040, more specific to equity affordability and inclusivity from the Plan 2040 Vision Elements. Staff found this rezoning to be consistent with the goals listed here that encourage increased development of housing use units close to transit, a greater mix of housing options in every neighborhood for all individuals and families, and ensuring that every neighborhood provide a complete range of housing options. In speaking to environment and climate, Vision Element staff found that this reasoning is consistent with the goal listed here that encouraged encourages promotion of infill development where infrastructure and services are already available. Blueprint. Denver maps this area as the urban context. And Residential low, which consists of predominantly single and two unit uses on smaller lots and allows for accessory dwelling units to be thoughtfully and appropriately integrated where compatible. Oops. Sorry. You must miss. Four criteria. Number two and three staff found that this rezoning is consistent with adopted plans, and the proposed rezoning will result in uniform application of the zoned district building form, use and design regulations, and it will further public health, safety and welfare through implementing adopted plans and facilitating increased housing density. Staff found that the proposed rezoning is justified through a city adopted plan, which we know is the blueprint. Denver Land Use and Transport Transportation Plan that was updated in 2018. And finally, the context zone, district purpose and intent of U. S, uc1 are all appropriate for this particular location, giving the surrounding area and the adopted plan guidance. Given the finding that all review criteria have been met, Stapp recommends approval of the rezoning. Approval of a rezoning is not approval of a proposed specific development project. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Val. We'll go ahead and have you stop the screen sharing right on this evening. Council has not received any written testimony on Council Bill 370, and we have one individual signed up to speak this evening, and our individual speaker is Jesse Perez. We'll go ahead and get Jesse into the queue. There you go. Go ahead with your comments, please, Jesse. Yes. Good evening, counsel. My name is Jesse, listed on Paris. Move for self defense, positive action coming in for social change as well as the Unity Party of Colorado in front frontline black nose. And I'll be the next mayor of Denver in 2023. We're in favor of this rezoning tonight. It meets all five of the criteria. So there's really nothing I can say that's going to change the vote on this. I just wanted to know what the demographics of this occupation are, because we keep having this same issue with this brother named John Johnson, who's trying to get this rezoning in the same district. So if someone could please answer that question, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Jesse. That concludes our speakers questions from members of Council on Council Bill 370. Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. One question, Valerie, because this is in a historic district. Does this to 80 years have to go through the design review process and get approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission? Yes, Councilman Sandoval. That is correct. The subject property is subject to additional review by our landmark division. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you, Madam President. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Sandoval. And seeing no other hands raised for questions. The public hearing is closed. Comments by members of Council on Council Bill 370. Councilmember Sandoval. Thank you, Madam President. This is within the West Highland Neighborhood Association. And as the letter stated, the R.A., the registered neighborhood organization, did not take a stand for an accessory dwelling unit. But one thing I would like to say, because it is in this vicinity, is my council aide Naomi Judd presented to the West Highland Neighborhood Association . And I think we have our eyes set on rezoning West Highland to allow accessory dwelling units. So more will be coming in from Council District one. We've been reached out to by numerous constituents of minor who are dealing with one off rezoning and it seems like there is a need to be had a more comprehensive approach like I've done in other neighborhoods so that surveys come in. So stay tuned. But for this one, I believe it meets all the criteria and it also does get a little bit more scrutiny and design review because it is within one of the two historic districts with in that neighborhood. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you. Councilmember Sandoval. Councilmember Hines. EU Council President. Thank you CBD for your amazing report. Good job on your second one. Taking inspiration. All right. Thank you, Councilmember Hines. All right. And looking at the criteria, it does meet all of the criteria for this rezoning. And so happy to support this this evening as well. Madam Secretary, roll call on Council Bill 370. Sandoval. I. Sawyer, I. Torres. I. Black I. CdeBaca, I. Clark. I. Flynn. All right. Herndon. I. Hi. Hi. Cashmere. Hi. Can I. Madam President. I. Madam Secretary, please close the voting and announce the results. 12 hours, 12 Eyes Council Bill 20 1-0370 has passed. Council Member Cashman Would you please put Council Bill 391 on the floor for final passage? Yes, Council President. I move the council bill 20 10391 be placed upon final consideration and. Do pass.

AN ORDINANCE relating to taxation; delaying the effective date of the heating oil tax on heating oil service providers under Chapter 5.47 of the Seattle Municipal Code; and delaying the date of the Office of Sustainability and Environment’s first annual heating oil tax program status report.

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Agenda Item 16 Capital 119859 Believe to taxation delaying the effective date of the heating oil tax on Heating Oil Service provided and provided under Chapter 5.47 of delaying the date of the Office of Sustainability and Environment First Annual Heating Oil Tax Program Status Report. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I need to pass Council Bill 119859. Is there a second second? Again. It's been moved and seconded to pass the bill. Councilmember Morales, I understand you are the sponsor of the bill, so you are recognized in order to address this item. Thank you. Yes. So Council Bill 119859 would delay for one year, as I mentioned this morning. The effective date of the heating oil tax that was adopted in 2019. As I said, the intent of the original ordinance was to tax heating oil in an effort to accelerate the rate of conversion from oil heat to electric heat pump systems. In response to community feedback about the impacts of this tax on low income and middle income households, particularly during COVID, O.C. is proposing, we delay implementation for one year. And just to give you an example of why this could be cost prohibitive for many families, we know that the average cost to convert oil to electric heat and decommission an oil tank is about $13,000 per tank. And that doesn't include the costs for clean up if those tanks have leaked under somebody's home. So that can run 40, $50,000. So this is really especially when some of these homes that have oil heating are very old and there's a high likelihood that these tanks could potentially leak or be damaged in transition. It's important that we take a pause on implementing this tax so that we set up systems to be able to support families better. The is the memo that you all received indicated we are also looking at some possible changes to the Pollution Liability Insurance Agency. I'll talk about that in a moment with the amendment. But we do want to make sure that families are getting all the assistance they can with loans or grants to be able to afford the cost of making the switch. And until we've got those set up, we want to push back the start date of this for a year. Great. Thank you so much, Councilmember Morales, for that description of the underlying bill. I do understand that you have an amendment, as you just alluded to. So why don't we go ahead and address the amendment first and then we'll have an amended version of the legislation before us, and then we can open it up for questions on the bill as amended. So I move that we amend Council Bill 119859. Is there a second? It has been moved and seconded to adopt Amendment One. Morales. Please feel free to address Amendment One. Thank you. So this amendment would request that the Office of Sustainability in the Environment provide a status report to council by June of next year, June 1st, 2021, regarding the rulemaking for the Pollution Liability Insurance Agency's new Heating Oil Loan and grant program. We are especially interested in how that program will avoid creating undue economic hardship on low and middle income homeowners with oil, heat, and how the city will implement the Heating Oil Tax and home conversion program to protect low and middle income homeowners from undue hardship. Additionally, the report should include a summary of feedback from key stakeholders about whether the effective date of the tax should be September 1st, 2021, or if there should be an additional delay at that time due to economic conditions or the status of COVID. Who knows where we will be next summer or any other factors that might be in play at that time? Thank you, Councilmember Morales. Are there any questions on questions or comments on Amendment One? Okay. Hearing none. Well, the clerk please call the role on the adoption of Amendment One. Strauss. Yes. Herbals. Yes. Whereas. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Petersen. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Even in favor not oppose. The motion carries in. The amendment is adopted. And now we have an amended version of the bill in front of us. So are there any further comments on the bill as amended? Caring Land Councilmember Herbold. We appreciate it. I just wanted to for a little bit of history around amendments that I offered when we first pass this legislation last year. I, like Councilmember Ellis, was very worried that the legislation would have a negative impact on seniors and low income people, since they are most likely to have their homes heated by oil. And so I have proposed an amendment to address these concerns, and they were supposed to report back to us on their impact, on their analysis of the impact of the bill on seniors and to fully fund conversions for low income households. I also proposed an amendment to delay implementation of the tax from July 1st to September, September 1st. So here we are. Further, further delay, delaying implementation and still razor laser focused on trying to find out more about what the impacts would be on seniors and low income people who are most likely to have their homes heated by oil. And really appreciate Councilmember Rouse's amendment and bring the legislation forward so we can ensure that the Council will receive a status update in advance of. September 1st, 2021. Thank you for those comments, Councilmember Herbold. And I also appreciate Councilmember Morales bringing this forward in conjunction with the Office of Sustainability and Environment to make sure that we are in a now these period of time where the economy is so uncertain. It is even more important for us to make sure that we have all the relevant information before us to understand any disproportionate impact that may result and unintentionally and unintended by this particular council bill that we passed last year. So appreciate. Appreciate you bringing it forward. Are there any other comments on the bill? Councilmember Morales, anything else to add? I think we're good. Okay, great. With that being said, I'd ask that the clerk please call the role on the passage of the bill as amended. Strauss. Yes. Herbold. Yes. Suarez. Yes. Lewis. Yes. Morales. Yes. Peterson. Yes. President Gonzalez. Yes. Levin. In favor and unopposed. The bill passes as amended and the chair will sign it. Will the clerk please affix my signature to the legislation on my behalf? Item number 17 Will the clerk please read item 17 into the record?

AN ORDINANCE relating to funding for housing and community development programs; adopting The City of Seattle 2016 Annual Action Plan to the 2014 - 2017 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development and authorizing its submission to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; authorizing acceptance of grant funds from that department for programs and activities included in the Annual Action Plan; amending Ordinance 124927, which adopted the 2016 Budget, by modifying appropriations to various departments and budget control levels in the 2016 Adopted Budget; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts, all by a three-fourths vote of the City Council.

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The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Report of the Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee. Report at the Affordable Housing Neighborhoods and Finance Committee. Agenda Item one Constable 118 641 relating to funding for housing and community development programs adopted in the City of Seattle 2016 Annual Action Plan to the 2014 through 2017 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development and authorizing its submission to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development . Authorizing acceptance of grants from that department for programs and activities, including in the annual Action Plan of many Ordinance 124927, which adopted the 2016 Budget by modifying appropriations to various departments and budget control levels in the 2016 and after budget and ratifying confirming setting prior acts by 3/1 vote of the city council. The committee recommends the bill passes amended. Thank you, Councilmember Burgess. Thank you. This is the legislation that we adopt annually to adopt the 2016 Annual Action Plan for the 2014 to 2017 Consolidated Plan for Housing and Community Development, and authorizes the submission of this plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. It will bring in approximately $14 million, which are used to provide services, housing and facilities to low and moderate income persons, businesses and neighborhoods. I will point out one amendment that we made in committee, and that is to authorize $400,000 for the 23rd Avenue Eligible Business Support Assistance Grant and was, as was reported in council briefing this morning. Of the businesses that qualify for receiving funds have been identified and those funds should be flowing fairly soon. Thank you very much. Are there any further comments? Please call the role on the passage of the bill. Whereas I. O'Brien Sergeant Major Burgess Gonzalez Herbold II. Johnson, President Harrell. I. 9 a.m. favored unopposed. Thank you. The bill passes and the chair will sign it. Report of the Gender Equity Safe Communities and New Americans Committee.

Recommendation to determine that the project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Section 15305 (Class 5 - Minor Alterations to Land Use Limitations) of the CEQA Guidelines and none of the exceptions in 15300.2 apply, and that it is further exempt pursuant to Section 15308 (Actions by Regulatory Agencies for Protection of the Environment) and Section 15061(b)(3) (Common Sense Exemption), as it will not result directly or indirectly in significant environmental impacts (CE20-090); Declare ordinance amending Title 21, Zoning Regulations (Zoning Code), of the Long Beach Municipal Code to add Chapter 21.61 (Maintenance of Low Income Housing in the Coastal Zone) to limit exceptions to the requirements to replace affordable units and to increase the in-lieu fees for Coastal Zone areas of Long Beach, read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading; and

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Okay. And now we're doing item hearing 13, please. Item 13 is reported from development services. Recommendation to determine that the project is categorically exempt from CEQA declared ordinance, amending the zoning code to add maintenance of low income housing in the coastal zone. Read the first time and lead over. To the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading and Adobe resolution authorizing to submit amendments to the Coastal Commission districts one, two and three. Great customers in the house. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I want to start off by mentioning how grateful I am to be able to hear these two these items. I think it's very important that we address the issue of affordable housing. With this in mind, I would like to offer a motion for staff to bring this item back in 90 days to ensure that it is consistent with our city, with our inclusionary housing, and not net loss policies that we just discussed. So I would like to. To make that motion. Okay. And I have a second by Councilman Price. Councilman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And I don't think we did this already, but I wanted to hear the staff report, if there is one. I know we have a long meeting, but it's kind of an important item. So I was wondering if we could just do a quick staff report. Mr. MODICA I'd like to introduce planning manager Patricia Defender for, for this a brief staff presentation on this item. Good evening, Mayor. Council Members. Patricia Defender. This is a presentation on the Zoning Code amendment to amend the ACT ordinance. Just some background on this ordinance. The state legislature adopted no act in 1981. It requires replacement of affordable housing demolished in the coastal zone. It allows payment of an in lieu fee as an alternative to providing the housing. In 1988, the city adopted a local No Act ordinance and established the in lieu fee schedule that exists on the books today. The city's adopted housing element requires an update to the MOT Act in lieu fee to bring it up to date. Since 2014, no affordable housing demolition has triggered collection of the Marlowe Act in lieu fee. The Mello Act in lieu fee schedule has not been updated since the since it was established in 1988. The proposed ordinance would update the in lieu fees based on a market study of current development costs. The update removes an exemption for single family houses, duplexes and accessory dwelling units, as those are commonly development projects that are proposed. Demolition and redevelopment of those types of housing units. The Planning Commission did approve or recommend recommended approval of this ordinance on October 1st, 2020. This slide just shows you the in lieu fee schedule that will be proposed as a part of this project. You can see these numbers are substantial. If you're familiar with the existing fee schedule, these are substantial increases in the fees, more commensurate with what it would actually cost to provide the units. There is public outreach done on this ordinance in the form of the planning hearing, planning commission, hearing and publication in the press, telegram and link LV email blast. This is the environmental clearance on this is. Exempt from secure. Consistent with Class five exemption. And finally, the recommendations on this is to receive the supporting documentation to the record and conclude the public hearing and determine that the project is categorically exempt from having to declare an ordinance amending Title 21 Zoning Regulations of the Code Chapter 2161 to limit exceptions to the requirements to replace affordable units and to modify the in lieu fees for the coastal zone. And finally, to adopt a resolution authorizing the Director of Development Services to submit amendments to the Zoning Code to the Coastal Commission for review, approval and Certification. That concludes the staff report and we are here to answer any questions that you might have. Councilwoman Price. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So just the one question that I had is I know we're adjusting the fees. So if we adjust the fees, are we making sure that our figures are consistent with other coastal communities in the region? Well, Councilmember, we're required under law to make our fees based on development and rents here in Long Beach. So there's two different ways of thinking about it. These increases are order of magnitude, huge increases from the status quo. And as Patricia explained, this is not these fees have not come into play one way or another since 2014 and are anticipated to come into play. But to keep the incentive to not demolish these fees do need to be as high as is legally justified. But they are lower than some other coastal communities. So property values are higher in Newport Beach, for example, than they are in Long Beach. So you can't compare the two and an apples to apples sort of way because the next study is based on Long Beach properties and Long Beach rents and not those in other cities. Each city in California is required if they have a miller ordinance to update their fees based on their local circumstance. Okay. I appreciate that. That's helps a lot. Thank you very much. I have no additional questions, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Councilman Allen, I think. Did you Q back up? Yeah, I did. Yeah. I just wanted to say one thing. I just just in my opinion, this I think this piece requires further discussion and analysis, and I would be open to postponing tonight's discussion until February. As it stands now, this could be strengthened and the number of ways and a number of ways keep including how the and low fees are used where affordable housing units can be replaced and their construction timelines. Overall, I would like to see this legislation mirror and follow our inclusionary housing ordinance more closely. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Let me go back to I have a motion in a second by councilman in the House and Councilwoman Price. Is your public comment on this? Yes. Sir. Mr. Mayor, it's Mike May. I would understand the motion a little bit better is the motion to put the entire matter over for nine days so that it can be consistent with the inclusionary zoning ordinance? Or is the motion to pass the ordinance tonight and bring back a report in 90 days? Regarding the consistency with the inclusionary zoning ordinance. Councilman's in the. House. Thank you. I mike again. I think that the first one is the correct one. So I'm hoping that we can come back in in 90 days or less so that we can we can make it stronger then and be able to have some concerted instances across the board. Please. And thank you for making that clear, because I wanted to make that clear that that was the motion on the floor. Great. Thank you so much. It's good. A public comment, please. Our first speakers also tongue. Hi. Good evening. Mayor and council members. Again. This is Alyssa Tung with Long Beach Forward. Thank you for this discussion thus far. It is absolutely true that the Mello ordinance is a really critical anti displacement policy. However, it needs a lot of work to be consistent and conforming with the. Inclusionary housing and no net loss. Ordinances. So specifically, there are several points to change. Number one, replacement determination, replacement housing obligation should be. Determined by. Looking at both the rent and income levels of tenants, not just the rent. We have to look at both rent and income level number two, onsite and new units. So consistent with the inclusionary ordinance, we need the affordable housing obligations to be met by providing units on site or paying an in lieu fee. So off site units should not be allowed, nor should rehab or subsidy of existing units. In regards to the fee. Again, consistent with the inclusionary. Ordinance. The in lieu fees must be set at the economic equivalent of providing the units on site and tied to an objective annual index. The replacement units should be replaced at the same or lower affordability level that they are replacing. So, for instance, a unit that's occupied by or affordable to a very low income household should be replaced by a very low income unit. Like for like. One for one. Not like a moderate income unit. And finally, as we mentioned multiple times with the inclusionary ordinance, the affordability covenant should be the life of the project. Or in perpetuity. L.A. County recently did this in inclusionary housing. We must do this for consistency and conformity with inclusionary housing so that we can meet the most extraordinary. Housing needs of. Our most vulnerable neighbors. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Your next speaker is Jordan Wynne. You have the other remote. Hi there. This is Jordan Wynn speaking on behalf of everyone in Long Beach. I want to echo what my colleagues have previously shared regarding the Mello Act. We want to make sure that the Melo Act conforms with the inclusionary housing ordinance within our city and that it also conforms with other good policy that has been established. Across the region. As was mentioned earlier, when it comes to in place replacement housing obligations, we must be looking at both rent and income levels. It is important that we are paying attention to the income classifications in addition to just what is reported by landlords as it is currently constructed, it conflicts with SB 330, the city's proposed no net loss ordinance and density bonus law, all of which consider income already within their factors. On the best practice used by the city of L.A. and the County of L.A. is that the Housing Department in the city would conduct rent income surveys to make affordability determinations for replacing replacement housing obligations. We also want to make sure that we are providing affordable units on site or paying an in lieu fee, making sure that offsite construction of affordable units is not allowed, and that in lieu fees are set of the economic equivalent of providing the affordable units on site. All of tonight's points where it comes to the Mello Act are meant to align with inclusionary housing, no net loss, which are obviously major milestones in our city's housing policies. We need to continue to do strong work and do as much as we can to meet the obligations set by the Regional Housing Needs Assessment. There are over 11,000 more units of affordable housing that need to be constructed, and by strengthening the Mello Act, you can help pave that way. Thank you very much. Thank you. Our next speaker is Norberto Lopez. Hello once again, city council mayor. And just once again, just echoing what some of my colleagues have said, we want this Mello Act policy to be reflective of the inclusionary housing policy. And we want to make sure that, you know, the new fees are reflective as well. You know, no more no more cut outs or, you know, no more special privileges to anybody. Let's ramp up our production on affordable housing units and let's preserve the ones that we already have. We can no longer continue to lose residents regardless of where they're located. I understand that. Well, at the Olympics, they're coming. And that's also going to bring in new development. And we have to ensure that these new developments, as they come to the city, they provide the affordable housing units that are going to be mandated by these policies, and they've done right. We will be increasing our affordability, housing stock and taking away units, which is currently the situation. And so thank you so much for your time and I hope that we can get this right and come back to it. Thank you. Your next speaker is Suzanne Brown. Good evening. My name is Suzanne Brown, and I'm an attorney with the Legal Aid. Foundation of Los Angeles in our Long Beach office. We applaud the city's effort to update its smell ordinance. But we are concerned, as you've heard from other speakers and council members. That the update is not aligned with the inclusionary housing and no net loss ordinances. I want to thank. The council members who have acknowledged this and been open to continuing this so. That we can get it right. We are requesting the City Council to direct staff to revise. And align the Mello ordinance. So that it is consistent with the land use principles. That we've been working on in the inclusionary housing and no net loss. Ordinances for. Years. In particular, we request that. The Mello. Ordinance be revised in five ways. First, replacement housing determinations need to consider more than just rent levels. Rent levels do not capture who's living in a unit. Two incomes should also be considered. If for some reason that is. Not something the city can do. At a minimum, the city should use the process. Included in its no net loss. Ordinance, which is based on state density bonus law that lays out a process for making determinations of. Affordable units. Second, I say construction of affordable units should not be allowed. Third, providing affordable units through the rehabilitation or subsidy of existing. Market. Rate units should not be permitted because this does not add to our housing stock. Fourth, affordable units should be replaced in a like for like manner, which means they should be replaced at the same. Or lower affordability levels. And fifth. Affordability covenants. Again for this should be set for the life of the project or in perpetuity to prevent expiring affordable units and displacement of low income tenants. Thank you for your consideration of our comments. We urge you to bring this ordinance back as soon as possible with these revisions. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes public comment for this item. Can you guys hear me? Now we can. Okay. Thank you. Work has been concluded. So we will go back now. We have the motion and the second on the floor. So let's go ahead to a roll call vote, please. Councilwoman Sunday has. Hired. Councilwoman Allen. I answer? Woman Price. Councilwoman Price. Councilman Sabina. All right. Councilwoman Mango. Prices. And I think you count on having a woman mango. Councilwoman Sarah. I Council member Tauranga. I. And Simon Austin. Uh. Vice Mayor Richardson, I motion carries. On bongos, and I. Thank you. Thank you. And now we're going to be doing item number. 27.

Recommendation to adopt Plans and Specifications No. R-7058 for the El Dorado Nature Center Improvements Project; award a contract to Bitech Construction Co., Inc., of Buena Park, CA, in the amount of $660,816, and authorize a 15 percent contingency in the amount of $99,122, for a total contract amount not to exceed $759,938; authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all documents necessary to enter into the contract, including any necessary amendments thereto; and Accept Categorical Exemption 15-034. (District 4)

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Okay, next item. Please report from Public Works in Parks and Recreation and Marine recommendation to award a contract by TEC Construction for the El Dorado Nature Center Improvement Project for a total contract amount not to exceed 759,000 district for. Do you? Can we clear the board? So. Customer Super and I can do this. Thank you. There's a controversy, Cipriano. If the technicians could put up a photograph rather than speak. I'd like the photograph to speak for me. If that if that's possible to do right now is item number 17. There you go. There's the gym of the fourth council district. I don't think I have to add words to that. Let's invest in this beautiful facility. Thank you. And and if I may add that it's from a local photographer, Victor Ladd, who took that shot. And if you'd like to have a print of it, you can contact my office. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember. There's a motion in a second, and I'm going to make a friendly that all future comments are just photos. Of the councilmembers. Okay. So would you accept that friendly amendment councilors, you or not? Absolutely. Okay. There's a motion and a second. Any public comment? Please cast your votes. Motion carries. Thank you. Your next item. Communication from City Attorney Recommendation to declare ordinance amending the Long Beach Municipal Code all relating to marinas. Read the first time and lead over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for Final Reading Districts two and three.